Snapshots from Finny Yates’ Avatar Morphs show

Finny’s show is in high gear, and Jordan Morgenrote was kind enough to take some snapshots of Finny’s incredible display. This first shot is a great illustration of how Finny took the wide open space of Oyster Bay and built a beautiful display room within the gallery.  What the picture doesn’t show is how Finny [...]

Live-blogging: Origin Rang, classical pianist

I’m standing in an SL field watching an avi playing piano. I was drawn to the concert by this: I perform the classc and something piano live. This is the trial for me in second life. I can not speak English good at all. However, I think that music is common to the world. Please [...]

Finny Yates’ Avatar Textures – Opens this weekend, Open House on Tuesday

Finny Yates wrote today to tell me that her Avatar Texture show is open! In addition to her upper gallery display of avatar photos and textures (check out the Madcow Cosmos cube – too cool!), Finny’s also applied many of the textures to prims, like the “vase” in the picture. What a wonderful application! The [...]

Great new Cheen Pitney show @ Lauk’s Nest

Cheen Pitney and Lauk’s Nest host Lukas Mensing have an artistic coup on their hands – a show featuring a ton of Cheen’s latest works! Here’s an example: There is the occasional classic Pitney piece mixed in – I recall seeing the Lipanzer horse that Cheen displayed at Oyster Bay’s grand opening – but the [...]

Seeker Gray on elros’ Tubular Gallery

Seeker Gray (pictured) discovered elros Tuominen through elros’ display at Oyster Bay and offers this wonderful review of elros’ Tubular Gallery. Besides an opportunity to praise one of Second Life’s top bloggers and link to his site, this entry is notable to Oyster Bay and me for three reasons: First, elros is one of our [...]

Cheen Pitney’s latest: Organic

When not building amazing commissioned pieces like the massive entryway at Lucifer’s nightclub, the towering Christopher Columbus statue at Barcelona marketplace or the statue of Justice at Justice Island, Cheen Pitney has quietly built an impressive collection of more abstract pieces.  He was kind enough to display his newest piece, Organic, at Oyster Bay in [...]

What’s on deck?

Back to Oyster Bay…. I’ve been asked what is next up at Oyster Bay after the Madcow Cosmos show. First, I think it’s important to recognize that each show is its own creature (or in the case of Madcows, creatures!). One show doesn’t necessarily build upon another, but instead needs to be taken as its [...]

Things that make me wonder about Second Life

Quite a scene. A wonderful looking location in the “Plush” sims, designed by SL’s resident zillionaire, Anshe Chung. Great design and layout, wonderful textures….all in all, a fantastic build. Really makes you feel comfortable. But where are the stores? Where are the people? I was the only person in this sim. There was one in [...]

The Goddess & The Banana

One of the joys of having a place like Oyster Bay is watching it act like a magnet for such creative people.  Among the many is Yxes Delacroix, whom I met during the Madcow show.  Among her other ventures, Yxes has a regular podcast, “The Goddess and Banana,” with business associate Banana Stein.  I’m still [...]

Sculpties for everyone!

Hats off to Second Life Insider for posting this great “Tools of the Trade – Sculpties” entry on their blog.  I had no idea that there were so many options for developing them…and so many are free or open source!