The global shed « Notes from a small field

The global shed

October 6, 2007 at 16:25 | In VU | 6 Comments
Tags: modelling, patriciaannedaviau, secondlife

Second Life is full of surprises, sometimes when you least expect them. I’ve just been in the IBM 6 sandbox experimenting with a little display to show scores when PatriciaAnne Daviau stopped by to say hello. It turns out she’s been working on building a whole town far above the ground, and she took me up for a tour. Here’s part of the town- a very nice garage:

The twist is that I couldn’t even see it when I arrived- the whole town is tiny. Really tiny! Here it is with avatars to give a bit of an idea of scale:

Even that doesn’t really convey quite how small this is. From the normal view in Second Life the whole build looks more like a flat object with a picture on it. She should give out magnifying glasses to visitors! It has to be one of the most amazing things I’ve seen in Second Life.

So, to explain the title, this is what I really like about Second Life. It’s like bashing bits of wood together in a shed to build some hair-brained project when someone from halfway round the globe stops by for a chat, and to show you what they’re up to in a shed thousands of miles away. That’s some shed. And there aren’t any spiders… unless you build some!

Update: there’s now a tiny JCB to help out with the building!

Update: just found a great video of some more of the insanely small builds via the eightbar blog; still my favourite thing in Second Life. (8 Jan 2009)

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This reminds me of RL model villages like Bekonscot.

Comment by Andy Piper — October 7, 2007 #

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I thought of the same thing. In fact I was quite evil and suggested that she build a mini town inside the mini town, which I seem to remember seeing at one of these places- could have been Godshill model village.

Comment by jt — October 7, 2007 #

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OH i am impressed!!!! I have seen quite a bit of miniaturization in SL – this is very very good! She is an artist!

Comment by Georgina Castanon — October 16, 2007 #

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Gosh thanks for all the nice comments on my little build. It has been quite a learning experience. AND I have an appointment with my eye doctor next week! Stop by any time…you are all welcome.

Comment by Patty — October 17, 2007 #

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Pingback by The global kitchen « Notes from a small field — October 18, 2007 #

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Finally got round to adding a pic of the little JCB.

Comment by jt — October 20, 2007 #

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