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Designing Worlds DW 247 Dutchie's New Home
Added 253 Views / 2 LikesOn Demand In advance of the upcoming Home & Garden Expo, this episode we visit a new house designed and furnished by Froukje Hoorenbeeke of Dutchie, who is one of Second Life’s leading designers. Built in a traditional Dutch style, the house is
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Designing Worlds DW 245 - Japan's New Residents
Added 605 Views / 2 LikesOn Demand In recent episodes we've discussed what can be done to help improve the initial experience for new Second Life residents. What kind of support is needed? What kind of places should they start at? What kind of training should be offered? In this
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Designing Worlds DW 244 Casa
Added 2,296 Views / 3 LikesDesigning Worlds DW 244 Casa Casa is a new venture by designers Kærri Rae of Kærri, and Reven Rosca of Prime, which opens on August 1st, 2014. The idea is to offer exclusive home furnishings and design -- including limited editions, unique one
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Designing Worldsde Extra: Ebbe & Pete Linden at the Non-Profit Commons - 25th July 2014
Added 227 Views / 2 LikesOn Demand Rhiannon Chatnoir hosts a discussion with Linden Lab's CEO Ebbe Altberg, discussing issues relating to non-profits in Second Life.
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Designing Worlds DW 243 - Second Life and Beyond Part II
Added 857 Views / 1 LikesOn Demand In this episode, we continue the discussion begun last week around Linden Lab's announcement that they are working on a second-generation virtual world, focusing on the social rather than the technical questions surrounding the idea of communiti
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Designing Worlds DW 242 - Second Life Beyond Part I
Added 932 Views / 3 LikesOn Demand The buzz among Second Life residents for the last while has been the announcement that Linden Lab is developing a next-generation virtual world – though it won't even be in Alpha for a year or two. At the same time, they have committed the
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Designing Worlds DW 241 - Second Life 11th Birthday Community Celebration Part II
Added 185 Views / 2 LikesOn Demand In this, Designing Worlds' second visit to the 2014 Second Life 11th Birthday Community Celebrations, Saffia and Elrik visit several of the builds and talk to their creators, including the Welcome Area; take a trip in a shape-shifting pod car; a
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Designing Worlds DW 240 - Second Life 11th Birthday Community Celebration Part I
Added 229 Views / 0 LikesOn Demand In this episode, Saffia and Elrik pay the first of two visits to the Second Life Eleventh Birthday Community Celebration - always a showcase for the most fabulous and innovative virtual building designs and exhibits. This week, we focus primaril
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Designing Worlds DW 239 - Flotsam and the Undersea World
Added 212 Views / 3 LikesOn Demand Saffia and Elrik continue their travels around the Blake Deeps and surrounding marine areas in Second Life, as they discover more of the marvellous, often tongue-in-cheek creations of Aley, visiting the remarkable pirate city of Flotsam with its
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DW336 LEA Planets segment
Added 6 Views / 0 LikesThanks to Elrik Merlin for providing this clip. See the entire episode at https://www.slartist.com/designing-worlds-dw336-lea-installations_07c442020.html
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Designing Worlds DW 238 – Fanci’s Deep and the Safe Waters Foundation
Added 356 Views / 2 LikesOn Demand In this, the first of two episodes on Fanci's Deep, the Blake Deeps and the nearby regions of the Blake Sea in Second Life, Saffia and Elrik pay tribute to the memory of Fanci Beebe-Leavitt and discover her legacy: an undersea world for the Mer
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Designing Worlds DW 237 - Metaverstas
Added 264 Views / 1 LikesVideo On Demand Designing Worlds is always interested in the educational applications of immersive virtual environments, and this week we visit some of the projects created by Finnish design group Metaverstas (the name alludes neatly both to the Metaverse
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Designing Worlds DW 236 - Firestorm Viewer
Added 212 Views / 2 LikesPopular throughout Second Life and Open Sim, the Firestorm Viewer is a masterpiece of development. But its reputation is based as much on its support and its community as it is on its code. We visit Firestorm's in-world HQ and talk about the product and t
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Designing Worlds DW 235 - Raglan Shire Art Walk
Added 244 Views / 1 LikesSaffia and Elrik visit Raglan Shire, the home of the Tinies, to experience this year's Art Walk - an extensive, multi-region annual art show including both 2D and 3D works. Take a ride on the Hedgepillar and experience close-up some amazing installations
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Designing Worlds DW234 Second Life Retention
Added 201 Views / 1 LikesStudio discussion: Saffia and Elrik talk to Brooke and DaveR Linden and virtual world bloggers Jo Yardley of the 1920s Berlin Project and Carl Metropolitan of Caledon Oxbridge about the difficulties of retaining new visitors to Second Life and helping the
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Designing Worlds DW233 - Fantasy Faire 2014 Part 2
Added 213 Views / 1 LikesFollowing on from last week's episode (DW232), this week we pay our second visit to Fantasy Faire 2014, one of the biggest fund-raisers in Second Life for the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life in the run-up to the RFL weekend itself. This week we t
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Designing Worlds Episode 231 - Dirk Talamasca Remembered
Added 436 Views / 2 LikesOn Demand A very special show indeed. We pay tribute to Dirk Talamasca — Second Life citizen from the earliest days, mentor, grid activist, and wit – who died recently. This version supersedes the original version and includes some minor chang
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Designing Worlds DW232 Fantasy Faire 2014 Pt. 1
Added 257 Views / 2 LikesSaffia Widdershins and Elrik Merlin meet some of the people behind this year's Fantasy Faire - one of the major fundraisers held from May 1--11 in the virtual world of Second Life to benefit the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life of Second Life, as
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Designing Worlds DW 230 K R Engineering
Added 375 Views / 2 LikesDesigning Worlds DW 230 K R Engineering Designing Worlds gets a little Greedy ...In fact we get a little Greedy Greedy in today's show as we explore the world of tabletop gaming in Second Life!
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Designing Worlds DW229 LEA Linden Endowment for the Arts
Added 200 Views / 3 LikesOn Demand Saffia and Elrik visit the Linden Endowment for the Arts (LEA) regions and talk to some of the committee members, volunteers and above all the artists who together make this one of the most vibrantly creative environments around. We see some of