Do you have Halloween News for Prim Perfect?

This is your chance to submit news for Prim Perfect’s October issue, which will be out shortly – at the moment we are looking for news stories to feature in our popular News from the Grid feature. If you have a news story to share about your store or your sim, you can use the [...]

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Making Meshes

by Maxwell Graf and Aisling Sinclair Today, Tuesday 11th October at 2pm SLT, Designing Worlds will be filming an important discussion show at our new studio in Garden of Dreams2. The topic is mesh, and the special project to develop improvements to mesh for Second Life and other virtual worlds. That project – a crowdsourcing initiative [...]

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Missing Burn2 already? See it on Designing Worlds!

Burn2 has only just finished (although the sims remain open to the public till Thursday – just look for Burn2 on your map to find the four sims) – but it was an amazing event, with some much to see and do. Designing Worlds visited and shot rather a lot of film – which we [...]

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LEA Negotiates 20 Lab-Sponsored Sim for Art!

I had an IM from Bryn Oh, who sits on the committee of the Linden Endowment for the Arts, with some very exciting news. From her blog: LEA Land Grant The LEA committee is very excited to announce something that we have been working towards for quite a while now.  Essentially we have convinced Linden [...]

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Do you have questions about mesh and the mesh project? Ask Designing Worlds!

This week, at 2pm SLT on Tuesday, 11th October, Designing Worlds will be recording a discussion about mesh, and the private project to create a parametric deformer that will enable mesh clothes to fit the avatar (rather than forcing avatars to fit the clothes). You can see more details of that here. Appearing on the [...]

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Stepping through the Looking Glass with Designing Worlds

This week on Designing Worlds we visited the stunningly beautiful creation The Looking Glass, created by Marcus Inkpen and Sharni Azalee. Stepping through the Looking Glass with Designi…, posted with vodpod We tried to visit as many of the amazing locations as possible but – alas! There’s simply too much to see! So, if you [...]

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Second Sunday in Avalon: Ash Takes Over!

It’s Second Sunday in Avalon Town, which means we have another opening (at 4pm) for the Avalon Collector’s Circle – where a resident takes over the  Avalon Town Exhibition Hall and shares a selection from their private collection. And with Avalon being an arts community, these selections are often wide-ranging an impressive! Our own manager [...]

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Metaverse Arts Episode 12: Burn2

For our 12th episode of Metaverse Arts we took a trip to the virtual world extension of the Burning Man Festival and chatted with a few of the people that make the art happen on the virtual Playa. Metaverse Arts Episode 12: Burn2, posted with vodpod

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Mesh: A Cry for Help, Answered!

by Saffia Widdershins, Maxwell Graf, and Aisling Sinclair They say that clothes make the man, but in Second Life, it’s an avatar’s shape that is defining – garments are fitted to the individual. That’s been challenged by the advent of mesh clothes; with them, the individual must be fitted to the garments. But now, an [...]

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Burlesque for Breasts! Tonight!

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure. — I. F. Stone, December 24, 1907 Tonight, Monday October 3rd, 2011, at 8pm slt, in the breathtaking The Casbah of Steelhead Port Harbor, the Champagne Ladies shall be privileged to offer you entertainment [...]

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