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Still working on it as i write this

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This is the room where Monet (that’s what we’re calling the eyeball) lives. It is quite lavish. From here brooklyn will observe second life.

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Launch… Opening… Soft Launch… Installation… Opening Day… whatever we’re calling it its scheduled for March 1, and there is a lot to do to get ready. Residents of Second Life, Prepare to be watched. I’ve been telling a few artists and podcasters about the project ahead of time trying to get the word out. I had a good conversation with Filthy Fluno an artisit and Radar Masukami and Chugabug Goodnight from the excellent podcast SL Under the Radar. I was feeling indignant that guy Filthy stole my idea of the super-random-incongruous-viking-hat…. until I remembered where I stole the idea from before that, even so, i’m sticking with it because lets face it… Viking hats are awesome.:)

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Hey guys, this is Winky also known as “Winky Republic” in Second Life. I’m happy to be apart of the Brooklyn is watching group so let’s begin with a little bit about myself. Born and raised in the Bronx of New York, I am currently attending New York City College of Technology or what we like to call City Tech. I’m studying Communication Design where I hope to pursue my profession towards the online community. When I heard of Second Life and what it meant to me, I thought of the next evolution for social content and expression. I mean sure we all have our Myspace and Facebook web sites, but they can only go so far without witnessing some kind interaction or movement as we do in real life. Sitting around clicking the refresh button a thousand times to see if you have anything new in your inbox isn’t exactly as engaging as walking around in someone’s world, looking at their vision. It’s quite exciting to explore and communicate in this fashion, and I hope to see many of you there in Second Life.

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Destroy Television was a really cool-sounding project that created in 2006 by electric sheep. Unfortunately I completely missed it at the time (reader, did you see it, what did you think?) but i heard about it sometime in the spring of last year and read all the documentation on the web about it. I see it as a precursor to Brooklyn is Watching. DTV allowed visitors to a website to control an avatar who was walking around life-blogging its every move through constant automated flickr uploads. Destroy Television was for a limited time, and it was Web-to-SL, so it sounds like it essentially became the same group of people controlling the view point and being viewed. Brooklyn is Watching is less egalitarian, and more focused on social relationships because it brings in at least some degree of potential distance between the watched and the watchers. Its also more ridiculous and therefore funnier… well to me anyway. Because control of Monet, the Brookly is Watching avatar,  will be only available to people who live in or can visit Brooklyn, the entire project is tied directly to a particular place. Because that place is a contemporary fine art gallery it is tied to a particular (delightfully strange, insular)  stream of commentary and critical dialog. The Podcast, I’ve been telling people is going to be “art people talking about second life” and indeed some of us are complete SL noobs and some of us don’t even particularly like second life– and then some of us love it– so it should make for some good arguments.  Our plan is to do this for (at least) a full year so we hope that we’ll get an active community of people participating in the project

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