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Machinima for the "Shaping Identity" Panel
Creating and Acting Identity: Practice-As-Research Symposium:
a one-day interdisciplinary symposium,
October 22, 2010, University of California, Davis.
Web site: http://tinyurl.com/366ohan
Machinima created by HVX Silverstar, Library Studios, 2010,
on the islands of the Community Virtual Library
in the very beautiful Second Life®.
With the beautiful live music of Cylindrian (Grace Buford)
and KelvinBlue Oh and artists on Revostock.com
"The War Part 1" © Cassidy James Bisher
"Benediction" © Lynne Publishing
Bernadette Daly Swanson © 2010.
Quotes taken from the exceptional book by Mark Stephen Meadows, "I, Avatar: the culture and consequences of having a Second Life. The best!
http://tinyurl.com/5r2hbf

Trying out other worlds after the Linden announcement to do away with the educational discount

I first tried inWorldz after the Linden announcement to increase educational fees from the current discounted set-up and monthly maintenance fees charged. After a quick chat with one of the mentors, I teleported directly to the island to find out how to purchase land... Islands are much cheaper, with a monthy lease of US$75.00 for an island. It's more than double that for an island in Second Life. Mainland regions are $60.00 while the beta is still in effect.
I was in the midst of a purchase... terribly compulsive! Fortunately, it timed out when I took too long to decide on the region name. I had the island name in mind, and hadn't thought of the region... Lucky for me! I have leased an island in OSgrid which takes me away from the proprietary environments of Second Life and inWorldz.

Goodbye Library Studios Island, Second Life

Goodbye Library Studios Island, originally uploaded by HVX Silverstar.

Taking a few moments before logging off...
A digital island... just a speck of land that is almost invisible in the great expanse of the metaverse... this island will always have a space in my heart.

Libraries as Motion Video: Setting up an in-house studio, getting visual & extending skill-sets into new environments

Our slides from California Academic & Research Libraries (CARL) Conference, April 8-10, 2010 in the very beautiful Sacramento!

Libraries as Motion Video: Setting up an in-house studio, getting visual & extending skill-sets into new environments

View more presentations from HVX Silverstar.

Earthstones Abraxxa's EarthDay Birthday Free Gifts

Earthstones Abraxxa's EarthDay Birthday Free Gifts, originally uploaded by HVX Silverstar.

Hyacinth made me go...
and those are steampunk shoes
http://earthstones.wordpress.com/2010/04/22/abraxxas-earth-day-birthday/

Viewer2: Earthstones is full.. and still is

Viewer2_Earthstones_full, originally uploaded by HVX Silverstar.

Free hippie bracelet.... too bad... Earthstones is full.
http://earthstones.wordpress.com/2010/04/22/abraxxas-earth-day-birthday/

It's your Community Virtual Library in Second Life® & it's story time with Google's new SearchStory Video Creator!

It's Virtual Libraries Month in Second Life®
Explore the world of Virtual Libraries with the Community Virtual Library - http://infoisland.org
Video by: HVX Silverstar with the help of Google's StorySearch Video Creator and magnificent music from Freesound.org
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0/
hammerklavier 17th C. choral ending with Baroque trumpet, chorus and shimmery effects.
Watch the video in HD720p: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBVGbdJbA74&fmt=22

Libraries as Motion Video Engage Session: CARL 2010

Libraries as Motion Video Engage Session: CARL 2010, originally uploaded by HVX Silverstar.

The CARL Conference will be held in Sacramento, CA this year: http://carl-acrl.org/Archives/ConferencesArchive/Conference10/
this is a visual table of contents of sorts of some of the sites, issues, standards and formats, devices, players and what we use to capture video or our screens... not shown.. the virtual environments where many of us view media... and for me.. where I chronicle what libraries and educators are doing in Second Life.

NMC Symposium 2010 TwHistory for Historical Reenactments

NMCSymposiumTwHistoryHistoricalReenactments, originally uploaded by HVX Silverstar.

Simply the best.. http://www.twhistory.org

SLPro! Closing Concert & ready to fly!

SLPro! Closing Concert & ready to fly, originally uploaded by HVX Silverstar.

Inspired and ready to learn more, do more and fly a little bit more too.
Photos from the SLPro! Conference in Second Life:
http://www.nmc.org/2010-slpro

Photos Day 1: http://www.flickr.com/photos/photolibraries/sets/72157623494999098/
Photos Day 2:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/photolibraries/sets/72157623378389341/
Photos Day 3:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/photolibraries/sets/72157623384228673/

YouTube and Creative Commons: currently for YouTube Partners only

"Using Creative Commons licenses, we're giving our partners and community more choices to make that happen. Creative Commons licenses permit people to reuse downloaded content under certain conditions."

http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2009/02/youtube-goes-offline.html

The licenses:
http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=140495

New "&fmt=N" codes for YouTube...

Super cool... I just came across the &fmt=N codes for 1080p video...
Thank you to the userscripts.org site fo the post entitled
Add 1080p fmt=37 and 360p fmt=34?

So where's the Upload Option in the Viewer2?

A google search on uploading and the Viewer2 beta brought up this great set of instructions from the Sasy Pants Blog.
So it's in my inventory...
"UPLOAD has now moved to Inventory folder. All your upload functions are now in this area, so if you want to bring a picture, sound file, animation into world you will have to do it from the FILE menu in inventory."
Thank you to Sasy Scarborough for the great post on the whereabouts of the familiar options in the new UI!

Attending SL Pro! Conference today and trying out the SL Viewer2

I'm ill at home today, but managed to attend the SL Pro! conference at the New Media Consortium sims in Second Life. Tom Hale (T. Linden) gave the keynote. There area was packed and some people experienced SL voice (Vivox)issues.

I took the opportunity to download the new SL Viewer2 Beta.... and tried to figure it out on the fly. It's great... though I would advise watching Torley's videos to work through the new features and UI changes.
SL Beta Viewer:
http://secondlife.com/beta-viewer/
Download: http://secondlife.com/beta-viewer/download.php?
My favourite new feature is the 'shared media object' whereby you can drag a URL for a collaborative site onto a prim for which you have permissions.... I'll try out dragging on video for tomorrow's class for the MH214 class.

Here we are at SL Pro! trying out the shared media object that has the URL from a collaborative site, Corillo.com dragged onto the object: http://colorillo.com/awhv?3v5aqn
Watch on YouTube in HD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyH1U7B5r5s&fmt=22


More photos from SL Pro! and the SL viewer2 beta:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/photolibraries/sets/72157623494999098/


SL Pro! Conference Program: http://www.nmc.org/2010-slpro/program

Avatrian's brand spanking new, Peek360, looking into Second Life®

Thank you, Chenin!!

Human Trafficking & Multimedia Experience in Second Life®: January 11 - 21, 2010

Human Trafficking and Multimedia Experience
Exhibit and audio by
Abbey Zenith & Rolig Loon
Location: Info Island in Second Life®
Community Virtual Library
Dates: January 11-21, 2010
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/130/110/33
Machinima by HVX Silverstar
Watch in HD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5u3EaHT8-E&fmt=22