tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186297342024-03-13T01:00:05.097-04:00Kim's Virtual ExperiencesThis blog serves as a place to talk about my experiences playing new-to-me videogames and hanging out in SecondLife. It might encourage others to try playing games and spending time in virtual worlds.Kim Gregsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09046907490071129982noreply@blogger.comBlogger338125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629734.post-18464982631376499392012-01-02T23:03:00.000-05:002012-01-02T23:03:17.006-05:00Here's a sample flickr badge with pics that have been tagged "anonymous" - problem is thinking of the kinds of keywords people might use
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and here's one for the keyword lulzsec
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<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
google.load('search', '1', {language : 'en'});
google.setOnLoadCallback(function() {
var customSearchControl = new google.search.CustomSearchControl(
'000335539166989053697:8nblkusnxt0');
customSearchControl.setResultSetSize(google.search.Search.FILTERED_CSE_RESULTSET);
customSearchControl.draw('cse');
}, true);
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.google.com/cse/style/look/default.css" type="text/css" />
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<br />Kim Gregsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09046907490071129982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629734.post-14779549646717795452011-10-12T23:12:00.000-04:002011-10-12T23:12:44.456-04:00JohnPathfinderLester's Channel - YouTube<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/JohnPathfinderLester#p/a/u/0/KxYfmfhZ1W8">JohnPathfinderLester's Channel - YouTube</a>: 5 minute tutorial on Jibe<div><br /></div><div>Jibe is a tool to build 3d worlds and embed them in web pages and Facebook. It uses Unity 3D for the front end. They connect to all kinds of databases for user registration. It looks pretty cool. You can host the world on Reaction Grid or on your own server (that would be more secure)</div><div><br /></div><div>Anybody using this tool? web based MMO tool maybe? Might be a nice low cost tool for game development in school<br /><br /><a style="font-size:13px" href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pengoopmcjnbflcjbmoeodbmoflcgjlk">'via Blog this'</a></div>Kim Gregsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09046907490071129982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629734.post-78925050849793272642011-10-07T22:38:00.002-04:002011-10-30T22:25:44.357-04:00A look back at Burn2 2011 using StorifyMy second Storify attempt...what do you think?<br />
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I'll Die for You Dress by Vita's Boudoir and female metal skin by Yabusaka<br />
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<br />Kim Gregsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09046907490071129982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629734.post-88212705960965258732011-10-05T11:19:00.001-04:002011-10-05T11:19:50.477-04:00Camps near ours at Burn2<br />
There are such amazing builds at Burn2. Part of it is folks using sculpties *no mesh this year* and part is that we can use the new megaprims that LL introduced. So huge prims at low cost. As you can see in these pictures..people made good use of both!<br />
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<br />Kim Gregsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09046907490071129982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629734.post-87382419877822327492011-10-04T14:44:00.002-04:002011-10-04T21:13:06.971-04:00Art Cars & Playa Bikes at Burn2When i watched the live stream from burning man this year, one thing i noticed was all the bikes and how that just looked like the perfect way to zoom around the playa. Then there were the art cars - dragons and a tardis and a space shuttle...people are so freaking creative.<br />
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There are bikes and cars and the Burn2 event as well. Whooo Hoo. I blogged earlier about how we made cars and bikes. Here are some pics of me riding around the playa now that it's all open and full of stuff to run into and drive over *chuckles*<br />
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A side shot of my coffin car. Aren't the bat wings cool. Marc found these - they were full perm freebies<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWmtID_4IE3XdYyiNPYjTKvk9LqFSXiOY3dIywulLsjRULVZkdM6IlA1c7Cd15jC6IER7KKQm6nTNRlpCxYR2eg1HmeGrQBoHruZxp8jytmwWr7uA5aD_JzLeHxM4CVEVJp4YRBg/s1600/teapot_art_car_003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWmtID_4IE3XdYyiNPYjTKvk9LqFSXiOY3dIywulLsjRULVZkdM6IlA1c7Cd15jC6IER7KKQm6nTNRlpCxYR2eg1HmeGrQBoHruZxp8jytmwWr7uA5aD_JzLeHxM4CVEVJp4YRBg/s320/teapot_art_car_003.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
An inside shot of my coffin car - Turns out it's not quite balanced..gotta think about that<br />
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My teapot car..I like how the shine makes it look a little metallic<br />
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My teapot car from a distance<br />
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My marry-go-round car..the wall rotates (that's the go-round part)<br />
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<br />Kim Gregsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09046907490071129982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629734.post-7053091809856674922011-10-02T12:37:00.002-04:002011-10-02T12:37:35.675-04:00Our Camp Got Finished for Burn2<br />
We got finished. Whoo. Three levels with graphics and some freebies<br />
