Tower of Babeli: A metaverse conceptual artist’s beautifully enigmatic “Desert” machinima: Antonioni meets Dali meets machinima: a woman with an umbrella strides into the desert, and receives a parade of visitations, which are only comprehensible in the final frames (and then only somewhat.) At 20-plus minutes,”Gaz of the Desert” is best viewed after hours, and after you’ve had a chance to turn off the lights and settle in. Strange, languorously paced, and gorgeously dreamlike, it’s the work of Gazira Babeli, a metaverse conceptual artist whose Second Life-based work has been featured in the great We Make Money Not Art blog and several European gallery shows. “Gaz” plays like a steampunk version of Salvador Dali’s “Temptation of Saint Anthony“, with stovepipe hats and rocket launchers where the elongated elephants would be. [blogged by W. James Au on New World Notes]

Discovered via Bettina Tizzy’s Not Possible in Real Life blog, an already indispensable guide to quality content and artistic ambition in Second Life.