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<strong>Show me, I'll show you.</strong>Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.comBlogger7511100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-58123293410426082672009-11-03T07:41:00.000-08:002010-12-09T22:51:06.079-08:00So long, farewell...Back when this blog began, 750 posts ago, there were few blogs that did write-ups and reviews of great content and installations in Second Life. This has changed dramatically, especially over the past year. Today, a number of academic journals are gearing up to focus on virtual content, and they will be the appropriate venues for most of the topics we've been covering lately.I like to think Not Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com70tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-54496255937805510762009-11-01T08:29:00.000-08:002009-11-01T09:02:24.284-08:00Seifert Surface breathes (real) life into virtual contentSeifert Surface (aka Henry Segerman), a mathematician and also a bodacious creator of both virtual and real math-inspired art, is doing so many new and fun things that I had to get out of my blogging funk long enough to post this. Three years ago, and over on his New World Notes blog, Hamlet Au did a great write-up on Seifert's recreation of Robert A. Heinlein's fictional "Crooked House" in Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-46768057924649910552009-10-26T13:45:00.000-07:002009-10-26T13:47:07.490-07:00Fantasy - So close at handFor these photos, I wore Roselea Sweetwater's new Neptune Dream gown, which gives new meaning to the term "bubble wraps," and stood inside Glyph Graves' kinetic sculpture, Windswept. Hair by Eshi Otawara. No photo editing. Roselea is about to open Whimsical on Halloween, a new sim for shopping, dancing and art. Teleport directly from here. Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-86185571777042490172009-10-26T13:09:00.000-07:002009-10-26T13:09:10.780-07:00GoosebumpsMan oh man, do I love this video or what? It's not often that a piece of machinima makes me feel this way, but this... this reminds me of why I am so entranced with virtual worlds. Produced by Soundr Productions, the people behind it are Sarah Burnside, Andre Englehardt, and Ghost Harris.Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-51067284541680229132009-10-23T16:29:00.000-07:002009-10-23T16:29:55.074-07:00An interview in Chinese and English with virtual superstar Cao Fei - Will you be the next artist showing at RMB City?Cao Fei (aka China Tracy in Second Life) is one of six finalists for the 2010 Hugo Boss award. The $100,000 prize is presented every other year to “the artist (or group of artists) working in any medium, anywhere in the world” for making the most important contribution to contemporary art.In Second Life, we know her as the artist who conceived and produced the four sim/islands work collectively Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-13545995274661975932009-10-23T11:51:00.000-07:002009-10-23T16:45:36.691-07:00Wherein I finally love Cao Fei's RMB City: Part IChina Tracy is the Second Life® avatar of Cao Fei, a Beijing-based woman born in Guangzhou, China in 1978, and the most acclaimed virtual worlds’ artist in Real Life. It is therefore illogical that this blog, which has logged 745 posts to date and the majority of them about virtual art, has never featured China Tracy, Cao Fei or her creations.I do so today, not because Cao was selected by the Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-56010760786527054992009-10-18T18:42:00.000-07:002009-10-18T18:43:10.389-07:00The distance between virtual worlds and augmented reality is... evaporatingThe four-day International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality is about to kick off in a few hours in Orlando, Florida. For openers, the Visual Media Lab at Israel's Ben Gurion University, together with the Human Interface Technology lab out of New Zealand, have made it possible for a user to sketch things, free-hand, and see them simulated in realtime 3D. Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-11239061660694979602009-10-18T17:13:00.000-07:002009-10-18T18:11:31.472-07:00A self-healing tour de force in the virtual desertSelavy Oh's work, as long as I've known it, has always involved math and physics and, for the most part, it features cubes or sticks coming together and/or falling apart in different ways.I can think of four recent installations by Selavy that break this pattern or do something entirely new: Dancing Mountains, a landmark Land Art piece in Second Life consisting of mountains that rise and fall Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-16322173595685056542009-10-18T03:26:00.000-07:002009-10-18T03:30:51.270-07:00144/Dimensional Drift Machine: Dekka Raymaker/Penumbra Carter at Burning Life 2009Posted by Alpha AuerCollage: In Profils Perdus Soupault says: "... In the course of our inquiry we had discovered that the mind released from all critical pressures offered images and not logical propositions..." The imagery of collage, its image-work is not amenable to rational control or explanation. André Breton recalls how he used Freud’s methods of investigation, as he experimented in Alpha Auerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11412727378736602680noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-44654429303864685962009-10-17T13:59:00.000-07:002009-10-17T18:55:25.907-07:00Flexis divine: Proud FleshSinuous, pink (my fave color), ALIVE, and hilarious, Adam Ramona's Proud Flesh installation at Burning Life 2009 is a triumph. Kindly click the lower right hand corner to view this "Large" Adam Ramona is the artist Adam Nash in Real Life, living in Melbourne, Australia. We've blogged about his work many times. His notecard at the installation reads:This work is an attempt at a little evolving Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-34695391075569873342009-10-17T02:11:00.000-07:002009-10-17T23:59:53.496-07:00The Tower and the QuestForgive me, dear readers, if I congratulate myself again and again for luring Alpha Auer (aka Elif Ayiter) into becoming my co-blogger here. Sometimes she writes and I don't. Sometimes I write alone for weeks. Somehow, this blog doesn't get overly lonely. And oh, the things she creates! She amuses me; she fills me with awe. On this occasion, and for Burning Life 2009, the Tower and the Quest was Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-85717649250007184092009-10-17T02:03:00.000-07:002009-10-17T02:08:12.878-07:00Spotted - Superlative virtual avatar and BurnerMarko Seurat at Burning Life 2009Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-35653738530905143812009-10-13T18:02:00.000-07:002009-10-13T18:08:28.502-07:00Vote for scalable megaprims on Estate land in Second LifeMany thanks to Qarl Linden who - in comments to my previous post regarding the 2nd anniversary of the Big Prim Problem - suggested that Linden Lab might compromise and consider making scalable megaprims available on Estate land. To that end, I asked my JIRA-savvy friend Dirk Talamasca to create such a proposal for us, thereby enabling everyone to have their say on this potential new feature... Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-2306060105054973452009-10-12T16:37:00.000-07:002009-10-12T16:39:49.414-07:00Giant Prims - 2nd anniversary of "The Big Prim Problem"Two years ago today, the Not Possible IRL group read Michael Linden's post, The Big Prim Problem, in dismay. Be sure to read that post if you have no idea what I am talking about.A great deal has happened in two years, including a tiny window during which a number of creators were able to take advantage of a wee exploit and make many huge prims in different sizes, but none of them scalable. WhileBettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-62217124659030518502009-10-11T22:18:00.000-07:002009-10-18T18:03:00.537-07:00Bryn Oh: Vessel's Dream - Sneak peekShe is the mistress of sad art, of robotic art, of mystery and melancholy, all in a virtual space, but when you talk with her, there's a bit of jocularity, of no-nonsense to Bryn Oh that's light and engaging. In conversation yesterday, the Canadian artist got to speaking about Second Life's building blocks. "I kind of like prims. It's fun to just use them. It's like Lego." Bryn Oh, as captured byBettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-86359829972466588952009-10-11T01:07:00.000-07:002009-10-11T01:12:27.203-07:00NPIRL Fashion: Cutea Benelli's Okeanos maritime gownSwim with the fishes...Get yours by teleporting to Grim Bros. directly from here.See also:Get your steampunk onSecond Life content creators save lives(Virtual) Prostheses!W Magazine's Second LifeAwesome vid of Bogon FluxWonky wacky steampunk wonderfulnessCutea's Flickr streamBettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-78239609774334853032009-10-09T15:26:00.000-07:002009-10-15T09:46:24.763-07:00Out of the Blue: Why I care about Blue MarsWith barely any content to speak of, no currency, audio, media, or voice, and a User Interface that allows for limited communication and camera movements, it’s not hard to understand why Blue Mars has its detractors. Despite all of its early Beta deficiencies, however, there are compelling reasons to believe that it holds great promise for current and future aficionados of 3D immersive Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-78951938088507555092009-10-08T21:13:00.000-07:002009-10-08T21:22:47.581-07:00Eshi Otawara's Anamorphosis of John LennonAn anamorphosis is a deformed image that appears in its true shape when viewed in some "unconventional" way. There is no substitute for seeing this in person, but here are a few photographs. Teleport directly from here to see this in Second Life.Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-70553258339718493972009-10-06T15:41:00.000-07:002009-11-15T10:09:44.258-08:00The Temple of the Prim and a tribute to Carl Jung, who surely would have loved Second LifeIn the garden of Jung's country home in Bollingen stands a large cube-shaped stone inscribed by his own hand with magical and alchemical symbols. In his last revelatory dream prior to his death, Jung saw a huge round stone engraved with the words "And this shall be a sign unto you of Wholeness and Oneness". - THE GNOSIS ARCHIVE by Stephan A. Hoeller British virtual landscape artist soror Nishi Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-31151964798228680412009-10-01T21:43:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:20:00.066-07:00My favorite animation in Second LifeThis is a shoutout to the man who created my favorite animation in Second Life... the unsung hero responsible for "lifting" avatars and sending more of us soaring than the Page Up button.Last night I was reviewing an art installation that incorporated the animation - it's a perennial hit with artists - and suddenly it dawned on me: I had no idea who had made it. Shame on me! I rustled up my Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-31545931093211992792009-09-28T10:45:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:27:59.335-07:00Chouchou's new and virtual musical instrument: The BabelSometime this October, Chouchou, the Japanese musical group that exists only in Second Life®, will unveil The Babel, a new virtual musical instrument that harnesses their uncommonly fresh sound and makes it possible for anyone in SL to play and compose with it.Arabesque Choche and Juliet Heberle are Chouchou, and together they have released two albums and several Machinima, and their live and Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-21547444010875391382009-09-23T14:54:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:29:08.189-07:00Andrek Lowell's new Bentham Forest... will creep you outPhotographers are going to have a field day at Bentham. There simply isn't a Windlight preset that it doesn't look great in. It's those light rays... This is one scary forest. I got so spooked at times, while walking around taking pics, that I could feel the little hairs on the back of my neck standing on end. In the interest of full disclosure, its creator, the hobbit Andrek Lowell, is a dear Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-2433664179102009232009-09-22T13:51:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:25:06.923-07:00A new machinima from the fertile mind of Lyric LundquistI consider it an event whenever Lyric Lundquist publishes a new machinima of hers, and this time is no exception. She had taken a short break from Second Life® - we missed you, Lyric! - but apparently got right back to work making beautiful things the moment she returned."I named this video after a quote from one of my favorite books by Chuck Palahniuk - Invisible Monsters," she explained."The Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-69919848516555628882009-09-20T23:41:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:25:06.948-07:00Spun fantasy: The Metaverse Broadcasting CompanyThere's a new sim on the grid featuring lacy, gossamer-like buildings that almost defy description. The structures are somewhat Moorish, highly articulated, and futuristic, too, thanks to their aqua-tinted bubble windows. You will recognize the style if you were familiar with Planet Mongo which, by the way, is gone! The sim is still there, but it seems that new plans for it are in the works. Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-3921326817041135442009-09-19T19:21:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:25:06.973-07:00Oberon Onmura knocks me over and blows me awayPosted by Bettina TizzyBlame the summer heat, my haste in recent months, or simply my incomprehension and obtuseness, but I didn't appreciate what others saw in Oberon Onmura's Second Life® work. I was also quite unhappy with Oberon a few months ago when the New York artist left a large gray scripted building plop atop the works of others on the Brooklyn is Watching gallery floor, thereby Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-19273615514117614542009-09-17T12:31:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:26:14.032-07:00Franco Brambilla's cute aliens (and pirates)Posted by Bettina TizzyImpossible IRL'er and über virtual explorer Molly Montale wrote to share Franco Brambilla's Flickr stream and "sci-fi imagery Photoshopped on to retro Swiss postcards," and because we are always interested in Real Life artists who inspire us, we had to follow up with him. Where are you, Franco?Franco: I live and work in Milano, in the north of Italy, a decadent, Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-60489011005291792192009-09-17T08:19:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:29:47.166-07:00Forget text, forget voice. EMOTE!Posted by Bettina TizzyPolish Olza Koenkamp (aka Piotr Kopik) is a full time artist with two full lives: one as a human and another as an avatar in Second Life®. His virtual self operates a store where he sells freakish avatars of his own creation. In Real Life, he paints and is a co-founder of szu szu, a group that creates art for public spaces.Now Olza has made this charming seemingly animated Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-81748667247954511002009-09-17T07:43:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:28:07.901-07:00Sneak peek: Feature length machinima VolaVolaPosted by Bettina TizzyNearly two years in the making, VolaVola / FlyMe is the Italian feature length machinima shot in Second Life® and directed by Berardo Carboni, expected to have its debut in a few months.Pre-production work is now in effect for the same screenplay to be shot in live action in Rome, Italy. Two films, two mediums, but the same story.The plot aims to disorient the viewer and Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-11874214335369949412009-09-08T22:14:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:25:07.077-07:00Remember the chimp? Well now it's gone APEPosted by Bettina TizzySome of you may recall my utter fascination over Ripped Winkler's chimp. I had run into someone who was doing precision animations with a baton, but wearing this fantastic avatar. I snapped a couple of pics, crashed and then logins were disabled. I could barely sleep that night. I know, I know, get a grip Bett. It's an avatar! But yeah, I just loved it. I blogged it and by Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-90025157769365643102009-09-05T18:00:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:27:44.316-07:00Giving new (hawt!) meaning to virtual dancingPosted by Bettina TizzyWhen fine jeweler Random Calliope wrote to say that he was onto something really novel that would transform the way couples dance in Second Life®, I hardly knew what to expect. Standard procedure has required that each partner hop on a set of pose balls (traditionally pink for her and blue for him). More often than not, each set has enabled them to dance one kind of dance, Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-49564115092257359072009-08-29T12:36:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:25:07.129-07:00This is it! New virtual world Blue Mars rolls out Open Beta on Sept 2 - Plus, news for registered usersAccording to Jim Sink - recently promoted to CEO of Avatar Reality – the company will be taking its Open Beta of the 3D immersive virtual world and platform Blue Mars public on Wednesday, September 2 at 12:01am HST (Hawaiian Standard Time). The first weighty contender to Second Life® in the user-generated content category of virtual worlds, delivering dazzlingly realistic graphics and Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-6813408397308297552009-08-26T09:48:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:25:07.185-07:00Tezcatlipoca Bisiani: Thoughts on SLCCBefore I attended Second Life®'s Community Convention in San Francisco earlier this month, I knew that Tezcatlipoca Bisiani (aka Andrew Sempere) was the Boston-based cross-eyed jackal avatar who conducted design research and taught computational art for IBM's Collaborative User Experience Group/Center for Social Software. I knew that he holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-23855236713148178832009-08-25T08:22:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:26:04.020-07:00Get your steampunk onPosted by Bettina TizzyNix Sands describes himself as a neo-Victorian, a humble tailor, tinkerer and occasional adventurer, but that representation seems quite muted when one comes across this outrageously good freebie at his shop, Xcentricity: Victorian Steampunk Clothing for Rakish Gents & Reckless Ladies. Photos courtesy of Nix SandsYou can pick up your own gloriously free copy of the Monstro Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-6889387445494540682009-08-21T13:15:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:26:23.740-07:00Avatar movie is ahead of the curve, and you usually are, too, Vanity FairPosted by Bettina TizzyThis is a gentle rant brought on by Vanity Fair magazine's twitter: "@VanityFairmag Don't Be Fooled by Avatar's Lame Trailer http://is.gd/2s7YX #Avatar" a couple of hours ago. For like forever, I've been known to say that if I only had access to three magazines to keep up with the state-of-play, smarter, faster, better-informed intelligentsia, I'd pick Vanity Fair, Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-22030484122880267412009-08-20T10:32:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:25:07.261-07:00The Grand Odalisque - a sculpture by an unknown artistPosted by Bettina TizzyMost everything that Rezzable Productions showcases has an element of mystery to it, and today's first look and reveal to the members of the Not Possible IRL and the Impossible IRL groups was no exception. All photographs have not been retouched.New and completely unknown Rezzable artist 3D Soup has created an immense sculpty sculpture called the Grand Odalisque: a Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-20178062781392403572009-08-19T17:36:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:25:07.287-07:00Eshi... sings!Posted by Bettina TizzyEshi Otawara is so gifted, in so many ways, it hardly seems fair! Virtual artist and celebrated fashion designer, Real Life painter... and now it turns out that the woman has a voice. It's so hard to distinguish her voice amidst the sounds of a very loud, very happy crowd at the recent Second Life Community Convention, but here's an earful. Accompanying her on guitar and Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-76195715354286779702009-08-19T11:14:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:28:34.152-07:00Douglas Gayeton (aka Molotov Alva) shines in both lives, publishes sumptuous bookPosted by Bettina TizzyAllow me to correct a common misperception about the quality of people who inhabit virtual worlds. While mindless jerks, drones and memes (not unique to virtual environments) certainly have a presence, scores of the most interesting folks I've met in any life first became known to me in avatar form. Take Douglas Gayeton, for example. His acclaimed 2007 ten-episode film Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-28312951823948384212009-08-18T19:09:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:28:51.616-07:00Earth Primbee gets Metaphysical: An analogy of worlds, real and virtualOne of the most interesting Twitter exchanges in recent memory began when Aussie virtual artist Nonnatus Korhonen (aka Andrew Burrell) responded to one of my blatherings with "the ultimate divide between the virtual and the real surely remains one of semantics?" I responded: "The virtual/real divide seems less