Second Life members who aren’t able to get to the New Orleans Mardi Gras this weekend can take part in the Second Life version in the New Toulouse sim. (Apollo Manga, Examiner.com, March 4, 2011) Read
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Memorial to a dying artist
Last year when artist Peter Vos lay dying of pancreatic cancer, his son created a remarkable memorial for him in Second Life.You can see four of the many works in the exhibit below, and you can read my examiner.com column about the exhibit and see more pictures at www.examiner.com/second-life-in-national/memorial-to-a-dying-artist. llustration of Harry Mulish’ “De Aanzoek”…
The lost world of There
In the old days, people occasionally would rummage through their attic or basement and find forgotten treasures. People probably still do. I don’t, but I do have old webpages and websites. This week I went rummaging through one of them, what I used to call my Thereography Studio – photographs from the now defunct virtual…
Tweets, typewriters, fountain pens, and quill pens
I was talking with a friend today about the San Francisco Writers Conference and the need for writers to be skilled (or able to afford to hire the skill) to build a website, blog, Tweet, and use Facebook. My friend didn’t think it was fair. Writers shouldn’t need to deal with this stuff. But are…
San Francisco Writers Conference
I spent almost three days at the San Francisco Writers Conference this weekend. It was excellent. There were some superb presentations in workshops, particularly by Tee Morris and Rusty Shelton, and Donald Maass made some very perceptive comments about genre that I welcomed, but I was surprised that not a single person I spoke with…
HBO documentary filmed partly in Second Life
On Monday February 14, 2011 HBO will present the documentary When Strangers Click: Five Stories from the Internet. It includes machinima segments filmed in Second Life™. The film features five couples who met over the internet, including one who met in Second Life The film’s website says “Kim packed a wedding gown and flew to…
Art Planet
The many-colored space you are in appears vast. You turn, east, west, south, north, up, or down, and you see a world of shifting colors. Here and there, objects crumble while others remain steadfast. Even your avatar is shifting in appearance, at times appearing normal, other times seeming to glow in shifting colors. It is…
Discovering Second Life
Fireworks are traditional on American Independence Day, July 4, and so when my sister was unable to see first life fireworks yesterday, I bought her a set of Henry deCuir’s Second Life® fireworks and we spent the evening on her waterfront land in the Second Life mainland with a friend watching fireworks. The fireworks were…
Burning Life 2009 preview – part three
You’re walking in a desert through an extravagance of imaginative builds on all sides, but then you see something strange, a rectangular build, orange and yellow in color, with some spheres and other shapes inside. If you enter the property and hit the "Play Media" icon on your Second Life viewer, the magic begins. Music…
Ancient Mayan city in Second Life
Let’s agree upfront that visiting a virtual Chichen Itza can’t come close to visiting the real thing, but few of us will visit the real Chichen Itza even once in our lives. A virtual Chichen Itza has the advantage of being available to us every day to visit whenever we want. This writer has so…