Archive for May, 2010
Small update to Avatars United
by Frans on May.23, 2010, under Uncategorized
I recently noticed a branding update at the Avatars United site. Instead of the Avatars United logo, it was changed with Second Life and a link to launch Second Life was added.
At first I thought it was kinda odd because it would alienate users from all other platform. To be sure I made a new avatar on my account page, made it a Lotro account and set it as the active account. At that point the banner changed back again to what it was before.
Kinda interesting, any thoughts?
LL has a new Open Source Director.
by Frans on May.19, 2010, under Uncategorized
Scott Lawrence just joined Linden Lab and has become Oz Linden. A aptly
chosen name that alludes to the wizard behind the curtain and Open
Source in general. Scott will be the new Director of Open Development,
taking over from Rob Lanphier who has left LL a couple of months ago.
Rob
had been the Open Source ‘busybody‘
for about three years at LL before moving on. He has was greatly
appreciated and during his absence it became clear that a dedicated open
source person was being missed. It took some time for LL to find the
right person to fill his shoes.
For the last ~7 years Scott has
been been leading the Open Source sipXecs SIP
PBX project. His new role at the Lab will be as he puts it: “to
expand and improve the open source viewer program”.
Besides being
the Director of Open Development, he will also be heading up the
Applied Engineering team with the “mission of making our sustaining
activities for the viewer even more responsive to the needs of our
Residents”.
Hopefully Oz Linden will be able to fill the Lab and
the open source community with renewed energy to work on great new
features and improvements in collaboration with each other.
If
you have a facebook account you can see him here scooting around on his motorized
skateboard!
You can read his introduction
email here.
Hat tip to Opensource
Obscure.
Troubles with the Second Life Blogger group. [Update]
by Frans on May.09, 2010, under Uncategorized
To all Second Life Bloggers.My deepest and sincerest apologies on the whole Grouply matter. I had no idea it would turn into a spam machine. My blackberry was loaded with spam as well as messages pleading for help and not a few angry ones.
Obviously Grouply is NOT the solution.For a temporary fix I’ve disabled ALL messages on all my Grouply groups until such time as I can delete all of them, any help with how to delete a grouply group would be appreciated.
Again I’m so very sorry for the disruptions and it WAS very unprofessional.
~ Zoe Connolly
Most Excellent Machinima Music Video – Potlatch – “Plant Her”
by Frans on May.07, 2010, under Virtual Worlds
This is one of the most impressive Music Videos made in Second Life that I have seen. I think what makes this video work so well for me, is in the editing. Which is a art in it self.
This does not mean it is perfect, but it brings us right to the edge of what works well in doing SL machinima. Make sure to watch it in full screen.
Potlatch – “Plant Her” (Music video) from Arbit Delacroix on Vimeo.
Official music video for “Plant Her” by Potlatch from the album “Ravenshadow” on Louipimps Records.Music written and produced by PotlatchSecond Life machinima filmed at Butterdish, China, Pixel Mode and Cloudcroft.
The singing by the avatar is done well, I don’t think the lipsync tech in SL is good enough yet to do this properly. But this is a great effort with a great result.
Two of the scenes that I found particularly interesting, was the camera scene in the white room and the man that drowned the old school newbie. At least that is what I imagine he did, maybe it is a metaphor to getting rid of our inner noob.
