I’ve been taking a long break from Second Life again – just when I was getting momentum on the Kipling Rock project, distractions from First Life cropped up. Nothing major; mostly it was lots of new episodes of favorite television shows, family stuff on the weekends, midweek choir practice, and afternoon naps! But I’ve kept up with blogs and SLUniverse, and ran across this reminder of an underused feature: Linden Lab is now marketing itself as "Makers of Shared Creative Spaces". And they even might have created a "shared creative" space by accident. It could become the intersection between the…
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I got a group message from one of my Steelhead compatriots, Fuzzball Ortega, that he had a DJ gig going on T1 Radio at the Second Life Christmas Expo until 11am SLT. I had some time in the middle of the day, so off I went to check it out before having to get back to work: TUESDAY – 12/11 – All Today’s Music Sponsored by T1 Radio! 9 – 11am: DJ Fuzzball Ortega of T1 Radio 11- 1 pm: DJ Mark Attenborough – the Voice of Second Life 1 – 4pm: DJ Vic Mornington of T1 Radio 5 –…
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The Museum of Modern Art will exhibit images from digital games and virtual worlds, but The Guardian's Jonathan Jones thinks such images are not art. I'm no artist, but I think there' s some pretty artistic stuff going on in Second Life, though Jonathan Jones will pooh-pooh the idea. The Guardian article posted a companion gallery of images from or for the exhibition, but didn't bother to include any images from Second Life as examples of digital-game or immersive-world art. They did include shots from Sim City, EVE-Online, Myst, The Sims, and Portal along with other game screenshots.