Reader Submitted: How to Broadcast from Anything

Almost a year ago, Tantari Kim, also known as DJ Tantari, sent in a reader submission, "How To DJ The DJ Tantari Way." In the article, she used MIXXX software for her DJing. But what about other software? There are some free commercial ones, notably the free version of Virtual DJ and Traktor and Serato, but they aren't made for playing to Shoutcast. In a reader submission she recently sent in, she describes how to enable them so that they can.

Read Tantari's reader submission in Extra.

Reader Submitted: "How To DJ The DJ Tantari Way - Chapter Five"

Tantari Kim has gotten quite a reputation for being a high-energy DJ. The energetic blue vixen has made her mark at the Happy Vixen and a number of other clubs in Second Life. For anyone with the interest, equipment, and time, for DJing in the virtual world, she has written a guide, "How To DJ The DJ Tantari Way." She contacted the Newser, and submitted the guide to be published in several segments. Here, Tantari concludes her guide with some ways seasoned DJs can improve, and some closing thoughts.

Read the seventh, and final, part of Tantari's guide in Extra. 

Reader Submitted: "How To DJ The DJ Tantari Way - Chapter Four"

Tantari Kim has gotten quite a reputation for being a high-energy DJ. The energetic blue vixen has made her mark at the Happy Vixen and a number of other clubs in Second Life. For anyone with the interest, equipment, and time, for DJing in the virtual world, she has written a guide, "How To DJ The DJ Tantari Way." She contacted the Newser, and submitted the guide to be published in several segments. Here, Tantari goes into details beyond the mechanics and becoming a full time DJ in Second Life.

Read the sixth part of Tantari's guide in Extra. 

Reader Submitted: "How To DJ The DJ Tantari Way - Chapter Three"

Tantari Kim has gotten quite a reputation for being a high-energy DJ. The energetic blue vixen has made her mark at the Happy Vixen and a number of other clubs in Second Life. For anyone with the interest, equipment, and time, for DJing in the virtual world, she has written a guide, "How To DJ The DJ Tantari Way." She contacted the Newser, and submitted the guide to be published in several segments.

Read the fifth part of Tantari's guide in Extra. 

Reader Submitted: "How To DJ The DJ Tantari Way - Chapter Two Part Two"

Tantari Kim has gotten quite a reputation for being a high-energy DJ. The energetic blue vixen has made her mark at the Happy Vixen and a number of other clubs in Second Life. For anyone with the interest, equipment, and time, for DJing in the virtual world, she has written a guide, "How To DJ The DJ Tantari Way." She contacted the Newser, and submitted the guide to be published in several segments.

Read the fourth part of Tantari's guide in Extra. 

Reader Submitted: "How To DJ The DJ Tantari Way - Chapter Two Part One"

Tantari Kim has gotten quite a reputation for being a high-energy DJ. The energetic blue vixen has made her mark at the Happy Vixen and a number of other clubs in Second Life. For anyone with the interest, equipment, and time, for DJing in the virtual world, she has written a guide, "How To DJ The DJ Tantari Way." She contacted the Newser, and submitted the guide to be published in several segments.

Read the third part of Tantari's guide in Extra. 

Reader Submitted: "How To DJ The DJ Tantari Way - Chapter One Part Two

Tantari Kim has gotten quite a reputation for being a high-energy DJ. The energetic blue vixen has made her mark at the Happy Vixen and a number of other clubs in Second Life. For anyone with the interest, equipment, and time, for DJing in the virtual world, she has written a guide, "How To DJ The DJ Tantari Way." She contacted the Newser, and submitted the guide to be published in several segments.

Read the second part of Tantari's guide in Extra. 

Reader Submitted: "How To DJ The DJ Tantari Way"

Tantari Kim has gotten quite a reputation for being a high-energy DJ. The energetic blue vixen has made her mark at the Happy Vixen and a number of other clubs in Second Life. For anyone with the interest, equipment, and time, for DJing in the virtual world, she has written a guide, "How To DJ The DJ Tantari Way." She contacted the Newser, and submitted the guide to be published in several segments.

Read the first part of Tantari's guide in Extra. 

Lumiere Noir, Creator of the Ivory Tower of Primitives, Dies

Most longtime residents, especially builders and scripters, know about the "Ivory Tower of Primitives." For those residents wanting to learn how to build and script at their own pace, this library if infor mation in the Natoma sim is the most well known and one of the best places to go to. The one behind this library of instructions and tutorials was Lumiere Noir, whom created the Tower very early in Second Life's history, possibly shortly after it's begining in 2003, and has since helped maintain it, with the help of Avi Arrow and Kennylex Luckless.

It has been recently revealed that the person behind the avatar Lumiere Noir has died, passing away on Monday August 10, 2015.

I chatted briefly with Kennylex, " I do not know so much about him personal, but he was the Founder of the Ivory Tower. ... He was the one and only that did build the tower I think." He explained the Tower wasn't originally built in Natoma, but "The first Tower was located in Noyo, It was a huge party here when the tower was moving here, it was a big event for the whole of Second Life."

Kennylex went on to say, "Natoma and The Ivory Tower was one of the first places I did come to in SL and the reason that I did stay so long."

Kennlylex pointed to an article in the "Not Possible in Real Life" blog. There in an interview with Bettina Tizzy, Lumiere identified himself as Vince Frost of Plano Texas, a teacher of English as a second Language. "I love to make things and I love to teach," Lumiere spoke when asked where the idea for the tower came from, "Making the tower was a natural thing for me as a teacher." He didn't like teaching inworld, so he created the tutorials.

Lennylex told me that Lumiere's avatar was active, but being used by a friend to make some adjustments to the tower. 



Torley Linden did a video about the Ivory Tower of Prims in May 2008 (link), "Its kind of like visiting a candy factory to see how your favorite sweets are made," came one of the comments. He also took a number of pictures in his Flickr (link).

Lumiere was known for appearing in a "Black Spy" avatar, of "Mad Magazine's" "Spy vs Spy" comics.

Hat Tip: Daniel Voyager

Bixyl Shuftan

SL Video: "Second Life Pony Avatar Tutorial - Canterlot Edition!"

From Fox Oxbar, "Here is an updated tutorial video on how to be a pony in Second Life. I start with the login screen, show what a new player would see after they first log in, show how to get to the pony area, and then show how to get the basics of a pony avatar set up. There's a short fly-though of the Canterlot server at the end, too (smile)."