Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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In heaven, everything is fine. You got yours and I got mine… Click here to visit. That's right: The David Lynch fan group in Second Life that I wrote about last month has gone ahead and opened up a whole dedicated sim devoted to Lynch's imagination and tributes to scenes and characters from his most…
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BREAKING: Tempura Restored to Second Life As a Preservation Sim After Belated Outreach by Linden Lab
Just received this fairly excellent message: Dear Tempura island friends, lovers, visitors: We would like to inform you, that after our decision to close Tempura, we were contacted by Linden Lab and made the decision to accept maintenance of our region by joining The Second Life Region Preservation Society provided by Linden Lab. We have…
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Click here this month to teleport into yet another Second Life landmark that's going away: The luminously beautiful island called Tempura, which since its inception 14 years ago, has attracted well over 2 millions visits. It is, however, leaving the virtual world grid at the end of this month. Owned and lead created by Japanese…
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Click here to teleport to the location, where I still hold a small parcel of land in Waterhead. And yes, this shrine to Snow Crash was created in 2006 with the approval of Neal Stephenson himself, brought in-world by a metaverse marketing agency at the behest of Penguin, Stephenson's publisher. Many copies were meant to…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting SuTol’s picture of the sim “Wo Qui Non Coin” [teleport here] just grabbed me. As beautiful as the bucolic sims are, I am always entranced by sims that capture the frenetic energy of a city. She includes a link to a song…
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Click here to visit Rosemont District – Nirvanic Dystopia in Second Life, a cyberpunk city with a fun twist. Created by master builder Kaiden Tray (last seen here turning the Bates Motel from Psycho into a disturbingly beautiful SL experience), it's a fun twist to the usual dystopian metropolis: Basically it's what the city looks…
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Click here to teleport to what seems like a six floor apartment complex, but actually houses a pretty ambitious group art project called Ed. Colonia: The idea behind Ed. Colonia was exploring further the format of group exhibitions, preserving each artist’s individuality as we occupy a common space. No theme has been suggested, since the…
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This week's banner features a photo from last Thursday's post on Maasya featuring the recent Okinawa SAKURA MATSURI Event, set on a sim made to look like a modern cityscape on that island prefecture of Japan, and impressively detailed at that. Click here to teleport. Submit your own favorite virtual world locations for featuring on…
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This week's banner above was featured in my recent post on BluShock, a group of dedicated Mass Effect roleplay fans who have created an entire experience in Second Life inspired by their favorite game. Sample: “It's our largest and most ambitious/compact base of operations yet,” BluShock leader Fazzy Constantine (above) tells me. “We have over…
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Click here to visit something fairly amazing in Second Life: A massive roleplay game world inspired by Mass Effect. It’s the creation of BluShock, a fan community that’s been creating entire worlds and experiences in Second Life based on the videogame franchise for over a decade. I recently made a small visit to the asteroid…
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