Cheerie Beery (Jen) has been working on a project that uses avatars to story board out advertising concepts. By using the tools of Second Life, advertising, marketing and branding concepts can be fully explored at cost effective prices. Here is a couple of pics from her most recent project for a local RL beach [...]

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The next two days will be review days of sim builds that Meta Magic Studio has (hopefully) developed to customer satisfaction. One of them is a final check off phase, where basically we turn over the “keys.” The second project is in next to last phase review which means the client goes through [...]

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A little long winded entry - but hopefully some one gets something out of this…. Banana  - also has been posted on Meta Magic Studio blog

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In light of the recent news posted in The Avastar of the closing of the Geek Squad sim, and the subsequent lazy media fall out that will happen, and [...]

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On my to do list since May has been “Build MMS Blog” which was a simple enough task, yet never seemed to get done. Jeez Banana, why can you not get it done?
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So today, I blocked off three hours to get a new wordpress installation done, plus the art-work because I like things my [...]

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So when I get my grubby and stumpy hands on a new sim, the first thing I do is set the land to group - or make sure it is deeded to the right group. For this sim, the group is Meta Magic Studio - lol.
Once that is set, i make sure only group [...]

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I awoke this morning at 6 am and checked in-world to see if Meta Magic Studio sim was there - AND IT WAS! Happy Happy Joy Joy.
Picture of the new sim - note connecting drawbridge from Los Arboles. Of course, by end of today, this sim will look completely different. Ahhhhh, [...]

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Was in Second Life at 1:00 am on Wednesday (Aug 13) and still no sign of the new Meta Magic Studio sim.  My bank account shows the money gone to Linden Lab.  My Second Life account shows me owning a second sim.   But no sim?!?
Here is a pic of me looking south from Mirror’s [...]

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Meta Magic Studio had been putting off purchasing an open space sim on the Second Life® Grid for six months due to thinking about doing a sim on the OpenSim grid. But after reviewing that space, it was decided that we should go ahead and drop the cash for the open space sim on [...]

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Just a quick couple pictures of Los Arboles - August 2008.
Here is a wide picture - lots of stuff there and still over 6800 prims left.

Los Arboles, Second Life - August 2008

New tiered seating as been added to the Los Arboles Amphitheater. Plus lots of new texturing.

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Last week, at Meta Magic Studio’s monthly review meeting, it was decided that we should become a sponsor of KONA Radio. It was the easiest decision we made at the meeting. We did make a list why we should do it. Here is what we listed:

We need to started branding Meta Magic [...]

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A few months back, Crap Mariner started putting rivets on some of his textures for his wonderful clock tower on Edloe. I loved that type of texture detail. While most people will never notice such detail, for me it is what I look for in builds. Nothing extravagant or overwhelming, just little [...]

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Sculptie Chairs
First let me state that I adore sculpties. For those of you who do not know what they are, here is the intro on them from Second Life Wiki:
A Sculpted Prim, or sculptie, is a prim whose shape is determined by an array of x, y, z coordinates stored as RGB values in [...]

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Sorry, for not updating Bananaverse. Between work and social, I have not been sleeping, nor had any time for the blog. But here is some quick news of what I have been doing.
On the work front, I am knee deep in four projects including some fun stuff with Cisco and a cool sim [...]

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At 10:45 am today, receieved an email from Linden Lab:
Hi Guy,
We’re contacting you about your use of the name SL Brand. As you know, you’ll need to change the name to comply with our trademark policy at http://secondlife.com/corporate/brand/trademark/. The name SL Brand — indicating Second Life Brand — is extremely likely to create confusion about [...]

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