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<strong>Show me, I'll show you.</strong>Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.comBlogger749125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-58123293410426082672009-11-03T07:41:00.000-08:002010-12-09T22:51:06.079-08:00So long, farewell...Back when this blog began, 750 posts ago, there were few blogs that did write-ups and reviews of great content and installations in Second Life. This has changed dramatically, especially over the past year. Today, a number of academic journals are gearing up to focus on virtual content, and they will be the appropriate venues for most of the topics we've been covering lately.I like to think Not Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com70tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-54496255937805510762009-11-01T08:29:00.000-08:002009-11-01T09:02:24.284-08:00Seifert Surface breathes (real) life into virtual contentSeifert Surface (aka Henry Segerman), a mathematician and also a bodacious creator of both virtual and real math-inspired art, is doing so many new and fun things that I had to get out of my blogging funk long enough to post this. Three years ago, and over on his New World Notes blog, Hamlet Au did a great write-up on Seifert's recreation of Robert A. Heinlein's fictional "Crooked House" in Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-51067284541680229132009-10-23T16:29:00.000-07:002009-10-23T16:29:55.074-07:00An interview in Chinese and English with virtual superstar Cao Fei - Will you be the next artist showing at RMB City?Cao Fei (aka China Tracy in Second Life) is one of six finalists for the 2010 Hugo Boss award. The $100,000 prize is presented every other year to “the artist (or group of artists) working in any medium, anywhere in the world” for making the most important contribution to contemporary art.In Second Life, we know her as the artist who conceived and produced the four sim/islands work collectively Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-13545995274661975932009-10-23T11:51:00.000-07:002009-10-23T16:45:36.691-07:00Wherein I finally love Cao Fei's RMB City: Part IChina Tracy is the Second Life® avatar of Cao Fei, a Beijing-based woman born in Guangzhou, China in 1978, and the most acclaimed virtual worlds’ artist in Real Life. It is therefore illogical that this blog, which has logged 745 posts to date and the majority of them about virtual art, has never featured China Tracy, Cao Fei or her creations.I do so today, not because Cao was selected by the Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-56010760786527054992009-10-18T18:42:00.000-07:002009-10-18T18:43:10.389-07:00The distance between virtual worlds and augmented reality is... evaporatingThe four-day International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality is about to kick off in a few hours in Orlando, Florida. For openers, the Visual Media Lab at Israel's Ben Gurion University, together with the Human Interface Technology lab out of New Zealand, have made it possible for a user to sketch things, free-hand, and see them simulated in realtime 3D. Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-11239061660694979602009-10-18T17:13:00.000-07:002009-10-18T18:11:31.472-07:00A self-healing tour de force in the virtual desertSelavy Oh's work, as long as I've known it, has always involved math and physics and, for the most part, it features cubes or sticks coming together and/or falling apart in different ways.I can think of four recent installations by Selavy that break this pattern or do something entirely new: Dancing Mountains, a landmark Land Art piece in Second Life consisting of mountains that rise and fall Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-16322173595685056542009-10-18T03:26:00.000-07:002009-10-18T03:30:51.270-07:00144/Dimensional Drift Machine: Dekka Raymaker/Penumbra Carter at Burning Life 2009Posted by Alpha AuerCollage: In Profils Perdus Soupault says: "... In the course of our inquiry we had discovered that the mind released from all critical pressures offered images and not logical propositions..." The imagery of collage, its image-work is not amenable to rational control or explanation. André Breton recalls how he used Freud’s methods of investigation, as he experimented in Alpha Auerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11412727378736602680noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-44654429303864685962009-10-17T13:59:00.000-07:002009-10-17T18:55:25.907-07:00Flexis divine: Proud FleshSinuous, pink (my fave color), ALIVE, and hilarious, Adam Ramona's Proud Flesh installation at Burning Life 2009 is a triumph. Kindly click the lower right hand corner to view this "Large" Adam Ramona is the artist