The Life and Career of Steve Jobs

This movie kind of reminds me of Citizen Kane.

Sunday, August 7th, 2011 -'DJs live on Air' in Club Cooee featuring Brad Reason

'DJs live on Air' at the beach featuring 'Brad Reason'

(updated)

Event info & how to log into Club Cooee: http://en.clubcooee.com/events/view/19656

Room

*Pearl of the Sea*

Start

08/07/11 12:00pm (EST)

End

08/07/11 2:00pm (EST)

Join the new official DJ event “DJs live on air” at our opening beach party on Sunday. At the turntables will be DJ Brad Reason (NYC USA) live in the mix spinning Funky Electro House.

Internet Evolution's IT Video Project

When I received this email, I immediately thought of Second Life and it's users.

From my email inbox:




Internet Evolution is about to embark on a truly groundbreaking new video project, and I wanted to see if you would like to get involved.

We're looking to create a video case study about a company embarking on an important new IT project in the second half of this year.

However, unlike most case studies (which take place after the fact) our case study will follow the project from planning, through implementation, to trouble shooting and completion.

Projects that we are highly interested in covering include: cloud computing; analytics; social media in a business environment; security; or an upgrade to a company's computing and middleware systems.

The core of the case study will be three short (five minute) documentaries covering the before, during, and after of your project. These documentaries will be filmed by our professional film crew on location at your company premises at a time that is convenient to you. Each one takes about a morning to film.

We'll also outfit you with a video camera and the training required to upload occasional project updates.

The purpose of the case study is to highlight the great work that IT professionals such as yourself do every day. Our goal is to highlight your success for others to learn from. And, of course, as well as making you a star (and a corporate hero!) we'll also compensate you for your time.

Interested? Please drop me a line at ferraro@internetevolution.com if you would like to know more about this exciting new Internet Evolution project!

Sincerely,
Nicole Ferraro
Executive Editor, Internet Evolution

Cowstep

Be a Fat Cat in the Social Media World - Buy, Sell, and Invest in Online Influence with Empire Avenue

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The Social Media Exchange

Empire Avenue is the Social Media Exchange, where you can invest in any social media profile by buying their shares, meet new people, unlock Achievement badges, and earn boatloads of virtual cash by being active and social online! Buy shares in your friends, your followers, people with similar interests, brands you love, celebrities – anyone! All using a virtual currency and all for free!

Be Social, Reap the Rewards

When you join Empire Avenue, you can connect your Social Networking accounts, and we’ll score activity and engagement in each account and give you a virtual share price. The connections you make on Empire Avenue create "value-based" relationships, a deeper relationship than simply "following" someone, in a completely less intrusive context than becoming "friends."

Every day, you're on Twitter, talking to friends on Facebook, uploading videos or photos, and writing blog posts. Just for doing that stuff, you'll earn Eaves – our virtual currency – and we'll dish out some more virtual cash to your shareholders. Along the way you'll have a bit of fun, make new connections, learn about different people, and learn about social networking and the value of your network! Use your Eaves wisely and you might just become a virtual millionaire... or billionaire (insert evil, world-dominating laugh)?

Check out Empire Avenue

2010 in Electronica Music Videos

Watch 36 of the most eye-catching electronic music videos of 2010 blended together for almost an hour long audiovisual trip.


Video yearmix 2010 from Renier Eclectro on Vimeo.

