I touched base with my friends Paul and Kerria about their new venture called "Dimension 11." As we previously reported, Ill Clan Studios (where I briefly worked), last month morphed into two entities: Pixel Valley Studios and Dimension 11. Here's what Kerria and Paul say about their new biz: After creating award-winning animation for film,…
Category: Virtual Worlds
Ill Clan “morphs” into Two New Virtual World & Animation Shops
My friends at the award-winning machinima crew Ill Clan Studios tell me that they have "morphed" the company into two different concerns: Pixel Valley Studio will focus on real-time machinima animation and traditional 3D digital animation Kerria Seabrooke and Paul Jannicola will specialize in virtual world builds, experiential design and artistic machinima Not much more…
Transmedia / transatlantic hip-hop music video integrates Second Life, Twitter, Skype & YouTube
Here's a creative and fun music video by Philly-based hip-hop artist Legrand that is exemplary for a number of reasons. First off, fun song! Secondly, created as a collaboration between Legrand and a group of 20 students at the Tokyo campus of Temple University, it's an interesting example of what can be accomplished using fairly…
New Steampunk Outfit for My Avatar in New Babbage
I went shopping in Second Life for the first time in months. I wanted to get a snazzy new outfit for the April 12 Roundtable on Virtual Worlds and Nonprofits I'm co-hosting on MacArthur Island for Global Kids. I've always thought that Steampunk was such a cool aesthetic, but one that is hard to realize…
Linden Lab announces improved “First Hour” experience for new users
My friends at Ill Clan just sent me the news that Linden Lab has unveiled a totally revamped orientation experience for new uses of the Second Life virtual world. Statistics have shown the the overwhelming majority of new registrants log-in once and then don't return to Second Life, presumably because the interface was too…
Service Learning, Social Media & the Lost Boys of Sudan: the 2010 National Service Learning Conference
From March 24-27, Global Kids teen leader Mayank and I got to travel to San Jose, California to participate in the National Service Learning Conference along with 2,000+ other young people and educators from around the country. Sponsored by the National Youth Leadership Council, the NSLC is a very impressively run annual gathering focused on…
I’m speaking about Global Kids on Metanomics Talk Show this Wednesday (UPDATE: Postponed!)
This Wednesday, March 24, at 12pm PST, I will be speaking on the very excellent virtual talk show Metanomics about some of our recent projects at Global Kids. I'll be talking with Robert Bloomfield, or Beyers Sellers in Second Life, about our new "Edge Projects" that are helping other civic organizations experiment with digital media…
Field Museum of Chicago is Hiring a Digital Learning Specialist
I got word from my friends at the fantastic Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago that they are looking for a "Digital Learning Specialist" to work in the education department. According to the job description, the Digital Media Learning Specialist will "develop digital learning projects and help manage the infusion of digital media into…
Did You Meet Someone Interesting Online? We want to hear your story!
Global Kids is involved in the production of an upcoming HBO documentary called "Meeting Online." We are looking for good stories that revolve around connections made on the Internet. If you know someone, or you yourself, have met someone online and the relationship deeply affected you, then we want to hear from you. It could…
(Ninja) Turtles All the Way Down: A Second Life Simulcast of Second Life
Those of us in the virtual world field have been all abuzz in the past week over the release of the new 2.0 version of the Second Life viewer. There are lots of new features that probably have no interest to the outside world. But one major change is that now you can easily bring…