Philadelphia Future Salon Event Sept 15th, 5-7pm: Art and Design in Second Life: Exploring Virtual Worlds

Art and Design in Second Life: Exploring Virtual Worlds Tuesday,
Sept 15th 5 – 7 pm CBS Auditorium,
Hamilton Hall @ The University of the Arts (320 S. Broad St.)
Sponsored by The Corzo Center for the Creative Economy

Artists, designers, educators, musicians, and institutions are coming together and creating a 3-D interactive online community that transcends the [...]

PANMA Event: Other Spaces: Virtual World Options Beyond Second Life

Second Life has had the buzz, both positive and negative, among virtual worlds for the better part of the past five years. More and more options are starting to present themselves as viable alternatives, especially open source options. Many local academic and business entities have tried Second Life to varying degrees of success, and are [...]

Jennifer’s Blog Feeds

I write on many topics some that overlap each other and others that are completely different. Rather than starting a blog for each, I have created separate feed categories for each topic category, so you can follow my social media postings without having to read about health and fitness. I may add or change feeds [...]

RIP: Kendra

I came back from lunch to find out that a friend of ours Maddie Blaustein (aka Kendra Bancroft in Second Life) passed away last week.  We met through Second Life a long time ago in a far off galaxy and met in the real world at the first Second Life Convention in 2005. Theres so [...]

Reflections a Year Later

I’m quickly approaching the one year anniversary of my “hiatus” from Second Life and virtual worlds in general. I never really intended for it to go on so long. I thought that I’d be back in the swing of things after a few months. I guess I was more burnt out than I thought I [...]

Pre-Windlight Texture Problems

It has come to my attention that some of my clothing designs or rather the texture used to create them, have been negatively affected by the release of Windlight. I am sure that I am not alone in sharing this bit of woe. All of my designs were created long before Windlight was even in [...]

A Customer Service Solution

All Deadly Nightshade customer service concerns will be handled by FlipperPA Peregrine during my extended absence from Second Life. I apologize for not doing this sooner and for making light of the situation. Mea culpa!

Flipper will handle failed inventory transactions, refunds and other miscellaneous issues. Because he is not a fashion designer, no modifications will [...]

It’s a Fake World After All…

Sometimes it pays to be snarky and mildly offending… at least I don’t have to change my blog title in light of “Fake World” makers Linden Lab’s new mandate reported by Tateru Nino of Massively regarding usuage of Second Life names and logos in conjunction with third party products and websites.

Flip/Tim and I have been [...]

So Long and Thanks for All the Prims

The metaverse is a buzz this afternoon as the news broke across Reuters that Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale is stepping down. Rosedale assume the role of Chairman of the Board, replacing Mitch Kapor. Kapor will still remain on the Linden Lab board.

The news has been reverberating across numerous Second Life related blogs and forums [...]

Reflections on Second Life through World of Warcraft

Every now and then I still get asked when I am taking a long term hiatus from Second Life? what I am doing? will I ever be back? why I left? and so on and so forth. The easy answer was that I just burnt out on Second Life and needed a break after having [...]