I saw what I thought was one damn cute group tag on someone at a live concert recently: "I Beta Tested Ur GF"
Beware the virtual roaches! They can be real. | Rezzable Greenies Roaches!
Speaking of Greenies - I saw these in a grocery store recently and could not help but snap a pic:
HEY! Check out the Beat Chicks Podcast if you get a moment and you've been known to listen to those types of things.
Hope Clary and TheDiva Rockin have started a new podcast. These two dynamic SL personalities join forces to co-hostess their own music flavored multimedia experience and music lovers are the better for it.
They have already posted an introduction snippet and an interview with Cylindrian featuring three of Cyl's songs.
Cyl blogged about it here: Cylindrian meets The Beat Chicks - Cylindrian’s Grace Notes
This past Sunday I attended the Paisley Beebe Tonight Live episode that saw both a brand new TV studio set AND a return performance from the wonderulf Jaycatt nico and Frogg Marlowe!
These guys are awesome and so very worthy of your time and attention! Check out the recorded video of the interview linked over at Jaycatt's blog: Jaycatt Nico's Ramblings: Effinjay on Tonight Live!
Here is a picture of the duo performing:
BlogHUD : DrFran Babcock on Northpoint says "The new studio is completed, and my favorite duo is playing. The venue is just perfect for live music."
JueL's looking for sponsorship of Living Room #13 (What Is This Crap?) JueL's been running her venue for quite a while indeed. I had a chance to play there when she first opened this latest rendition at an open mic night she threw together.
I'll certainly be donating back some of my tips to help out. My lindens tend to flow in from live shows and back out as artist and venue tips. Rinse. Repeat.
[Edit:] if you've been known to tip venues and want to support live music I ask you this one simple question - "Are you really going to let an avatar who chose to be known as CRAP out-donate you?"
OK, who approved this as a corporate logo? YIKES!
YouTube - Dan Clark's Guide to Dating - 10 reasons not to take drugs
Sting ray migration! Beautiful!
Acidicloop Exonar (What Is This Crap?) Crap talks about "Acidic Loop (SL: Acidicloop Exonar)" - a newer SL live artist and a recent addition to thesixtyone.com as well.
Here's some more music related news. Keiko (and Max Kleene's voice, and Cyl) returns to MTV!
You can watch Keiko here! It's broken into 6 parts - just click a thumbnail at the bottom of the crappy player to jump between sections.
Speaking of Cyl you can hear an interview on the Georgia Podcast network with this amazing song writer and performer: Interview - Grace Buford, a.k.a. Cylindrian, musician in metro Atlanta and Second Life | Georgia Podcast Network
[22:11] Jenilia Congrejo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/10059079@N07/2463635764/
[22:11] Jenilia Congrejo: she is beautiful inst she
--Yes. Yes, she is.--
Speaking of Cyl - The Second Life Musician Showcase @ Massively. A second round of SL performers playing a RL show at San Francisco's Rock-It-Room. Cool. Hope you try to make the show, it's sure to be enjoyable.
Keiko, Cyl and Melanie performed at the Rock-It-Room when Cyl visited San Fran. I thought that whole thing was pretty cool - Keiko, Cyl and a bunch of SL musicians were going to perform at a RL show in Las Vegas which fell apart. Rather than mope about it Cyl flew to San Francisco and a group of folks did a series of RL shows streaming in-world out there. Neat.
Mad props to Rose! Rose Petal Creations: Why I am not supporting the Wheelies charity. Rose is such a sweetie. She did such a wonderful job here of speaking her mind in a clear, eloquent and kind manner. *HUGS* to you, Mz. Farina.
“…Who me? Yes you! Couldn’t be! Then who?…” INTRODUCING AVATAR RENDERING COST - Official Second Life Blog. All about the new Avatar Rendering Cost, or ARC. I do have to wonder about the prim skeleton avatar of mine. I've always felt it was likely a resource hog, though a beautiful one, and that would be why I created my skelly skin avatar I iusually wear nowadays. Maybe someone with an ARC capable viewer will tell me how many thousands of ARC it costs one day.
More on ARC aka Avatar Rendering Cost | VintFalken.com
Does this make sense? posted by Veeyawn Spoonhammer on Science Friday. Veeyawn asks "I guess the question is, why drink or smoke in world?" Good question, right?
Today an elephant fell from the sky...no lie at: Dreamworld North. My Shelter friends will understand when I shout out "Sal! Sal!"
Second Thoughts: The Voice of Pixeleen. OK, I don't like this person either but fake, BS emppty threats like this are beyond childish. The way to deal with this ankle biter is to ignore it. I shall get back to that post haste.
YouTube - An Engineer's Guide to Cats. This one comes to us from my friend Mallow. I think the yodeling is the clincher.
1000 words. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but I'd really like just 10 or 20 to tell me wtf this little guy has been up to.
Cat in a Bag | Gato Island. Who doesn't love the cat in the bag?
Wanna play? Cat. Deer. Cute.
Rose Farina found this one and passed it on to me: Virtual world offers bands global stage - Internet- msnbc.com. A fair article on live music in SL without overcomplicating things or going off on a tangent about the evils of life.
