Virtual Worlds – Page 270

October 10, 2011October 10, 2011

20 Sim Arts Grant For LEA Makes Me Uncomfortable

Via Inara Pey comes news that the Linden Endownment of the Arts have secured a twenty sim deal to promote the arts in Second Life. The actual announcement from the Linden Endownment for the Arts can be read here, it explains the process for artists and curators to be able to apply to get their hands on a sim:

“The Linden Endowment for the Arts (LEA) has negotiated with Linden Labs to make available twenty new regions for the arts in Second Life. Four regions will be reserved for exhibitions curated from LEA sandbox art, and two will be allocated through a land rush. Details will follow on those six regions. Fourteen will be allocated by application. These regions will be awarded to selected artists for a period of five months. After the completion of five months those regions will be transferred to a new set of awardees. Recipients can be considered for a second endowment of five months.”

I’ve already passed the link on to some artists I know, however I haven’t really changed my mind on things like this, I find it uncomfortable.

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October 10, 2011October 10, 2011

No News Is Good News?

I made my way to the Adult Content User Group Meeting tonight, fully expecting to hear who had won the proposal to run the adult gateway on Zindra, I was late to the meeting but missed the announcement, however the winner is …. drum roll please:

Viale Linden: First and foremost … No update on the Welcome proposal. still working on that.

So the announcement will be sometime soon, the whole proposal is odd to me, four residents will be responsible for tier on four individual sims and will get exclusive rights to the Zindra name for their parcels, from what I can workout, this isn’t an ideal solution as those who have a parcel on Zindra, really should be able to mention that in your parcel name.However Linden Lab want the new adult gateway to be found easily, so finding a happy solution was never going to be easy. I can’t think of a better way of giving the welcome hub top billing in search and those who are opposed to this idea really need to come up with a solution about that rather than just saying no.

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October 8, 2011October 10, 2011

AnnMarie OToole Suspended Again

AnnMarie OToole, of controversial automated vehicles fame, has been suspended again, this time for five days, for abuse of sandbox resources. AnnMarie was previously suspended when a bug meant the brakes stopped working on her vehicles and fatal accidents ensued.

AnnMarie has reported on the official forum that she has now had a five day suspension, the thread has been pulled, which is no great susrprise I’m pretty sure there has long been a rule that you can’t post about suspensions on the forum, however this may not be related to the previous suspension, as AnnMarie replied to my query about whether her vehicles had gone awol again:

“I don’t think so, the vehicles are all owned by an alt and she was not suspended. In the past when they ran off the road we both got suspended.”

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October 7, 2011

Rodvik Gives Me A Pony

I was never a child who wanted a pony, I wanted to play for The Villa, be a superhero, fight crime, but a pony wasn’t on my list. So quite a few days I received an inventory offer from Rodvik, I opened it up and found:

This was most surprising! For a start it wasn’t a bear, as is traditional, secondly, it’s not claret and blue, however it is rather cool, so I left it in my workshop.

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October 5, 2011October 5, 2011

Parametric Deformation Project Goes The Private Funding Route

If you don’t know what parametric deformation is, you’re not alone. However to put it bluntly, it’s a way of making Mesh clothing more viable, the technical details can be found on Jira SH-2734 and I still don’t know what this Shining business is all about, complete with “Here’s Johnny” type icon.

There was a bit of a hoo-ha when Linden Lab downgraded this Jira to someday/maybe. However someday/maybe doesn’t mean what some people think it means, as Charlar explains on that Jira:

“The fact that the backlog is called “someday/maybe” means that it’s something we want to do, but can’t commit to a timeframe yet. ”

We’ll come back to Charlar later, however matters have taken a different turn on this issue, one that involves private funding, an ex Linden and development of the snowstorm viewer, as reported by Prim Perfect.

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