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.

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