Sharing holiday joy in Second Life

An unexpected thing happened this holiday season…I was DELUGED with Christmas gifts and cards! It’s an overwhelming feeling have a handful of gifts waiting for you EVERY TIME you log in. Having been as detached from the SL scene as I’ve been (or at least felt I’ve been), these demonstrations of friendship hit [...]

Looking back with Juria Yoshikawa

Juria Yoshikawa assembled a slideshow retrospective on his works over 2007 and 2008. Not only was Juria quite prolific over that period but the works themselves were really spectacular. Enjoy!

Farewell to The Quiet

SL is going to miss this wonderful space. There are few like it.
Does anyone want to try to set up something – a conservancy, perhaps – to save places like this? I’m serious. A core group of arts philanthropists, all donating tier, could do some incredible works in SL.posted by [...]

Will AM Radio’s “The Quiet” go silent?

That’s what AmyFreeLunch is suggesting: 
AM Radio’s magnificent The Quiet - the artist’s most personal and, in my mind, important piece to date – is losing its home due to the impending price increase.  

If SL has anything resembling a cultural history (and I believe it does, and the need to preserve its history will become more and more [...]

The “Bay City Visions” RL book arrived!

And, if I may, this book is downright stunning.  The Oyster Bay book is a great historical tome, with over 700 SL photos across the 200 pages, but the Bay City Visions book is about the art…not photojournalism.
Blurb does an amazing job transferring the very high resolution SL images onto the printed page.  The book [...]

Farewell, Manzanillo Artist Enclave…what does this tell us?

Upon returning home from a brief holiday trip, I saw this notecard:
For the new year, Mark and I have made a few resolutions and will be starting anew on several levels including SL. Unfortunately, this extends to Manzi which we will begin tearing down immediately. If you have the opportunity to collect your items, please [...]

Machinima: “Stop Making Sense & Dream”

Mariposa Upshaw sent me a link to this montage of the “Stop Making Sense & Dream” show at Angel Dorei and Caerleon Isle.  Enjoy!

Machinima: Christmas 2007 at Oyster Bay

Rummaging through my old machinima footage, I saw that I recorded Madcow Cosmos’ incredible Christmas tree at Oyster Bay (links here and here).  A little video editing later, and we have my Christmas gift to you!  It’s not the greatest footage ever shot, but hopefully it brings back warm memories.
Note the Viggy “Christmas card” on [...]

New Komuso blues downloads include “Bay City Visions” piece

Komuso Tokugawa offers holiday greetings as only he can…
BRINGING THE BOOGIE TO THE BITSTREAM
Thank you for your generous support of my SL Live music experiments.
Please enjoy this 50 minute sonic snak pak of 2008 live music cuts from both SecondLife ™ and Real Life (tm*2).
Komuso’s SonicSnakPak is donationware, so if you like [...]

Seasons Greetings