2015 ART: At the WIP Show 8/9, at Cookie II on Kitely

At the WIP Show 8/9, at Cookie II on Kitely

The Hypergrid WIP is a one hour "show & tell" of works in progress or recently completed. All builders from beginner to pro are invited.  Presentations are in voice and text.  For text presentations, best bring the text in a notecard and paste it into chat.  Voice presentations may be captured in video.  Stills and videos from the show may appear in this blog. 

• Watch on YouTube
• The railway built as a set for this video was presented at WIP 8/9/2015

• The Hypergrid WIP Show (Google community)
• HG address: Put the line below in the world map, next to Find. Click Find.  TP.
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II

• In Kitely: put the line below in the Firestorm nav bar, enter
• hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II/77/373/22 

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• Burn2: Carnival of Mirrors, Oct. 18­-25, 2015 Get your plot now!
• Burn2 Website 

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2015 PEOPLE: ART: BURN2, Carnival of Mirrors, Oct. 18­-25, 2015 Get your plot now!

BURN2, Carnival of Mirrors, Oct. 18­-25, 2015 
Get your plot now!
Update 8/29/2015

The annual Burning Man event is emulated in Second Life.  Preparations for the event are ongoing now.  You can buy a plot, enter the plot lottery, enter the Juried Art Camp, or simple spread the word in your social media.  Now is the time to start.

• You build your art
• Burn2 gets you an audience
• The power of aggregation 

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• Burn2 Website 
• The annual Burning Man event
• Get a Plot before 8 September, Get Some Extras!
• Mirror water, custom shaped plot, increased height limits.

Go there

• SLurl: click to go or drag to your viewer screen
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Burning%20Man-%20Deep%20Hole/213/104/24

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• Burn2 Website 
• The annual Burning Man event

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2015 VIDEO: COMEDY: Flying Saucers Return: A pilot (Episode 1)

Flying Saucers Return: A pilot (Episode 1),
a product of virtual worlds 
Updated 8/5/2015

Released: The pilot (first episode) of  a comedy version of the Flying Saucer epics popular in the last century.  A proof of concept about what we can do in the virtual worlds of this century.  This episode was written, cast and "filmed" in virtual worlds.    All sets were built in virtual worlds and the action was captured by machinima.    

• Watch on YouTube
• The promo

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• The other promo
• Letitia meets the press. Promotion 1 for: Flying Saucers Return
• Both promos were captured in Second Life.

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• After the break, watch the pilot (Episode 1)
• A video product of New Media Arts, Inc.
• Filmed on Location in the virtual world of Kitely

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Tuesday at Wizards Retreat on Cookie II/Kitely Grid

• Matthew Broyles 11AM PDT 
• Joe Rizzo 12PM 
• http://www.kitely.com/virtual-world/NewMediaArts-CTO/Cookie-II
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II

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• Flying Saucers Return at Last! -- Tymmerie Thorne

2015 EDU: GAME: Gaming as training. Training as gaming. Don't write it, put it in the action!

Gaming as training.  Training as gaming.  
Don't write it, put it in the action!

People learn from experience.  Skilled readers can imagine what they read and thus experience it.  Write instructions and you limit your audience to skilled readers.  You don't have to write instructions in the virtual worlds of computer games or of the Metaverse. Here is how you can build instruction into your virtual world.  This instruction is specifically for getting started in the world, but you don't have to stop there. 

• Watch on YouTube

A look into user experience and how by giving our learners subtle clues we can help to move away from traditional text based instructional approaches.

• Gaming in training
• Joshua  Roberts 
• Myst

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PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE: UWA 3D Art & Film Challenges 2015,

The University of Western Australia (UWA) has launched 'PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE, the 6th UWA Grand Art Challenge and MachinimUWA VIII with a starting prize pool in excess of L$560,000.   Deadline: Midnight SLT, 31st October 201

SciFi Film Festival

• SciFi Film Festival 2015 has a submission fee but
• For videos shot in Second Life, University of Western Australia 
• pays the fee.  

• Deadline for Late Submissions: Midnight – 29 August 2015

Summer of Arts submissions open on Metropolis

• Summer of Arts 2015
• Open to artists now.
• Open to everyone September 25, 2015 

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2015 WRITE: Collaborative fiction blogging in virtual world. Writing does not have to be lonely

Collaborative fiction blogging in virtual world
Writing does not have to be lonely

Build the world for your story in a virtual world.  Bring friends in the world to improvise or role-play the story.  Post episodes as they develop.  Get comments from the readers.  Let them say where they want the story to go.  Probably not the best way to write your second novel.  But maybe of help in writing your first. 

Who?  

