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Month: May 2009

Harlem’s 1920s Cotton Club – live in Second Life

Posted on May 25, 2009 by Erik Gordon Bainbridge (Apollo Manga)

  I’ve been waiting months to write about Second Life‘s Virtual Harlem, a pair of sims that aim to simulate 1920s Harlem and two of its most historic landmarks, the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater, Both locations are remembered for their contributions to American and especially African-American music, and to write about either building,…

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Storm Eye

Posted on May 16, 2009 by Erik Gordon Bainbridge (Apollo Manga)

  The activities in Second Life of the New Media Consortium (NMC) are too diverse and too numerous to do justice to by writing about it in a single blog, so over coming weeks, I’ll be highlighting some of its exhibits and features. This educational collaboration between 125 colleges and universities includes over 100 regions…

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A glimpse inside a rural America of the past, part two

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Erik Gordon Bainbridge (Apollo Manga)

  Yesterday in The Refuge and Expansion, we explored its house, barn, and the house’s upstairs work area.   In the cramped confines of the house’s attic, we find a boy’s desperate attempts to reach out to an outside world that, before radio, television, and finally the internet, was hopelessly unreachable to a farm boy…

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A glimpse inside a rural America of the past, part one

Posted on May 10, 2009 by Erik Gordon Bainbridge (Apollo Manga)

Insert photo caption or credit here The first time I visited Second Life’s The Refuge and Expansion, it struck me as a well done reproduction of a quaint aspect of bygone America, but not worth a return visit.  Fortunately, I did return, because subsequent visits revealed deeper layers, both literally and figuratively.  For me, the…

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King Tut Virtual Exhibit

Posted on May 2, 2009 by Erik Gordon Bainbridge (Apollo Manga)

The King Tut exhibit is currently on a tour of the United States and Canada, but you can get a taste of it without leaving your home by visiting King Tut Virtual: SPECIAL PREVIEW in Second Life. It’s part of an experiment by Rezzable to explore the possibilities of using virtual world space. The "Preview"…

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