ALL ABOUT MY AVATAR: TASRILL SIEYESMaria Rimbaud told me that Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase had taken on avatar form, and so naturally, I had to know more. When I finally caught up with Tasrill Sieyes, the Resident who had made Duchamp’s legendary painting…SLHamlet
How to use Photoshop to Create Textures With Alpha Channels for Second LifeThis will guide you step-by-step on how to make textures with transparency for Second Life using Adobe Photoshop CS. It includes tips on how to avoid blurry white outlines and a little info on masks and alpha channels.By: AsterAster
Tateru’s Monday Reality MixTateru Nino’s weekly take on mixed reality… IBM has been involved in the sponsorship and patronage of the arts in various forms over the last decades, particularly with those that involve new media. IBM takes a pas de basque to…Tateru Nino
Grid problems, noon saturday
Filed under: Gridbugs
Just after noon SLT (Pacific) Search > Places went offline, as did searching for regions by name on the map. Teleportation ceased to function shortly after. Prim parameters of edited objects seem to be occasionally changing or reverting randomly. Grid population at the start of the problems was just over […]
Linden Lab leaving the orientation biz
Filed under: News, Newbies, Linden Labs
Reuters is carrying news that confirms inferences made from Meta Linden’s office hours last Friday (27 April 2007), namely that Linden Lab is going to be easing out of the orientation business, and handing more of that to third-party orientation operations.
Third party orientation experiences are […]
Links for Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Craig’s Rantings:SAP in in SL - “We’ll soon be playing movies from the community, products and information. There is a meeting space, lounge area and of course for the not so faint at heart - Sky Diving on the roof.“Bad Astronomy Blog: Hubble s 17th: Chaos, Birth, and […]
Just for Jacob [15:46] Jacob Seferis: any secondcaster’s on?[15:46] Lordfly Digeridoo: yesh?[15:46] Jacob Seferis: omg dude[15:46] Jacob Seferis: i love epsidoe 23[15:46] Jacob Seferis: “marsellus you cock dangler you”[15:46] Lordfly Digeridoo: which one’s 23?[15:46] Lordfly Digeridoo: hahaha[15:46] Iumi Cline: I hate it. CURSE YOU[15:46] Iumi […]
Will?s Links 04/26/2007One Picture, 1,000 Tags - New York TimesQuote: Now, after spending millions of dollars and years of effort on their virtual homes which draw many more visitors than their physical ones museums are rethinking their online collections. They are experimenting with one of the hottest […]
Just Askin’: Do you approve of the planned age-verification?
Filed under: Just Askin’
With Linden Lab’s announcement today about the planned age-verification scheme, we’re moved to ask: Do you approve?
It seems on the face of it to be a placebo measure. After all, there’s an age-verification process in place now, and as you have probably seen, it […]