Progression...

when I created the suspended window it made me think of these idents done by Channel Four. I am thinking of making the windows spell out something or represent a symbol. haven't quite decided what though!

this is just to show where i'm at at the moment. I have a billboard at the back which i am going to try to make rotate, and i've got to add maps to the windows. i am hoping to put AVI files into the windows but haven't quite decided on what yet.

SeCoNd LiFe DiArY

Found freebie island and bought myself some dashing t-shirts!made a new friend as well...still aven't managed to get rid of my beard so it looks like i'm stuckwith being a man as goig round as a women with bad facial hair wasn't going down too well with fellow second life users!
i visited london as well, it was 3am in the mornig though so there weren't many people around, apart from one that was looking to rent a flat?! spoke to her but not for too long she seemed in a rush.

I'm growing to enjoy my time on second life although i don't think i will be going on it after this project is over...its a bit too freaky for my liking.

I watched the Virtual Adultey documentary on YouTube (Part 1 above) and its quite scary how much SecondLife can affect someones life. An american lady in the documentary spent the best part of 14hrs a day on it and ended up having a 'developed' (shall we say)relationship with a guy in London. She was a house wife and ended up neglecting her children and putting stresses on her marriage.

I can see that virtul worlds can be a neccessary escape from real life for some people; but ever heard of the saying 'putting your head in the sand'?! I don't think this is the answer...it's not even good for the eyes staring at a computer screen all day?!

Avatar in 3D maxx

SECOND LIFE MADNESS!

http://www.nypost.com/seven/02042008/jobs/sight_unseen_289356.htm

"Last month Regina Spektor's album was the first virtual record release by a major company. BBC Radio 1 has 'rented' a tropical island within Second Life for a year, where the world's biggest virtual music festival was staged in parallel with the One Big Weekend event. While people attended the real concert in Dundee, the music by Franz Ferdinand, Pink and others was streamed live into Second Life, where 6,000 avatars crowded around a virtual stage, hosted by an avatar of DJ Chris Moyles and stewarded by computerised bouncers. Each left with a virtual digital radio to carry about inside Second Life."

"Linden Lab, the San Francisco company which launched Second Life in 2003, has rules against offensive behaviour in public, such as racial slurs or overtly sexual antics. Its punishment is unique. 'If someone is regularly abusive, we have a prison,' said vice-president Dave Fleck. 'They are put in a cornfield and made to watch black and white television Fifties public service announcements in a constant loop."

"Alayne Wartell, 42, of Harrogate, met her real-life husband in Second Life and now works full-time within it, earning a living from her virtual shoe and flower shop."
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1816270,00.html


SIGHT UNSEEN
FIRMS TURN TO VIRTUAL-LIFE SITE FOR INTERVIEWS
By HANNAH SELIGSON


GO FIGURE: In Second Life interviews, candidates let their "avatars" do the talking.

February 4, 2008-- NATHAN Tia, a creative lead for Centric, a new-media agency, has never met his boss face to face. And it's not because he's an underperformer who hasn't been singled out for a pat on the back.
It's because Tia, who works from home, was hired through a "virtual interview," conducted on the Internet-based virtual world Second Life



http://www.nypost.com/seven/02042008/jobs/sight_unseen_289356.htm

SECOND LIFE

This was my first time on second life as I tried downloading to my mac and it would freeze everytime. I must admit i was a bit weary of it as i think theres something a bit odd about people sitting at their computer for hours on end, pretending to be someone else!

after going around the virtual world for some time, i began to have some fun with it. i changed my clothes, and started talking to a few "people". Although i think my really bad facial hair scared a few people off!!