Farewell Misty Mole

After five years, Misty Mole is no longer working freelance for Linden Lab. Misty, who has a very impressive list of credits has put a video up on YouTube highlighting her work, I’ll embed it at the end of the post.

The Moles are a team who help Linden Lab to create content, involving repairing roads, creating buildings, sound effects, musical scores etc. They aren’t as well known as Lindens of course but you’ll find their work around the grid.

Misty’s rather impressive list of work includes:

  • Build and objects for Nautilus continent.
  • Interior build for Hau Koda airport.
  • Memorial – build of the central monument, build of some personal monuments and music.
  • Small builds to fill in abandoned land.
  • Linden Homes sims and transitionals – decorating and original games hidden in some of the sims I built.
  • Pyri – build of the throne and burial room.
  • Cape Ekim, original concept and project management and music (dragon by Garden Mole).
  • Build for Sea of Fables sims.
  • Build for Coastal Waterways sims, including the White Islands game.
  • Project management and music for the experimental game build Kneph.
  • Project Management, building and original music for Linden Realms.
  • Sounds and music for the Grid Hunt.
  • Fireworks for SL10B.

The music used in the video is Misty’s work.

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Plenty Of Leagues Under The Sea

Sea Scenery

Now you might think that the under the sea expo is all about mermaids, well it’s not, I mean there are mermaids….

More Mermaids

Not all of them are in glass tubes either, some are in settings that leave you expecting a man to start shouting “Roll up roll up” and invite you to a circus show due to their Steampunk surroundings:

Steampunk Mermaids

However there’s more to the sea than Mermaids, although I must admit I’m a tad disappointed that during my travels at the expo I haven’t seen a Hydra or heard anyone shout “Unleash The Kraken!” there are many wonderful sights under the sea, including flora, fish and some underwater giant Kittycats!

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SL10B Should Be Extended

Sl10B is a big event, 22 sims worth to be precise. There’s so much to see and do, the agenda is:

June 16 Grand Opening

June 23 Official Birthday

June 23 Final day of performances

June 29 Sims close to the public

July 1 All builds to be dismantled – sims go offline

Now a really decent community birthday gift from Linden Lab would be to allow the exhibits to stay in place for a month or two, because that would give people plenty of time to get around. I don’t know exactly what the arrangement is between Linden Lab and the organisers but the community website tells us:

The SL10B Community Celebration is Second Life’s 10th anniversary resident-run gala celebration, and it happens from June 16 at noon slt to June 29. This year, we have 22 sims cram-packed with art, exhibitions, information, and events.

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BBC Ask – Whatever Happened To Second Life?

I had to do a double take when I saw Ewan Took’s post over at SLUniverse: “BBC asks “Whatever happened to Second Life?” Initially I thought it was a really old necropost because I’ve read an article along those lines on the BBC before: What happened to Second Life?

However no, this wasn’t the 2009 article I’d read before, this was a news story from today and why is Second Life being talked about today? Well because Second Life’s tenth birthday is making news, that’s why. The updated Second Life Tenth Birthday edition of “Whatever Happened To Second Life” can be viewed here.

The blurb:

Ten years ago, a social media website was launched which some corporations thought would change the face of business forever.

It was called Second Life – a virtual world where users could live, meet, go shopping or make music and art.

Multi-nationals like IBM rushed to be part of it and countries even opened embassies there.

But what has become of Second Life?

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SL10B – The Bear Necessities Part 1

In this little mini series I’m taking my SL10B Avatar on a brief tour of some SL10B sims and highlighting, albeit very briefly, some spots. This doesn’t mean I don’t like the spots I don’t highlight, it’s just that there’s not enough hours in the day to do full justice to the event. We’ll start with Second Life In Black & White, Journey by Bear Silvershade.

SL in Black & White

The notecard tells us: “In this exhibition, you will see the work of SL artist Bear Silvershade, with examples of early work not long after he first rezzed in 2010 through his growing fascination with monochrome in 2012 to his current, ongoing “Journey of the Lonely Man” series.

SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL10B%20Dazzle/216/158/22

Marianne McCann chimes in with a couple of exhibits on my travels, one is still going strong, but the other is alas not, it is in memory of Greenies Home:

In Memory Of Greenies

Greenies was once a must see sim, lots of impressive work there and a real fun place to visit.

SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL10B%20Dazzle/31/72/22

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