Virtual Outworlding: September 2014

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

2014 PEOPLE: Think Pink Week (In Honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month)

Think Pink Week
(Breast Cancer Awareness Month)
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October 1, 2014 is the start of Breast Cancer Awareness Month! In honor of this occasion, the 2014 Making Strides Against Breast Cancer in Second Life (MSABC In SL) committee invites you to "think pink".

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OFFICIAL COMMITTEE THINK PINK WEEK EVENTS:

From October 1 to 8, 2014 avatars in Second Life will spread the message of pink throughout the grid, in order to raise awareness about breast cancer. During this special week we will have fun themes, events, and contests to make you think pink! Below is a schedule of committee ran events and contests:

2014 ART: Searby's LEA16: Multi-media art: Sound and colors: How to sell virtual art

Searby's LEA16: Multi-media art: Sound and colors
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SEA LEVEL

at Sea Level the landscape is designed to just walk around and relax into what I hope is a peaceful place. I am keen on SL landscapes that are surreal or magical; offering what cannot be seen in RL. The welcome area here is also the launch place for the other two places

Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA16/231/242/22
Linden arts

2014 TKR: The Power of Quiet. Introverts and extroverts are needed for a creative world.

The Power of Quiet
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Watch on YouTube

2014 TKR: Minds Afire @ Whole Brain Health Fair Day Sunday September 28, 2014

Minds Afire @ Whole Brain Health Fair Day

Sunday September 28, 2014
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The Center of the Arts for Well Being

8:30 - 10am Build A Personal Sun Avatar with Sunvibes!

Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Inspiration%20Island/234/106/701

Built your own personal Sun Avatar and become your sunny self. Sunshine (szavanna) is a South African Hungarian running a world music project and building resource center in SL. Be sure to check out the Sunvibes workshop for free and full perm building materials and fractals, with step by step tutorial also to teach yourself after class. Session in voice and text chat. Hominid residents asked to be clothed for this event.

More info at http://sunvibes.blogspot.com/

2014 STAGE: Friday, 9-26-14, 5 pm SLT: George Bernard Shaw “HEARTBREAK HOUSE” selected scenes: A.R.T. plays around

Friday, 9-26-14, 5 pm SLT: George Bernard Shaw:
“HEARTBREAK HOUSE,” selected scenes
A.R.T. plays around
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Friday, 9-12-14, 5 pm SLT Pacific Time, at A.R.T.'s Theater on Cookie

Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/198/205/21

COMING FRIDAY TO Avatar Repertory Theater in #secondlife: Avatar Repertory Theater presents George Bernard Shaw: “HEARTBREAK HOUSE,” selected scenes
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Presented live in Voice, free to all residents. Donations welcomed.

For announcements about Avatar Repertory Theater (ART) and ART Plays Around, Join this Google+ Community:

Avatar Repertory Theater

Avatar Repertory Theater is a project of New Media Arts, Inc., a nonprofit organization tax exempt under IRC 501(c)(3). You may be able to deduct contributions on your tax return, depending on your tax circumstances.

Contribute to New Media Arts, Inc.
Support the theater of the web.
Encourage movie making for the masses.
Preserve our antique pattern heritage.

Support theater and video in virtual worlds when you shop at Amazon: Avatar Repertory Theater, New Media Arts
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New Media Arts Inc

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News and Notes

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Events in the virtual worlds

How to handle a Hypergrid address

From any Hypergrid-enabled grid, paste the address into the address bar of Firestorm and press enter. Or paste it into the world map search bar of any viewer, search, and click Teleport when the destination is found. If it doesn't work, don't give up. Try again later. Some hypergrid destinations are offline part of the day.
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Contests and dated calls/invitations

CALL FOR STORIES for BOOFest '14, October 19th

Machinima - 2014 Project SciFi Competition (Registrations by 3 Oct)