so for those of us who inhabit virtual worlds. How to make the concept less abstract Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-26477813664794434582009-08-11T16:39:00.000-07:002009-10-06T13:29:23.704-07:00Want your virtual art to receive Real Life recognition? Here's the recipeLast Friday at Jack the Pelican Presents Gallery - the Real Life counterpart to the Brooklyn is Watching project in Second LifePosted by Bettina TizzySautéed Real Life recognition of Virtual Art(Serves 1,000+)Ingredients:1 (one) Second Life® account/avatar1 (one) or more prim-based virtual artworks 1 (one) each, notecard giver and notecard explaining your artwork1 (one) Brooklyn is Watching Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-5859805427911237602009-08-11T12:50:00.000-07:002009-08-11T12:51:21.526-07:00Merging the virtual and the real: A new virtual reality systemPosted by Bettina TizzyApologies to all my readers, as I have not been blogging at all as of late. If you follow me on Twitter, then you already know most of my sagas, but the stars and planets were aligned against me (and my real and extended family), and I've been putting out fires for days on end. Things seem to be normalizing now, hopefully, so let's get on with the show! Via post-doc Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-67505879987604617492009-08-09T23:17:00.000-07:002009-08-09T23:19:30.822-07:00Truthseeker Young and "Voices: Orion's Arm"Posted by Alpha Auer......Yes, that's it folks! Absolutely no need for any further pontifications from yours truly on this newest one by Truthseeker Young. Teleport directly from here.:-)Alpha Auerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11412727378736602680noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-71820212886542964932009-08-04T13:16:00.000-07:002009-08-06T19:01:34.323-07:00Role Play: Memory or imagination? The use of masks to create an Impossible RealityNPIRLer Yohann Emoto was so captivated by this place and topic that I invited him to guest-blog about it here. In Real Life, he is a 41 year old French man, self described as "a night owl," father to two children, a designer of social and pedagogical games and a corporate consultant. He's been a resident of Second Life since 2006. - Bettina TizzyBy Yohann EmotoI have always been fascinated by theBettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-6400855017150347792009-08-01T03:27:00.000-07:002009-08-01T08:08:48.968-07:00The impact of Selavy OhPosted by Alpha AuerBy way of an introductionAnyone who has had the patience to read what I write about will have noticed that I have a few bees in my bonnet to which I keep returning over and over again. One is avatars and identity creation; the other one is the creation of cohesive visual systems over standalone objects/or conversely the presence of a strong system within the standalone object;Alpha Auerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11412727378736602680noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-23436805406720184212009-07-31T04:29:00.000-07:002009-08-01T19:55:49.079-07:00More Blue Mars – The official roll-out dates (and some musings)Posted by Bettina TizzyI don’t think anyone expects it to be a Second Life® killer – hundreds of thousands of avatars have too much invested there in friendships, land, content and businesses already - but Blue Mars is the first solid contender to enter the skirmish for dominance in the user-generated content category of virtual worlds. And yes, I did just say user-generated content, but I’ll getBettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-87793189208323759712009-07-30T12:16:00.000-07:002009-07-30T16:20:07.253-07:00The many faces of Nur MooPosted by Bettina Tizzy© All rights reserved on images by Nur MooSome people are just effortlessly cool, like that kid in grade school who got all A's or 100s in homework without ever studying. Nur Moo is a virtual chameleon in Second Life® who lives a colorful pixelated existence (and I'm not referring to the RGB scale), ranging from patron saint to artists, to hipster who's A list parties at Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-81973781745711184042009-07-30T08:21:00.000-07:002009-07-30T14:37:22.721-07:00Avatar designer workshop and focus group - Call for participationPosted by Bettina Tizzy© All rights reserved on images by Nur MooJo-Anne Green, co-director of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA), just alerted me to an intriguing project.A graduate student at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada is studying avatar design in Second Life® and is looking for participants who would be willing and interested in contributing a small portion of their Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-91154339357638966622009-07-25T23:47:00.000-07:002009-09-15T08:27:41.711-07:00Reveling in Real World art - One very right way to savor it in Second LifeThe Hotel Dare Showcase dazzles with a tribute to Ray CaesarPosted by Bettina Tizzy© All rights reserved on images by Ray CaesarI'm not saying there is only one way to enjoy art from the other side in Second Life®, but the new Hotel Dare Showcase which opens today allows the visitor to step right into it (in fact, you are sucked in) on a whole new level. The approach is not new to us. We already Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-82265825591028104632009-07-23T22:22:00.000-07:002009-07-23T23:30:48.323-07:00What *has* Nomasha Syaka been up to?Posted by Bettina TizzyWhen it comes to virtual creations, I'm a snoopy gumshoe. I want to know what everyone's making, and especially a handful of people I keep track of at all times. For the past year I've been pinging "Anything new, Nom?" now and then, and not getting a straight answer. Just invoking the guy's name here with some news makes me happy, for Nomasha Syaka (rez: 9/13/2006) is the Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-42176748832158673832009-07-21T22:30:00.000-07:002009-07-21T23:04:27.240-07:00A statement from the Not Possible IRL group regarding Rezzable's BuilderBotPosted by Bettina TizzyThe members of the Not Possible IRL group held two meetings and shared many thoughtful notecards and IMs today expressly to discuss Rezzable's BuilderBot, and reach a consensus. The conclusions are as follows: The overwhelming majority of those who participated in today’s two meetings agree that Rezzable’s BuilderBot appears to be a useful – even important - tool for Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-23661659346020486202009-07-20T11:14:00.000-07:002009-07-20T11:19:12.554-07:00Attend Xeniversity in-world and learn MayaPosted by Bettina TizzyOn Saturday, artist and creator Hern Worsley logged into Second Life® and joined 7 others for an in-world class on Autodesk Maya that he deemed “really excellent.” It was to be the first of three sessions for which he paid a total of $L16,200.Maya is a powerful and expensive ($4,995 US dollars for the Unlimited version) and - by most accounts – intimidating software packageBettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-20462337288518384152009-07-16T11:50:00.000-07:002009-07-16T17:10:47.386-07:00Moonwalkin... Second Lifers REPRESENTPosted by Bettina Tizzy5:09pm