From Friday April 22, the recording of the Lab Gab at 9AM with Strawberry Linden interviewing Boston Blaisdale, "a popular YouTuber that has been creating informative Second Life
Tutorials and fun shopping and fashion related videos for over a year."
Strawberry admitted to being something of a fangirl "I love your work." Boston described himself as first joining Second Life 13 years ago after seeing an article on Reuters about it, taking a group of other real-life friends into doing so as well, relaxing at clubs inworld after dealing with exams. After a couple years, phased out SL until about 2020 when he returned after a breakup. Despite a rude welcome back by a couple trolls, he persisted, updating his avatar, spending "an obscene amount of time" in stores. He would ask others where they got their avatars and accessories, and discovered different creators. He would start blogging and posting on Flickr, and eventually started getting a following on the latter. After a few weeks, he decided to start to create videos to share some of the things he learned.
At the end of the interview, following a few questions on what he did to relax, Strawberry invited him for a dance, which made for some interesting moves, "If I tried this in real life, I would dislocate my shoulder."
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.
The other day, I dropped by our sponsor, M&M Creations. For years, they have offered quality content for sale, using sculpted prims. Since 2011, they've been offering mesh items.
In the past, 10 and Marcthur Gooson offered classes for those interested in learning how to build. Although they no longer offer the classes themselves, they still offer tutorials.
The largest of the feature items were the builder packs. The largest was the castle, made of 76 modular building parts.
Scripted, the doors made a loud creaking noise when opened. Quaint in the daytime, but at night, it would probably have an air of eerie spookiness.
The price for the castle building packs was 5500 Lindens for full perm, 3500 for just copy/modify.
Stairs allow one to get to the top of the tower areas.
The "Cottage Ma Mason," a rustic cottage set in a rocky hill, which is slightly more expensive than the castle, at 9500 Lindens for full perm, 3800 for just copy/modify.
M&M Creations, with years of building experience behind them, your place for quality builds. and buildings.
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