2022; 2022 Metaverse monsters: Digital Halloween. In Kitely, OpenSimulator. What we do in our part of the metaverse.

2022  Metaverse monsters:  

Digital Halloween. 

In Kitely, OpenSimulator.  

What we do in our part of the metaverse.

Some video records of a party in Kitely

• Watch on YouTube
• Spook-Takular 1
• More of his work:  michael mchugh
• Grand Opening of Immersion Island A Spook Takular MONSTER Mash-up!
• Immersion Island: Spook-Takular MONSTER Mash-Up!

• Attempts to bring contemporary artists, makers, creatives & technologists together in a virtual venue to engage in fun community events that will intermingle and blend art, entertainment, technology & commerce in a fun new way for both Virtual & Real Life. 
• This video shows only about 1/3 of the experience which includes multiple live entertainment venues, VR & RL shopping, action games & a Dome presentation documentary theater. 
• And we are just getting started. 
• The Grand Opening is October 27th, 2022, from 12pm to 5pm on the Kitely Grid @ Anvil Island. AKA Immersion Island. 
• Everyone is invited. 
• It is not rocket science. Go to Kitely.com and sign up for a free account and drop in and have FUN!

2022 Digital art does not need the metaverse. But the metaverse could help with marketing. Everything online can connect in the metaverse. Storytime Painting

Digital art does not need the metaverse.  

But the metaverse could help with marketing.  

Everything online can connect in the metaverse. 

Storytime Painting 

Not about  the metaverse this time, but about  art exploring the new digital media.

• Watch on YouTube
• Storytime Painting (Birth of the Star-Hawk)
• Believe --An illustrated poem

2022 The metaverse of art. Light shows and the particle system. Takes familiarity with the GPU and the particle system

The metaverse of art.  

Light shows and the particle system.  

Takes familiarity with the GPU 

and the particle system

The metaverse is a programmed environment.  To use it effectively you need to know the programming tools.

• Watch on YouTube
• OSfestival 2022 Parcel047 Featuring Poetry reading and Light show

• Light art
• Uses the computer's GPU.
• What Is a GPU?
• Mainly uses the particle system.
• Particle system

2022 Metaverse art. Art Made in Second Life. World-wide reach. Open 24/7. No mobility limitations.

Metaverse art.  

Art Made in Second Life.   

World-wide reach.  Open 24/7.  

No mobility limitations.

The metaverse as your art studio.   

• Watch on YouTube
• Art Made in Second Life - JudiLynn India
• Art done in virtual worlds, Summary

2022 Art in the metaverse. Luna Lunaria. Statuary. Architecture. Installation art.

Art in the metaverse.   Luna Lunaria.  

Statuary.  Architecture.  

Installation art.

Digital art.  New medium for art.  Potential audience in the metaverse is huge.  

• Watch on YouTube
• OSfestival 2022 Parcel 138 Luna Lunaria

• Lunaria Emporium (Part 1): Decor, tapestries, building components, holidays
• Lunaria Emporium, classical, magic, castles, cemetery (Part 2)
• OpenSim Fest: Merchants: Art gallery, space craft, sailing equipment, fashion
• Metaverse fest: OpenSim Fest 2022 #OSFest2022: People, events, exhibits, art, merchandise. You don't have to wait for the metaverse-- it is here.
• Art in this blog
• Installation art
• Installation art in this blog
• Architecture in this blog

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Easy access sources in the metaverse

• Reddit/Second Life
• Fridays 3 pm eastern (New York) 
• At the Web Show, a video set in the metaverse 
• Go there with this url: https://nonprofitvirtualworld.org/loc... 
• A developer meeting is held there every other week: 
• To find out which week, follow CybaLOUNGE on Twitter: 
• https://twitter.com/cybaLOUNGE
• 3DWebWorldz: Meetings alternate with the Web Show
• Welcome Center.  https://3dwebworldz.com/
• I am usually available weekdays at 1 pm New York time 
• In these 2 places:
• Welcome Center.  https://3dwebworldz.com/
• https://nonprofitvirtualworld.org/location.html?locationid=800000002&dl=true

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License

• Original text in this blog is CC By: unless specified public domain.
• Use as you please with attribution: link to the original.
• All images without attribution in this blog are CC0: public domain.
• Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
• Screenshots from ShareX
• This blog is not affiliated with anything.   Ads are from Google

2922 ART: Art in the Metaverse: Tour of Moyaland in Second Life. Installation art in the metaverse

Art in the Metaverse:  

Tour of Moyaland in Second Life.  

