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A few weeks ago, architect and publisher KK Jewell (aka Kirsten Kiser) and her arcspace were in the middle of sponsoring an international competition within Second Life® for the design of an eco-friendly community, together with ecolandnow.com, and in collaboration with the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR). Then the May 12 Sichuan earthquake in China struck, killing over

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In Real Life, a monolithic cube might make you think of the Kaaba in Mecca. This photograph by Muhammad Mahdi Karim In Second Life®, especially if it has some special physics feature, it makes me think of conceptual artist and scripter Selavy Oh. As art professor Amy Freelunch pointed out, Selavy has carved a niche for herself with pieces that almost always feature a cube or cubes falling,

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Starring role and scripting: Seifert Surface Noobs: Created by Art Laxness Location: Suffugium, by Lex Neva/The Squidsoft Collective Music: "Shopping Spree," composed by Peter Calandra, BMI and Scott P Schreer, BMI Video: Bettina Tizzy

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July 22 - 1:47am UPDATE: The flower will stay for a bit longer. Eshi would have to eject people from the sim otherwise! I look at what is there and wonder... how can people who aren't in Second Life® look at this and not want to dive in immediately? Can you smell the Night Jasmine? Eshi's tux dress against Eshi's flower 1:40pm UPDATE: Dusan Writer has just acquired this installation... thank

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Here it is... the newest video featuring Chouchou's music: Cocoon - this time a solo piano piece - in a non-Second Life® video created by Masami Kuramoto (rez: 1/22/2007). Unless you have been living under a rock, then you know that juliet Heberle and arabesque Choche have taken virtual worlds by storm with their Chouchou, the musical group that exists only in Second Life. Masami, who hails

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On Thursday, Sabine Stonebender woke up to some dreadful news. Due to a billing error bug, her Zero Point, certainly one of the most admired and NPIRL sites on the grid, had vanished into some database limbo and gone from this... ... to this... The situation has not yet been resolved. This is particularly painful because Zero Point, which housed her store and an important source of

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Combine two of our best loved stories for children (and grown-ups, too!) by Roald Dahl with some of Second Life's® most accomplished content creators, and you have magic. Orchestrated by PatriciaAnne Daviau, two stories unfold: James and the Giant Peach, with little boy James, trees and a big juicy peach by brilliant 3D modeler Colin Fizgig, fantastical insects by Madcow Cosmos, Cloud Insoo's

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3:30pm Update: I've just met Jigoku Landman, the sole creator of Higashiosaka, and a Japanese designer who developed the sim for an IT and metaverse development company (though he could not say which, at this point). Jigoku means hell in Japanese, and it is widely depicted in paintings that are hung in traditional Buddhist temples. Some of these paintings are national treasures. He told me

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The American Cancer Society Relay For Life® began in May 1985 when a colorectal surgeon ran around a track in Tacoma, Washington, for 24 hours, raising $27,000 to support the American Cancer Society. Today, Relay For Life is held in more than 4,600 communities in the United States and in 23 countries across the globe... and has raised more than $1.5 billion to help the Society accelerate the

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One thing you must see this weekend at the Second Life® Relay for Life (RFL) event is the mirror by Talia Jiang. Head over to Robin Hood's Castle and follow the pink strip to find it (teleport directly from here). More than 80 teams have come together to create an experience with the goal of raising $125,000 US. A walkathon relay has just begun that will run from July 19th at 10am SLT

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Creating things that have a short life span but are fun, fun, fun is what Peachy Sassoon does. Peachy and her friend Xerxes Sismondi have been completely rebuilding the Drama Libre club every single week... every single prim... since early October of 2006. Peachy loved the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm about Rapunzel ever since she was a little girl, so she thought she'd give it her

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There is so much to see and do this weekend at the Second Life® Relay for Life (RFL) event. More than 80 teams have come together to create a unique experience for participants with the goal of raising $125,000 US. A walkathon relay is about to get underway in a few minutes and will run from July 19th at 10am SLT through July 20th at 11am SLT. The track, spanning 96 acres, will take you past

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This is Eshi Otawara's 9th sim-wide creation in as many days... The Flower Tower (teleport directly from here). Many thanks to Dirk Talamasca for making the sim available to Eshi.

