Summer and Autumn Great Oaks in packs of 4 and 12
Summer and Autumn Tall Young Oaks in packs of 4 and 12
Friday, 9 September 2011
BEAUTIFUL MATURE GREAT OAK TREES AND TALL YOUNG OAKS
Gorgeous giant great oak trees and elegant tall young oak trees in summer greens and shades of autumn gold and copper. Perfect for your Secondlife forests, gardens and parks
Saturday, 20 August 2011
UPDATE - WILL KITELY BECOME A COPYBOT PARADISE ?
Sally Cherry of CherryNetworks has taken down the copybotted Heart content which was included in an OAR file Sally acquired from Opensim grid.
Sally effectively was an innocent party. In fact Sally had no idea she was using stolen content to develop her Kitely world. This is a deeply unfortunate situation.
I am leaving the blog and screenshots as a record of the situation and the activity, for future reference.
Sally effectively was an innocent party. In fact Sally had no idea she was using stolen content to develop her Kitely world. This is a deeply unfortunate situation.
I am leaving the blog and screenshots as a record of the situation and the activity, for future reference.
Friday, 19 August 2011
WILL KITELY BE A COPYBOT PARADISE ?
I’m not against Kitely
I’m not against Open Sim
I’m a supporter of virtual worlds. I love the virtual medium
What I am against is people STEALING CONTENT, riding on my back and hijacking my hard work
I am NOT Opensource
My work is NOT Open source
I can NOT afford to be Open source.
I have a family to feed, mortgage to pay, bills to pay etc
We have been creating content for Secondlife since 2006. A huge amount of our content has been stolen / copybotted and distributed throughout Open Sim.
Kitely will soon be monetized. Kitely enables users to import .OAR files from Opensim. Kitely is in danger of being flooded with loads of stolen versions of Heart content.
If and when this happens Kitely could be considered to be monetising Heart content as they will be earning revenue from Kitely worlds that contain stolen versions of our work. So if Kitely are earning money from Heart content will they be paying us Royalties?
Here are some screenshots of a Kitely world called Cherry Network. 80% of the plant content is stolen Heart botanicals and there is so much of it, it represents several months work
The owner ( Sally Cherry ) of CherryNetwork - a Kitely World - has her name displayed as creator on our plants and trees. She is not the creator. They are stolen artworks.
I have 100% proof that the plants and trees are mine. The textures are renders of mesh plants which Dolly and I created from scratch.
Take note. We have the 3d Meshes. We have the proof. We ARE the creators.
I repeat I am NOT against Kitely or any Opensim effort. But it is not acceptable for Opensim grid owners to monetise, promote and support their grids with stolen Heart content when renting virtual world land.
The biggest problem the Opensim community has in gaining traction, is trust and attracting content creators to their worlds. Without content there are no worlds, only empty land. All this cobybotting and theft in Opensim does not attract the content creating community to Opensim, in fact it keeps content creators away.
Sharing is all very well if you AGREE to share. But when you haven’t agreed to share, it’s called stealing.
‘He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief’
Anglo Saxon proverb
I’m not against Open Sim
I’m a supporter of virtual worlds. I love the virtual medium
What I am against is people STEALING CONTENT, riding on my back and hijacking my hard work
I am NOT Opensource
My work is NOT Open source
I can NOT afford to be Open source.
I have a family to feed, mortgage to pay, bills to pay etc
We have been creating content for Secondlife since 2006. A huge amount of our content has been stolen / copybotted and distributed throughout Open Sim.
Kitely will soon be monetized. Kitely enables users to import .OAR files from Opensim. Kitely is in danger of being flooded with loads of stolen versions of Heart content.
If and when this happens Kitely could be considered to be monetising Heart content as they will be earning revenue from Kitely worlds that contain stolen versions of our work. So if Kitely are earning money from Heart content will they be paying us Royalties?
Here are some screenshots of a Kitely world called Cherry Network. 80% of the plant content is stolen Heart botanicals and there is so much of it, it represents several months work
The owner ( Sally Cherry ) of CherryNetwork - a Kitely World - has her name displayed as creator on our plants and trees. She is not the creator. They are stolen artworks.
I have 100% proof that the plants and trees are mine. The textures are renders of mesh plants which Dolly and I created from scratch.
Take note. We have the 3d Meshes. We have the proof. We ARE the creators.
Screenshots showing stolen/copybot Heart Botanicals
in Kitely World
in Kitely World
I repeat I am NOT against Kitely or any Opensim effort. But it is not acceptable for Opensim grid owners to monetise, promote and support their grids with stolen Heart content when renting virtual world land.