Installation art in the metaverse

Some provinces in the metaverse let you build on land you rent and make that easy by providing tools fitted to the local tech.  

• Watch on YouTube
• Installation Art

• Tour Moya land with the famous artist Patrick Moya
• Moya has been at the forefront since the 1970s of straddling the latest forms of media and technology to benefit art. 
• He is an early pioneer of video art.
• Moya become a digital artist since his early work on computer in the mid-80s : 
• now, since 2007, he is the owner of a virtual Moya Land in the 3D web of Second Life.

• After the break: Installation art in the metaverse

2022 Musical in the metaverse. A musical for our digital times: MAMBO MOTEL The Wizard of Oz meets Jumanji in the Metaverse

Musical in the metaverse.  

A musical for our digital times:  

MAMBO MOTEL 

The Wizard of Oz meets Jumanji in the Metaverse

The metaverse is bigger than Broadway.  With lower costs and more diverse tastes.

• Watch on YouTube
• Mambo Motel
• Pooky Media
• Footlight Confidential: Pooky Amsterdam April 21st, 2013, Sunday Noon SLT
  
• Pooky Media takes on the Tiger Mosquito for California
  
• MAD lab: Mosquitos and mosquito control. Pooky Media
• The Letter Q
• MUVE Market - Virtual Patient Care Simulation Lab
• Metaverse Entertainment. And entertainments production. Yes, you can stream it and post it on YouTube. Maybe build a following and monetize it
  

2022 The metaverse and the future of theatre. “Either the engineers must become poets or the poets must become engineers.”--Norbert Wiener, 1950

The metaverse and the future of theatre.  

“Either the engineers must become poets 

or the poets must become engineers.”--Norbert Wiener, 1950

In the metaverse we can build any scene and make any characters we can imagine.  The theater is finding a home here.

• Watch on YouTube
• Technology and the Future of Theatre

Art and technology are often seen as distinct disciplines. But combining them results in magic. Sarah Ellis, the Director of Digital Development at the Royal Shakespeare Company, teaches us how technology is reimagining the experience of theatre, taking it beyond the stage and into our living rooms.

• Audience of the Future Live
• Flying Saucers Return Episode 01
• A set grows in Kitely. Flying Saucers Return
• Flying Saucers Return: A pilot (Episode 1): a product of virtual worlds
• Virtual reality -- how the metaverse will change filmmaking. Get ready for an amazing ride
• Prep for a video shoot: the characters. AMP video notes
• Resources for video production in virtual worlds
• Letitia meets the press. Promotion 1 for: Flying Saucers Return

2022 VW: ART: Halloween in Sinespace: video. Creating a virtual environment can be art. Providing musical accompaniment can be art. Visualized music is a developing art form.

Halloween in Sinespace:  video.  

Creating a virtual environment can be art.  

Providing musical accompaniment can be art.  

Visualized music is a developing art form.

Mix video with music.  Scenes or abstract art.  New possibilities in creativity.

• Watch on YouTube: Mimi's Zombie Ball in Sinespace

• Sinespace

Visualized music

• Fantasia 
• Music visualization
• Music video
• Example:  The Gambler

• After the break:  Music in the metaverse

202`AET: Gallery in the metaverse. Where artists can display and sell their work. In the metaverse, the world can see your work.

Gallery in the metaverse.  

Where artists can display and sell their work.  

In the metaverse, the world can see your work.

The metaverse can become a new outlet for the work of artists.  Galleries in a laptop.  Open 24/7.  Meet your friends or fans there any time. 

• Watch on YouTube

Selling art in the metaverse

• NFT
• The non-fungible token (NFT) is the basis for selling digital are online.
• Physical art objects can also be sold online for delivery by carriers such as UPS.
• Digital sculptures can be printed in 3D and cast in bronze:
• Shattered, virtual sculpture in real bronze: The art of Toysoldier Thor
• After the break: related articles.

2021 #VWEDU: Virtual architecture: People can design and build their own virtual buildings. Walk through them. Picture them from any angle.

Virtual architecture:

People can design and build 

their own virtual buildings.  

Walk through them.  

