Today, I ate tacos…on a beach…by myself…with no phone. Today was perfect 😌
— KATY PERRY (@katyperry) May 20, 2015
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Ryan
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Vanessa
## Trends 2030 Here We Come https vimeo…
Trends 2030 Here We Come!
Trendwatcher Richard van Hooijdonk looks to the future. Thanks to new techniques and the possibility to combine any number of options, we are sitting on the forefront of great changes. Changes that will take place in the fields of economy, work, society, technology, media, marketing, entrepreneurship and science. “Singularity” ensures that all our problems will melt away. Not to mention 4D printing, Internet of Things, Sensors, Big Data, Google Glass and cognitive computer chips that think like we think, foresee what we need. How many years until everyone has their own robot or drone? “Newism” is the frantic beating heart of the online world; hyper-competition, globalization and super consumerism. Can you handle it? Because it’s coming! Major trends are coming your way.
More info about this inspiration session
English: http://en.richardvanhooijdonk.com
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Ryan
NEW CLASS!
Media Archaeology 11 – Working With Other People’s Photos
Date & Time: Friday 22 May 6:30-7:30pm & Saturday 23 May 10:30 – 11:30am (Same content both days. Pick whichever is most convenient)
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Ryan
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Oona
Pulls herself away from the new Taylor Swift video for a second – is this story telling via URL address?
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veyot
On Tuesday, May 26, at 11 AM, I would like to lead a photography trip to visit Mistero Hifeng’s artworks on two sims, LEA 29, and Blossomland. When we inquired about taking a trip there, he offered to answer questions about his work, but he speaks Italian, and would prefer to have questions on a notecard so that he could translate easier. I will post another notice about this trip, but today, I am looking for questions! If you had a chance to interview an artist who builds beautiful mesh statues, what would you ask?
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Neeva
I would ask how they handle LOD issues so their beautiful works don’t collapse into ugly shapes when you back up from them. I’d ask them a thousand other techy, nerdy questions till they chased me away with a rake.
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Newton
That’s a great question Neeva. “When building mesh objects, what are your best practices for catering to users’ different LOD settings?”
For Mistero:
What are your favorite building tools?
What are your favorite training tools?
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Elle
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veyot
Thanks for helping me prepare the questions! I sent them to Mistero and he has answered quickly and thoughtfully.
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Vanessa
Ian McEwan talks about Free Speech in his 2015 Commencement Speech at Dickinson College
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Izzy
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Izzy
New Collaborations from Pearl & Friends
Just like the Internet itself, at MU, Collaboration Rules! And no one’s doing it better than Pearl’s Story Board series.
In her new Man, Woman and Dog project, Oona, Elle, Paypabak, Veyot, and Neeva all offer their vision inspired by Pearl’s image series.
http://mediciuniversity.co.uk/creativity/man-woman-and-dog-story-board-collaboration/
You guys are so awesome!
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Pearl Grey
This isn’t the newest collaboration; it’s the first one of four that I’ve done. I’ve been posting them to my MU journal blog. It’s come to my attention that content is wanted for MU Creativty and now to KPO Gallery which (yay!) wants to include some writing too. The project has been changing, as projects do, by discovering easier ways and being told what is ‘wrong’ in the eyes of others. This first image/story had only four pictures and five submitted stories. The next two sets of photos, while interesting, were much more ‘prompts’ than photo art worthy of display. The last set, well I did a lot of work on it and it has seven pictures and two stories besides my own. Consideration was given to presentation in the gallery, which Myra is planning for this week, and to the presentation in MU Stories. This first set was the best choice for that. Art Ojula and I are almost ready with the next and last image/story project which has been planned for better presentation on MU Stories and the KPO Gallery. There will be about five weeks to write, it’s very flexible and I will be sending out personal invitations if need be. It’s interesting that so far, some of my favorite stories are from people who say they aren’t writers!
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Izzy
Thanks for all the background info and for clarifying my inaccuracy Pearl! Wonderful project! Keep up the fantastic work!
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Newton
Hear hear! No one is doing it better! Great work Pearl and friends.
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Elle
Processing
Some people have asked for information on Processing and Generative Art. FutureLearn is offering a class on Creative Coding starting on August 3rd.
I also put together some information on Generative Art, Artists & resources (primarily Processing) at GenCreate. It’s sort of minimalist, but might be helpful.
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Oona
Thank you Elle. I’d like to eventually learn this too.
