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Skydiving!

HA! What fun. Definitely something that I would not do in real life. There is a bit of a story behind my latest adventure of skydiving with new found friend Audio Zenith. I recently posted to the SLED listserve a bit of a formal blurb about the grad student group. Audio and another responded that they would prefer more informal conversations in SL which is fine by me but I think that some structure and...

Learning – the public NMC SL Campus

I was hard at work tracking down a speaker for our grad student meeting Wednesday when I got an IM from my friend Noir asking about the public NMC campus space. I had heard on the SLED listserve that there was going to be a public campus but I did not think it had officially launched. I went on the SL Observer and there was nothing (poor CDB is still the lone writer – I need to contribute soon!). I checked...

Lighting in SL

Update on photography in Second Life – the best lighting is Sunrise but you have to be facing East (the sun) to avoid harsh shadows on your...

Photography in Second Life

Anyone in RL who knows me also knows that I love photography. For a short time I worked for my family’s photography studio and photographed hundreds of highschool seniors. Even though I decided to leave the photography profession it is still something that I love to explore as a hobby. Recently I had the pleasure of being photographed by Anya and decided to experiment with creating...

Gotta Have My Flickr

Sconset Beach, originally uploaded by dmirliss. Flickr has recently received a lot of bad press in the Second Life community lately (see cogdogblog) because of their policy against images that do not fall into the strictest definition of a photograph. Putting this argument aside (if you look into my account I have close to 100 SL images myself), I am absolutely loving my flickr account. It might be the fact...
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