Designing Worlds Returns to New Babbage to Explore Burlesque!

Join our special viewing party at Piermont Landing in Wheatstone Waterways today (Tuesday 30th March) at 2pm SLT for a very unusual episode of Designing Worlds! Last October, the Designing Worlds teams visited New Babbage to explore the amazing new underground railway system .. but things went terribly wrong when they were party to the [...]

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Ekphrasis: Glyph Graves

I strongly believe we can make something here that’s an opportunity to break free from traditional constraints… Art, I feel, should be about exploration, not incremental polishing.  – Glyph Graves I met Glyph Graves on the bottom of the sea. While I certainly knew Glyph’s work, I’d never seen him before.  I was surprised and [...]

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Discard Winter at the Burning Life Spring Fling!

Hopefully, you’ll all remember last year’s awesome Burning Life!  We had a Designing World show on it – as well, thanks to the awesome Raven Haalan, producing a Guide and an awesome book of Images of Burning Life. Plans for the 2010 Burning Life are now well underway … and this weekend there will be [...]

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Goodbye to Sagittaria – but with a gift for non-profits!

Sad news today of another long-term region closing, to add to the sadness of losing the pretty Victoriana sims. This time it is the well-known Sagittaria estate, created by Bill Stirling.  We’ve featured Sagittaria on the Designing Worlds show, and in the past I’ve talked about great builds such as the Polis Observatory, and the [...]

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Designing Worlds explores the Reaction Grid!

In this episode, we paid one of our periodic visits to a grid outside Second Life, when we took a look at the Reaction Grid, which uses open source technology – sometimes in ways that stretches it beyond what Second Life can achieve – as we saw with the amazing mathematical modelling! more about “Designing [...]

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It’s a whole new world on the Reaction Grid

As we find out on today’s Designing Worlds show. We’ll be live in our Northpoint studio at 2pmSLT, and we’ll be showing clips and segments from our recent exploration of the Reaction Grid and discussing them with Kyle Gomboy, the creator of Reaction Grid, and Chris Hart, the Chief Technical Officer. The Reaction Grid has [...]

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A New Way to Reach the Steampunk and Vintage Markets!

Following the splendid success of the Valentine personals in the last issue, we’re initiating two new advertising sections in The Primgraph, specially geared toward new advertisers, smaller shops and individuals, & located in the pages towards the back of the magazine. The first, our colourful Marketplace section, will be composed of display ads (you supply [...]

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Ekphrasis: Chrome Underwood

I have often referred to myself as a photoshoplifter, a kleptographer, or even (depending on my mood), a scan artist. Everything was fair game, nothing was sacred, the world was infinitely malleable. I was a kid in a candy shop. – Chrome Underwood Chrome Underwood is, to me, visual punk rock.  Not in a Jamie [...]

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Celebrate St Patrick’s Day with the new Prim Perfect!

Welcome to our March issue! Are you ready to celebrate St Patrick’s Day? We’ve been enjoying the craic in the West of Ireland — and the surfing too — and we bring you some of that very special West of Ireland style in this issue! Rowan Derryth leads our exploration of the West of Island [...]

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Designing Worlds celebrates St Patrick’s Day in the West of Ireland

Wednesday is St Patrick’s Day so we thought we’d spend our show the day before exploring the gorgeous West of Ireland Estate – so come and join us in our Northpoint studio at 2pmSLT for a special Irish-flavoured show! It’s a major cultural centre, with music and story-telling high on the agenda at most times [...]

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