yeah, there are way to many things to join.  I'm just trying to focus on ones that seem productive and useful and isn't run by a pissant.  It's harder to find than you think!

Original music is always key and more so now that youtube and other media sites are kicking out videos that use copywritten stuff.  I'll let u know if I hear of a great musicians for machinimas. 

-cman

1) Burning Life!
Take part in the most crazy event of the Metaverse! (here info) and share postcards, photos and slurls on Koinup

we are deploying a guide for the best Burning Life Sims,
look here


2) New Pileup Material
The awesome Nikalu has posted some photos for pileup
take look here and here

3) Virtual Autumn
Try to think what the word: "autumn" mean in your virtual life (and in your fav. virtual world or games as Second Life, IMVU, The Sims, Lively)  and share your autumn photos here on Koinup (add please the tag: virtualautumn )

if you find some autumn sims in Sl or some autumn public room in IMVU please post them, too......






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Miscellaneous

For Second Life Residents

1) Tutorial on how to Create Slurl! Here
(On Koinup you can add slurls and this tutorial show you how to create slurls from landmark in SL)

2) Tutorial on how Send Postcards. Here
(Why not save your time and send pics directly from SL to Koinup, without saving them to your HD?)


All Metaverse and Gaming Citizens

3) Share Your Machinima.
Koinup is not only for pics, but for each media! We would love to see more Machinima!!
Remember that we have a Tool for importing directly from Youtube, with a single click!!!

4) Enjoy the Community Projects!!!
as Pileup, Mentors, VR2RL
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Community Project and some Editorial Notes


Virtual Mashup!

Socks launched this cool project. Basically, the idea is to intigrate the virtual world with the digital/real one! Following are the steps to be in :

1) Take a photos of your avatar (whatever virtual world or games you inhabit) (Second Life, Warcraft, The Sims, IMVU, Lively are ok)

2) Incorporated the image of your avatar in a real life background related to your life (your hourse, your friends, your girlfriend)

3) Mix the real life with the digital/virtual ones with photoshop or other tool and upload on Koinup

4) Add the tag: VR2RL

5) More info? Contact Socks!

Virtual Mashup is open to each virtual world and games!




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Dear Metaverse Explorers
I wanna suggest you some locations to visit these days

Mao (thanks trixibelle for share it)
It is  one of the most beautiful naturalistic and photographic sim of Second Life.
Go there, take tons of photos and share them on Koinup:





Voss  (thanks socks for share it)
Would you like to try the exciting esperience of virtual skiing. Tp in Voss and make funny your 2nd life!


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1) Need some ispiration for a virtual trip?
Have a look at the most recent sims, discovered by the Koinup Community!



2) Wanna use some additional features of Koinup, as Widgets, Crosspost to Flickr, Import your Machinimafrom Youtube ? You can, follow the links or stay tuned with our blog!

3) Are you from Second Life and There and are wondering how to send postcards on Koinup?
Look here for Second Life and There tutorials
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Koinup Editor Bulletin

1) Are you wondering..... where are teleporting these days your friends?
Discover here the top 10 destinations of Second Life .....


2) Save this date: Friday, 12th of september, at 12PM SLT at Orange Island in SL
Kali Meads will show us some tips on making B&W SL Photos...Bookmark the event and join us!


3) Tomorrow, Saturday, 13th of September: There will be the third appointment of SL Safari.
We have partnered with NPIRL Group and now we have the new series of events: NPIRL Safaris.
Read more, here!

4) Pileup is still live and good!
Are you wondering if pileup is still alive? Yes, it is and I call to action people and artist from all the worlds, as The Sims, Warcraft, IMVU, Second Life and others...

Here you can find raw material, to modify and make your own versions. If you don't know what it Pileup, please look here
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Kee, the lead of The Photo Institute, has just launched a new project on Koinup:

The Second Night Project!

If you have photos with "Moonlight and stars, dark urban streets, creepy graveyards, back country roads awash in tints of blue and grey" .... Please add to these photos (and videos) the following tag:  

secondnightproject

All the entries will be visible here!

If you have already works on Koinup, taken at night, please add to them the appropriate tag...
Otherwise  jump in world, maybe find some inspiration here in the Most Recent Places Discovered by the Community

and have fun with your Windlight





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You know,
we are always updating Koinup........
what you will see next time you will log in
is a new awesome visual editor
which will allow you to insert Html, Images, Link, Bold, Italic etc....
in the items descriptions and comments, in your broadcast and in your skills&profile

Thanks to this update, Koinup is more rich, more colourful, more funny and more viral.........

Here you can see that I can embed an image in the broadcast......




or otherwise I can insert a link.... and much more.......

