Drowsy. A Second Life Storyboard by WIND

Recently picked by New World Notes readers as the most beautiful Second Life sim of the last three months, Drowsy is one of the most photographed Second Life Places ever. The following is a wonderful Second Life photo-reportage made by WIND



Enjoy the enchanting beauty of Drowsy, here

Crosspost your Koinup pictures to Flickr

If you're active both on Koinup and Flickr, you can crosspost your Koinup pics to Flickr by using the Koinup Crosspost Feature.

In order to deploy such feature and crosspost to Flickr your Koinup pics, you have to follow these steps:
1. Login in Flickr
2. Visit your Flickr upload email page
3. Copy the Flickr-upload-email-address
4. Login on Koinup, go to your Koinup account page
5. Paste your Upload Flickr email address in the Crosspost section of your Koinup account
6. Click on "Save Changes"

You can follow also the step by step tutorial with images if you need more info

Once pasted your Flickr Upload Email Address in your Koinup Account, all the pics, uploaded on Koinup, will be crossposted in your Flickr Gallery. Just one click to spread your contents over your favorite websites

Koinup's Cream of the Crop - SL Italian Community

Buona giornata! Koinup's Cream of the Crop column will be featuring fabulous communities and events within Koinup every week. Groups are really great places to connect other users with similar interests, share and view works with a theme, run contests, garner more exposure for your piece, or foster a community with a discussion board. There are a great number of groups on Koinup now, but there is always room for more so feel free to start your own.

For the premier column, I've chosen SL Italian Community. It's not a surprise that a country so rich in art provides a talented community of artists. With 444 works and 61 members at the time of this writing this group has really shown enormous talent. I grabbed a few highlights to show you what this group is up to.

Photo By: SLnnItaly

Tempura- Autumn by SLnnItaly is very impressionist looking. I love the artist's perspective and also talent in enhancing this piece to make it appear more as a painting. You can almost feel the oils on a canvas.

Photo By: Marty86

Marty86’s U2 - Magnicent shown here is really pleasing on the eye as well and expresses strong romantic emotions. In particular, I love the perspective of this piece and the manipulation to give it a more ethereal feeling.

Photo By: Ilary

This last piece I wanted to feature is named Silence by Ilary. It is a bit more macabre than the others. I love Ilary’s sense of negative and positive space and the juxtaposition of the headstone with the sun sends the viewer a really unique message.

Ok...that is my group of the week. Click here and check SL Italian Community further. There is a ton of really quality work.

If you have an event going on inside your groups, please feel free to PM fiona_haworth on Koinup...you never know you might be picked for Koinup's Cream of the Crop.

Fiona Haworth
Guest Author - Koinup.com
Staff Blogger - Phantom’s Republic
Co-Owner - Prim Pads
Twitter - Fiona_Haworth

Signup on Koinup with your Facebook and other social media accounts

We have just deployed a new brand Koinup feature for all the virtual worlds members that would love to signup on Koinup. From now, you can signup on Koinup simply by logging with your Facebook or Myspace or Google account. The registration process is now "a one click step procedure" and you don't have to create (and save somewhere) new passwords. Enjoying Koinup is now more easy and fast!

Old members are invited their usuals accounts and keep up on logging by using their Koinup credentials. The new login/signup brand feature (created with tools provided by Gigya) is targeted at the new members.

Frenzoo announces the winners of the Stars of Koinup Contest

The guys at Frenzoo just announced the winners of the Stars of Koinup Contest. According to the panel, the winners are: NAME, Bazzy, Coocies
Congrats on your win!!!!

Koinup readers meet Soror Nishi

A couple of days ago, we launched a call to write for the Koinup Blog. In a few days, we got about 10 applications. One of the most interested profiles we had the chance to review is from Soror Nishi. Soror is an artist, designer and well appreciated blogger.

