Burning Life 2008

OK, time to return to the virtual world of Secondlife.  I’ve been quietly exploring this world for a while now, and have found that it has a large number of VERY creative people in here.

You may have heard of the Burning Man festival?  They do something quite similar in Secondlife, called Burning Life.

I missed last year’s, and as it’s that time again, I took a wander.

The landing area was quite packed with people, so I moved away and examined a few exhibits.  As a builder myself, I’ve come away with a few ideas which I aim to play with.

I took a few images while at the event, to see one of them in a larger size, just click on them.

This fellow caught my eye at first, as I walked round he followed me and the effect of blinking, made the eye  very disconcerting.

I know the scripts that go behind this and could have built something similar myself, that didn’t make any less unnerving!

I found this one next, a very shiny and animated piece, it put me in mind of an ornamental clock, it glowed and the movement was well thought out.

The spider caught my eye with a VERY intricately detailed clockwork mechanism, plus the key on its rear it makes me wish that the Linux client had an easier time making videos.  Static pictures really don’t do these pieces justice, animation like this takes some real planning!

Finally, I came across an alien adbuction scene and just had to try it out for a laugh…

All of this goes to show what I’ve believed for sometime now, Secondlife is not a video game.  I like to make the example that if the usual intenet shooters and virtual areas are like applications, then Secondlife is more like an underlying operating system, with the content built by, and for, those who use it

And I really must work out how to get some videos on here.