Tomorrow begins year 3 of Lost in Bananaverse.  Oh my…..
As I reflected on this passage of time, I went back and reviewed my first entry which was called “The End” and found this:
The reason the start of Lost in Bananaverse is called The End is very simple.
For the last two years, I have left [...]

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Back when Meta Magic Studio had two sims, the use of prims was rarely a subject.  While I am a firm believer in less is better especially when it comes to prims, having access to thousands of prims allowed me to build and build.
So when we gave up the sims back in November, we purchased [...]

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Not going to reveal names, but a Second Life Noob sent me a message the other day. The message was simple and to the point.
Your purple textures are clashing with this sim.  How about you change them to peaches or yellows.
This message was in reference to the small office the Meta Magic Studio has in [...]

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Last night Meta Magic Studio came to a tough decision, we could no longer keep supporting our four simulators in Second Life due to a lack of revenue.  While we still believe in Second Life and the opportunities it presents, we can not just keep shelling out money to Linden Lab without clients.  And currently [...]

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The last few months, all of my clients that had been involved in Second Life and other virtual world pursuits including Open Sim development have all stopped their efforts.  It is amazing to go from busy to dead so quickly, very much like the web development collapse in the 1990’s.   A part of me [...]

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Time for another Things I Think as of Today, and as always they are subject to change.
Random

Doesn’t matter how talented Roman Polanski is, he had sex with a drugged up 13 year old.

One thing I learned on my Jury Duty, under 16 is REAL bad in California.

Sports

The 49ers have been a very pleasant surprise this [...]

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Los Abroles continues to evolve like much like most of Second Life.  Here are some photos of what it currenlty looks like as of May 25, 2009.

As you can see, we have completed the main bridge to Meta Magic Studio, revamped the bridge from Los Arboles Central to Pirate Town / Rich Desoto’s home, and [...]

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Back on April 19, I posted a couple of photos of work that had been completed in Second Life for Cisco Systems.  Here are a couple more pictures from the rebuild of the Cisco Live area including the inside of the Photo Sphere and Video Center.  The biggest change was a refresh of the “look” [...]

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A couple pictures of the Meta Magic Studio Research Lab on Los Arboles in Second Life.  The lab is open to all unauthorized personnel at all times.  Please be careful of the red buttons.

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Old January Look
Back in January of this year, I started a rebuild of Los Arboles.  While I liked most of my work, I was never happy with the art-deco bridge and escalator and the whole MMS office look and layout just never did it for me.  But with limited time available in January, I just [...]

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Posting a couple of pictures of two projects that were recently developed by Meta Magic Studio for Cisco Systems.   The first was an updating of the successful Cisco Live build that we did last year and the second was a demonstration build of Cisco EnergyWise Office.  Both projects were installed at Cisco Systems Virtual Campus [...]

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I will be at the next Cisco Tech in Second Life on April 14 at 8:00 am.  Here is more info on it!  (If you would like to attend but have no clue on how to start in Second Life, just drop me a line and I will help you out.)
“Improve Your Green Practices with [...]

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Cisco does a great job with their TechChat series.  If you want to see it, please join them in Second Life.
Cisco EnergyWise – Improve Your Green Practices with Cisco EnergyWise
Date = April 14
Time = 8am SLT
Location = Bandwidth Stage, Cisco Systems Sim 4, Second Life
Meta Magic Studio will be there providing support.

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I just finished up a test machinima using the Second Life platform.  I was looking at the a few issues such as light source, shadows, frame rates, textures, animations and just how many shots are really needed to make a four minute film.  I learned lots putting together “Dancing Bananaphant” which took about three hours [...]

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I have received a few inquires about the big box on Meta Magic Studio sim.   Most of the inquires have been polite, though one person asked “what the fuck” I was doing with such a big box.

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