Member of the NPIRL group (Koinup and NPIRL partnered some months ago to launch the NPIRL Safaris ), Soror Nishi will be in charge for the Koinup blog column: OMNIBUS

OMNIBUS is the art column of the Koinup Blog. Each week, Soror will cover the most artistic things happening on Koinup, linking together works created in Second Life with pieces made in Warcraft, or IMVU and all the other virtual worlds. The first editorial (OMNIBUS hello edition) is live. Stay tuned for the next stories

OMNIBUS ...hello edition...:)))

Hi... well, I’ve been asked to share a few thoughts with you on the stuff I like on Koinup and I hope to be doing that on a weekly basis.
It’s gonna be some of the coolest stuff I see each week and I know its a bit time-consuming for a lot of you to work your way through all the new uploads ( and past stuff too) to find things that you really like... hopefully I can save you some time if this is the case ....
....and I am thinking of doing stuff with general themes too..so..one week I will do the coolest action photos...one week romantic stuff...and so on, well...thats the idea anyway..:)) so that it’s not just my taste but all sorts of styles and themes....

and some weeks I will probably just ramble a bit ...





This one from the very talented Magggg, taken in SL, I believe, starts off my little selection this week. Maggg does some very romantic stuff and I will, no doubt, be showing more of her stuff later. You can see the full size version here, its called Plug in Baby.
I’m in a rather space-girl phase at the moment myself so it appeals to my current mindset. ‘Chimera’ being an amalgam of stuff, which we all are...



RockerFaerie is, I’m sure, as well known to you all as Magggg and this one I love for its simplicity...it’s very easy to get too complicated with the images we make but this one just cuts through it all and the sixties image is striking and memorable.



Its called Miss Jinx and is presumably of the lady of that name in Second Life... the original is here... again... I am pretty sure I’ll be talking more about Rockerfaerie in due course...





This is Terokkar at Night, a shot from World of Warcraft by another very talented and productive photographer .... Morgana le Fay.. (great name..:)) and the large size lets you get into that evening light in this great piece of landscaping. There are a few of her shots of Terokkar that are well worth looking at.





I really liked this one too.. by Starla Grey.. taken in the Sims, its just ooozing with that 50’s screen star feel and is classic cheesecake... makes me smile..:)) again...the original is here and its called Adriana.





This photo is by CookieMia16 and from IMVU, just so we get around the Metaverse a bit..:)) and I chose it this week cos it's a bit edgy which makes a change from the usual rather soft stuff that normally comes out of IMVU. The original 'deteriorate' is here....


So, hope that that gives you some new stuff to look round and .....because a know-it-all never learns anything, I am very happy to look at stuff some of you may want to send to me...my email is sorornishi@mac.com...or just comment below.

soror Nishi :)))

What's your favorite Second Life sim of the last 3 months?

Koinup and New World Notes partner to bring to you a survey to vote for the the most beautiful sim in Second Life of the last 3 months.

VOTE NOW YOUR FAV SIM

H2O Contest Exhibition. Announcement

The H2O photo contest in well under way. The exhibition, both at the Museum of SL Photography and Orange Island Photo Gallery, will be officially opened Sunday 26th July at 1pm at the MoSLP. Read all the announcement on the Orange Island Blog

The H2O Contest has been one of the most exciting and succesfull contests ever made in Koinup. Thanks to the participants that uploaded dozens of fantastic entries and thanks to Orange Island that built and manage such interesting project. Browse the submissions, here



Image by spyvspyaeon

Meet Me in the Metaverse - Pathfinder

Since this is a new column here at the Koinup blog, I'm going to take a few moments and introduce it properly. Meet Me in the Metaverse is a new weekly column to highlight Koinup's new feature - Places. Currently this is can be found only on the Second Life World homepage. The places project is our way of collecting slurls making a collection of all the photographs taken of a particular sim.

So...how does one go about adding SL Places? The steps are really simple. During the upload process, include the slurl in the Add SLurl box on the Describe These Items page. Automagically, your photograph gets added to existing places or you get credited as the founder of a new place. YAY!!

Photo By: Icarus_Robbiani

Without further ado...Meet Me in the Metaverse presents Pathfinder. Pathfinder is two sims, the Highlands and Lowlands. Besides just being an amazing environment, the Pathfinder sims will eventually be a journey to enlightenment. While the journey adventure activities are still in the development stage, the builds seem complete and ready for discovery.

