Artist Patrick Millard will be exhibiting images from his photographic series' [i]Anatomy Studies[/i] and [i]Obstetric Repair[/i] through February, 2009 at the Cliffhouse Museum of Contemporary Art in Second Life. The opening for the reception is Saturday, Dec. 6th at 2pm SLT [5pm EST].br / br / 2008: Dec. 6 - Feb. 28, [i]Anatomy Studies | Obstetric Repair[/i], Cliffhouse Museum of Contemporary Art,br / Reception: December 6, 2pm SLTbr / SL, http://slurl.com/secondlife/Yongchon/39/194/24 [photography]br / br / [img]http://www.patrickmillard.com/images/edema_constraint_pulse.jpg[/img]br / br / Patrick Millard is an artist who originates from the small Western Michigan town of Lamont and now lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His work in photography, painting, mixed media, sound and installation has resulted in a diversified portfolio that addresses ideas about media, culture, technology and the interactions that human beings have within their own synthetic environment. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and continues to gain recognition.br / br / Recent exhibitions include the international art happening, [i]Blow the City[/i] in Ghent, Belgium; [i]Digital Fringe[/i] at the Melbourne Fringe Festival in Melbourne, Australia; [i]Fauna Show[/i] at The Workshop Gallery in Bialystok, Poland; [i]Origins[/i] at the Fox Art Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; [i]Snap To Grid[/i] at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art in Los Angeles, California, and [i]A Million Little Pictures[/i] at Art House in Decatur, Georgia.br / br / In 2008, Patrick began to show work inside the virtual simulation world Second Life; exhibitions that advance beyond two-dimension work and expand his ideas of simulation, virtual reality, and the synthetic future where the physical object gives way to its virtual counterpart and its presence is valued entirely for its idea rather than its place in space.br / br / Patrick received a bachelor's of arts in photography from Grand Valley State University and a master's in fine arts for photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design.br / br / He currently works as an adjunct professor of photography at Grand Valley State University and is a photography instructor at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, Michigan.br / br / www.patrickmillard.comimg src="http://rhizome.org/syndicate/nothing.gif?f=announce" border="0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-announce/~4/475718979" height="1" width="1"/

