Designing Worlds pays the first of two visits to Fantasy Faire – now on the web!

Fairelands Junction, photographed by Wildstar Beaumont

The first episode of this season of Designing Worlds, as we pay the first of two visits to the fabulous Fantasy Faire – is now on the web!

DW368 – Fantasy Faire 2018 Part I from Richard Elen on Vimeo.

We’ll be talking to some of the people behind the Faire, including Elizabeth Tinsley, Da5id Abbott, OldeSoul Eldamar, Stevie Basevi, Zeelia Ysabel, Caledonia Skytower and Aoife Lorefield, to talk about the Faire and the work that goes into creating a multi-region, multi-day, multi-timezone event, including events such as parties, shopping, roleplay, performances, a Literary Festival and much, much more.

Tiny Town, photographed by Wildstar Beaumont

Fantasy Faire raised over US$48,000 (that’s over $12,000,000 Linden) and on tonight’s show we’ll be sharing with you, in part, how this was done.

Ardessa, photographed by Wildstar Beaumont

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Designing Worlds returns – with a visit to Fantasy Faire!

The Halls of Story, photographed by Wildstar Beaumont

Join us at 2pm SLT today, Monday 14th May, for the new episode of Designing Worlds at our studio in Garden of Dreams in Second Life, as we return for our new season with a visit to the glorious Fantasy Faire!

We’ll be talking to some of the people behind the Faire, including Elizabeth Tinsley, Da5id Abbott, OldeSoul Eldamar, Stevie Basevi, Zeelia Ysabel, Caledonia Skytower and Aoife Lorefield, to talk about the Faire and the work that goes into creating a multi-region, multi-day, multi-timezone event, including events such as parties, shopping, roleplay, performances, a Literary Festival and much, much more.

The Willows of Nienna, photographed by Wildstar Beaumont

Fantasy Faire raised over US$48,000 (that’s over $12,000,000 Linden) and on tonight’s show we’ll be sharing with you, in part, how this was done.

So come and join us for this beautiful first show in our new season at 2pm SLT.

Tiny Town, photographed by Wildstar Beaumont

Or – if you can’t attend in person – tune in to the web at 2pm SLT on Monday
for a showing on SLartist – or catch it later in the week on the SLArtist.com channel, the Aview TV Designing Worlds channel – or on the Designing Worlds blog.

Severina, photographed by Aoife Lorefield

You can find out more about Fantasy Faire on the Fantasy Faire website.

 

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Ask Ebbe Linden a question!

Inside our studio

As part of Designing Worlds’ ongoing Tenth Birthday celebrations, we’ll be interviewing Ebbe Linden (aka Ebbe Altberg, the CEO of Linden Lab) for a show to be broadcast on May 28th.

We’ll be talking principally about the roadmap for Second Life released recently, and we’d like to put some of your questions about this to Ebbe.

If you’re interested in adding to the conversation, please add your questions to the form below before midnight on Thursday May 10th.

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Calling All Designers! Join the Conversation at the Home and Garden Expo with Prim Perfect!

Prim Perfect and Designing Worlds have run talks at the Home and Garden Expo since (gulp) 2011 … and we’d like to invite YOU to be a part of this year’s series of talks with designers, landscapers and creatives within the Home and Garden market.

We’re planning to host events at 2pm (and, if needed, 5pm) every day. If you would really LOVE to give a presentation, but can’t make that time, contact us and we will see if we can fit you in.

We are happy to host talks, presentations, interviews, question and answer sessions and show and tell events. It’s an opportunity for designers to share ideas, for people to meet their favourite creators, for communities to come together and talk about their culture and ideas. We’re very open to hosting what YOU want to tell us about!

We are also planning to have some of our popular “Show and Tell” events and hopefully some panel discussions on Second Life.

If you would like to be a part of our programme at the Expo, please complete the form below with your topic and preferred dates and times. We will try to fit in as many people as we can!

Closing date: May 17th.

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Designing Worlds’ final visit of our 10th Anniversary Season – to 2017 – is now on the web!

Ships in Rosehaven, photographed by Wildstar Beaumont

The final episode of this season of Designing Worlds, as we conclude our celebration of ten years of the show – looking back to 2017 – is now on the web!

DW367 – Designing Worlds 10th Anniversary Special #10 – 2017 from Richard Elen on Vimeo.