Exploring these two sims is a real pleasure as it was designed for easy navigation yet still pleasing on the optics. The builder’s goal was to provide a place of inspiration for its visitors. And that they have done. Complete with amazing vistas, rich environmental sounds, tons of places to sit and ponder or take some stellar pictures, these sims are definitely worth the visit.

Photo By: fiona_haworth


One of the things I loved best about my time spent here was what appeared to be carefully planned terraforming. Elevations themselves expressed the ascendance from the Lowlands into the Highlands. Each level has small sidesteps off the beaten path to while away some hours.

The Pathfinder sims are brought to you by the Institute of Human Development. In the near future the journey activities will be brought online. These activities will be rich in video content and give the visiting public an opportunity to expand their minds in an environment that is sure to stun them with the pure beauty alone. Read more about Pathfinder on their website: http://www.mypathfinder.com/

Fiona Haworth
Guest Author - Koinup.com
Staff Blogger - Phantom’s Republic
Co-Owner - Prim Pads
Twitter - Fiona_Haworth

H2O Contest Exhibition. Announcement

The guys at Orange Island just announced that "the exhibition, both at the Museum of SL Photography and Orange Island Photo Gallery, will be officially opened Sunday 26th July at 1pm at the MoSLP"
Read More on the Orange Island Blog.

The participants of the H2O Contest uploaded more than the 150 works and the panel of judges had really an hard time picking the winners. The H2O contest has been one of the most engaging, funny and interesting on Koinup since many months and many of the entries are definitely pieces of virtual art.

Read at the Orange Island blog the complete announcement of the exhibition with the winning works and honorary mentions of the contest

Image above "Lost Nature" by spyvspyaeon

Koinup readers meet Fiona Haworth

A couple of days ago, we launched a call to write for the Koinup Blog. Just a few hours after the post, we got some interesting applications from bloggers. Among the candidates, the first author confirmed to be Koinup Guest Blogger is Fiona Haworth. Welcome on Board Fiona!

Fiona will be in charge of the column "Meet me in the Metaverse" focused on the best Second Life Places and of the column "Koinup's Cream of the Crop" focused on the most interesting art pieces and exciting groups spreading over Koinup.

Fiona has been blogger for the Rezzable group and it own its own blog at Phantom’s Republic

BTW: We're seeking for other bloggers. So if you have ideas, contact us at editor@koinup.com attach some articles you have wrote and propose some columns to manage on the blog

Stay tuned for the Fiona's first choices.....


Pier, Koinup CEO
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Machinima Showcase in Twinity. Join "Show and Tell" event for the Powered by Real Life Contest

The guys at Twinity host a Machinma Party at Bitfilm’s Bitropolis this Friday at 16:00 European Time (Milan/Amsterdan Time). Do you want to get some inspiration for your own machinima and take the advantage to get in the Powered by Real Life Machinima Contest? Just come along and see how other creative minds see virtual worlds – all movies from Bitfilm Collection 0108 will be shown!

JOIN THE POWERED BY REAL LIFE PEOPLE to get your hands in the machinima contest and stay tuned with the next inworld twinity events

Event Details
Date:Friday, 24 July 2009
Time: 16:00 CET
Place: Bitfilm Bitropolis Cinema

Where? In Twinity. Download the world, if you don't have yet

Once inworld, seek for Bitfilm Bitropolis Cinema in the Places Tab

Share your avi-pics on the Koinup fan page on Facebook

We just launched the Koinup Fan Page on Facebook. The page is waiting for you to add yourself as fan and add contents. So, feel free to add your best avi pics to the Koinup Page. The most favs and commented will be featured here on the blog. Join the Page now

Call to Write for Koinup Blog. Would you love to cover the most coolest things of the metaverse? Apply now

Would you love to write about the most coolest things happening on Koinup? Koinup is so far the most active, large and vibrant web 2.0 portal completely dedicated to virtual worlds. With almost 25000 registered members and "thousands" of new contents loaded each week, Koinup is the litmus paper of what's happening "now" in virtual worlds.

