The Dream is real

Sneak peek: Summer Seale’s new “Summer” sim

Lots to say about this slideshow, but it’s late and I must turn in.  I’ll update later; for now, enjoy the show!

Burning Life: Let’s get it out on the table

Burning Life, the grid-wide celebration of unbridled* creativity, opened yesterday.  There’s a great unofficial Burning Life blog in addition to the official Linden Lab wiki/blog hybrid.  
I swung by last night to check out the fun and found that the section I explored resembled much of the welcome area and organization of the real Burning [...]

Blog Love: Shopping Cart Disco’s “SL Secret” series

Just like the Post Secret blog in RL, Shopping Cart Disco offers up “SL Secret,” a window into the culture, drama and souls behind the grid.  Each weekly entry offers up a handful of graphic “postcards” that say the things we’d never say in public…even the pixellated version of what stands for public in Second [...]

Walkabout: AM Radio’s “Radio” at Welsh Lakes sim

It’s always a joy to see whatever AM Radio is up to. He’s taken the “radio” theme to its logical conclusion – a radio dish farm! Come check out the work of one of the finest builder/artists on the grid.posted by Morris Vig on Welsh Lakes using a blogHUD : [...]

Today, SL campus…tomorrow, the real thing

Yup, tomorrow I enroll in an “executive masters degree program” at Ohio University. First time back as a full-time student in 15 years. Wow….posted by Morris Vig on OHIO Outreach using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]

Moment of reflection

My day started by listening to the choirs at the memorial ceremony at the Pentagon. As I walked in to work, I saw a single American flag representing each innocent life lost on 9/11 was planted on the Statehouse lawn. It was haunting yet magnificent.
I’m ending it mulling over [...]

Who knew?

With all of the “transformative changes” going on in my RL, it took an IM from Isolde Flamand to remind me that my rez day was 2 days ago.  Guess I’m already into another trip around the pixellated sun.  Incredible…

Transformative changes

Change is always difficult; I remember how I agonized when my change in RL circumstances forced me to close Oyster Bay and radically downshift my “second life.”  
Well, it’s gonna happen again.
I’m being forced to contemplate a couple tremendous changes in my RL…more on them as I choose to share.  Suffice to say that I [...]

The Rings – A new CARP/Diabolus inworld performance

[From Josina Burgess...reproduced verbatim]
Come as an avatar – leave as a human being. Dare you become Homo Sapiens V2.0?
The Rings is virtual reality’s first protest rock opera. It has grown over months from new forms of international artistic collaboration. The new show is created by the CARP/Diabolus team of international artists as a follow up [...]