tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:39:05 +0000<strong>Dedicated to identifying and sharing well conceived and realized content creation in Virtual Worlds which would not be possible in Real Life: architecture, landscaping, art, animations, fashion, particle effects, building tools and scripts...</strong> <strong>Show me, I'll show you.</strong>http://npirl.blogspot.com/BettinaTizzy@gmail.com (Bettina Tizzy)Blogger751125BettinaTizzy@gmail.comnoDedicated to identifying and sharing well conceived and realized content creation in Virtual Worlds which would not be possible in Real Life: architecture, landscaping, art, animations, fashion, particle effects, building tools and scripts... Show me, I'lDedicated to identifying and sharing well conceived and realized content creation in Virtual Worlds which would not be possible in Real Life: architecture, landscaping, art, animations, fashion, particle effects, building tools and scripts... Show me, I'll show you.tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-5812329341042608267Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:41:00 +00002009-11-03T09:25:57.069-08:00farewellvirtual worldsNot Possible IRLgreat contentBack when this blog began, 750 posts ago, there were few blogs that did write-ups and reviews of great content and installations in Second Life. This has changed dramatically, especially over the past year. Today, a number of academic journals are gearing up to focus on virtual content, and they will be the appropriate venues for most of the topics we've been covering lately.I like to think Not http://npirl.blogspot.com/2009/11/so-long-farewell.htmlBettinaTizzy@gmail.com (Bettina Tizzy)69tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-5449625593780551076Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:29:00 +00002009-11-01T09:02:24.284-08:003D printingRobert A. HeinleinSecond LifeHenry Segermanmathematically-based artcrooked housearchitectureShapewaysSeifert SurfaceSeifert Surface (aka Henry Segerman), a mathematician and also a bodacious creator of both virtual and real math-inspired art, is doing so many new and fun things that I had to get out of my blogging funk long enough to post this. Three years ago, and over on his New World Notes blog, Hamlet Au did a great write-up on Seifert's recreation of Robert A. Heinlein's fictional "Crooked House" in http://npirl.blogspot.com/2009/11/seifert-surface-breathes-real-life-into.htmlBettinaTizzy@gmail.com (Bettina Tizzy)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-4676805792464991055Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:45:00 +00002009-10-26T13:47:07.490-07:00artEshi OtawarawhimsicalRoselea SweetwaterfashionNot Possible IRLGlyph GraveskineticFor these photos, I wore Roselea Sweetwater's new Neptune Dream gown, which gives new meaning to the term "bubble wraps," and stood inside Glyph Graves' kinetic sculpture, Windswept. Hair by Eshi Otawara. No photo editing. Roselea is about to open Whimsical on Halloween, a new sim for shopping, dancing and art. Teleport directly from here. http://npirl.blogspot.com/2009/10/fantasy-so-close-at-hand.htmlBettinaTizzy@gmail.com (Bettina Tizzy)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-8618557177704249017Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:09:00 +00002009-10-26T13:09:10.780-07:00machinimaimaginationSecond LifeSoundr ProductionsinspirationMan oh man, do I love this video or what? It's not often that a piece of machinima makes me feel this way, but this... this reminds me of why I am so entranced with virtual worlds. Produced by Soundr Productions, the people behind it are Sarah Burnside, Andre Englehardt, and Ghost Harris.http://npirl.blogspot.com/2009/10/goosebumps.htmlBettinaTizzy@gmail.com (Bettina Tizzy)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-5106728454168022913Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:29:00 +00002009-10-23T16:29:55.074-07:00Not Possible IRLNPIRLRMB Cityvirtual artsArt:21China TracymachinimaLainy VoomPhilana WooHamlet AuCao FeiGuggenheimi.mirrorCao Fei (aka China Tracy in Second Life) is one of six finalists for the 2010 Hugo Boss award. The $100,000 prize is presented every other year to “the artist (or group of artists) working in any medium, anywhere in the world” for making the most important contribution to contemporary art.In Second Life, we know her as the artist who conceived and produced the four sim/islands work collectively http://npirl.blogspot.com/2009/10/interview-in-chinese-and-english-with.htmlBettinaTizzy@gmail.com (Bettina