Designing Worlds celebrates Halloween … in a Linden Home?

Not so surprising, perhaps, when that home is furnished by the unique creator Cutea Benelli of Grim Bros. Join us at 2pm SLT today, Monday 31st October, at our new studio in Garden of Dreams2 for the broadcast of our chilling visit to the Linden Home – and to Cutea’s other Halloween creations for some [...]

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Be afraid … be very afraid of the new issue of Prim Perfect!

Welcome to the Halloween issue of Prim Perfect—the time for ghoulies and ghosties and things that go bump in the night… and we have all those in spades! This month we are exploring the MadPea Company, a leading and highly popular creator of games, who are putting the finishing touches to their Halloween offering—the Peatonville [...]

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Metaverse Arts Episode 13: The Path

At 2pm today, Metaverse Arts will air it’s latest episode; a tour of a few chapters of the artistic story known as The Path. The Path; a collaborative, immersive art installation; is the mastermind of virtual artist Bryn Oh. Based around the Exquisite Corpse concept sometimes used by Surrealists, eight artists added to the composition [...]

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Can you hear me at the back? Do I need to speak up?

90 days / 1825 votes / 613 watchers and not a single Linden comment. That’s the state of play with the Jira requesting the restoration of Second Names. The comments – and there are a lot of comments – are thoughtful, angry and – in some cases – desperately sad; people wo feel like second [...]

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October SUYS – still Falling

Welcome to part 2 of the October SUYS event! This month’s SUYS theme is ‘Fall Festival’! We’ve asked our designers to celebrate autumn any way they like – fall colors, pumpkins, falling leaves, toasty fires – anything goes! Our designers for this week’s SUYS are: *Art Dummy [SLurl] Cheeky Pea [SLurl] Cleo Designs [SLurl]  Funky Junk [SLurl]  Interior Addiction [SLurl] LISP [...]

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Avalon Town Scary Art Auction to Benefit The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

Avalon Town is hosting it’s annual Halloween Charity Art Auction on The Labyrinth Sim, this year to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. This year’s theme was “scary art” and artists from across Second Life rose to the challenge and unleashed their spooky skills to contribute art for the cause. The auction features works from Scottius [...]

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Exploring the mysteries of Insilico on Designing Worlds

Join us on our visit to the darkly beautiful and mysterious cyberpunk world of Insilico in what we anticipate will be the first of several visits! Exploring the mysteries of Insilico on Designing Worlds, posted with vodpod In fact, when the first showing of this was broadcast (in our new studio on Garden of Dreams [...]

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Today is a good news day – a little late!

There are two pieces of good news to share today – the outcome of stories we have covered earlier. Firstly, the Mesh project has reached its target!  You may remember that we have been supporting the campaign to crowd source development funding to create a parametric deformer to help mesh clothing fit avatar’s varying bodies.  [...]

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The Kafkaesque Case of the missing Nexus Burbclave

A week or so ago, Hamlet Au posted an account of how an avatar called Nexus Burbclave was starting a new project to highlight beautiful builds on the mainland.  I read up about his Mainland Renaissance Project and, as Designing Worlds was playing a show about the mainland – Riding the Trails, Riding the Rails, [...]

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“Is it safe?” Join Designing Worlds as we probe the mysteries of Insilico

Join us at 2pm SLT today, Monday 24th October, at our new studio in Garden of Dreams2 for the broadcast of our visit to the beautiful – and alarming – cyberpunk world of Insilico. We’ll be exploring some of the dark and mysterious areas of this city and asking … “Is it safe?” And to [...]

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