• Second Life cows and bulls
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    Dress This House

    December 6, 2009 - By 

    As it happens, I had to sing a piece called “We’ll Dress The House” at my real-life church this morning, for a Pointy-Hatted Person. And now my virtual home is dressed, or mostly dressed, and ready to receive visitors at the party in just a couple of hours. There are still a couple of details to work out – such as how exactly does the streaming music work for my DJ (I have a pretty good idea that I just paste a URL in my “parcel music” boxen, as I have 2 adjoining parcels). A friend took a look at…

  • Second Life avatars dance around a bonfire in fantasy garb.
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    Las Posadas

    November 26, 2009 - By 

    I’m a member of The Anglican Cathedral of Second Life and I discovered recently that they’re planning a Posada event for Advent (the 4 Sundays that lead up to Christmas) and it just happens to mesh with the idea I’d had for my own housewarming party. So I’ll be hosting Mary and Joseph, and the way it will work is that Petronella Piers will hand the figures off to me, and then I will probably be handing them off after my event to another virtual parishioner, Harper Ganesvoort. The house is in the late stages of the third rebuild, and…

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    Builds In Progress

    November 20, 2009 - By 

    This is the pueblo project I’m working on; last night I was enjoying building so much, I was up until 2:30am… although I was actually only enjoying it up until about 2:00, when I had a catastrophic fail of some kind. I messed up part of it because I should have knocked off a couple of hours earlier, and had to spend a lot of time re-aligning the perfectly aligned corners I’d been so careful to make, that got ruined when I inadvertently dragged part (but not all) of the building out of alignment. Sigh. So then I started trying…

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    Run Away Home

    November 17, 2009 - By 

    Now that I’ve bought my silly little plot of land in an unfashionable corner of Zindra The Unnamed Continent, I’ve futzed around with putting freebie buildings on it, but have already screwed up the “tiki hut” I picked up somewhere. I’m working on building a more elegant islander house, though, so may soon be shopping for textures. However, I spent too long at it; Today I have a “SLangover” from a poor night’s sleep, which was not entirely due to “new builder’s befuddlement.” My partner Rock Fall, who’s inactive in SL, greeted me with bad news when I returned with…

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    Skye Galaxy

    October 9, 2009 - By 

    I’ve been tinkering around with building stuffs and trying to figure out what I’d be interested in making, being, doing in Second Life (rather than continuing the highly scattershot and random existence I currently have) and also I’ve been keeping my eyes and ears open for inspiration. Well, have a look and listen to this: This kid is going places – it’s clear from his voice and piano playing that he’s going to be a major talent, maybe even break out of Second Life and into First Life. Yet the video appears at first to be amateurish screen-cap machinima –…

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    I Builded Me Something!

    September 8, 2009 - By 

    If anyone is reading this, you’ll know I haven’t had much interest in actually making or building stuff, just shopping and socializing. Well, after the exertions of the STEAM hunt, and seeing how people have created amazing things, I was suddenly inspired. I can barely rezz a box, but somehow I managed to make a primitive type of step tansu, with a texture I’d gotten from somewhere. I managed to box up stuff I’m not using, and then put those boxes into the tansu steps. I have a lot of clothes and “furniture” and funny party props that just take…

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    Steampunkery

    September 7, 2009 - By 

    Yes, yes. I’ve been hunting again and have nearly finished the STEAM hunt. Some recent experiences while online seem to be leading me in the direction of adopting a more steampunk-inspired persona, or at least to get out of my comfortable habits (and out more). I enjoy light role-play and can crack on a bit in Victorian idioms, and the little puffs of steam coming from my hat amuse me no end. I recently bought a car from the famous Curio Obscura shop and have been teaching myself to drive; this hasn’t been terribly successful but it has been a…

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    Netroots in Second Life 2009 Builds

    September 7, 2009 - By 

    These are just a collection of shots from the recent Netroots in Second Life 2009 build, including some of the booths members of the Cafe Wellstone Democratic Club made to publicise different groups and causes that had a presence either at the real life convention in Philadelphia, or in Second Life itself. The avatar created for Markos Moulitsas’ appearance in Second Life. The Books for Soldiers booth, a charity that donates reading material to active duty military personnel. One of the booths.