The biggest problem the Opensim community has in gaining traction, is trust and attracting content creators to their worlds. Without content there are no worlds, only empty land. All this cobybotting and theft in Opensim does not attract the content creating community to Opensim, in fact it keeps content creators away.
Sharing is all very well if you AGREE to share. But when you haven’t agreed to share, it’s called stealing.
‘He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief’
Anglo Saxon proverb
Tuesday, 2 August 2011
SPOTON3D'S VIRTUAL WORLD WEB BASED VIEWER - WORKS WITH FACEBOOK
Browser based virtual worlds have arrived.
Spoton3D have released a super easy to install browser plugin for virtual worlds.
Installed it in a couple of minutes, teleported here and there, built some stuff ..... everything worked seamlessly.
Will browser based access to virtual worlds tempt the mass market, the millions of chatters, texters, IMers, skypers, facebookers, the 'Avatarless' communicators who have yet to be incarnated in pixel flesh, yet to discover the delights awaiting them ...... the opportunity to create yourself anew
The 'Avatarless' mass market needs easy access to virtual worlds and Spoton3D's Virtual World Plugin is a massive step in the right direction.
There are literally hundreds of millions of people using social networking sites such as the all pervading Facebook. Yet Facebook only has very cut down, limited, virtual chat and game type worlds ... Yoville, Cafe world, Farmville, Cityville and so on. These are not true virtual worlds, they lack the essential element, which is 'User Generated Content'
Secondlife, Spoton3D and Opensim is where it's really happening. Facebook, Google+ are 2D limited experiences .... glorified and pimped out, telephone address books. They've reached their limit and have nowhere to go now, apart from into the 3rd dimension.
But the weird thing is Facebook and Google+ do not allow avatar accounts, which is very short sighted and somewhat bonkers, as we, the avatar community are the future :-) Get real Facebook ! Get real Google+ ! you've already lost touch ! It's wonderful that you can visit a virtual world with an avatar inside a Facebook page, but crazy you can't BE an avatar on Facebook. Clearly the Facebook and Google+ developers do not understand the future
Ten years from now if you don't have several avatar selves, virtual agents, that represent all the different you's in virtual space .... the playful you, the business you, the warrior you, the dancing queen you, the creator you ....... it will be like not having an email address or web access or a mobile phone. You will be cut off from a human happening. The 2D web was the beginning, but the 3D web is the future
You can get a little taste of the future by downloading and trying the Spoton3D's Virtual World Plugin, it's easy and a fun experience.
Spoton3D has an economy and a marketplace where you can buy and sell User Generated Content, which is the life blood of any true 3D virtual world.
Dolly and I have started listing our plants and trees at the Spoton3D marketplace
Here are some other links with more information and discussion regarding Spoton3D's bold step forward
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/07/opensim-in-facebook.html
http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/07/kudos-to-spoton3d-for-viewer-plugin/
http://metaverse-traveller.blogspot.com/2011/07/spoton3d-to-patent-open-sim-in-browser.html
Will Spoton3D's easy to use web viewer be one of the catalysts that attracts the illusive 'Avatarless' social networking millions to 3D virtual worlds ?
As they say at Spoton3D .....
"The 3DWeb — A Place to Go ...Rather Than a Page to Read!"
Spoton3D have released a super easy to install browser plugin for virtual worlds.
Installed it in a couple of minutes, teleported here and there, built some stuff ..... everything worked seamlessly.
Will browser based access to virtual worlds tempt the mass market, the millions of chatters, texters, IMers, skypers, facebookers, the 'Avatarless' communicators who have yet to be incarnated in pixel flesh, yet to discover the delights awaiting them ...... the opportunity to create yourself anew
The 'Avatarless' mass market needs easy access to virtual worlds and Spoton3D's Virtual World Plugin is a massive step in the right direction.
There are literally hundreds of millions of people using social networking sites such as the all pervading Facebook. Yet Facebook only has very cut down, limited, virtual chat and game type worlds ... Yoville, Cafe world, Farmville, Cityville and so on. These are not true virtual worlds, they lack the essential element, which is 'User Generated Content'
Secondlife, Spoton3D and Opensim is where it's really happening. Facebook, Google+ are 2D limited experiences .... glorified and pimped out, telephone address books. They've reached their limit and have nowhere to go now, apart from into the 3rd dimension.
