Some stories don’t fit neatly into a blog post. They need space. Time. These are my longer pieces: features and deep dives into projects, personas, and moments that deserved more than a passing mention. Carefully observed, lightly stylized, and occasionally pretending not to care how much effort went into them.

Take your time. These pieces did.

When The User Logs Off, Who Remains?
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When The User Logs Off, Who Remains?

Avatars have long been treated as tools. Clickable puppets. Disposable bodies you put on, use for a while, and abandon the moment you log off. Recent studies have shown that these UCC’s or user-controlled-code entities appear to exhibit human traits. For years, avatars were described in strictly technical terms. Functional constructs. Obedient code designed to execute human intent and then stop operating when no one was logged in. That assumption is now being revised.

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Mission: Impeccable. A Day With Doreen Elytis
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Mission: Impeccable. A Day With Doreen Elytis

It wasn’t enough for Doreen Elytis to simply dominate the glossies. Until recently, she was fashion’s unstoppable object; the billboard queen whose face defined the seasons. Then Mission: Impeccable detonated at the box office, upgrading her from Supermodel to the kind of celebrity who doesn’t just walk into a room, the room seems to curate itself around her.

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Open Door: Inside the World of Doreen Elytis
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Open Door: Inside the World of Doreen Elytis

This weekend, Artificial Digest has been granted an exclusive look inside her private residence, an Open Door visit that promises to reveal the woman behind the icon, the mind behind the face, and the home behind the filtered posts that have already been liked half a billion times.

We’ve been told to expect elegance, understatement, and, if we’re lucky, the faintest glimpse of what “off-duty” looks like when your entire existence is a campaign. The staff have whispered about the house: white stone, glass panels, sunlight like liquid gold, and a walk-in closet that could double as a small gallery. 

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