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If you have only a few time, to browse the amazing stuff on Koinup, probably this weekly guide will help you to focus on some selected and worth contents and people. So that you don't have to waste your time.INTERVIEW WITH BARKEach week, we're interiewing artists, machinimists and photographers active on Koinup. During an open forum launched on our Koinup FB page, some … 
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This week on Meet Me in the Metaverse, I present a sim still in progress - Zarbi. While taking you all to unfinished sims isn't my typical modus operandi, I was pretty floored by what Jimmer Gabe has already created. Zarbi is a homestead sim where Jimmer's goal was to see what he could create in a space that only has 3500 prims. Currently, the sim consists of the Cathederal, …
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SHOOOT to stardom and be rewarded when you submit your Machinima film for SHOOOT Awards 2009. The Grand prize of the SHOOOT Awards is a fully sponsored trip to attend SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 in Yokohama, Japan! You will also stand a chance to win attractive prizes from our sponsors! All you need to do is to create your own movies* from either your favourite 3D game or virtual …
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The gate road entry to Burning Life is thrown open today, Saturday 17th October at 12Noon SLT – there is so much to see and do there its breath taking, it’s the biggest art event in the me …
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We picked 8 images as winners of the Face of Koinup ContestThe images will be displayed on the Koinup Front-Page since today and they will be highly featured for the next months. Before li …
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Just imagine having to choose your own name, decide on a body shape, and then get thrown into a world where you can’t speak, or move and only see the back of your head.Things get worse as …
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Dear readers, we're pleased to announce the launch of a new column on the Koinup Blog. It will be called: Style Across the Worldsand it will guide you through the most fashionist people, s …
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Today on Koinup's Cream of the Crop I bring you the group called Heavy Image Treatments. This fab group of individuals are more than photographers. They use the screen capture as a jumping off point then manipulate it with a photo editing program making the picture into a wonderful work of art.The Admin, SysperiaPoppy, writes "What interests me is not the shot itself, but …
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So last week I took you on a tour to see some heavily post processed works of art. This week I bring you Koinup's Cream of the Crop pick of Virtual Worlds Untouched. This group was created to showcase virtually raw shots that were not just mundane in nature but superior snaps made by composing and lighting the shot just right in game.The 33 members of this group use the tools …
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Over the next while Koinup will be helping you find your way around the huge area that is Burning Life 2009.We, Poid, Fiona and I will be pointing out some of the artists who's work we like. Some are famous, some less so, but we hope to give you a few "pointers"; some interviews, some pictures, some reviews and background info.The first one I have been to see is "Bringing …
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As our continuing coverage of Burning Life continues this week I bring you Koinup's Cream of the Crop - Burning Life. This is an excellent group to join and add your memories from this year's event and also to browse and get a good look of all there is going on. With 218 works in this grouping posted by 41 members it's a really impressive collection.There are only a few more …
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Yesterday marked the opening of the Burning Life sims, and already we've had a number of really fabulous photos submitted to the Places collections. There are 34 sims with over 400 installations to visit. It's quite a sight to behold.If you've not attended Burning Life before there are a few greeter stations available near the main gate of …
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Second life is a bit back-to-front in a number of ways, one of which being that, despite the manic striving for ‘realism’ by some, it, and other Virtual Worlds are all bald. There is, unli …
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As summer just closes for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere and the feeds fill up with more sweaters, I bring to you a group filled with summer memories. Koinup's Cream of the Crop - …
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BURNING LIFEIt's not easy to sum in a single post the most awesome things done by all the Koinup members during this week. But surely, something very relevant has been created by the Koinup blog team made up by Poid Mahovlich, Soror Nishi, Fiona Haworth. The fab three covered the Burning Life events, with a series of useful posts and with the creation of group that collect …
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Now Burning life has had around a thousand people participate this year and for many it was their first time doing so, Burning Virgins.I thought it might be nice, as a lot of press will be …
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One of the things I like best about SL is the opportunity to explore places I've been or I've wanted to go in RL. I really enjoy seeing how creators recreate RL places as well as expound on them and make them into something completely different. Today in Meet in the Metaverse I want to take you to just such a place. White Taj is modeled after the RL Taj Mahal. It's …
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OK, so here are a few things I have seen at BL09 that you might like to check out.These are a mixture of great pieces and pure fun, so I hope it will save you lots of laggy flying around a …
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The best thing in Secondlife for me has always been the friendships I've made. On a tough RL day, I know my bestests are waiting for me inside to go shake it off by being silly or to listen to me piss and moan. Virtual worlds have made the oceans seem far less vast and forged together unbelievable connections around the world. Koinup's Cream of the Crop today celebrates True …
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With the help of the Metaverse (and Wallpaper) artist Shoji, Koinup is launching a new awesome competition open to all virtual worlds guys! The contest is called: Virtual Wallpaper Contest and basically it ask participants to create a wallpaper desktop by using imagineries/sceneries of virtual worlds. You can read all the rules, and guidelines, here! JOIN THE CONTEST NOW!The …
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so many of them