p —bImagine shutters N-Revolution gaming mag/b : UK-based magazine publisher a href="http://www.imagine-publishing.co.uk/" title="Imagine"Imagine/a is pulling the plug on N-Revolution, its Nintendo-focused title. But don't blame this one on the economy—Imagine is folding the mag because its core gamer target doesn't seem to be Nintendo's focus anymore. "[It] has become increasingly obvious that Nintendo's strategy for Wii and DS ... has moved increasingly away from the hardcore gaming community that is our specialty," said Damian Butts, Imagine's managing director, in an a href="http://www.mcvuk.com/news/32563/Imagine-confirms-NRevolution-closure" title="interview with MCV"interview with MCV/a. /p p —bRed Bull sets up shop in PlayStation Home/b : Red Bull is developing an island inside iHome/i, Sony's long-awaited virtual world for the PS3. Gamers will be able to race planes on the island in competitions modeled after the real world a href="http://www.redbullairrace.com/" title="Red Bull Air Race World Series"Red Bull Air Race World Series/a. Red Bull is the first company to set up shop in Home. a href="http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/MostRead/866365/Red-Bull-becomes-first-brand-PlayStation-Home/" title="Brand Republic says"Brand Republic says/a Sony (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=SNE" class="ticker" title="SNE"NYSE: SNE/a) execs kept mum on additional brand partners, but said they'd announce them in the coming months. iHome/i's public beta is slated for the end of this year. /p p —bThe Army invades Second Life/b : Not content with using in-game ads to recruit gamers, the U.S. Army is going virtual, setting up operations in a href="http://www.secondlife.com/" title="Second Life"Second Life/a. The Army is building two islands in the world: one will serve as a welcome center with an info kiosk and the means to contact a recruiter, and the other will let residents test out various Army experiences, including jumping out of a plane and using a weapon. Residents that do well in the simulations can earn Lindens (virtual currency) that can be used to buy branded Army merchandise. It's a notable effort, though a href="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/12/the-armys-new-f.html" title="Wired says"Wired says/a Army brass has realistic expectations for just how effective a recruitment tool Second Life will be. Still, no word on how they'll deal with the inevitable protesters ... or the escorts. /p p iMore after the jump./i /pp—bGiant Realm bows social media platform/b : Gamer-centric ad and media network Giant Realm has launched the Giant Realm Platform, a tool that gives online publishers (particularly in the gaming and young men's entertainment space) a way to add social media capabilities to their sites. Joining the Platform also nets publishers ad sales support, an advanced CMS and a unified portal at a href="http://www.gameriot.com/" title="GameRiot.com"GameRiot.com/a. Current participants include a href="http://guitarheronews.gameriot.com/" title="GuitarHeroNews"GuitarHeroNews/a and a href="http://starfeeder.gameriot.com/blogs/The-Starfeed" title="Starfeeder"Starfeeder/a, among others. a href="http://corp.giantrealm.com/press/" title="Release"Release/a. /p p —bKnowledge Adventure debuts kid-friendly virtual world/b : Educational game developer a href="http://knowledgeadventure.com/" title="Knowledge Adventure"Knowledge Adventure/a has launched a href="http://www.jumpstart.com/" title="JumpStart World"JumpStart World/a, a virtual world based on its JumpStart brand. Geared toward school-aged kids (and their parents) the world lets them create avatars, play learning games and socialize. JumpStart World runs on a $7.99 subscription, a href="http://www.worldsinmotion.biz/2008/12/knowledge_adventure.php" title="per Worlds In Motion"per Worlds In Motion/a.nbsp; /p p —bActivision (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=ATVI" class="ticker" title="ATVI"NSDQ: ATVI/a) working on iGuitar Hero 5/i/b : Activision Blizzard revealed plans for a host of new advertiser-friendly games during a href="Massive Installs New Leader, Seals Extended Ad Deals With Activision Blizzard" title="Massive's gaming upfront"Massive's gaming upfront/a in NYC, including iGuitar Hero 5 /i and a iTony Hawk/i game that will likely come with a skateboard-style controller. a href="http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/12/03/activision-announces-guitar-hero-5-new-tony-hawk-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-more-at-in-game-ad-conference/"title="Via MTV Multiplayer"Via MTV Multiplayer/a. /p p!-- iMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. 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German startup Club Cooee has launched its 3D instant messaging service in private beta, and it doesn’t disappoint. The service is a hybrid between traditional instant messengers like AIM and 3D social networks like Second Life, allowing users to converse in chat bubbles while using their 3D avatars to express emotions, and can also share photos and links visually. TechCrunch readers can grab one of 500 invites to the private beta here.

The application is very sleek, sporting an intuitive interface and quick, good looking graphics. Each user can customize the appearance of their 3D avatar to their liking by modifying both their physical appearance and purchasing in-game outfits using Club Cooee credits. Players can converse either in private chats or as groups, and can meet in a number of public rooms designed to look like virtual restaurants and meeting places. Each player is also given a room that they can spruce up using a variety of in-game items, like televisions (which will be able to show YouTube videos) and furniture.

To monetize, the site will allow users to buy extra credits to purchase virtual goods, and will also offer premium services for a fee. Founder Alexander Jorias says that the service is also planning to generate revenue with a number of B2B partners, and that little, if any money will come from standard advertising.

While its execution is impressive, Club Cooee will have a few factors working against it. For one, there’s no way to converse over the network when you don’t have the client installed - you can’t message users via text messages, nor can you talk to them in a web interface like meebo. The windowless application may also confuse some users at first, as it can be easy to accidentally click on a desktop icon or file while interacting with the Club Cooee client. And finally, it’s Windows only at the moment (though a Mac version is promised).

Club Cooee will also be facing quite a bit of competition. There is no shortage of virtual worlds, with available offerings like Second Life, Small Worlds, Journeys (covered here), and a number of kid-friendly worlds (Google’s attempt, Lively, is shutting its doors this month).