Tracklist:
1. Trentemøller – Even though you’re with another girl (Director: Adam Hashemi)
2. Nosaj Thing – Coat Of Arms (Director: Roland von Tessin)
3. Massive Attack – Splitting The Atom (Director: Edouard Salier)
4. Babe Rainbow – Shaved (Director: Salazar)
5. Jamie Woon – Night Air (Director: Lorenzo Fonda)
6. Black To Comm – Amateur (Director: Alvaro Posadas)
7. Ólafur Arnalds – Haegt Kemur Ljosio (Director: Esteban Diácono)
8. Toro Y Moi – Talamak (Director: Claude Lelouch)
9. Tame Impala – Solitude Is Bliss (Director: MEGAFORCE)
10. Blackbird Blackbird – Pure (Director: Samuel Pressman)
11. Poom – Rollercoaster (Director: Côme de Bouchony)
12. Audio Bullys – Only Man (Director: Jonas & Francois)
13. Architeq – Into The Cosmos (Director: Chopsy)
14. Andreya Triana – A Town Called Obsolete (Director: Mister McCarthy)
15. Papercutz – Lylac (Helios Remix) (Director: Daihei Shibata)
16. UNKLE – The Answer (Director: Ross Cairns)
17. Boom Bip – Last walk around mirror lake (BoC remix) (Director: FroschYankee)
18. Eskmo – Cloudlight (Director: Dugan O’Neal)
19. Applescal – Roofs Of Heaven (Director: Rick Robin)
20. Skyence – INSCT (Director: Johannes Timpernagel)
21. Polar Bear – A new morning will come (Director: Kira Zhigalina)
22. Clutchy Hopkins – Verbal Headlock (Director: Christian Borstlap)
23. Tim Knol – When I Am King (Director: Sverre Fredriksen)
24. Darwin Deez – Constellations (Director: Terri Timely)
25. Renaud Hallée – Sonar (Director: Renaud Hallée)
26. Four Tet – Circling (Director: Jesse Zanzinger)
27. Jimmy Edgar – New Touch (Director: Lucio Arese)
28. Nobody Beats The Drum – Grindin’ (Director: Rogier van der Zwaag)
29. DJ Mehdi – Signatune (Thomas Bangalter Edit) (Director: Romain Gavras)
30. Grum – Throug The Night (Director: The General Assembly)
31. Breakbot – Baby I’m yours (Director: Irina Dakeva)
32. Maximum Balloon ft. Theophilus London – Groove Me (Director: Carlos Lopez Estrada)
33. Noisia & Mayhem feat. KRS One – Exodus (Director: Alexander Lehmann)
34. Flying Lotus – Zodiac Shit (Director: Lilfuchs)
35. Eskmo – We Got More (Director: Cyriak)
36. Teebs – Track 11 (Director: Frederic Henriques and Jean Brice Hubert)

The History of Daft Punk

In this http://www.WatchMojo.com video, we take a look at the history of the French house duo, Daft Punk, comprising of Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter.

Faust & Shortee on SSL with the Traktor Kontrol X1 controller

The dynamic duo behind drum & bass outfit Urban Assault and labels Heavy Artillery and 5 Star Recordings Faust & Shortee perform a scratch and controllerism routine to perfection, taking advantage of the Traktor Kontrol X1's intuitive control over track browsing, looping, cue points and effects in Scratch Live.

With some of their own musical arsenal and customized faceplates on their X1 controllers, they perform a four-turntable routine short of none. Find out how seamlessly the X1 controller fits a Serato Scratch Live setup as a MIDI controller for increased creative potential.

eJamming AUDiiO 3.0 Makes History in Second Life

Musicians Perform Live Together From Three Distant Locations Using eJamming’s CD-Quality Real-Time Platform

 

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On Saturday, October 30, 2010, at 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time, a drummer in North Carolina will play live with a guitarist in Maine and a bass player in California to a club full of Second Life “residents” dazzled by the rich sound and tight groove that eJamming AUDiiO 3.0 enables.

“We’re excited that bands in Second Life have discovered our latest software and that one of the top in-world promoters reached out to us to promote this event,” said Gail Kantor, eJamming Co-Founder. “Achieving a low-bandwidth high resolution multi-player audio service is what we’ve strived for all along. With 3.0 we’ve nailed it. That bands are using eJamming in SL is unbelievably gratifying.”

“Kevin M. Thomas, one of my musicians, turned me on to this new version of eJamming,” Tara Lopes of MUSIC NOT POLITICS offered. “Now, several of my musicians have started using it, and I feel privileged introducing eJamming AUDiiO to the entire SL community.”

Netcasting in SL is a natural progression toward eJamming AUDiiO’s JamCast feature, which allows real-world listeners on any Internet-connected device to attend live eJamming sessions. Today, artists typically stay close to their fans using social networks. JamCasting through eJamming’s multiplex AUDiiO platform extends the growing trend of online music distribution – focused on live, geographically dispersed sessions, further empowering musicians.

eJamming AUDiiO 3.0 is downloadable from www.ejamming.com/learn-more/.

The live performance can be heard at http://fcmcradio.com.

About eJamming
 
eJamming Inc. is pioneering live audio streaming technologies that bring musicians and music lovers together in new ways. eJamming AUDiiO is the first software as a service that enables all musicians and singers worldwide with a computer and broadband connection to network and play music together in real time over the Internet, facilitating collaboration, social networking and music education.

eJamming was named a DEMOgod at DEMO 07 and has since received numerous accolades and awards including the OnHollywood 100, AlwaysOn 100 Finalist and technical achievement finalist in the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Web Awards. eJamming’s co-founders were named among the “24 Top Technology Innovators” in Fortune magazine and eJamming AUDiiO was featured as one of Forbes’ “Top Ten ‘BreakOut!’ Business Ideas of 2009."

The best GIF mash-up video ever

Cache Rules Everything Around Me from Evan Roth on Vimeo.

