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Art in Areumdeuli
A new art gallery opens tomorrow night in Second Life’s Areumdeuli sim. The Phoenicia Gallery and Studio, located in the heart of Areumdeuli, will be run by colleagues Viola Bentham and Victor Newchurch, and will feature “original works by talented artists from SL and RL.” For its opening reception, kicking off on Friday at 6:00pm [...]
Full StoryPost Six Grrrl Rebel Hope
The Herald is happy to introduce this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Rebel Hope! Rebel is a noted clothier in SecondLife, who together with her husband, RH Engel, runs RH Designs! Thanks to Daphne Molinari, creator of Daphne’s Delights, for this week’s Grrrl.
Full StoryLindens Shoot for Blockbuster with Machinima Film
by Dow Jonas Forget the Oscars: blockbuster moviemaking is coming to Second Life in the form of a machinima movie produced in SL by Eric Linden and Bedazzled Studios, a group of SL’s top architects and content creators who have designed and built an elaborate stage set for the project. Titled “Silver Bells and Golden [...]
Full StoryTalk to Us
Episode #3 of Teh IntarWeb’s most lovable podcast — featuring such playahs as Cristiano Midnight, Aimee Weber, Lordfly Digeridoo, SNOOPYBrown Zamboni and myself — is now available over at Johnny Ming’s site, where, Johnny also reports, there have already been more than 1,000 downloads of the first three shows. If you want to get involved [...]
Full StorySecondCast, Round Two
The SecondCast crew gathered again a few nights ago to talk past each other, courtesy of the talented Johnny Ming. I call him talented because he manages to edit down our unabbreviated gumflapping into something at least halfway intelligible each time we show up. In Round Two, Aimee, Cristiano, Lordfly, Johnny and myself are joined [...]
Full StoryThe Train Wreck of Virtual Journalism
Tony Walsh over at Clickable Culture reports that two journalism professors at the University of Minnesota have built a version of Neverwinter Nights, the designed-to-be-moddable role-playing game, in which players take on the roles of journalists in modern-day America, assigned to cover a train derailment and hazardous materials spill. The game is being used in [...]
Full StoryTonight: Machinimists Tinker in SL
Well, it won’t be Cannes, but tonight will see BuhBuhCuh Fairchild hosting a Second Life machinima festival featuring five films created by residents within the world. The films are a mix of genres, from the narrative to educational travelogues/ (and hopefully at least one with guns). Admission’s free, and the event starts at 7pm Linden [...]
Full StoryIdentity: Blathering Pundit
Question of the Day: Was it Walker Spaight or Mark Wallace — or perhaps some other strange oily self-promoting personage — who agreed to give a podcast to Aldo Castañeda of The Story of Digital Identity? Fortunately, Aldo is a smooth operator on the interviewing end, jumping right into questions of why identity is important [...]
Full StoryIn Which I Happen to Invent Web 3-point-D
Perhaps because I feel for the most part that “Web 2.0” is just a fancy term for the march of Web-related progress, I don’t use the phrase all that much. But its particular rhythm has stuck in my brain, and now that we’ve begun talking about places like Second Life as part of a possible [...]
Full StoryFirst Cast of SecondCast Catches a Few FIC
SL resident Johnny Ming’s new Second Life podcast site, SecondCast.com, went “live” today with a podcast featuring four of Second Life’s famous Feted Inner Core — including yours truly, for some reason.
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