2014 Project SciFi Competition in partnership with Screen My Shorts and sponsored by the Parramatta City Council is giving filmmakers, Machinima makers and animators 30 days to write, shoot, edit, produce and upload a 3-10min short film with $5,500 (Australian Dollars) in cash prizes. -All films that enter into this years Project SciFi will be screened at Riverside Theatres. Teams must register by 3rd October 2014 and nominate 2 scifi subjects that they would like to make their film about. For registrations visit ...

https://screenmyshorts.wufoo.com/forms/project-scifi-entry-form/

Subjects for Machinima makers, 2014 Project SciFi Competition

Sci-Romance – Love between Aliens, Robots and more! (Can be Happy, Sad or Tragedy)

Sci-Comedy – Science fiction that is humorous in nature. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a good example of SciFi Comedy.

Save the Environment – A theme focuses on saving the dying planet and/or ecosystem

Zombie / Disease – A theme focuses on the effect of a disease in the future.

Apocalyptic / Post-Apocalyptic SciFi – Stories about the extinction or near extinction of humankind either by forces of nature or by our own means. Post- focuses on telling the tale of the survivors of an apocalypse.

Spy-Fy – Science fiction about futuristic spies and espionage, and the effects of technological advancement on their professions.

Super Hero – Stories related to super heroes who get their powers from technology or because they are from another world. Often focuses on futuristic superheroes.

Robots / AI – Fiction in which the science of Artificial Intelligence and robotics is a central theme, typically relating to Robot stories.

First Contact / Alien – This sub genre imagines the various scenarios in which humanity makes contact with other civilizations.

Social Science Fiction - Fiction in which future societies are extrapolated, explained and often criticized, usually for the purpose of social satire. The social sciences are the overriding theme in this type of fiction; however, science and technology will usually play a central role in the structure of the extrapolated society.

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Univ. of Delaware NATIONAL AGENDA 2014 Speaker Series Sept. 10- Nov 19

National Agenda 2014 focuses on the battle for control of congress midway through the Obama second term, with some of the biggest and most experienced names in American politics

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Storymakers 2014 challenge: cash prizes: Contest closes September 26, 2014

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"Wear Your Goggles to the Goldrush" Launches 9/1/2014

Midtown Arts Museum is launching its first participation storybuild on Monday, 9.1.2014, Wear Your Goggles to the Goldrush. All elements are ready for visitors, explorers and amateur sleuths to plunder. A storybuild mystery is not an event that is attended. Rather clues and story are collected, assembled and written by the participants who journey through it. It is writing via pictures and conversation - - the natural, entertaining and effortless way. Oakes Valley blog.

Hypergrid address: grid.kitely.com:8002:Oakes Valley

Kitely World page: http://www.kitely.com/virtual-world/Ruby-ODegee-2/Oakes-Valley
Companion websites: http://oakesvalley.blogspot.co.uk/http://immersivestorybuilder.blogspot.co.uk/
Longer summary and pictures on HG Destinations website: http://destinations.virtual-memoirs.co.uk/kitely-oakes-valley/

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Mad Pea: New hunt starts now
The Green Mire II/The Gathering-Prize Preview II

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Transcending Borders: Launch of UWA Art & Film Challenges with L$1.03 Mil in Prizes

The theme is 'TRANSCENDING BORDERS.' Artists & filmmakers can interpret the theme as they see fit. Whether transcending borders between time and space, past and present, one nation and another, one language and another, a culture or civilization or any other of the innumerable borders that present themselves as we navigate our lives. You the artist... You the machinimatographer...You decide.

Entries Close at Midnight SLT 31st October 2014. Winners will be announced in December 2014.

