Posted in Second Life Arts, Second Life™, art, cyberloom, education, virtual worlds, tagged Adam Frank, Art in SEcond Life, Discover Magazine, doppelgangers, elros Tuominen, mathematics, Max Tegmark, Multiverses, Nyth Morgwain, parallel universes, remedial maths class, Second Life, virtual worlds on July 10, 2008 | No Comments »
I recently read Adam Frank’s interview with cosmologist Max Tegmark in the July 2008 issue of Discover Magazine. Frank introduces Tegmark with these words:
His grand theory posits parallel worlds in multiple dimensions of space and time, infinite realms where our doppelgangers live alternate lives. (Adam Frank)
This is one of those far-fetched imaginative places where we [...]
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Posted in Web 2.0, avatars, cyberloom, cyberspace, education, virtual worlds, tagged Center for Connected Health, exercising, meditation, Relaxation Response, Sacha's Designs, Second Life, Self-perception, virtual worlds on July 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
How we think about ourselves effects how we interact with the world around us. We can easily accept that there is a link between how we feel and how we behave. Now, for those of us opting to enter virtual worlds, there is a new dimension of self-perception available for exploration, our avatar.
How do we [...]
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Posted in Second Life™, Web 2.0, avatars, cyberloom, cyberspace, virtual worlds, tagged 'Grendel's Children', avatars, blogging, Blogs, Dragons, Flea Bussy, Pelagic Sea Dragons, Second Life, virtual worlds on June 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Thunder-breath. Green and blue Pelagic Sea Dragon by Flea Bussy.
Blogs are like lumps of damp malleable clay. We bloggers bend and shape our blogs into little idea carrying vessels, then we display our wares out on the Internet. The Internet is more like a giant car boot sale where people can wander about aimlessly picking [...]
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Posted in avatars, cyberloom, virtual worlds, tagged avatars, ball gowns, Debutantes, S.S. Galaxy, Sacha's Designs, Second Life, virtual worlds on June 11, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Cyberloom posing on board the S.S. Galaxy wearing a Sacha’s Designs (demo) ball gown .
I wonder whether an avatar qualifies as a virtual world in and of itself? That is, it need not be seen as just a vehicle for moving through virtual spaces, or as a communication device with social presence. (Though an avatar [...]
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Posted in art, avatars, cyberloom, virtual worlds, tagged avatars, Bettina Tizzy, digital art, draconite avatar, Flea Bussy, NPIRL Garden of Delights, Second Life, virtual world sculpture, virtual worlds on June 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Bettina Tizzy’s installation
Continuing with my ‘Ever Changing Avatar Tour’ of NPIRL ‘Garden of Delights’ I found myself on Bettina Tizzy’s sky platform standing between two liquorice trees (at least thats what I call them). One half of the platform floor looks like ice while the other half is a floor of hot lava. Prickly [...]
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Posted in cyberloom, cyberspace, virtual worlds, tagged 'Grendel's Children', Alpha Auer, avatars, digital art, Eshi Otawara, Flea Bussy, Lily Dryad avatar, NPIRL Garden of Delights, Second Life, virtual world sculpture, virtual worlds on June 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Lily Dryad standing in Alpha Auer’s ‘Public Baths’ installation. NPIRL’s ‘Garden of Delights’.
Back to my explorations of NPIRL Garden of Delights with Flea Bussy’s avatars. (I just love these strange images!) Alpha Auer’s ‘Public Baths’ were definitely peculiar, yet oddly charming, and peaceful at the same time. Just imagine lying in a tub with [...]
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Posted in art, avatars, cyberloom, virtual worlds, tagged Second Life, avatars, virtual worlds, 'Grendel's Children', digital art, Flea Bussy, NPIRL Garden of Delights, Scarp Godenot, virtual world sculpture on May 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Corra Nacunda avatar by Flea Bussy looking for flowers to eat in ‘Florilishiousness World’ by Scarp Godenot.
I decided to experiment with the size of my photographs. These images can be be seen much larger if you:
Click once on the image in the post.
Then wait until your mouse cursor turns into a plus sign.
Now click [...]
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Posted in art, avatars, cyberloom, virtual worlds, tagged 'Grendel's Children', art, avatars, Bronze Sigil Knight, Fantastic Art, Flea Bussy, NPIRL Garden of Delights, Second Life, virtual worlds on May 26, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Bronze Sigil Knight (avatar created by Flea Bussy ) standing on Kazuhiro Aridian’s installation looking across at ‘Heterotroph’ by Madcow Cosmos.
After mentioning Grendel’s Children in my earlier post ‘Avatar boutiques and virtual vestibules’ Flea Bussy of Grendel’s Children sent me some fabulous avatars! Now I understand why people say ‘Woot!’ in IM, the surprise [...]
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Posted in avatars, cyberloom, virtual worlds, tagged 'Grendel's Children', 'Train for Success', avatars, Flea Bussey, Gronstedt Group, Ryan Snook, Second Life, virtual worlds on May 18, 2008 | 6 Comments »
‘Noface’ on a surfboard. Avatar created by Flea Bussy of Grendel’s Children.
You don’t have to know how to play an instrument to enjoy music, and you don’t have to be a programmer to enjoy the creations of programmers. I don’t know how to make virtual worlds myself but the idea of them captures my [...]
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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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