Picture them from any angle.

The dawn of the virtual reality in architecture.  Draft buildings you can walk into, look around in, put furniture in.

• Watch on YouTube
• Virtual worlds as makerspaces
• Virtual architecture
• Virtual Architect Home Design Software
• Installation art
• Matterport 3D virtual tours
• Beyond the Hype: Architecture in the Metaverse
• More after  the break.

2021 Biz: Avatars are a metaverse business. Artists can make and sell avatars and avatar clothing

Avatars are a metaverse business.  

Artists can make and sell avatars and avatar clothing

Making avatars for the metaverse is a growing business

• Watch on YouTube
• Avatars in SL
• Second life Marketplace
• Skins For Your Avatar!  Avatars in the metaverse
• Readyplayerme
• How To Create Avatars For Virtual Worlds -- An Oculus/Linden Lab Vet's Advice
• Making avatars (search)

• Features you need in a metaverse world to make and sell avatars (after the break).

2021 Some risks from NFTs. Copyright is a separate matter. And buyers can get scammed. Are these NFTs illegal?

Some risks from NFTs.  

Copyright is a separate matter.  

And buyers can get scammed.

Are these NFTs illegal?

Some cautions for people planning to buy art associated with NFTs.  You need to know what you are doing. 

• Watch on YouTube
• NFT WARNING! | Lawyer Explains SERIOUS Problems With Non-Fungible Tokens
• NFTs vs Copyright: Is That NFT Really Yours?
• I LOST $600 IN AN OPENSEA NFT SCAM
• Introduction to NFTs
• Bored Ape NFT Collector Loses Million-Dollar Stash to Discord Scammers
• Investors Spent Millions on ‘Evolved Apes’ NFTs. Then They Got Scammed.
• Is It Legal To Copy NFT Art?
• 12 Common NFT Scams & How to Stay Safe
• NFT scams
• The IRS Is Coming for my NFTs... (Taxes & NFTs)
• After the break:  Videos from the metaverse.

2021 VW: ART: The Natascha Randt Memorial. Sometimes the metaverse is painfully real. Avatars are immortal but the people behind them are not.

The Natascha Randt Memorial.  

Sometimes the metaverse is painfully real.   

Avatars are immortal but the people behind them are not.

Ever since my creative partner, Natascha Randt, passed away on September 3rd of this year. I have been working on building her a memorial on Kitely - Virtual Worlds--Karima-Hoisan

• Watch on YouTube
• Web page
• Hypergrid address: grid.kitely.com:8002:The Natascha Randt Memorial

With the help of my fabulous scripting partner, Dale Innis, and also Joey Schaffer (Joey Writer) a close friend and collaborator of Nat's who has also contributed with a special section, we can now say it's done.

The world is a guided tour, that once again, relies heavily on being able to see parcel media and enjoy short clips.

Who was Natasha Randt? -- after the break 

2021 WW Art in the metaverse: New art city. An art gallery in your browser. Another web world. Artists working in the new media offered by the metaverse.

Art in the metaverse: New art city.  

An art gallery in your browser.  Another web world.  

Artists working in the new media offered by the metaverse.

The virtual worlds of the metaverse offer new possibilities for art and artists. Take a look.

• Watch on YouTube
• New Art City
• New Art City is a virtual gallery & exhibition toolkit for digital art.
• The Identity Factory, San Jose Museum of Art
• New Art City is a virtual gallery & exhibition toolkit for digital art.
• A virtual gallery is a 3D multiplayer environment
• Visitors can see each other and chat.
• Runs in a browser or smart phone, no registration.
• Easily accommodates architecture and installation art.
• Installation art in virtual worlds
• Architecture in virtual worlds
• Virtual world art in this blog.

2021 VW: Metaverse art: coping with Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS) . Art Made in Second Life - Tucker Stilley

Metaverse art: 

coping with Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS) . 

Art Made in Second Life - Tucker Stilley

Disabilities are left behind when you enter the metaverse.

• Watch on YouTube

Second Life Art #MadeinSL series continues with a focus on Tucker Stilley, who uses adaptive technology to continue making breathtaking art in #SecondLife - 20 years after being diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS) - Learn more: https://second.life/cf081721.