Read more on our Koinup blog !!!!
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Pileup Tail.........

there are some new pileups to have fun with......

this is by Solange:
http://www.koinup.com/Solange/work/59698/
tags:
pileup
rivetspileup

this is by JadeCollins:
http://www.koinup.com/JadeCollins/work/63599/
tags:
pileup
jadepileup

Are there other pileups to broadcast? report them to me....or broadcast them by yourself! Pileups is a crossworld project.......
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Kee launched a new initiative......... the Windmill Project.....

"I've noticed that Second Life has a lot of nice windmills. And since I like windmills, I've started shooting them" told Kee

Kee invited all of you to jump in SL, look for windmills, take photos and share them (and also the slurls) on Koinup

Go around, pose your eyes on every sl windmill and come back here...

post the windmill photo, add the tag: windmillproject

and check it out the pool here:
http://www.koinup.com/works/tag/windmillproject/

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You know, I love to share landmarks and locations......and....uhm...

because of that me and Edo (the tech-side of koinup)
we have launched the PLACES SECTIONS

So here's is my first editorial suggestion for new awesome SL places to visit:
http://www.koinup.com/sim/Orkney/
http://www.koinup.com/sim/akashic/
http://www.koinup.com/sim/Tompson/

Have a look there or browse others sims here:
http://www.koinup.com/sims/in-second-life/

and then share postcards / or... btw....try to discover new place and be the first to share the slurls on Koinup

Discoverers will be featured on the "place front pag"e and have a lot of visibility!
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It has been a big-big work.....but now you have a new, exciting, unique guide to the best Second Life Places:
http://www.koinup.com/places/

Are you looking for the best attractions of the Metaverse, try here:
http://www.koinup.com/sims/in-second-life/since/3-months/coolest/

Wondering what has been discovered by the community? Try here:
http://www.koinup.com/sims/in-second-life/

Enjoy the Places Section...contribute to it!
Discovering places in SL is now an easy game........

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I invite all Koinup Mentors to have a look at the new works
waiting for review (I would say pending ;-) :

http://www.koinup.com/works/tag/review/


People which don't know yet the Mentor Project
can have a look here:
http://blog.koinup.com/2008/07/mentor-project.html

and get all the info they need......
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Get Your Koinup Upload Email!

Go here: http://www.koinup.com/account/

Look at the Koinup Upload Email Panel, paste your email address
or customize it (and then click: save changes)

Your Koinup Email is similar to this: xxx.xxxx@post.koinup.com

Use this Email Address in Second Life
(or There.com and other virtual worlds) for sending postcards on Koinup

Or look for step by step tutorial here:
http://blog.koinup.com/2008/08/postcards-from-second-life-tutorial.html
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Basic/Quick Tutorial for taking "Depth Photos" in Second Life:

http://www.koinup.com/pier/work/59598/as-list/

It is a cool feature that you can use to give more "atmosphere" to your photos!!

Have a look!
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Two new exciting pileups has been launched!

1) http://www.koinup.com/Torrid/work/56954/
by Torrid!
to enter this pile-up, remember to add these two tags:
wiltedpileup
pileup




2) http://www.koinup.com/cultofheather/work/56804/
by cultofheather!
to enter this pileup, remember to add these two tags:
pileup
fukmi_pileup

I have already updated the blog enty, with all the pileup running right now on Koinup: http://blog.koinup.com/2008/08/pileup-your-photos.html


I'm wondering if we should stop some pileups at some point, or otherwise let them run for long time........well...its only a curiosity let us know your opinion.......
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yeah, my own pileup is launched!
http://www.koinup.com/pier/work/55684/

this is for you, take this image and make what you want it!

its unedited (and you see it because it has been sent directly from SL to Koinup)


tags are:
pileup
matpileup


have fun!


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dear friends, I wanna direct your attentions to some excellent photoshop tutorials created by our common friend Ji_Dallagio

I think you should have a look at them, because most probably they will help you a lot

First Tutorial: Working on Layers
http://www.koinup.com/Ji_Dallagio/work/55124/as-list/

Second Tutorial: Blending and changing colors
http://www.koinup.com/Ji_Dallagio/work/55340/as-list/

Third Tutorial: Extract Images from their currect backgrounds
http://www.koinup.com/Ji_Dallagio/work/55480/as-list/

Thanks Ji!
These tutorials are not about Second Life or some other worlds, but are about Photoshop and Postprocessing, so I think that most of you can be really interested!

I invite other members to share their tecniques and create tutorials using the storyboard tool! I'll give to each tutorial the maximum of visibility in order to help the whole community! Enjoy Koinup!
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