Burn2 Radical Ritual Gets Off To A Firey Start

The biggest annual art and music festival, Burn2, is under way. There are five sims of art exhibits and music events. Newser writer Klaus Bereznyak, whom is himself part of the Burn2 volunteer staff, took a look around, taking in the sights and sounds, and wrote down his experiences. So what did he see?

Read Klaus' story in Events.

Burn2 Starts Tomorrow

The largest and longest running yearly art and music festival, Burn2, will be starting tomorrow. Originally called Burning Life, Burn2 is the inworld version of the Burning Man festival that takes place every year in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. It's notable that while coming up with Second Life, members of the early Linden Lab attended Burning Man, and the event was a partial inspiration for the virtual world's development. In recent years, the popularity of the event has resulted in smaller spinnoff events throughout the year, though the "Octoburn" as it's come to be called remains the main one.

This year's festival will take place from Saturday October 21 to Sunday October 29. The theme, which always reflects the real-life Burning Man, will be "Radical Ritual." There are five sims of artistic exhibits and music events: Burning Man - Mirage, Burning Man - Limbo, Burning Man - Alkali, Burning Man - Black Rock, and Burning Man - Deep Hole.

Sadly, the real-life Burning Man festival was marked by tragedy this year when one man ran into the flames of the "Burning of The Man," and later died of his injuries. While no harm will come to your avatar in the virtual event, all visitors are asked to comply with the requests of the volunteer staff.

For more information, check the website at http://www.burn2.org/

Pictures: https://www.flickr.com/groups/burn2/pool/

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Burning%20Man-%20Deep%20Hole/224/92/25 (Closed until October 21)

Image from Daark Gothly

Bixyl Shuftan

Building Begins For Burn2 Radical Ritual in October

Besides Halloween, October in Second Life is also known for the main Burn2 festival. Although the "Burners" as they're called have spinoff events around the year, October has always been the time of the original of the yearly events, based on the real-life Burning Man festival in Black Rock Nevada and originally called Burning Life, that have taken place in Second Life from it's first year. Klaus Bereznyak had a look at the preparations for the "Octoburn" from the scene of the event as the people behind it get ready. This year's theme: "Radical Ritual."

Read more in Design.

Relay Track Exhibits to Come Down by Thursday

It seems the builds of the Relay track are coming down faster than in the previous year.

Its time to think about tearing down all we've built. We will be prepping the regions for next year prior to their removal from the grid in hopes they come up the way they go down as they did this year. Any items remaining on the regions beside the track and other desired bits will be returned beginning Thursday 7/21 at Noon SL Time. Charlene Trudeau

During the late afternoon in the RFL Care sim, the Radicals for Life's exhibit went out with a bang, literally. HawkedWarrior Darkwatch made an announcement that the place would soon blow, and anyone who wanted a last peek had to head over, "I just like to go out with a bang so to speak. ... Please stay and watch it blow up."


And at 5:05 PM SL time, HawkedWarrior shouted, "Clear the build please! Fire in the hole!" Then there was an announcement of an armed explosive, "5, 4, 3, 2, 1, " He then stuck his fingers in his ears, and the sim announced a "BOOM." The build then began collapsing. It was soon a mess of pictures and prims.

Wolf Kenyon, one of those coming by to see the build commented, "Wow! ... So ends another year of RFL-SL. ... Takes so long to go up and comes down so quick."


Hurry up to see the rides and builds before they go. To check out the Redheads camp, Click Here to go to RFL Family (138, 170, 23).

Bixyl Shuftan