Poilination's SecondLife Experience

This week we all got very distracted and John taught us how to build things and I made a giant burrito that I got stuck in then I turned it into a portal and basically that's what happened in class this week. Here are some snaps.

I made John promise not to remove it but I feel like he will and that's the day I give up on art.

Anyway, in terms of the group work, we're trundling along nicely. We've split up the work into bite-sized chunks and we're using the typeface I designed that Joe found when Googling my name for the title screens. I'm excited to see what everyone else comes up with as it's a very open-ended brief and really you could go anywhere with it.

This week my group has started to buck up a little in terms of finding specific angles and choosing how to structure our presentation. At the minute we are considering using video, but John mentioned that video in SL can be unpredictable at times, so we would have to use YouTube. I'm not going to lie, I'm a little uncomfortable with the prospect of having a video of me talking about group projects and people I know up on YouTube, so I'll probably make it a private video and share the link with the class. 

I found the readings on copyright to be both concerning and peculiar. There seems to be no strict system for copyrighting in Ireland and the whole thing is just a big blurry blob of a grey area. I find the archaic method of mailing your work to yourself and keeping it in the sealed envelope absolutely bemusing and I feel that this is an area that should be looked at in more detail, and efforts should be made to improve or maybe to rethink these systems entirely.