We're seeking for a guest author, that help us to cover the best contents, images and machinima and the most interesting groups and places spreading over Koinup.

Skills requested? Fluent english, some experiences with blogging and writing, being fan of Koinup and the Metaverse. If you're interested, apply by sending an email to editor@koinup.com (attach please some stories and blogposts you have wrote previously)

Good Luck

Avatar Contest by Koinup & Frenzoo. First submissions

Frenzoo and Koinup people are starting to join the Frenzoo group and take part in the Avatar Contest. You're invited to follow them and start to think about your submission. If you don't want to enter the contest, you can still take part in the competition, by "add to favs" your favourite entries

The prize looks pretty awesome: one free upgrade to VIP status in Frenzoo for life



(image by NA_ME)

Rocking the Metaverse (embedded version). Enjoy the show in Metaplace on the Koinup Blog

Today on 21th of july at 3PM SLT (or Pacific time) The stars of the Rocking the Metaverse (Doubledown Tandino, Slim Warrior and Grace Mcdunnough) will delight you.

You can enjoy the show (held in Metaplace world), by logging here on the Koinup Blog. Have a great time!!!!!!! (click on "Enter This World")

Koinup and Frenzoo partner to bring Avatar Art Contest

Koinup and Frenzoo, the 3D global community specialized in style and fashion, partner to bring you a Koinup & Frenzoo-Avatar Art Contest

The participants of the contest are asked to Join Frenzoo, customize their avatars, take some pics and then upload to the Frenzoo Group on Koinup. You can read all the rules, here



The Contest is open to all the Koinup members and Frenzoo users.

Frenzoo is running also a special offer for the first 5 Koinup members that will apply for a special 3D Pro Creator Program. Read More here

Frenzoo gives away special PRO 3D Creators Pass to Koinup Members

Remember the fun the last time you were involved with getting involved with something new and fresh? Frenzoo is a new browser-based, global 3D avatar community focused on lifestyle & fashion. Launched into beta this year, the site is developing rapidly, and all about user generated content.

Everyone can create their own content for free in Frenzoo, and PRO 3D Creators can import directly from 3D Max as well as other packages (Blender/Maya) via a Collada importer. Items (mesh and texture), animated items and avatar animations can be imported, as well as 3D Mesh "Templates" that can be used by others to make personal or derived items for sale

Frenzoo has a special "offer" for the Koinup members. The first 5 Koinup users that that will apply for the PRO 3D Creator Program will get the pass for free. To apply it is enough that you contact Simon, the Ceo of Frenzoo, mentioning in the mail your Koinup Page.
APPLY NOW: simon@frenzoo.com

PRO 3D Creator Info. Consider also to join the Frenzoo Group on Koinup to stay in touch with Frenzoo members active on Koinup

Twinity Machinima. The Promo by Luca Lisci

Luca Lisci just published a super-cool promo for the Twinity "Powered by Real Life" machinima contest



Watch and Comment the Video! Join the Twinity Contest on Koinup now!

The Powered by Real Life Contest is a Machinima Twinity Contest, supported by Koinup, with the cooperation of Wikinima

Koinup and Twinity are Pleased to Announce "Powered by Real Life", the 1st Twinity Machinima Contest

Milan, Italy (PRWEB) July 17, 2009 -- "Powered by Real Life" is a machinima contest, where the participants are asked to film their virtual lives in Twinity, the virtual world that mashes virtual and real and submit their machinima on Koinup, the web 2.0 platform for virtual worlds.



The participants of the contest have the chance to submit their entries from 15th of july to 20th of August. After the submission time, the Koinup community will vote the videos and pick the winners. During the contest period, Wikinima, a company specialized in machinima, will host in Twinity a series of workshops, events and classes on machinima filming, editing and creation.

The winning videos will be projected in the Bitfilm @Bitropolis Cinema in Twinity and they will be also featured in the Bitfilm website. Bitfilm Festival own a dedicated virtual space in Twinity and it works as media sponsor of the initiative.

