Jon Rafman x Bad at Sports

Kool-Aid Man in Second Life completely blows my mind. It’s a project in which artist Jon Rafman– using the aforementioned anthropomorphized drink pitcher as his avatar– regularly leads guided tours throughout the awe-inspiring, deeply unsettling, and often hilarious multiverse of Second Life. The sheer WTFery of that virtual realm is so vast and elusive, you’ll have to see it to believe it.

Second Life served as the setting for art podcast Bad at Sports’ recent interview with Rafman/Kool-Aid Man, where the artist’s rumbling autotuned voice muses on a series of fascinating existential subjects as we float through the technicolor backdrop of “the ultimate tourist destination… turbo-charged Las Vegas and Dubai combined. Where every possibility and combination of landscape and architecture can exist.”