Cool Stuff: Steampunk Star Wars Action Figures | /Film When worlds collide! These action figures (avatars? WOOT) look like they belong in Caledon!
SILLOF's WORKSHOP: STEAMPUNK STAR WARS
Speaking of worlds colliding: Trashtronauts: Space Is Full of Crap. So here is this article about all the stuff floating around in space that humans have sent up and left to become dangerous debris. Of course all I could think is "Has he point space.isfullofcrap.com to this website yet?"
Naked Pictures of Your Buddy's Girlfriend-Video. This one had me rollin' in laughter. I had to watch it a few times - it's THAT funny :) haha
Motorcycle towing 101 - lessons in the proper ways to tansport your motorcycle.
Second Life's best viewer ceases development. The "mad patcher" has had it. - Massively
It seems that Nicholaz Beresford is getting out of the "better viewer" business. I never used his viewers but many of my friends swore by them. This seems to be a case of a company unsure of how best to leverage open source to me. It's not just about posting the code - it's about creating and engaging a community.
Jacek Lives - Blog Archive - “I think I may have found yer problem.” Adorable little cartoon by friend Jacek Antonelli - check it out and giggle freely.
MeraTalk - The Purpleness that is Mera Pixel - Let’s get Managerial! OK, that's fkin funny right there! Check out the page Mera links to and laugh and laugh and...
Dalien found an LSL aware IDE plugin!
Daltonic Gin: LSL Plus: the Eclipse plugin for LSL
"I've found today a possibly nice addition: LSL Plus, which is an Eclipse plugin. Dubbed as an alpha state (and since I myself do not really use the Eclipse, I did not test it out :) But if you do - give it a shot and see how it works."
CodeBastardRedgrave.Com - Codie judge and sponsor for Koinup machinima contest. Codie's running a machinema contest and the coolest part imho - she's gotten some musicians in SL to give permissions to use some tracks for the machinema movie sountracks! Funk Shepherd & Dizzy Banjo, Lyn Carlberg, Melanie Fudge, Rich Palmer and Kim Seifert have offered some specific songs that could be used for entries into this contest (only)! Woot!
If you're a machinema creator and you're looking for additional music that might be licensed to you (if you ask nicely or find some with CC licensing) then you might want to check out thesixtyone.com for a variety of good music!
Crap Mariner has modified the clocktower! OH NOES! :)
If there is on constant in SL it is change. Doubly so when Mizr. Mariner is involved.
Unbuilding (What Is This Crap?)
Does it fit in better? (What Is This Crap?)
The details (What Is This Crap?)
I like the new look of the tower. Stay tuned for a basstastically perverted announcement regarding that performance space, eh? :)
Discovered via Cylindrian's blog:
Imagine being surrounded by flames and not getting burnt Music Hyun wrote up Cylindrian's recent immersive performance with "The ChangHigh Trinity Sisters" over at SLNN. It's a good read - check it out.
Just in case you missed the show that Music Hyun wrote up you can see some video of the performance that Haley Bailey captured 03-22-08-cylindrianrutabega.mov
What a great performance to match Cyl's Phoenix Rising :)
FUNNY ASS VIDEOS (Thanks Chelsea!)
YouTube - Fonejacker - Oasis mouse
YouTube - Terry Tibbs Fone Jacker
YouTube - Fonejacker - Mouse Trap
Also from Chelsea: Dark Roasted Blend: Nightmare Playgrounds
I haven't created any new machinema videos since S*Woodstock. Well, unless you count my presence in Nika Dreamscape's video of a MaxMiDol relaycast show.
I did check the video list and I find that things are looking up a tiny bit. All of the S*Woodstock videos have gotten quite a few views. From 80 to 690 views each. Most videos still have not been rated. One video has a single 5 star rating. One video has four ratings averaging to 2 stars (up from 2 single star votes as I recall). Another has one single star rating. There's also one published comment basically asking "what the fuck is this?" I moderate the comments and have only had to remove about 5 nasty ones.
Overall - not great - but not absolutely terrible as far as I'm concerned.
I'm encouraged to do some more. Perhaps a song or two from a relaycast and another song or two from solo shows. What songs would you like to see highlighted in machinema?
I had missed this earlier post from Chestnut Rau, an SL resident I met through thesixtyone.com actually. She attended the SoHo MaxMiDol show and blogged about it complete with a screen cap.
second life of my dreams: mimi, max and dolmere
The other day there was a car parked next to mine when I came back to the parking structure. It had a sticker on the back that I had to take a picture of.
With the flags placed around the sticker it was clear that I was looking at a person proud of IReLand. What was the thing running through my head instead?
You get three guesses.
A community thriving outside itself | Torley Lives. So after sending Torley the invite notecard, exchanging email, and putting not one but two reminders to check out 61 on his blog comments... Torley notices thesixtyone.com via Vint's post.
/me paces off to the doctor's to see if this laryngitis is catchy.