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1. lag lag lag...takes a while for the textures to load, it's hard to move around, and music streams can't be heard by everyone at the party. SL has got to do something so events can attract more than a couple of people without everyone being stuck in lag soup.</div>
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2. Most people so far have been paying attention to the artists and scheduled music. I understand that attention..the art is gorgeous and well worth seeing. We had fun building...and that's all that's really important.</div>
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The first floor is the rites of committal...a passage tomb filled with items found in tombs in different cultures. There is a statue of Anubis, images of modern funerals, Indian cremation pyres, and Ghanese art coffins.<br />
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The second level is rites of commendation...items and images of things we do to help the dead move on to or have a happier afterlife. There is voodoo and a senet game and images of the weighing of the souls by Anubis.<br />
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The third level is rites of commemoration...celebrations in honour of the dead. We have a family ancestor altar and images from the Day of the Dead and Asian festivals honouring the dead, including the Japanese Obon festival's ceremony with lit floating lanterns. There's a reincarnation wheel - click on it to see what you will come back as.</div>
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Kim Gregsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09046907490071129982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629734.post-88528772111885842252011-09-24T15:33:00.000-04:002011-09-24T19:19:52.054-04:00Brewery Build-OffToday was the second annual Build-Off at the Builder's Brewery in SecondLife and I did the first heat (out of four). They judge on MOnday & Tuesday and (hopefully) the winner is announced on Wednesday. And all the entries will be featured on <a href="http://primbusters.com/">http://primbusters.com/</a><br />
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Here are some pictures from my heat. I took them...so mostly my stuff *chuckles*<br />
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Here's a big overview of all the building platforms. I had the platform at the bottom of the picture. I like not having people too close as I zoom around checking out the build<br />
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And this is the basic sculpty shape they gave us. Each heat gets a different shape so it's always a surprise. Last time mine looked like a vertebrae. This year...it's like a twisted column, twisted piece of toffy...twisted something or other.<br />
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This was the second or third idea...I threw out those ideas and went with a sort of prim fountain. At one point I tried adding water like a regular fountain..but it looked kind of silly and in the time I had I didn't want to dink around with it.</div>
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See the clock...i was mostly done with an hour to go...and it took me an hour to finish up - dinking with textures and adding the "park"...and I came up with the idea for the "puddles"<br />
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The mostly finished product..long view and closer view. The time zoomed by..it's amazing how fast 2 hours disappears. I called it Puddles in the Park.<br />
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I popped over to look at Heat 2 - here's a pic of the sculpty they got..kind of looks like a fireplace. I like the sculpty we got in the first heat better. This is the same platform I used...hopefully their project won't be as cool as mine.<br />
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<br />Kim Gregsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09046907490071129982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629734.post-19776685618235381632011-09-22T09:40:00.002-04:002011-09-22T11:56:17.688-04:00Playa Aesthetics<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAxI2UKoMHIrqIk_iCOR6q-2TEy2AsQVXfxsRzEmL5OBsV5wFKVgXUxV49HGIA_pvJSYwiB8RZq1bVP8i2THIsZmyVUZ924xi4mY9W3voDHYi4YcodHjEQXPyu2fd449k2R-J8fQ/s1600/burningman+satellite+geoeye+2010.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAxI2UKoMHIrqIk_iCOR6q-2TEy2AsQVXfxsRzEmL5OBsV5wFKVgXUxV49HGIA_pvJSYwiB8RZq1bVP8i2THIsZmyVUZ924xi4mY9W3voDHYi4YcodHjEQXPyu2fd449k2R-J8fQ/s320/burningman+satellite+geoeye+2010.jpeg" width="320" /></a>Burning Man takes up a big chunk of the playa. 50,000+ people, trucks, supplies, porta-potties, stages, radio station...it's a town..a city. That can be seen from space! Check out this image from the GeoEye satellite. Volunteers lay out roads, camp boundaries. They put up lantern stands for night time illumination. They lay cable for sound systems. They set up generators for electricity to keep the ice cold and the coffee hot.<br />
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They have this concept at Burning Man - MOOP which stands for Matter Out Of Place. I love that word. We've been playing around with it in between building cars and finding images for our camp. And we came up with the phrase..don't be a party mooper. Mostly because I always forget to clean up after myself when I'm building - bits of cars, stray prims with images are always left laying around when I am working. Would ya believe...I'm an artiste? hmmm..no didn't think you would. I'm just messy.<br />
