Mara Poletti - founder of Toy Watch

If you're like me a fan of the Toy Watch brand (Swatch meet Luxury meet a videogame) , then you will appreciate these pictures by Mara Poletti the founder of this watch luxury house. They're from a Basel fair for accessories and luxury items

Getting 3DWallpaper app on your Nokia

Just stumble on a cool wallpapers app on the Ovi Store

The app is called 3D Wallpapers and it's made by one of my fav websites Koinup.com

Basically you can install the app on your Nokia Smartphone and save hundreds of wallpapers f0r your screen. I knew from some time the images included in the wallpapers, because I'm a fan of Koinup.com and I like them. So it would make sense to get them on my phone, too.

Here some of these nice images

mara poletti - toy watch collection

toy watch by mara poletti
Inserito originariamente da mforiero

Bellissima Collezione di Toy Watch, azienda di orologi fondata da Mara Poletti e Marco Mavilla

3D Screensavers by Koinup

Just read about this cool project by Koinup: 3D Wallpapers

Basically they're collecting the best images of virtual worlds and games and turning them in wallpapers for an upcoming mobile app that will be available on several mobile operators.

I think that the value of this initiative is that it brings contents, images, fanart inspired by virtual worlds and videogames to a new level. So, kudos to Koinup!

In order to pick the best images. Koinup launched a couple of contest, the first is for Second Life Snapshots, the other is for picking the best avatars.

3D Artists

Just stumble this amazing group 3D Art on Koinup!

Here's a Photo Slide, with some of the artworks profiled in the group. I think many of the images are built with Daz3D.....some of them are pretty amazing....

Miss Metaverse Winners

Here you can read the announcement of Miss Metaverse Winners!


We have picked one absolute Winner and one honorary mention for any virtual world involved (The Sims, Second Life, IMVU)

Indeed, The Sims is not a virtual worlds, but the community is so active and creative, that I thought to include girls created within The Sims in the Pageant

Thanks to all the participants for taking part in the contest! Indeed, there are many amazing entries and many amazing girls to choose from. Unfortunately, we had to choose only a few entries! Stay tuned for other contests!



Miss Second Life: Aleida



Miss the Sims: Magggg



Miss IMVU: Kitusha

Winners of the Winter Snapshot Contest

Dear readers, here's the winners of the Winter Snapshot Contest


CONGRATS to winners (rubyOKelly, zombina, novadyszel) and the other special mentions and thanks to all the participants for their amazing entries!!!!

Here's the winning works!

The winners of the Virtual Autumn Contest

dear friends, following are the winners of the Virtual Autumn Contest. You can read the credits, and the full announcement here


by Carlotta Ceawlin



by Zero to Zero


by Cooky Teardrop

Winners of the 3D Female Avatar Contest

With 215 works, almost 100 participants, the 3D Girls Contest has been a great success!
I was impressed by the quality of the entries and by the enthusiasm of the members of the group! I was going to pick as winners at least two thirds of the entries. Unfortuantely this is not the rule. So, I'm here to announce the three winners plus some honorary mentions! Here the announcement on the group

REALISM
Winner: http://www.koinup.com/ShelbyZ/work/192428/

Honorary mentions:
http://www.koinup.com/rubyOkelly/work/188981/
http://www.koinup.com/BlueEye/work/176377/
http://www.koinup.com/Ann/work/181279/

FANTASY
winner: http://www.koinup.com/Musique/work/166742/

honorary mentions:
http://www.koinup.com/novadyszel/work/195591/
http://www.koinup.com/Trixibelle/work/175264/
http://www.koinup.com/Baroque/work/136706/



SENSUALITY
winner: http://www.koinup.com/BlueEye/work/176377/

honorary mentions:
http://www.koinup.com/MedeAthena/work/167494/
http://www.koinup.com/emms/work/171512/

Some nice virtual worlds communities to join

These days, I'm exploring some of the most fashinating virtual worlds groups on Koinup
so let me hint you something cool I have seen:
Did you know there are so many amazing landscapes in the sims 2
It is cool also the idea of expressing Virtual Emotion
but the most cool group is this one about the most funny avatars of the metaverse

the most fantastic second life sites

Koinup launch an open forum on the most favorite second life sims....
I'm not using a lot second life these weeks...
but my fav are:

Intemptesta Nox
Templum ex Obscurum

Machinima for Virtual Worlds

Just discovered this nice page on Koinup
it is dedicated to machinima

I didn't know they have such a directory of videos created within virtual worlds...
well I suggest you to have a look...

The USA Congress on YouTube

Bletaverse for second life

I'm reading on Vint Falken blog that a new blog service is spreading out for second life users.....I'm quite new in second life, but it seems that Bletaverse, this new service is quite interesting....

I tried also some weeks ago Bloghud, that is offering also some crosspost options for crossposting from sl to bloghud and from bloghud to wordpress and blogspot blogs and I think it is cool service, too

I'm quite impressed by the numbers of Bletaverse, they claim to have already thousands of users....it is quite interesting because it is a relative new service....

In the comments Vint Falken and others suggest Bletaverse to introduce new features for Bletaverse in order to get more comfortable for already networked people....

I have Koinup, Flickr, Myrl, Avatars United account so I particolarly would welcome the crosspost option from Bletaverse to Koinup, which is a popular hangouts for many second life citizens

Sims Artists Community

Just stumbleupon this nice stuff on Digg
It is about this fantastic example of Sims Art

Myrl Badges

Myrl Introduce the Widget!
I'm quite fond of Widgets, so I welcome positvely this recently add from Myrl!
The Myrl Badge is very nice and specific for virtual worlds
kudos!

can't I miss to add it on my sidebar? no, I can't......so look at your right side and see how nice the badge is....

Sims 2 Dark Pictures

Dark Sims Visions by Violentdoll

she is a great artist, one of the best I'm subscribing on Koinup!
Have a look with your eyes! Violentdoll

Open Sim launched on Koinup

This is a sort of serendipity.....
I tried Open Sims some weeks ago......
some days ago I suggest to Koinup to launch a OpenSim channel on their platform and today they released it!

I'm not an avid users of the Open Sim world but I have installed the client and sometime I make a travel there.....

I'm glad Koinup opened an OpenSim channel because it is an interesting project and I'm glad that there is now a website where the contents from Open Sims are collected and listed all together.....

Virtual Hangouts

There is growing trends in virtual worlds hangouts for crossworld gamers.....
First was Koinup, later came AvatarsUnited and recently Myrl

Each of these sites has some specific features...

Koinup is most used by Second Life people
while Avatars United seems more focused on mmorpgs and myrl focused on new social worlds as Twinity, Vivaty and Habbo

they are also different in regards of approach. Myrl is more like a Digg-like environment, while Koinup is more focused on a UGC approach similar to Youtube or Flickr. AvatarsUnited seems instead based on gilds or something

lets wait and see if they will add new features in the next months!

Avatar Pictures or Avatar Art

which is the main difference between the avatar art concept and the avatar pictures

Koinup Launched an Avatar art......project

maybe they want to show that avatar is a sort of new canvas for self expressions....

have a look please