UWA and Cole's gals.

Well, normally gals get their panties in a twist turning up at a posh do wearing the same outfit...but...firstly, to have Sharni as Dress Sista just shows good taste, and secondly, to be wearing one of ColeMarie's latest pieces is v classy.

We both had a good giggle..... Thanks Cole...xxxx

Now.....there were lots of prizes given out and I'll leave the UWAinSL blog to give you all the details.....suffice to say....

VERTICAL SPIRAL KALEIDOSCOPE by FreeWee Ling took the first prize which I am personally v pleased about because I felt she had already submitted genus pieces in previous rounds, as did Aliz when we chatted about it the other night....

and Best Non-Scripted Entry was MEDUSA'S GAZE by Pravda Core which I blogged yesterday...

PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD - 1st prize was awarded to Lea Supermarine & Jarapanda Snook - Music of the Spheres ...

..and I hope the other worthy prize winners won't mind if I leave it at that... Jayjay will have pictures of the winners on the UWA site soon enough....

...because I want to give full details of another competition by UWA....for a Trophy Design.

here..."
UWA 3D Design Challenge Trophy Contest

The residents of Artemisia are happy to sponsor a contest to design the official award objects for the UWA 3D Design Challenges. The objects will be presented to each winner of the monthly challenge as a keepsake to display with their entries or to place on a shelf.

Prize: 3000L

Deadline for sumbissions: Saturday, July 31, 2010, 11:59 PM

Winner will be announced and the winning entry used for the July Challenge round awards at the August awards ceremony.

Submit FULL PERM entries to FreeWee Ling or deposit them in the special drop boxes at:
UWA or Artemisia

Details:

We expect that there will be only one winning award object (a trophy) to represent UWA and to be presented to all Design Challenge winners. These may or may not be used also for the Flagship Challenge. The trophy base will be customized for the specific awards. If we get several excellent entries, we may decide to use more than one. If that is the case, each winning entry will receive a full cash (Linden) prize.

ID: Submissions must be FULL PERM. Please include your name as part of the object name.

SIZE: (Your entry must be able to fit entirely within The bounding box on top of the base ( 0.2 x 0.2 x 0.25 meters). IT NEED NOT FILL THE BOX! This is the MAXIMUM size. Preference will be given to objects that are appropriately proportional. We are looking for elegance and simplicity. Note that the box is intentionally small so that the final projects may be resized larger for the different award levels. This box is the smallest they will be....[best find out about the base...it was supposed to be attached, but it went awol]

PRIMS: You are limited to a maximum of 10 (ten) prims.

NO SCRIPTED OBJECTS: The trophy should not distract from the object that won the award. It should be a simple, static object. No moving parts or particle emitters.

The award object should be in keeping with the creative energy of the UWA Challenge. It should be creative, interesting, and unique.

If you have questions please contact FreeWee Ling.

FreeWee represents the residents of Artemisia, a residential sim dedicated to living in an engaging environment. Artemisia: Living with Art."....end of..

So...get cracking geniuses...



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UWA, Glyph and other bloggy stuff.

Well, popped over to UWA to see Wizzy’s new sculpture, which is well up to her normal standard....and loved Nish Mip’s Umbrellas, below, and ....








I’m always a sucker for this type of thing by Ginger Lorakeet, (tho I missed FreeWee’s humour)... and Samara Borkatron's presentation of Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" moved me more than I expected...

Sharni Azalee, inspired by Avatar, in her piece I See You, has a strong, emotional side which talks of identity in a more subtle way than Cat's....but they are related pieces, I think...

Cat Boccaccio's piece, Identity Crisis, is very striking, and slightly mesmerising.


Loads of other good things there....too many to mention...



Then last night I had to visit Glyph’s new installation at IBM (IBM exhibit C (14,124,23) which was very worth seeing...

....lots to see at ground level.....hidden stuff etc....then above this he has bacteria who have avis.... well...as far as I understand...single cell organisms are monitored in RL and their movements shown on SL prims (shaped like cells).....

To put it more adequately....
”This isn't just a simple RL/SL communication project it is literally real life mediated and projected into a new virtual existence. Somewhere in the bowels of Perth in the Studio of Electronic Arts at Curtin University, WA, Australia there is a lonely petri dish sitting on a bench. Inside this petri dish is a colony of Protozoa. Their movement is captured through video microscopy and then converted into a real time data stream and sent to SL.

Julian's part in the collaboration is the physical world part, that is, to capture the data and stream it into sl where I pick it up and transform it into a SL existence. He collects his cultures from local Perth ecosystems and isolates particular microcommunities in these samples, then tracks their movement and reproduction through digital microscopy, converting the data into a set of coordinates and id numbers.

I met Julian at the inaugural Australian Centre of Virtual Art LAB (http://www.acva.net.au/) where I had been discussing possibilities for transforming data between worlds. Julian works with mixed reality data transfer systems, using real biological data to create bridged mixed reality environments. With a few stops and starts the collaboration on the Cells project went from there.”

Lots of arty types were there and lots of arty friends... a generally very amusing bunch.

Meanwhile..... Emerald_Viewer_1.23.5.1635.exe has been released by Modular systems...... which I havent tried yet, but Wizzy said the alpha fix was noticeably better.... will wait for further enlightened comments....

I am currently watching the French Open and Chelsea Flower Show this week so my interests are somewhat varied....expect no great SL presence, tho some new trees are in the offing....

Oh, and my show at IBM will now be in September...also on IBM C like Glyph and Miso...

My Virtual Treeline book is in the post....exciting...can’t wait...

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Virtual Treeline V

...or..."now that's what I call a tree".....

This is by Marcus Inkpen, full details of him...here.... He has planted this whopper at Virtual Treeline and it is well worth a visit.....here...

Sharni Azalee is also showing in what seems to be the final show at Treeline, more's the pity, so it is doubly worth a visit....

Sharni I mentioned in a previous post and, as usual, Juanita has spotted new talent and showed her work.

....another great show...


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