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[i]ARTISTS AND INNOVATORS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT[/i][b][/b] Part Twobr / December 3 to February 3 br / br / VISIONARY VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTISTS AND CREATORS REACH A GLOBAL AUDIENCE VIA STREAMING MUSEUM'S CROSS-REALITY 'ELECTRONIC SUPERHIGHWAY'br / br / br / Click here to view exhibition br / www.streamingmuseum.orgbr / br / br / Streaming Museum is a new hybrid Museum that presents real-time exhibitions in cyberspace and public space on seven continents. It is produced in New York City in collaboration with international artists, curators, and cultural institutions. Exhibitions are viewed in cyberspace at www.streamingmuseum.org and Ars Virtua New Media Center in Second Life, and public locations around the world according to schedules listed on the website.br / br / "Artists and Innovators for the Environment" Part Two of the three-part exhibition series that features over 30 international visionary creators, includes: Buckminster Fuller, design scientist; Ben Edwards, painter; Andrea Ackermen, Kurt Ralske, Marty St. James, James Tunick, new media artists; Agnes Denes environmental artist; Jacob ter Veldhuis, Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, Stephen Vitiello, Julia Wolfe, composers; Jaap Drupsteen, Robert Snyder; Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet; video blogger David Jr. and rock band One-Eyed Doll on President Elect Barack Obama. br / br / On October 3 Streaming Museum launched the exhibition series in collaboration with TED Prize and the Urban Screens Festival in a simultaneous cross-continental broadcast of program content and visual connection between the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle, New York City, and Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia. br / br / Taking inspiration from pioneer multi-media artist Nam June Paik who in the 1970's envisioned an "electronic superhighway" as an open and free medium for imagination and exchange of global cultures, the Museum launched on January 29, 2008 exhibiting simultaneously on 7 continents, Paik's Good Morning Mr. Orwell - an entertaining mix of international fine art and pop culture.br / br / br / Where to see "Artists and Innovators for the Environment" br / br / Cyberspace locations: br / www.streamingmuseum.org and Ars Virtua New Media Center in Second Life. br / br / Public locations: br / Africa: Ubuntu Center, Port Elizabeth; Asia: Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea; Antarctica: British Antarctic base and Jubany Argentine scientific base; Australia: Federation Square, Melbourne; Europe: 17 BBC screens throughout the UK; North America: Chelsea Art Museum, NYC and Victory Park, Dallas, Texas, USA; South America: Centro Municipal de Exposiciones Subte, Montevideo, Uruguay; and other locations. br / br / For exhibition and information on public locations and schedules visit the Museum's website:br / www.streamingmuseum.orgbr / br / br / Contact: br / Nina Colosibr / Founder/Creative Director, Streaming Museumbr / 212-867-0883br / nina@streamingmuseum.orgbr / br / br / SPONSORED BYbr / FJC - A Foundation of Philanthropic Fundsbr / ONSSI - On-Net Surveillance Systems, Inc.br / br / br / Streaming Museum is a member of International Urban Screens Associationimg src="http://rhizome.org/syndicate/nothing.gif?f=announce" border="0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-announce/~4/475087964" height="1" width="1"/

Larry Andreini thinks he can take on Pixar. The founder and CEO of Ridemakerz, a rapidly growing chain of stores where boys can custom-build their own toy cars, is building a virtual world for his 6-to-12-year-old customers and their cars. This virtual world is in closed beta right now, and will launch early next year. So will Pixar’s World of Cars and startup Webcarzz (here’s some good background).

There is a gap on the Web between Webkinz and Club Penguin and the more adult social networks of MySpace, Facebook and beyond, particularly for boys. Other than Pirates of the Carribean Online, there is not much out there yet. Andreini wants to parlay the loyalty of his customers into a virtual world where they can design and play with the exact same cars they can buy in his stores. Making that connection between the virtual and the real, even if it’s just a toy, is where he thinks he’ll have a leg up on the competition. The virtual world he is building is also pretty advanced and goes way beyond being a slick brochure for his products, although it is that as well. Kids don’t have to buy a car to play in the virtual world, but the experience is better if they do.

The Ridemakerz virtual world is being designed by the Electric Sheep Company, which has a lot of experience designing virtual experiences for corporate clients in Second Life. But this virtual world will be entirely browser-based, built on top of its Webflock technology platform (which I wrote about in July). I was given a preview of the virtual world last week.

Before I get into the virtual world, it helps to understand the experience in a Ridemakerz retail store. Boys come in and pick one of 70 different car body types and paint schemes. These are scale plastic-mold replicas of real-world cars that Ridemakerz licenses from GM, Ford, BMW, and other car companies. Then the boy tricks out his ride by picking the wheels, hubcaps, a chassis, sounds, and other options. He takes all the parts to a pit and then builds his car right there in the store, and then his mom or dad pays for it. A basic model costs only $27.50, but the options add up and a single car with radio control can cost $120.