• Teachers of writing
• Beginning writers
• Explorers and experimenters in storytelling

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PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE: UWA 3D Art & Film Challenges 2015,

The University of Western Australia (UWA) has launched 'PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE, the 6th UWA Grand Art Challenge and MachinimUWA VIII with a starting prize pool in excess of L$400,000.   Deadline: Midnight SLT, 31st October 201

SciFi Film Festival

• SciFi Film Festival 2015 has a submission fee but
• For videos shot in Second Life, University of Western Australia 
• pays the fee.  

• Deadline for Late Submissions: Midnight – 29 August 2015

Summer of Arts submissions open on Metropolis

• Summer of Arts 2015
• Open to artists now.
• Open to everyone September 25, 2015 

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2015 ART: Transgenia, a world in flux

Transgenia, a world in flux

A world in flux, Transgenia is evolving slowly after its discovery by an ill-fated research expedition.  Arriving, they found a simple world, covered only in oceans, low land masses, and what looks to be bright green algae.  When they began interacting with the ecosystem, however... it began to change.  It took DNA from them, from their plants and animals, and incorporated it into itself, evolving, mutating, becoming more complex..

Arrive at transgenia

Links and addresses

• Transgenia web page
• HG address: grid.kitely.com:8002:Transgenia
• Firestorm hop 1: hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Transgenia
• Firestorm hop 2: hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Transgenia/128/128/21

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PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE: UWA 3D Art & Film Challenges 2015,

The University of Western Australia (UWA) has launched 'PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE, the 6th UWA Grand Art Challenge and MachinimUWA VIII with a starting prize pool in excess of L$400,000.   Deadline: Midnight SLT, 31st October 201

SciFi Film Festival

• SciFi Film Festival 2015 has a submission fee but
• For videos shot in Second Life, University of Western Australia 
• pays the fee.  

• Deadline for Late Submissions: Midnight – 29 August 2015

Summer of Arts submissions open on Metropolis

• Summer of Arts 2015
• Open to artists now.
• Open to everyone September 25, 2015 

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2015 EDU: WRITE: A dark place of dark deeds. Whitechapel, 1888.

A dark place of dark deeds.  
Whitechapel, 1888

A story from history.  With no ending from history.  Some of the scene rendered here. More to show.  But it will take guts to show it.  Of interest to writers, historians, journalism teachers, and mystery fans.

Click image to enlarge

Go there

• In Kitely put the line below in the Nav bar of Firestorm, enter
• hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Whitechapel/128/128/22
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• Kitely web page:
• https://www.kitely.com/virtual-world/Geoff-Quinnell/Whitechapel
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• HG address: Put the line below in your world map, next to Find.  Click Find, TP
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Whitechapel
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• To enjoy Whitechapel fully, please use the region default environment setting

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Found Poetry Short Poetry Workshop-Tue 8/11, 7pm SLT

This week the Short Poetry Workshop we revisit Found Poetry, which is the art of creating poems based on found words or phrases in articles and other sources. We’ll provide some for you but feel free to bring your own sources. Use any form - Rhyme, meter or syllable or free verse – it’s up to you

• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the Viewer screen: 
• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cookie/160/134/21/ 

PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE: UWA 3D Art & Film Challenges 2015,

The University of Western Australia (UWA) has launched 'PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE, the 6th UWA Grand Art Challenge and MachinimUWA VIII with a starting prize pool in excess of L$400,000.   Deadline: Midnight SLT, 31st October 201

SciFi Film Festival

• SciFi Film Festival 2015 has a submission fee but
• For videos shot in Second Life, University of Western Australia 
• pays the fee.  

• Deadline for Late Submissions: Midnight – 29 August 2015

Summer of Arts submissions open on Metropolis

• Summer of Arts 2015
• Open to artists now.
• Open to everyone September 25, 2015 

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2015 ART: MUSIC: Multimedia art. Echo Starship plays, Fuschia Nightfire accompanies in visuals

Immersive views.  Echo Starship plays.
Fuschia Nightfire accompanies in visuals

Virtual worlds make possible new combinations of arts.  Music quality audio is readily available.  You can fill the 3D world with visuals, so you can produce visual accompaniment to music or to a sound poem.  Or you can produce audio accompaniment to pieces of visual artwork.  Here are examples

• Watch on YouTube
• Thanks to the machine
• Art in sound and sight. Imagine it on that big vid screen on your wall!
• Cog & Grog Arcadia Asylum Freebie Center
• Bill Bailey, Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Art by Arcadia Asylum

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• This show, starring Echo Starship and Fuschia Nightfire, was performed 
• At Wizard's Retreat, in Cookie II, a region in Kitely
• Sponsor: New Media Arts
• Event manager Roxy Geller

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• Firestorm hop:  In Kitely, put  this hop in the Navigation bar of Firestorm. Enter
• hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II/490/458/100
• Grid address: grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II (use the hop when you arrive)
• Paste the HG address in the World Map, next to Find. Click Find, TP

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PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE: UWA 3D Art & Film Challenges 2015,

The University of Western Australia (UWA) has launched 'PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE, the 6th UWA Grand Art Challenge and MachinimUWA VIII with a starting prize pool in excess of L$400,000.   Deadline: Midnight SLT, 31st October 201

SciFi Film Festival

• SciFi Film Festival 2015 has a submission fee but
• For videos shot in Second Life, University of Western Australia 
• pays the fee.  

