SL7B: A teddy bear picnic with DRAMA LIBRE!

The formal SL7B celebrations and entertainment may have concluded, but the exhibits are still on display until July 3.  There is a lot of exploring still to do and fun to be had.  These little bears welcome you to frolic with them on the 4-plot display of DRAMA LIBRE! DRAMA LIBRE! is a collaboration of [...]

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Return to SL7B with Designing Worlds

Designing Worlds invites you to join us in our Northpoint studio at 2pm SLT as we pay a return visit to the spectacular SL7B celebrations. We’ve found some more gorgeous eye-candy – and some amazing things to show you – but this week we’ll also be showing you some of the community builds that you [...]

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Ekphrasis Extra: Bursting the Susa Bubble

Photographs by PJ Trenton After a brief SL/Ekphrasis hiatus for RL European travel adventures, what a palaver of a week I’ve come back to!  First the whole announcement of the M Linden debacle; and most recently, the depressing news of Maxwell Graf’s deletion of LagNMoor in protest to Linden Lab’s gross neglect of content theft [...]

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Spruce Up Your Space, June part 2!

It’s time once again to Spruce Up Your Space! This month’s theme is “Beachy Keen”! This includes anything and everything beach — it could be California beach, New England coastal, deserted tropical island, French Riviera — anything you think of related to surf and sand! Our designers for weekend 2 are: Panache The Loft Ambiance [...]

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Step up, Linden Lab … before the creators step away

When Philip Linden spoke of using fewer people to do less, it seems that one of those areas was the removal of content that has had a DMCA filed against it. Maxwell Graf, the creator of some of the most beautiful content in Second Life will today be deleting LagNMoor, one of his two gorgeous [...]

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SL7B – An unusual watery, steamy collaboration

The personnel changes at Linden Labs is on many minds,  but the vibrant and amazingly creative community of Second Life continues to be on display at the SL7B celebration. L1Aura Loire and Maya Paris have collaborated to create the TeleOctoscope.  It has a steampunkish feel, articulated like a metallic seahorse.  Their description of the project [...]

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If I were a Linden …

If Philip, casting around for ways for ways to improve the grid, were to call upon you to become a Linden, what would your Linden name and responsibilities be? That was a question I asked today on Plurk – and had some fun responses … ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Saffia Widdershins: Saffia Linden, ensuring that Linden Homes are [...]

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Here is the new boss, same as the old old boss …

The important news for people with any sort of commitment to or involvement with the Second Life grid was finally confirmed this morning: Mark Kingdon, otherwise known as M Linden, is stepping down as CEO of Linden Lab.  His replacement is Philip Rosedale, otherwise known as Philip Linden, the founder of the company, who is [...]

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SL7B begins – and Designing Worlds is there!

The Designing Worlds show this week came from Second Life’s Seventh Birthday Celebrations – also known as SL7B. This was our first show from SL7B – but not our last! We’ll be going back next week, as there’s a lot of really terrific work to explore there. Some of the places we visited: Colors from [...]

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Visiting SL7B

Take some time to celebrate the communities and creative energy that result in the “Unexepcted Collaborations” on display at the Second Life 7th Birthday event.   There are 21 sims to explore, 5 stages for entertainment and talks, and reportedly over 10,000 prims in use.  It opened on June 21 and will officially close on June [...]

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