7 posts tagged “avatar”

In Kenzo, Common Cure, Rhiannon Chatnoir and many Second Life luminaries are joining forces at the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC to launch the new Amoration.net and celebrate our partnership with the Vesuvius Group.  We're having a great time sharing virtual worlds and the future of interactive media with the traditional web communities.  While we meet quite a few people who are familiar with SL, there are very few people in the traditional web world who are thinking about the 3D web and the future of our integrated communications.  This is a great time to be an avatar worldchanger!

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True, present, deeply engaged.  Aware of everyone in collaboration, their roles....strengths.....weaknesses.
Circles of trust built around flexible systems that allow for people to grow and change over time.
Diversity, creativity, user-created worlds with room to build onto "the game" or whatever challenge is set out in a day.

These games are our lives: little interactive diversions are the way we have learned to interact and touch our world.  For some of us this is full immersion in some digital form, while others dabble with cell phone photos and social networks.  The result is similar....over time, new patterns emerge in the game players who have learned to type their thoughts most clearly, as if QWERTY was the universal language.

I still contend that love = energy in every brilliant game.  There's endless ways to design a strategic playspace but no play feels like play without love.  We need that passion in order to enjoy the playful experiences of our lives.

Tools are endless, available from anyone with enough creativity to build a better bridge.

In this world my flights are as long as I want them to be, not dictated by oil poured into a plastic and metal machine.  My mobility is endless too and soaring never gets tiring.

"The Game" is vast, our board the streets and homes within homes.  Perhaps you live on Baltic or St. Charles, or maybe Ventnor?  Pacific?  I've seen the boardwalk homes and they need work too.  What do you most want to see there next?

Find what you love and do it.  Happiness in life really seems to be a constant process loop on this basic love pursuit.  The game then, at any stage, is really about where your heart is at.

From Elven Awakening, on fairies and elves:

The fairies at the time were what we consider to be the givers of all of Mother Earth or whatever planet system they were on. They were the givers of life, which meant really that the fairies went around, the fairy world went around and touched the flowers to give them life.

Megapoofer!

And in truth now -- I am not making anything but out of the truth -- every time they came across a flower and the flower was straining itself -- you know, how little roses sometimes they reach up to the Father Sky and the sunshine, and they reach up and they want to stand so tall and be so beautiful. They would sometimes cry, it would look like dew upon their leaves, and the fairy world would rush out in through the flowers, and they would discover a little flower that was weeping, and they would touch it with their own light, and they would give it new color and a new experience, and they would reach even higher, and they would remember.

For today's address before the UN Climate Change Conference the congressman from Massachusetts chose to appear in Second Life rather than fly to Bali and address the crowd directly.  His talk on climate change and the metaverse of possibilities echoes the policy reflected at globalwarming.house.gov

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Rep. Markey, head of the House's committee on climate change, fielded questions on education, conservation and the "use" of Nature.....should we consider nature something to be used until those resources no longer exist?  Do we have a role in preserving land, planting new forests, considering the greening of our cities?

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"The technology is moving so fast that this really is just the beginning."  Daniel Nelson from OneWorld UK noted.  Daniel is also featured at the end of this In Kenzo machinima video attached from today's interactive town hall meeting with Rep. Markey at OneWorld Meetings Island in Second Life.

Sorry for the late notice....it's been a busy few weeks in the studio!
I am speaking tonight for an event at Boston Court in Pasadena for SKIN.
http://www.bostoncourt.com/Skin.htm

This event looks at Avatars, the Internet and Identity as seen through the eyes of Dark Play, we will be on stage at 9:30PM after the play itself.  Contact www.bostoncourt.com in Pasadena for directions and tickets.

Next week you can share with us at the California Association of Nonprofits if you happen to be of the nonprofit variety and near California.  If not, well, you can go in Second Life and chat with us anyway, we'll be live in both worlds next Thursday 10/25 at 10AM with a workshop happening live in Los Angeles from 10:15 - 11:45 with Jeska Linden, Susan @ NPC/TechSoup and Beth Kanter, bloggess. 

Hello Friends of Amoration and ManorMeta!

Take a minute before 5PM on Monday at vote for ManorMeta at NetSquared Innovation Awards.  Your support can help us win vital support; if you had trouble voting leave a comment on our page, email Britt Bravo and tell the NetSquared community that you want to see more of ManorMeta!  See more below for details on this innovation award.

It's true...we're moving fast! We've moved offices and virtual spaces.

Our real world offices are located at 5067 W. Washington Blvd, 90016 in the Media Fabricators complex and our new AMO Island in Second Life is our new living learning lab for the virtual world. 

Our Better World Island location became too small for our crystalline sanctuary and we wish our friends at Care.org and the Better World Scouts the best wishes as they build amazing aid and activism efforts inworld. We will continue to be active scouts and offer you AMO Island as a resort alternative for visionary communities in development around the world.

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AMO Island is opening next week to the public with many project areas in development including an Integral Commons, a martial arts and meditation center, life science studies on brain and heart, the Amoration Amphitheatre, the Nexus Dance community and brilliant visionary artists. As we build you are welcome to join us; speak with In Kenzo directly regarding skylabs and other spheres at AMO.  Join us for our first workshops on 4/20 at 6PM (Machinima for Educators) or visit all day during the Digital Be-In.

Our Second Life work is growing very fast and in the coming days we'll preview more of our recent Food Island build opening in early May at the national Food FMI Convention in Chicago.  This groundbreaking experience in health and nutrition designed by Amoration team members at the Toyshoppe educates consumers before they hit the stores on how to eat well and enjoy the food around us.

NETSQUARED INNOVATION AWARDS

Thanks to all of you who are voting this week to support amazing innovation efforts! Over the last two years the ManorMeta/Amoration team has worked with over two dozen nonprofit organizations by directly helping these groups grow on the web, with constituents and in the virtual world of Second Life. A handful of the great groups we have worked with are also featured in this award process and we encourage you to get out and vote your passion!

A bit about ManorMeta's new opening on AMO Island in Second Life: we have been busily building a new integrated learning center for many different types of visionary groups to come together and experiment in the 3D collaborative world. Our work is very much in bridgebuilding as we gather a consortium of leaders from all disciplines with a common goal to share stories and solutions for complex world problems. ManorMeta is our living learning lab, but it's also a very complex real world networking system that provides space for innovators to connect. We thank you for giving us this role in your lives and hope you will get out there and vote for some of our partners and friends this week here at NetSquared!

So here's my personal slate for the voting process:

1. ManorMeta (disclaimer, this is Amoration's project)
2. HOOZE and WAGN
3. Global Lives Project
4. Anti-Genocide Community
5. Building a Community of Modern Abolitionists
6. SE Learning Games
7. Games for Change
8. Targeted development for social empowerment
9. SourceTree Commons
10. Grassroots.org toolbox