But the weird thing is Facebook and Google+ do not allow avatar accounts, which is very short sighted and somewhat bonkers, as we, the avatar community are the future :-) Get real Facebook ! Get real Google+ ! you've already lost touch ! It's wonderful that you can visit a virtual world with an avatar inside a Facebook page, but crazy you can't BE an avatar on Facebook. Clearly the Facebook and Google+ developers do not understand the future
Ten years from now if you don't have several avatar selves, virtual agents, that represent all the different you's in virtual space .... the playful you, the business you, the warrior you, the dancing queen you, the creator you ....... it will be like not having an email address or web access or a mobile phone. You will be cut off from a human happening. The 2D web was the beginning, but the 3D web is the future
You can get a little taste of the future by downloading and trying the Spoton3D's Virtual World Plugin, it's easy and a fun experience.
Spoton3D has an economy and a marketplace where you can buy and sell User Generated Content, which is the life blood of any true 3D virtual world.
Dolly and I have started listing our plants and trees at the Spoton3D marketplace
Here are some other links with more information and discussion regarding Spoton3D's bold step forward
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/07/opensim-in-facebook.html
http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/07/kudos-to-spoton3d-for-viewer-plugin/
http://metaverse-traveller.blogspot.com/2011/07/spoton3d-to-patent-open-sim-in-browser.html
Will Spoton3D's easy to use web viewer be one of the catalysts that attracts the illusive 'Avatarless' social networking millions to 3D virtual worlds ?
As they say at Spoton3D .....
"The 3DWeb — A Place to Go ...Rather Than a Page to Read!"
Heart Sim in Spoton3D Grid - Using The Web Based Viewer
Friday, 8 July 2011
THE DEATH OF SL MESH
UPDATE:
Mesh has the power to transform Secondlife into something awesome and unbelievably beautiful but right now it's being crippled and choked by mesh PE.
A poem by Lilith Heart
I LOVE MESH
I am mesh’s number 1 fan
Give me an M …. Give me an E … Give me an S …. Give an H …. What have you got …. MESH !!!!! YAAAAAY MESH !! Go mesh Go !!
But …
For me mesh is already DEAD with the current PE
For me a prim count of 500 is no good for a pretty mesh tree
How I hate the horrid sculpty
I really want to make a gorgeous mesh tree
Nobody will pay money for a mesh tree that’s 500 PE
Nobody will want my beautiful mesh tree
OH NO! Mesh is dead for me
All because of the silly PE
Only 3 sculpty prims equal my 500 PE mesh tree
This seems very unfair to me
I’m begging on hands and knees, make mesh work for creators like me
And get rid of that cruel and restrictive PE
No need for physics on my lovely mesh tree
Damn the physics it’s killed mesh for me
All because I make a giant mesh tree!
Oh lovely mesh tree, why are you 500 PE ?
Oh Woe is me …. Curse the damn PE
Oh mesh I love you … you make a beautiful tree …
Much better than any sculpty !
Oh woe is me … curse the damn PE
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The current mesh PE calculations are so expensive, prim-wise … MESH IS A NON STARTER… DOA .. Dead on Arrival ! Mesh as is, is only applicable for the avatar clothing and accessories market, which have no prim limits …. Crazy stuff !
For all land based products, all landscaping items …. plants trees, furniture, houses … anything you rez on land that has a prim limit … SL mesh is basically redundant, because it’s too expensive prim-wise compared to scultpy equivalents. We need mesh most for the LANDSCAPE and ARCHITECTURE of Secondlife, for the grid itself. How the world looks is most important for the next phase of SL.
Unfortunately mesh is not going to make any difference to how the world looks, as we won’t be able to use it in the world, on the land. We will only be able to wear mesh items because the PE for landscape items is too restrictive and expensive prim wise. MESH IS TOO PRIMMY FOR LAND PRODUCTS
The look of the Secondlife world is often compared to the latest 3D games and it doesn’t compare well. .We desperately need mesh to improve the look of the SL world to excite and retain new users.
Please, please Mesh Lindens …. take another look at mesh PE and find a more usable solution so we can all help to make the SL World more beautiful.
Summary .... PE outrageously high ..... mesh is dead … DOA ….. Dead on Arrival :-(
Mesh has the power to transform Secondlife into something awesome and unbelievably beautiful but right now it's being crippled and choked by mesh PE.
A poem by Lilith Heart
I LOVE MESH
I am mesh’s number 1 fan
Give me an M …. Give me an E … Give me an S …. Give an H …. What have you got …. MESH !!!!! YAAAAAY MESH !! Go mesh Go !!