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I found these entries on the Burning Man blog - their Moop Map - so you can check out their efforts to control/eliminate MOOP - <a href="http://blog.burningman.com/2011/09/news/moop-map-live-2011/">http://blog.burningman.com/2011/09/news/moop-map-live-2011/</a><br />
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Turns out the playa gets inspected by the Bureau of Land Management and if it isn't MOOP-free, there will be problems with getting permits in the future.<br />
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So clean up after yourselves people. No party moopers allowed.Kim Gregsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09046907490071129982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629734.post-12353810435080004352011-09-16T21:17:00.000-04:002011-09-26T09:22:14.269-04:00Got DistractedI'm supposed to be researching ideas about the afterlife and death in different cultures, looking for images and artifacts. I found a Senet Table in SL (whooo...Thanks Rowena) which the Egyptians used as sort of a model for their afterlife. Marc took some pictures of a tomb and some marble memorials in England. But I need some ideas for what to put in the 2 levels above our tomb cave. Any ideas you can pass along?<br />
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But..I got distracted making bikes. Marc had an idea for a rocket car and made a great sculpty before he went on vacation. So I made a texture for it, added some sparks shooting out the back, and made a pose that makes ya look like you're hanging on tight to the rocket. Then I made one that's a surfboard. I put one of our Elvis poses (yes we made poses based on famous photos of Elvis) on it for the driver. They are a hoot to make and I have to admit that they look pretty cool too. I will clean them up, double check all the permissions this weekend and pass them on to the Dept of Mutant Vehicles, the DMV.<br />
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Here are a couple of pictures<br />
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Check out the galaxy tires..they spin as you ride the bike.<br />
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This bike holds two people..the standing driver and a passenger who sits all stretched out on the rear of the bike. It just has regular bike tires...maybe a little retro?<br />
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<br />Kim Gregsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09046907490071129982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629734.post-19747355288890247502011-09-12T11:01:00.002-04:002011-09-13T20:32:56.118-04:00What our camp looks like after a weekWe're playing with our ideas and getting totally intimidated by the other builds around us. There are some amazing graphics and animations<br />
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We got our cloud wall going a little better, we're working on our cave shadows, and we have a sign with our camp name. We found an animation for sort of floating in limbo that we're playing with. We're researching traditions and holidays related to death and funerals. Whew..a lot in a week.<br />
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Here are some pictures.<br />
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A few from the side...still some construction scaffolding in place. You can see the cave, our "limbo" with translucent picture walls, and the start of our clouded "afterlife."<br />
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Here's me floating in the the clouded afterlife dome.<br />
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The front of the camp. You can see the cave entrance which is now all shadowy and, hopefully, spooky. Actually this is version 2 of the cave. My burn partner Marc totally redid the sculpties for the cave and they look awesome. The cave walls are thinner so there's more room inside. I put up a highway sign with exits for death, limbo and the afterlife - our three levels. Right now there are a lot of things scattered around that will eventually end up inside when we get shadows fixed up. I found some skeleton sculpties and coffins.<br />
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<br />Kim Gregsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09046907490071129982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629734.post-10033871112946143132011-09-07T17:11:00.003-04:002011-09-07T17:11:38.098-04:00Started buildingHere's some pics of our build so far. I do like taking pictures while flying. here's the back. We have a cave..that's the tomb representing death. We have a middle layer..filmy walls with images projected on them..that's limbo. And the top will be a smokey walled space, like being in a cloud..that's the afterlife.<br />
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Side view<br />
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Front view..with the entrance to the passage tomb<br />
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some shots of other builds on the first day<br />
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<br />Kim Gregsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09046907490071129982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629734.post-81097431970489722592011-09-07T14:39:00.001-04:002011-09-07T14:50:34.348-04:00We got our plot! We got our plot!I'm doing the happy dance. We got our plot for burning man in SecondLife. WHOOOOOOOO<br />
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We have about 3 weeks to get our camp built and figure out what we want to do exactly. it's so exciting.<br />
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Ok - here are some pictures. Mostly i wanted to show off how empty the playa is right now so i took some long distance pics.<br />
