Arthur Constantinou

Week 15 continued......

2007-10-29T21:45:00.000-07:00

Here goes nothing been trying to upload my images still!
And yes they work. Stupid me, had to re-save the photo's to jpeg. Down with Bmap; Boooooo.
Good old Zeno Uggla, the man of brick;Will survive any taunt ; his pretty thick skinned(brick actually).

Week 15

2007-10-23T18:20:00.000-07:00

Well D day was today.We had to finish our space sphere world before the end of class. Guess what! The class pulled together and did a great job for the amount of time we had to complete it; hats off to the class, great group of students.
Some images that I have added to this post were things I helped build. Big crackup was Garrick who seemed to have a few animated objects up his sleeve which he had stored in his inventory.
Dale, thanks for the palm trees you palmed off to me they were a great help to set the seen in one of the spheres.
Been trying to load a few images into this post but having problems with blogger, who are aware of the problem and are working towards fixing it.

Week 14

2007-10-23T18:18:00.000-07:00

Sorry Stephan, but the whole school thing had caught up with me (burnt out)needed some down time;hence not showing up for class.

Week 13

2007-10-09T06:50:00.000-07:00

After two weeks of school holidays we were back into it with second life!
Dale was taking the class, as we began building our space station.Will a classmate of mine and myself are building the major sphere(all other smaller sphere's will be connected to this). After Will had built the sphere and platform I had the luxury of placing the textures to the objects. The base was done with a geography texture placing a ting of blue colour onto it.The sphere itself is transparent with a muliti colour texture around it. We have placed a ten meter long narrow cone on top of the sphere which looks like a antenna.
The problem we faced; was that after the platform was built with a center hole, we were not able to travel through it.
Dale mentioned that he would check this problem out and would come back to us about this in two weeks time when he returns.
Had a look at the games classes town which they are building(The building resembles Flinders Street Station).Wondering if our class will have our town ready in time prior to finishing classes for the end of the year.
Hopefully we can have a majority of the space station completed before this.
Wish us luck,I believe we will need it!

Week 10

2007-09-18T00:37:00.000-07:00

And yes, we have it!!!!!!!!!
The class has finally decided the space ship is going to be a group of sphere's(holding individual group influences) all connected to a larger main sphere(which will be common area, and arrival of people from earth).
I searched for some aeshtic designs which we could incorparate into the features of our spaceship.

We have come up with a concept of the spaceship. We are going to make it like an adventure game where each sphere will have a particular letter. Once you collect all the letters from each individual sphere, you are then able to type in a password which will allow you to enter into the main sphere and recieve a bunch of free goodies( costume, super cape, ray gun,etc.).
Next class we are going to work on the history of the space craft(how it came about).

Week 9.5

2007-09-17T05:41:00.000-07:00

Research into the bio dome.
After extensive research into the bio dome I have discovered that the shape of a dome has not changed?It is still the shape of a dome.
From the beginning when Eskimo's(decedents from Aborigines) used the shape to build their homes.

Even though the shape didn't change, people began to use it in more artistic ways.

Homes that have tried to resemble the igloo but got carried away(the dome gone X-rated)

But when it comes to building a bio dome there is only a particular form a material that has be used.It needs to be translucent in order for the suns rays to penetrate.As all living organisms need the sun for them to live.

Omaha's desert bio dome.

Glass is one structure that man continues to use.Re-enforced by triangular steel frames.

Antartics bio dome

But things can go wrong, when you don't lock the doors to the liquor cabinet in the architects offices.

Federation square

I believe that if we are to build this space station and give it some realism (being self sustainable); that it should be the shape of one big bio dome.
Wild trees and plants; animals roaming free within it.But of course with an imagination twist (giant snails, singing trees, etc) .
Instead of the outer shell having re-enforced metal to hold the glass in place we could have it look a bit more futuristic, by having one continues sheet of class.

The futuristic glass shell look of our space station.
We have the technology to build it!

Week 9

2007-09-11T00:40:00.000-07:00

Weapons of mass destruction!!!!
Dale is teaching today and yes this young blood teacher is full of energy; Pretty fast paced, kind of use to the old school pace like Stefan. But coming to grips with todays generation.
We all had to replace a different bullet in a weapon. I replaced the bullets with beach balls.
Here is an image of my bullets.
My work for next week is to research biodomes for our space station. Who knows we could start genetically growing George Wanker Bush so everyone could have a chance to throw tomato's at him.

