2013 STAGE: THEATER: Renaissance theater for performance in virtual worlds

For performing theater in Second Life 
and other virtual worlds
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Ada's Performing Theater

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By Sodovan Torok-
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Hear the sound of sawing and hammering coming from the northeast corner of Cookie sim? Your ears aren't playing tricks. Ada Radius is building a Renaissance theater in Avatar Repertory Theater's land there. But the theater troupe's new home is not just Yet Another Renaissance Theater. The others are essentially replicas of various theaters in real life. This one is intended for performing theater in Second Life and other virtual worlds.

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Location

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/196/200/21

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“My goal,” Ada says, “is to create the feel of a 16^th century theater, but also to adapt the build to the way sight lines and avatar movement work in the metaverse. This one is not a replica of the Globe; it's more typical of earlier Tudor construction.”

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The intent is to actually use the building for theatrical productions. “I'm hoping we can put on Shakespeare plays faster, like the way they were done in his time: get your parts, do three rehearsals, and it's on.” She hopes to be done raising clouds of sawdust in a few weeks.

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“I'm building something similar on my own standalone OpenSim that we can export to OSGrid and other grids that allow large prims for when we start branching out beyond Second Life.”

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Ada Radius is co-founder of Avatar Repertory Theater, and one of their set designers and builders.

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• Music Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Art videos from the virtual world
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• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right 
• Google search this blog, column on right
• or put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms
• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
• 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.  
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2013 ART: VIDEO: MachinimUWA IV. LIQUIDITY

LIQUIDITY by Ginger Alsop
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Watch on YouTube
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UWA Machinimuwa IV Submission

The subject of this video is an art piece call Liquidity. It was envisioned and built pretty much as you see it here. It was a rebuild of another artwork callI "Trippy Fluffadelic" that was submitted into December's UWA, but then withdrawn.

While I had some idea what the outside would like, but was completely unprepared for the interior. A jaw dropping experience to say the list.
While the video shows real-time footage of the device, and gives an idea for the structure, being their live to see it is a completely different experience.
--Ginger Alsop

Yeah, I have seen the inside too. And I agree with Ginger--you just have to be there.
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Art

• Art done in virtual worlds Summary
• Linden Endowment for the Arts

     
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Video-Machinima

• 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? 
• Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right 
• Google search this blog, column on right
• or put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms
• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
• 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

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• Drop by my place in Second life
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• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/136/100/22
• Feel free to send me an IM, notecard, or friend request.
• Thinkerer Melville/Selby Evans

  

2013 HELP: The Ivory Tower of Prims

The Ivory Tower of Prims
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If you want to get a good understanding of prims, this is where to go
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Natoma/208/163/28
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Update:
The illustrated control windows are from the Viewer 1.x series.  If you are using the newer 2.x series, the menus and control windows will look a bit different.  For screen shots from Viewer 2.x, see this webpage  
Building 101 Start learning how to build
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Start with creating a cube

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Coloring, positioning

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Slicing, coloring sides, linking

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Shape-shifting

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Web Link
http://ivorytoweronline.com/primwiki/index.php?title=Module_1_Introduction
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Full Build Window
You can get this full build window in Viewer 2  from
Build (top menu)/build.  
If you do a lot of building, the short-cut is Ctrl+b.

Full Build Window

Note: you can do lots of prim modding.   The way these mods work will be different for different prim shapes, so you may want to pay attention to prim shapes if you expect to slice, hollow, twist or taper.


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• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right 
• Google search this blog, column on right
• or put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms
• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
• 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

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• Drop by my 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.
• Thinkerer Melville/Selby Evans

  

2013 HELP: Preferences: Graphics Tab. Quality Versus Lag

 Graphics Quality Versus Lag 
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Preferences, Graphics tab
Advanced

Click image to enlarge

Why adjust?

