What a Show! Emerald Developers, Keiko, SL7B Banned Artist Rose Borchovski

Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe This Sunday 6pm slt 22nd August 2010

Emerald

Well! what a week its been for the developers of the incredibly popular Second Life Emerald Viewer from Developer Modular Systems. One developer leaves in a flurry of controversy, and a new recruit to Emerald is signed on, the highly regarded and respected Ex Linden Qarl Linden/Qarl Fizz or Karl Stiefvater in RL.

There is little doubt that while the official Viewer 2.0  from Linden Lab has failed spectacularly, the more complex and “old school” style Emerald viewer has been climbing and climbing in popularity and including many features that no other viewer has.

This Sunday at Northpoint, I’m interviewing Emerald’s owner Fractured Crystal and PR Rep for the team, Arabella Steadham on Tonight Live. What motivates them? How and why is Emerald doing so well? What their thoughts are on Linden Lab’s failure to produce a viewer that people actually want to use? I’ll also be asking, should we trust the Emerald team in light of the recent revelations by Ex Emerald Developer LordGreggreg? Are they concerned with the new direction that L.L claim to be taking with their Snowstorm viewer?

I will try to include questions from the audience in this interview, being as Im certainly NOT a developer and have no expertise in viewer developement, but as a fan and user of Emerald (like most of the viewers), Im keen to know what’s going on, am I safe using this viewer now? What is Karl going to be doing? Also… we at T.L have been told there may be an announcement or two on this Sundays show from the team, so make sure you tune in.

Keiko will be giving away a track from her Album at the Show!

We also talk to the face of Second Life Keiko Takamura..The picture above should explain why I call Keiko that… Keiko has been on Tonight Live and Live n Kickin previously, she is without doubt the highest profile Second Life Musician in real life, appearing on several MTV shows, and being featured as the face of Second Life on these ads that have appeared on You Tube, Avatars United, XStreet and many other places. Keiko has gone from being one of the shyest performers in SL and in R.L to forming her own band working real life gigs, and now just releasing her new album with her Band the Shebangs! How did Second Life help her to acheive such success?

Can high quality Art really get seen and appreciated in Second Life if it can never be shown to a large scale public who are restricted to PG or G rated work?

You might remember this exhibit by Rose Borchovski (above) if you visited the Second Life 7th Birthday celebration in Second Life early enough. This work titled “The Kiss” was banned by Linden Lab because it did not fit into the category set by them for the birthday celebration. No explanation was ever given to Rose Borchovski by Linden Lab for the banning, even though she pursued it several times with them directly. I’d like Rose’s thoughts on Linden Lab’s decision to ban this work, and on her thoughts on what she perceives as the problem with restricting large scale Second Life exhibits to G rated content.

M Linden had his detractors but he was a champion for Art in Second Life and now with him gone, and the focus on *F.E.F what is the future of serious Art like Rose’s Exhibit in Second Life?

Rose has an extraordinary Sim in SL that tells the story of Susa Bubble a character she has created an entire story and artwork around. In real life Rose Borchovski is a multi media Artist and Director and has quite an extraordinary exhibit coming up in real life she will talk to us about.

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