Posted in art, avatars, cyberloom, tagged 'Grendel's Children', 'RADIANCE' art show, AngelGate Arts, Art in SEcond Life, avatars, Bau Ar, rezmagazine, Second Life™, Truthseeker Young on June 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Cyberloom doing a happy dance after winning L$1,000 in the AngelGate photo competition. I have a sneaking suspicion there were no other entries in the competition, but I am not one to look a gift horse in the mouth (L$1,000 is L$1,000 afterall). I am wearing the box avi created by Flea Bussy from Grendel’s [...]
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Posted in cyberloom, tagged Second Life, avatars, Social Presence Theory, Communications, Virtual Reality, Second Life™, Virtuals Worlds, 'Avatar Heroes', elros Tuominen, Business meetings in Second Life, Sluggles on May 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Perhaps, today’s sophisticated technologies sometimes feel too real and immediate? Heightened reality is not necessarily what we want in our communications nor does it automatically provide strong social presence.
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Second Life™ is a giant collaborative exercise where creative people make everything in the synthetic world. A great part of the magic is seeing all these different imaginative manifestations co-existing side by side.
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‘Mystical Serenity a romantic isle’ is the perfect location to experiment with the Second Life 1.20.0 platform update. This romantic and peaceful island has lots of water, big skies and beautiful trees.
I took these first 1.20.0 photographs using advanced settings in the environmental editor (under World in the top menu bar).
Advanced sky settings set to [...]
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The center of Deja Vu Volcano
Cyberloom has recently met a number of educators who express anxiety about the World Wide Web with its social networking sites and virtual worlds. They are particularly concerned by the stories they have heard about Second Life. This platform has many parallels with the early days of the internet, and [...]
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Posted in Web 2.0, art, cyberspace, tagged art, Blued Food, memes, Quadrapop Tree, Second Life at Hand, Second Life™, virtual roses on April 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Blued Food’s ‘genetica’ on show at Quadrapop Tree until April 14th
Memes propagate themselves and can move through a “culture” in a manner similar to the behavior of a virus. As a unit of cultural evolution, a meme in some ways resembles a gene. Richard Dawkins, in his book, The Selfish Gene, recounts how and why [...]
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