Mirage: Haunting animated film about a robot’s search for water

Via:(http://io9.com/5305828/gorgeous-short-film-about-a-bio+robot-with-endless-desire-+-for-water)
Via: (http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_ch00XMTg3Mzk2ODg=.html)

Title: Mirage
Director: Youngwoong Jang
Country: Korea
Year: 2009
Running Time: 8:24
Via:(http://io9.com/5305828/gorgeous-short-film-about-a-bio+robot-with-endless-desire-+-for-water)
[MRO]

Old media journalists still struggling to fill pages without knowledge of virtual world subject

With pieces like this, it’s no wonder old media is on the losing end of the revolution.
“Advertising Age” – as in, advertising’s previous age gets it wrong here: “Twitter Is What Second Life Wasn’t: Light, Cheap and Open”.  Writer obviously is completely at sea about the functionality of either Second Life OR Twitter…. get ready [...]

2000-2009 What Happened?

Where were we supposed to be?
Where are we now?
Where are we going?
Tell me at http://www.twitter.com/mro

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_Odyssey_Two

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film)

Triple meatball logo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Constellation

The Wave is coming

There’s lots of talk about The Wave…

Ready to jump on board??

#Control over @your life…I now haz it

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/08/twitter-is-down-15-alternative-things-to-do/

SFSU “Meteor Slams Dorms” experiment 2PM today

Join SFSU Design and Industry class (http://online.sfsu.edu/~jkv4edu/VWS/627/index.html) on Virtual World Design for an experiment from 2-3 PM today “Meteor Slams Dorms“. You must be added to the group by emailing gnusart[at]sbcglobal.net with your avatar name or contact avatars Jane Valentino, JD Mint or Cassandra Avedon to be added. More [...]

Metaverse Manifesto review by professor Jonas Löwgren

From:
Jonas Lowgren, Professor of Interaction – Arts and Communication at Malmo University Malmo, Sweden
Interaction Design Bookshelf: http://webzone.k3.mah.se/k3jolo/idBookshelf/index.htm
Thanks Jonas!
Montagne, O. (2007). Metaverse manifesto. San Francisco: Studio SFO. [IM]
“Written in classical manifesto style, with each epigrammatic sentence forming its own paragraph, the book lays out a fundamental split between those humans who »cling to the dim vestiges [...]

Maker Faire logo design oops….

I’m willing to believe it’s a simple design ooops…
I guess they could call it the Waffen-MakerFaire.

and finally found the source:

I knew I’d seen it somewhere!   Subersion from within or Freudian slip??

Virtual World SIG * LIVE * Monday 7PM with Entropia Universe

Join us for the Virtual World SIG Monday
6:30 PM (August 25) for a presentation by
Entropia Universe’s John Bates. Learn about the
Entropia virtual world that is leading in graphics, gaming, and
entrepreneurial economic models.
We will be streaming *LIVE* from the Palo Alto meeting into Second
Life with all venues linked from http://www.virtualworldsig.com
Full Description:
Perhaps no other virtual world has [...]

MRO welcomes guests to Lively

Had to jump in to Lively….Virtual World SIG is where I’m hanging out at the moment.

I’ve had an average of 4-5 people through at any given moment.
I’m pretty impressed with the fun level but the uses of Lively remain to be seen.
Until then, stop on by the Virtual World SIG Lively room and say hello!

MRO up and running on Google Lively

New browser based VW application just launched today from Google.
Virtual World SIG location is up and running so let’s meet up there.
I chose the “island” room in keeping with the Second Life ™ tradition. We don’t need walls anyway. Check it out!
The URL is:
http://www.lively.com/dr?rid=-4023305174264225962
And you should see it below:

Microsoft uses “Quests” and “visionary manifestos”

MRO likes the sound of this.
I found this interesting article about how Microsoft has internal “Quests” that are worked on collaboratively.
You can safely say that the reality that “Work is an MMOG” has arrived.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080626/D91HVAS80.html

MRO posting on IP and copyright, copyleft

I commented on:
Copybot comes to the Music Industry
as follows:
Thanks Prokofy for standing up (over a period of years now) for intellectual property rights. IP protection is the backbone of our economic system which keeps people fed, housed, etc. etc.
Just look at the results:
* Second Life ™ has become the most rapidly adopted and most profitable [...]



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