/me comes back and notices that AFTER I had paced off Torley made his way over to 61 and started uploading songs. Torley on Piano – music at thesixtyone
/me paces off again :P
I left a comment on a blog entry I saw on the SL Planet feed.
sered second life: Too late to this party
The blog entry:
"Too late to this party
Apparently U2 performed in Second Life once, somewhere in early 2006. I missed this completely at the time, probably because I wasn't actively participating in SL yet.
[...]"
My comment (which posted while this quicklies was in-the-making):
"Incorrect. U2 has never performed in SL. At the beginning of the video you link to there is a disclaimer that states "U2inSL is a role playing group which exists in support of the One campain[...] no money is being made. The group is not affiliated with the real U2."
The poorly chosen name has caused many ppl to assume U2 is actually IN SL. Wrong.
It's a bunch of U2 fans who made avatars and animations to look like U2, DJed a set of the real U2's music (as far as I can tell) and I guess donated tips to the charity campaign."
A Scripted Bagatelle - Evans Avenue Exit. More LSL on th web thanks to Erbo Evans.
The AvaStar interviewed me and posted it a while back. I didn't know about it because their PDFs are apparently not searchable or something. Anyway - I'm on the page labelled 26 that appears on PDF page 14.
New World Notes: 61 Avatars: Second Life Musicians And Fans Flash Mob Popular Music Social Network. Hamlet discovered thesixtyone.com from watching Vint's blog :)
ThisPolicy.isfullofcrap.com? (What Is This Crap?) New policies from Linden Lab on how the trademarked names and logos may be used. Lots of folks may be affected by this shift from old policies.
Podmafia Live - 2 - Where ya going Phil? : The Podmafia Podcast. While I was playing a solo show at The Merry Pranksters which ended up with a relaycast handoff to Max Kleene's solo stuff the folks at the Podmafia Podcast were having a talkshoe live podcast recording. It was an impromptu show with the topic of dicussing Phil Linden's announcement that he was going to move from company CEO to chairman of the board. If you, like me, failed to join the live recording you can still listen in here or by subscribing to their podcast.
YouTube - Jerry needs no help playing with his ball.
Mind, Music, and Technology - Archive du blog - The Sixty-One 100th Bump Party. Kourosh has a blog. I did not know that. Here Kourosh thanks folks for helping get his song Beast onto the front page at thesixtyone.com and shares the schedule for this Saturday's 100th bump bomb party that Reginald Beck has put together for this Saturday.
Dolmere Talamasca on fire on Flickr - Photo Sharing! Sally, Dolmere is on fire! Quick get the [blank] and see if you can [blank]. Apparently Sally answered "camera" to the first madlib.
Speaking of Sally's Flickr account - here are some screenies that she took at the Champlain College relaycast show that Max, Mimi and I did recently:
Max, Mimi, Dolmere and Tipsy on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Crap Mariner was at Friday's relaycast streaming concert that Max, Mimi and I did at Lost Frontier. He has posted some pictures here: Dolmere, Mimi and Max (What Is This Crap?)
Feline Slade was also present and she took a bunch of pictures as well.
Mimi Carpenter at Lost Frontier Sound Stage 3-7-2008 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Dolmere Talamasca at Lost Frontier Sound Stage on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Speaking of Feline Slade and Crap Mariner- Feline took some pictures of me while I was puttering around the grid listening to some of my favorite live music. I was wearing the gear backpack I made from the gift Crap gave me after I played that impromptu set at the clocktower back when.
Frogg Marlowe and Dolmere Talamasca at Purple Paw Prints in Cyclonium on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Dolmere Talamasca at Purple Paw Prints in Cyclonium 2 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
I do miss the old prim heavy skeleton. I often flirt with the idea of jumping back into those bones but I made the skin only version for a reason - sim lag. It was getting real nasty and I felt like I was contributing. Now playing shows along with Max I would REALLY feel like I'm contributing since he regularly fills the sims he plays.
Beatbox - the hound beatbox! WOOT!
Fast Food: Ads vs. Reality Great pictures to enjoy.
The Sixty One [...] Party (What Is This Crap?). Crap recaps. He has a question for you 61 users - perhaps you'll take a moment to share your thoughts.
Claudia Mantis came to our thesixtyone.com party at the Clocktower. She took a picture of what my avatar looked like at the beginning of the party:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia_mantis/2308927128/
Triple Stream Concert! - Through my eyes.. Nika Dreamscape caught the relaycast show that Max, Mimi and I did at The Bay island - and she recorded snippets of it with her trial version of FRAPS (whatever that is, I think it's a capture app on that windows thing).
Always look on the bright side of life on Flickr - Photo Sharing! I had to leave Lyndon's show before Crap got up as a stage prop and crucified himself in the name of Monty Art. Damn. Sometimes it sucks having this need for sleep.
Never Give Up... Even When You FAIL. AKA - There's no such thing as a failure who keeps trying.
Daltonic Gin: [flashmob] Now everyone please go and vote for "in-viewer web browser. Dalien brings us the JIRA entry requesting a web browser window in-world. I know some folks who would really benefit from this - the ones that suffer from SL or computer crashes whenever they try to open a web page.
