"Second Life changed my life"
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says the Italian designer and illustrator flokers: "It allowed me to become the artist I really am and turn my passion into a full-time job."
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says the Italian designer and illustrator flokers: "It allowed me to become the artist I really am and turn my passion into a full-time job."
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The 29-year old Sicilian native credits the freedom to express oneself and the ability to effortlessly connect to a global community of like-minded people through art and play in the virtual world as the main reasons she was able to come out of her shell in "real" life and gain the necessary confidence to pursue a full-time career as an artist.
flokers now works as a designer for the city council of Derby in the UK, conceptualizing websites, co-working spaces and apps with her innovative "smart city" team.
"People still think this is just a game, which is strange because it really is so much more: you can set your own goals and achieve anything you can imagine!"
Despite a hectic work schedule, flokers can still often be found at her SL studio, where she draws and paints her friends: capturing the "inner persona" that is shining through that digital extension of the avatar and trying to find the essence of who we are, the true self beyond label, stereotype and stigma.
Her studio in Second Life
- Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
- http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Huron/51/234/25
She will paint a portrait of your avatar
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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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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
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 ...
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.
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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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.
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- Mad Pea: New hunt starts now
- The Green Mire II/The Gathering-Prize Preview II
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 entriesAnd don't forget the many imagined borders, walls, that we make for ourselves. Those are the worst kind.--TKR
News, Google and pseudonyms
Events
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Newcomer Help in Virtual Worlds.
- 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
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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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- What do we do in Virtual Worlds?
- Kitely: low cost virtual worlds.
- Opensim, Hypergrid: Summary
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- What is Second Life?
- Annotated screen shots made with Jing
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- Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
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- Drop by the Hobo Helpers place in Second Life
- Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
- http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/136/100/22
- Feel free to send me an IM, notecard, or friend request in Second LIfe or Kitely
- Thinkerer Melville in Second Life, Selby Evans in Kitely
- Google+ page; Virtual World Video
- Lauren is funny; Avatar Repertory Theater
- 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
- For more on topics like this, circle Selby Evans in Google+
- What do we do in Virtual Worlds?
- Kitely: low cost virtual worlds.
- Opensim, Hypergrid: Summary
- Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right.
- Google search this blog: Search bar, upper left--or:
- Put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms
- What is Second Life?
- Annotated screen shots made with Jing
- All original content on this blog is Creative Commons License, attribution only.
- Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
- This blog is not affiliated with Second Life or anything else.
- Ads are from Google
- -
- Drop by the Hobo Helpers place in Second Life
- Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
- http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/136/100/22
- Feel free to send me an IM, notecard, or friend request in Second LIfe or Kitely
- Thinkerer Melville in Second Life, Selby Evans in Kitely
- Google+ page; Virtual World Video
- Lauren is funny; Avatar Repertory Theater
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