UPDATE: And here it is: The chosen segment live and... moonwalkin!In a marathon session yesterday, at least twenty Second Life® residents moonwalked around the Bogon Flux at the Odyssey under the direction of Mescaline Tammas and his cheerful partner in crime, four Yip. The goal is to submit a filmed segment to Eternal Moonwalk (click, click, click), an everlasting Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-71292945908884750202009-07-15T00:01:00.000-07:002009-07-15T00:01:02.264-07:00Fabulous falsiesPosted by Bettina TizzyIt was very late in my Second Life® when I discovered "false" eyelashes and now I want more. More styles and colors and by all means longer, crazier, hotter ones. Sure, they raise your ARC (Avatar Rendering Cost) a tad, but I'm willing to cut back in other areas if I can have some fantasy springing from my own peepers and basic lashes. Maybe we can persuade Jopsy Pendragon Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-41714301536778994122009-07-14T11:49:00.000-07:002009-07-14T12:11:21.744-07:00The Machine Poems and (virtual) sculpted storybook by Bryn OhPosted by Bettina TizzyPoetry by Bryn OhPhotography by Dil Spitz "DilSpi" - ©All rights reservedAn acquaintance of mine has had several of her storybooks for children published with some success. In fact, she makes a decent living in Los Angeles in this manner and that is quite an accomplishment given that writers and illustrators with ideas for children's books are a dime a dozen. But there is Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-80861904670415211962009-07-12T06:26:00.000-07:002009-07-12T06:26:00.539-07:00The apogee of fandom: Kevlar Keen breathes life into Bryn Oh's artPosted by Bettina TizzyKevlar poses for me at ImmersivaKevlar Keen was so captivated by Bryn Oh's story and art for The Daughter of the Gears, that she created an avatar in tribute. Yes, friends, this is an avatar, and not Bryn's much admired virtual sculpture. It seems that Bryn approved, too.Imagine how you would react if a piece of artwork at your local museum suddenly came to life and walked Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-31557683489759294752009-07-08T13:33:00.000-07:002009-07-08T14:01:55.826-07:00Buckminster Fuller would have approvedOn Werner Kurosawa, geodesic domes, and Green Phosphor’s novel work in Second Life Posted by Bettina TizzyYears ago, a friend of mine who owned a large manufacturing centre sought to enclose the entire building complex within a geodesic dome, modelled after architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller’s lattice shell structures. His goal was not merely an aesthetic one, for it is said that such Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-24711503681332518602009-07-06T09:49:00.000-07:002009-07-06T09:53:10.008-07:00My happy place in Second Life - And a fab new Windlight preset by MescalinePosted by Bettina TizzyCreated by Blotto Epsilon and Cutea Benelli, the Bogon Flux (and the new couch for big asses!) - currently at East of Odyssey - is where I go when I want to be happy. I whiled away a very pleasant hour yesterday in Blotto's company and came away with a grin on my face. It's like a vacation in Second Life®. This gone-bonkers Steampunk structure builds upon itself and then Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-56999634588873074522009-07-06T09:05:00.000-07:002009-07-06T12:20:36.119-07:00Strange and Fantastic Buildings (in Real Life)Posted by Bettina TizzyI can't recall ever just linking to another site as the centerpiece for a blogpost, but here you go. Totally worth a visit: 80 Strange and Fantastic Buildings Architecture. Hopefully this will inspire a few more unusual buildings in virtual worlds.12:18 pm UPDATE: And here are 50 more unusual buildings!Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-73747427469515318352009-07-04T14:37:00.000-07:002009-07-07T13:57:01.630-07:00Groundbreaking, literally - Faith in Selavy OhPosted by Bettina TizzyAnd they said you couldn't move mountains... Oh ye of little faith!Physics and now Land artist Selavy Oh has created a script that operates the terraforming capabilities in Second Life®, resulting in the continuous and automated reshaping of land, even without her presence.To my knowledge, this is without precedent. That's me filming in the center of the mountain peaks. Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-27230133339508491252009-07-04T12:17:00.000-07:002009-07-04T12:20:13.687-07:00Own the universe - and a piece of Second Life - in Real LifePosted by Bettina Tizzy This mathematical structure - known as the E8 Polytope created by Wizard Gynoid in Second Life® with the guidance of renown physicist Garrett Lisi (and sometimes avatar, Garrett Netizen)... is now available for purchase in Real Life. The virtual version consists of 6,672 prims that were generated via script by Wizard with the assistance of Desdemona Enfield and Nand NerdBettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-77552807080713977842009-07-01T14:22:00.000-07:002009-07-01T19:54:55.791-07:00Visualizing God: A virtual art showPosted by Bettina TizzyIn "Human Destiny," Le Comte Du Nouy wrote, "Any effort to visualize God reveals a surprising childishness. We can no more conceive Him than we can conceive an electron. Yet many people do not believe in God simply because they cannot visualize him." In fact, many Christians feel that images dishonor God because he is invisible. "No images drawn from visible things will Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-80907756410799272242009-06-30T13:08:00.000-07:002009-06-30T13:26:22.263-07:00Happy 2nd Birthday, NPIRL!Posted by Bettina TizzyThis Saturday, July 4th, after hundreds and hundreds of in-world notices, 700 blogposts (this is the 701st), and thousands of happy hours celebrating great content that would not be possible in Real Life, we will mark the passing of our second year in the metaverse. If you consider that each human day is the equivalent of 8 days in Second Life® and OpenSim, that would make Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-68270238502818290452009-06-29T23:58:00.000-07:002009-06-30T01:26:16.262-07:00Keystone Bouchard, building community with primsPosted by Bettina TizzyIf I were to commission the design of a building - whether commercial or residential - I would vastly prefer the opportunity to walk in and around it before brick and mortar were employed, over looking at CAD animations and illustrations, a flat screen, or even a 3D printout. Wouldn't you? It is such an inexpensive step and so basic to our senses (including common sense!).Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-25866885279799745262009-06-26T15:55:00.000-07:002009-06-26T15:56:01.200-07:00Poetic steampunk flight, by a Victorian JapanesePosted by Bettina TizzyJapanese steampunk creator Yooma Mayo is probably best known for his whimsical bicycles and the delightful steam-powered monorail that transports you from the ground up to his cliff-perched shop in Second Life®, YGD. Bryn Oh zipped up the monorail on a recent visit with meIn Real Life, Yooma likes to fly kites - the dual-line kind - so when he learned of human aviation Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-41512949670484398942009-06-25T13:38:00.000-07:002009-06-26T13:14:29.933-07:00"Second Life, online adult games to be banned outright in Australia" - ???Posted by Bettina TizzyJUNE 26 UPDATE: Two posts that are must-reads on this topic: - Tateru Nino's blogpost "Could Australia be barred from Second Life access?" She continues: "Darn straight they could."