ReVerse Butcher

"8" had its Secret Symphony debut last night at The Astor, St Kilda — w/ 1000 tix sold. Secret Symphony is MSO's intimate pop-up series: hand-picked musicians from the orchestra, one night, one secret venue. 🧵

I know probably not a lot of people get really excited when they realise a new Alarm Will Sound album comes out, but I do. And look! Listening to this yesterday while drawing & painting in the studio, made me really smile. youtu.be/ughdyZgSOHc?...

So excited to see this CoW Samhain Festival! Many of my dear friends have been working their brains off to put together what might quite possibly be, the coolest thing on the internet for Halloween. Can’t wait!

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"We were told there would be no more forgetting. The cloud would remember everything, cyberspace would liberate us all. We would be furnished with an abundance of digital memory, permanence always just a hard drive away." newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/who-w...

Oh wow, I just played KometaVR, a new virtual experience by @virtualpebble.bsky.social — it was so utterly delightful! www.viverse.com/jLPv8GK It’s VR only, & it takes about 10 mins. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have your own comet? Go find out <3

Like cats? Looking for a fun, free, new game that involves making friends with all the cats? Check out Huntrezz’s new game on @viverse.com — it’s very cozy, very calming, a very nice time. www.viverse.com/EdLWREE

My super talented friend @hexeexe.bsky.social has released her first EP on bandcamp. You can get your copy here! Go on, support your local independent musicians… hexeexe.bandcamp.com/album/contour

We got a special theme Saturday !! @senky.org @mercuryingemini.bsky.social @clydemachine.com @tailsthefluffy.gay @tomsuck.bsky.social @yoruchi.bsky.social @downtherabbithole.info @djgenki.bsky.social Poster by @oofy.live

Managed to get along to Patrick Duffy’s (aka ‘The Cardboard Guy’) art exhibition at Kank Wolverang records in Ballarat before it closed… and WOW! The level of detail is IMPRESSIVE! Give the man a cardboard box & he will make a masterpeice!

First tiny swans I saw of the season ❤️🌈🦢 Does that mean it’s almost Spring?

Venice Immersive, the prestigious XR section of the Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia, is coming to VRChat on September 2. You'll be able to check out the two In Competition worlds, made by Fins and Jessien Huang, premiering for the first time in Venice and on VRChat.

Oh man. Yayoi Kusama, Tim Curry, and Dolly Parton all gone in the same week. :(

This is a bird that looks like a cross between a turkey, an otter, and a duck. It dives like a seal or a beaver. The tail flick! It swims underwater for long periods of time & has little bubble trails on the surface as it swims. WTF IS THIS BIRD THIS BIRD IS AUSTRALIA WHAT

When I say it’s been raining lately…

And just like that, all four VR Pioneers screenings have come and gone. Thank you to everyone who came, thank you to those who made donations, thank you to everyone who took part in the film, and to everyone who gave their time to make these screenings a success.

❗BOOK RELEASE❗ My dissertation "Life in Virtual Reality" has finally been released at transcript publishing and is now available FOR FREE! It condenses almost a decade of my research on #VRChat and Social VR into 337 pages. Have a look and please share! 📖👀

I've now published all 30+ hours of my Venice Immersive 2025 coverage. I categorized the projects into a dozen elemental genres to help navigate it. There's 64 possible combos of all four elements, but 12 primary dyads. I unpack it all more in this LinkedIn post: www.linkedin.com/posts/kentby...

Saw Camp Miasma today! What an absolute joy of a film! 10 out of 10, no notes! A lot of feelings though — it was quite funny in parts as well as serious & moving… www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

This is the cathedral's first ever open call! Are you interested in performing during our next Samhain event? Share you work with us here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We are looking for VR artists of any medium interested in creative experimentation where spirituality and queer/trans life meet

Made Brown Sugar Boba Tea ice cream from scratch. That was a really good non-screen hobby to pick up. Yum.

I started getting followed by some "film festivals" and "writing festivals" and thought "oh, these are cool!" Then I looked a little closer. They're all part of a network that preys on writers, charging us for reviews, and feeding our stuff into slop generators. So I made a list.👋🏻🖕🏻😠

@cyriak.bsky.social Hey! I really loved yr book “Horse Destroys the Universe”. I bought an eBook when it came out, but I recommended it to some folks last week & it’s out of print. Fair enough for the physical books, great job! Is there still a way for my friends to buy an eBook somehow?

Amazing!!

I attended an art talk last week where a discussion was held about recognizing art people create online as being just as valid as work recognized by formal institutions. I implore artists working online to document EVERY project you create. Get a journalist to write about it if you can.

Hope to see you all this Sunday!

New Arca album ‘XXXXX’ dropped a few days ago. Perfection. So good. Anyone who tells me that the only good music being made was the music they remember from high school is just lazy & is afraid of expanding their tastes. This is brilliant.

Always love listening to this guy… YouTube requires clickbait titles, but plz know Lanier talks sense & the whole end section is about VR youtu.be/Vmx3SbgoPZc?...

Been editing the beginnings of a video about how I’ve been photographing & making 3D materials. I asked my wife (a photographer) to video me, photographing close ups of things. My concentrating face is legitimately terrifying & awful. Nobody should have to look at me concentrating plz no stop

How today feels <3

It’s a 2 computers on a desk each across two ideas kind of day <3 Do a thing, hit render, while it renders, go hit the other idea on the other desk, hit render, return to the first one… I am having a lot of fun

Way to go grrlrighter!!!

My vote = yes