Exploring Second Life and OpenSim worlds
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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
Black Rock City, which stages the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert and in a variety of regional Burning Man festivals, including one in Second Life, is now looking for a San Francisco headquarters and wants to apply the principles of Burning Man to a real life city. (Steven T Jones, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Feb 24, 2011) Read
The Lost Gardens of Apollo is one of Second Life’s treasures. It’s also one of its oldest attractions, dating all the way back to 2005. There isn’t much in Second Life that’s been around this long.
It’s a place of seductive beauty, a place for lovers and for lovers of beauty. The sheer complexity of the build is stunning. Covering an entire sim, it contains lush forests, hidden places to relax with a lover, an imposing temple-like structure on the harbor, and a “Bridge to Nowhere” floating high above. Former members of the now-defunct virtual world There.com will feel at home in the floating islands that conjure a feeling of the magical place Saja in that extinct world.
Second Life members can visit by using either of these slurls:
The Lost Gardens of Apollo has a Facebook page at /www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20573244932
Here are four photos I took on my visit there yesterday. I’ll have more in the future.
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Never before had Sundance Film Festival audience members been part fox, used names like “NeoConD” and “Apparatchik,” or had the power to teleport away. Marking a first for both Sundance and cyberspace, these viewers were avatars watching a feature-length festival film Monday from a screening room in the virtual world of Second Life. (Michelle Meyers, CNET News, Jan 24, 2007) Read