Appearance on “When Worlds Collide” on Monday

[UPDATE 30 June: I've had a personal emergency which will keep me off the grid for a little while...odds are that Cypress will have a replacement guest this week. Tune in regardless - I had a chance to listen to a couple of his past show podcasts, and it's a REALL good show.]
In case [...]

It’s Friday, I’m gonna gripe

One SMALL gripe about life in SL: Why in the world do people think that I would want to stop everything I am doing and take their teleport invite without knowing why I’m going? Common courtesy dictates that the inviter give some rationale for sending an invitation first.
Dear God, I’m becoming the Miss [...]

At long last, the Black Tie and Blues photos!

First, props to Kronos Kirkorian and Isolde Flamand, who have some great shots on their own. Everyone should go take a look.
As for my photos, take a look in “Moresville….”

YOU wanna talk to ME?

Thanks to Pamala Clift for reminding me…
It appears that Linden Lab has enabled the Oyster sim (and I believe Shepherd too) for voice per the Second Life First Look: Voice viewer interface.
Pamala (not the “oh so attractive” avi to the right, thankfully) and I had a rollicking conversation as we tried to make our live [...]

Rezago Kokorin interview/profile on YouTube

Oyster Bay artisan and storeowner Rezago Kokorin alerted me that a video interview featuring him has been posted on YouTube, the first of a proposed series of such videos by Magellan Egoyan. Here’s Magellan’s Virtual Artist Alliance posting on the topic.
Nice work highlighting one of SL’s great artists – up to the level of [...]

Report on Second Live love (No, not “Why we love SL…”)

Perhaps one of the most interesting people I have come across in SL is Pamala Clift, a self-described “roadside philosopher” who has taken to investigating the world of SL relationships in-depth.  Her initial findings on the world of love in SL is right here.
To summarize quickly, Pamala came to the following conclusions:
In talking with all [...]

Kronos makes it big

Yesterday I received this note from Kronos:
Hi, Discovered I have a picture on the  front page of the  NY Times, Arts and Leisure section today! Big surpise. lol  From a shoot for Sundance Channel. Here’s the web version.
I then asked about the picture – if it was him in the RL photo, in the audience, [...]

Kronos Kirkorian photos

Oyster Bay machinima creator Kronos Kirkorian alerted me to some SL photographs that he took during the “Black Tie and Blues” event…check them out here.
Also, I stumbled upon Kronos’ photo work from the Finny Yates “Avatar Morphs” open house at Oyster Bay.
Great stuff!  Thanks, Kronos!

Black Tie and Blues photos

Look for photos next week – I will be out of town for a wedding until late-ish Sunday.
Thanks to everyone who came out and enjoyed themselves!  What a wonderful experience – Doubledown Tandino, Kronos Kirkorian’s machinima and Komuso Tokugawa…..all amazing artists in their own right!

The Nicholaz SL viewer

Lordfly Digeridoo tells the story better than I, but I’ll add that I’ve been using the Nicholaz open source SL viewer for about a week and it has not hurt my viewing experience in the least. So this might be worth investigating, if you haven’t tried it already….

OPEN SOURCE DELIVERS: NICHOLAZ CLIENT PATCHES MEMORY [...]