BOSL September Issue is Out! Check it out.

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Record an SL's 10th Birthday Message! Here's How. Deadline June 9th @ midnight

Second Life is about to celebrate its tenth birthday and SL artist, Dizzy Banjo, is offering residents the chance to wish our lovely virtual world a very special birthday message.

Dizzy Banjo has been creating art and sound installations in SL for many years, and 5 years ago he created the ‘Message in a Bottle’ installation using the pre-recorded voices of SL residents.

This year, he needs the help of the SL community again to make a similar project.

You can record your message anonymously and it is very simple to do!


WHAT WAS THIS MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE THING?

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Ascension: A multimedia LEA sim by Mantis Oh- Persia Bravin Reporting...

Set in an ancient/futuristic landscape with surreal plants and hybrid insects, Ascension takes the visitor on a trip of sound, color and light.

Explore the seven levels of the Ascension tower and lose yourself in a mysterious world where musical notes appear from under your feet, where robotic bumblebees hover close by and where particles shimmer in the alien atmosphere.

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Area 54: The Future of Second Life Clubbing- Launching on Saturday April 6th @ 3pm SLT

By mixing up multimedia such as sound, video and graphics plus dual streaming of music in both second and real life, the new ‘Area 54’ club, built and conceptualized by artist Thoth Jantzen, is paving the way for a whole new type of virtual clubbing experience.

Launching on Saturday April 6^th, at 3-7PM SLT (PDT) with a live DJ set courtesy of acclaimed Techno DJ and Producer, Cari Lekebusch (Mantis Oh in SL) and Gragee  Pikanen (GraGee Piek in SL), Area 54 is the most immersive mixed reality venue on the grid.

“Area 54 is a legal way to damage your mind without the physical harm to your brain chemicals can cause and almost no risk of incarceration!” exclaims Thoth Jantzen, describing the intense visuals at the club. “Plus, it will be streamed live across the internet, so you could become famous!”

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Oxjam Music Party Weekend - 26th/27th/28th October 2012

 

 

A whole weekend of cool clubbing, parties and sets from the very best House music DJ’s is helping to raise money for real life charity Oxfam.

This SL event is part of the month long ‘Oxjam’music festival which hosts hundreds of live music events in real life to help fund the projects Oxfam carry out across the world.

If you love clubbing in SL and want to hear performances by the best DJ’s from the House music scene today – then you will love the Oxjam Music Party!

SL Destination Guide:

http://secondlife.com/destination/oxjam-music-party

RL Oxjam Website:

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/Oxjam

 

Oxjam! Artist Performance Timetable October 26^th, 27th & 28^th2012

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Happy 4th Rez Day Persia Bravin - Lanai Jarrico

Lanai and Persia taking on King Kong in October, 2009.

Dear Persia,

Since we met and worked together, I knew you would continue to be a driving force in virtual world media.  You are a great leader in all that you do and I'm so proud of your accomplishments and continued contribution to the Second Life community .

 Beauty, knowledge and experience being some of your best qualities, you have a great sense of humor and all around great person to know.  I can ramble on about all the adventures we got into through the years, from going to concets and events to witnessing you slapping the bujesus out of Philip Linden by accident.  In 7 years, that was one of the most  memorable moments I had. Thank you for that. You truly are like a virtual sister and a riot to know .  I wish you a Happy 4th Rez day and many more great years ahead.  BTW Welcome to the Cougar club! After 4 years you will begin to question if you are a virtual world junkie or an expert...

Opps 4th!

 Cheers!

xoxo Lanai

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PRESS RELEASE: MENstuff FASHION HUNT: Fashion conscious men of Second Life? The hunt is on…..

Starting on Friday 3rd June, Second Life ™ will see the largest and most exciting fashion and accessories hunt ever designed exclusively for male residents.
With over 150 of the grids top designers participating, this hunt will offer high quality free items designed for the fashion conscious man, so guys get ready for some cool new looks for the hot summer months!

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The Greatest Gift- Persia Bravin Reporting...

Staff Reporter • Saturday, November 06, 2010

Big hearted musicians in Second Life have turned into Santa’s little helpers, helping to raise funds for scores of underprivileged children this Christmas.