The goal of the contest is to invite participants to express themselves in Twinity by creating videos and start to use the tools provided by Twinity to empower their creativity. Koinup is supporting the initiative by offering the participants the official group of the event, where they can share videos, leave feedback, meet each others.

View Rules and Presentation of the contest, here

Machinima is a new form of creativity and it is quickly becoming one of the most widespread art genres among virtual worlds members. Twinity and Koinup goals are to support the machinima culture and help virtual worlds members to get familiar with this innovative art form.

About Twinity: http://www.twinity.com/en
Twinity is a 3D mirror world based on real cites and real people

About Koinup: http://www.koinup.com/
Koinup is a social network that connect virtual worlds people and make the access and discovery of virtual worlds easier

About Wikinima: http://www.wikinima.com/
Wikinima is an art company devoted to virtual worlds, specialized in machinima making

Photo Session. Review of your works

This week, Zephyru Zapedzki will offer you a mentor review. Join us today, Thursday 16th of July at 11.00am SLT in the Orange Island Photo Gallery and get your work appraised by a color specialist.

Zeph is a painter in RL and deeply passionated about colors theory. This is the final session about our intense colours class. You are pleased to come and ask him to give a friendly review of your use of colours in your work.

In order to practise what we learnt, last Thursday, Zeph asked us to prepare some works related to the main aspects of using colors:

* Color combinations : you can use Color Scheme to play with the color combinations. Look at these posts if you need a refresher: first session transcript and second transcript
* World environment editor: for that, you’d be better put your graphic preferences to High. Please look at the transcript.
* Prim lights: please look at the transcript.
* Post-processing with Paint.net.

Photo Sessions members are asked to send their work inworld to Natty Foggarty or Zephyry Zapedzki in copy mode. A selection will then be exhibited on the Orange Island Photo Gallery.



Read More in the Orange Island Blog

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Photo Sessions are events dedicated to help photographers share and collaborate. Orange Island and Koinup partner to offer classes for SL Photographers and especially the Second Life Comunity on Koinup.com.

Join the PHOTO SESSIONS group on Koinup!

Active Worlds Machinima. Promo of the Rocking the Metaverse show in AWE

The Koinup member sflisijn (also known as Sander in Active Worlds Europe) filmed part of the Rocking the Metaverse Active Worlds Europe show and created a very appealing video.

WATCH NOW!

Promo Event in Twinity for the "Powered by Real Life" machinima contest

Powered by real life" is a Twinity Machinima Contest - supported by Koinup and Bitfilm, with the cooperation of Wikinima!

The contest is about filming machinima in Twinity and post the videos on the "Powered by real life" group pool at Koinup. The theme of the contest is "humour". So well, start to think something funny you can do in Twinity, capture-edit those impressions and upload your video on Koinup (Upload on Youtube and then import on Koinup)

The contest starts on 15 July 2009. Twinity and Wikinima are also organizing an opening party for the machinima contest. At the kickoff event you will get the chance to meet the machinimist Luca Lisci from Wikinima, who will give you advice and helpful hints.

EVENT DETAILS:
Date: Wednesday, 15 July 2009
Time: 20:00 CET (11AM SLT or Pacific Time)
Place: Brandenburg Gate in Berlin#

#Login Twinity, search for Brandenbourg Gate in the Places Section

JOIN THE POWERED BY REAL LIFE GROUP

Entropia Universe Community joins Koinup

A bunch of Entropia Universe members are joining and spreading contents over Koinup. They setup a group (called EntropiaUniverse) that I highly suggest to have a look! All the members of Entropia Universe are welcome here on Koinup. Here the link to join the group, here's instead the link to embed the widget and spread it everywhere

Rocking the Metaverse Widget. Embed on your blog and Facebook

If you wanna a bit of rock in your blog or Facebook page, you can consider to customize and embed the official Rocking the Metaverse widget! The widget is available in many formats (static and slideshow) and it is available here . Just a click to create and spread to your blogs, facebook and other social media.