South 61 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!. Feline Slade noticed a sign and snapped a picture. She says "I spotted this picture on the wall of a TGIFridays and snapped a picture with my camera phone."
CG. I'm pretty sure this picture set ends with the caption "Whew - we're alive. Let's ummm... you know... RUN AWAY!!" Bravely bold sir Robin, bravely ran away (No, I didn't!)
Max-a-sim Kleene and The King of the Sixty One (What Is This Crap?). Crap Mariner made it to the Los Arboles open mic show where Max and I did our relaycasting experiment for the first time. MUCHO FUN!
Group limits | Your2ndPlace. Ciaran Laval revisits the group limit JIRA entry and the continued unassigned status it holds with now over 1000 votes. It's still the #1 feature request on the JIRA and it's still pretty much ignored out of hand. Ciaran's thoughts are spot on - an innovative solution and some new thinking is needed here.
Vint informs us of some upcoming enhancements to my least used SL feature: voice.
New voice features? London.. euh… Linden calling. | VintFalken.com
Coming in future enhancements? "New controls for group chat: group owners can moderate, silencing a few or all avatars if needed."
Great - so they're adding even more burdensome controls and overhead the the exisiting borked up group code. Maybe with this feature enhancement we'll rock on back down to a max of 10 groups for old times sake?
Bah.
Venue thoughts (What Is This Crap?) Crap Mariner offers some thoughts on SL music venues.
l337 Eye Chart. You've gotta check this one out, very cute.
Handlebars that you just have to see to believe. Don't you look at this and wonder how soon after the photo was taken there was an accedent?
eJamming: Skype for musicians | Tech news blog - CNET News.com. CNET asks about eJamming and whether musicians think that this is a good thing. Some of our friends in SL should give them a ninjam lesson and invite them to a VLB gig.
Amazon.com: The Easy Reader (Book Holder)(News Paper Holder): Everything Else. Holy crap! This is a product and not just like an SNL spoof advert? WOW!
BREAKING NEWS! Atheist sees image of big bang in piece of toast. BREAKING NEWS!
Sunset meeting Lightning meeting Rainbows
Decovo Archive - Elevator Warning Sign in Sweden
This amusing picture by Mygdalla March reminds me of the type of thing that Vint Falken would do.
Anatomy of a grid crash! M is for Myg
Speaking of Vint - she came to my show at SoHo this past Sunday. It was 5PM SLT which is kinda late for my Euro friends. I'm hoping I can start alternating show times - say 1 or 2PM SLT one week followed by 5 or 6PM SLT the following. It's just kinda tough to find a place to play at like 1PM SLT.
Dolmere Talmasca, finally Closer to God | VintFalken.com
I think Vint was hearing things but that's OK - music is about personal interpretation imho. Anyone else who was there hear me say Closer to... instead of my typical change to the line?
Venus and Jupiter visible to the naked eye in this early morning photograph.
Earth from space with the Space Shuttle Discovery approaching. This picture was taken from the International Space Station. Nice.
Fish eye view of Earth and Space Shuttle Atlantis
Voting location under scrutiny. Hahaa.
BlogHUD: weird things. TROGDORRRRRR - a wild sighting of Trogdor burninating the peasants and their thatched roof... COTTAGES! Obviously the person who sighted them has never been to Homestar Runner dot net it's dot com.
ANIMALS:
Giraffe & squirrel - you're an herbivore, right? Yeah, but you tastes likes salad.
100 Year-old Tortoise acts as Mom to Baby Hippo
Before posing for publicity photos it might be a good idea to ensure the sex toys in your bedroom have been hidden.
Awesome bones in SL:
That silly government of ours. Here's how to identify aircraft you may see overhead.
Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com. Second Life makes "breaking news" on CNN's site. I've not heard Space Junky yet, in fact I've not heard OF Space Junky.
I have seen Zaphod play live, and Zaphod's gotten himself a 61 artist profile with about 4 songs uploaded so far. http://www.thesixtyone.com/zaphodtheas
This is a pretty good piece of reporting - short, sweet, to the point. It does not bother mentioning any editorial about the platform but rather focuses on the musicians and what they're doing. It appears that Space Junky is fully pre-recorded choosing to focus on the immersive quality of the SL performance over the "live" component. It certainly does look like a show worth seeing - perhaps you'll see me at their next one, eh?
Interview - Paisley Beebe : The Metaverse Journal - Australia’s Virtual World News Service. Another great Paisley Beebe interview, well another of her being interviewed. Isn't great to turn the tables once in a while?
"Paisley: Nope I’m not a gamer at all, and I don’t consider SL a game. And the other virtual worlds I have read about appear to be less developed and inferior at the moment. I was fascinated with having a virtual self to start with, and sort of playing dress up dollies with my avatar, but I really just see it all as an extension of my self in RL that’s all, but lots of fun too."
Dolmere Talamasca live at Podshow Island. I'm not sure if I linked to this picture before. JVonD came to last month's SoHo island show and took this picture. I played after last minute substituion, and recently deceased, Spence Wilder. I'll miss him greatly.
