The Adventures of Dolmere Talamasca

Tonight I had the pleasure of sitting in on a taping of Paisley Beebe's podcast interview show "Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe" on SLCN.TV. There is a "live audience" present during the taping of this show. When you arrive an automated script delivers an audience etiquette notecard to you. It outlines the mechanics of the show a bit and more or less asks you to be respectful and not interrupt.

I believe that she has three guests each week for the half hour program. This week she had Circe Broom, Haroldthe Burrell and Cylindrian Rutabaga. The interviews are conducted using Skype. The guests chat with Paisley in the Skype program and Paisly streams that conversation into SL along with some audio bumpers and adverts mixed in. The audio stream and "live video" of the gathering is then captured and posted as a video enhanced podcast.

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Second Life Notes - Blog Archive - A Shelter from the Storm

Chill Moksung has posted a little writeup on the Shelter and our sky stage in Swinside.

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As Sweet as Fudge, Mel Cheeky - VTOR - Virtual TO Reality

"Weirdharold" over at vtoreality.com has posted an interview with Mel Cheeky. It's short and sweet, well formatted and a nice read.

From the comments at that article, due to a bit of shameless self promotion on Andy's part, I also found "Interview with SL musician Mel Cheeky" - a blog entry by Andy Piper (Note: the same interview was republished in SLateNight magazine. This one is formatted similar to my interviews - pretty much a copy/paste from a chat log with a bit of editing. It's longer and more involved than either vto's or mine. I love that Mel's answers are very consistent in all three interviews.

Oh, it also appears that Andy is one of the IBM folks we've been hearing about. Glad to see that some of the new corporate users are blending in and finding the gems in Second Life like Mel Cheeky rather than simply slaving away on their island estates (melodrama emphasis is all mine there).

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Cylindrian Rutabaga will be playing at the Shelter in Exile this upcoming Thursday - the 21st of December at 5pm SLT. The following is a slightly edited interview with her in preparation for her return to the Shelter in Exile Sky Stage.

Dolmere: Welcome back to the Shelter in Exile Sky Stage, Cylindrian
Cylindrian Rutabaga: hi
Dolmere: Last time we left off with me asking about your children and the fact that you home school :)
Cylindrian Rutabaga: oh yes
Dolmere: Let's move back into the musical range for a bit
Dolmere: How did you discover live music in Second Life? What made you decide to start playing shows?
Cylindrian Rutabaga: Well... I had friends that I would play online open mic's with in another chat program, you may have heard of Mel Cheeky, Russell Eponym, and Neil Morrison?
Dolmere: Indeed

Continue reading "Interview: Cylindrian Rutabaga (Take Two)" »

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The event listing for this performance

Dolmere: Let's start this interview out on a light note, shall we?
Dolmere: maybe a D - but played very lightly with a kinda twang too
Jaycatt Nico: Okay :D
Dolmere: Have you been banned from posting comments to any blogs?
Frogg Marlowe: Not currently, but I plan to try harder
Jaycatt Nico: I don't normally post comments to blogs, and when I do they're usually positive
Dolmere: OK, so neither of you are secretly prok thing alts I see.
Jaycatt Nico: lol
Frogg Marlowe: hey, prok's a friend
Frogg Marlowe: lol
Frogg Marlowe: he's been rough with me, too, but I think he means well
Dolmere: Yeah, but had to throw that in since it's all the blog traffic today :)
Frogg Marlowe: lol
Jaycatt Nico: Oh yeah? Man am I out of touch

Continue reading "Interview: Jaycatt Nico and Frogg Marlowe" »

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This week's event listing is here

You: Welcome to our sky stage at the Shelter in Exile, Kaklick!
Kaklick Martin: thanks
Kaklick Martin: hope you don't mind if Harmony joins us?
You: np at all
You: Have an hour or so for my probing interview questions?
Kaklick Martin: sure
Kaklick Martin: I like the unified style you've gone w/ for the posters here
Kaklick Martin: :-)
You: It's all Mera Pixel - she's a genius

Continue reading "Interview: Kaklick Martin" »

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The event listing for this show

Dolmere: Hi Melvin, welcome to the Shelter in Exile sky stage.
Melvin Took: hi there
Melvin Took: nice Avi
Dolmere: thanks

Continue reading "Interview: Melvin Took" »

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The event listing for this show

Mel Cheeky will be playing a one hour set of her live music for us at the Shelter in Exile this Wednesday from 5PM - 6PM Second Life time. Today she shared some time with me today for an interview in anticipation of the show.

Continue reading "Interview: Mel Cheeky" »

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Jaycatt Nico's Ramblings: Frogg Marlowe on MTV!

Frogg Marlowe and Jaycatt Nico were recently interviewed by MTV. See this article for the link to the video! Woot!

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