Some pics of other people’s builds at the NPIRL Garden Of Earthly Delights.
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More From The Garden Of Earthly Delights
The Garden Of Earthly Delights - It’s Hell Down There
The Not Possible In Real Life & Rezzable Garden Of Earthly Delights exhibition is now officially open, so it’s time to post some pics of my build. I’ve used three 100m spheres to create three seperate self-contained environments for Heaven, Earth and Hell.
My build is probably a little closer to Bosch’s original vision than most of the builds, mostly because I took inspiration and actually started work on many of the individual elements of it many months ago.
Heaven has God’s office and God’s bed (never heard of the Big Bang?), Earth is full of fleshly delights, and in Hell you can sell your soul to the Devil for L$1,000,000.
There’s lots of things to click on, all over the place, so give it a try.
Visit my build here…..
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rezzable%20Create/101/127/586/
And here’s the SLURL to the official start of the tour - don’t forget to pick up a HUD for the tour, and if you want to sign the guestbooks that you’ll find around the builds you’ll need to register at the white sign you’ll find there first…..
http://slurl.com/secondlife/the%20Dump%20Rezzable/27/149/26/
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Heaven….
Earth…..
Hell…..
Exhibition Spaces & Virtual Worlds
There’s an interesting interview with gallery curator Hans Ulrich Obrist over at Edge.org, in which he talks about the future for art exhibition spaces. He never actually mentions Second Life, but I found myself reading it and mentally inserting the phrase at the appropriate points. I’m sure you will do too.
Here’s a couple of quotes to whet your appetite…..
“These are exhibitions which are not material, but which are more virtual, virtual in the sense of them always being able to be reactualized. They can be revisited and reactualized and updated, and they are also not related to a place. The exhibition can go to where the viewer is. Anybody in the world can download these formulas and pin them on the wall, or they can do their own and trigger their own formulas. We are in the very early days of understanding how the Internet can be used for exhibitions.”
“Exhibitions can push the radical, experimental solutions because they are not permanent. I think that is why very often exhibitions are an interesting “laboratory” for architecture. It is not by coincidence that pavilions and exhibition designs were the contexts for a lot of inventions in architecture, because it is not the rigid thing of a permanent structure, but an ephemeral structure where an architect can really play, and can experiment. “
Read the full article & watch the video at……
http://www.edge.org:80/documents/archive/edge244.html
No More Big Prim Creating - Santa Is A Thief!
As I write this Linden Labs are closing down the abilty to create new big prims with new code in a server reboot. They say they’re going to re-implement them with new code that’ll be able to detect if a giant prim is overhanging your property (even though the centre of it is on the next door property) and returning the prim to your inventory.
How long will this take? We don’t know but probably some months.
It’s like Santa came back and took all your new toys away the day after Christmas. Boo Hoo!
Create Your Own Giant Prims
I’ve just my very first giant prim - just a 20×20m thing as an experiment (but I’ve used it in a real build - photos coming soon).
All done courtesy of the latest build of the Nicholaz viewer ( thanks to Archer Mokeev for the info). If you want to make your own then download the Nicholaz viewer and follow the (fairly) simple instructions….
http://nicholaz-beresford.blogspot.com/2008/05/release-eye-candy-ec-f.html.
More New Big Prims
Many thanks to Day Oh - I made a suggestion asking for more giant prims in the shape of spheres/cubes (rather than the flat 0.5m giant prims he’d already made available SLExchange), and in just a few a few hours I was pleasantly surprised to find he’d dropped a bunch into my inventory. They’re sized in powers of 2 (16m cubed, 32m, 64m etc) and multiples of 5 (15m, 20m, 25m etc).
They were neatly packed up into a box, except for a 512 metre sphere which I thought was an unpackable box, but which turned out to be just the big prim. I’d set out two of them at the NPIRL/Rezzable Garden of Earthly Delights exhibition where I was working at the time and was wondering why I couldn’t see the boxes to unpack. It took me a few minutes to work out what had happened, so my apologies to any of the other builders in nearby sims who must have wondered what was going on when a giant plywood prim stopped their view of the world. Oops!
Day Oh hasn’t made them available via SLExchange yet, so I’m not going to, but thanks once again, for doing a favour for a complete stranger.
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Update - just noticed after posting that there are now more new mega prims available - this time from Zwagoth Klaar - available for $0 from slexchsange………
http://uncensored.slexchange.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=686175
Now if only Second Life wasn’t borked again I’d actually be able to buy some and use them! Sigh.
Giant Prims Just Got More Interesting!
Just a quick note to say that big prims have been liberated from their previous constraints - though I don’t know how to do it yet!
See them at SLExchange - created by the amusingly named Day Oh……
http://slexchange.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=685589
Windlight Ruined My Stupa!
Another reason for not liking windlight. My Buddhist style stupa, carefully crafted over many hours of work has been ruined. The stupa contains lights that used to change the color of the prims that the lights were in, to create some rather nice color change effects (see pic on the left below).
And now all that has gone as windlight has changed the way that lights illuminate the prims. What was previously rather subtlecolor change effects using lights and shiny has disappeared entirely, leaving just the basic shiny with no color change at all.
Not happy!
You Suck At Photoshop - Laugh & Learn
Just found these by accident while looking for something else - Learn how to use Photoshop from Donnie Hoyle while his life explodes around him, his wife leaves him, his job turns to crud and his hopes disappear down the pan. Hilarious and informative stuff.
Watch the full series here….
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=You+Suck+at+Photoshop&search_type=
Export Your Second Life Objects To The Real World & Make Them Out Of Paper
This gave me a little chuckle - a way to export your favorite objects out of Second Life, and turn them into 3d paper models - worth a read, though I don’t know that I’ve got the energy for fiddling about making a paper donut, - it’d be far less trouble to make a real one - and tastier too. Content copyright worriers start shouting now…..
http://exporttoworld.plugimi.com/index.php?/how-to-export/