• To improve what you see on the screen
• To reduce lag

2013 STAGE: THEATER: Virtual Short Play Buffet. ART readies production

Virtual Short Play Buffet project news (2011)
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The plays have been

• Submitted
• Evaluated
• Read aloud by the A.R.T. actors*
• Selected for production
• Cast
• Started in rehearsals 

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Full Production Ahead
Seven plays are in full production by ART in Second Life.  Here are the plays:

Love in a Virtual World by Mark Lindberg, directed by Darius Debruyere

Back Burner by J.H. Brown, directed by Kayden O’Connell

Zombified by Arthur M. Jolly, directed by Em Jennings

Drenched by Sandra Hosking, directed by Joff Fossnacht

Monsters by Elford Alley, directed by Em Jennings

Nola Goodbye by Jane Prendergast, directed by Prospero Frobozz

Gospel According to Bowser by Dan Borengasser, directed by Madame Thespian Underhill

Performances will be streamed live on the internet and archived


Video-Machinima

• 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? 
• Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right 
• Google search this blog, column on right
• or put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms
• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
• 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

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• Drop by my 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.
• Thinkerer Melville/Selby Evans

  

2013 HELP: Script Modding 101: Use scripts without knowing how. 2012

Script Modding 101: 
Use scripts without knowing how 2012
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Just what you've been waiting for.  You want to do some of the things scripts do.  But you don't want to learn how to script.
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Editing a script
Click image to enlarge

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You find that there are lots of free scripts available:

• LSL Wiki
• Script resources for LSL 
• LSL Editor Community Edition 
• LSL Portal 
• LSL Tutorial 
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• THE LSL SCRIPT DATABASE & LIBRARY

If you find a script that does what you want, you win.  But often you can find one that does most of what you want.  People familiar with scripting modify parts to make it do what they want. You can take classes on scripting.
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Classes

• Classes in Second Life: Calendar Collection
• Builders Brewery. Advanced and intermediate classes
• NCI Classes    

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2013 EDU: ART: University of Chester: showcase digital replicas of students' artwork

Experiential learning.  Work based learning 
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 Digital replicas of students' artwork

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University of Chester

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Chester/128/90/31

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Team Win

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 Team Optimum

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Three main concepts

• Working successfully in groups
• Using virtual space to explore artistic ideas
• Notion of professional practice

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Roles: 
Curator, communications officer, public relations...

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Video-Machinima

• 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? 
• Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right 
• Google search this blog, column on right
• or put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms
• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
• 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

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• Drop by my 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.
• Thinkerer Melville/Selby Evans

  

2013 ART: VIDEO: MachinimUWA III: Journeys: KAPHD

KAPHD 
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Watch on YouTube
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Hypatia Pickens 'KAPHD' for MachinimUWA III: Journeys, is taken from The Life of Saint Hildegard of Bingen (12th cent.) It tells of a mysterious event that frightens a troubled priest and sends him to seek her help. 
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Video-Machinima

• 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

      

*****

• What do we do in Virtual Worlds? 
• Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right 
• Google search this blog, column on right
• or put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms
• What is Second Life?
• Annotated screen shots made with Jing
• 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

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• Drop by my 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.
• Thinkerer Melville/Selby Evans

  

2013 PROMO: What do you want your display name to say about you?

What do you want your display name to say about you?
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Maybe you don't care.  But if you are interested in meeting people, you want to consider that your name will probably be the first thing experienced people see about you.  People who have been in Second Life for a while often use some way to scan around and see names and other information about people nearby.  Here is a method you have if you are using the standard Second Life viewer:

2013 ART: Arcadia Asylum Barrio Museum

Arcadia Asylum Barrio Museum

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This build was the first serious attempt at custom texturing in Second Life.  In custom texturing, the textures are made and imported for a specific use in the build.  

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Arcadia's Bodega 

On the wrong side of the street

"...my motivation to keep it it was knowing that making them and setting 'em all out as freebies would force the current crop of builders to stop using crappy default textures." -- Arcadia

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