The Luv Doc: An Honest Meatspace Connection

We're just gape-jawed babes at the dawn of a brand new era

"...the ass trying to ferret out dateable people in meatspace. Not only do you meet just a fraction of..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Column by The Luv Doc

sxswi: From In-World Friends to Meatspace Marriage

Love in Second Life and then just plain “real” life

"...For more tales of meatspace romancing, try the Avatar Secrets to Real Life &..."

March 11, 2011 SXSW Post by Memory Harker

The Luv Doc: Contemplating Depilating

The youth of today: with their hairless privates … and their interwebs … and their kombucha

"...you can punch him in Second Life, but in meatspace you have to settle for something less tactile –..."

July 19, 2013 Column by The Luv Doc

All the Neighborhood's a Stage in the Drive-Through Vortex Odyssey

The Vortex keeps things safe, sacred, and mythically provocative in their newest stage spectacle

"...if only we could escape for a little creative meatspace diversion beyond Facebook and Zoom, could get out and..."

Sept. 25, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Luv Doc: Start Snapping

Not everyone needs to gaze constantly into the pool of Narcissus

"..."come hither" look is only witnessed by people in meatspace? Does she sometimes ask you to abandon your frantic..."

July 22, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

Gay Place

South by So Gay. That's what we like to call it.

"...GAY MEATSPACE So, your friendly neighborhood Gay Place tour guide (me,..."

March 11, 2011 Column by Kate X Messer

AMODA's Operandi

Just what, exactly, is the Austin Museum of Digital Art up to these days?

"...Internetted strata of moneyed nations and metastasize among the meatspace populace. When video manipulation blurs the division of real..."

Sept. 18, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

South by Psychedelics

Psychoactive substance research gets a spotlight at this year’s festival

"...so, you’re going to run smack into the annual meatspace kaleidoscope of culture and commerce, art and advertising, hope..."

March 8, 2024 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Luv Doc: Pedal to the Metal

The Luv Doc loves a good humblebrag

"...infinitely more interesting than younger people – especially in meatspace – but they're a lot of work. You have..."

April 21, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc

SXSW’s ‘What’s In a Metaverse?’: A Brief & Somewhat Biased Recap

These Are the Avatars In Your Neighborhood

"...“It’s a place, for one thing,” said that meatspace Linden. And he spoke of the emotional investment that..."

March 17, 2022 SXSW Post by Memory Harker

The Luv Doc: A Low Tolerance for Inaccuracy

Further proof that Latin is a trash language

"...Or, if you decide to risk actual mingling in meatspace, put it on a business card. What a wonderful..."

Jan. 28, 2022 Column by The Luv Doc

Five Things to Relish About the Stage Over Thanksgiving

Plan your theatrical December

"...if necessary – for audiencing what's onstage in the meatspace world of local performance. Yes, the annual FronteraFest has..."

Nov. 26, 2021 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Terror Tuesday and Weird Wednesday Return to the Alamo!

Sorry about that exclamation point, citizen, but we’re excited af

"...camaraderie of communal moviewatching among the nonvirtual, in-person, actual meatspace audience...."

Sept. 15, 2021 Screens Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Moving In the Ether With ARCOS Dance Company

Local dance troupe explores the interzone of real and virtual

"...Now, whether you walk through a door in meatspace or more easily touch a keyboard to access virtual..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

"Melanie Clemmons: Likes Charge"

This solo exhibition at Women & Their Work conjures digital comfort in troubled times

"...TimBL-activated electronic rhizome that's become an inescapable adjunct to meatspace, that is, much like so-called real life, the thing..."

Sept. 11, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Shows Must Go On(line)

More Austin performers take their acts to the internets for streaming

"...heart out. That’s right, they’re bringing their milieu of meatspace marvels and musings directly to you through the cyberian..."

March 19, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Arts Events

"...aren't completely shuttered, open by appointment only – in meatspace. But they tell us, "We will be releasing exciting..."

March 20, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Social Distancing Festival Is Live Online

No, for real: A variety of performative arts, streamed live to you

"...cultural exuberance to bring a little of that old meatspace entanglement into our online lives. Entertaining, uplifting, challenging, delighting,..."

March 15, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Do You Remember the Internet?

Instar Books wants you to help them tell everyone about it

"...term “IRL” skews a bit off and the once-goofy “meatspace” is the more precise default...."

Jan. 22, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

SXSW VR Cinema: Eleven Eleven

Are they gonna make it to the ship or, more likely, die?

"...how I wish this viewing function was available in meatspace …..."

March 14, 2019 SXSW Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

VR/AR @ SXSW

What you see (and immersively interact with) is what you get

"...if paradoxically) in what the most fervent geeks call "meatspace"? That's what the interactive programming of SXSW is for..."

March 8, 2019 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Luv Doc: A Barney Fife God's Universe

People are just no damn good

"...past year and a half I have had numerous online/meatspace encounters with people who still support and defend the..."

July 27, 2018 Column by The Luv Doc

SXSW VR Review: RONE

Architectural decay becomes a street-artist canvas you can navigate

"...IRL exhibition might, with resolution that's impressively close to meatspace vision. And there are side-trails along the journey, too,..."

March 15, 2018 SXSW Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Five Fun Things To Do in Austin This Weekend

Even besides that amazing Texas Book Festival, we mean.

"...bringing wildlife and more into a sort of digitized meatspace. Bonus: You could grab some coffee at nearby Cenote..."

Oct. 15, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Tom White Is Never Gonna Give it Up

The ATX artist and his illusory process wreak a beautiful painted havoc

"...impact of encountering the paintings out there in the meatspace world. If they didn’t provoke the illusion of depth,..."

June 24, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Luv Doc: Online Dating for Virgins

An immediate, unquenchable need for hot, throbbing manhood

"...I saw it online. In my personal experience in meatspace I have never had any physical interaction with a..."

May 8, 2015 Column by The Luv Doc

They've Gone and Monofonus'd the ATX Again!

Locally published treats both grisly and gratifying and in between.

"...just looking at what's come through the digital and meatspace transoms in the first two weeks of 2015: Monofonus..."

Jan. 19, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Lit-urday: Something Eggers the Imagination

And someone's got to answer for all this … dysfunction.

"...treated to. But seeing is believing – especially in meatspace – and I've got the handsomely produced thing with..."

Aug. 9, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Clay Towery, R.I.P.

One of the finest among us leaves the party too soon.

"...newsfeeds and in private messages and emails and impromptu meatspace gatherings, the things being said about the man's solid..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Monster Show 7'

Thinks monsters are superstitious folderol? Domy Books' group show will show you otherwise

"...the id" never come to fruition in the waking, meatspace world outside of Technicolor phantasmagoria starring Anne Francis and..."

Nov. 23, 2012 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

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