But …
For me mesh is already DEAD with the current PE
For me a prim count of 500 is no good for a pretty mesh tree
How I hate the horrid sculpty
I really want to make a gorgeous mesh tree
Nobody will pay money for a mesh tree that’s 500 PE
Nobody will want my beautiful mesh tree
OH NO! Mesh is dead for me
All because of the silly PE
Only 3 sculpty prims equal my 500 PE mesh tree
This seems very unfair to me
I’m begging on hands and knees, make mesh work for creators like me
And get rid of that cruel and restrictive PE
No need for physics on my lovely mesh tree
Damn the physics it’s killed mesh for me
All because I make a giant mesh tree!
Oh lovely mesh tree, why are you 500 PE ?
Oh Woe is me …. Curse the damn PE
Oh mesh I love you … you make a beautiful tree …
Much better than any sculpty !
Oh woe is me … curse the damn PE
-------------------------------------
The current mesh PE calculations are so expensive, prim-wise … MESH IS A NON STARTER… DOA .. Dead on Arrival ! Mesh as is, is only applicable for the avatar clothing and accessories market, which have no prim limits …. Crazy stuff !
For all land based products, all landscaping items …. plants trees, furniture, houses … anything you rez on land that has a prim limit … SL mesh is basically redundant, because it’s too expensive prim-wise compared to scultpy equivalents. We need mesh most for the LANDSCAPE and ARCHITECTURE of Secondlife, for the grid itself. How the world looks is most important for the next phase of SL.
Unfortunately mesh is not going to make any difference to how the world looks, as we won’t be able to use it in the world, on the land. We will only be able to wear mesh items because the PE for landscape items is too restrictive and expensive prim wise. MESH IS TOO PRIMMY FOR LAND PRODUCTS
The look of the Secondlife world is often compared to the latest 3D games and it doesn’t compare well. .We desperately need mesh to improve the look of the SL world to excite and retain new users.
Please, please Mesh Lindens …. take another look at mesh PE and find a more usable solution so we can all help to make the SL World more beautiful.
Summary .... PE outrageously high ..... mesh is dead … DOA ….. Dead on Arrival :-(
Monday, 4 July 2011
THE WONDER OF SECOND LIFE - VIRTUAL MONEY = REAL FOOD
In the summer slump, amongst the weary and burnt out creators, fatigued and confused residents .... amazing wondrous things are happening in Second Life.
On Sunday 26th June we hosted a benefit concert at The Villa Bar on Heart 2 in aid of 'Live and Learn in Kenya's ..... Feed a Smile Project'. Live and Learn in Kenya .... Feed A Smile Project
Tukso Okey provided the most amazing 2 hour rock/blues type 'set' in his usual unique and incredible style.
During the two hour concert 100600 L$ ( approx 400 USD) was donated by the wonderful residents of Secondlife ..... who are far sighted, upwardly mobile, early adopting, brave pioneers of this strange, collective digital dream world.
The medium is virtual but the money raised is REAL and paid for real food ...... approx 1000 meals which included sweets, bananas and milk as a special treat !
A big thank you to Brique Topaz (Feed A Smile contact in SL), Tukso and to all our guests who made it happen. See photos below.
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We crashed the sim at ONLY 62 guests .... such a shame .... as I'm sure we could have gathered 100 or more guests if the technology hadn't failed us. It's very distressing for the sim to crash in the middle of an event.
The momentum and flow of the event was seriously disrupted by the sim crash. but luckily many of the guests were patient and waited on the edges of the sim until The Villa Bar venue re-appeared about 5-6 mins later.
See pic of The Arcachon crew waiting for the Villa Bar @ Heart to re-appear
http://www.flickr.com/photos/evekazan/5874105815/in/photostream/
Why, Why Linden Lab .... is there not a 'Pay As you Go', 24 hour, EVENTS POWER SERVER option for larger get togethers and important gatherings, such as Live Music, Charity Events, anything that requires a professional level of stability during an event ?
It takes a lot of time and effort for event organisers to arange everything ' just so' and to create momentum and a buzz. It's a terrible shame to lose all that time, effort and energy and crash the sim with ONLY 62 avatars present. More is surely possible !
Intel Releasing Code for Putting 1000s of Avatars on a Single OpenSim Region This Month (With Cloud Deployment Too)!
Clearly, more IS possible !
Second Life is a compelling and unique experience as is. But if we could get hundreds of people to individual events .... parties, fund raisers, lectures, 'do's' of all kinds and especially Live Music events ..... that would be truly amazing and be the birth of a new phase of the virtual, shared experience.
