http://www.thoreldrich.com A caffiene filled exploration of virtual spaces. Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:56:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was feeling nostalgic for old SL happenings and remembered the psychodelia dance parties that Clames Clanger and plum Hartnell used to DJ. The stage and accompanying kinetic art would take up most of an entire sim. Most of the objects were textured to display video, so there would be ... http://www.thoreldrich.com/2008/03/03/blast-from-the-past/ Dedric Mauriac is at it again, this time morphing sculpted prims by streaming a series of sculpt maps via the parcel media URL. View his entire post here. This opens up some fun possibilities in animating sculpted prims....talking heads, anyone? What I mean is, if this is video-based morphing it ... http://www.thoreldrich.com/2007/07/11/dedric-mauriac-morphing-sculpties-with-parcel-media/ Someone in a group IM asked about playing video on their land. You can do it, and without spending thousands of lindens on a media player (although they are sweet and extremely worth the price!) I passed around a notecard with quick and dirty instructions, and here it is for ... http://www.thoreldrich.com/2007/05/12/playing-video-in-second-life/ One of my favorite Starax Strotsky works: The Rivals - 2006. Bird of Prey vs. Snake.posted by Thor Eldrich on Kelham using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink] http://www.thoreldrich.com/2007/05/06/starax-is-still-the-king/ If you care about the performance of the Second Life grid please lend your support to Cristiano Midnight's Open Letter to Linden Lab. I'd post a link in-world as well, but ya know...I downloaded a client that doesn't play nice with my fully-within-the-supported-hardware system and therefore cannot login. http://www.thoreldrich.com/2007/04/30/sign-the-open-letter-to-linden-lab/