Another trip. The graphics in this game is amazing. It is so nice to just drive and look at the landscape. Volvos's soon to be delivered. It is all in a days work.

I am ready with my build for this years Avatarfest.

This is wrote

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As a artist it is nice to do new things sometime. I have done many exhibitions with prims so this is new for me.
I wanted to do a mesh project. With bones and and a lot of different 3D software. I am working on a bigger Opensim project and realized that mesh is probably the way forward. So this is a test to see if i could do a art project like this.

The reason for the lions is that i am working with some lion heads in clay in my real life studio. Inspired by the lion heads in Galas mausoleum outside Barcelona. Loved them when i was there few years ago. So when you work with a shape it is nice to get it over to the Opensim world and try to explore it further.”

It is still a few day to go before the fest. Hypergridding

http://avatarfest.net:6000

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AnnaLorentzson/posts Big data sucks. The really like you in their system.

Visited Tangle grid. Kling Kingdom. 4 sim medeival sim with a lot of castles. Nice build and big. I go in my Star Trek uniform these days i am a explorer you know.

Visited Wright Plaza today on the Hypergrid.

Happy about the new solution for the blog as I have had it for such a long time. The reason for moving is that I just do not think that Google should use my name in all their apps.

It is not a anonymous thing. Cyber is totally connected to my real name anyway but in RL I am the fine artist Anna and Cyber is the CEO of my game company and also the explorer of virtual worlds and the net. There is a difference and I think that should be my choice.

Yes you can use any name you want on Google+ but it was surprisingly difficult to change it to my avatar form. And I could suddenly not use Blogger with all functions. I was working for 2 days with it then gave it up.

It is not a big deal I run a lot of websites so this is a good solution. Always wanted to use Wordpress again and I can see that security is beefed up these days.

So welcome to my old blog.

Visited Wright Plaza today on the Hypergrid.

Happy about the new solution for the blog as I have had it for such a long time. The reason for moving is that I just do not think that Google should use my name in all their apps.

It is not a anonymous thing. Cyber is totally connected to my real name anyway but in RL I am the fine artist Anna and Cyber is the CEO of my game company and also the explorer of virtual worlds and the net. There is a difference and I think that should be my choice.

Yes you can use any name you want on Google+ but it was surprisingly difficult to change it to my avatar form. And I could suddenly not use Blogger with all functions. I was working for 2 days with it then gave it up.

It is not a big deal I run a lot of websites so this is a good solution. Always wanted to use Wordpress again and I can see that security is beefed up these days.

So welcome to my old blog.

I have been exploring the metaverse to find cool clubs and really nothing. Send me some info on your favourite to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

It is not often i find a mall build i like. They are often terrible. But this one got one of my best rules. It should be fun to walk around and explore.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Dominus/115/124/22

And someone been thinking about the stores to. Not just a lot of pictures stacked on top of each other.

And there are also some nice places to sit and take a break.

Taking a break and waiting for my espresso.

I would like to see more malls like this one.

This is Nilsart gallery in Second life. It is a nice build and I like it. Now I wanted to test if I could transfer it to Cloud party. First I moved it to my developer grid. It runs Opensim. No problem there. Still looks nice.

Then I exported it with the Singularity viewer to a dae file and imported it in to Blender. Did a heavy reduction of faces and uploaded it to Cloud party. On the left it is in Cloud party. Here I stumbled on the finishing line as Cloud party did not let me place it. The mesh was still to big. But it is possible to do it.

Next to solve is textures. I check that out later.

First: Love the hypergrid and I did not lose my shoes this time. Why do you lose the shoes and not the hair? Metaverse riddle.

Nice place and I just super like the fishing boats far in the distance. That is a kind of focusing at detail I like as a builder. It is a French grid but nobody tried to talk to me. Me and my French teacher long ago, agreed I probably will never learn it. Worth a trip.

So the conference is over.After listening to cute stuff, tech stuff and mind blowing stuff. What to bring home?

