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Some time ago my friend Arahan Claveau told me about a project he was working on, some like a cross-reality event, about Jazz. Finally he sent me some information about the project… and i think is really interesting! Let me paste some of the info:
The real and the virtual interact as digital artwork on a monumental scale provides a stunning virtual landscape while real-world jazz gigs, broadcast live from a small London club, are injected into the cyberspace. …
… JAZZLIVE at the Crypt presents a short season of jazz concerts celebrating the wealth of talent in the UK jazz scene. The concerts will be broadcast live from the Crypt into a virtual venue in the virtual world Second Life. …
… Those attending the concerts in the Second Life venue will also be exposed to great artwork commissioned especially for the events by some of the virtual world’s most respected artists DanCoyote Antonelli, Oberon Onmura and Juria Yoshikawa. Those attending The Crypt will also experience the art show, as it will be viewable on big screens in the venue. This two-way interaction is an essential element in the project. …
… Also to be screened are excerpts from a forthcoming film about JAZZLIVE by multimedia artist Steve Millar (also known as Arahan Claveau in SL). …
So if you like Jazz and Second Life don’t miss the next fridays at 08:00 PM in London, in The Crypt (RL side) or at noon SLT in Second Life, in the Jazzlive sim (SLurl). Or why not… in both sides at the same time!
So here i am, Dr. Frank-N-Furter (my Halloween costume for this year ), exploring the dangerous sim… the darkest prison in Second Life, opened to the public for the first time… THE CORN FIELD*tchan tchan tchaaaaaaaaaan (thriller music here)*.
This Halloween Linden Lab decided to open to the public, for the first time, The Corn Field. And… what’s The Corn Field? Well, according to the SLwiki is:
The Corn Field is a region of mythological status where once naughty avatars were sent to think about what they had done. “The corn field” is a vast star-lit field of corn and was cut off from communication with the rest of the world (a reference to the classic Twilight Zone episode, “It’s a Good Life”).
It is located at the North-West tip of Orientation Island 1 and closed to the public. Perhaps one day the prison will be open for viewing?
So… ZOMG!!! It was the prison of Second Life!!! I should confess i always wanted to visit it… some like a “forbidden place”, and finally i’m there!!! Anyway, once the Halloween ends they should keep it opened and close in there all the copybotters in SL… so they will have nothing to copy.. but corn Oh, if you want to visit, here you are a SLurl.
The other place in the grid dedicated to Halloween specially this time is… The Channel Island Asylum!!!
This building, integrated in Bay City, is opened to public always. Is, under my point of view, one of the best works of the LDPW (Linden Department of Public Works). An abandoned asylum in an island, full of weird sounds and some surprises… but this time is even worse, totally ready for Halloween. This is the SLurl.
Today, Oct 26th, it’s my 3rd Rezday!!! So, when i logged in Second Life this morning and i saw there were none of my friends online (becuase they are working or sleeping) i decided to have a rezday cake only for me! This is the moment when i’m just about to jump over it and eat it all. But no worries! I’ll make another one for my friends!
Three years in here… wow!… Actually that seems a lot! But well, there were really good years, where i learned a lot about myself, about others, and where i learned… in general.
Is good to have the wonderful friends i have in Second Life and to have the oportunity to share all this with them, the creativity, the experiences and everything (including the LOLs, of course). This is the best rezday gift!
Before i start writing i should say i’m an Emerald Viewer user and i’m a user for many reasons, some of them are:
Client built AO
Radar
Temporary texture uploads (possible the best feature)
Clothing-layer protection
Animations window (with individual control over them)
Lots of precharged Windlight presets
Easy access to some graphic settings: Windlight preset, Drawing distance, number of particles…
Lot of options on UI (user interface) skins
Auto response choices
Avatar physics
Also some people with more technical knowledge than me say the viewer doesn’t consume so much memory as the “official” one.
All this features are not included in the “official” Linden Lab’s Second Life viewer and possibly some are also in some other 3rd party viewers. I can’t talk about them basically becuase i didn’t tried them, well, i tried Imprudence, and it works pretty good, but personally i prefer to use Emerald for all these features and also i don’t like much the type of letters in Imprudence, but that’s only an aesthetical preference.
