Apollo Manga is the avatar of author and avatarplanet.com editor Erik Gordon Bainbridge, a Second Life member since 2004. Follow Apollo to the most creative and interesting places, people, and machinimas in Second Life.
This is the final week of Artistide Despres' Full Sim creation at Linden Endowment for the Arts' sim LEA6. If you haven't seen it, be sure to. After this week, all that will...
Five years ago, in late 2006, a group of avatars in Second Life®, including my alt Hawk Lightcloud, met to discuss building a center where fans and researchers alike could find good information about science fiction and...
2011 was a year of tragedy, of loss, but also of hope and of gaiety. Here are a few notable events that took place in Second Life® in 2011; you'll find photos from all of...
Here's a unique opportunity for Second Life® residents who love video and film: the University of Western Australia in Second Life's MachinimUWA machinima competition is closing on November 30, and is offering cash prizes...
Two months ago this column eulogized Kirsten's Viewer, the most interesting third party viewer for Second Life® and a tool valued by many of those making machinimas and doing photography there. The person who created Kirstens...
For many of us who love Burning Man in Second Life®, this year's Burn 2 was frustrating. Last weekend's Skin Burn typified it for many.The culmination of Burning Man events both in Nevada...
The Globe Theatre hasn't been deleted... yet. Not the famous Globe Theatre in England, but the one in Second Life®, lovingly created by Ina Centaur as a reproduction of the theater where 400 years ago Shakespeare...
Halloween is perhaps the best time for party going in a virtual world, and among the creative people in Second Life®, the costumes are certain to be inventive. This writer only had time for one party, hosted by...
Artists, builders, and Burn 2 staff spent months preparing for Burn 2 in Second Life®. Others, including staff, rangers, greeters, lamplighters and other volunteers, spent long hours during the Burn making it successful. Now, with it all...
Anyone who was unable to view the burning of The Man in Burn 2 in Second Life yesterday can see it now in a very nicely produced video by Debbie Trelling. You can watch the machinima at www.youtube.com...