Designing Worlds Returns to Insilico

Designing Worlds hosts Saffia & Elrik take a grand tour of the dark and beautiful city of Insilico.

Metaverse Arts at Burn2

Host Tricia Aferdita returns to a new season of Metaverse Arts with a big visit to this year's Burn2 exhibit in Second Life. Guests include Karima Hoison, MenuBar Memorial, Briawinde Magic and Trill Zapatero.

Photographs featured in this episode of Metaverse Arts can be found in my Burn 2 Set on Flickr.

Designing Worlds Visits Isle of Wyrms

Hosts Saffia & Elrik get a tour of the legendary place in Second Life where dragons live. Welcome guides Orlith Nightfire, Skylarian Isachenko and Talarus Luan to the show and learn about the rich history and tradition.

For more photos of this fantastical set of sims, please visit my Isle of Wyrms set on Flickr.

You can visit Isle of Wyrms by visiting http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cathedral/125/142/102.

Metaverse Arts Episode 10

Episode 10 of Metaverse Arts on Treet TV sees Tricia interviewing Alexx Fenstalker about her installation Apartment 5B and Trill Zaptero and her Afghanistan Museum. Featured gallery this episode is Artropolis.

Designing Worlds Visits Winterfell!

Take a tour of the dark and mysterious lands of Winterfell with owner Serra Anansi and captain Wildstar Beaumont. Your hosts Saffia Widdershins and Elrik Merlin discover the beauty and dangers of this Second Life region.

Thoth Jantzen and Gulliver's Travels on Metaverse Arts

In the latest episode of Metaverse Arts, Tricia interviews Thoth Jantzen about his immersive build on the Veesim grid (http://veesome.com/) and takes us on a tour of the Gulliver's Travel build in Inworldz (http://inworldz.com/) by Ub Yifu and Copan Falta.

Have an Upcoming SL (or related) Art Event?

I am looking for details on upcoming Second Life (or related) art events for mention on the upcoming episode of Metaverse Arts on Treet TV. Please email me at pj.trentonsl@gmail.com for details on your event including date, time, location, participants and a brief description of the event.

For more information about the show, please visit the show site at Treet TV, or the show's blog.

Gracie Kendal and Eliza Wierwight on Metaverse Arts

The latest episode of Treet TV's Metaverse Arts with Tricia Aferdita features interviews with Gracie Kendal and Eliza Wierwight. Find out about the latest from both of these immensely talented and creative individuals.



Gracie talks about her latest project which she is calling 1000 Avatars. Read more at the blog for her project found at http://1000avatars.wordpress.com/.

Eliza tells us about her latest creations in time for the holiday season. Visit Eliza's Patron Art Decor and Gallery at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Patron/83/217/26.

For more photographs of Eliza's stunning work, see my Flickr photostream.

Metaverse Arts Episode 6 Available from Treet TV

The lastest episode of Metaverse Arts is now available to view online! We ended up dedicating the entire show to attorney Monday Beam and the topic of intellectual property and copyright. Definitely interesting an informative!

Looking Glass on Designing Worlds

Saffia Widdershins, Elrik Merlin and the Designing Worlds production team head to the amazing build by Marcus Inkpen and Sharni Azalee for this episode of Designing Worlds.

Metaverse Arts (Episode 3)

Tricia Aferdita welcomed guests Filthy Fluno and Gwen Carillon to the latest episode of Metaverse Arts on Treet TV.

A fascinating discussion, upcoming event announcements and the Criss Museum of Contemporary Art in Costa Rica as the featured gallery!

Metaverse Arts (Episode 2)

Metaverse arts host Tricia Aferdita visits with M2Danger Ranger to find out about this year's BURN2 event in Second Life, talks with artist Raven Haalan about Virtualism, and we see Glyph Graves Entropy project - including the Entropy video by Chantal Harvey. Plus, keep up to date with events and this month's featured gallery.