UWA Art & Film Challenges 2014 with L$1.03 Mil in Prizes, early entries

And don't forget the many imagined borders, walls, that we make for ourselves. Those are the worst kind.--TKR

News, Google and pseudonyms

Google+ becomes friendly to virtual names and pseudonyms

Events

Happenings on the Hypergrid

Kitely Events Calendar

THIS WEEK at Seanchai Library

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Newcomer Help in Virtual Worlds

Basic help for new arrivals in a virtual world at Georgia Gwinnett College

How to start in a virtual world, the video: Now see it on your browser

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/GGC%20Island/66/81/28

UWA offers free online courses to help newcomers start in virtual worlds

Firestorm Documentation and User Guide (Wiki)

Beginner's building on the Hypergrid. Primland, the building tutorial game

New Citizens Inc

Table of Contents (Virtual Outworlding)

Multilingual help: Welcome ports and Google Translate

Education

Top 10 Tips on How to Use Avatars in eLearning

How the Second Life basics series can help teachers

SLeducate: Learn and teach in Second Life

Entrepreneurs call

Entrepreneurs of the virtual worlds unite: Think Avatar Land! The Disney park

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Video-Machinima in virtual worlds

New Media Arts, Inc

SUMMARY: Resources for video production in virtual worlds

Videos from virtual worlds Summary

Hobbies: Doing video/machinima in virtual worlds

Music Videos from virtual worlds Summary

Art videos from the virtual world

Comedy videos from the Virtual World

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Thinkerer Melville in Second Life, Selby Evans in Kitely

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Lauren is funny; Avatar Repertory Theater

Thursday, September 25, 2014

2014 STAGE: CALL FOR STORIES for BOOFest '14, October 19th

CALL FOR STORIES for BOOFest '14, October 19th
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Soon it will be time again to gather round the crackling fire as the air crisps with Autumn, and tell ghosty-ghouly tales. That is at Bran on October 19th for the 4th Annual BOOfest.

Submissions for story presentations will be accepted for 30 minute time slots. Some 60 minute slots will be available, and we request those who are interested to claim a 30 minute slot first, and indicate that they would be interested in 60 minutes available.

Literature Readings, Traditional Telling, and Original Works are all accepted. No "Adult" material, please.

Tentatively, stories will begin at 10am SLT and conclude at 5pm SLT, but that may be subject to change.

See details, updates, and how to submit, here: 4th Annual BOOfest.

2014 PEOPLE: THERAPY: Amputees, prosthetics, virtual therapy is real. The Drax Files

Amputees, prosthetics, virtual therapy is real.
The Drax Files

“Second Life is the perfect place for amputees to overcome emotional trauma by sharing stories and realizing they are not alone!” says Sandra L. Winkler, assistant professor at NOVA University in Florida, teaching occupational therapy. Her Virtual Health Adventures project is using Second Life to find out if virtual reality can offer a better learning environment for amputees than a traditional website.

Watch on YouTube

Dr. Winkler’s 3-year study is funded by the United States for Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and is currently mid-way through the 3-year study period.
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She adds that while it would be too early to state conclusions on the project, preliminary results clearly show that virtual worlds with their unique ability to create a sense of "being-there", are a powerful tool to facilitate a peer-network: a place where amputees from all over the world help others [veterans of wars and non-military amputees alike] and offer emotional peer support to families.
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"Second Life offers a space where clinicians can learn from patients what they might not be able to glean from textbooks", Sandra Winkler says: a space where amputees can share insight into their lives so that able-bodied students or any other interested party can experience what it feels like to lose a limb.

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News and Notes

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More news in my blog roll (column on the right)

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Events in the virtual worlds

Contests and dated calls/invitations

Machinima - 2014 Project SciFi Competition (Registrations by 3 Oct)

2014 Project SciFi Competition in partnership with Screen My Shorts and sponsored by the Parramatta City Council is giving filmmakers, Machinima makers and animators 30 days to write, shoot, edit, produce and upload a 3-10min short film with $5,500 (Australian Dollars) in cash prizes. -All films that enter into this years Project SciFi will be screened at Riverside Theatres. Teams must register by 3rd October 2014 and nominate 2 scifi subjects that they would like to make their film about. For registrations visit ...

https://screenmyshorts.wufoo.com/forms/project-scifi-entry-form/