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Sabine Stonebender has terrible news. This is Zero Point today... You can read about Zero Point as it once was here "I have a bit of bad news. Zero Point was destroyed this morning by a billing error bug that returned it all rather randomly. I will be able to rebuild but the old stuff is pretty much vapor," she said. Early Thursday morning, Sabine had a huge return happen. She explained, "

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There is something new and so important at Rezzable Productions' Black Swan sim that most everyone in Second Life® will want to see it, and yes, I am aware that Rezzable is charging a $199L admission fee. All the same, I suspect that you will forget your objections and pony up. The last time Seifert Surface (aka Henry Segerman ) and his younger brother Art Laxness (aka Will Segerman)

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AM Radio wrote... "Look up Eln Alter. Check out the house there. Wild." Of course, I did. Every now and then, a fresh and strikingly original creator hits our radar, so rich with possibilities! Such was the case of Bryn Oh and four Yip, and they certainly haven't disappointed. Notably, Eln rezzed on 11/1/2007. Such work and concepts are unexpected from someone so new to the grid. Eln,

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Last year, Hidenori Watanave, a Japanese architect in Real Life with an active Second Life®, sat on a jury for something called the Digital Design Competition 2007, and the Grand Prix winner - with a 2D submission - was Museum of the Globe, by Atelier Ten Architects, a Japanese metaverse developer and web services company, not to be confused with the prestigious global environmental design firm

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My technical expertise is puny at best, so I'm pleased to share this excellent news with you via the words of guest blogger Pavig Lok. While this Aussie is most often described as the lead creator of Greenies Home Rezzable (teleport directly from here), and a SecondLife Hobo, Pavig is also the artist who gave us quite an education on Intellectual Property via the Intellectual Property Garden.

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I'm too supercalifragilisticexpialidocious for myself. This photo by AM Radio Dress: Lapin Paris Shape, Skin: Posemaster Darkstone Umbrella, bag, hat (and look for the absynthe!): AM Radio And... when I fly, my umbrella opens. From Dark Victoria at Caledon (teleport directly from here).

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Here's something few (any?) Second Life® content creators can do over at Lively. You may recall when Austrian MosMax Hax's (aka Max Moswitzer) White Noise - a bleached and clustered and dynamic freebie structure - became a finalist at a Second Life art and architecture contest last October. White Noise, as photographed by MosMax Hax Mosmax opened an account on Google's Lively (note that

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News travels fast on the grid. Today and within minutes, both surrealist four Yip (her avatars! Her installations and wings and furniture!) and uber extreme adventurer Naxos Loon , alerted me to Vooner Voom's quirky store (teleport directly from here). This is a place to stop by for madcap and eccentric avatars (want to be a school of fish, all by your lonesome? This is the place!) and toys (

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Sometimes you are just in_the_news. Such is the case of Eshi Otawara this month, as she keeps knocking our socks off with her one hour builds , and the creation of CodeBastard Redgrave's new sim "Rouge..." but nothing could have prepared me for her latest. Remember this dress? We went wild in December when Eshi introduced us to this divine, very Not Possible in Real Life frock, which she

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Dizzy Banjo and Lillie Yifu celebrated SLB5 (Second Life's 5th birthday) by creating a charming time-capsule of an exhibit they called "Message in a Bottle." The Second Life® community was invited to submit audio and text birthday messages to fill the bottle. Over 150 messages were submitted, and many more are submitted daily. Now that the 2 week celebration is over, the exhibit needs to

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10PM Update: Dizzy Banjo just finished a video of this build, and I've also learned that the sim is not going to poof. Rather, Dirk Talamasca is letting Eshi build and build to her heart's content, and she plans to be updating it daily, for a while anyway. Woke up this morning to an offline from Crap Mariner. Turns out that Eshi Otawara was up all night... (teleport directly from here). I

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Gazira Babeli has said that Second Life® is a movie each of us experiences from the moment we log in, and I couldn't agree more. While I have publicly stated that I have a mild aversion to virtual weddings, the betrothal of an old friend and fellow Hobo, and especially one as recklessly cool - and morally questionable - as Akasha Wachmann's got instant ink on my calendar. So it was that on

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