This was the first show I played with a host of pot head muppets over the performance stage. I was amused - I made a comment about it between songs at one point.
Trench warfare! Prepare for the surprise attack!
Hermit crab in a glass shell at WallOut.com
Second Life is good for….music! M is for Myg Myg loves music in SL - and she's only really discovered the DJs. Wait until she gets into live music :)
Speaking of live music JohnnyRS at VTOR recently discovered VLB!
Virtual Live Band Rocks Second Life -VTOR - Virtual TO Reality
Nature's Best 2007: Image Gallery - daring photographer?
A computer shop's sales pitch: 'We remove Vista'. Now if only they removed Vista and replaced it with a Mac we'd be on to something :)
The Galloping Beaver. How to blashpheme in public. Excellent.
YouTube - Senator Mike Gravel on the Oppressive Nature of Religion
YouTube - Potassium Chlorate and Gummy Bear. Just plain fun to watch.
JPG Magazine: Photos: "Cats" by Ivan Capraro. Can you help but think "The furries are coming, the furries are coming!"?
The power of books. I would so love to see this exact theme with the power of prayer. Nice.
Ain't it the truth? on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
I just had to take a snapshot of this. Don't you love seeing SL musicians show up on the 61 when earning rack points? How about three in a row like this?
That's JueL Resistance, Professor Beliveau and Mel Cheeky back-to-back. Nice!
Wild runway that would freak me out, for sure.
Don't stop believing; Journey's coming to Second Life - Massively Cousin Akela found this posted at Roaderunner Records's website. Hopefully it's true and there is some follow up. I think it would be nice.
LAist: What is That on Your Ass? I think it's fair to say that this article fits right in with the one from the mother talking about how every clothing store wants her tween aged daughter to dress like a whore.
Amazing Young Organ Player Rocks Out - Video. Speaking of tweens - here's one dressed decently and playing a church organ like it was a full rock band. Neat video - take a gander.
Top 5 Folky Covers of Rap & Hip-Hop Songs. Maybe not top 5 since those lists are subjective of course - but some great folky covers of hip hopiness.
Rain (What Is This Crap?) If you have not yet heard Rain Viera play you're missing out!
From the article -- Given that she describes herself as a human pet – and is happy to walk around on a lead – Tasha Maltby is used to odd looks and even odder remarks.
But nothing had prepared her for the reaction of the bus driver who allegedly told the self-styled Goth and her boyfriend: "We don't let freaks and dogs like you on."
Do you need a minute? Yeah. This one cracked me up.
New World Notes: Playing Empires: Second Life Bloggers on the HUD-Based MMO Craze. Hamlet mentions my blog post talking about my getting on board with TE a while back. I'll have you know that Cylindrian is the one who conned me into wearing the trial HUD in the first place :)
I'm still using Tiny Empires. I'm a little less impressed with the newer Federations version of the HUD based game than I was with the original as it seems a bit more demanding of your attention than before. However, I think that thesixtyone is the new TE for me. Like TE it can be played in the background, the grind isn't as tiresome over time, and the rewards are more fulfilling imho :)
YouTube - Sick Puppies - all the same (free hugs).
Let it be known that the Jan 19th issue of Billboard Magazine, the one with Janet Jackson on the cover hs Cylindrian Rutabaga and Hep Shepherd on page 16! Get your copy today before they're all gone :)
second life of my dreams: the sixtyone "dolomere" - woot. :)
A tornado during soccer. Wild Japanese TV footage.
Cloverfield warning. on Flickr - Photo Sharing! I've really heard next to nothing about this movie - but this pitcure alone makes me want to go see it in a theatre now.
The Smoking Storm Drain. A picture to enjoy - smokers repent!
Tweebiscuit.net - Three Philosophies of butter. Funny, funny.
First Person Bike Trail - CollegeHumor video. WOW - really cool video!
Cectic - On Arguing. YES! YES! YES! What a great point :)
Funny Kid Isnt Sorry About Huge Party - Video. This one had me cracking up. Can't tell if it's real or not - seems like a long segment for TV. Regardless it had me busting out laughing.
I went this Monday's open mic at Los Arboles and really enjoyed myself. Melynn Dreamscape also attended and she posted some bloghud entries with pics
Rain Vieria has been playing the intimate setting of Purgatory for a while and it seems like Rain is now getting out and about. That's a good thing - his performances are enjoyable. He plays acoustic guitar and signs sometimes, but the real treat is when he sings along with his pre-recorded tracks. I've never asked him if they're sequenced or what - how he accomplishes the accompanyment. Regardless - it's a good listen, well written original material, fun covers, a good show. Catch him out and about if you can!
Second Life Herald: Op/Ed: Religion In Second Life - A Quick Aside.
Without visiting the build in question I don't agree with the leanings in this article. That opinion could change if I visited the build and was utterly flabergasted I guess. Anyway, I'm linking it because it's an interesting read.
SL Reports ||| Your Second Life and Virtual World's News Source - New Policy Regarding In-World Whores (not). OK, I don't care who you are - that's funny, right there.
