Omega Point

A blog by Catherine Winters

30 Sep

September’s Take5 films are up!


I noticed this morn­ing on the Alt-Zoom Stu­dios site that September’s Take5 shorts have been posted. September’s theme was “Unhealthy”. Yay, machinima!


Filed under: Machinima, Second Life


4 Responses to “September’s Take5 films are up!”

  1. By Buhbuhcuh Fairchild on Oct 2, 2006 | Reply

    thanks!

  2. By Icon on Oct 11, 2006 | Reply

    w00t.

  3. By Laurel Maury on Oct 15, 2006 | Reply

    Hi,

    I’m a jour­nal­ist, and I was won­der­ing if you’d be will­ing to talk with me a bit about your story. Specif­i­cally, I’m won­der­ing if SL helped you get out of home­less­ness, somehow.

    I don’t have a sense of where I’d place your story, at least not yet. But I’d like to hear if, if you’re will­ing to talk to me.

    Best wishes,
    Laurel

  4. By Catherine Omega on Oct 16, 2006 | Reply

    Lau­rel, I’m email­ing you directly as well as post­ing this here.

    I don’t like all the fuss about the fact that I was home­less because it’s embar­rass­ing to be known for my great­est mis­takes. It’s like being known as some­one who used to have a drug prob­lem. I’ve never dealt with addic­tion issues myself, but the stigma seems rel­a­tively similar.

    The “Cather­ine Omega was home­less” story detracts from my other accom­plish­ments by refram­ing things I’ve done as “and she was home­less too!”, rather than let­ting them stand on their own merits.

    Fur­ther, it ignores the greater issues of poverty in our soci­ety. “See? Cather­ine pulled her­self up by her boot­straps. Why can’t the rest of those people?”

    The prob­lem with this line of think­ing is that it assumes that I am –or was– a typ­i­cal exam­ple of a home­less per­son, that it was solely my sit­u­a­tion that was unusual. Yeah, not even close. I’m not a home­less per­son who learned tech­ni­cal skills and used those to rise out of poverty, I’m a fairly edu­cated, tech­ni­cally adept girl from the sub­urbs who had a cou­ple hic­cups going from ado­les­cence to adulthood.

    Because of oppor­tu­ni­ties granted to me that I would not have had were I not been born into the socioe­co­nomic class I was, I wouldn’t have ever got­ten to where I am today — and that’s the real story here, and one that thank­fully doesn’t involve me.

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