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Elle
You’re welcome, Oona. What you are learning with building and scripting will help you with learning this.
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Neeva
Thanks Elle. You are always so wiling to share. I appreciate that a lot.
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Elle
Thanks Neeva. 🙂
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AlexandreLois1
The “Immortal avatars”
The “Immortal avatars”
I have a project that allows you to achieve immortality. The idea – avatar has some properties of the host. To become immortal, you need to “Avatar” management script which allows it to travel in SL. He has to approach people and talk to them on different sims. Who is willing to write this script?
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Neeva
I’m willing, but not able script. I can only write scripts that change the color of a cube from blue to yellow.
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Edie
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Newton
Thanks Edie. This gathering was illuminating. I came in not quite understanding the “avatar sharing” notion despite a lot of personal experience with my “sister.” You clarified that and opened up to a lot of different options. Fun stuff.
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Pearl Grey
Three Stories for the First Half of May
We have three stories for the latest Story Boards Writing Project. Joining me in having written a story are Oona and Veyot. Links to the stories are below the photos in the post.
Details on the next, and last, collaboration will be available soon. You’ll have five weeks to submit your story and they’ll be posted on MU Stories for ease of reading as well as on my journal blog. I’ll be adding them to Creativity as they come in.
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Izzy
MU / Stories
The all-new MU/Stories section of MU/Creativity is really rockin it! Check out:
• Lucia & the Slepford Zombies by Pearl Grey
• Long Distance Relationship a photo essay by Feels Emptyand much, much more!!!
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Izzy
Writer’s Lounge @Tullia OPEN NOW!
Tullia is the place this weekend!
Writer’s Lounge OPEN NOW @Tullia-4
KPO2.0 OPEN NOW @Tullia-6Checkit!!!
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Pearl Grey
Hemingway Studio Tour
Several MU learners joined me for tours of the converted barn used as a studio for Hemingway in the mid 1930’s at ASU Virtual Heritage Island.
Thanks to Aurora, RMarie Beedit, Feels Empty, officialmichaelgreenv6, Elle and Veyot for participating.
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Izzy
Thanks Pearl! Tours or Field Trips is a whole new exciting category of campus activities for us!!
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Elle
That was fun, thank you Pearl.
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Pearl Grey
I’m going to be using photos with avatars in them taken at the Johnny Cash home on ASU Virtual Heritage Island for the next story board project.
I contacted the builder, Painter Meriman, about it and sent him some links and info.
He gave me a link to the website with real life photos of the virtual builds. http://arkansasheritagesites.astate.edu/
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Oona
BAOC Award Day!
I’m passing on the torch. Go see who I’m giving it to here.
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Edie
Storytelling w Avatars Starts Noon Sunday!
New 4-week class Storytelling w Avatars starts Sunday! Collaborations between Writers, Photographers, Avatar Designers & World Builders!
Join us!
Details:
Interdisciplinary Studies 16, 17, 18, 19 – Explorations with Avatars
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Izzy
New Flickr Group: MU Fine Art!
We’ve got a new flickr group just focused on the beautiful 2D images, from digital design, to figure studies, to conceptual art, that you all create.
Here’s the breakdown on our 5 MU Flickr groups:
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Paypabak Writer
New lecture that will shock and appall you.
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FeelsEmpty
Excerpts from our first crit at MU Gallery
Thanks to all who came today as well as those who submitted works to exhibit!
Please send your art to Myra to give all an opportunity to look at and discuss your work.
Things discussed about the Gallery space today:
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Oona
I love this post. Thank you Feels, I appreciate it since I couldn’t be there. 🙂
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FeelsEmpty
Yeah I should have started posting these weeks ago really :/
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Myra
Really great idea, Feels.
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AlexandreLois1
I have a chance to take first place in the competition of fractals?
Your opinion?
http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;cat=109-
Izzy
Thats so exciting Alex! Congratulations & good luck!!
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Myra
http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=17471
Is that yours, Alex? I really like it. All the pieces in the competittion are impressive.
Good luck.
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AlexandreLois1
Thank you for your wishes. That’s my job.
http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=17479-
Elle
Very nice, Alex! I like the color and delicate lines. It is an impressive competition. Good luck!
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Oona
Thats amazing Alex! Really good!
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Neeva
Beautiful and impressive. Good luck with the competition!
