Tonight I managed to catch most of a special Future Salon discussion and machinima movie viewing in Second Life featuring Paul Marino, head of the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences, founder of Ill Clan Productions and most importantly my roommate. In typical SL mind-bending fashion, I was sitting in the living room of our…
Category: Virtual Worlds
Talking Trash about Second Life
My buddy Frank (aka Ill Bixby) and his crew at Ill Clan productions have just finished episode 8 of TrashTalk with ILL Will. The talk show features Ill Will and his sidekick / missile Mal, commenting on the wacky world of gaming. In this episode, they explore the Second Life universe where they find love,…
How to put on an event for students, activists and talking bears
I have started a wiki page on the Second Life Education wiki to encourage folks who know better than me to share their thoughts and suggestions on how to organize “multi-verse” events. I.e. events that take place simultaneously in virtual space and in real space. My contention is that there must be a growing body…
Virtual laptops for real world kids
I have previously blogged about MIT’s “One Laptop Per Child” project. Spearheaded by Nicholas Negroponte, the project aims to develop a small, linux-based laptop costed at less than $100 for use by students in schools in the developing world. I am interested in seeing if the Second Life metaverse is a useful space to develop…
My robot alter-ego
Pathfinder Linden turned me on to the amazing avatars designed by Kage Seraph. Kage builds enormous, several story tall, mecha avatars that are so geeky and cool. Pathfinder has one that appears to be made of wood, spews steam, and generally gets your attention quick. I bought one that has more of a burnished steel…
I guess I need a Second Life
You know you’ve been spending too much time in Second Life when : Your girlfriend gets her own account in SL so she can spend time with you Your friends don’t understand anything that you are talking about ("So was this in your real life or your fake life?") You neglect to go out dancing…
Philip Linden addresses Second Life residents at Town Hall meeting
Philip Linden, CEO and founder of Linden Labs which created Second Life, gave an in-world address to Second Life residents at the first Town Hall meeting that featured audio interaction. Philip joked that this was mostly due to his poor typing skills. Philip addressed a number of important issues in Second Life, including the state…
My mad moves in Second Life (videos)
People were asking me about what kinds of dancing goes on in Second Life. I uploaded a couple of quicktime videos of me doing some new steps I acquired, including the "butt dance," the "flapper," the "kata" (my favorite) and the "kick dance" (large-ish file.) Footage taken at the "Baby Dolls" club in virtual Amsterdam. …
Dancing with myself… with other people
Lots of the social activity in Second Life takes place at parties, with the usual things that go on at parties — drinking, chatting, people being silly. The thing that usually signals that a party is going on is music and dancing. I recently have been to a number of different Second Life clubs, live…
Activist Tech: from listservs to virtual worlds
I went to a workshop on “Technology and Social Activism” at the Beyond Broadcast conference this weekend. I suppose it was ambitious to expect anything other than a quick fly-over of interesting initiatives in using technology for activism, since this could have easily been the subject of a three-day conference. As one participant Sean Coon…