Ekphrasis: Eliza Wierwight

I like the stories behind things… most of my creations have stories. -Eliza Wierwight The 19th century British designer William Morris said: Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. The Utopian ideal Morris employed in developing the Arts & Crafts movement approached art and [...]

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Prim Perfect’s Guide to Third Party Viewers: The Gridnaut’s Friend – Hippo

Welcome to the third part of part of our guide to the various viewers available to users of Second Life – and other virtual worlds constructed on the same code (such as Inworldz, Reaction Grid etc). We’ve looked at the two main viewers put out by Linden Lab, the old Viewer 1.23.5 and the new [...]

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October Spruce, part 2

It’s time for part 2 of our October Spruce Up Your Space event! Our October theme is “Nostalgia” – our designers have been busy at work creating awesome stuff that represents nostalgia, or makes them feel nostalgic – it’s completely up to their own interpretations, and we know they always come up with amazing ideas! [...]

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Spooky Storytelling – and Zombies – on Designing Worlds!

Join Saffia & Elrik as they visit The Village of Nyght in Dunwich, inspired by Poe and Lovecraft, where they meet head of events Anara Serevi. Then storyteller Afsaneh Metaluna insures that you will not look at your cat in the same way again. Spooky Storytelling – and Zombies – on Designing Worlds, posted with [...]

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Explore Beneath the Waves with The Primgraph!

The latest issue of The Primgraph magazine is here! Well, we have sailed the seas with pirates, we have soared above both land and sea in airships, and now, in Issue 13, with a very exciting edition to our roster of writers, we plunge beneath the waves to encounter mermaids and sundry strange craft that [...]

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Spooky stories … and Elrik fights zombies on Designing Worlds!

Tonight’s Designing Worlds show is something special. We are going to be looking at the phenomenon of story-telling in Second Life, with the help of talented storyteller and real life folklorist Afsaneh Metaluna – but we’re going to be doing it in The Village of Night in Dunwich, where you are invited to join us [...]

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Prim Perfect prepares for Halloween!

The October Issue of Prim Perfect is now available! Welcome to our Halloween issue of Prim Perfect – but this time we haven’t just gone for spookily scary – although you’ll find plenty of that too! First of all, our inworld readers will discover that we have adopted a new format – the Intellibook. This [...]

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Last Days of Nemo

I am experiencing for the first time something I know, sadly, many readers have gone through: watching a favourite sim close. Sextan Shepherd has announced that his amazingly beautiful build Nemo will officially close on October 29th. I was priviledged to write about Nemo for Prim Perfect Magazine a couple months ago (Issue 27, August [...]

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Spruce Up Your Space remembers the good old days

It’s time once again to Spruce Up Your Space! Our October theme is “Nostalgia” – our designers have been busy at work creating awesome stuff that represents nostalgia, or makes them feel nostalgic – it’s completely up to their own interpretations, and we know they always come up with amazing ideas! Our designers for weekend [...]

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What do you mean, it’s not real TV?

Sometimes people watching the Designing Worlds show, people say, “I forgot that it wasn’t real television!” Well, actually, it is real television – just delivered in a new and exciting series of formats – inworld, on the web, on your iPod or iPhone (we know of at least one viewer who downloads it to watch [...]

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