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UWA Art: March winners and a three-year continuation
The University of Western Australia continues its 3D Art and Design Challenge, announcing the March winners. All those details are replicated in full below thanks to the indefatigable Jayjay Zifanwe...
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ME/CFS Awareness Art Exhibition
In late March we profiled some work being done by Australians in regards to Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). That work has continued, with the launch of an art exhibition...
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UWA Art Competition: April Winners
The relentless creative behemoth that is the University of Western Australia’s 3D Art & Design Challenge continues its journey, with another large number of entries and interesting judging results....
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Susa Bubble: saving the art from censorship
You may have seen a story on New World Notes today about the removal of an installation from the 7th birthday celebrations for Second Life. First, some context. The installation is titled Susa Bubble,...
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UWA’s art challenge completes final heat: final on the way
The University of Western Australia have just wrapped up the last heat of their 3D Art & Design Challenge (full info below), and once again the depth and breadth of the work being displayed is...
View ArticleAvatar Repertory Theatre’s Oedipus Rex
Second Life’s Avatar Repertory Theatre (ART) has a few shows under their belt now, including Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Their latest is Oedipus Rex (Oedipus The King) by Sophocles. During October...
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The Caerleon Museum of Identity
I missed this announcement a few days back, but it’s far from too late to check out this exhibition. Featuring 18 artists, the goal of the installation is emphatic: Georg Janick’s six Theses on the Art...
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UWA 3D Art & Design Challenge Grand Final: a triumph
Over the past year, one of the most extensive and impressive virtual world art projects has been undertaken. I’ve written about it repeatedly here, for three reasons. First, it’s an Australian...
View ArticleFlickr Gettr and Second Life
Draxtor Despres has created a machinima on a great Second Life installation that takes the Gettr functionality on Flickr and merges it into an underwater Second Life installation. Have a look for...
View ArticleBallet in Second Life: Archidance
I’m an absolute heathen when it comes to dance, particularly ballet. That said, I was pretty impressed with this short piece of machinima. Ignoring the artistic merits, I hadn’t thought of what a...
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Grand Finale: UWA 3D Open Art Challenge
Once again the University of Western Australia’s Second Life presence has pulled off a brilliant Art Challenge, and for the second year in a row I’ve had the privilege of being a judge. This year there...
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Linden Lab acquires experimental game studio LittleTextPeople
Spotted this little snippet on Gamasutra: Second Life developer Linden Lab has acquired the experimental game studio LittleTextPeople, which specializes in exploring the emotional possibilities of...
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Are Muslims Trying To Ban Christmas Lights?
Ahhh it’s nearly Xmas, the time where the level of ignorant sharing of false information hits new highs. Here’s one of the latest examples, claiming a council in Cairns has agreed to ban Christmas...
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An Old Man Gets His Health Checked
An 85-year-old man was requested by his doctor for a sperm count as part of his physical exam. The doctor gave the man a jar and said, “Take this jar home and bring back a semen sample tomorrow.” The...
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Hell explained by a chemistry student
The following is an actual question given on a University of Arizona chemistry mid term, and an actual answer turned in by a student. The answer by one student was so ‘profound’ that the professor...
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Mac Pro Australian Pricing Announced
The Mac Pro is now a reality and for those in Australia, Apple have just announced the pricing: The Mac Pro is available with a 3.7 GHz quad-core Intel Xeon E5 processor with Turbo Boost speeds up to...
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Old Man Syndrome
Two medical students were walking along the street when they saw an old man walking with his legs spread apart. He was stiff-legged and walking slowly. One student said to his friend: “I’m sure that...
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Condoms and smoking
Lady 1: What’s that? Lady 2: A condom. This way my cigarette doesn’t get wet. Lady 1: Where did you get it? Lady 2: You can get them at any drugstore. The next day…Lady 1 hobbles herself into the local...
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Second Life: What Makes Us Human Competition
The dynamos at Uni of Western Australia have launched another great competition for content creators in Second Life. Having had the pleasure of judging some of UWA’s great art / sculpture competitions...
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A Good Catholic Joke
An old nun who was living in a convent next to a construction site noticed the coarse language of the workers and decided to spend some time with them to correct their ways. She decided she would take...
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