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(photo: Poid Mahovlich) New additions to the Princeton main campus in SL include a pair of beautifully detailed tigers by French virtual artist, Ub Yifu. The "bronze" cats take up their proper place flanking the entrance to the virtual Nassau Hall. Many thanks to the alumni and friends of Princeton who lamented the formerly tigerless state of the SL front campus. These sculptures were definitely worth the wait. The tigers are not the only new residents of the SL campus. Black and grey squirrels, the work of SL resident Cloud Insoo also mimic their real life counterparts on the front campus. Watch out for the nuts, these squirrels are messy eaters! Opposite Nassau Hall in the Chancellor Green Library, a new exhibit highlights digital collections from the Rare Book and Special Collections of Firestone Library. Stop by and enjoy a few of Princeton's rich holdings of books, music and graphic arts.
Teleport Directly via this link - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Princeton%20University/148/152/24
(photo: Poid Mahovlich)
Princeton University in Second Life announces “Diversity”on the Princeton Groups sim
Scope Cleaver- Architect
Poid Mahovlich - Terraform Artist
Launch party: April 20, 2008, 5-7 pm SLT
Please join us for the opening of the Princeton Groups island with a concert by Grace McDunnough on Princeton Groups, 5 pm SLT, Sunday, April 20. The “Diversity” building on Princeton Groups island is intended as a social gathering place for Princeton University student groups and organizations. The commission stipulated a warm and friendly location where students could meet, chat, and organize events in Second Life. The resulting sim is a thoughtful contrast of Second Life resources with real world concerns. The stark, evocative landscape provides a foil for the elegance of the architectural composition. The central building’s rainbow colors exemplify the lively, multicultural community for whom it was built. The present generation of Princeton students will someday grapple with the environmental issues suggested in the desert terrain of the sim. “Diversity” is architect Scope Cleaver’s fifth building on the Princeton University in Second Life islands. Like his other full-sim composition at Princeton in SL--Alexander Beach--it shows an expansive use of scale that unexpectedly creates intimate social spaces. Uncharacteristic of Scope are the warm, organic building textures, which underscore the building’s function as a community center. The organic theme is carried into the building’s massing, originally suggested to the architect by a photograph of a nautilus shell. Poid Mahovlich, SL terraformer, designed and executed a landscape that would provide interest and focus to the building. More than that, the landscape itself is a series of destinations inviting exploration. A variety of walks and suggestive vignettes reveal artistic discoveries, environmental statements, and sweeping vistas from which to appreciate the greater composition of landscape and architecture. Architecture and landscape merge in a delightful collaboration between Scope and Poid under the “Diversity” building. Don’t leave without discovering it!
location SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Princeton%20Groups/130/47/22
Artist statements: Scope Cleaver says: "Science is about describing things, describing reality . . . describing what there is. Design is about what should be. It’s trying to bend the world, bend the environment, to your vision."
Poid Mahovlich says: "I build creatively using smoke and mirrors. I am a geek dreamer; driven by ethereal fuel some days, nerdtech and biscuits on others. I have a passion for terraforming, sculpting pixel earth is an evolutionary process of discovery where you enter a very different head space. I am a Real Life professional conceptual Artist: a self-proclaimed Wizard who has a severe allergy to Hawaiian shirts."
Machinima: Michael Verdi
posted 28 March, 2008 Kristen Young, Princeton class of 2009, is currently running an experiment on Alexander Beach, one of the islands belonging to Princeton in Second Life. The experiment she is conducting consists of a simple game. If you chose to participate, you will either be given a small amount of Linden dollars to play, or be told to wait for payment. If you are given Linden dollars, you will be presented with further instructions, and asked to make a decision. Once your decision is made, the game is complete. You will receive a separate payment for playing after you complete the game. If you want to take part in the experiment, follow this SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Alexander%20Beach/193/12/38 Join the 'Princeton Research participant' Group in Second Life to find out the results of this experiment, and to receive notice of future research projects at Princeton in Second Life.
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