Find out more on the Metaverse Arts blog at http://metaversearts.wordpress.com/.

Premier Episode of Metaverse Arts

Prim Perfect is very proud to announce the launch of Metaverse Arts, a brand new show covering the art and artists of the virtual worlds, brought to you by treet.tv, Second Life’s leading cable network, and Prim Perfect Productions, the people behind Designing Worlds, Prim Perfect magazine and the Prim Perfect blog. Metaverse Arts is hosted by Tricia Aferdita.



For more information, visit http://metaversearts.wordpress.com.

Mystery on Designing Worlds

A visit to the New Babbage burlesque show takes a surprising turn into a mystery which leads Saffia & Elrik on a search for clues.

The Luminous Lens: Photo Abstractions by PJ Trenton on Calameo

I am pleased to announce the availability of the exhibit catalogue for my most recent show entitled the Luminous Lens: Photo Abstractions by PJ Trenton. The exhibit has completed its run at the Tricia Aferdita Gallery but is now on view at the Treet TV sim in front of the Designing Worlds Studio.

The catalogue, written by Miss Rowan Derryth with a foreword by Tricia Aferdita can now be viewed online at Calameo.

Simply go to http://en.calameo.com/books/000045496d4d9a0069359 in order to read the catalogue.

My sincere thanks once again to both Tricia and Rowan for making both the exhibition and this wonderful catalogue available. Thanks also to Miss Ceejay Writer for work on the catalogue and Miss Saffia Widdershins for her support and assistance in this endeavor.

The Luminous Lens by Rowan Derryth and PJ Trenton

Publish at Calaméo or browse others.

Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe

I was fortunate enough to be invited as a guest on Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe on March 29th. Other guests on the show included architect David Denton (DB Bailey in Second Life) and singer/songwriter Shannon McMahon (Shannon Oherlihy in Second Life.

More information about David can be found in his web site at http://www.daviddenton.com, while more about Shannon and her music can be found on MySpace at http://blogs.myspace.com/shannonmcmahonbruchal.

Designing Worlds Needs Your Help!

Designing Worlds is entering the Streamy Awards, the first and most prestigious awards devoted to honouring excellence in web television.

The Streamy Awards identify and celebrate the pioneers laying the groundwork for a new and dynamic entertainment medium. The Streamy Awards ceremony brings together the top talent, decision-makers and influencers shaping online entertainment, and awards are presented for the past years’ best achievements in 35 categories spanning multiple disciplines. Currently in its second year, the Streamy Awards began as a grass-roots effort piloted by the leading minds in online entertainment and continues to share the spirt of rugged independence that drives creative expression online. The show is co-hosted by Tubefilter and NewTeeVee.

Reflecting the inherent openness of entertainment online, the Streamy Awards submissions process is free and and open to the public. We would like you to nominate Designing Worlds for one of these prestigious awards in the Best Reality or Documentary Web Series – and help us to raise the profile of virtual worlds – and the role of television within worlds such as Second Life.

Winners are selected by the International Academy of Web Television, an independent, member run not-for-profit organization representing a wide cross-section of online entertainment including actors, agents, composers, content developers, directors, journalists, producers, technology innovators and writers.

Please use the public voting system to vote for us – and other Treet shows. You can vote once a day – so you could give us repeat votes if you’re feeling REALLY enthusiastic! Go to:

http://www.streamys.org/submit/public-submissions/
and vote:
Best Documentary or Reality Web Series
Designing Worlds
URL: http://designingworlds.tv

Other Treet shows are up for awards too! Please vote for:

Best Hosted Series
Tonight Live! with Paisley Beebe
http://archive.treet.tv/programs/tonight-live

Best Hosted Series
Fabulous Fashion with Angie Mornington
http://archive.treet.tv/programs/fabulous-fashion

Best Live Production
The First Question with Pooky Amsterdam and Hydra Shaftoe
http://archive.treet.tv/programs/1st-question