Tizzy)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-1354599527466197593Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:51:00 +00002009-10-23T16:45:36.691-07:00Second Life®China TracyChenin AnabukiCao FeiAvatrianVitamin Creative Spacereal vs virtualmixed realitiesRMB CityChina Tracy is the Second Life® avatar of Cao Fei, a Beijing-based woman born in Guangzhou, China in 1978, and the most acclaimed virtual worlds’ artist in Real Life. It is therefore illogical that this blog, which has logged 745 posts to date and the majority of them about virtual art, has never featured China Tracy, Cao Fei or her creations.I do so today, not because Cao was selected by the http://npirl.blogspot.com/2009/10/wherein-i-finally-love-cao-feis-rmb.htmlBettinaTizzy@gmail.com (Bettina Tizzy)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-5601076078652705499Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:42:00 +00002009-10-18T18:43:10.389-07:00augmenteduser-generated contentvirtual worldsrealityThe four-day International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality is about to kick off in a few hours in Orlando, Florida. For openers, the Visual Media Lab at Israel's Ben Gurion University, together with the Human Interface Technology lab out of New Zealand, have made it possible for a user to sketch things, free-hand, and see them simulated in realtime 3D. http://npirl.blogspot.com/2009/10/distance-between-virtual-worlds-and.htmlBettinaTizzy@gmail.com (Bettina Tizzy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-1123906166069497960Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:13:00 +00002009-10-18T18:11:31.472-07:00artSelavy OhBurning LifeSelavy Oh's work, as long as I've known it, has always involved math and physics and, for the most part, it features cubes or sticks coming together and/or falling apart in different ways.I can think of four recent installations by Selavy that break this pattern or do something entirely new: Dancing Mountains, a landmark Land Art piece in Second Life consisting of mountains that rise and fall http://npirl.blogspot.com/2009/10/self-healing-tour-de-force-in-virtual.htmlBettinaTizzy@gmail.com (Bettina Tizzy)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-1632217359568505654Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:26:00 +00002009-10-18T03:30:51.270-07:00collagePenumbra CarterDekka RaymakerBurning LifePosted by Alpha AuerCollage: In Profils Perdus Soupault says: "... In the course of our inquiry we had discovered that the mind released from all critical pressures offered images and not logical propositions..." The imagery of collage, its image-work is not amenable to rational control or explanation. André Breton recalls how he used Freud’s methods of investigation, as he experimented in http://npirl.blogspot.com/2009/10/144dimensional-drift-machine-dekka.htmlalphaauer@gmail.com (Alpha Auer)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-4465442930386468596Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:59:00 +00002009-10-17T18:55:25.907-07:00Adam NashBurning LifeAdam RamonaSinuous, pink (my fave color), ALIVE, and hilarious, Adam Ramona's Proud Flesh installation at Burning Life 2009 is a triumph. Kindly click the lower right hand corner to view this "Large" Adam Ramona is the artist Adam Nash in Real Life, living in Melbourne, Australia. We've blogged about his work many times. His notecard at the installation reads:This work is an attempt at a little evolving http://npirl.blogspot.com/2009/10/flexis-divine-proud-flesh.htmlBettinaTizzy@gmail.com (Bettina Tizzy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-3469539107556987334Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:11:00 +00002009-10-17T23:59:53.496-07:00TarotBurning LifeForgive me, dear readers, if I congratulate myself again and again for luring Alpha Auer (aka Elif Ayiter) into becoming my co-blogger here. Sometimes she writes and I don't. Sometimes I write alone for weeks. Somehow, this blog doesn't get overly lonely. And oh, the things she creates! She amuses me; she fills me with awe. On this occasion, and for Burning Life 2009, the Tower and the Quest was http://npirl.blogspot.com/2009/10/tower-and-quest.htmlBettinaTizzy@gmail.com (Bettina Tizzy)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-8571764925000718409Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:03:00 +00002009-10-17T02:08:12.878-07:00Burning LifeMarko Seurat at Burning Life 2009http://npirl.blogspot.com/2009/10/spotted-superlative-virtual-avatar-and.htmlBettinaTizzy@gmail.com (Bettina