- Lowell Cremorne's "Open Letter on virtual worlds for Senator Conroy"~*~With his blogpost "Australia to ban Second Life?" Dusan Writer brought my attention to an article in today's Inquisitr "Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-55152744220608880122009-06-25T10:55:00.000-07:002009-06-25T10:58:53.145-07:00On Artists and their Patrons: An SL6B discussion to help shape the future of the ArtsPosted by Bettina TizzyOn June 1, the New Media Consortium's (NMC) CEO Larry Pixel (aka Dr. Larry F. Johnson) guest blogged here on a topic that has sparked a vibrant dialogue: On Artists and their Patrons: Nurturing Support for the Arts in Second Life®.The arts in Second Life may be blossoming, but the level of sophistication in terms of sponsorship, promotion and funding still lags far behind Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-92042100335192366552009-06-25T02:39:00.000-07:002009-06-26T12:15:07.838-07:00I was at the Hair Fair...Posted by Alpha Auer... :-\Like most other females on the grid, all year long I live in joyous anticipation of the annual Second Life® Hair Fair. I am also experienced enough to know to detach every single prim on my body before I venture forth. Same this year. And not only did I divest myself of every attachment that I had but I also took Laynie Link's hair fair tips on avoiding lag at the Alpha Auerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11412727378736602680noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-79537164892879516962009-06-24T11:49:00.000-07:002009-06-24T11:56:05.604-07:00The Impossible Made Possible - A Panel on the Future of ArchitecturePosted by Bettina TizzyMost Real Life architects who join Second Life® do so because they are seeking a new tool. In the beginning, there is much confusion as they acquaint themselves with the interface and become a part of one or more communities. And then they begin to build recreations of Real Life buildings.And then...This Friday and on the occasion of Second Life's sixth birthday, hear the Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-16378418422241284152009-06-23T12:40:00.000-07:002009-06-23T12:48:12.339-07:00Grendel's Children and Avaria featured in new Nitwacket machinima + A chat with Flea BussyPosted by Bettina TizzyPerched high in the sky over the four Avaria sims in Second Life® is a place that holds as much magic as the virtual constellations that surround it, for within the Grendel's Children store are the seeds of imagination and playtime where grownups go to shrug off the stress of their daily real lives and explore other parts of themselves. This, the largest emporium in Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-69564256280357497672009-06-22T07:37:00.000-07:002009-06-22T07:45:41.059-07:00Mescaline Tammas' sunglasses for Second LifePosted by Bettina TizzyI've been shouting from the roof tops in Second Life® for at least a month now about Mescaline Tammas' set of delicate, dusty and seriously elegant Windlight presets. If you enjoy photography or just wandering around in a haze of beauty, these are a must. I was astonished just now to discover that his post on Flickr (with links and instructions to download and install them)Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-14727149714904735572009-06-19T14:37:00.000-07:002009-06-19T14:43:15.496-07:00Pay the Second Life (builder, DJ, performer, scripter, artist)... or not?Posted by Bettina TizzyThere are all kinds of virtual creators and performers in Second Life®: the freebie/Open Source advocates, the folks who produce industrial quantities of things and then sell them low, the artists who make one-of-a-kind pieces and sell them - if you ask nicely - for hundreds of dollars, and still others who toil away like the Dickens to raise $Lindens for non-profit effortsBettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-86044262522770392642009-06-19T11:30:00.000-07:002009-06-19T11:31:42.416-07:00evets Igaly - R.I.P.We received some sad news via Earth Primbee, co-owner and creator of Inspire Park. He just learned that his virtual friend, Second Life® resident evets Igaly (rez: 4/12/2007) died of a heart attack a few days ago. evets loved to create particle shows. "His performance to the music was right on. Dancing to the music with ethereal lights he drew us deeper into the sounds. He didn't make all his Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-63534237559778368202009-06-18T21:47:00.000-07:002009-06-28T17:50:38.159-07:00New viewer for the Second Life power user, by INSILICO's Skills HakPosted by Bettina TizzyJune 28 Update: I've just concluded a meeting with the creators of the Emerald, the GreenLife Emerald and the Gemini viewers and will be doing a new blogpost later this week listing features and benefits of each one. All of the creators of these three viewers have published their source code and have pledged that their viewers are clean and malware free. As always, it Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-70744666274638790172009-06-17T10:31:00.000-07:002009-06-17T10:33:31.994-07:00There's a hair in our cakePosted by Bettina TizzyThat Pandora Wrigglesworth has struck again. I'm still chuckling, even as I type. The annual Hair Fair 2009 in Second Life® is a massive (hairy?) affair that just about everyone loves, despite that fact that it lags us nearly to death (attendance is sky-high), but we like it especially because it benefits Locks of Love, the charitable organization that provides hairpieces Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-17051692228782847032009-06-17T09:20:00.000-07:002009-06-17T09:22:04.103-07:00Why you need to pay attention to Brooklyn is Watching's "Best of Year 1 Festival"Posted by Bettina TizzyIt's been a big year for Brooklyn is Watching (BiW), the mixed reality arts project sponsored by Popcha and taking place simultaneously at the gallery Jack the Pelican Presents in Brooklyn, New York and in Second Life®. In fact, it's been the only year that BiW has been in operation, and what a year it has been. In March of 2008, I reported on the new performance space and Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-24944187841474392732009-06-16T15:44:00.000-07:002009-06-16T15:45:22.356-07:00Get wet!Posted by Bettina TizzyOh, I know... I've been away for a while, but it's time to get rockin' again. Thought I'd get you wet behind the ears while I conduct some research for my next blogposts, so here's a ZeroG shower, courtesy of Oni Horan.Don't worry! The water at Space Colony Necronom is recycled and purified for your crystal-clean and sensual enjoyment, but do keep in mind - before you hop Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-23292387385856086452009-06-05T14:46:00.000-07:002009-06-05T14:51:07.089-07:00Big game hunting in the skyPosted by Bettina TizzyNow and then, the letters I receive are far wittier and