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…
VIDEO: Origin of the word “Rez” from the movie “Tron”
My colleague Barry put together these tasty clips from the 1980s ground-breaking scifi movie "Tron." Barry pulled out every use of the word "rez" in the film to explain why Global Kids named its new social network for virtual world educators "RezEd.org." "Rez" in the Second Life context refers to creating objects in-world, i.e. to…
“Second Life and the Public Good Community Challenge” : awesome submissions!
I just finished doing a first read-through of the submitted proposals for the USC Network Culture Project’s "Second Life and Public Good Community Challenge". There’s a rich assortment of innovative projects on the table, all of which are worthy of support in their own right. Winnowing it down to just five is going to be…
Remarkable video on the roots of hip-hop dance
"Nobody here made up nothing. All we are doing is manifesting shit at a different time." – Crazylegs My friend Snora posted to Yehoodi this awesome video created by Midus. Without commentary, the eight-minute collection of dance footage shows the parallels between modern b-boy and hip-hop dance and older dance forms — from lindy hop…
2 jobs available for community development project in Boston using Second Life
Gene Koo of the Berkman Center at Harvard wanted me to pass around these job notices for an innovative project called "Hub2": "Hub2 seeks to enable local neighborhoods to participate more meaningfully in the design and development of their own public spaces. Residents engage in a process that employs 3D tools and problem-solving techniques to…