I’ve said this before, but I’m really starting back development in Second Life. Logging in now ;)

I have added a RL photography section in BORN that will compliment most sims, houses, and shacks. Check out the images. I’m pretty sure you’ll find one that expresses what you want to express.

Have a special request? Just let me know what it is and I can produce it for a rediculous fee.

Soon I will be adding more works from more accomplished RL photographers. You’ll be surprised what a nice image can do for a wall of your house, store, or club.

RL Photography for SL

Recently I was interviewed by Bettina Tizzy of the blog “Not Possible In Real Life” concerning my SkyBORN_Fly animations that I made (almost exactly) two years ago. She has a lot of great stuff on her site, so its worth checking out =)

http://npirl.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-favorite-animation-in-second-life.html

Switched hosts, started talking to other SL photographers (rl photography, sold in SL, lemme know if you’re down), getting everything lined up. Getting excited.

Overhauled the wordpress installation to the newest version via http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress

Ready to go :) the first product will be a variety of frames for SL images from rl photographers. Free to those that submit images and get accepted into BORN.

The frames will be 1 prim, shadow included. If you would like to submit your rl photography to get the frames free, please email me at hearme@whyareyoulistening.com

New gfx card,http://www.flickr.com/photos/pheonixbeauty/3621594207/

so happy to be back in SL.

Prepare for great products, sets, wikiwiki (funny how that went from DJing to text)

For all those that welcomed me back, thank you. For all those that didnt … I’ll give you a reason.

My rl/sl wife BKitty Janus and great friend Sagesse Sautereau sprung a surprise birthday party for me at the underwater club below BORN. Made my birthday the best I’ve had in a long long time. Sooooo many friends and good people. DJs Anders Bailey and Ribe Oh played sets of epic proportions, but then they always do. Thanks hugz and love to all. heres a few pics ;)

What is a SLurl?

Good question.

The website is http://slurl.com/
The title of the page is “SLurl: Location-Based Linking in Second Life“.

What this means is, you can create links for web pages
or for use in Second Life. These links will allow an avatar (you)
to teleport to a location by clicking on the link.

Why this is cool? You can paste a SLurl in group, IM, or conference chat
to invite people to the SLurl-specified location. You could also create a
site or blog making a catalog of your favorite places in Second Life.
Another good reason to use SLurls is that many people turn off the
blue ‘notice’ windows because in busy groups they are uber-annoying.
I just quit the group with too many, but to each his own. Point is, the SLurls
still get through to the group.

How do you make your own SLurls? Easy.

Heres the link to the SLurl builder: http://slurl.com/build.php

Click on that link, the idea is easy. You will have your first done in seconds.
Note: the only fields you must fill out are under ‘Location data:‘.
Once you fill those out (region, x, y, and z), click the ‘Generate SLurl‘ button.

The only thing I can imagine someone would get confused about at this point is what to put in the fields (region, x, y, and z). Well, its at the top of your screen, in the middle, in your Second Life viewer. If you can’t understand this, please click HERE to read more about your fellow dummies.

For those that do not want to go to the SLurl website every time, note the layout:
if the sim name you are in is ‘BUTTERFART’ and your coordinates (x, y, and z)
are 24, 70, 98… then the slurl will be:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/BUTTERFART/43/98/24/

Note that it always starts with http://slurl.com/secondlife/
after that its the sim name, a slash, x, slash, y, slash again, z, and finally slash.

Spaces in the sim name (top middle of your screen) can be tricky.
Slurls, to work with the http methods, cannot have spaces or punctuation.

So, if you were going to make a slurl for the BORN uberstore, it would look like this:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/helens%20pool/110/161/28/

This is called url-encoding. the space from the sim name ‘Helens Pool‘ is replaced with %20.

Many times, if there are spaces or other non-alphanumeric characters in a sim name, it will be easier to visit the SLurl Builder at http://slurl.com/build.php

I hope this helps. If is doesent, and you are still confused, please visit THIS website.

BORN Second Life Event : Saturday
May 31st, 2008

BORN is going to have an event at the main store this Saturday. I will be DJ-ing live for the two hours of the event. There will be BORN Fire-Lizards given away to anyone who wants one during the event.

The music will be Electronic, and properly mixed live. To be more specific, it will be breaks-breakbeat, electro-hop, and electro-house.

We might not do a lot of these. Testing the waters for events right now. Hope to see you there :)

If you dont know how to get there, use the teleports to the left of this post, or click HERE.

The following Pics are from SL clubs I have played at. Theres also a pic of the Fire-Lizard that we will be giving away free (its not the girl, its the thing around her neck). There are about 8 different colors of the firelizards. The package that we will be giving away will have all of them.

A small gallery of the displays at BORN. The vendors include BORN, OSA, AKEYO, RE.ACT, OKD, F.A.T., AVZ, Nanina’s, Oralune, Digital Eyes, Paradox, Anypeople, The House, and more.

My first post as I’m setting up the blog for BORN.

This site will cover product releases, tutorials, and other topics related to Metaverse development (Making things in Second Life). It’s kind of exciting :)

I wanted to say, right from the getgo, thats this business wouldn’t have been possible without the friends and vendors of BORN, as it was still assembling itself. So, a big shout out to Elizabeth Hallstrom, Eagan Snowflake, FatLula Paine, Grok Amat, Lyn Raymaker, Ookami Kohornen, DonkeyBOB Spatula, 2ndThoughts Brando, Dave Attenborough, BKitty Janus, Artoo Magneto, 2000 Cris, Hog Aeon, and many more too numerous to mention (my fingers got tired).