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virtual suburbia virtual suburbia monday july 17 2023 broken image links don t click them hi everyone just an update here from the year checks notes 2023 what holy crap that went fast while it is kind of amazing that this site is still up and running for as much as people talk about stuff on the internet lasting forever sometimes it doesn t back in the day i uploaded most of the second life screenshots for this blog to image hosting sites sl universe and snapzilla aka slpics dot com run by one of the og residents tonight i was reminiscing a bit and starting to think about re launching another old project when my travels brought me back here via hamlet au s new world notes which is still going strong f yeah hamlet i noticed that most of the images linked from sl universe snapzilla on these posts weren t displaying properly and when i attempted to follow the links back to the source i was redirected to a different site entirely at which point my security software stepped in and said whoa big fella i see we ve got ourselves some malware on that site so maybe we won t go there so yeah that happened and i don t know for how long it has been happening i think the only responsible thing to do would be edit the posts and redact the images but it s going to take a while so the next most responsible thing maybe aside from taking the whole blog down is to put up a post on the homepage so here we are it s kind of nice to be back even if the circumstances suck sad to lose the images sorry for the inconvenience stay safe out there c posted by chip poutine 8 23 pm 0 comments friday may 08 2009 just my two fingers on the radial artery of this blog that is its follow friday for chippoutine and i was thinking of people who click on the link in my profile only to find another dead blogspot site well its not dead dead something more akin to being nestled in a cocoon hunkered down for a long and slow metamorphosis in the meantime i ve been posting some random sketches and other cruft over at the blog of our somewhat less nascent virtual design atelier www priondesign com as well if you re interested have a look at www simvineyard com which documents the development of a second life island completed for a startup california winery the island has since been taken offline however you might find the blog to be an interesting read some of the sl blog roundups seem to indicate that simvineyard is actually more active than this site sighs finally feel free to peruse the archives around here and if you like what you see let me know perhaps the cocoon might start to resemble a piñata thanks for stopping by c posted by chip poutine 8 22 am 0 comments wednesday june 13 2007 gathering refuge in addition to the royal institute of technology stockholm s lol architects utilizing second life as a tool for architectural education previously mentioned here and here this post at sharon b s mindtracks reports at least one more university utilizing the metaverse to teach design and problem solving skills namely the school of architecture and design at australia s rmit university very much like lol s sim rmit island view on map direct teleport website is an explosion of ideas that attempts to push the boundaries of architectural possibility arguably blurring the lines between space sculpture graphics and information in a manner not for the timid and seldom achieved in corporate builds while both islands present amazing works ranging from the slightly polemic to the downright esoteric if the two were to be compared it would seem that the lol students have had more freedom to define their own project parameters with the rmit projects appearing more focused by virtue of a relatively explicit design brief for example here is the programme for the first of two assignments the other being a space of gathering completed over the course of the studio project 1 lost a space of refuge design a space of refuge that is inhabitable by two to three people and examines the architectural relationship between interior exterior and landscape inform this design by reading borges short story on the relationship between the map and its territory and develop a spatial and cultural understanding of refuge through architectural design as a result most of the rmit projects felt to some degree like buildings as opposed to installations yet it also seemed like the rmit students were designing objects to be explored through camming rather than avatar movement while one is compelled to dispense a healthy amount of leeway given the experimental nature of these works many were frustrating to navigate and others entirely uninhabitable in such cases personal impressions quickly degrade from breathless to just huffy among the notable exceptions is dinah cortes s take on the refuge project in case you were wondering it s the green thing pictured above quoting from the notecard dispensed at the entry the sequence of different spaces lead the visitor to walk through a gradual initiation of darkness light colours and sounds in being more aware of one s true nature and relationship to the rest of the existence reaching a stage of isolation and contemplation the viewer can experience a kind of meditative reverence bringing out the vibrant spirit of nature perhaps excluding the grandiose part about having me relate to the rest of existence this eye catching build does what it says simple elegant expressive and even a little profound i d give it seven thumbs up or maybe just an a posted by chip poutine 10 33 am 3 comments tuesday june 05 2007 korova milk bar speaking strictly from personal observation the residents of second life have spent considerable energy creating spaces inspired by literary reference some are based on specific authors and works such as john norman s chronicles of gor others are simply evocative nods to science fiction and fantasy novels that lack obvious attribution star wars fandom notwithstanding there seem to be far fewer spaces drawing their inspiration from traditional cinema an admittedly clumsy qualifier used to differentiate it from the rise of spaces serving machinima whether they take the form of backlot sets or personalized screening rooms while first envisioned in the words of anthony burgess a clockwork orange is better known from the film that made him infamous and the korova milk bar in the sim of geoje view on map direct teleport website is not the first build in sl to hatch as the spawn of impresario stanley