Lauren Live in the following categories:
Best Comedy – LaurenLive
Best Actress in a Comedy – Lauren Weyland
Best Director of a Comedy – Lauren Weyland
Best Writer of a Comedy – Lauren Weyland
URL http://archives.treet.tv/programs/lauren-live

Best Hosted Series – Meet an Author
Best Experimental Web Series – Meet an Author
http://archive.treet.tv/meet-author

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

This week I had the honour of welcoming the hosts of the Designing Worlds television show to a special dinner party at my home on the Avalon Estate. Saffia Widdershins and Elrik Merlin joined myself and La Galleria's Pamela Galli, Table Service's Mavromichali Szondi and Prim Perfect's Aisling Sinclair for a special dinner party in honour of American Thanksgiving.



My recently acquired home designed by SkyeRyder Varriale is a beautiful Italianate villa which offers a fabulous environment in which to display my ever expanding collection of Second Life art. This was a perfect opportunity to have people over to share a meal during a very important week in holiday calendar.

It was also a wonderful opportunity to showcase some of the great artists in Second Life including Fuschia Nightfire, Rik Zwiers, Tricia Aferdita, Gracie Kendal, AM Radio, Konrad Jansma, and Terry Woodward.

Designing Worlds, formerly Meta Makeover, is the live weekly show covering design and designers in the virtual worlds, brought to you by Treet TV and the people behind Prim Perfect magazine. From its roots as a makeover show, the programme has now branched out into a magazine format adding interviews and visits to some of the most impressive builds and locations in Second Life and beyond.

I hope you enjoy the show as much as I did playing host to one of the metaverse's great television productions.

Thanks to Saffia, Elrik, Texas, Truman, Mr. Mimms and the entire Treet production crew for a fabulous time.

Designing Worlds in Babbage!

Here was a totally fun production that I was fortunate enough to be asked to participate in. In the lead up to Halloween, Designing Worlds visited the steampunk region of New Babbage for a special show based on a short story by Aeolus Cleanslate. The full story is available in the October issue of Primgraph magazine.



The show was tremendously fun as I assumed the role of Mr. Biggins, the Babbage sand hog and foreman of the tunnel project. Great performances by Aeolus Cleanslate, and Ceejay Writer not to mention the hosts of the show Saffia and Elrik.

The tunnel build by Aeolus Cleanslate and Rip Wirefly are really amazing in detail as you will see during the show.

Hats off to the people at Treet TV who put in alot of work to make the final version of the episode which you see above. It is really an incredible production.

Designing Worlds Visits New Babbage

Saffia & Elrik visit the steam lands of New Babbage and meet some of the residents. Starring Saffia Widdershins, Elrik Merlin, Aeolus Cleanslate, Ceejay Writer and PJ Trenton.

Designing Worlds is the hit weekly virtual worlds design show from Treet TV, the leading TV network in today's virtual environments, and is brought to you by Prim Perfect productions, the people behind Prim Perfect magazine and the Prim Perfect blog. From its roots as a makeover show, the programme has developed into a magazine format adding interviews and visits to some of the most impressive locations in Second Life - and now we are moving into other grids as wel as SL. The show goes out every Tuesday at 2pm SLT/PDT.

Designing Worlds is presented by Saffia Widdershins, the Editor of Prim Perfect Magazine, and Elrik Merlin of Radio Riel.

Treet TV, and Treet Archives are brought to you by the people that created SLCN, the world's first virtual television network.

Started by Wiz Nordberg in 1997, SLCN became a virtual entertainment conduit of Second Life programming. It was a professional video network designed to expand the in-world audience as well as deliver virtual entertainment to the real-world.

All the video clips found on this website are archives of live events as they happened in a virtual world, mostly Second Life. Typically, the live video is seen on screens at various locations in a virtual environment as well as streamed to the web.

I was fortunate enough to be asked to play the role of Mr. Biggins in this special production of Designing Worlds.