Tizzy)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-3565373853090514381Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:02:00 +00002009-10-13T18:08:28.502-07:00estateDirk TalamascaSecond Lifecontent creationQarl LindenlandJIRAmegaprimsMany thanks to Qarl Linden who - in comments to my previous post regarding the 2nd anniversary of the Big Prim Problem - suggested that Linden Lab might compromise and consider making scalable megaprims available on Estate land. To that end, I asked my JIRA-savvy friend Dirk Talamasca to create such a proposal for us, thereby enabling everyone to have their say on this potential new feature... http://npirl.blogspot.com/2009/10/vote-for-scalable-megaprims-on-estate.htmlBettinaTizzy@gmail.com (Bettina Tizzy)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-230606010505497345Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:37:00 +00002009-10-12T16:39:49.414-07:00Second Life®content creationbuildingLinden LabDouglas StorymegaprimsTwo years ago today, the Not Possible IRL group read Michael Linden's post, The Big Prim Problem, in dismay. Be sure to read that post if you have no idea what I am talking about.A great deal has happened in two years, including a tiny window during which a number of creators were able to take advantage of a wee exploit and make many huge prims in different sizes, but none of them scalable. Whilehttp://npirl.blogspot.com/2009/10/giant-prims-2nd-anniversary-of-big-prim.htmlBettinaTizzy@gmail.com (Bettina Tizzy)29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-6221712465903051850Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:18:00 +00002009-10-18T18:03:00.537-07:00artSecond LifeBryn OhBurning LifenarrativeShe is the mistress of sad art, of robotic art, of mystery and melancholy, all in a virtual space, but when you talk with her, there's a bit of jocularity, of no-nonsense to Bryn Oh that's light and engaging. In conversation yesterday, the Canadian artist got to speaking about Second Life's building blocks. "I kind of like prims. It's fun to just use them. It's like Lego." Bryn Oh, as captured byhttp://npirl.blogspot.com/2009/10/bryn-oh-vessels-dream-sneak-peek.htmlBettinaTizzy@gmail.com (Bettina Tizzy)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-8635982997246658895Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:07:00 +00002009-10-11T01:12:27.203-07:00cutea BenellifashionNPIRLNot Possible IRLSwim with the fishes...Get yours by teleporting to Grim Bros. directly from here.See also:Get your steampunk onSecond Life content creators save lives(Virtual) Prostheses!W Magazine's Second LifeAwesome vid of Bogon FluxWonky wacky steampunk wonderfulnessCutea's Flickr streamhttp://npirl.blogspot.com/2009/10/npirl-fashion-cutea-benellis-okeanos.htmlBettinaTizzy@gmail.com (Bettina Tizzy)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-7823960977433485303Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:26:00 +00002009-10-15T09:46:24.763-07:00machinimaSecond Lifecontent creationBlue Marsvirtual worldsJim SinkVirtual Space EntertainmentCryEngine2Crytekrole-playingWith barely any content to speak of, no currency, audio, media, or voice, and a User Interface that allows for limited communication and camera movements, it’s not hard to understand why Blue Mars has its detractors. Despite all of its early Beta deficiencies, however, there are compelling reasons to believe that it holds great promise for current and future aficionados of 3D immersive http://npirl.blogspot.com/2009/10/out-of-blue-why-i-care-about-blue-mars.htmlBettinaTizzy@gmail.com (Bettina Tizzy)18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-7895193808850755509Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:13:00 +00002009-10-08T21:22:47.581-07:00An anamorphosis is a deformed image that appears in its true shape when viewed in some "unconventional" way. There is no substitute for seeing this in person, but here are a few photographs. Teleport directly from here to see this in Second Life.http://npirl.blogspot.com/2009/10/eshi-otawaras-anamorphosis-of-john.htmlBettinaTizzy@gmail.com (Bettina Tizzy)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-7055325833971849397Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:41:00 +00002009-10-06T18:25:33.326-07:00In the garden of Jung's country home in Bollingen stands a large cube-shaped stone inscribed by his own hand with magical and alchemical symbols. In his last revelatory dream prior to his death, Jung saw a huge round stone engraved with the words "And this shall be a sign unto you of Wholeness and Oneness". - THE GNOSIS ARCHIVE by Stephan A. Hoeller British virtual landscape