Tron - The Soundtrack

http://tronsoundtrack.com/

(the original game: http://disney.go.com/tron/game_1.html )

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Soror Nishi at IBM - Tree of Trees - Saturday September 11th, 2010 - 12pm slt

The Event:
Saturday September 11th, 2010  - Starts at 12pm slt
Live Music/DJs:
Noon - Tasty Hax
1pm - Doubledown Tandino 
3pm - The Born Again Pagans 
SLURL  http://slurl.com/secondlife/IBM%20Exhibit%20C/126/131/174


The Concept:
By Soror Nishi via sorornishi.blogspot.com

We all know that the tree has been a meeting place, a landmark, shelter and a source of warmth (firewood) and food (fruit) for a very long time and, globally.

It is no real surprise then to read.... “the commonest associations to it’s meaning are growth, life, unfolding of form in a physical and spiritual sense, development, growth from below upwards and from above downwards, the maternal aspect (protection, shade, shelter, nourishing fruits, source of life, solidity, permanence, firm-rootedness, but also being “rooted to the spot”), old age,personality, and finally death and rebirth.” [CGJung].

It was a symbol taken up in many an alchemical treatise to signify the development of The Work, the Opus, and was often called The Philosophical Tree as the gold (goal) was called The Philosophical Gold. It was said to grow out of the salt water with a golden trunk and seven branches with the sun and moon as fruit.

There are not many cultures who do not have a tree included either in a creation myth or a significant fairy story for, presumably, the tree was our first home or shelter. Even in places where no tree grows naturally, their imagery is included in myth.

“In so far as the tree symbolizes the Opus and the transformation process “tam ethice quam physice” (both morally and physically), it also signifies the life process in general. It’s identity with Mercurius, the spiritus vegetativus, confirms this view. Since the Opus is a life, death, and rebirth mystery, the tree as well acquires this significance and in addition the quality of wisdom...” [CGJung].

Well, this is just some philosophical background into why I have called my build at IBM Tree of Trees. Add to that my feeling for trees, in general, and it’s not so hard to see why I have spent three years trying to improve the basic bio-diversity of the very dodgy flora I first encountered when I came to SL.

I think my build at IBM is a sort of milestone, it says, well, this is how far I’ve got so far.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I have building it.

- Soror Nishi

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The people are talking:

Chestnut's Choices 9/9 - 9/15 via New World Notes:

"On Saturday 9/11 at Noon soror Nishi's new exhibt Tree of Trees opens.  Soror Nishi's work captivated my interest from the first time I saw it early in my SL experience. She uses Blender and Photoshop to make her pieces, preferring to paint textures rather than photograph them. Soror creates trees and landscapes but they are nothing like what you might expect to find in the countryside in the atomic world.  Her colorful work is art that is only possible in the creative space of a virtual world.

Music for the Opening Party will be provided by DJ Tasty Hax beginning at noon with a show by DJ Doubledown Tandino at 1pm.  At 3pm the fantastic live band The Born Again Pagans will entertain visitors to this otherworldy, colorful exhibit.   I know you will enjoy this stunning exhibit as much as I did, especially with fantastic music as the backdrop to your experience.  In IBM Exhibit C."

Second Life Arts Parks - Arbor virtualis: the trees of soror Nishi 

Juanita Deharo Soror at IBM - Tree of Trees

10 of the most Sureal Music Videos of all Time

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Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTxOKsyZ0Lw&ob=av2e (disabled embedding)

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Spaced - Rave Scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_wVOA_95QU (embedding disabled by request)

Let me know when you're ready for part 2. Post in comments.

Amadeus - A Machinima by SpyvSpy Productions

spyvspyaeon | August 11, 2010

First of all, thank you so much for Tim Hatcher and Dan Burkharth voice acting, so as Brad Reason for help on technical arrangements, they did a great work.

To find this passage was a joy, rebuild on Second life even more.
(script not shown on the Amadeus Movie)
"Mozart is in a circle of respected composers explaining why he should be able to perform a vulger opera."

It is said that Mozart began having problems with his reputation from this opera that satirized certain customs of the nobility. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart it is pure genius. This story it is only fiction about how Mozart really were.

The original scene happens on Schönbrunn Palace (imperial summer residence in Vienna, Austria.). As far Emperor Leopold I gave his architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach the order to design a new palace. Johann contemporary ideals tryed to top its role model Versailles. So as a producer (me) and since I dint found any Schönbrun Palace in-world, I thought the best approach it were the Versailles Palace.

By Peter Shaffer adapted to Second life by spyvpyaeon.

