insert ‘ball’ joke here I spent a few hours last night on the Second Life Beta grid testing the new Havok4 Physics engine. Super fun! I meant to do some  sort of serious testing, but I ended up just rolling a bunch of balls down a big hill. :) The spheres especially are much improved [...]

Holy Havok, Batman! LL has been promising to upgrade the Havok physics engine in SL for so long that it’s gone from being a sort of running joke into the realm of myth and half-remembered legends. Well, as Gwyneth Llewelyn says – Hell has Frozen Over! Havok 4 is live on the Beta Grid. I’m [...]

Water falling on virtual rocks I may have to rename my SL business to Vlad’s WaterWorks :) I’ve been getting some wonderful feedback about my sculpted prim water and my animated waterfalls. Here’s a quick video of my most recent watery creation. You can find it in Port Caledon on ambiant Kukulcan’s land, near his [...]

Video interview with the artist Here’s another great interview conducted by Magellen Egoyan. This time he’s talking with sculptor Rezago Kokorin who explains how he uses some simple SL tools to create surprisingly complex works. Rezago also talks about the feelings and meanings behind his creations.

MultiBloom 1-800-Flowers has a presence in Second Life and they’ve been running a contest to design the ultimate Second Life bouquet. I entered the contest with a vase that switches between 8 totally different, custom arrangements. Today they announced the winners of the contest – and I won 1st place! I thought when I entered [...]