• Deadline for Late Submissions: Midnight – 29 August 2015

Summer of Arts submissions open on Metropolis

• Summer of Arts 2015
• Open to artists now.
• Open to everyone September 25, 2015 

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2015 TKR: Theodore Zeldin on Searching for a Fuller Life

Theodore Zeldin on Searching for a Fuller Life

Theodore Zeldin has engaged in a lifetime of philosophical study. He now argues that both the greatest problem and the greatest opportunity of the twenty-first century are to be found in our relationships with others.

• Watch on YouTube

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HG WIP Show  Sun. Aug 9.

The Hypergrid WIP Show

The Hypergrid WIP is a one hour "show & tell" of works in progress or recently completed. All builders from beginner to pro are invited.  Presentations are in voice and text.  For text presentations, best bring the text in a notecard and paste it into chat.  Voice presentations may be captured in video.  Stills and videos from the show may appear in this blog. 

• HG address: Put the line below in the world map, next to Find. Click Find.  TP.
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II

• In Kitely: put the line below in the Firestorm nav bar, enter
• hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II/77/373/22

• Upcoming WIPs: August 7, 9, 21, 23

Previous Articles from the WIP show 

• The WIP show, 7/18/2015: Virtual mobile art by Lucy Afarensis
• WIP Show at Hobo Sandbox on Cookie II, Kitely
• WIP Show, works in progress on the Hypergrid June 3, 2015
• Hypergrid WIP meeting. The creatives of the hypergrid

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PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE: UWA 3D Art & Film Challenges 2015,

The University of Western Australia (UWA) has launched 'PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE, the 6th UWA Grand Art Challenge and MachinimUWA VIII with a starting prize pool in excess of L$400,000.   Deadline: Midnight SLT, 31st October 201

SciFi Film Festival

• SciFi Film Festival 2015 has a submission fee but
• For videos shot in Second Life, University of Western Australia 
• pays the fee.  

• Deadline for Late Submissions: Midnight – 29 August 2015

Summer of Arts submissions open on Metropolis

• Summer of Arts 2015
• Open to artists now.
• Open to everyone September 25, 2015 

Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

2015 WRITE: Multimedia : Believe: a poem for voice and video

Believe: a poem for voice and video. Multimedia 

A poem about believing. I call it Existentialism 101.  Written and voiced by Selby Evans (Thinkerer Melville).  Art work by Antonio Alza A. (elros Tuominen)

• Watch on YouTube

Believe -- a prose poem for voice and video

Outline: The comfort. The call. The challenge. The hesitation. The lunge. The resolution. The closure.
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HG WIP Show Friday, Aug 7, Sun. Aug 9.

The Hypergrid WIP Show

The Hypergrid WIP is a one hour "show & tell" of works in progress or recently completed. All builders from beginner to pro are invited.  Presentations are in voice and text.  For text presentations, best bring the text in a notecard and paste it into chat.  Voice presentations may be captured in video.  Stills and videos from the show may appear in this blog. 

• HG address: Put the line below in the world map, next to Find. Click Find.  TP.
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II

• In Kitely: put the line below in the Firestorm nav bar, enter
• hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II/77/373/22

• Upcoming WIPs: August 7, 9, 21, 23

Previous Articles from the WIP show 

• The WIP show, 7/18/2015: Virtual mobile art by Lucy Afarensis
• WIP Show at Hobo Sandbox on Cookie II, Kitely
• WIP Show, works in progress on the Hypergrid June 3, 2015
• Hypergrid WIP meeting. The creatives of the hypergrid

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PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE: UWA 3D Art & Film Challenges 2015,

The University of Western Australia (UWA) has launched 'PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE, the 6th UWA Grand Art Challenge and MachinimUWA VIII with a starting prize pool in excess of L$400,000.   Deadline: Midnight SLT, 31st October 201

SciFi Film Festival

• SciFi Film Festival 2015 has a submission fee but
• For videos shot in Second Life, University of Western Australia 
• pays the fee.  

• Deadline for Late Submissions: Midnight – 29 August 2015

Summer of Arts submissions open on Metropolis

• Summer of Arts 2015
• Open to artists now.
• Open to everyone September 25, 2015 

Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info