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 » »
NMC Campus Calendar :
Mar 9, 2009 04:18am
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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NMC Campus Calendar :
Mar 9, 2009 04:09am
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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