Charles Coleman's scrapbook. Alrighty this one is too funny. Charles has threatened to lock SL artists who refuse to join 61 in the dungeon. He has proof that he's serious. Enjoy.
6 residents showed up for the church of LOTU first meeting in SL - VTOR - Virtual TO Reality
In one of the better uses of BlugHUD I've seen to date Dedric Mauriac took us on a tour of SL code bitrot recently:
BlogHUD : A game that once was
BlogHUD : More broken games at the welcome area
BlogHUD : Broken telehub of memories long past
BlogHUD : Out-dated information
Here are a few links especially for GoSpeed Racer:
First Look: Speed Racer's Rival Race Car Revealed - FirstShowing.net
Detroit Auto Show: Speed Racer Mach 5 Live and in the Flesh
Danger on Flickr - Photo Sharing!. They really meant it - danger/warning/careful! Hahaa.
The Problem is Syststemic | Canucklehead.ca | Canucklehead. Now we the see the violent inherent in the systsem! Now we the see the violent inherent in the systsem!
New World Notes: Robin Linden on Expanding Group Limits
Remember the JIRA group limit expansion feature request? It's currently the hot JIRA item with almost 800 people signed up on it. Hamlet Au got a response from Robin Linden on the issue which sounds to me like "nice try". Let's keep the pressure on though.
They really need to rework groups badly. Groups have been bloated since I've been here, about 3 years, and in that time they managed to bloat them up even more. Let's see a leaner, cleaner implementation of groups that allows for future feature set expansion while eliminating a group limit entirely. (Not holding my breath on that one.)
BBC NEWS | UK | Parted-at-birth twins 'married'. Whoah! Someone has to do the stats on this and answer the question: "WHAT ARE THE ODDS?" Just. Wow.
Radiohead Finds Sales, Even After Downloads - New York Times. Congrats to Radiohead for attempting something new in a dying industry and proving through a point so many of us have known before.
I think this translates over into the SL world too. I can listen to most every SL artist almost any day of the week. Go to their show, hear them play their songs, interact in a way a CD can't. Yet... I still want to own their CD. I still want to hold that little piece of plastic in my hands and import it into my iTunes library. I'm eager to see what artwork they've created to go with the CD, if any, and I'm eager to read their liner notes.
Anyway, congrats to Radiohead :)
A nice coloring book for the kids...oh...wait a second... - Pictures - Geekstir. OK, that's funny right there.
I had a bunch of links I wanted to share so I'm doubling up today instead of letting them get too stale.
BlogHUD : Another breakthrough for blogging. This is REALLY very cool. It strikes me as exactly the type of thing I would expect from Jacek Antonelli - but this one came from Dedric Mauriac. (a user of thesixtyone, btw)
Dedric modified his client's XUI settings in order to expand the number of allowed characters in the postcard submission form. He tested through with various sized posts to find the actual max number of characters that the asset server would allow through. Well done, Dedric!
Crisis hotline crisis. I did NOT get this shot while visitin San Francisco but I would have LOVED to. Funny stuff indeed.
Torley Linden has discovered a free software tool that may help out folks like Crap Mariner who have been casually experimenting with Machinema in SL.
A new, free movie recorder that works with Second Life — WeGame - Torley Lives. For those poor folks stuck on Windows this might just be a tool worth investigating. Let me know if you create anything cool with it and I'll link it up! Have fun out there.
I was going to link to Vint's screenshot vs. photograph post in a previous quiclikes. It's my opinion that it's not photography but she makes some pretty compelling points in her blog entry. Why Second Life photographs are NOT screenshots | VintFalken.com
Now Hamlet Au has posted a survey on his blog asking people their opinion. I'm over there and voting Images, Screenshot, or another term since that's still where my opinion lies. New World Notes: Photographer or Image Maker?
I don't feel terribly strongly about it either way - I just lean more towards "it's a capture of a computer created screen display" therefore image or screenshot.
Kitten Lulu - Blog Archive - Second Life hates Mac laptops. Sorry that Kitten is having trouble, but this is a blanket statement that I can't endorse :) I use a MacBook Pro for SL most of the time. It's an older one than she has and it has an ATI, not an Nvidea, video card in it. I've had glowing moments of reliability here and there with SL as I suspect most Windows users would tend to agree with - reliability and stability are not words that go hand in hand with Second Life regardless of platform I think.
Second Life Art News: music immersion - Komuso Tokugawa MoShang Zhao. Nice machinema video of the recent efforts from Komuso and MoShang. Machinema, and blog entry, created by Osprey Therian.
wtf_inc: More funny than WTF. Be careful when giving customized cake orders over the phone!
Well Hello There, Robin. on Flickr - Photo Sharing! Great ambiguosly gay (SL reference there, fyi) photo of Batman and Robin on the set of the old television series. You mean to tell me that they didn't actually climb buildings?
Wooster Collective: Seen On A Draw Bridge in Amsterdam. The rising tide...
Mambo Welles shared this with me: YouTube - Elvis Costello - (I Dont Want To Go To) Chelsea. He thought it was cute considering 1Chelsea Daggar is at my SL live shows most of the time.