Salieri struggles with the fact that he himself is rather mediocre, despite his desire to glorify God (though he did not recognize this mediocrity before he met Mozart), while Mozart is a genius while acknowledging no God other than his own desires. In the Peter Shaffer story (inspiration for the Amadeus movie).

Mozart arrives in Vienna with his patron, Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, archbishop of Salzburg. While Mozart Salieri secretly observes, the palace of the archbishop, without being presented to it, and one person perceives as irreverent and lascivious, while recognizing the immense talent of his works. In 1781, when Mozart is presented to the emperor, the young composer Salieri presents a "March of Welcome" he had some work to finish, this same meeting, Mozart shows for the first time his traditional childhood laughter, which is heard the rest of the movie. After hearing the motion only once, Mozart spontaneously "improvise" with the piece, without much effort, and turns the "game" of Salieri in the melody of the aria "Non più andra" from his opera The Marriage of Figaro.Mozart is in a circle of respected composers explaining why he should be able to perform a vulger opera.

Some fine research into Mozart's annoying personality doesn't really make up for the fact that the entire premise of this short of the original movie (that dont show this part) that Salieri loathed Mozart and plotted his demise is probably not true.

What about Mozart's monologue to the Chamberlain, Prefect and Salieri?

Filmed on Chateau de Versailles - Parterre d'Eau 1773 - Chateau de Versailles:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Chateau%20de%20Versailles/125/125/28

Twitter DJ for Traktor Pro by M_nus Records

What if every underground artist had a way to see what DJs are playing their tracks in the clubs? What if they could not only see who’s playing their tracks, but could see what time the DJ played their track, what country, and even got a message the minute their track was dropped in the club? And even better, what if the artist could actually get PAID for their track getting played? Thanks to a new technology called Twitter DJ this is all possible now.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE

Second Life + Jenzza Misfit + Michael Jackson + Tinies

Jenzza Misfit, at it again, with what could only be described as a tribute machimina for the ages. THRILLER... in Second Life... with Tinies... by Jenzza Misfit

HIKAKIN - Human Beatbox

http://www.youtube.com/user/HIKAKIN

Operation Squeegee - an SL exclusive fundraising effort to support recovery efforts from the ongoing gulf oil-spill. July 1st to 15th, 2010

Creators, DJs, Events, Bloggers, and Volunteers

Seeking contributors and volunteers to participate in an SL exclusive fundraising effort to support recovery efforts from the ongoing gulf oil-spill.

The event will run from July 1st - 15th, and will have lots of events and publicity associated with it, as well as a vendor merchandise area with donated items for sale!

Funds raised through Operation Squeegee will go to The National Wildlife Federation. Funds that are donated to the federation will support the following efforts:

• Development and deployment of the National Wildlife Federation's Gulf Coast Surveillance Teams, a volunteer network that is being organized to monitor the coast for wildlife impacted by the oil spill. Beyond the initial surveillance needed, this effort will then shift to long term volunteer restoration programs.
• Restoration of vulnerable nesting and breeding grounds, as well as other delicate ecosystems found throughout the Gulf Coast for water birds, sea turtles and other animals.
• Public education about the oil spill and its impacts on wildlife, including our online efforts at www.nwf.org/oilspill and informing the press and others about the impacts the oil spill is having on coastal communities and wildlife.
• Policy work at the national and state level to support restoration of habitat in the Gulf Coast and better protection of our waters and coastlines.

You can read more about their efforts on thier website!

HOW TO JOIN THE FUNDRAISER 

On the tabs at the top of the page locate what best fits your area of interest and follow the instructions on that page! If your area of interest is not specifically detailed above, then please contact Tidal Shoreland directly via notecard in-world.

Thank you so much!
Tidal Shoreland - Director / Treasurer of Operation Squeegee, 2010
aka Further Monday, Founder

Cupidtino "Date A Mac" Apple Ad

Second Life's Thriving Music Scene : LA Times

Second Life's Thriving Music Scene
By Laura Ferreiro, Special to the Los Angeles Times

Craig Lyons and other indie artists are leading the charge in the virtual online world. It's a way to earn a living, promote their music, expand their fan base and support causes they believe in.



Musician Craig Lyons poses with his avatar from Second Life.

"If I could get some bubbles, I'd be forever indebted," singer Craig Lyons tells the packed house at his Monday night gig. The crowd promptly complies, filling the room with bubbles while Lyons plays his tune "Under Water."

Two nights earlier, the audience made it snow as he strummed the chords to his song "Winter." Strangely enough, the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter has come to expect this type of supernatural behavior at his shows, which take place several times a week in Second Life, the virtual online world that allows users to interact with one another as avatars.

