Walk Around The Grid: Jason and the Argonauts

 

In her latest "Walk Around The Grid" article, Netera Landar checks out an event by Drama Libre. The club took on a Hellenistic look as the party theme was "Jason and The Argonauts." Things took on an interesting look with Ancient Greek hoplites mixing it up with mythical creatures. 

 

Read Netera's article in Design.  

Spark Project's Olympus And Bellissaria's Splash Adventure

 

Raven Frostwych and her Spark Project recently made a new place in Second Life, Olympus. This location "reaches far back into time to the Greek deities ... of the historical view of what Olympus was visioned in antiquity." Gemma Cleanslate went there to take a look around. But that wasn't the only place she went to. At Bellisseria Fairgrounds, the Splash Adventure water park is back.

 

Read Gemma's story in Places. 

 

New Santorini

One group of sims the Newser keeps writing about year after year is Calas Galadhon Park. The sims are always well-designed, and there's something new every few months. Sadly, in the past a few of the sims had to be shut down due to real-life finances. But recently came some good news. One of the lost sims, the Greek-themed New Santorini, is back. Gemma Cleanslate went there to look around.

Read Gemma's article in Places.

"Final Sunset Over the Parthenon?" Greek Island May Close This Week

If you're a fan of real-life locations brought to Second Life, it looks like some bad news just dropped in. A thirteen sim area collectively known as the Greek Islands may be closing as soon as Tuesday July 5.

Anne Brightstar, informed the Newser that she had found out through a Japanese blog that the Greek Island sim would soon be closing. Soon after she posted on her Flickr a message sent to the community's renters

First of all we want to say thank you for your loyalty to us and finding yourself a Home on the Greek Islands. As sad as we are over it, we have to inform you that by next month begin of July 5th, the Greek Islands will close. The rentals which are already paid and going over the Date of 5th July, those days will be of course refund to you. For all further Informations about Rentals please contact our Rental Manager Bai Franciosa or the General Manager of the Greek Islands Bahus Black Gausman, (BBahus Resident). Thank you all for your understanding,

Second Life Newser reported on one of the sims, Myconos, in January 2014 when the sim name was Hellenic Island.

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Source: Anne Brightstar

Bixyl Shuftan

Silverscreen: "Home of the Movies in Second Life" (2008)

In 2007 and 2008, there were a number of examples of real life businesses looking to Second Life as a place to advertise. One such place was Silverscreen, where one could find movie sets of certain motion pictures, such as "Transformers" and "300," in addition to a few freebies of such movies available. Bixyl Shuftan found out about the place in May 2008, and wrote the following for Second Life Newspaper.

Read the 2008 article in Places.

"Air" at LEA 27

Gemma Cleanslate was recently at the new exhibition at the Linden Endowment of the Arts area at LEA27. Here, artist FreeWee Ling, describing herself as a "kid in God's Legoland," has a number of her creations in a series of exhibits with themes such as Ancient Greece. So what did Gemma think?

Read Gemma's article in Places.

Antiochia’s Opening Festivities Schedule

The Antiochia sim, mentioned earlier this week, is opening tomorrow, Sunday January 11. So here is the schedule of the events, running from 10 AM to 10PM SL time.

Morning: Nymphaeum Plaza and Info Center

10 - 11 am: Sandia Beaumont, Classical piano
11 - 11:30 am: An AST Student's Story: Georges Kabalan
11:30 am  - 12 pm: Inaugural Remarks: Quaestor Hax & Team
12 - 1 pm: Maximillion Kleene, Folk / pop

Afternoon: AST Square in Acropolis Fortress

1 -2 pm: Inaugural AST Lecture: David Orban: Infrastructures and Superstructures: The

interactive components of our lives
2 - 3 pm: Joaquin Gustav, Spanish guitar
3 -5 pm: Discussion panel: A decade of real governance in a virtual space. Speakers: Gwyneth

Llewelyn, Stephen Xootfly

Evening: Forum Valentis

5 - 7 pm: DJ Wally: Country Mix
7 - 8 pm: Komuso Tokugawa: Rock
8 - 9 pm: Gweeb: Blues
9 -10 pm: Joaquin Gustav: Latin dances


http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/ANTIOCHIA/138/247/31

Press Release: Grand Opening of the Ancient Byzantine City of Antiochia This Sunday

We are very happy to invite you to the opening festivities of the Antiochia sim – home of the Antiochia Community of Citizens (or, in its Greek form, "Agora Polis Antiochia").

