" It's a wonderful Second Life: Breathe 2"

Digital Life on FRONTLINE

Great PBS program that covers the good, the bad, and the ugly of 3-D online immersive worlds including Second Life. Loved it! Fair warning! It's 90 minutes long, but imho very worth the time. http://bit.ly/aajKyW

P.S.

SOOOOO many places to keep up! Best place to find me online is still in Second Life as Tredi Felisimo where I at least check in once or twice a day and attend my favorite discussions and live music performances. Till soon.

Works in progress

Just in case you're peeking... I'm just weeks from my PhD dissertation first submission deadline so am ignoring the many accounts/blogs/sites that seek my attention including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and yes, three blogs. Hoping that by March, 2010 you'll be able to find me again, posting like a mad woman! Be well!

Ten videos relevent to my research

Check these out:
1. Transformed social interaction in immersive virtual reality: Stanford University
http://vhil.stanford.edu/mm/2008/tsi-metaverse.html
2. Machinima – Inspire Space. Just one example of the visual/audio creative potential expressed in Second Life:

3. I’m a PC and I’m 4 and a half - a peek at our future students!:

4. Social tour of the metaverse:

5. The T-mobile dance: The power of cell phones and the creative mind:

6. Xander Nichting: A friend made in Second Life and in enriched in real life:

7. Shift happens - Buckle up! These stats may blow your mind:

8. Vision of students today:

9. TED: How the brain processes information:

10. The last lecture - What a gift he was. Such a worthy investment of time to watch!:

David Byrne from UbuWeb

In "Foundations of Digital Culture," we were asked to explore UbuWeb at www.ubu.com and write a review of one of the videos. The film and video archive on UbuWeb is remarkable and features some of history's most avante-garde film artists from the earliest years of film and video as well as today's geniuses. After looking at several of the links available on the film/video link, I settled on one of my favorite creators in the music, film, and digital culture David Byrne, known by many for his work as founder and songwriter with the Talking Heads. Byrne has been an innovator in music, theater, dance, and in digital distribution of creative works. For example, www.davidbyrne.com/radio offers a live stream of alternative music on the free download live365 player. Byrne's website links to radio, music, art and books, film and theater, sound and video, stuff to buy (of course), and additional links. He has also been an advocate of Creative Commons. In 2006, fans were "able to legally remix and share their own personal versions of two songs from David Byrne and Brian Eno’s groundbreaking album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. The interactive forum bush-of-ghosts.com has been developed to celebrate the reissue of the album 25 years after its original release" (www.creativecommons.org).

What I found particularly interesting about the UbuWeb video was that it incorporates nearly all media forms. The video is shot in an art gallery as he reads a magazine, discussing movies while a digital music bed builds with the pace of his reading, and literally -- his pace -- as he is ultimately running! Watch the video and experience the amazing David Byrne.

Meet my avatar, Tredi Felisimo

Floating through space at Inspire Space Park in Second Life, as only one can do in Second Life!