View Larger Map Ten Random Things I love about Fort Greene, Brooklyn: The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn play every Monday night at Chez Oskar Has only South African restaurant in the Five Boros (Madiba) I can be in downtown Manhattan in 20 minutes by subway or bike Red velvet cake from The Cake Man Has…
Congrats to J. Walter Hawkes for winning an Emmy!
Congratulations to my buddy J. Walter Hawkes for winning an Emmy, along with this musical team, for their work on the kids show "Wonder Pets." The Emmy was for "Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition." Along with his musical composition skills, J. Walter is a fine trombonist and ukelele player. He has worked on…
5 Finalists in USC Public Good & Second Life Community Challenge Announced — vote for your favorites!
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…
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.