Adam Nash in Real Life, living in Melbourne, Australia. We've blogged about his work many times. His notecard at the installation reads:This work is an attempt at a little evolving Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-34695391075569873342009-10-17T02:11:00.000-07:002009-10-17T23:59:53.496-07:00The Tower and the QuestForgive me, dear readers, if I congratulate myself again and again for luring Alpha Auer (aka Elif Ayiter) into becoming my co-blogger here. Sometimes she writes and I don't. Sometimes I write alone for weeks. Somehow, this blog doesn't get overly lonely. And oh, the things she creates! She amuses me; she fills me with awe. On this occasion, and for Burning Life 2009, the Tower and the Quest was Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-85717649250007184092009-10-17T02:03:00.000-07:002009-10-17T02:08:12.878-07:00Spotted - Superlative virtual avatar and BurnerMarko Seurat at Burning Life 2009Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-35653738530905143812009-10-13T18:02:00.000-07:002009-10-13T18:08:28.502-07:00Vote for scalable megaprims on Estate land in Second LifeMany thanks to Qarl Linden who - in comments to my previous post regarding the 2nd anniversary of the Big Prim Problem - suggested that Linden Lab might compromise and consider making scalable megaprims available on Estate land. To that end, I asked my JIRA-savvy friend Dirk Talamasca to create such a proposal for us, thereby enabling everyone to have their say on this potential new feature... Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-2306060105054973452009-10-12T16:37:00.000-07:002009-10-12T16:39:49.414-07:00Giant Prims - 2nd anniversary of "The Big Prim Problem"Two years ago today, the Not Possible IRL group read Michael Linden's post, The Big Prim Problem, in dismay. Be sure to read that post if you have no idea what I am talking about.A great deal has happened in two years, including a tiny window during which a number of creators were able to take advantage of a wee exploit and make many huge prims in different sizes, but none of them scalable. WhileBettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-62217124659030518502009-10-11T22:18:00.000-07:002009-10-18T18:03:00.537-07:00Bryn Oh: Vessel's Dream - Sneak peekShe is the mistress of sad art, of robotic art, of mystery and melancholy, all in a virtual space, but when you talk with her, there's a bit of jocularity, of no-nonsense to Bryn Oh that's light and engaging. In conversation yesterday, the Canadian artist got to speaking about Second Life's building blocks. "I kind of like prims. It's fun to just use them. It's like Lego." Bryn Oh, as captured byBettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-86359829972466588952009-10-11T01:07:00.000-07:002009-10-11T01:12:27.203-07:00NPIRL Fashion: Cutea Benelli's Okeanos maritime gownSwim with the fishes...Get yours by teleporting to Grim Bros. directly from here.See also:Get your steampunk onSecond Life content creators save lives(Virtual) Prostheses!W Magazine's Second LifeAwesome vid of Bogon FluxWonky wacky steampunk wonderfulnessCutea's Flickr streamBettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-78239609774334853032009-10-09T15:26:00.000-07:002009-10-15T09:46:24.763-07:00Out of the Blue: Why I care about Blue MarsWith barely any content to speak of, no currency, audio, media, or voice, and a User Interface that allows for limited communication and camera movements, it’s not hard to understand why Blue Mars has its detractors. Despite all of its early Beta deficiencies, however, there are compelling reasons to believe that it holds great promise for current and future aficionados of 3D immersive Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-78951938088507555092009-10-08T21:13:00.000-07:002009-10-08T21:22:47.581-07:00Eshi Otawara's Anamorphosis of John LennonAn anamorphosis is a deformed image that appears in its true shape when viewed in some "unconventional" way. There is no substitute for seeing this in person, but here are a few photographs. Teleport directly from here to see this in Second Life.Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-70553258339718493972009-10-06T15:41:00.000-07:002009-11-15T10:09:44.258-08:00The Temple of the Prim and a tribute to Carl Jung, who surely would have loved Second LifeIn the garden of Jung's country home in Bollingen stands a large cube-shaped stone inscribed by his own hand with magical and alchemical symbols. In his last revelatory dream prior to his death, Jung saw a huge round stone engraved with the words "And this shall be a sign unto you of Wholeness and Oneness". - THE GNOSIS ARCHIVE by Stephan A. Hoeller British virtual landscape artist soror Nishi Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-31151964798228680412009-10-01T21:43:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:20:00.066-07:00My favorite animation in Second LifeThis is a shoutout to the man who created my favorite animation in Second Life... the unsung hero responsible for "lifting" avatars and sending more of us soaring than the Page Up button.Last night I was reviewing an art installation that incorporated the animation - it's a perennial hit with artists - and suddenly it dawned on me: I had no idea who had made it. Shame on me! I rustled up my Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-31545931093211992792009-09-28T10:45:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:27:59.335-07:00Chouchou's new and virtual musical instrument: The BabelSometime this October, Chouchou, the Japanese musical group that exists only in Second Life®, will unveil The Babel, a new virtual musical instrument that harnesses their uncommonly fresh sound and makes it possible for anyone in SL to play and compose with it.Arabesque Choche and Juliet Heberle are Chouchou, and together they have released two albums and several Machinima, and their live and Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-21547444010875391382009-09-23T14:54:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:29:08.189-07:00Andrek Lowell's new Bentham Forest... will creep you outPhotographers are going to have a field day at Bentham. There simply isn't a Windlight preset that it doesn't look great in. It's those light rays... This is one scary forest. I got so spooked at times, while walking around taking pics, that I could feel the little hairs on the back of my neck standing on end. In the interest of full disclosure, its creator, the hobbit Andrek Lowell, is a dear Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-2433664179102009232009-09-22T13:51:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:25:06.923-07:00A new machinima from the fertile mind of Lyric LundquistI consider it an event whenever Lyric Lundquist publishes a new machinima of hers, and this time is no exception. She had taken a short break from Second Life® - we missed you, Lyric! - but apparently got right back to work making beautiful things the moment she returned."I named this video after a quote from one of my favorite books by Chuck Palahniuk - Invisible Monsters," she explained."The Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-69919848516555628882009-09-20T23:41:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:25:06.948-07:00Spun fantasy: The Metaverse Broadcasting CompanyThere's a new sim on the grid featuring lacy, gossamer-like buildings that almost defy description. The structures are somewhat Moorish, highly articulated, and futuristic, too, thanks to their aqua-tinted bubble windows. You will recognize the style if you were familiar with Planet Mongo which, by the way, is gone! The sim is still there, but it seems that new plans for it are in the works. Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-3921326817041135442009-09-19T19:21:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:25:06.973-07:00Oberon Onmura knocks me over and blows me awayPosted by Bettina TizzyBlame the summer heat, my haste in recent months, or simply my incomprehension and obtuseness, but I didn't appreciate what others saw in Oberon Onmura's Second Life® work. I was also quite unhappy with Oberon a few months ago when the New York artist left a large gray scripted building plop atop the works of others on the Brooklyn is Watching gallery floor, thereby Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-19273615514117614542009-09-17T12:31:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:26:14.032-07:00Franco Brambilla's cute aliens (and pirates)Posted by Bettina TizzyImpossible IRL'er and über virtual explorer Molly Montale wrote to share Franco Brambilla's Flickr stream and "sci-fi imagery Photoshopped on to retro Swiss postcards," and because we are always interested in Real Life artists who inspire us, we had to follow up with him. Where are you, Franco?Franco: I live and work in Milano, in the north of Italy, a decadent, Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-60489011005291792192009-09-17T08:19:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:29:47.166-07:00Forget text, forget voice. EMOTE!Posted by Bettina TizzyPolish Olza Koenkamp (aka Piotr Kopik) is a full time artist with two full lives: one as a human and another as an avatar in Second Life®. His virtual self operates a store where he sells freakish avatars of his own creation. In Real Life, he paints and is a co-founder of szu szu, a group that creates art for public spaces.Now Olza has made this charming seemingly animated Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com1