informative than anything I might manage to pen on the topic at hand. Such was the case with the irresistibly charming missive I received late last week from resident Marion Questi. It reads... Dear Miss Tizzy:Martini Discovolante and I have created something that might amuse you; it certainly qualifies as Not PossibleBettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-31972529782122473742009-06-04T03:48:00.000-07:002009-06-05T04:13:41.755-07:00The Flora of the Rain Forest and Jedda ZenovkaPosted by Alpha Auer"Welcome to Wild Designs... (says Jedda Zenovka) Home of unique and funky Organic designs....You can take the girl out of the jungle...But you cant take the jungle out of the girl!Rainbow Obsidian A usually dark outer appearance contrasted by a soul filled with burning lightJaguars dont need self help books!... Live light free and happyAnd have a wonderful day!"Initially Alpha Auerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11412727378736602680noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-33655450962852826662009-06-03T09:59:00.000-07:002009-06-03T10:00:54.565-07:00Wherein I attempt to describe what I am looking for: NPIRL content guidelinesPosted by Bettina TizzyBy the time each Thursday rolls around, I'm frantically trying to catch up with all the first-rate landmarks and notecards and emails I've received, rich with hot tips on new and undiscovered content and ideas that just might be worth sharing with the 2,600 members of my Second Life® groups Not Possible IRL and Impossible IRL. I send at least one in-world notice a week - Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-27429299888804318862009-06-01T16:52:00.000-07:002009-06-01T23:37:19.825-07:00On Artists and their PatronsNurturing Support for the Arts in Second Life (A Guest Column by Larry Johnson, aka Larry Pixel)I had an interesting conversation with Bettina Tizzy the other day when we met in real life for the first time. Over dinner she relayed to me her concern that there are fewer and fewer patrons willing to give artists a place to do their work in Second Life®. Knowing that the New Media Consortium (Dr. Larry Johnson (aka Larry Pixel)noreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-24214883756135540162009-05-31T12:06:00.000-07:002009-05-31T12:28:17.787-07:00Chouchou leaps from digital platform to digital platform: Releases first album + iTunesPosted by Bettina TizzyUntil now, the only way you could hear Chouchou, the Japanese musical group with a panoramic, shimmering sound that existed only in Second Life®, was in-world via live concerts, on the lovely beach that is their Chouchou sim (teleport directly from here), or on your own land parcel with the help of their “Little Tiara,” which enabled you to stream their weekly radio programBettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-82889306048050030502009-05-31T01:03:00.000-07:002009-05-31T01:03:59.534-07:00Multiplicity at The Good Life - A story in picturesPosted by Bettina TizzyVia Toady Nakamura, we discover...Click to see largeClick to see largeBettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-12210177229271251642009-05-29T08:48:00.000-07:002009-05-30T19:29:53.508-07:00Domenico Quaranta on Gazira's "Hammering the Void"Photograph courtesy of [DAM]Berlin - All rights reservedToday marks the opening of Gazira Babeli's newest mixed realities show, which will run through July 31st at the [DAM]Berlin gallery in Berlin and concurrently in Second Life®. A new film will be screened.May 29, 2009:* 10pm - 12am at Locusolus - [DAM]SecondLife, teleport directly from here* 7-9 PM in the gallery [DAM]Berlinby Domenico Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-18974580984591242772009-05-28T23:42:00.000-07:002009-05-28T23:43:05.196-07:00She[s] got a hammer: Hammering the VoidPhotographs courtesy of [DAM]Berlin - All rights reservedPosted by Bettina TizzyIn Hammering the Void, there isn't just one Gazira Babeli, there are 14 and they all fight against an inner void. 14 clones of an artificial person, they are each named after Virtues and Sins: Greed Petrovic, Sloth Swansong, Temperance Navarita, Courage Sparta, Envy Sixpence, and more. Equipped with a hammer in Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-47878812027848126372009-05-28T02:19:00.000-07:002009-05-28T11:05:05.311-07:00Is Second Life the theatre of the absurd? Ask the Kool-Aid Man in SLPosted by Bettina Tizzy Net Art/New Media artist Jon Rafman has been getting rave reviews and first-rate press coverage with the likes of Rhizome and other coveted art outlets as the Kool-Aid Man in Second Life®, offering free guided tours in-world. His dedicated website features a promo video that I guarantee will produce an emotion in Second Life residents, and invites folks to sign up. I firstBettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-8907313665616441272009-05-27T12:10:00.000-07:002009-05-27T13:22:31.823-07:00The quirky avatars of Lime BreenPosted by Bettina TizzyWhen I think of animation, three things immediately come to mind: Disney characters, Japanese anime, and the Simpsons. Japan, by the way, just announced that it is investing 11.7 billion yen on the creation of a new "shrine" to anime in Tokyo. I can't think of a species of avatar that I haven't seen in Second Life®, but on the whole, animation-style avatars seem to be in Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-23088352654275746812009-05-25T22:16:00.000-07:002009-05-25T22:42:27.493-07:00Cubist Scarborough and The Manual: Second Life editionPosted by Bettina TizzyI hope you have a little spare time, dear readers, because I am about to lead you down a rabbit hole, a veritable treasure-trove of ideas so rich and varied that I have not yet been able to unearth them all myself. As personal blogs go, Ian Truelove’s (Cubist Scarborough in Second Life®) is almost buoyant with optimism and analysis of all the inherent possibilities and joysBettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-3470886713327473042009-05-24T19:00:00.000-07:002009-05-24T19:00:00.622-07:00Object Hair: lat Oh and ALpha HairPosted by Alpha AuerMany thanks go to MillaMilla Noel who alerted me to the existence of lat Oh and ALpha Hair at the Cyberbunker. I have been developing a craving for what I have begun to call "object hair". So, I am indeed beginning to sport quite a little collection of it and now 3 of lat Oh's hair styles have landed in the so named little folder under the "body parts" of my inventory. And no Alpha Auerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11412727378736602680noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-56716416736904912672009-05-23T21:02:00.000-07:002009-05-24T08:20:16.819-07:00A sculptural installation that has attained A State of GracePosted by Bettina TizzyGlyph Graves' latest, largest and certainly most stirring installation had many births. Originally conceived in early spring of 2008, it didn't reach fruition due to his busy schedule and limited prim availability. Since that time, however, he has made a name for himself as a notable sculptor in Second Life®, and today marks the public opening of his Strangers Also Dance, Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-52554986163566310662009-05-21T22:22:00.000-07:002009-05-21T22:23:20.801-07:00NPIRL fashion sometimes obeys the laws of geometry and thriftPosted by Bettina TizzyWhile both the Spring and Summer catwalks for 2009 featured fashion with a geometric - even architectural – construction, Alpha Auer (aka Elif Ayiter) kicked that up a notch under her label Alpha Tribe. What’s more, whether she is aware of it or not, she’s in tune with the global economic mood. During the great Depression, a popular maxim was "Use it up, wear it out, make Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-54178522838620406922009-05-20T15:39:00.000-07:002009-05-20T20:56:17.403-07:00Ever wish you could search for objects in your inventory by the creator's name?Wizard Gynoid has created a new JIRA issue that I can really get behind: #MISC-2717 suggests that the "Creator" field be added to the SQL query in the Inventory "Search" field. How many times have I wished for this? If you feel the same way, please vote! Don't know how to vote? Easy peasy! 