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150th Anniversary of Designing Worlds

Believe it or not, this is the 150th Episode of Designing Worlds and its predecessor, Meta Makeover. To mark this anniversary, Saffia and Elrik bring you a bumper programme!

Episode 150 Broadcast 30 January 2012

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Laurel Arts Isle

Episode 149 Broadcast 23 January 2012

Saffia and Elrik tour the Ancient-Egypt themed Laurel Arts Isle, where Circe Broom has created extensive multiple music stages in a beautiful Ancient Egyptian environment with the help of her colleagues, including the longest-running music venue in Second Life, which has been operating for over eight years. They learn that sadly, the venues may have to close in the near future due to the costs involved, unless they receive additional financial support from patrons. Regrettably, therefore, this show may represent another "Last Chance To See".

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ChangHigh Sisters

Episode 148 Broadcast 16 January 2012

To open our new season, Saffia and Elrik meet the ChangHigh Sisters - a performing arts troupe who are well-known throughout Second Life, where their popular performances draw significant audiences. Elrik and Saffia try some of the Sisters' acrobatic poses themselves, and discover a little of the deep spiritual and esoteric background behind the ChangHigh Sisters' Fireshow of Light, Life & Love. The programme culminates with the Sisters' unique show - staged especially for Designing Worlds - of stunning acrobatics with fire and dazzling colours, including inspiring narration and music from leading in-world and RL composers and musicians.

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Pleasantville Holiday

Episode 147 Broadcast 12 December 2011

To close the season, Designing Worlds visits the small town of Pleasantville to see how they celebrate Christmas. Consisting of three regions, with an elementary school and downtown area, Pleasantville is devoted to the increasingly popular activity of family roleplay. Saffia and Elrik talk to some of the kids, their parents and teachers, share in their Christmas activities, and find out why family roleplay is such a special thing in so many people's Second Lives.

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Christmas in Babbage

Episode 146 Broadcast 5 December 2011

Saffia and Elrik are visiting New Babbage to deliver a shipment of seasonal gifts from Prim Perfect Publications to the urchins of New Babbage. Saffia will be meeting our old friend, the Assistant Maceholder of New Babbage, Victor Mornington, to deliver the gifts, while Elrik hopes to get a look at some of the exciting new steam-powered technology developed for the winter season by their ingenious engineers. And this is New Babbage, after all, so absolutely nothing at all can go wrong...

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Retropolis

Episode 145 Broadcast 28 November 2011

Saffia and Elrik visit the extraordinarily varied region of Retropolis in the company of its creators, Tricia Farella and Terra Volitant. From a ship on a stormy sea, to a tropical treasure island, to an eerie tower and an atmospheric swamp, Retropolis provides all you need to create your own quest, roleplay or simply hang out in these beautifully-detailed environments.

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Thanksgiving 2011

Episode 144 Broadcast 21 November 2011

This week, Saffia and Elrik invite some virtual design and media friends over for a traditional American-style Thanksgiving dinner, in the gorgeous Garden of Dreams Piano Bar and adjacent Banquet Hall. Our guests are Nikki Mathieson of Relay for Life; Pooky Amsterdam, CEO of PookyMedia; Texas Timtam, co-founder of Treet TV; Cain Maven of Maven Homes; Pitsch Parx of UrbanizeD; and RacerX Gullwing of Giant Snail Racing. Join us for a wide-ranging discussion - and to find out what our notable guests are up to.

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Celebrate 150 Episodes of Designing Worlds!
Submitted by Saffia Widdershins on 30 January 2012
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Designing Worlds Studio in Garden of Dreams 2Designing Worlds Studio in Garden of Dreams 2
Join us at 2pm SLT today, Monday 30th January, at our beautiful studio in Garden of Dreams2 for a very special show, as we celebrate our 150th Episode!

Designing Worlds visits Laurel Arts Isle
Submitted by Saffia Widdershins on 23 January 2012
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Join us at 2pm SLT today, Monday 23rd January, at our beautiful studio in Garden of Dreams2 for the second show of our new season as we explore the beautiful Laurel Arts Isle, created by Circe Broom.

