Via Media Bistro comes word (Link) that cyberpunk author William Gibson intends to rez inside Second Life as part of a marketing effort to promote his latest book, Spook Country. From the Media Bistro post:
Over the next few weeks, reports Penguin Digital publisher Jeremy Ettlinghausen, Penguin is planning a range of William Gibson activities in Second Life: screening his “fine and strange movie” No Maps for These Territories; Continue reading
There is, apparently, an ever-increasing interest in all things Steampunk. I’ll confess my own affection for the stuff, but I’ve had an interest in such things since reading Jules Verne stories in grade school. Continue reading
Via The Online Universities website comes word (Link) that The Art Institute Online has established a presence inside Second Life. No surprise here. But also no surprise is that so many other art schools have failed to establish a presence. This is especially odd considering the recruiting possibilities in a virtual space where there is so much emphasis on content creation.
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I caught an entry over on Virtual World News (Link) calling attention to a clip on C|Net (Link) that smacked of public relations bull. From the short write-up on VWN:
MTV announced its dedication to the idea of One Avatar, One World in Jeff Yapp’s presentation at the Under the Radar Conference.
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As Yapp said, “We have fairly ambitious plans. We believe in one avatar, one world, the ability to take your avatar, your personality, that three-dimensional representation of who you are any where you want to go.”
Earlier today I received an email from Zoe over at Commonwealth. Recall that I’d previously mentioned their latest show, Tropism: Commonwealth vs. Joshua Davis, in a related post (reLink). For images of the show, you can surf over to their online gallery (Link), but in addition, for anyone interested in limited batch production techniques and the way they were using modern rapid-prototyping tools to assist in the production of their pieces, here’s something Zoe passed along that’s well worth reading (I’ll dispense with the blockquote tags):