Posted on August 17 2010 Read more...

Wk 5 – SL – Still no island

well we are still not able to access our little patch of land. I spent all of last night trying to create a homeless person haha - and losing beards and clothing but i think i have almost got the hang of it.. i just need to make his face look more... derelict. Melissa on ...
Posted on August 16 2010 Read more...

Wk 5- SL – Short Cut Keys

So i watched this tutorial on the top ten building tips but got some really useful stuff about camera angles and short cut keys: Camera: Alt Zoom - Alt, click mouse and a magnify glass appears, move your mouse back and forth to zoom in and out Alt - CTRL - this will do a rotate zoo, higher ...
Posted on August 16 2010 Read more...

Wk 5 – SL – Prims….how to start creating

So i found some info online about building basic shapes... heres some snippets Prims Prim is short for primitive. Prims are the building blocks of Second Life. Everything is constructed of prims. All objects in Second Life are made of prims, except for avatars, the natural ground, and trees. People say "prim dress" or " prim ...
Posted on August 16 2010 Read more...

Wk 4 – SL

So this week has been a little panic inducing. Coming to the realisation that we still dont have access to the island and have no idea what to do even if we did. This wasnt helped by flying over RMIT island and seeing that people have actually built things - there was a friggin castle ...
Posted on August 4 2010 Read more...

Wk 3 – Ghost Town

Well todays was not so great. Unfortunately an important guest forgot to arrive at the tute so i have very little to report - except after 45mins i gave up and returned to work. There are also no readings.. and yet again nothing to report. I guess on the SL front i can say that attempts ...
Posted on July 28 2010 Read more...

Wk 2 – The Virtual Team

I have also been thinking about the best way to collaborate online. Last semester i used Google Docs and this sort of morphed into using Google Wave. I have set up a "wave" for Monsters and have invited my team members to try out the system and see if they like it. Wave has a number of benefits ...
Posted on July 28 2010 Read more...

Wk 2 – SL Initial Ideas

After todays tute i'm am much more excited about this project. We have a group and our initial discussions have resulted in an amalgamated concept. Initial ideas were: Human/T-rex terrorising city with skateboard - based on Vanessas' painting Godzilla remake - bad japanese dubbed/iron chef like Kids Kids Kids Man confronted by monsters of everyday life - i.e kids, bank teller, office worker Lost ...
Posted on July 27 2010 Read more...

Wk 1 – Reading – Extraordinary Beings

As I read through the pages, I started remembering all my monsters.  My conceived idea of monsters and what the word meant to me. I have many fears or phobias – I hate flying things, this started off as birds but now includes insects and really any winged creature.  The fear of something swooping down upon ...
Posted on July 21 2010 Read more...

Wk 1

Ok this post is primarily to test out my category url... which i seem to be having some minor issues with. Also, because i know how much we all love reflecting, i thought i'd throw in a few thoughts on the first week. I must say - day 1, lecture 1 - i walked out thinking - ...
Posted on June 3 2010 Read more...

Int Media_MAJOR ASSIGNMENT_

Here we go.... Bloodlines KFilm Essay