Laurel Arts Isle: Sunset Jazz ClubLaurel Arts Isle: Sunset Jazz Club

And, sadly, this might be one of the last chances to see the magnificent Isle. You can find out why in today's programme.

Designing Worlds is back - with a visit to the spectacular ChangHigh Sisters!
Submitted by Saffia Widdershins on 16 January 2012
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ChangHigh Sisters - from the Designing Worlds showChangHigh Sisters - from the Designing Worlds show
Join us at 2pm SLT today, Monday 16th January, at our beautiful studio in Garden of Dreams2 as we launch our new season with an exploration of the spectacular ChangHigh Sisters - a performing arts troupe who are well-known throughout Second Life, where their popular performances draw significant audiences.

Designing Worlds wishes you all a Pleasantville Christmas!
Submitted by Saffia Widdershins on 12 December 2011
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Join us at 2pm SLT today, Monday 12th December, at our new studio in Garden of Dreams2 as we pay a seasonal visit to Pleasantville, home of families and a very busy school, set in a small but bustling town.

Christmas house decoration is a serious business in Pleasantville!Christmas house decoration is a serious business in Pleasantville!

Designing Worlds pays a seasonal visit to New Babbage – what could possibly go wrong?
Submitted by Saffia Widdershins on 5 December 2011
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Join us at 2pm SLT today, Monday 5th December, at our new studio in Garden of Dreams2 as we pay a seasonal visit to New Babbage.

When Miss Widdershins and Mr Merlin set out to deliver a sleighload of presents for the urchins of New Babbage, what could possibly go wrong?

Whatever happens, they know they can count on the support of the Assistant Maceholder of New Babbage, Mr Victor Mornington, and a highly skilled engineer, Miss Janus.

And, of course, there's the hapless Mr Biggins ... will he play a role in saving Christmas for New Babbage? Watch today's episode and find out!

Winter in New BabbageWinter in New Babbage

Designing Worlds explores the diversity of Retropolis
Submitted by Saffia Widdershins on 28 November 2011
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RetropolisRetropolis
Join us at 2pm SLT today, Monday 28th November, at our new studio in Garden of Dreams2 for a trip to the stunningly beautiful and richly detailed world of Retropolis.

We'll be accompanied by the owners and designers, Tricia Farella and Terra Volitant , who will be showing us some of the wonderful diverse locations and activities this sim contains. We only have time to show you a short selection - but it ranges from romantic beaches and jacuzzis to wrestling with gigantic monsters in a storm on the high seas and exploring deadly but beautiful swamps. And to cap it all, there's an amazing nightclub!

Join us on Designing Worlds for a Thanksgiving Dinner with a Difference!
Submitted by Saffia Widdershins on 21 November 2011
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Join us at 2pm SLT today, Monday 21st November, at our new studio in Garden of Dreams2 for or special Thanksgiving show. Yes, we're anticipating by a few days, but we saw it as a chance to get together with a few friends and talk about things that are coming up in Second Life - and also what we'd like to see develop in Second Life.

The Piano Bar (where we meet for cocktails)The Piano Bar (where we meet for cocktails)

Exploring the arts and crafts of the mainland with Designing Worlds
Submitted by Saffia Widdershins on 14 November 2011
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Solkide' s Tower, photographed by Wren CarlingSolkide' s Tower, photographed by Wren Carling
Join us at 2pm SLT today, Monday 14th November, at our new studio in Garden of Dreams2 for the broadcast of our second visit to the Second Life mainland where we are joined by Nexus Burbclave, who has recently undertaken the Mainland Renaissance project to highlight some of the fascinating builds of the mainland.

"Is it safe?" Join Designing Worlds as we probe the mysteries of Insilico
Submitted by Saffia Widdershins on 24 October 2011
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Join us at 2pm SLT today, Monday 24th October, at our new studio in Garden of Dreams2 for the broadcast of our visit to the beautiful - and alarming - cyberpunk world of Insilico.

