I’m lazy cause I’m busy :)

Until recently I was making sure that every night I alternated between posting a picture to Flickr, and writing a new post here – so that I was consistently contributing to both. Flickr’s right pissing me off lately because it’s removed almost every favourite I’ve ever had added to my pictures, which is an annoying [...]

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Re re-managing Crown & Pearl

A month ago – on the new year’s day as everyone else was celebrating the start of 2009, I was announcing to the owners of Crown & Pearl that I was standing down as manager of their bar. Now, a month later – a month full of new experiences, skills and jobs – I asked [...]

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People-Auction to raise funds for Cancer Research UK, at C2P

On February 8th, at 1pm SLT, Crown & Pearl is auctioning off “dates” to raise funds for Cancer Research UK. It will be a large event so we’ll shift down to the new club – C2P – at Angel Square for it. Make sure you’re a member of the Crown & Pearl group in-world to [...]

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Chim Love

I have a very vivid memory of being given a free chimera (“chim”) at a Second Life club one night. Maybe it stuck in my mind because the club had railway tracks running straight through it with regular train crashes, which was very disconcerting the first time it happened! But the stronger aspect that stuck [...]

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Gallery of Light #4: Fear

Here is my picture for the 4th theme at the Gallery of Light: Fear.
I struggled at first with deciding on the concept I wanted to represent, but I soon decided on at least something I didn’t want to do. I didn’t want to do a “fear OF” something. I wanted to represent either fear itself [...]

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The Best Day in SL… Ever

Today embodied everything that makes my SL great. There were so many good things I barely know where to start. Let’s start with the event itself, that’s the easy way to do this.
Today my works, displayed in Raise Hall at Twilight Gallery, were opened for public viewing (see my earlier post if you want more details about the [...]

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Gallery of Light #2: Self

My second entry for the Gallery of Light on Angel Square. The theme is “yourself”. I had grand plans for this picture, but not the skills yet to get them from my head to the screen. I did though learn a few new tricks in the hope I’d get there, which was worthy.
This specific picture [...]

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The Politics of Friends’ Tabs

Within every SL profile is a section called “Picks”. This primarily exists for you to add your favourite places, so other people and you yourself can easily tansport to them. But it’s very common pratice for people to turn them into picks where they advertise their services, or far more commonly, their friends - the much dreaded, [...]

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Avatar Association: Beginnings

One of the most wonderful, interesting, and at times frightening things, about SL, is how closely most people end up associating with their avatars. I have a lot to say about this so I’m suspecting it’s going to end up being done in multiple posts.
I associate strongly with Landsend (or “Lands” as I refer to [...]

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Phoenix

The concept of the Phoenix has always fascinated me, the resurrection from the destructive element of fire is such a meaningful and complex idea. SL allows you to be a phoenix of sorts – you stuff up, you can go out in a blaze of glory if ya like and just start under a new [...]

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