Press Release: Second Life Eleventh Birthday

The event will be held from Sunday June 22nd – Sunday June 29th—seven days of amazing exhibits, music, conversation, debate, firework displays, games, puzzles, sports and everything else the wonderfully inventive communities of Second Life™ can pack into seven days and 11 sims.
Actually, even that won’t be the end of it, as the sims will be open for a further seven days for everyone to explore.

What’s our theme?
The theme this year takes inspiration from a quote by the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill:

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Last year’s theme was “Looking Forward, Looking Back,” but we focused mostly on looking back, and rightly so, as 10 years was an important milestone and a perfect opportunity to reflect back on where we came from.
This year it’s time to look forward; to imagine where we are headed.
When Winston Churchill said this in 1943, he could not have imagined a virtual world like Second Life, but now, more than seventy years later, his words have come true in this new world that we have created.
If there’s one thing that makes SL unique, it’s our community of users. Users from all corners of the globe come together under a single umbrella to build a community that comes from our minds and our imaginations. Everything we see, touch and use in Second Life is a product of our imaginations, our minds, and our community.
And this year, at the SL11B Community Celebration, we want to celebrate precisely that!
Get thinking. Get imagining. Get creative!

How do I get involved?
Applications are now open for Performers, Volunteers and speakers and performers  in the Auditorium. We will need lots of volunteers to make this a success, so please consider whether you can give some time to helping out. We can promise you a lot of fun!
Applications for Exhibitors (i.e. people who want a plot to build on) will open on April 27th.
The closing date for Exhibitor, Performer and Auditorium applications is May 26th.

How do I find out more?
You can find out more by following this blog, and by following us on Facebook and Twitter.
We also have a Flickr page where you can paste your own images when the sims open. You make see some sneak images from the team before that so keep watching!
Main site: http://slcommunitycelebration.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SLBCommunity
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SLBCommunityCelebration
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/groups/slcommunitycelebration/pool/

Images of Imagine Peacefest

During Veteran's Day Weekend from Nov 11-13th, a number of peace activists, members of the "Occupy" movement on the Grid, and a number of artists gathered at the "Imagine Peacefest." Any1 Gynoid, taking on the role of "activist-reporter" was there, and took a number of screenshots.

See Any1's pictures in Extra.

"Imagine Peace" Tower Closes

Shortly after turning in her pen, Any1 Gynoid sent me a brief message that the Imagine Peace Tower in Second Life was closing. I couldn't teleport to the Imagine Peace Tower sim, though some information I came across suggested it was not always open to the public.

Checking out Daniel Voyager's Blog, a couple days ago he got a Twitter message from Explorer Dastardly, whom forwarded a message apparently from Yoko Ono:

Group Notice From: IMAGINEPEACE.com, Yoko Ono

We are closing the IMAGINEPEACE.com 2L group. We can still keep in touch via Facebook, Twitter, & at IMAGINEPEACE.com love, yoko

Yoko Ono: You have been ejected from 'IMAGINEPEACE.com' by Yoko Ono.


The Imagine Peace Tower in Second Life was opened in October 9 2009, just after the yearly lighting of the one in real life it was based on. It would light up just after dusk on the sim and shut off at dawn every day.

No reason was given for the sim's closing.

Sources: Daniel Voyager's Blog, imaginepeace.com

Bixyl Shuftan

Creative Challenges and Innovative Ideas at the UWA

Shellie Sands was recently at the University of Western Australia (UWA). While there, she got a look of the art exhibits for the monthly "Imagine Challenge" From "the ethereal to the surreal to the abstract," she found a wide variety of displays up for view.

See what the artists had to show in Events.

(note, the article was edited today)