kubrick in the archives of new world notes hamlet au reported on korov oid tribute spaces dating as far back as 2005 nor can the genius of the man be contained in world as one is reminded every time the grid goes down heck i ve even used that flick as a reference in one of my earliest posts on this site not to mention a subsequent review of a prefab known as slightly droog that hasn t deterred italian sl residents mavi beck and franci kubrick from being the latest to settle into the meme and make it their own in a way that intentionally or not belies the detached coolness and soulless hedonism depicted in the movie a shared sense of cinematic immersion seems to instead evoke a kind of kinship with one s fellow avatars that cuts through the usual personal barriers of bling and bootylicious ness franci and mavi have out of necessity elaborated upon the stark and partial glimpses of the bar as presented in the film the walls feature the same scrawled menu of drug laced dairy products seeping from brightly lit porcelain nudes although they didn t serve drencrom which is what i was drinking filling in the gaps however are a number of more whimsical elements like a giant spinning turntable dance floor emblazoned with the giant spinning head of ludwig van the bar itself is accessed by ascending a staircase from an art gallery on the ground floor while the artworks currently on display are themselves compelling and the framegrab tableau of ultra violence one encounters at the top of the stairs quite powerful the entreatment to be a smart droog rent a shop in korova milk land takes the whole thing down a peg so while these additional elements are executed to varying degrees of conceptual consistency it could be argued that the flaws of this build are in fact what yield its charms if one accepts the notion that presence in a literary world is all about disappearing perhaps presence in a cinematic world is all about being seen this iteration of the korova milk bar has a definite lived in feel infused with the personality of its builders all of which leaves your humble narrator unable to look away and hungry for ticks of toast posted by chip poutine 10 33 pm 1 comments wednesday april 04 2007 the ties that bind images redacted the self described sardonic jackass lordfly digeridoo is known on occasion to betray his declared modus operandi with insightful and entertaining rants on his blog easily one of the most prolific builders in second life the portfolio on his site merely scratches the surface of a body of work dating back to sl s earliest days in fact last month he posted about a collection of historic photos capturing second life s sum total of 108 sims as they existed back in march 2004 and was able to identify many of his own builds in the snapshots the post reminded me of my own time spent on the color sims which for many represent the old world of the grid while working on the mauve infohub i d occasionally check out the surrounding environs where a simple sculpture on green called the ties that bind view on map direct teleport managed to attach itself to the nether regions of my brain we ve previously explored the theme of ephemerality in second life architecture how the ability to instantly erase or conjure a build from inventory makes it seem in some senses disposable yet at the same time this very volatility leads one to savour the structures as they manifest themselves in the moment insecure in the knowledge that at any other given moment they could be gone perhaps forever edifice in the physical world one might suggest could in fact be easier to take for granted and or even dismiss easily shuffled into mental inventory with the comfort of knowing it is going to take significant effort and copious explosives for a building to be removed where the comparison falls down of course is when we begin to compare the material qualities of the stuff that captures and envelopes real versus virtual space a real brick wall does a lot of things that a virtual one can t like withstand being crushed under the weight of the bricks above it feel cold and rough to the touch taste like dirt smell like you know what i mean there s a certain completeness to the way in which these materials are read that tends to outweigh the effects of ephemerality described above add some recreational drugs into the mix and one might call it a draw so what happens when the stuff of virtual architecture stops trying so hard to achieve the sense of gravitas it hopes to gain by incompletely imitating that which we have come to know in the physical world arguably it has the potential to make up for these deficiencies take on its own character and sit alongside physical architecture on a continuum of spatial experience in a small way this is precisely what the ties that bind appears to do with lordfly s post nudging me to document it before it disappears while not necessarily inhabitable in the same way as other works of second life architecture unless one s avatar happens to be very very small and a distinct possibility btw the slipperiness of scale afforded by the camera allows viewpoints from within as well as around the sculpture a diminutive collection of tortured prim ribbons that when considered as a whole come together to form a very complex evocative and gestural surface a victory for raw expression over rational geometry the likes of which not commonly seen in world it achieves its surface qualities through an apparent lack of concern for providing any sort of enclosure or envelope and a seeming disinterest with being a building at all and yet for me anyway it alights in the imagination as the facade of a distant skyscraper that upon approach transforms into something different altogether while far less likely to be seen hanging from a rear view mirror the closest analogue is perhaps the native american notion of the dream catcher as a filter for unseen forces of imagination allowing us to pause and perhaps perceive things may have been or things that may never be posted by chip poutine 11 00 pm 0 comments the architecture of second life reviewed on the fly about me name chip poutine location andromeda azure islands chip poutine is the founder of the prion design group custom and prefab builders in second life as well as a member of the architectural design industry and academia in that other life for over seven years chip is a contributor to 3pointd com if anything is possible nothing is interesting 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