I apologize for being AWOL for so much of the last two weeks! My First Life has been seriously interfering with my Second Life. I’ve found a free and very useful Second Life tool bar that you can add to your Internet Explorer or Firefox browser, SL-ToolBar.EU. The toolbar provides: The latest news, blog, and…
Month: April 2009
Win a Second Life region for a year
a Look for a blue-ribboned egg like the one on the right and you could win a full Second Life region for a year just for taking a brief Linden Lab survey! You’ll find the eggs on EggsActly Island. The teleport link is at the end of this article. The contest is part of Second…
Molotov Alva and his search for the creator, part two (video)
In part two of Molotov Alva and his Search for the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey, Molotov Alva realizes that he is becoming just as trapped by his possessions in his Second Life as he was in his first life, and so he embarks on a journey to find the creator of it all. The…
Molotov Alva and his search for the creator, Part one (video)
Scene from the Cinemax release of Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator: Part 1 This is a Second Life machinima (video) that grew up to be a television series on Cinemax, Molotov’s Dispatches in Search of the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey. Initially created in Second Life in 2006 by filmmaker Douglas Gayeton,…
What is Second Life?
Scene from What is Second Life? This is a machinima that everyone can enjoy, whether you’ve never been inside Second Life or you’re deeply involved. "What is Second Life?" compares being active in Second Life with taking part in an urban community garden. It’s a comparison I hadn’t thought of, but there’s a lot of…
Cardinal Sin’s Catholic Cathedral
a Cardinal Sin has to be the most cleverly named business proprietor in Second Life! When I first visited his Basilica Cardinale Cathedral Church Supplies site, I thought it had to be a joke, or a goth enterprise. It’s not. Cardinal Sin has written, "While I often take on the appearance of a priest when…
Digital Championship Wrestling Federation
a I’ll admit upfront that I’m not a wrestling fan. It’s well produced theater that provides photographers and videographers with dramatic shots, but little else about it appeals to me. Nonetheless when I learned that there was a Digital Championship Wrestling Federation in Second Life and that it holds wrestling matches twice a week, I…
Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah in Second Life
a I wish I knew more about what I’m writing about today, but all I have to go on is what I can see. What I see is Althekra, a beautiful reproduction of what the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah apparently looked like before the current modern era. It’s a beautiful reproduction. The builders have…
The great dance – myth of Nataraja (video)
In Hindu tradition, Nataraja is a cosmic dancer whose dance leads to the creation of the universe. This is the basis of the machinima, "The Great Dance – Myth of Nataraja". The machinima’s producer, Gary Hayes (Gary Hazlitt in Second Life) says of it, "Nataraja is both the destroyer and the creator of the universe. He…