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Archive for October, 2007

Octoberville Shows Indie Power

I’d posted a photo blog about this over at the Herald awhile ago and, once again, Draxtor Despres shows us his brilliance in the video above.
This is one of those situations where it’s all about the images - text couldn’t possibly have shown how cool the build was.
Of course, text is practically necessary if you […]

Deleting Your Work

Sometimes there’s a beauty in roughly-hewn work. It’s raw. The imperfection makes it pure. The more regrettable it is, the more beautiful it is. It’s an encapsulated moment in time.
Of course, that’s when it’s private. Publicly that pimple is forever blighting your face. There aren’t that many people out there that can pull that off. […]

Old Media - In Bed with the Sheep

Another killer report from Draxtor Despres, this time about CSI NY coming to Second Life via the Electric Sheep Company. He covers the innovation, excitement, and controversy.
Professor Robert Bloomfield, who chooses the guests for the Metanomics series, has invited the creative director of the ESC to come by on Monday at 11am SLT. (Click here […]

Old Media / New Media Schism

I’ve never seen it better illustrated than in this blog entry by Joel Greenberg of the Electric Sheep Company. Here’s a sample paragraph:
“Yeah, but no one’s there,” said one of the Young Critics, who brought up the Wired article at the beginning of my talk. I said, “Go to GooglePlex at 9am on a Wednesday, […]

SL Has Left The Silent Era

Yet another incredible report from Bernhard Drax (or is it Draxtor Despres?). He caught Dizzy Banjo’s event that I missed (dammit), spoke with a Linden about midi, and all sorts of amazing things about music in the Metaverse.
Sadly he has to take a break from SL while he does a job in RL, but he […]

Ontario Metaverse

Just a quick note that I’ve created an open free-to-join group in Second Life called “Ontario Metaverse”. Most of us in it are actually from the Niagara region, but anybody reasonably local is completely welcome to join. It’s just a social thing, with the eventual goal of local meetups. Sick of none of your friends […]