Ciaran Laval

May 5, 2011May 5, 2011

A Visit to See Tonight Live With Paisley Beebe

On Sunday, as it was a bank holiday Monday, I decided to stay up late and go and watch Tonight Live With Paisley Beebe…. well actually I was going to see Tonight Live With Lady Sakai, but Paisley Beebe does the interviews. I hadn’t been to see the inworld chat show for ages, I think Sarah Nerd was being interviewed last time I went, this isn’t because the show is rubbish, it’s actually very well done, but 2am on a Sunday morning isn’t a great time for me, this is 6PM SLT, so for many of you it’s a great time.

Anyway, I sat at the back and settled down to watch events unfold.

Maybe it’s just me, but crossed legs poses don’t do my evil drow wizard image a lot of good! Where was I, oh yes, the chat show ….

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May 3, 2011May 4, 2011

The SL grid is turning purple!

The SL grid is turning purple!

From May 7 to May 13 the Second Life grid will be turning purple!

Thousands of Second Life residents will be painting their stores and houses purple, wearing purple clothes, purple hair, even purple skin, in order to show their support for the Relay For Life of Second Life and to spread a purple Message of Hope.

Relay For Life® is the signature fundraiser of the American Cancer Society. Relay For Life of Second Life (RFL of SL) is an annual activity that takes place in Second Life® in July each year. Volunteers form or join teams to have fun while fundraising and raising awareness from mid-March through mid-July. In July teams build campsites and walk a track, just like in a real world Relay. Continue reading “The SL grid is turning purple!”

May 1, 2011May 1, 2011

SL Home and Garden Expo Press Release

Home & Garden Expo 2011
In support of Relay For Life

There are some very exciting events about to take place, so be ready to get excited!

This year marks the 4th anniversary of the Home & Garden Expo benefiting Relay For Life of Second Life. 2011′s Expo, will open on Friday, May 13th at NOON, and will remain open 24 hours each day until it closes on May 22nd at 10pm SLT . This year’s extravaganza will span TEN Second Life sims, with over 100 exhibits, more Entertainment and more ways to benefit Relay For Life, too!

The expo will cover all areas of home and land decor in SL. It gathers together many of SL’s greatest architects, furniture makers, gardeners and landscapers, some well-known and some not so well-known, in a grand display to Second Life shoppers and visitors.

There will be ten days of musical entertainment, including both DJ’s and Live Musicians at the Stage Area of the Expo. Builder’s Brewery will host this year’s Expo Classroom with lots of fun classes and a competition or two.

Each Exhibitor will be selling two items which make their debut at the Expo and those sales will go to benefit Relay For Life, along with all proceeds from this year’s, always popular Scavenger Hunt, Auction and Raffle.

To see a full itinerary of the scheduled events, the WONDERFUL sponsors, and the Exhibitors of home, garden, interior, exterior, or whatever you could possibly wish for, please visit SL Home & Garden Expo.

If you are a Second Life Home and/or Garden Blogger, Magazine, Newspaper, Radio, or TV Show, we want YOU at the Home & Garden Expo! You are invited to join us at our early sneak peek. Please register at PRESS. An invitation will be sent to you by May 12th. The sneak peek will take place on May 13th at 10 am SLT. All Accepted press participants will be invited to submit their logo for display in the advertising directory located at the Expo Press Booth on our website.

Please visit the website regularly as we are doing SPONSOR SPOTLIGHTS and have a full list of EVERYTHING possible that will be going on. This year is already proving to be bigger and better than ever before.

If you have any questions or would like to schedule Expo Interviews, please contact…

Jezebel Bailey
Shamelesstrouble Bing

May 1, 2011May 1, 2011

SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT — Pre Fabulous

*Pre Fabulous*

Pre Fabulous began in 2006 when Fornicola Butuzova and Amo Lambeau began creating buildings they sold, to earn spending money to support their shopping and partying habits in Second Life. Sale by sale their business grew until 2009 when they both decided that it was time to go full time and create homes, stores, and other buildings in Second Life for a living.

Pre Fabulous does not follow the “Features and Fashion” way of thinking about building in SL, they rather take a more narrative approach to serving the needs of Second Life residents. Their belief is that people come to Second Life to realize fantasies or express some other ideal of themselves. If they want to fall in love in a tropical paradise, be the toast of the Manhattan skyline, or the Lord of a mighty kingdom, whatever their dream maybe they need help.

Rather than chase trends, Forni and Amo, focused on helping Second Life players tell their story. They created buildings that have a reason for existing, buildings that convey an emotional connection to the story their customers want to tell. One of their core beliefs is “A house is made of bricks… A home is made of cracks”. It is the cracks that tell the story of a house that say something about why it is there, who lived there, of the experiences that were shared, between its walls. Continue reading “SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT — Pre Fabulous”

April 30, 2011May 5, 2011

Kent Quirk Part Of Massi Digi Institute Working Group

EDIT – Prokofy Neva has pointed out to me that Kent Quirk no longer works for Linden Lab and the information in this post regarding that information is therefore inaccurate, but I won’t ninja edit the post!

Gamasutra brings us news that Kent Quirk will be part of a working group that will help to promote academia and business opportunities for the Massachushetts Digital Games Inistitute. According to Gamasutra Kent Quirk will be joined on the working group by Vivox Inc. Co founder Monty Sharma and Sanrio Digitals VP of Publishing and business, Robert Ferrari. Vivox of course are the guys responsible for voice services in Second Life.

The Institute will teach students about game development and also create intellectual property that can be licensed to help bring in revenue.

Wait wait wait! Who the heck is Kent Quirk? He’s Linden Lab’s director of Software Engineering.

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