around | Melt. an installation on thin ice.

“If the world were clear, art would not exist.”
-Jorge Luis Borges
Artists absorb the world around them. Their environments, that which they can feel and touch and see – and that which they can’t. Sometimes that which they can only dream of. They absorb it and translate it into a language that affects us [...]

viewer | Snowglobe 2.0

The regular viewer wasn’t the only one getting a facelift. Snowglobe also has a 2.0 version:

 
This version of Snowglobe is available in the wiki: Snowglobe – Second Life Wiki

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viewer | Second Life 2.0

Welcome to a modern version of your Second Life®:

 
You can downloaded the Second Life 2.0 Beta directly from the Second Life website.
 
Further reading:

Second Life® official blog :: Second Life Viewer 2 Beta, Now Available
Building 43 :: Second Life launches new innovative browser
New World Notes :: Robert Scoble Interviews Linden CEO Mark Kingdon About the Second [...]

around | Linden homes: Elderglen

Continuing the visits to the Linden homes sims (or should I wrote infohubs…?), today I visited Elderglen. The 4 sims are themed which means that the whole sim where the new Premium members are going to live are beautiful themed mainland sims (instead of the usual mainland ugliness).
Elderglen remind me of Lord of the Rings [...]

around | Linden homes: Shareta Osumai

Today’s subject was the just launched Linden homes and I watched lots of grown-ups in plurk playing houses and others curious about it and, like everyone else, I jumped on the bandwagon and went to see the houses.
Today I visited Shareta Osumai

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around | Ciudad de Mexico

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around | Arkham

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Snowglobe viewer 1.3

 
I have been preaching about Snowglobe viewer qualities for the past 6 months and in my fashion posts I always include the information about the viewer used and lately it has been no other than Snowglobe. I have been using the test builds and I have been having a very good SL experience. In my [...]

interview | Namssor Daguerre and a (second) life of creating skins

We’re so used to take things for granted in Second Life® that we often forget how crude and primitive the whole environment was, just a few years ago. It’s not only that Second Life was less stable and had less features and glitches; the whole content was more primitive, too.
These days, even newbies join SL [...]

Avatars United

A few days ago, Linden Lab acquire Avatars United and since then this has been the new SL hype. Everyday, more and more people create accounts there and find my old account. I joined in June 2008 when I discovered about this network… perhaps I read about it in twitter. I really can’t recall and [...]