Live stream from Active Worlds Europe. Rocking the Metaverse. Stream by Malburns

If you can't login, now, in Active Worlds Europe, you can still enjoy the live stream of the Rocking the Metaverse (by Malburns)

Koinup and Active Worlds Europe Announce that Rocking the Metaverse will Hit Active Worlds Europe on 14th of July

After a series of succesful concerts in Second Life, Opensims, Metaplace and Twinity, Rocking the Metaverse, the most popular live music show of the metaverse, is moving towards Active Worlds Europe. The Rocking the Metaverse show will be held at the Active Worlds Europe on 14th of July in the central auditorium building. All details to join and attend the metaverse show are here .



The mission of Rocking the Metaverse is to bring live music in all the virtual worlds (all the metaverse) and raise the bar of entertainment in virtual worlds. Virtual Worlds are innovative and engaging stages to play, enjoy and interact with live music. During the Rocking the Metaverse show at Active Worlds Europe, the audience will have the chance to listen to some of the most appreciated and popular metaverse artists, as Doubledown Tandino, Slim Warrior, Grace Mcdunnough, MOshl Kumachi and many others.

Read the full release on PrWeb

Photo Session : all about colors, part four

Join us this coming Thursday 9th of July at 11.00am SLT in the Orange Island Photo Gallery for the fourth part of the class based on RL Photography Theory ‘Colors in Second Life’ by Zephyru Zapedzki.

Last session was focused on the environment editor and the Lights in SL. We learned the many ways to affect colors in-world.



This week, Zeph will briefly introduce the basics of post-processing colors. This will also be the occasion to ask him everything that comes in your mind about colors.

Then, he will ask you to practise the technique we’ve studied during last classes by making pieces respecting three guidelines (color combinations, windlight endless combinations, prim light studio). Please send it to me or Zeph inworld with your name on it. The pictures will be then exhibited on the Orange Island Photo Gallery.

Next week, Zeph will review your work, a good occasion to discuss about each other works.

You can read more about our color teacher on the first blogpost.

Join the PHOTO SESSIONS group on Koinup, to stay in loop with all the Orange Island Photo Events!

Virtual Singapore by Twinity. Enjoy the machinima promo

Twinity is going to launch a new virtual city: Singapore. Andreasw just posted on Koinup a trailer of Virtual Singapore. Watch it now!

Rocking the Metaverse. From Orange Island to Active Worlds Europe

Yesterday was an amazing show at the Orange Island. MOshl Kumachi, Grace Mcdunnough, Slim Warrior, Doubledown Tandino delighted the public with a perfect exhibition.

At the same time, and for the first time in the metaverse, the show was broadcasted in Twinity. It was such a fantastic experience to see a bunch of twinizens dancing on the notes of the RtM musicians!

Now, the RtM crew is already moving towards Active Worlds Europe. So I invite all the readers to join Active Worlds Europe and start to familiarize with this amazing virtual world. You can read the instructions on the Rocking the Metaverse - Active World thread

Rocking the Metaverse show at Active Worlds is scheduled for 14th of july at 10AM SLT
(19:00 italian time)

JOIN THE ROCKING THE METAVERSE FACEBOOK PAGE
to stay in loop with the upcoming shows!

Rocking the Metaverse 2.0. The Recharge. Next tuesday at the Orange Island

Just a few days after the announcement of the recharge, Rocking the Metaverse crew started to move towards Orange Island! RTM Next show is scheduled for 7th of July at the Orange Island, in the beautiful environment of the Orange Island Lower Plaza at 1PM SLTime



Doubledown Tandino, Grace Mcdunnough, Slim Warrior will delight you with great music and energy! JOIN THE ROCKING THE METAVERSE GROUP!

During the Show, we will launch the Rocking the Metaverse Photo-Contest! The contest is about taking photos during the live shows and post on the group. Each week we will announce the winners during the shows!

Stay in loop: "art and rock are going to meet at the Orange Island" on the next monday 7th of july!

Second Life Summer Competition. Join the H2O Contest

Orange Island, the Museum of Second Life Photography and Koinup are pleased to announce a new SL summer photo competition: the H2O Contest. The themes are ‘Water‘ and ‘H2O‘and photographs can show any Second Life sim.



