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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 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 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.
Full StoryIt All Happened at the Happening
Make magazine’s Phillip Torrone prepares to probe the virtual world I was skeptical about it when I first heard the description, but Second Life did indeed meet and mingle with the massively multiplayer offline universe often known as First Life last night. It all happened at The Happening, “an extraordinary audio/visual benefit experience” that went [...]
Full StoryReal-World Music Festival to Fund SL Events
The Foundation For Rich Content — which we covered when it started up last year — is now inviting Second Life users to an Alabama of the mind. The FFRC, which provides private grants to SL residents to help fund “events and projects that enrich the cultural scene of Second Life,” recently teamed up with [...]
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A Merry Denominational Xmas to You!
Happy Hannukah! Joyous Kwanzaa! Lovely Diwali! Have a nice Ramadan! Merrrrrry Christmas!!!!1! That’s what Blizzard Entertainment, the corporate cog behind World of Warcraft, is saying to their 4 million-plus players this holiday season. A new holiday patch released this week adds some fun new content to the game, in the form of a big Christmas [...]
Full StoryTimes Uber-Reporter at it Again! Wallace Dishes on the Virtual Vacation that is SL
Forget about Plamegate, Harriet Miers, the war, and the next hurricane. The big news in today’s New York Times is clearly the story by Mark Wallace, discussing virtual travel, but with a big emphasis on Second Life. But the big dish in here is the news that former Post Six Girl Diamond Hope – the [...]
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