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i'm inside the central camp looking out toward our plot. An artist is building some big strange piece behind us.<br />
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here's kind of an ariel shot - you can see the roads/paths between the camps and the mountains in the distance. If you click on the picture you can see me standing in the middle.<br />
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Another ariel shot from a different angle looking towards the administration type buildings<br />
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and here's me...standing on our rental box. We'd been out in the motorboat..hence the navy & white outfit<br />
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<br />Kim Gregsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09046907490071129982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629734.post-9325224506862978402011-09-06T18:27:00.000-04:002011-09-06T21:19:49.685-04:00One Last ArtCar<span class="zemanta-img separator" style="clear: right;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/73557980@N00/6111738368" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Burning Man 2011: The Man Burns!" height="182" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6063/6111738368_6b711a5b90_m.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="240" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 240px;">Image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/73557980@N00/6111738368">Michael Holden</a> via Flickr</span></span>The theme of Burning Man in 2011 is "Rites of Passage"<br />
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I made a coffin car, because our camp is looking at death as a rite of passage.<br />
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We were joking about cars and i wanted to make a merry go round..then realized that could also be "marry-go-round"...since marriage is a rite of passage<br />
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I wanted to build a car where the driver stood still in the middle and the passengers rotated around them.. Well......that made driving tough because the car didn't want to turn to the right when it was rotating to the left.<br />
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So..a few adjustments, some tweaking..and here is the latest and greatest version of the Marry-Go-Round. The driver and passengers stand still and the church wall rotates around everybody. I still need to make a veil for the bride<br />
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Want to see some cars from Burns past? Check out these pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmom2k_darwin/tags/dmv/<br />
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So in SL we're partying on DeepHole..the burning man "administrative"sim. that piece of plywood was a media player if you were using LL's viewer 2 which I wasn't.<br />
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<br />Kim Gregsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09046907490071129982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629734.post-17576815427313856112011-09-04T14:28:00.000-04:002011-09-05T11:22:42.977-04:00Art Cars for Burning Man in SecondLifeWell, it might be a little presumptuous to call my efforts art cars, but there ya go..that's what i'm going to call them. They are art cars for the SecondLife Burning Man (http://www.burn2.org). I hope they will be anyway; I have to submit them to be checked for script errors and terms of service violations.<br />
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I built 2 so far...The first, the coffin car, goes with the theme of our camp..death as a rite of passage. My machinima and research buddy, Marc, built a coffin car too; his looks like a 50s souped up drag car with some cool chrome exhaust.<br />
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Here are some pictures of my coffin car..that's me laying inside it. There's no steering wheel ..guess you're just "thinking" it around the playa.<br />
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My second car is a big teapot on a tray with 2 cushions for passengers to sit on. I got the teapot sculpty files the other day from a Midnight Mania board give away..whoo hoo. I used textures from Chipaholic and Sick Bubblegum. Think about it - a person size teapot = the ultimate never ending cup of tea. And instead of steam (which looked pretty cool), big yellow daisies come out of the spout occasionally.<br />
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Here are some pics of this car - i have got to learn to take close up..but check out that playa texture, with dusty car tracks to follow.<br />
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<br />Kim Gregsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09046907490071129982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629734.post-88122993935191803002011-08-21T20:26:00.001-04:002011-08-21T20:28:27.805-04:00Burning Man updateWe'e started working on some ideas for the camp for the SecondLife version of Burning Man. We're also getting involved as volunteers - communication, making clothes, building vehicles, being a ranger. We want to tie in the idea of death as a rite of passage. Hopefully we can collect some data for our research project on virtual memorials. We're going to ask people to leave pictures or written memories of folks that have passed away, put them up on the metal tree, and see how people respond.<br />