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Newton
Virtual Forgiveness Part 1 Notes
Thanks to everyone who participated in Part 1 of Popcorn Tears – Finding Virtual Forgiveness.
Notes from Part 1 are now posted. Please join us on Sunday, May 24 at 8am to enjoy the artwork of part 1 participants and more discussion.
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Oona
Thank you for the transcripts Newton. I appreciate them very much.
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Pearl Grey
Road Trip to Hemingway’s Studio
Pfeiffer’s barn in Second Life is the virtual recreation of a barn converted in the 1930’s as a studio to give Ernest Hemingway privacy for writing. Portions of “A Farewell to Arms” were written there. There isn’t much walking and it might take about half an hour, depending on how much we talk.
Two times are being offered. Thursday, 14th at 7:00 p.m. SLT and Friday, 15th at 11:00 a.m. SLT. If anyone needs a different time added, let me know. As long as it isn’t when I need to be sleeping, I’ll be willing to arrange it.
It’s already on the calendar.
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rmarie
I will be there on THursday at 7pm. Thank you for organising this.
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Ryan
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Oona
Why a burning bush? Humans always need bigger and more amazing tricks. Sigh. 🙂
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Edie
Interdisciplinary Studies 16, 17, 18, 19 – Explorations with Avatars
Announcing 4 new, and concurrent courses:
Interdisciplinary Studies 16 – Fiction Writing for Avatars
Interdisciplinary Studies 17 – Photography with Avatars
Interdisciplinary Studies 18 – Avatar Design
Interdisciplinary Studies 19 – World Building for AvatarsThese 4 courses will meet concurrently and work together to tell Avatar Stories. We will use the 2 avatars I have created, “Paris Avatar” and “Sydney Avatar”. I’ve chosen unisex names for them so that their identity can be malleable to the stories each learner chooses to tell.
Full details here:
• edies.farm/explorationsImage: Love is Blind by Gonzale
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FeelsEmpty
Next week's crit will be in the MU Gallery of Art!
A slight followup to the last post: Crit will go on same time (Wednesday), but not the same place. We shall leave Collaborateopolis for the new gallery space! This will be a good opportunity to catch up with the works of people whose schedules have been clashing with crit day – now we will have a chance to talk about our work collectively, instead of individually – We now have the opportunity to see how our works function together, as a whole.
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Oona
Keep up the continuing great work of crit class Feels. You keep getting better. 🙂
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Myra
The MU Gallery of Art is open and we want to show your art!
We’ve opened an art gallery on the ground floor of the new dance club. Please send me a work of your art – your writing, your photos, your towers, your devilish good looks. Anything. I’ll find a way of exhibiting it.
Myra,
Curator, The MU Gallery of Art-
Autopilotpatty Poppy
Hi Myra. I’m a 9 1/2 year old SLer, a rl and sl photographer. In 2008 I did an exhibit called Moon over Caledon and would like to exhibit the two pieces from that exhibit. One is called Men’s Discussion Group and the other is called Women Being Women. I’d love to show them in your gallery. Thanks so much for all your work!
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Myra
HI, Poppy. Sure, contact me in-world. MU students have priority, but I should have room. And I think we have a spare studio spot if you want to join MU. : )
Thank you for your interest.
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Oona
So excited for this opportunity to showcase the amazing art that MU Students are creating. Stop by often, as Myra changes out art, and donate often, I’m talking to every one of you and your amazing art, photography, mixed media, sculpture talent.
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Oona
Feels Empty is Having An Art Show!
“FAMILY is a series of moving images revolving around technologically-mediated human relations. In a square format alluding to social media profile pictures on social network and genealogy websites, a family unit is structured via the relationship between subjects and objects emerging throughout the series. In one half of the pictures (5 set of 5 subjects, 2 male, 3 female) the family members have stable identities and are meaningfully unified by material processes. In the other half their identities become destabilized and vague, bound together by a virtual space.”
Please try and head out to support one of our own! 🙂 Runs from May 10 til June. 🙂
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Neeva
It’s a really interesting show. I’m glad I took the time to go. Feels is prolific and talented And one of our own.
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Elle
Agree! If you haven’t visited yet, please do! 🙂
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Oona
Its a great exhibit, if you haven’t been, please check it out. So excited for you Feels!
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Paypabak Writer
New post about Forbidden City and Neeva’s chair tower.
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Oona
I can relate Paypabak. Time gets away from me so much in here. I need a pause button. 🙂
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I love Taco Perry’s new video!
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