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White Lebed works as a gallery curator in Second Life which sometimes can be a thankless task as we both agreed, added to the fact that you can never please everyone – so doing what you th … 
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 … 
Adam Nash (aka Adam Ramona) just opened his first "solo retrospective" collection of selected Second Life Works dated 2007-2009. It’s a varied and random set of installations scattered hig … 
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 … 
Now, it's very easy to miss stuff because you are in the wrong time zone, and while there are few Europeans who won't have heard of Pirats I thought I would give a very quick intro to this … 
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 …
Dear readers, start your holidays with this "All I Want for Christmas" pearl by Hadji All I Want For Christmas - a Second Life Machinima by hadji on Koinup Merry Christmas and Happy new year from all the Koinup blog crew!
There's a growing interest in knowing how to get attention on Koinup and reach hundreds of views on your images, machinima and artworks. This post will give you some tips on getting the most out of Koinup in terms of views on your works. I take for granted that you have a good network of friends and followers, because this is the most important factor to get attention, favs, … 
We're so glad to announce that Museo del Metaverso, one of the main art organizations in Second Life (and Opensim), is now a lead sponsor of Metaverse Wallpapers project. Museo del Metaverso (MdM) is promoting the launch of the Metaverse Wallpapers to its members. The staff is also helping us to get the word out and reach their community . The main goal of Museo del … 
Utherverse, best known for adult virtual worlds The Redlight Center, RudeVirtual and Virtual-Vancouver has been trying for a couple of years to extend its entertainment value beyond "just sex" to live events such as art auctions and you guessed it, live music. Speaking to a canada.com writer in 2007, Utherverse CEO Brain Shuster explains the dilemma: "We played around with a … 
Hair brings one's self-image into focus; it is vanity's proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices. ~Shana Alexander Every morning when I wake up in …
Koinup has been featured on the italian radio broadcast Radio24. The programme was about machinima and I was interviewed by the tech journalist Luca Tremolada. You can listen for some extracts, here (italian only)
As I traversed the great terrain of Machinima over the last few of weeks, I stumbled across a gem of a find! The works of virtual resident Spyvsspy Aeon really impressed me on many levels. His work is a unique type of artistry, almost dream-like, ripe with elegant imagery that makes it's viewer refrain from blinking for fear of missing a single poetic shot in his tableau of …
This post is the result of a collective effort, made by me and the Koinup community. Basically I called members of the Classy Avatar group to write "The top rules to be a classy avatar". They answered and we came out with 20 serious and semi-serious hits. If you're asking how to make your avatar more glorious, awesome and trendy, more appealing for all, probably you may want … 
Winter is coming upon us. We are on the verge of the holiday season where we dream of twinkling lights reflected in a glittering snow, a warm bright room with a cozy fire in the fireplace. … 
Dear readers, you're invited this wednesday 27th of january to the Cyber Photo Exhibition Opening in the BladeRunner City (DIRECT SLURL FOR TELEPORT) The exhibition, brought to you by Koinup and the amazing owners of BladeRunner City (Blackmamba and BladeRunnerSPN1977 Sands), will showcase the winning works of the Cyber Photo Contest. At the show, you will have the chance … 
Well, it's always a nice surprise to find yourself at a good party, and last night I was taken to see a great show, with great music, so I was chuffed. (pleased). Aliz tped me into an installation by Betty Tureaud at the Nomanisan Straits Art Gallery. Betty's project is called "The Dead Art Planet".. of which she says... "You are coming to a lonely abandoned planet, devoid …
Since the call for new guest authors, Koinup Blog has been headed to expand the area of interests. Thanks to the active support of Poid Mahovlich, we're actively building a staff of bloggers that under the label of the "Koinup Blog" will cover fashion, art, machinima, education and all the creative things happening in virtual worlds.Basically there are two big changes. First …
Rocking the Metaverse is back. The stars of the most hot crossworld live music tour will perform on tomorrow, 6th of november (friday), starting at 12pm SLT(pacific time) in Club Cooee, the new-innovative 3d Chat World.The show will take place in the International Club of Club Cooee, a cool dj lounge room where you can sit and enjoy music, and hangout with friendsIf you're …
On March 30th, Linden Lab, the makers of Second Life, made some substantial changes to their official Terms Of Service that have a strong effect in many areas of in-world activities - including Machinima and Photography. Some believe these changes are simply common sense courtesy, while others claim that TOS 2.0 is disabling the creative pool with their rules, which appear …
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