Andreini opened his first store in June, 2007, and now there are a dozen across the country. His first store in Myrtle Beach, SC hit $1 million in sales 87 days after it launched. This year, that same store hit $1 million in sales 53 days after June 1. He’s raised $23 million to date from Norm Pozez, whose father founded Payless Shoes, and Build-A-Bear Workshop. Build-A-Bear, which operates a retail chain with a similar concept around building teddy bears, is also a strategic operational partner.

Ridemakerz offers online sales on its Website right now, but they are pretty minimal. Andrieni estimates the e-commerce business will bring in about $250,000 this year. But he plans to invest $3 million to $4 million a year in his new virtual world. He predicts:

I think the virtual experience is going to dwarf our real-world experience.

The virtual world is a combination of a social network, video games, and a complex inventory system. Boys can design their own virtual cars online just like they can in the store. Electric Sheep took CAD files of all the body designs and measured all the parts with micrometers to render how each car looks. Then they converted that into Flash using 3D Studio Max and Papervision3D. There are 649 million different combinations, and each one can be made into a real car and bought, so Electric Sheep had to figure out a way to make sure that only parts that really fit together could be created virtually. Depending on what parts a boy picks, it will affect the performance of his ride.

Alternatively, a child who buys a car at a store can enter the unique Ridez Identification Number (RIN) number printed on each one at checkout and he will get a virtual replica of that exact design. So he can play with the same car at home and online.

Inside the virtual world, each child’s avatar is his car. He can drive around and see the cars of other members who are online. There is no text chatting (for child safety reasons), but each car has different “Zmotes” that get cooler the more points that are acquired. The Zmotes start with things like puffs and smiley faces and graduate to explosions and lightening bolts. The roads in the virtual world lead to different activities, including a junkyard crane video game and a pitstop crew game that teaches time management.

Sibley Verbeck, CEO of Electric Sheep says:

We are trying to take the best parts of virtual worlds, MMOs, kids worlds , and bring that out on the Web.

Once Ridemkarz launches this basic version, it can keep adding activities and destinations inside the virtual world. There are already plans for user-generated content, such as letting boys design their own race courses and then race their virtual cars on them. In the future, boys also may be able to create their own outlandish designs that won’t necessarily be buildable.

It is an ambitious effort from an unlikely startup. Can they go up against the Pixars of the world and win the race to create the first truly successful virtual world for boys? Or will this be seen as nothing more than a way to hook kids on buying and upgrading their Ridemakerz cars?

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Virtual goods were all the rage a while ago, but nowadays I don’t hear that much about them. Perhaps everyone got bored of Second Life, companies stopped opening virtual headquarters in virtual worlds, and WoW players…well, they’re a lost cause anyway, tormented creatures always destined to live in the shadow (also, Blizzard does not allow off-site trade with virtual money or goods from the game).

This doesn’t mean that the marketplace for virtual goods does not exist; it’s just not that hip anymore. PlaySpan wants to change this, and they’ve launched the PlaySpan Virtual Goods Marketplace which will contain items from popular MMOs such as EVE Online, Gunz, Kal, Knight Online, Saga, Shaiya, Silk Road, Soldier Front, Trickster and War Rock. This is not a black or grey market, though: only publisher-approved items will be sold at PlaySpan.

PlaySpan focuses on the young audience who might not have access to credit cards (more specifically, their dads told them they’ll throw them out in the street if they touch their wallet again). Therefore, they’ve set up a number of alternate micropayment methods to give the little rascals what they crave. Need a time code, a cool item, or some virtual money? No problemo, you can buy them here if you have access to either a credit card, PayPal or PayByCash. If you’re not convinced, PlaySpan sweetened the deal with an introductory offer: new Marketplace customers will receive 100 free points on registration.

