Cartoon of The Day: When The DJ's A Dragon

 

 Taken at Club Cutlass's Heavy Metal Night. Among the DJs at the club is DJ Geerkil, who usually shows up in a full-sized dragon avatar who either has to sit beside the music booth, or stand on the retractable roof. Needless to say, things could get a bit heavy for those underneath if it failed.

 

By Bixyl Shuftan 

Cartoon of the Day

 From Studio 86 in Montecito Bay

By Bixyl Shuftan

The Petrovsky Flux Is Gone

In 2013, the Newser reported on an LEA exhibit called the Bogon Flux, described as, "a scrap-metal steampunk structure that defies gravity." Enterable from the bottom, the structure was a series of hollow metalic-looking tubes that connected to junctions that led to other tubes, windows, and occasionally a fishtank or metallic hand. The structure was not static, but would slowly build itself up to resembling a huge metallic tree, and every so often would collapse and the process of building would start all over again.

Created by Blotto Epsilon, later he and Cutea Benelli would create an even greater build: the Petrovsky Flux. "There are five independent structures that grow among each other, each with different boundaries." He would tell Hamlet Au in a New World Notes article, "the highest goes up to about 350 meters, I think." The build was hosted by the Spencer Art Museum sim, which is owned by the gallery of the same name in the real life University of Kansas.

But unfortunately, the build is no longer up. It seems after years of funding the sim, the University made the decision to stop paying for it, and eventually the sim faded away. Cutea Benelli made the announcement on Facebook, "After five years the Spencer Museum of Art could no longer host the Petrovsky Flux, alas. We were arrears in paying tier and the plug was yanked."



A sad development for interactive art lovers. Perhaps the structure will find a new home, or Linden Lab would be willing to host it. until then, it can be seen only in pictures or videos such as the one made by the Spencer Art Museum itself, or a particularly good one by Toxic Menges.

Source: New World Notes

Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of the Day

Taken at a "Robots and Battlesuits" event at "The Vinyl"

By Bixyl Shuftan

Bogon Flux

 In the LEA20 sim, there's a build by Blotto Epsilon called "Bogon Flux."

The Linden Lab Destination Guide described the structure as "a scrap-metal steampunk structure that defies gravity." It certainly looks flimsy, standing on two clawed metal feet which are resting on a couple women's pink bicycles. Next to a metal gangplank up to the build, a sign invites people to take a crash helmet. There's also a sign which is supposed to how to describe going about while inside. On the ground is a small book that provides a little story about how the Bogon Flux came to be.

Once inside, one will find tubes going around in a few directions. One can either fly up them, or touch the rim to "sit" on the tube and be taken up to the junction where it leads to. Some directions have a window or some other feature like a fishtank or a giant hand instead of a tube. As you go up, some tubes will take you back down, and there are occasional dead ends as you reach one end of the Flux.

The Destitation Guide tells you to "Beware of falling parts." And indeed every 25 minutes the structure comes apart and anyone inside drops to the ground, or water.  The Flux then reassembles itself, but in a random new pattern. Chances are, you won't find it the same way twice.

Around the Flux are eyeball-like things, some flying around via propellers. There was also some other junk flying around and a small shack in the air just big enough for a couple chairs and a table, with a small ladder leading up to it.

The Bogon Flux is at LEA20 (80, 85, 28)

Bixyl Shuftan

Sunday Cartoon

By Bixyl Shuftan