Week 8

2007-09-04T02:00:00.000-07:00

We watched the movie Run Lola Run. Interesting movie which had multiple endings.
Also we were to view alternate games, which is the new direction story telling is going for the Internet platform. Found the game Tombstone hold'em. Which is centered at playing a poker game at a graveyard.

week 7

2007-09-04T01:09:00.000-07:00

Boy the memories kept rushing in after watching my favorite child t.v show monkey.
Funny thing is that none of the young students knew the show. My age really came out especially after watching the show some 25yrs ago and seeing how dagy the show really was.
We spoke about linear stories from the beginning at the thesis stage ( set up- turning point),then antithesis (crises) then the synthesis (climax-denouement). Sounding more Greek everyday.

Week 6

2007-09-04T01:07:00.000-07:00

Didn't rock up to class today, but heard from my classmates that they have decided to build a space craft above our island which will transport people from the island to the craft.

Week 5

2007-08-14T07:00:00.000-07:00

Well here I am!
Thick as bricks in my second life and the weight to match. And the real me, scary hey! What a release for alot of people.Commercialism for materialism which holds the youth by the nuts; hence second life is sooooooooooo popular for the uneventful and of course antisocial person! Go second life; I am happy with my real life, thank you very much. But I am allowed to dream, I think! Unless Howard has placed a new legislation on that as well.

And thats a house we had to build for a class exercise.

Thanks for class Dale, your enthusiasm extrudes to your students.

Week 5

2007-08-14T00:13:00.000-07:00

Oh well!
We all like to live some type of fantasy.
This is me in second life; thick as bricks and another photo of me in real life thin as sticks.

Week 4

2007-08-07T05:06:00.001-07:00

First step for second life and a giant leap for Victoria University!
Dale, the second life guru is taking our classes for the next few weeks.Our class of about 20 students all log onto the system at the same time causing havoc on the schools bandwidth and a lot of computer's to crash. It was mayhem for awhile, with Dale zipping back and forth trying to get everyone logged on. Our task was to check out a few different sites and take photo's.
Renee and I are working on the outdoor theater and art gallery. There were a couple of places which caught my interest.

Image 1. XXX_dvd theater. Like the fact it is was a large nice looking building and comfortable couches.

Image 2. Alpha Island. Had a large outdoor screen which dominated the town. Really liked the Persian type tents placed around the grounds.

Image 3. Illusion Island. A perfect example of a crappy place where there was too much fog covering the fact that there wasn't
anything interesting to look at.

Image 4. XXX_dvd store. Perfect example of modern day
marketing. SEX SELLS!

Image 5. Victoria University. Me standing in the bucket.A task we needed to complete before we left class.
It was a total laugh! The young lads in the class causing mayhem by blowing people up with the weapons they had accumulated from somewhere in second life. It took me about 20mins to make my bucket in between, I was blown up, run over by a tank, jumped on by a sumo wrestler and bashed by batman.
Logging off.
Zeno Uggla

Week 4

2007-08-07T01:19:00.000-07:00

Well here we are; the first step in second life!

Dale is taking our class and has kicked started us off with an invitation to Victoria universities island.
Our task was to take some photographs of some sites of interest.
Since Renee and I are working on a outdoor theater and art gallery; I searched out a couple of cinemas.
Since second life is commercial oriented place (sex sells). I ventured into the deep dark side of second life(plentiful).
1: Inside a xxx theater. Like the design.

Week 3

2007-07-31T01:59:00.000-07:00

Character Kit

Think about this same person and apply the following set of criteria to them:

Super-objective
I see myself as (five keywords)
if I were a car/food item/alcoholic drink/sport/action hero/animal I would be a.....
I dress to accentuate my.....
I dress to hide my.....
I lead with my....(body part)
My idea of a good night is......
My idea of a bad night is.....
I value my best friend because they.....
Favourite book/film/TV show/music/web site
Relaxing means.....

Zeno Uglla is the name, Fun is my game. I see myself as a short, hairy, one eye brow and easy going guy. They call me gorilla. I dress colourful and loosely to hide my big belly. Like to go fishing and hate loud music events. I value my best friend because he is blind. Love reading poetry and a cold beer on a warm night is wonderful.

Week 2

2007-07-24T01:51:00.000-07:00

Stef took the class(NO DALE). We saw a few movies about the web and the direction it is heading. More precisely web 2.0 and the way it has made people around the world more interactive. We then did a brainstorming writing exercise on the word secret.
We were assigned different parts of our town in second life; Rene,Peter and myself have been assigned to build the art gallery and theater.We came up with an out door theater in the park with a gallery under the theater.

Week 1

2007-07-17T01:57:00.000-07:00

Ball breaker! Class begins at 4pm, feeling a bit blue due to the cold and rainy weather. Arrived to class and found out that I have two teachers taking writing for multimedia. Stephan and Dale.
Great to see the teachers are enthusiastic and we are going to be an experiment class; as the uni has splurged out on buying an island on second life and we will be creating our own town.
Looking forward to the next class. Same time, same place.
Thanks for class guys