We just announced in-world the five finalists in the USC Network Culture Project’s "Second Life and Public Good Community Challenge". They are: Ability Commons: Proposers Gentle Heron and Carolina Yeats Mauerkrankheit: Proposers Ping Rau and Nonny Writer Native Lands Cultural Project: Proposer Boondoggle Gruppman Texas Obesity Research Center: Proposer Sirena Felisimo Interactive Accessible Home: Proposer…
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Real World Places in Second Life: The Seattle Sim
A couple of years ago, one of the first recreations of a real life building I encountered in Second Life was the Seattle Space Needle, created by Mattias Faulkner. At the time, I remarked that while the tower itself was impressive, it lacked the context of place, amidst a vibrant Pacific coastal city. In March,…
Brooklyn Bombshells bringing Busby Berkeley to the Coney Island Mermaid Parade!
Check out this wonderful Busby Berkeley dance scene from the movie “Gold Diggers” (1933) featuring Ginger Rogers. The song is “We’re in the Money,” of course. I love the awesomely weird Pig Latin bit toward the middle! I’ve been brushing up on my Busby Berkeley knowledge because Yehoodi’s “Brooklyn Bombshells” dance group will be performing…
VIDEO: Rik gets digitized at Eyebeam!
As I previously mentioned, my buddy Friedrich Kirschner invited me help test his new bootleg 3D body scanner at a mixer event at Eyebeam labs tonight. I joined a dozen or so other folks who gamely volunteered to shed most all of their clothes to participate. The technology Friedrich employs to create 3D body scans…
Getting my body scanned for 3D model on Saturday!
My buddy Friedrich invited me to another wacky mixer event at Eyebeam labs this Saturday. Eyebeam parties are always fun gatherings of the geekerati, playing with high-tech toys, grooving to funky mashup artists and vjays. Here’s what’s happening on Saturday: This saturday, during the eyebeam MIXER event, I will set up a life-size 3D scanner…
Awesome Balut tee-shirt
The lovely and talented Second Life clothing designer Shai Delacroix just dropped on me several awesome Filipino-themed tee-shirts in honor of Philippines Independence Day. This one is the best-est though because it says "HAD BALUT 4 BRKFST." For those that don’t know, Balut is a Filipino delicacy that most of the rest of the planet…
Happy Philippines Independence Day!
June 12 is Philippines Independence Day. On this day in 1898 the Declaration of Independence, prepared by Senior Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista, was signed by 98 people in the city of Cavite. At the time, the Philippines was a colony of the Spanish, who had just been defeated by the US in the Battle of Manila…
VIDEO: My talk about Global Kids at NetSquared Conference
My colleague Rafi just informed me that my talk about Global Kids at the NetSquared Conference a couple of weeks ago can be viewed on Fora.tv. You can also check out my slides from my presentation here. Sorry the audio is so bad.
Neat 3d model of how Second Life works… in Second Life
More meta-metaverse goodness. Check out this awesome 3d model of how Second Life works, created in Second Life. In the bottom left are the various client computers accessing Second Life via the internet (the gray cloud I’m standing in.) In the back is the server farm that host the data of each of the "simulators"…
AMD ad campaign features Global Kids “Playing 4 Keeps” program!
The computer processor maker AMD launched today the "Changing the Game" ad campaign at http://innovation.amd.com/learn/. I’m proud to say that this campaign prominently features Global Kids’ Playing 4 Keeps game program and will also be running in upcoming issues of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Austin American Statesman. The latest P4K…