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Grease Coakes recently sat down with one of the Newser's longtime friends, Nydia Tungsten. Nydia has made a name for herself in Second Life as a DJ. But there's a lot more to the little white vixen than just that, much more. Grease talked with her about a number of things she does on Second Life, from DJing, to her clubs, to her rental agency, and more.
Blogger Treminari Huet was going about the Second Life Ninth Birthday area when she encountered this build of Philip Linden's avatar. At first, it seemed like a simple statue. But she noted the head slowly moves, on occasion going slightly left or right.
Get out those poodle skirts, bobby socks and saddle shoes or the leather jackets, cuffed jeans and don those ducktails, we're headed back to the 50's! It's time for the 6th Annual Back to the 50's Weekend for Relay for Life! It's all happening June 22nd, 23rd and 24th, 2012.
Taken at Gracie Kendal's farewell bash to her "1000 Avatar Project." The "crab dance" is actually a gesture from who-knows-how-long-ago. But it's worth a chuckle.
The Blake Sea has been the location of some controversy. Groups of WW2 era ships have recently come to the waters, to the irritation of the sailing community that was already there. The result has been protests and counter-protests over the use of the ocean sims. Gemma Cleanslate got together with Howdy Colter to write about the dispute
Artée (Artistide Després) has primarily worked for the last 2 years on the creation of musical instruments with brilliant optical and acoustic effects, which have been frequently awarded. Parallel to the furthering of perfection of instruments, many important incidents occurred across the globe which are still changing the world: The bank crashes with the result of the worldwide Street Occupy Movement and the atomic accident at Fukushima. Both themes are already heavily influenced the previous works of Artée, but that did not prevent her from believing more and more in the ivory tower of the protected environment of her artistic world. The result is the current work "Huxley, Orwell & Ivory Towers."
We see around the centered instruments in the ivory tower several fields of worldwide misevaluation: Urbanisation, Totalitarianism, war and violence, misuse of financial power and pollution. Artée shows that our society loses freedom via new media and switches from Huxley’s social vision in “Brave new World” of dictatorship via Entertainment to Orwell’s vision in “1984” of a society under total control.
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Second Life's Ninth Birthday is here! And with it are a huge number of exhibits, as well as events inside and out of the SL9B regions. But by all means "The Birthday" is not the only show in town. The rest of the Grid continues to hold events, from the Flying Tigers' jet show to art shows. And of course our regularly scheduled live and DJ music events, story and poetry readings, science lectures, talk shows, and other happenings across the Grid.
Monday June 18th was the start of the Second Life Ninth Birthday, and it began with a commencement address. But this time it wasn't delivered by a Linden, but by a resident. Saffia Widdershins gave the address to an audience of four packed sims, thanking those who got the birthday started, and answering a question: "Why are you celebrating Second Life’s birthday, when Linden Lab can’t be bothered to?"
Sunday June 17th was Press Day at the Second Life Ninth Birthday area, and members of the media covering the Grid, bloggers, newsletter writers, video producers, and others, were invited to take a day-early look. There were also tours offered, one of which SL Newser managed to join up with.
Grey Lupindo was at the Virtual Museum of Architecture for another 50s-themed build-off contest. This time each of the contestants were asked to make a jukebox. It had to be more than just good but it had to play music too. Six good builders took part. And the winner's build was certainly worth dancing to.
But how about a game lasting ten years?
Taken at Loligagger Lane at a RFL benefit. The hot dogs are a little something "cooked up" by Crap Mariner.
It's Press Day in the SL9B area. So this means the building is done, and time for us in the media to start covering. Well, in some cases cover a little more. This picture by Zuzu Ritt shows the welcome area from above. For more pictures, check the SL9B Flickr.
