by Jon Brouchoud | Dec 9, 2007 | Uncategorized
Here is a transcript of Friday’s Wikitecture meeting on Friday (link), and here is a slideshow (link). The in-world 3D wiki portion of the open source architecture project is advancing nicely, as is the web forum. We have collaboratively assembled a significant...
by Jon Brouchoud | Dec 5, 2007 | Uncategorized
The University of Texas and a community in East Austin recently announced an exciting collaboration in Second Life. The Alley Flat Initiative <http://thealleyflatinitiative.org/> is a real-world project that combines cutting-edge architectural designs,...
by Jon Brouchoud | Dec 5, 2007 | Uncategorized
The Architecture Islands of Second Life have seen no shortage of humanitarian aid projects this year! First we built the Porchdog (machinima) for Cameron Sinclair’s Second Life appearance. Then, the Wikitecture group started work on a telemedical center for a...
by Jon Brouchoud | Dec 4, 2007 | Uncategorized
submitted by ‘The Tracer’ “So I began to think about Gehry and his ideas of form and beauty as it pertains to space. The ideas behind his aesthetics are unmatched, but the functionality of his builds in RL are somewhat unsuccessful. Therefore, in no...
by Jon Brouchoud | Nov 30, 2007 | Uncategorized
Check out this brilliant machinima piece, describing the EX.IT project I posted last week. [youtube = http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=GkOnED0AxNs] I think the choice of soundtrack is perfect – with the urban sounds of cars honking every so often – with rain...
by Jon Brouchoud | Nov 28, 2007 | Uncategorized
Join us for Remixing Catalhoyuk Day, a public program sponsored by OKAPI and the Berkeley Archaeologists at Catalhoyuk. Visit OKAPI Island in the 3-D virtual environment of Second Life and explore the past and present of Catalhoyuk, a 9000-year-old village located in...
by Jon Brouchoud | Nov 20, 2007 | Uncategorized
Congrats to Maximilian Milosz – his faithful replication of the Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe shows up on Second Life’s home page! It doesn’t come up every time – you might have to hit refresh a few times to cycle to it. ...
by Jon Brouchoud | Nov 19, 2007 | Uncategorized
Looking for cheap land to rent for your next architecture-related project? Architecture Islands now has 2 parcels available at 1.5 lindens per 1 square meter per month. Both are about 5,000 sqm parcels. These parcels own’t last long, so send me an IM –...
by Jon Brouchoud | Nov 18, 2007 | Uncategorized
and Second Life looks better than ever. Download the new FirstLook viewer HERE.