Antiochia is the virtual platform for a number of organizations and individuals whose main aim is to extend the boundaries of information, communication, and education across both virtual and real words. It aims to become a Knowledge Community spanning Real and SecondLife, by focusing on the key values of Education, Citizenship, Creativity, and Diversity.

Antiochia’s main sponsor is the Antiochia Scholarships Trust, a Canadian non-profit organization helping students from the Greater Middle East to realize their dream of pursuing their university studies in Canada. For more information on AST, please visit its website at: http://home.antiochiatrust.org .  Antiochia’s Chief Architect is SecondLife’s Alexia Carnell, owner of the Time Machine Design Studio and Store and its Landscaper is SL’s Butterfli Summers. The Terraforming and some of the buildings were done by Bagheera Kristan.

The sim itself is creatively modeled after the ancient city of Antiochia on the Orontes (today in Southern Turkey), a multicultural, tolerant and creative city with Phoenician roots, Greek origins, then Roman and Byzantine high points. We have tried to reflect this cultural diversity in our buildings, attractions, and the 44 Information Points you will find throughout the sim. A good starting point is Antiochia’s Info Center, located in the Nymphaeum Plaza, with the following slurl:

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/ANTIOCHIA/138/247/31

The Opening Festivities will last the entire day of Sunday, January 11, 2015, from 10 am slt to 10 pm slt, so people from all time zones can attend one or more events at times convenient for them. You will find a detailed list of all events and their venues' Landmarks below.

We have planned for you a variety of informative, educational, and entertaining events. One of AST’s Middle East students will briefly talk about his dream of studying in Canada; a European expert in leading-edge network science will give the Inaugural AST Lecture; and we will have a panel discussion with questions and answers from the public on Ten Years of Virtual Governance in SecondLife.

The musical events will cover everything from rock, pop, folk, blues, and country to Spanish guitar and even a much-anticipated classical piano concert that will open our entire day, at 10 am SL time.

Please feel free to visit the sim and to join our group, Agora Polis Antiochia, so as to stay informed of our future activities and events. You can contact Antiochia’s Project Manager, Alex Olteanu, either in-world by IM-ing his avatar, AlexOlteanu Unplugged, or by e-mail, at alex@antiochiatrust.org; or the Project Administrator, by IM-ing his SL avatar, Bromo Ivory.

We hope that you are just as excited as we are by the events we have planned for you and that you will be able to attend with your friends sometime during this day.

We look forward to seeing you and your friends on Sunday, January 11, 2015, for Antiochia's Opening Festivities.

The Antiochia Team

Myconos Island: A Greek Island in Second Life

One special thing about Second Life is that one can find people from around the world on the Grid. And when inspired to build, what they build sometimes reflects their home country. One Greek lady was inspired to take a small island of her country, and rebuild it on the Grid. Going down it's streets, it's like walking about the island's town.

Read more in Places.

Lyle Lindman and his Mythology Class

Do you enjoy a good story when told by someone, a fan of Greek myths, or both? Then a place you'll want to check out is Lyle Lindman’s amphitheater. Two times a week, Lyle will tell an audience about the stories of ancient Greece. Grease Coakes had a chance to check out his myth class and talk to him.

Read Grease's story in People.

The Minoan Empire

Overshadowed by the Lost Gardens of Apollo, another place slated for vanishing was the Mionan Empire historical roleplay sim. Unlike the Lost Gardens, however, the community behind it was able to rebuild in a new location. Before the original place faded away, Netera Landar was able to drop in for a look.

Read more in Places.