Christmas comes but once a year and this yuletide, the generous music community of Second Life are hoping their incredible talents and combined hard work will help put a smile on the faces of thousands of children in dire real life situations. A dazzling new Christmas themed CD featuring the work of over sixty SL based musicians is due to be launched on November 1st with 100% of the proceeds being donated to the venerable ‘Toys for Tots Foundation’ which was conceived back in 1947 by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. Over the past 63 years, it has managed to raise funds to purchase a staggering 81.3 million toys valued at more than $487 million and given joy to countless generations of children from impoverished families or those living in care. This is actually the second year that this CD has been produced in world, but the organisers are optimistic that this year, they can break last year’s record of 1062 CD's sold and 1.6 million Lindens raised for this worthwhile cause. 

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FASHION - Fashion With Compassion- The Black and Blue Fair runs until July 4th and a new fair called ‘The Summer of Love’ opens on July 18th- Persia Bravin Reporting...

Staff Reporter • Monday, June 28, 2010

Fashion with Compassion


For most of us, fashion offers us a chance for self expression-and a little fun. Clothes reflect our mood, attitude to life and how we want to be perceived by others and there’s no greater thrill than a lengthy shopping spree to lift the spirits and make the day seem just that little bit brighter. Even in Second Life, ask any woman how she likes to spend her free time and well earned Linden Dollars and chances are, her answer will be a full on assault of the grids finest boutiques. But for one woman, Second Life fashion provides more than a fun diversion; for her it is a vehicle of positive change and a tool to highlight awareness of some very real life issues that can affect any of us at any time in our lives. 

Keira Seerose is a self confessed fashion lover, but a debilitating health problem means that in real life, she doesn’t get many opportunities to indulge in her passion. Keira suffers from acute social anxiety disorder, a condition which leaves people anxious in social situations and can strike without warning in either childhood or as an adult. While most people in her situation would hide away, Kiera decided to use the fashion world of Second Life as a platform to highlight mental and emotional illness-a subject that even now, can be taboo despite an estimated 450 million people suffering from some form of mental health issue worldwide. Moved by these statistics, Keira decided to launch ‘The Black and Blue Fair’ a fashion event organised in partnership with some of the grids top designers to help raise awareness-not funds-and to encourage SL residents to think about mental health issues in a new light.

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MOOLTO.COM SPOTLIGHTS LANAI JARRICO JUNE 2010 - Persia Bravin Reporting...

Image of Lanai Jarrico taken by Mina Pelazzi

Staff Reporter • Thursday, June 03, 2010

It seems a bit presumptuous to call someone an ‘old timer’ when they are a mere 32 years young and extremely beautiful their real life, but Lanai Jarrico is one of the original pioneers of the now vast Second Life media circuit. She’s just celebrated her fifth rezz day which coincides with the fifth birthday of her long running and much loved newspaper ‘The Second Life Enquirer’ which she brought to SL after its initial conception in another virtual world.

Each week over the past five years, ‘The Second Life Enquirer’ has reported on all aspects of SL and the numerous activities of its millions of residents ;consistently building a solid reputation as the paper that is always first with breaking news. In its long history, SLE (as it’s known affectionately by all its readers) has reported on both the humorous-and tragic, and has also been responsible for some serious investigations into the more shady side of our virtual community, helping to expose real life criminals and griefers alike.

READ MORE @ MOOLTO.COM 

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SPOTLIGHT FEATURE: Steve Beck- The Model Maker- Persia Bravin Reporting...

Monday, May 17, 2010-

Ask any woman in Second Life what her most treasured possession held in inventory is and chances are it won’t be the extensive collection of shoes, love letters from ardent suitors or even special photographs, but something far more basic, yet central to a woman’s identity-her shape.

In our virtual world, the shape you choose to wear gives reveals vital clues about our real life tastes far more than any other accessory. It is ultimately what defines how others see us, reflecting how we want to appear in our pixilated world. There are thousands of shape designers in Second Life and as a keen social observer (ok-nosy journalist) I can now enter a room and after a quick scan, match shapes to designers in seconds. While the majority of shape makers stick to producing wave upon wave of standardized variants on your typical ‘model’ silhouette, one man has very cleverly, used real life scientific research into what constitutes classical ‘beauty’ and transferred it into SL to produce a breathtakingly beautiful selection of shapes.

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