Archive for February, 2009

Second Life London Machinima

The below video features a machinima made in Second Life as an entry to the SL London Arts Festival. It shows off some of the features of the SL London build. Here is your SLurl.

I really like the view from inside the clock tower. There are some really interesting places.

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Are You Afraid Your Going to Turn into a Plant?

Are you afraid that you are going to turn into a plant? Because Redd Columbia is.

She avoids water and seeds and is afraid daily that she will one day turn into a plant. Watch her strange story filmed below in Second Life.

Video: Redd Columbia is Afraid She Will Turn Into a Plant:

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8 Reasons ValleyWag is Full of Crap & Flat Out Wrong About Second Life

Update: – It looks like ValleyWag may have just been regurgitating an article on Feb. 20 from Forbes.com The Second Life Hype Has Fizzled —Is Twitter Next?.

Yesterday ValleyWag wrote a poorly constructed post declaring Second Life dead and trashing education and teachers with the opening lines:
“Those who can’t do, teach. Second Life, the most [...]

Second Life Virtual Hell Video: Where is Hell and What Does it Look Like?

One of the most powerful features of Second Life is that you can create anything that your mind can imagine. Below is a frightening Second Life Machinima video that I can only describe as what Hell looks like. It was filmed at the Higashiosaka virtual sim. SLurl. Without further ado, take [...]

Crazy Machinima Clicking on Life

This is a crazy Machinima video created in Second Life as a Japanese commercial. I call it Clicking on Life. Basically the avatar goes through his life clicking on everything until he clicks on the wrong spot on the wrong girl.

Then he dances around as a frog on the roof. Yes……right…..

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Comprehensive Sailing Tutorial in Second Life

The below video is not only a tutorial for sailing ships and boats in Second Life but also an education on real life sailing and boating in general. It includes some basics at the beginning including terminology and basic physics of sailboats. Wind angles, best practices, speed, and types of sail boats are [...]

Take That You Crash Test Dummies

In the below video we some some crash test dummies get run over repeatedly by a 3d virtual prim car. It is part of the physics test in the 3Di OpenSim using Networked Interactive Jointed Assembly. It is interesting to see the development of OpenSim as an alternative to Second Life.

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One Change Linden Lab Made to XStreetSL Currency Exchange Minimum orders of 500

After the Linden Lab purchase of XStreet SL many questioned what types of changes would be coming to Second Life and XStreet SL.

Linden Lab said little changes would be happening but I have noticed one important change that has already happened.

Linden Lab has made an important change to the XStreetSL Currency Exchange. Minimum [...]

Virtual Soccer Video Games: Online Gameplay in Second Life Has Evolved

I have written before about virtual Soccer in Second Life. The virtual soccer video game play has really evolved as shown in the below video.

As an added bonus after the secondlife racing and boxing in Second Life

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5 Reasons to Attend London Sim Second Life Arts Festival 2009 Starting Today

The Second Life London Sim Arts Festival 2009 starts today and runs through February, 27, 2009. The SL London Art Festival showcases artists from all over Second Life including machinimas, sculptures, photography, paintins, and more.

The art work will be for sale and on display at the Park Lane Mayfair virtual Sim in Second Life [...]