by Jon Brouchoud | Nov 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
Come check the new Architecture Islands sandbox! If you’re just getting started, this is a great location to learn the ropes and get to know the building tools. The parcel is set to Auto-Return every 120 minutes, so be careful to save your creations...
by Jon Brouchoud | Nov 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
Sorry for the delay, but here are the parcels currently available on Architecture Islands. Rent is 1.5 lindens per 1 square meter, and is due on the month-date you start renting (if you start renting on the 5th, your rent is due every 5th of the month). Simple...
by Jon Brouchoud | Oct 28, 2008 | Uncategorized
In this podcast, I review some of the reasons I remain so optimistic about the future of virtual worlds, and describe the fundamental characteristics I believe make user-generated 3D worlds a game changing new standard every organization should be exploring –...
by Jon Brouchoud | Oct 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
New Wikitecture Project Kick-off event: October 23nd at 5:00pm Pacific (SL-time) With so many universities and academic institutions from around the world using virtual environments like Second Life for teaching and research, many have started to wonder what, exactly...
by Jon Brouchoud | Oct 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
From Dakota Dreamscape: Welcome to the Dakota Skies Cultural Center ~~Chaplet Design Competition Theme: A Spiritual Respite Interpretation of theme is at the designer’s discretion but must be respectful and meditative. Contemplative but not religious. For a...
by Jon Brouchoud | Oct 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
Be2camp is free to register and free to attend , and will be starting in just a few hours! This will be a BarCamp style ‘Unconference’ to promote the use of Web 2.0 technologies in the Built Environment (eg Architecture, Construction, Engineering,...
by Jon Brouchoud | Sep 13, 2008 | Uncategorized
Nicolas Schoffer Gallery Opening in Second Life, Saturday, September 13, 2008. More info HERE. Slurl HERE. “Like most pioneers, when the young 24 year old Hungarian painter Nicolas Schöffer went to Paris in 1936, it’s not likely that he could have imagined he...
by Jon Brouchoud | Sep 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
This video is now officially my favorite Second Life machinima of all time (not just because they mention Wikitecture 😉 Their use of hybrid machinima is incredibly well done, and the way they portray the architectural possibilities of virtual space is very inspiring;...
by Jon Brouchoud | Sep 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
Interest in the upcoming Be2Camp on October 10th is growing rapidly, and I would highly recommend joining the community HERE to be informed of future updates on the agenda as it emerges. Even if you can’t make it to London, we are hoping to stream some of the...
by Jon Brouchoud | Aug 27, 2008 | Uncategorized
Here we have Lebbeus Woods, who “continues to work at a small drafting table in a corner of his apartment here, a solitary, monklike figure churning out increasingly abstract architectural fantasies…” Would someone please get this man a Second Life...