The conference itself? It is not the same to be there as it is listening to a stream. You can comment, wooot things and generally be there. The feeling is different and that’s a good thing. Virtual world actually works. At lest for me and as we heard for about 40% of the rest of the population.

A side from the tech stuff we also have another thing in common. English. We can talk and listen to each other. English is not my first language so I do not care if I sometimes make a few mistakes. I can communicate. That’s the thing.

Listening to Pathfinder

The tech stuff worked aside from some small glitches but who have been to a conference without tech problems. It is a part of the package, it is ok when people are nice about it and everybody been really nice.

I wanted to listen to as much as I could. I heard about the business side, learning, tech, simulating cities and military. Some more philosophical talks on why we use the metaverse (yes I used that word). But I missed my special interest . Art. Maybe I have to do that one myself for another year.

I liked that many talks was nice to Second life. There is really no competition. I think Second life and Opensim are different sides on the same coin. But Linden lab is a company and need a good business idea, As many Opensim grid owners, money is needed to run the worlds we visit. But I wonder if Linden lab and Second life will be around in 10 years. I think Opensim will. I visited Active worlds some time ago, First time I visited I used a modem and the internet was just starting up. It shows that the Open source idea could help software to survive and evolve. There may be another conference in 10 years.

Never heard a thing about Cloud party. I think people from Cloud party and Linden lab should be invited would be interesting to hear what they have to say. But maybe they do not want to.

There was a lot of talk about the Hypergrid and of course the Hypergrid I seriously cool. This is a game changer. I want to own my stuff on my computer not I some other peoples servers. I think I have to put some of the dev grid on the Hypergrid. Thinking.

So in the true spirit of the Hypergrid I went over to the OSgrid for some official after party. Listened to live music and chatting away.People where coming and going and someone said that we where 36 at most moving around, dancing and no chat lag. Just had to ask. We were running on a 4 core Windows server, with 2 gb of ram I think. I do not really remember because it was getting late and I am a old person.

So the impression that stands out is that it really worked well. Maybe it is time to go to Beta. LOL.

We joined in from all over the world under a common interest and made it something to really remember.

I visited the grid today and I realized I have nothing to wear to the dance. I have a lot of cool clothes on the Second life grid but they cant be moved so I have to do some uploads of some old clothes I made years ago. Naked is not an option.

I still think that we should be able to use the things we have bought on any grid. I want to own my avatar everywhere in any virtual world and the stuff I have paid for. There got to be a solution of rights. I want a bigger hyper grid!

We are coming up to the weekend of the

http://conference.opensimulator.org/2013/

I have been visiting the grid a few times now and everything look really good.

Yesterdays load test also worked ok. Many avatars and the chat did not break.

Me and all the other guys. I wanted more hippoes, but not.

Starting to look forward to it.

There are so many places to see and go to.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Horizon%20Dream/163/182/26

This place: “ The Looking Glass is the joint creation of Marcus Inkpen and Sharni Azalee. Our art and designs populate an island on which we entertain and support the arts in SL as well as host live music, particle shows and poetry readings.”

As a game designer I really would have liked to see what these guys could do if they did not have the restrictions of Second life.

Maybe building a full world. Everything is very well done and the texture work is excellent at many places.

I bought these shoes in SL and now I realize that I really really would like a pair in real.

They look expensive so maybe I could not afford them in RL. Lucky me I did not pay a fortune in SL.

I found thids empty gallery next to my own. Are the between shows or is it a installaton.

I do not know but i liked it anyway. The plant is really something.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Tabula%20rasa/242/89/27

dieudonne , a photo by phil sidek on Flickr.

I am following the the Second life flicker feed and everyday i am amazed. All the great pictures made in SL.

As a real life photographer i find all my SL colleagues to be more than creative and i know how much work a good picture is.

Found this one in the feed to.

the only thing stopping me, a photo by ariel brearly on Flickr.

This is one of my favourite artist at flickr. Go and check it out many amazing pictures.