PatricaAnne Daviau, goddess of the small, builds miniature tableau in Second Life. When so many people spend time building full size mirror worlds, one of my fellow eightbars has focused on a suprising niche. The film by NextworldDesign shows some of the work which I think you will agree is a great twist. Feel free [...]

I realized I had bought some Phillips lights for christmas that are the right size for my Shapeways eightbar 3d printed light poem. So here it is in all its glory.

A colleague Bill Chamberlin(*updated with full name and link to his external blog ) had spotted this article in business week and shared it with us. (Business Week provided great coverage back in 2006 when our CEO Sam Palmisano entered Second Life )The stand out line is of course “3D returns in a big way” [...]

Many of you may still not have seen just how amazing the creations that can be got from rapid fabrication devices are. Lots of fabricaneurs have been busy placing designs on a service called shapeways (VC funded by phillips. People have been making and sharing all sorts of things, this trackball assembly (more here in [...]

During a recent twitter exchange @Renzephyr tweeted an @slhamlet post on GigaOm about the 10 potentialy game changing games for 2009. The list is in part compiled by David Edery so it is worth take note of. Of course many people will see games and 2009 and think about more driving, shooting, puzzle games etc. [...]

Over on his web strategy blog Jeremiah Owyang has posted a great flowchart for the USAF on how they should respond to blogs. Of course this should not just be a large organization approach but each of us with our own stake in our personal brands and reputations. The basic premise is to engage in [...]

Looking back on what has happened the last few years, both here on eightbar and for me personally I can still see we have a long way to go to get to a point where we can sit back and say, yes virtual worlds/metaverses/3d web done! Of course that is never actually going to happen, [...]