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Here's the tree - my first idea for it anyway. It has to be made out of stuff that we could conceivably truck to the playa and erect there. I found these trusses in my inventory. Originally there were rusty metal, but i'm thinking wood might be better, lighter. The idea is that there is a central trunk - the vertical truss. And the roof trusses are the branches..right now there are 2 of them. My burn buddy Marc, who I made machinima with, thinks he can write a script to let people "touch" the branches and they will rock for a little bit. I'd like that - interactive is cool (so are bow ties and fezzes, but that's another show)<br />
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We've been looking at images of death and funerals and the afterlife...trying to get some ideas for the camp. We may put some of these images around at the burn camp..to get people talking and to sort of seed the idea of leaving memories.<br />
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Here are a couple of coffins from <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=5.55,-0.25&spn=10.0,10.0&q=5.55,-0.25%20(Ghana)&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="Ghana">Ghana</a><br />
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And some other images I found looking around the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.si.edu/" rel="homepage" title="Smithsonian Institution">Smithsonian</a> website<br />
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Here's a sneak peak of a cliffhanger scene in this episode!<br />
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Kim Gregsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09046907490071129982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629734.post-90730042937262013962011-06-13T13:40:00.000-04:002011-06-13T13:40:13.957-04:00scary new hairNot related to machinima or my teaching...I just got a gift of some crazy scary big hair and was moved to take a picture.<br />
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and to share it with you all.<br />
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I bought a plot with my <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinima" rel="wikipedia" title="Machinima">machinima</a> buddy, Marc, on the playa for the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://secondlife.com/" rel="homepage" title="Second Life">SecondLife</a> version of <a href="http://www.burningman.com/">Burning Man</a>. We're also in the lottery to win a couple of additional plots. You can check out their webpage at <a href="http://www.burn2.org/">http://www.burn2.org</a>. The image is from their blog to announce the theme...Rites of Passage.<br />
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Marc & I previously discussed studying memorials in SL - so one idea for our camp is to look at rites of passage involving death. This idea, of course, put new life in the machinima I was making about death of the human behind the avatar. If we can finish it, we hope to show it at our camp. It depends on how the plots are set up...we might not be able to control the media settings, especially on a little plot. It's a good idea tho.<br />
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For me, being in this event is kind of a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rite_of_passage" rel="wikipedia" title="Rite of passage">rite of passage</a>. I've been moving from content consumer to content creator in SL.<br />
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<ul><li>I used to make sculptures for me; now I have a store where I put them up for sale along with houses that I build. I'm learning about communicating in different ways in world.</li>
<li>I used to watch machinima, laughing at the Divas and marveling at the art. Now I'm acting in them, recording voices, and writing and directing. </li>
<li>Last year we visited the camps, watched them burn the man - we went as spectators. This year we will be part of the action. This camp will be something we create. We will make things to give away. We will share the "death machinima" , as we call it. </li>
</ul><div>It's still a long time till the event. We don't even get our plots assigned till the end of August! Arggghhh. We need to decide if we're going to volunteer for one of the departments to help during the event. It depends on our plot idea develops. One involves a lot of updating throughout the day and interacting with the people who walk by - that might cut down on the volunteering.<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">We also discussed making some machinima there at the SL Burning Man. It would be interesting to see what you could record in one take with no editing. Or play around with a news format and have "man on the street" interviews. There will be live performers and street theatre and avatars dressed in their best weird outfits. So a lot of opportunities to shoot and practice editing (for me...Marc is already experienced)</div><div><br />
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A lot of people took part in 4 heats over the weekend. Here are a couple of shots of some entries<br />
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Here are some pictures of my entry:<br />
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Here is the front on view of the piece - a torso on a table with some bones coming out the back, what looks like a spine, and a bits and pieces box. My random sculpty looked like a vertebrae to me..Or a tooth. The name of the piece is Alien Archaeology: Where does this piece go?<br />
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A side view<br />
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An overhead shot<br />
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This is a closeup of one piece - a box of bits and pieces, little bones, teeth that they haven't fit into the skeleton yet.<br />
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