Greenies!

Managed to get an hour in the Greenies sim earlier... it's BIG.

And you're small.

Real 'Alice in Wonderland' stuff going on here. It's a regular apartment (very well rendered), but populated by tiny aliens and you're the same size as they are i.e. size of a mouse, so you see everything from their perpsective. It's strange being so teeny, and you have to set your draw distance to 300 (as opposed to 96 which I think is default?), but fun in a kooky way. It's pretty weird seeing other avatars flying about, looking like flies... all in all i'd say it's a play on perspective, and well worth a visit!


As usual I enjoyed the banal/everyday aspects, such as the cereal bowl, sitting on the MASSIVE pet cat, toothbrushing by the sink, sitting on the pet budgerigar etc. Favourite bit HAS to be the Green Bowie fan, listening to Life on Mars on his iPod...


(For more pics see Flickr)

Exploring In-world, Out-world...

While i've had great times with randomn SL meanderings, it's not necessarily the most efficient way to explore if pressed for time. Often the best way to find out about interesting stuff going on in-world is to explore SLifers Flickr sites, the result of which today I came across Therese Carfagno who works as a journalist for Second Life News Network. Therese has a blog and Flickr site, both of which point to places/in-world events and expos that look well-worth checking out...

So, inspired by Therese, my SL must-see list for today is as follows:

The Greenies - i don't think i can describe this until i've been but here's the SLurl

Sploland - 100 exhibits inspired by The Exploratorium, a hands-on science centre in San Francisco - SLurl

Flowerball - an interactive art thingy - SLurl

Girl meets Second Life

Being somewhat partial to a bit of in-world music-making, i'm loving Caterin Semyorka's mission, which is to play every last piano in Second Life - the only rule being that she has to wear a different outfit for every performance... like your style Caterin!

Aye aye Captain!

Yep, as predicted I’ve returned from RL holiday with fascination with all things BOAT. Just popped into SL and visited Greece, then on to another Greece, where to my delight I found a perfect sailboat slap bang underneath a Big Wheel! All kinds of virtual motion fun trickery going on there – such a shame I got booted off the Sim…

Anyway, have renewed faith in the FUN factor in SL after meeting a new crowd and going to a new club last night where we mud-wrestled (clothed – it was all good clean fun), sat on dancing cows and played Bronco on the BIGGEST BULL I HAVE EVER SEEN and basically swapped inventory items (drinks, dance moves, animations, objects) and listened/danced the night away to a stream of 80s classics. Ace bunch of people – it’s the Harley Davidson area, well worth a visit.

Came across this lovely lot as during my absence somebody had installed a wall of clouds into my apartment, and I can’t seem to move it. IM’d the creator, we got chatting and immediately clicked and she ended up TPing me over… interestingly, she thought I was a man when we were just talking through IM, apparently due to my ‘direct and no bullshit’ manner. Wonder if she would have thought I was picking a fight if she knew that I was female when we first started chatting…?

Anyway, she’s fantastic – definitely one of the funniest SLifers I’ve met…

But back to the sailing. Well I haven’t actually done any yet but hopefully will find time this week, and am more than encouraged by the amount of in-world yachting clubs and articles such as Sailors take skills learned in Second Life to Real Life

Ships Ahoy!