Gotta love this classic video. What a poor transfer - I guess that adds some feeling to the classic nature of it though.
Of course, I suppose this video is much more accurate, huh? YouTube - The Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger Full Vid.
Spence Wilder shared this one with me: Let Them Sing It For You. Amusing (flash?) page that lets you type in "lyrics" and it will play back snippets of tunes mashed together to sing out your message.
The New Christian Science Textbook | Incredimazing. Chapter 5 is particularly useful. Great stuff.
TheMishMash.com: Flunked: 14 Signs of a Deficient Intellect
The Kittens! - Dee’s Inbox. Hey Mom! Come see the kittens. MWahahahahaaaaHAHAahaha!
Inappropriate Children's Book Titles. Childrens books photoshopped with new titles to match the cover illustration better.
Can We Do That Later? - Living in the Metaverse. Get your JIRA account details out - this is another good one you might like to vote on!
Can we do that later, please? | VintFalken.com
YouTube - Duran Duran Second Life Machinima Mashup. If you like SL machinema you're bound to enjoy this video. Made in windlight it's got a beautiful look and it's very well edited and put together.
Anderson and the Would Be Thieves with Grace Buford - Cylindrian Check out Cylindrian collaborating on another Atlanta musician's work!
WOOT! Go girl!
The song to listen to is "Coward Featuring Grace Buford". It's currently the second song down on the track listing. Unfortunately downloading is disabled for their tracks though. I don't go back to MySpace for repeat listens - that website bothers me, really.
My take?
1) MySpace is still one ugly, nasty, weird website which I do not understand.
2) You can see Grace/Cyl in the track artwork picture while listening to the song! She's on the far right standing up at a mic.
3) Her voice is so distinct. You can really pick her out easily.
4) She sounds GREAT on the whole song. Just great on the call and response - "Never showed your face". Very powerful. The oos and woos throughout are really well done as well and fit the song's sound so very well.
I enjoyed the listen. Go get one of your own.
Science verses faith flowcharts image.
How Not to Interview John Cusack - Video. It helps to be able to be able to differentiate Kevin Spacek from John Cusak.
My resolution for 2008: Mute (What Is This Crap?). This is one of Crap's most amusing posts to date - and that's saying a lot.
I don't go for new year's resolutions, even ones that are tongue-in-cheek, but perhaps you'd like to play along and answer his question.
His list of people to mute just cracks me up. The LME DJ comment is awesome and I know he and I are not the only two who feel that way (though maybe not quite to the extreme he's taking it in '08). I also wonder if I'll get muted next year as "performers I have absolutely no interest in hearing" is subjective. *sniff* I like Crap's upside down couch at my shows. Argh! :)
-Ana Lutetia-: [review] ~.~RPC~.~ Staples Cream Set. Consistent fashion blogger Ana Lutetia recently discovered one of the many amazing bits of clothing available from my friend Rose Farina. Go check it out!
GoImageShare.com - Dear Person I'm sorry if I put a dent in your car.
I had been missing DJing my iTunes music into Second Life. Luckily other slightly bored people with similar bents towards random silliness are on my friends list.
Transformation (What Is This Crap?)
BlogHUD : Edloe party continues
BlogHUD : Cylindrian Rutabaga as a Hobo
Once again I had a ton of fun streaming people's picks from my personal iTunes collection. Thanks to the ton of people who came out to make the impromptu party a happening place to be, and for the many and varied music requests.
I DJed once more since then. Just last night in fact. A bunch of oldbie friends from the Shelter and some newer ones as well joined me with Mallow and Vie at Purgatory! WOOT!.
EricAtRandom posted a bunch of pics from the night:
Dol and his Ant Ticks (on the arm) on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Eric And Anverie dance in Purgatory. on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Leila and Oni dance on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Speaking of Dol streaming: BlogHUD : "Dol rocking his bones on Corsica Island from 3pm SLT to 4pm" Posted by Melynn Dreamscape when I was playing Corsica Island along with Virtual Live Band and Noma Falta.
Noma's accompaniment for her live show is her partner, Mr. Woopsy Dazy. Noma is a bass player and singer and let me tell you that she has a lovely voice! She did some really great Janis Joplin covers during her set at Corsica. Her music includes Woopsy on guitar and bg vocals, and some backing tracks including drums.
I saw Noma at the Pontiac Garage open mic goodbye last hoorah show and asked her about the backing tracks:
You: How do you do your backing tracks? Drum machine? Pre-recorded hired musicians?
Noma Falta: /recorded in my studio except bass vocals and lead guitar
All cool except that slash character! WOOT!.
Oh, and you can find more info about her over at that myspace thing. There's currently one song posted to listen to - give it a listen and tell me I'm wrong about that voice. I dare you!
Speaking of BlogHUD: BlogHUD : Finding the day of the week . Open source LSL free for the taking in-world.
Akela and Ordinal tell us about a JIRA issue that deserves a vote: SVC-1125 "Inter-sim teleports do not provide a red beacon unless made directly from the main map, so sims without point to point TP are disadvantaged".