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The first grant competition for an online virtual world project that serves the community and contributes to student learning will be held, also online, at Second Life on December 4, 7 pm central time, according to the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation and the University of Texas. Four student teams from a UT course called "Working in a Virtual World" will vie for the prestigious Carter Academic Service Entrepreneur grant, with a prize of $1,000 to implement the winning project and certificates for students signed by President Jimmy Carter and Mrs. Carter. The winning project will be the most innovative way for students to serve the community online in the virtual world Second Life. (PRWeb Dec 4, 2008)

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pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=4936dbc0796c7a4d005f8c4emaxX=240maxY=143" border="0" alt="redbullplane.jpg" title="redbullplane.jpg" width="240" height="143" /Second Life has a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/why-reuters-left-second-life-and-how-linden-lab-can-fix-it"stalled/a and Google (GOOG) has a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/how-google-could-have-made-lively-work"shut down Lively/a, but the hope that 3D online spaces can attract advertisers just won't die./p pNext up with virtual world advertising dollars: Red Bull, which is partnering with Sony (SNE) to put a tropical island and airplane racing game on the PS3 virtual world "Home." Red Bull hosts real-life air shows too, so the concept isn't out of the blue./p pDespite a spotty track record for virtual world advertising, Red Bull is on to a good idea. The problem marketers ran into in Second Life was they'd spend big bucks on a virtual storefront, and when people showed up there would be nothing to do./p pYou can't build fun things for avatars in Second Life because the user interface is so primitive that even walking is difficult. Both Pontiac and Acura tried giving away Second Life cars based on real-life models, but the virtual cars steered worse than early-80s arcade games like "Pole Position" and people junked them after five minutes./p pFor most corporations, Second Life meant deserted "virtual stores" that became an embarrassment for the companies involved. The handful of successful real world presences in Second Life -- both a href="http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2008/05/20/cw-television-films-gossip-girl-machinisodes-in-second-life/"the CW's "Gossip Girl" region/a and a recreation of the set from a href="http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2008/01/10/showtime-mulls-expansion-of-sl-presence/"Showtime's "The L Word"/a come to mind -- only took off after companies made long-term committments to tedious and expensive event planning run by human staff./p pBut unlike Second Life (or Google's Lively), the PS3 is purpose-built for gaming. If Red Bull can deliver a fun and free air racing game, the company can step back and reap the benefits of positive branding with no further effort./p pAnd there's an added bonus: Red Bull can be fairly confident no one will storm their PS3 island with a barrage of a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/second-life-offers-business-teleconferencing-now-penis-free"flying penises/a./p pstrongSee Also:/strongbr /a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/why-reuters-left-second-life-and-how-linden-lab-can-fix-it"Why Reuters Left Second Life, And How Linden Lab Can Fix It/abr /a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/how-google-could-have-made-lively-work"How Google Could Have Made Lively Work: No Sex, More Ads, Firefox /abr /a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/second-life-offers-business-teleconferencing-now-penis-free"Second Life Offers Business Teleconferencing, Now Penis-Free/a/p pemPhoto: a href="http://flickr.com/photos/nathaninsandiego/2474181009/"San Diego Shooter/a/em/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/x-oBVf3RaUtt3KH9SAls8jPKF9U/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/x-oBVf3RaUtt3KH9SAls8jPKF9U/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=HtoM1tpP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=HtoM1tpP" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=GnE2IIbn"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=I4RiLO0O"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=QZMbTGuD"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=QZMbTGuD" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=yuuJ2bUm"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=SCOkPPWG"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=mMmxZ6Py"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=rqQhcLbb"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/uNkPMh39Eyo" height="1" width="1"/

Virta-Flaneurazine (VF) is a potent programmable mood-changing drug for Second Life (SL). It is identified as part of the Wanderment family of psychotropic drugs because it automatically causes the user to aimlessly roam the distant lands of online 3D worlds. As the prograchemistry takes effect, users find themselves erratically teleporting to random locations, behaving strangely, seeing digephemera and walking or flying in circuitous paths. Many users report the experience allows them to see SL in a renewed light, as somehow reconfigured outside the everyday limitations of a fast growing grid of virtual investment properties. VF derives from a formula which the authors of this study, Dr* JC Freeman and Dr* WD Pappenheimer, synthesized some time ago. The clinical study will include an exhibition that dispenses and evaluates the drug for volunteer subjects. The installation includes a comfortable multi-position mechanical chair, exam area, a waiting room and live SL projection screens for patient and public viewing.p/pimg src=http://rhizome.org/syndicate/nothing.gif?f=art border=0

Après les mobiles, les blogs et Second Life, le Téléthon mise sur le mur publicitaire pour le parrainage en ligne. Particuliers et professionnels sont invités à acheter leur espace.