The Cape Able Art Gallery is a beautiful, eclectic gallery hosting art exhibits by deaf and/or disabled artists. Exhibits change quarterly. Artists can be contacted privately for the sale of their works. Cape Able is a nonprofit, Virtual Ability Inc. owned region. Video Production Credits: Draxtor Despres

2021 Creativity with Marly. Report from the Metaverse. Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable (VWER), regular Thursday meeting

Creativity with Marly.  

Report from the Metaverse.   

Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable (VWER), 

regular Thursday meeting

Creativity in the metaverse.

• Creativity with Marly

Other reports of Marly's work in the Metaverse

• Invitation to Visions of Self Workshop by Marly Milena
• Symbolic Modeling Training in Second Life: by Marly Milena, Octagon:Creative Exploration
• Using Arts Processes for Learning in Second Life
• Marly Milena Music Library at the Community Virtual Library: Grand Opening Tour: Collaboration in the digital worlds
• BENEATH THE WAVES in a virtual world. An exploration of our less conscious realms (invited article)
• TRAINING: SYMBOLIC MODELING FOR PERSONAL/PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Invited post by Marly Milena
• ONE-OF-A-KIND TRAINING IN SECOND LIFE--Marly Milena
• Symbolic Modeling (SymMod): a discovery and learning approach. A training course in a virtual world
• Inspiration Island: Virtual Worlds are about people. A visit and some featured activities.
• CVL and ISTE Creative Improvisation: Art, Music and Poetry

Metaverse features

• Seventeen educators from America and Europe.
• Gathered in one place.  Travel time, one minute or less,  Travel cost: nothing
• Then we all went to another place.  Travel: same as above.
• We talked and shared pictures.
• We did not exchange germs.

2021 ART: Invitation to Visions of Self Workshop by Marly Milena

Invitation to Visions of Self Workshop by Marly Milena 

Everyone is  invited to participate in a workshop at the crossroads of art and psychology called VISIONS OF SELF. 

• You do not need to be an artist in SL or FL; you just need to be interested in self-awareness coupled with creative expression.  
• To provide maximum attention, we would like your registration by August 9th. 
• The next VOS workshop is Tuesday, AUGUST 31, 2021 AT 11 AM SLT  
• Once signed up for the VOS workshop, you will either create and submit one totally ABSTRACT piece of art in First Life and upload it to Second Life 
• or you will be guided to build a SymMod in real time to represent an aspect of yourself.  
• The originator and facilitator is Marly Milena, the creator of Symbolic Modeling, the tool we use in this workshop.  
• You will receive further details after registration,  

Go there

• Second Life
• Octagon Gallery, 2nd Floor
• SLurl:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Inspiration%20Island/38/117/29
• Put the SLurl in the address bar of the viewer, enter.

2021 Lunaria Emporium, classical, magic, castles, cemetery (Part 2)

Lunaria Emporium, classical, magic, castles, cemetery 

(Part 2)

A great shopping place to find products created by Luna Lunaria.

Classical

• Parts for builders 
• Room themes: Christmas, Gothic, Vampire, Arcane Magic, Castles, Steampunk Airships, Medieval, Japanese/Asian, Greek and Roman, Statuary, Décor
• Freebies  (See later article)
• Large architecture in multiple styles, large Venues. 
• Region-size viewing platforms where you can walk through all of the structures available for purchase and experience some stunning builds. 
• Free Ruth 2.0 and Roth 2.0 mesh avatars with all available huds.
• Lunaria Emporium (Part 1): Decor, tapestries, building components, holidays

Go there

• Web address
• HG address:
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Lunaria Emporium
• Lunaria store 

2021 Lunaria Emporium (Part 1): Decor, tapestries, building components, holidays

Lunaria Emporium (Part 1): 

Decor, tapestries, building components, holidays

A great shopping place to find unique products created solely by Luna Lunaria.

Lunaria Emporium

• Parts for builders 
• Room themes: Christmas, Gothic, Vampire, Arcane Magic, Castles, Steampunk Airships, Medieval, Japanese/Asian, Greek and Roman, Statuary, Décor
• Freebies  (See later article)
• Large architecture in multiple styles, large Venues. 
• Region-size viewing platforms where you can walk through all of the structures available for purchase and experience some stunning builds. 
• Free Ruth 2.0 and Roth 2.0 mesh avatars with all available huds.

Go there

• Web address
• HG address:
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Lunaria Emporium
• Lunaria store