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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April 26, 2006 at 9:05 pm was my birth in Second Life, or rez day.  Three years later, I am still pursuing my metaverse dreams of making a living using virtual worlds to pay my physical world bills.  There have been moments of absolute highs and the lowest of lows.  Technology at the bleeding edge [...]

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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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Banana Stein – April 2009

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Back in April 2005, I started my first podcast.  At the time, I knew little about sound quality, production and RSS feeds, but that did not stop me.  Nor did a lack of “proper” equipment, in which I mean a studio microphone or mixers. But via the power of the Internet, I was able to [...]

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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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Meta Magic Studio has two private sims in Second Life® versus having land on the Mainland.  Los Arboles is what Linden Lab® calls a Full Region which means it is their highest performing sim offering.  Meta Magic Studio is defined as Openspace Region which in intended just to be a landscape sim with limited scripts [...]

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The rebuild of Los Arboles is 99% complete which means everything is in place.  Now I am just doing some texture work and adding little items here and there.  Hopefully the work will bring smiles to many.  Here are a few pictures of what has been done.
First is new the Five Islands boat stop at [...]

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Dateline:  Lost in Bananavese, Los Arboles, Second Life
This morning Los Arboles disappeared for two minutes from Second Life.  Photographic evidence is shown here of the sim at 8:32 am, then gone at 8:33 am, then back at 8:35 am. (Turns out the evidence was blacked out when developed. hmmmm)
What could have caused Los Arboles to [...]

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Los Arboles in Second Life is an ever changing virtual environment designed to demonstrate building, textures and scripting done by Meta Magic Studio.  At the beginning of this month, I began the 3rd major rebuild of the island with a goal having the majority of the work done by end of January.
The only three builds [...]

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This is my rough draft of my blog posting (which I will have Jen spiff up the grammar) for Meta Magic Studio.
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Today, Jan 27, 2009, Cisco® opened its Sustainability Center demonstrating its new EnergyWise Technology and their Networked Sustainability Network in Second Life®.  This center is located at Cisco Systems Sim 2 and demonstrates Green [...]

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