Tag Archives: Virtual Worlds

SL on TV

By alex | Published: 3/27/2007
The media has discovered Second Life in a big way. So, I’m chatting with people about it. Here is an article in the New Haven Register (but I do have land!), and below is a piece for the local NBC affiliate. Camera adds 100 pounds, as they say. Oh, wait, they don’t say that?
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Sketchuping, part 1

By alex | Published: 3/17/2007
Playing with Sketchup and Google Earth this semester. Here’s an attempt to put together a model of a fairly complicated building on campus. It’s probably not the best way to do it, since I’m new to the program, but it works. Also, somehow in one of the transcodings all my blues went to greens, which […]
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On Second Life and Presence

By alex | Published: 2/3/2007
I have only marginally been keeping track of some of the discussions over the “importance” of Second Life. Frankly, I’m not sure it’s time to get too meta. It may be enough to say: there are interesting things going on, it is changing rapidly, you would be stupid to miss the good stuff by not […]
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Cosi

By alex | Published: 11/17/2006
Went to see City Opera’s Cosi fan tutte tonight (you know, the version without Natalie Portman). The 85 year-old Rudel, the original director of the NYC Opera, has returned to direct a short run of the familiar opera, and the house was packed. We had a great pair of seats, with thanks to the anonymous […]
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