Award-winning reportage from Second Life by Draxtor Despres since 2007. Fresh every other month.
The annual Second Life Community Convention was held in Oakland, California this year. Now that many blog posts have been written about gamification of the world, new products separate of Second Life to be introduced, more web initiatives and the fact that SL is growing by about 15.000 new users every day, it is time for Draxtor to tell the REAL story of SLCC 2011: the parties, the hallway brainstormings, the beloved British humor.....stick around!!! music by Keiko - http://skyfalling.bandcamp...
The next few months will be quiet on the YT video front. We are in post-production for Login2Life which will air on German national public TV station ZDF later this year before it will be released internationally. Draxtor is saddened by the necessity of suspending his regular virtual reportage gig....he is thrilled to be able to strum la guitarra once again though! [ more info at http://www.login2life.net/ ]
Flickr Gettr is a mash-up installation combining web 2.o and virtual worlds, made at IDIALAB at Ball State University. ; It brings the web into a real-time collaborative environment leveraging the affordances of immersive platforms. Direct teleport link -http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/IDIAA%20Studios/113/192/8 In this new semi-monthly series machinima blogger Draxtor profiles individuals that make up the creative class in Second Life: musicians, designers, activists just to name a few f...
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Students from Cairo and Los Angeles used the virtual world of Second Life to design a large open space situated between the Grand Egyptian Museum and the Pyramids of Giza. And yes: they had never met in the physical world, using merely their avatars to communicate, collaborate and successfully complete the difficult task of creating sustainable urban design solutions while overcoming cultural boundaries. Draxtor was impressed while documenting their work over the past six months: global citize...
[*** More info on this project from america.gov here http://bit.ly/brIXss]The K2C Project recently brought together architecture students from Cairo and Los Angeles, who developed an urban space between the pyramids and the new Grand Egyptian Musem, using the virtual world of Second Life as a collaborative design tool. Architect David Denton, who worked on Disney Hall with Frank Gehry among many other California landmarks, mentored these promising men and women, finally meeting them in Los Ang...
While visiting the homeland this summer, Draxtor enjoyed the European premiere of "Life 2.0", the very FIRST feature documentary exclusively focusing onWhile visiting the homeland this summer, Draxtor enjoyed the European premiere of "Life 2.0", the very FIRST feature documentary exclusively focusing on Second Life. A fun evening with a sold out show, Q&A afterwards and some hanging [beers included] with director Jason Spingarn-Koff. Salut to his success & may the theatrical release/broadcast ...
For almost a century until the mid-1960s, tens of thousands of ordinary people attended the lynchings of over 4,700 African Americans that often included hours of torture, mutilation and photographs. The documentary "Always in Season" examines the impact this form of racial violence still has on Americans today with intimate accounts from spectators, their relatives, and family members of lynching victims.Developed at the Bay Area Video Coalition in San Francisco over the course of 10 days in ...
[***starting point SLURL = http://bit.ly/9AGT0F]A collaboration with the USC Annenberg School of Journalism & the Center For Investigative Reporting, based on the PBS Frontline World series "CarbonWatch". Written, directed & produced by Nonny dela Pena. This machinima showcases the proof of concept Second Life experience, which you can visit at Public Diplomacy Island in SL anytime. Stay tuned for expansions and revisions.