We look back to our visits to the Second Life Museum of Nuclear Warfare, Rosehaven, Feed a Smile, Octoberville and the Linden Endowment for the Arts. We celebrate another 10th Anniversary – that of Radio Riel, which occurred in 2017. And we travel off-grid to Inworlds, and we look forwards too with a visit to Linden Lab’s new platform – Sansar.

Antfarm on Sansar, photographed by Wildstar Beaumont

Saffia will be in discussion with our resident historian, Marianne McCann, and Wildstar Beaumont shows more photos from his archives!

And we remember some people we have known over the past decade who are now, sadly, no longer with us in either the virtual or the physical worlds.

Feed a Smile, photographed by Wildstar Beaumont

And that’s the end of this season – but we will be back in late May with the start of our new season – so watch out for that!

 

 

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Designing Worlds revisits 2017 as part of our 10th Birthday Celebrations

Art at the LEA, photographed by Wildstar Beaumont

Join us at 2pm SLT today, Monday 10th April, for the new episode of Designing Worlds at our studio in Garden of Dreams in Second Life, as we continue our celebration of ten years of the show – looking back to 2017.

Second Life Museum of Nuclear Warfare, photographed by Wildstar Beaumont

We’ll be looking back to our visits to the Second Life Museum of Nuclear Warfare, Rosehaven, Feed a Smile, Octoberville and the Linden Endowment for the Arts. We’ll be celebrating another 10 Anniversary – that of Radio Riel, which occurred in 2017.  And we’ve travelled off-grid to Inworlds, and we looked forwards too with a visit to Linden Lab’s new platform – Sansar.

Picnic at Mr Darcy’s on Sansar, photographed by Wildstar Beaumont

Saffia will be in discussion with our resident historian, Marianne McCann, and Wildstar Beaumont shows more photos from his archives!

And we remember some people we have known over the past decade who are now, sadly, no longer with us in either the virtual or the physical worlds.

Ivory Tower of Prims, photographed by Wildstar Beaumont, built by Lumiere Noir, sadly no longer with us

So do come and join us for the last show in in our special anniversary season at 2pm SLT.

Or – if you can’t attend in person – tune in to the web at 2pm SLT on Monday
for a showing on SLartist – or catch it later in the week on the SLArtist.com channel, the Aview TV Designing Worlds channel – or on the Designing Worlds blog.

Inworldz, photographed by Wildstar Beaumont

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Places on the show that you can visit:
Second Life Museum of Nuclear Warfare – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Xemia/69/220/22
Rosehaven – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Rosehaven%20Park/106/24/22
Feed a Smile – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Feed%20A%20Smile/67/101/22
Linden Endowment for the Arts – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA3/130/120/21 – the best landing point for starting to explore the 29 regions

Castle in Rosehaven, photographed by Wildstar Beaumont

Some websites related to this show:
Radio Riel – http://radioriel.org/
Octoberville – http://www.octoberville.com/
Sansar – https://www.sansar.com/

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Designing Worlds revisits 2016 as part of our 10th Birthday Celebrations

Horizons – the Game, photographed by Wildstar Beaumont

Join us at 2pm SLT today, Monday 2nd April, for the new episode of Designing Worlds at our studio in Garden of Dreams in Second Life, as we continue our celebration of ten years of the show – looking back to 2016.

We look at some beautiful locations, such as Cerridwen’s Cauldron and Rocca Sorrentino, as well as looking at events such as the Home and Garden Expo and Fantasy Faire. There’s a new location and a new game from Linden Lab, a visit to Halloween locations and even a little touch of New Babbage.

Rocca Sorrentina, photographed by Wildstar Beaumont

Saffia will be in discussion with our resident historian, Marianne McCann, and Wildstar Beaumont shows more photos from his archives!

So do come and join us for a fascinating show in our special anniversary season at 2pm SLT.

Or – if you can’t attend in person – tune in to the web at 2pm SLT on Monday
for a showing on SLartist – or catch it later in the week on the SLArtist.com channel, the Aview TV Designing Worlds channel – or on the Designing Worlds blog.

Culprit at Home and Garden 2016. photographed by Wildstar Beaumont

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Places on the show that you can visit:
Cerridwen’s Cauldron: https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cerridwens%20Cauldron/127/18/984
Rocca Sorrentino: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Rocca%20Sorrentina/85/162/2801
Horizons: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Horizons%20Dione/138/131/24
Horizons – Game: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Horizons%20A1/134/224/70
Ironwood: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lost%20Boys/140/208/33
New Babbage: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wheatstone%20Waterways/46/83/101

Ironwood, photographed by Wildstar Beaumont

 

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