Second Life and other links...

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For next Wednesday, you are to have signed up for a free Second Life avatar and build something with no less than 10 prims.

http://www.secondlife.com

Join and start looking around this vast virtual community for possible locations for our film.

Here are a few tutorials for building: (ok, some of those who have made these tutorials are really dorky - good skills herein nonetheless!) The tutorials within Second Life are very helpful as well on the welcome islands. You will need to spend some quality time in Second Life to get the hang of it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmN_hAHlF0M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LMcryDCIYk


Here are some places to visit in Second Life that might be interesting for locations and just worth looking at: (use the machines in the lab or at the Knowledge Center unless you have a very fast machine and a great internet connection at home as these are generally some very "prim" heavy regions that will lag on you on slower machines and connections).

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Toxia%20South/244/238/23

http://slurl.com/secondlife/IDIA%20Laboratories/197/139/34

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dreamworld%20North/202/141/22

http://slurl.com/secondlife/TovaDok%20II/30/195/35

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Shipyard/48/25/2660

http://slurl.com/secondlife/INSILICO%20SOUTH/100/104/3602

I found many of these locations in SL from recommendations noted here:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/science-fiction/discuss/72157602809336430/