PARANORMAL BEGINNINGS
Filmed by Penumbra Carter
Filmed in Second Life at:
/PEAK/88/60/2303,73/198/2005,
/Match/160/128/47,Tres%20Chic/25/130/75,
SunnyBank/136/101/26.
Sound Composition “Paranormal Beginnings” by Penumbra Carter
2023
Last few days in Second Life with my 11 year old computer. I have filmed how people look to me and thought that they represent the Paranormal Beginnings of the fully formed avatar and attachments. I am getting a new computer, soon.

WE ARE HERE NOW is an experimentation of using footage from Second Life with and AI generating software to which you give a text prompt to. I did like the effects but I cannot see myself using it much, at the moment. It is quite seductive though.

In My Virtual and Real Collide, I put together a bit of a collage of my virtual persona and the attributes I built for her, Penumbra, and my paintings.

Divining , the above machinima is about finding a water supply that will give an insight, a divination. I act as the rod.

Barbie exhibits the power residing within her, while floating in her Atomic Pool.

I made an installation, in Second Life, around the changes of body autonomy that women/girls are experiencing in the USA, the dissolution of Roe V. Wade. MAYDAYHEALTH.COM is about the fact that women/girls can still get legal abortion pills delivered to them, it is a bit tricky, but MAYDAYHEALTH.COM helps them figure it out.

Still, one of my favorite activities in Second Life is being a mermaid, the above film shows me out and about as a mermaid in the Blake Sea.

The Analogy is a machinima I made in response the size of a double decker London Bus used as a term of comparative measurement. How big is that? “About four double decker London Buses!” , being somewhat new to living in the UK, I picked up on this comparison.

Beautiful Minimalist Piano by TheoJT
Filmed and Performed by Penumbra Carter
at LeLutka/129/137/25 in Second Life
Skin called Agnes the Old Woman by WestSideCo
Dance by Abramelin Wolfe “Contemporary22 – Abr”

You are beautiful is a machinima about growing old, they tell us, as we age, how beautiful we are, but, we are surrounded by images and standards that make them liars. It makes me sad, as I age, to realize how trapped women/girls still are by these observations of descriptions.

This is part of the American Jingoist series that I have been creating for a few years now. It turns my stomach but it does exorcise the demons that are emerging in our society today. This is a build I made. Sounds used with permissions, will add these. Filmed at a group sim I belong to https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Coppelia/239/36/22

Jingoism is nationalism in the form of aggressive and proactive foreign policy, such as a country’s advocacy for the use of threats or actual force, as opposed to peaceful relations, in efforts to safeguard what it perceives as its national interests. Colloquially, jingoism is excessive bias in judging one’s own country as superior to others – an extreme type of nationalism.