I just finished playing an open mic set at Pontiac Garage over on Motorati Island.
"Pontiac has decided to pursue other advertising venues."
That means as of tomorrow there will be no more Pontiac Garage - as a live music venue or as a Second Life build.
You can read more about it at the official Motorati website: http://www.motoratilife.com/. Especially the entry Ladies & Gentlemen, Motorati Has Left The Grid.
It's a rather sad day, imho.
I'm glad I got a chance to play the stage and to say goodbye.
Recursive Escalator Sign on Flickr - Photo Sharing! I so want to hold my option key and cam around this sign to see if it's hiding something more menacing. How amazing is this if it's truly a sign erected to warn about the sign once erected?
GPS baby Jesus stolen again, found across the street - Engadget. The comments on this and the linked newspaper article are a bit much so I suggest skipping them. The title of the linked news article is a bit much as well though. Anyway, the core story is pretty amusing though.
YouTube - The Most Amazing Accident On Road Produced By Rain. All one can say when watching this video is WOW! That's one poorly managed drainage system.
One comment does a better job of describing the footage than the poster: "good old Calgary Alberta Canada, that was on Glenmore Trail and the camera was to monitor the flow of traffic because of the construction that was going on. Hail plugged the storm drain and caused a hail dam. when it broke free water cam from the surrounding communities which are up to 50 metres ( 160 feet) higher. it was all clean rain water"
The Death of High Fidelity : Rolling Stone. Yet another article pointing out that compressed compression compressing compression is making today's releases sound terrible compared to yesteryear's dynamic music.
While there I discovered that Kim deal's The Breeders has a new album due out in April of '08! WOOT! I'll be buying that for sure.
Rolling Stone : Breeders’ Long-Awaited “Mountain Battles” Due April ‘08
I'm playing two live basstastically perverted shows today in Second Life, Saturday Dec 29th.
3PM SLT, one hour
Corsica Island after Virtual Live band and other great acts: Corsica Island SLURL
7PM SLT, min. one hour
Purgatory club. There is a possibility that there may be an act on after me. If not I will play longer than an hour. Purgatory SLURL. Note - this teleport leaves you in a box in front of a teleporter. You can change the destination from "Upper Reaches" by pressing the up button, to "Furnace" by clicking the down arrow. Click the down arrow as I play the stage in the furnace each time. Then sit on the teleporter to be transported.
atomic-raygun "Running around Madcow Cosmos's Installation". Awww... they're so darned cute. /me wants one!
Daily Kos: Flying spaghetti monster defeats anti-evolution FL school board. WOOT. Great read.
Gazelle Outsmarts a Cheetah and Hyena - Video. This reminds me of the possum dad and daughter in the movie Over The Hedge. I love it.
Fly your Edloe flags at half-staff, please. (What Is This Crap?). Crap Mariner tells us about the demise of the Traveling Avatar podcast. More info at SLNN: The Traveling Avatar's podcast is riding off into the sunset.
As you well know I'm not much of a podcast listener. I barely listened to two or three of the TA shows. However, I'm sad to see it go as I figure it was a good resource for new residents from what I heard.
I have listened to most of the recent episodes of Podmafia as well as tuning in to listen to the live TalkShoe episode that they ran recently. I did not participate mostly because I didn't want to create a new account on a new site that I'll likely never return to.
iTWire - Mammoth update ahead for Leopard. Mac OS X Leopard is currently in public release version 10.5.1. Apparently Apple has just started testing developer builds of 10.5.2. These Apple Developer Connection builds which are bound by an NDA as far as I know are pre-release versions for use in testing.
I don't think it's anywhere near intentional but rather an oversight but Tateru Nino over at Massivley posted about an incompatibility between 10.5.2 (private beta test) and Second Life: Beware of the leopard! - Massively. Please note that the wording is a bit dire for a first release of a private beta test.
[PHOTO] WTF.... This photo is too darned funny.
The accused will please stand up. Picture.
New Yorkers speak out picture.
Presents opening children! PERFECT picture!
GROUPS REVISITED
Verbal Stew: SecondLife Group Limit - Who speaks for the masses? We're all entitled to our own opinions, such is the beauty of life. JellyBean Madison sees no reason for more than 25 groups. Some 450+ people do according to the JIRA bug/feature request, myself included.
I do agree with Jelly that the second they raise it to 50 or 100 or whatever people will bitch that they want more. However, IMHO, there are valid business reasons to be in groups, even lots of groups.
I also happen to agree with Erbo Evans that a resource like this should be none, one or infinite.
There are some suggestions of splitting out groups into different types of groups. Removing the permissions structure from basic groups which serve for IM and notices only, etc. Even charging an extra fee for premium account holders to have the ability to belong to more groups is a fine idea.
We'll see wht comes of it all - if you haven't already I highly suggest you throw your vote in the JIRA entry.
(Group limit and JIRA issue tracker link included in my previous post on the subject here: http://www.lovelymachine.com/Dolmere/2007/12/group_limit_jira_feature_request.html)