Despite declining media coverage after a few years of overexposure, Second Life lives on, and within its virtual borders a music scene has been thriving, with independent artists such as Lyons leading the charge. These artists are earning livings, promoting their music and supporting causes they believe in by performing in this virtual space, which has approximately 1 million users each month.

In addition to collecting fees from Second Life venues (there are more than 3,500 known to exist), musicians are often paid handsomely by fans who tip using the Second Life currency, Linden dollars, which is exchangeable for U.S. dollars via a number of websites. Users can buy and sell the currency at a fluctuating exchange rate that usually hovers around 265 Linden dollars to one U.S. dollar.

Lyons typically earns $100 to $200 per show, and he often plays as many as three gigs in one day for audiences logging into Second Life from different time zones. The 3-D virtual world was launched in 2003 by Linden Lab, a company founded by technology guru Philip Rosedale, who was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world in 2007. In Linden Lab's alternate universe, people can interact with one another, teleport themselves to exotic virtual locales, buy houses, cars and clothing and amuse themselves with countless forms of virtual entertainment.

Lyons, who has released four albums of introspective pop-rock songs that have appeared on "So You Think You Can Dance," "The Real World" and other shows, believes Second Life provides an ideal platform for artists to broaden their fan bases by reaching people around the globe they wouldn't be able to connect with under normal touring circumstances.

"It feels really nice to reach people who wouldn't be able to see these shows otherwise — be it single parents, physically handicapped people who can't get out of the house, or people who can't afford a $15 cover charge and drinks at the bar," he says. The Ohio native's easy charm and charisma heighten his appeal in this interactive environment, as do his matinee-idol good looks, which incite swooning from several fans.

Second Life concertgoers attend gigs as avatars at virtual venues that often resemble "real-life" nightclubs or outdoor amphitheaters. The performances often include live streaming videos from the artists' own studios, while the performers' avatars play on the virtual stage below. During the show, fans mingle and use a local chat feature to applaud, comment on the tunes and even flirt with one another.

It doesn't faze Lyons that the fans filling the rooms are avatars. "Some people are selective about their fan bases. I think that's crazy," he says. "They don't connect the dots and see that they are real people having a real experience." A three-dimensional "widget" on the side of the stage connects fans to Lyons' music on iTunes, as well as his MySpace and Facebook pages — all of which have seen an increase in traffic since he started performing regularly in Second Life.

Helen Harbison, who regularly attends Lyons' virtual gigs, believes the intera
ctive experience that the virtual platform provides can actually surpass that of traditional live gigs. "Gigs in Second Life are a special experience," says Harbison, who lives in Dublin, Ireland. "The interaction between musician and audience makes it special, something that you just don't get at a show in a packed-out venue or bar in real life."

Since Second Life's launch, a handful of major acts, including Duran Duran (Doubledown Edit: Duran Duran never performed in Second Life and press continues to make this error), Suzanne Vega and Ben Folds, have performed or held events in the virtual platform, but none has made a broad impact. "Over the years, Second Life didn't match the hype," says Nelson Gayton, executive director of the Center for Management of Enterprise in Media, Entertainment and Sports at UCLA. "The technology wasn't quite caught up with what people envisioned it to be."

But now, he says, "There's no reason to believe that this isn't a viable platform to experience or promote music. Why not perform in a virtual space instead of going through the challenges of performing in a live space? It's another platform to promote your talent and whatever it is you want to express so people can experience what you have to say."

Missouri indie rockers the Follow, who also perform regularly in Second Life, recognize the convenience these virtual gigs offer fans, and see it as the next logical step in the evolution of social networking. "It's so easy in Second Life — you can teleport your friends immediately, and you don't have to get dolled up," says bassist Amy Rickertsen.

Drummer Mat Matlack adds: "Once people experience Second Life, it will drive people there. The music scene will give them something to do and create an environment for social mixing. It's Facebook on steroids."

Lyons, a self-professed environmentalist, points out another beneficial aspect of this type of virtual gigging. "I legitimately think that it's the most sustainable method of performing for an artist these days, both environmentally — because you can reach the entire globe without burning gas — and financially." Lyons streams most of his Second Life gigs from his Santa Monica home studio using a basic Web cam and a microphone.

He also created an entire music video in Second Life for his ambitious, strings-laden cover of the Beatles' "Across the Universe." The 6-minute video features the avatars of friends, fans and musicians who volunteered their time and talents to create the video.

"Right now, [performing in Second Life] is kind of like the Wild West, but I don't think that will be the case soon," says Lyons. "I think it will be widely accepted and possibly even necessary for any kind of artist in the near future."

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