artist soror Nishi http://npirl.blogspot.com/2009/10/temple-of-prim-and-tribute-to-carl-jung.htmlBettinaTizzy@gmail.com (Bettina Tizzy)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-3115196479822868041Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:43:00 +00002009-10-06T13:20:00.066-07:00"body parts"This is a shoutout to the man who created my favorite animation in Second Life... the unsung hero responsible for "lifting" avatars and sending more of us soaring than the Page Up button.Last night I was reviewing an art installation that incorporated the animation - it's a perennial hit with artists - and suddenly it dawned on me: I had no idea who had made it. Shame on me! I rustled up my http://npirl.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-favorite-animation-in-second-life.htmlBettinaTizzy@gmail.com (Bettina Tizzy)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-3154593109321199279Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:45:00 +00002009-10-06T13:27:59.335-07:00Second Life®Masami KuramotosoundChouchouJuliet HeberleThe Babelmusicarabesque ChocheSometime this October, Chouchou, the Japanese musical group that exists only in Second Life®, will unveil The Babel, a new virtual musical instrument that harnesses their uncommonly fresh sound and makes it possible for anyone in SL to play and compose with it.Arabesque Choche and Juliet Heberle are Chouchou, and together they have released two albums and several Machinima, and their live and http://npirl.blogspot.com/2009/09/chouchous-new-and-virtual-musical.htmlBettinaTizzy@gmail.com (Bettina Tizzy)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-2154744401087539138Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:54:00 +00002009-10-06T13:29:08.189-07:00virtual natureSecond Life®spookyhauntedquestsBentham ForestHalloweenAndrek LowelllandscapingPhotographers are going to have a field day at Bentham. There simply isn't a Windlight preset that it doesn't look great in. It's those light rays... This is one scary forest. I got so spooked at times, while walking around taking pics, that I could feel the little hairs on the back of my neck standing on end. In the interest of full disclosure, its creator, the hobbit Andrek Lowell, is a dear http://npirl.blogspot.com/2009/09/andrek-lowells-new-bentham-forest-will.htmlBettinaTizzy@gmail.com (Bettina Tizzy)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-243366417910200923Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:51:00 +00002009-10-06T13:25:06.923-07:00Second Life®machinimaCradle and TrapLyric LundquistI consider it an event whenever Lyric Lundquist publishes a new machinima of hers, and this time is no exception. She had taken a short break from Second Life® - we missed you, Lyric! - but apparently got right back to work making beautiful things the moment she returned."I named this video after a quote from one of my favorite books by Chuck Palahniuk - Invisible Monsters," she explained."The http://npirl.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-machinima-from-fertile-mind-of.htmlBettinaTizzy@gmail.com (Bettina Tizzy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-6991984851655562888Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:41:00 +00002009-10-06T13:25:06.948-07:00Second Life®Metaverse Broadcasting CenterLumiere NoirarchitectureThere's a new sim on the grid featuring lacy, gossamer-like buildings that almost defy description. The structures are somewhat Moorish, highly articulated, and futuristic, too, thanks to their aqua-tinted bubble windows. You will recognize the style if you were familiar with Planet Mongo which, by the way, is gone! The sim is still there, but it seems that new plans for it are in the works. http://npirl.blogspot.com/2009/09/spun-fantasy-metaverse-broadcasting.htmlBettinaTizzy@gmail.com (Bettina Tizzy)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-392132681704113544Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:21:00 +00002009-10-06T13:25:06.973-07:00Second Life®Kinetic WorksBrooklyn is WatchingZachh CaleOberon OnmuraPosted by Bettina TizzyBlame the summer heat, my haste in recent months, or simply my incomprehension and obtuseness, but I didn't appreciate what others saw in Oberon Onmura's Second Life® work. I was also quite unhappy with Oberon a few months ago when the New York artist left a large gray scripted building plop atop the works of others on the Brooklyn is Watching gallery floor, thereby http://npirl.blogspot.com/2009/09/oberon-onmura-knocks-me-over-and-blows.htmlBettinaTizzy@gmail.com (Bettina Tizzy)2en-usnonadult