This week #2 of 7:
Dousing the Flames: Public Diplomacy in Action Speaker: Dana Shell Smith - United States
Date & Time: March 25 2009 - 4:30-6:00 PT (7:30pm ET)
Location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/56/150/26
For Questions or TP help: Firery Broome
This is a live simulcast, questions will be taken from the SL audience.
A career member of the U.S. Foreign Service since [...]
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CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Mar 9, 2009 08:51am
Our friend from NMC, Flithy Fluno, has just been covered in a 5 (web) page spread in the New York Times, see Portrait of an Artist as an Avatar.
Filthy Fluno was born into Second Life on May 20, 2006, created — or in game parlance, “rezzed†— by his human counterpart, a Boston-area artist named Jeffrey Lipsky, who says he designed Filthy as an “urban prophet/vampire figure†who is “impossibly short, impossibly thick and with impossibly big hair.â€Lipsky is 37, ... more » »
Chie Sakakibara - will present the lecture “Kiavallakkikput Agviq-Cultural Responses to Climate Change among the Iñupiaq People of Arctic Alaska.â€
This is a live simulcast, questions will be taken from the SL audience.
When: Friday, March 20, at 12:30 SLT (3:30 p.m. ET)
Where: University of Delaware’s Island
http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/136/97/24
The Iñupiaq people of Alaska live in the northernmost regions of [...]
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Global Agenda 2009-Tinderbox-Understanding The Middle East
March 11 2009 4:30-6:00 PT (7:30 ET)
This Week: Understanding the Conflict: Speaker Rami Khouri-LebanonÂ
Location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/56/150/26Â
Rami is a Palestinian-Jordanian and US citizen whose family resides in Beirut, Amman, and Nazareth.
He is the Director of the Issam Fares Institutes of Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut as [...]
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What is a Flickr Gettr you ask?
In my words:
The Flickr Gettr is a beautiful creation of collaborative art with pictures forming on different planes and levels. Full immersion inside the installation allows you to experience the total concept, the musical background is mesmerizing. Interactive art, such as this is the new art, it is virtual [...]
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CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Mar 8, 2009 03:52pm
Last week we caught up Vee Kuhn (amazingly enough known as Vee or Virginia Kuhn in real life!) who had just wrapped up running some sessions of the Computers and Writing Online Conference that were held in the NMC Conference Center. We chatted about the benefits and challenges of conferences in this virtual world space.
Interview with Vee Kuhn (15.9 Mb mp3, 17:20)
Vee, a professor in the USC Cinematic Arts program, is also associate with the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at ... more » »
Check out the 3D tools and interface the man in this movie uses to build with!
World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.
Filmmaker Bruce Branit uses this environment to tell a touching short story.
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