This afternoon (4 July) , at 9,30 AM SLT, Mario Gerosa present "Rinascimento Virtuale" Ed Meltemi The transformation of the virtual worlds in social or community 3d, leaves to foresee an epochal change of web 2.0. They have place thus new and interesting expressive forms, than through the interaction between contained persons, forms and catch up high standards much and amazingly “it adapts” to ours to live contemporary. 4 July 2008 Hour 18:30 (9,30 AM SLT) Fondazione Valore Italia E… Continue

functionalism (FFF) Form follows function is a principle associated with modern architecture and industrial design in the 20th Century, which states that the shape of a building or object should be predicated by or based upon its intended function or purpose. The functional architecture and design is the negation of purely aesthetic design principles behind the form determined use of a building or a device. Hence the famous phrase "form follows function" by Louis Sullivan of the popular opinio… Continue

Formalism (wikipedia) The concept Formalism calls an art-historical method of the interpretation of a piece of art. Besides, the value of the work lies in the autonomy of the form. The formalistic consideration of art stresses qualities as for example composition, colour, lines and texture. Content aspects and relations like subject, history of the origin of the work, historical context and biography of the artist, are secondary or are not treated. The formalists, as the most important represent… Continue

Kejo’s creative lab opening for Artists and Second Life’s designers! Joining HyperPOP Lab you can working solo or team-up with other residents to publish your virtual creations, elaborate collections with Kejo’s designers, be voted by the community to win intermediate prizes, or grab the final 100.000 L$ big one! At the end, according Kejo’s style managers, your creations may step further to RL market! In RL also are involved: artists DolceQ and StellaTasca thanks to Drago Trend Bureau. KEJO… Continue

I was building stuff for Eden at Gallery Diabolus,Benvolio, on Saturday May 24th when suddenly a Linden appeared. I thought cool, as the only Linden and the first one I had met in avatar has been a very pleasant experience. That was when Ekim Linden showed up after we had had that weird autoreturn problem at Benvolio causing us trouble for two days. [See Josina's forum entry here.] One moment later I receiv… Continue