But some days ago Cyn Linden posted something in the Second Life blog about some changed in the policy of Linden Lab towards 3rd party viewers, let me paste some of the text (anyway, of course, is better you follow the link and read it fully):
There are currently many third parties who create and distribute viewers. Most of these viewers are useful because they are innovative and many enable a more customized Second Life experience for those who use them; however, it appears that some of those third party viewers also contain functionality that is being used to copy content without the right to do so, facilitate griefing, enable phishing, collect user data without clear disclosure of such practices, and distribute software that contains harmful elements.
We will create new guidelines and policies outlining the standards that third party viewers must meet in order to connect to our platform, as well as tools and programs to help the developers of third party viewers and the wider community learn about and comply with those guideline. One of the tools will be a “viewer registry” that will allow developers to list their viewer in a third party viewer directory maintained by Linden Lab, identify the features of their viewer, and represent to the Second Life community that it complies with Linden Lab’s guidelines for third party viewers.
Actually the discussion has some interesting and constructive messages, but some of them are only rumours, half lies, or Prokofy Neva’s comments… I think Linden Lab wanted to do some work against some viewers that are working out or against the TOS, or the ones who jump over the Owner and Creator permissions and restrictions. But what was a discussion about this became a discussion about what features are acceptable or not and even about Open source itself. Some comments were specially about Emerald Viewer, not sure if is becuase that’s one of the “leader” 3rd party viewers or for some personal reasons. There were some comments about IM encryption and about the “famous” Breasts Physics on female avatars (both features of Emerald). Finally Linden Lab updated their post with some comments to clarify (more or less) their position and the team of Emerald Viewer decided to publish an oficial answer.
About the question in the title, does Linden Lab want to take the control back over viewers? i think the answer is NO, but YES. I mean, i can agree some control is needed, specially regarding if a viewer can “ignore” or “to be ahead of” the permissions of copy, modify, transfer, but at the same time i agree that can’t limit the development of 3rd Party Viewers meanwhile they are respecting the TOS and the IP rights. Personally i agree basically with the team of Emerald Viewer in their answer.
Possibly some can agree with what i just said, possibly some not. Anyway, read and have your own opinion. Sometimes i think i should end all the posts with this sentence.
Burning Life is running in Second Life® from October 17th to 25th, so is running right now in the moment of publishing this post.
I was exploring it around, well, is quite big (34 regions) but i took some pictures and videos you can see in the slide-show above. Click in the image you like and you will find an SLurl to arrive to the place directly.
There are some really good installations and sculptures in Burning Life this year, but i’d like to point specially at two of them:
Among Other Things: AM Radio’s one, a train in a dead railway ready for you to graffiti it! A really good work in interactivity and collective creation. SLurl
Vessel’s Dream: by Bryn Oh, a trip inside a dream… SLurl
Fusion: by four Yip, sensuality, music, chocolate melting, all together… fascinating… SLurl
Also i think the stages, Tokyo and Berlin, are specially remarkable and, possibly, some of the best buildings i saw in Second Life. Burning Life is not only about 3D art, is also about music, performance, DJ sessions…
Also this year i find is not so laggy as was last year, maybe i was lucky and i visited it in the “not so rush” hours… who knows.
If you think SL is about creativity this is one place to be, anyway, not all the installations are so good, as you can imagine being a space opened to everyone to participate you can find stuff of diverse quality, but i presume the important is still to be part of it if you think you have something to say and if you thing you can say it right.
Find more information in the Burning Life site. Explore it and tell me what you think. And burn the man!!!
“Vampire The Hunt” Opens Midnight October 23rd 2009
Vampire Vampira Vampiro Vampir Vampier Βαμπίρ Вампир .. anyway you say it,
it brings up images in our mind of stories we’ve read or the movies we’ve seen … or could they be real?
Get ready for … “Vampire … The Hunt”
The whole Island exhibit will be DARK … Dark and Red
… an environment that makes Vamps and their nemesis feel at home
20 Talented Artists … not listed here (but i’m one of them)… so come see who and what they’ve done!
This Halloween Linden Lab decided to open to the public, for the first time, The Corn Field. And… what’s The Corn Field? Well, according to 
Anyway, once the Halloween ends they should keep it opened and close in there all the copybotters in SL… so they will have nothing to copy.. but corn 
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