Archive for June, 2009

21
Jun

SLSC *not* at SL6B

   Posted by: Ina Centaur    in Uncategorized

Remember Us HoloLight's

The SL Shakespeare Company is barred from attending SL6B, and we ask that you help “remember us” at SL6B, by rezzing a 1-prim statuette.

Long story condensed: “The SL6B Board has concluded that the SL Shakespeare Company is less in-theme with ‘the future of the metaverse’ than my other projects, and thus, Shakespeare was *not* granted a parcel at SL6B… (Ina Centaur, June 17, 2009)” Clarification: Though we are disappointed by their decree, we are *not* staging a protest, but a “remember us” campaign.

Participation is voluntary, and easy — on both setup and on the sim. As shown in the diagnostic screenshots below, the 1-prim “remember us” statuette takes up a bare minimal amount of sim resources a scripted prim can take — which is only about 0.003 ms; the script is only touch-activated and is extremely low-lag. (You can also choose to delete the script.) Textures are optimized for efficient loading, two of its textures having been already widely circulated. Anyone can rez a copy, wherever they want. The intent is purely positive and supportive.

Remember SLSC Statuette light on sim resources

“Remember the SLSC” Statuettes are freely available @ Blackfriars Theatre, Second Life and SL Globe Theatre, Second Life.

You can rez a 1-prim statuette to help us. Please do!

Contact us @ production at SLshakespeare dot com for questions.

3 Comments
13
Jun

SLSC @ Land Expo

   Posted by: Ina Centaur    in Admin

SL Shakespeare @ Land Expo The SL Shakespeare Company is participating in the Second Life Land Expo — which ends this Saturday! Our display shows off a unique slightly “modernized” skeletal build of an amphitheater-style Blackfriars. The salient characteristic elements of the Blackfriars — the hammerbeam ceiling supports are revealed in an open sky, while the sunbeams and ornate Elizabethan stage are also shown. Here are some unedited SL photos with SLurl’s:

Our nifty display shows off our innovative use of SL and SL land resources to create… what you know to be the SL Shakespeare Company magic ;-) . This being the first Linden-Lab event we’ve participated in after receiving the aside on SL brand name infringement, you’ll notice that the signage shows “Ina Centaur SL Shakespeare Company.” This is the beginning of a tradition where the artistic director of this virtual Shakespeare troupe also gets her name tagged into the company’s official name, for purposes of both artistic merit/identity and legal reasons, as decreed by LL. This easily adheres to their guidelines on how… not to infringe, while making sure people who knew us by our old name still know us, and can easily find us in SL’s convoluted search system! :-)

Ina Centaur SL Shakespeare Company Blackfriars Ampitheatre Mod @ Land Expo

On Saturday morning, I gave an opening talk at Land Expo on Historically Accurate Buildings in Virtual Environments: The Architecture of Shakespeare’s Era in Second Life. Here’s the Powerpoint:

Historically Accurate Buildings In Virtual Environments: The Architecture of Shakespeare's Era in Second Life
View more presentations from inacentaur.

Tags: , ,

No Comments
Back to top