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We'll be exploring some of the dark and mysterious areas of this city and asking ... "Is it safe?"

And to whet your appetite, here is a taster for the show.

Missing Burn2 already? See it on Designing Worlds!
Submitted by Saffia Widdershins on 10 October 2011
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Burn2 2011 - image by PJ TrentonBurn2 2011 - image by PJ Trenton

Burn2 has only just finished (although the sims remain open to the public till Thursday - just look for Burn2 on your map to find the four sims) - but it was an amazing event, with some much to see and do. Designing Worlds visited and shot rather a lot of film - which we have now (thanks to the amazing Mr Elrik Merlin) edited down to a show that will be broadcast today, Monday 10th October at 2pm SLT.

Welcome to the Designing Worlds Forum!
Posted in Designing Worlds forum by Saffia Widdershins on 17 January 2010
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Hello everyone!

Welcome to the new website and the new forums! I hope we can see people in here discussing the shows - the issues - and what they'd like to see on forthcoming shows!

wiznord
Reply from Wiz Nordberg on 17 January 2010.

Saffia!!!! So brave you are, making the first forum post! I hope you like the new setup, and there are still more things coming, but I think we got things to the point where we felt things were "mostly working". Keep an eye out for bugs, and if you find them, our mission will be the squash em!

elrikmer
Reply from Elrik Merlin on 17 January 2010.

Our new season starts this week, and we have an exciting selection of topics lined up. We do hope you'll enjoy them. And don't forget, if you know somewhere that will be of interest to us or our listeners, on any grid, do let us know.

lacombe
Reply from Linus Lacombe on 17 January 2010.

Saffia! I am so glad to see that you have procured this forum! I watched a couple of the videos of DW here on the TreetTV site, and they work marvelously well. I really enjoyed the Christmas show in Rothesey. My doesn't Elrik have a lovely home there!

Aisling
Reply from Aisling Sinclair on 18 January 2010.

Hi everyone! What a great new forum for us to gather and talk about the show. Elrik's right, we do have some really interesting places to take viewers this season, and the first one is...well, that would be telling. But I wonder, might giraffes be involved?

Nimh20
Reply from Nimh20 Vandeverre on 16 November 2010.

My question is if InWorldz is OpenSim than why isn't it on the OpenSim grid list?? http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Grid_List. There are other OpenSim grids that are not on this page besides InWorldz like Openlife.

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NY HealthScape Rollercoaster
Clip Submitted by Texas Timtam on 3 July 2011

Elrik talks with Skylar Smythe about why they build a fun ride as a way to tell visitors an important message about healthcare.

Original Episode: SL8B Build Tour
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Maslow's Hideaway on Designing Worlds
Clip Submitted by Elrik Merlin on 27 July 2010

It's a big birthday party and the builders of Second Life are celebrating "The Future". Saffia & Elrik show us a few really interesting exhibits from SL6B including their own.

Original Episode: SL6B
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The show about design and designers in virtual worlds

Designing Worlds, formerly Meta Makeover, is a weekly show exploring some of the most impressive designs and creativity in Second Life and beyond.

Hosts Saffia Widdershins and Elrik Merlin aren’t afraid of delving deep into the environments featured on the show. They have investigated mysterious noises on Victorian era sim, New Babbage, walked through the battlefield trenches of the Western Front and attended a Thanksgiving dinner party.

The show addresses issues affecting design and designers working in the virtual environment, such as intellectual property. There are also insights into the latest design techniques, with “how-to” features for budding designers and builders.

On every show, you’ll meet some of the top builders, creators and designers in today’s virtual worlds – and you’re guaranteed a wealth of new ideas, products and venues.

The show is produced by Prim Perfect Productions, publishers of Prim Perfect magazine.

When: Tuesday 2:00PM SLT
Where: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Northpoint/149/81/30

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