There are so many people spending their real lives organising virtual events in Second Life it would be prudent if Linden Lab recognised this activity and offered some kind of 'Pay As you Go', 24 hour, EVENTS POWER SERVER' option, so that organisers can guarantee a more stable event experience.
On Sunday 26th June we hosted a benefit concert at The Villa Bar on Heart 2 in aid of 'Live and Learn in Kenya's ..... Feed a Smile Project'. Live and Learn in Kenya .... Feed A Smile Project
Tukso Okey provided the most amazing 2 hour rock/blues type 'set' in his usual unique and incredible style.
During the two hour concert 100600 L$ ( approx 400 USD) was donated by the wonderful residents of Secondlife ..... who are far sighted, upwardly mobile, early adopting, brave pioneers of this strange, collective digital dream world.
The medium is virtual but the money raised is REAL and paid for real food ...... approx 1000 meals which included sweets, bananas and milk as a special treat !
A big thank you to Brique Topaz (Feed A Smile contact in SL), Tukso and to all our guests who made it happen. See photos below.
See above the real food generated by Second Life's virtual currency and it's wonderful residents
Click photo to enlarge
The above photo includes a blackboard drawing created by one of the artistic and talented children in the Feed a Smile Project in Kenya. It shows a beautiful chalk interpretation of Dolly, Tukso and myself. I was particularly struck by the artists rendition of our dresses and bangles and hair, which really captured the essence of our current SL fashion look ! Fantastic !
Dolly and I were actually completely overwhelmed by the drawing .... what can one say.
Here are some pictures of the event taking place at The Villa Bar in Second Life. We peaked at 62 guests and then the sim crashed .... which was a real shame as Dolly had optimistically set the agent limit for the sim to 100 !
The momentum and flow of the event was seriously disrupted by the sim crash. but luckily many of the guests were patient and waited on the edges of the sim until The Villa Bar venue re-appeared about 5-6 mins later.
See pic of The Arcachon crew waiting for the Villa Bar @ Heart to re-appear
http://www.flickr.com/photos/evekazan/5874105815/in/photostream/
Why, Why Linden Lab .... is there not a 'Pay As you Go', 24 hour, EVENTS POWER SERVER option for larger get togethers and important gatherings, such as Live Music, Charity Events, anything that requires a professional level of stability during an event ?
It takes a lot of time and effort for event organisers to arange everything ' just so' and to create momentum and a buzz. It's a terrible shame to lose all that time, effort and energy and crash the sim with ONLY 62 avatars present. More is surely possible !
Intel Releasing Code for Putting 1000s of Avatars on a Single OpenSim Region This Month (With Cloud Deployment Too)!
Clearly, more IS possible !
Second Life is a compelling and unique experience as is. But if we could get hundreds of people to individual events .... parties, fund raisers, lectures, 'do's' of all kinds and especially Live Music events ..... that would be truly amazing and be the birth of a new phase of the virtual, shared experience.
There are so many people spending their real lives organising virtual events in Second Life it would be prudent if Linden Lab recognised this activity and offered some kind of 'Pay As you Go', 24 hour, EVENTS POWER SERVER' option, so that organisers can guarantee a more stable event experience.
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
SECONDLIFE IS NOT A GAME ! TUKSO OKEY - FEED A SMILE BENEFIT GIG @ HEART
TUKSO CONCERT TONIGHT FROM 2pm - 4pm SLT / PST
Come as you are ..... ALL WELCOME
Secondlife is not a game.
It's an extension of the Human Community. Secondlife life is the best plugin for your real life and the vibrant Live Music Scene is a perfect example.
Here we have the astounding and brilliant Tukso Okey playing a benefit concert in aid of Live and Learn in Kenya's Feed A Smile Program ..... turning Linden Dollars L$ into Food and Smiles. Every 100L$ pays for a warm meal .... Remarkable ! Virtual currency into real food.
Secondlife is not a game, Secondlife is so much more ..... it's a unique, ONE OF A KIND means of communication and empowerment.
Live and Learn in Kenya finds sponsors to finance the education of needy children, which includes everything that the child needs in order to go to school — fees, uniform, shoes, textbooks, school supplies.
You can find more information about Live and Learn in Kenya and the marvellous work they do on their web site : http://www.llk-selb.de/
Video - Make a donation-Make a change
or visit The Lavender Field in Secondlife on Tahono Island http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tohono%20Island/145/77/22/
Visit Tukso's web site - http://www.nimbitmusic.com/tuksookey
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