From Thursday 2nd July to Friday 10th July at midnight, you can upload up to five entries on the H2O Contest group on Koinup.com. A panel of five judges will choose the 18 best entries, which will be displayed from the 14th of July at both the Museum of SL Photography and the Orange Island Photo Gallery.

The panel will then select three photos among the 18 finalists. The winners will be announced on Orange Island on Friday, 31st July, at 10am SLT.

The winners will get Linden Dollars prizes and a chance to exhibit their work at the MoSLP and the Photo Gallery during the whole of August. As a bonus, the overall winner will be invited to talk about his work at a photo session during the summer.

1st prize: L$9000 and 9 photographs in the exhibition

2nd prize: L$6000 and 6 photographs in the exhibition

3rd prize: L$3000 and 3 photographs in the exhibition

The exhibition will be officially opened with live music at the Museum at a date to be announced. Join the Koinup, Orange Island or Museum of SL Photography groups to be notified of these events. If you need more details, please contact Mariposa Upshaw or Eric Arkright in world (in Second Life)

H2O CONTEST RULES

* Contestants must have an account on Koinup. Registration is free and takes only a few minutes.
* The photos have to be related to the theme of ‘Water’ or ‘H2O’. Use your imagination!
* From Thursday 2nd July to Friday 10th July at midnight (all times SLT), contestants can upload up to five (5) entries on the H2O Contest group on Koinup.com. If they submit more than five, only the first five will be considered.
* All entries must be tagged with “h2ocontest”
* Photos already posted on Koinup before Thursday 2nd cannot be submitted to the contest. Please submit new works.
* No brand logos or hidden advertisement. No sex, violence or offending contents. Black and white accepted.
* Entries will be judged based on artistic and emotional impact, technical skill, and theme.
* Entering the contest implies the acceptance of these rules.


JOIN NOW THE GROUP

The Stars of Koinup. A contest on Frenzoo to play with the Koinup colours

Koinup and Frenzoo are pleased to invite you to join the Stars of Koinup Contest. The Stars of Koinup is a Koinup Fanart contest that take place in Frenzoo.

The participants of the contest are invited to play with the colours of Koinup logo and use them to create/customize their avatar (and themes) in Frenzoo. READ ALL THE RULES

The members of both Koinup and Frenzoo are invited to join the contest, remixing Koinup brand colors and creating fanart in Frenzoo. If you don't have a Frenzoo account, you can signup here



Frenzoo is a 3d fashion and style world and provide its users with some amazing tools to dress, customize and create avatars. Koinup is a web 2.0 platform that connects virtual worlds.

Koinup and Frenzoo partner to raise the bar of avatar creativity and bring new tools and exciting initiatives to their communities. JOIN THE CONTEST


You can't miss this contest. The winners will receive the amazing Koinup T-Shirt

Photo Session : Art Trivia, a quizz about your favourite pieces. Today at the Orange Island

Join us this coming Thursday 2nd of July at 11.00am SLT in the Orange Island Photo Gallery for a very fun event : Art Trivia.

Art Trivia is a game to teach art in a new funny way. Join us at the Orange Island.

READ MORE on the Orange Island blog



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Photo Sessions are events dedicated to help photographers share and collaborate. Orange Island and Koinup partner to make instructive classes for SL Photographers and especially the Second Life Comunity on Koinup.

Rocking the Metaverse 2.0 is live. Update your calendar

Rocking the Metaverse is going to start a "new crossworld music tour". On 7th of july, the musicians will perform at the Orange Island (Second Life), on 14th of july, the crew will move to Active Worlds Europe. On 21th, we are headed at Metaplace. Then, come august, with shows in Reaction Grid, other OpenSims and Twinity.



These days, we're discussing with some other virtual worlds to host others shows in july and august. We're also going to launch a Rocking the Metaverse Photo Contest that will award the most beautiful photos taken at the shows!

Stay tuned, join the official Rocking the Metaverse group on Koinup or the Rocking the Metaverse Page on Facebook