1) Go to this link.2) Sign in with your first and last name (so I would sign in: Bettina Tizzy)3) Your Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-90731744258834078702009-05-18T03:09:00.000-07:002009-12-29T11:19:30.651-08:00Don't let your virtual creations die with you - Will your Work DayDecember 29, 2009 Update:I've decided to expand this concept to ALL digital creations. I'm going to need your help to get the word out. Bloggers, website creators, media, tech geeks and geekas... Will you help me? Please contact me at bettinatizzy (at) gmail dot com and we'll mobilize together!~*~German, Dutch, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian translations of this information are availableBettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-40615284565945501982009-05-17T12:50:00.000-07:002009-05-17T12:50:33.131-07:00Art Box - A new way to become the art in Second Life®Now you, too, can be a part of Banksy's "Pulp Fiction," complete with a banana gunPosted by Bettina TizzyThis is the second piece in a new ongoing series on how and where to regain our "fun," in Second Life®, when so many of us are hard at work and living two full lives. A summer rite of passage for many Southern California residents is to attend the Pageant of the Masters at the Festival of the Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-59401173581613112332009-05-17T10:26:00.000-07:002009-05-17T10:34:42.233-07:00Floating buildings - In Real LifePosted by Bettina TizzyMy colleague Alpha Auer and I have this ongoing discussion regarding what, in virtual worlds, is actually Not Possible in Real Life (NPIRL). One concession she makes is the concept of floating islands and buildings in metaversal skies. soror Nishi's newest landscaping shop,"lifstean," as photographed by Lem Skall. Teleport directly from hereStill, I was surprised yesterdayBettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-76321412118576875812009-05-16T04:05:00.000-07:002009-05-16T11:32:42.641-07:00Attaining Presence: 4Jetpacks4 and Bryn Oh Posted by Alpha Auer4Jetpacks4 was an immersive installation created by Bryn Oh, with the participation of Glyph Graves and Nonnatus Korhonen earlier this year. I was privileged to be one of the group of avatars that were given the tour of the research centre back on March the 6th. I will not talk here about what 4jetpacks was all about. The extraordinary video by Evo Szuyuan above does that farAlpha Auerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11412727378736602680noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-46139939671183716382009-05-13T21:29:00.000-07:002009-05-13T21:34:48.217-07:00Somebody... Give this woman a sim-wide showDesert Rose: Spiral Threads #12, 1,000 primsPosted by Bettina Tizzy All photography and machinima by Suzanne GravesI have an uncle who handily wins the prize for geekiest person in my personal sphere. The man has two interests in life and one of them is math. One Christmas years ago, as we all gathered round the tree for our gift exchange, my uncle showed up with a manila folder. When his turn Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-86728996904424901642009-05-10T05:40:00.000-07:002009-05-10T07:20:17.874-07:00Semiautonomous Puppet Architectonics: Second order cybernetics and MosMax HaxPosted by Alpha AuerCyberneticsCybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of regulatory systems, closely related to control theory and systems theory. Both in its origins and in its evolution in the second-half of the 20th century, cybernetics has been pronounced to be equally applicable to physical and social systems; preeminent whenever the system under scrutiny is involved in a closed signal Alpha Auerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11412727378736602680noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-994812125665542942009-05-09T16:51:00.000-07:002009-05-09T18:34:36.447-07:00Second Life content creators save lives, one net (and one eyeball) at a timePosted by Bettina TizzyCutea Benelli and Blotto Epsilon, co-creators of the ultra fabulous Bogon Flux (which is no longer rezzed, but just you wait! More news on that front), together with avatar creator Barney Boomslang, have released the strange eyestem thingie for sale, and it is to benefit nothingbutnets.net, the organization that saves lives by preventing malaria, a leading killer of Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-53667573959452938272009-05-09T00:21:00.000-07:002009-05-09T00:21:45.952-07:00I am a cyborgPosted by Bettina TizzyI am human. I am a machine. I am post-human. I am organic. I am synthetic. I am a better human. I am the future. I am a series of devices and mechanisms and integrated circuits. I am also made of flesh. I'm in the zone when I wear this avatar. Or is my avatar, any avatar, already my cyborg? In "The Cyborg's Dilemma: Progressive Embodiment in Virtual Environments," Frank Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-75846083053078376552009-05-08T10:36:00.000-07:002009-05-09T09:41:44.614-07:00Comet Morigi's Mt. XXYYZZPosted by Bettina TizzyUPDATE: I'm delighted that Comet Morigi has translated this blogpost to Japanese, which you can read on her own blog here. It is not unheard of. People often anchor prims onto sims in a way that they extend well beyond the sim's "borders." But I gasped this morning when I caught sight of Japanese land artist Comet Morigi's super-colossal latest at Brooklyn is Watching (BiW)Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136096097852432485.post-90047962518741625322009-05-07T15:11:00.000-07:002009-05-07T15:15:21.520-07:00Chortle, chuckle, grin and guffaw - Smile, you are NOT on Candid Camera, you are in SL + Your homework assignmentPosted by Bettina TizzyFun! Where did it go, oldbies? The more we chat about our Second Life® experiences, the more I hear that you are too busy wheelin' & dealin' or providing customer service or rushing on a build, and too too busy to laugh it up anymore.Well here's a first in what I hope will be many installments and refreshers on how to stop taking your Second Life so seriously while doing Bettina Tizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08304718957705639572noreply@blogger.com7