Lanai's Diary- Entry 4-12-2010 -My New Laptop Crisis, Media Withdrawals, Rehab and Gettin all Emotional.

Staff Reporter • Monday, April 12, 2010

Virtually speaking some really don't understand the stresses that occur behind the scene in building a virtual world media empire until they try squeezing their feet into my glass slippers and even then good luck making them fit. Many have walked away from the attempt of creating a virtual newspaper, magazine or blog within just months of launch due to time to invest, the fast paced nature and high demand situations we journalists, editors and publishers constantly place ourselves in.

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Lanai's Diary: Spring Has Arrived and Already Butterflies Tried to Take me Out FFS! ~Lanai Jarrico Reporting...

Sequence of events

Staff Reporter • Monday, March 29, 2010

Please use caution when doing your Spring decorating this season or something like this can happen to you too...

On Sunday while sprucing up the media center for Spring I decided to dig thru my inventory for some butterflies to add to the place.

Locating a mystery box simply named “BUTTERFLYS” I snatched it from inventory and drop it to the ground. All of a sudden a swarm of butterflies were forming a giant particle halo around the center...

Some butterflies had peace signs in there wings and others in a joyous colorful displays big and small.

Immediately I was overwhelmed and could no longer stand to see this or risk going into a virtual panic attack or worse some sort of graphics seizure the XBOX warns gamers about.

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SPOTLIGHT FEATURE: Model/Host-Manager Jovial Jewell Enjoys Her Second Life Helping Designers, Fashionistas, and Jazz Club Patrons -Ramon Federal Reporting...

Staff Reporter • Monday, March 29, 2010

In the Spotlight: Model/Host-Manager Jovial Jewell talks about her modeling work and being a Host-Manager at Bella Vida Velvet Jazz Lounge



Today’s SL Enquirer Spotlight falls on nearly-three year old avatar Jovial Jewell, who spoke this afternoon/evening with SLE staff reporter Ramon Federal about her two SL careers, one as a high-fashion model and one as Host-Manager of Bella Vida Velvet Jazz Lounge.

Jovial, who sat for her interview in a flowing white dress, was trained by Ewing Modeling School, where she “learned…about styling my outfits and how to walk the runway,” and has also been an instructor there. “I have been in many shows for designers like Chez Gabrielle and Fierce Designs. Also Hotlala Designs.” 

Being a model in Second Life is very satisfying for Jovial. Asked what she likes best about the work, she said, “I love the fashion industry, love the fashion industry. I've always wanted to be a model in RL, so this lets me live that out a bit.” She also mentioned that she usually gets to keep the clothes she models, no small perk when working for the designers she has.

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SPOTLIGHT FEATURE: SPOTLIGHT ON DAVE GRAN- Lanai Jarrico Reporting...

Staff Reporter • Monday, March 29, 2010

"The Gran Way"
Recently I was approached by an avatar named Dave Gran who claims he has worked closely with the Lindens and many of SL's top designers & Businesses across the grid since 2003. Not knowing much about such an accomplished avie my question was as good as anybody's so we decided to meet up later on that evening where I blindly went into the interview with a blank notepad and a puzzled look. so... Who is Dave Gran?
  

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SPOTLIGHT FEATURE: PrimSavers - Lacy Muircastle Reporting ...

PrimSavers – You only live Twice!

Primsavers has an extensive range of furniture and other home decor ideas, all of which are designed specifically with prim count in mind. PrimSavers strives for exquisite quality and extremely low prim count.
Floyd Mistwalker of PrimSavers is a master magician when it comes to manipulating the use of prims. In fact he has it down to a fine art!

Alright, let's understand what we have here.

What we have is Floyd Mistwalker having tortured the prim to within an inch of its existence and magically conjured up entire sets of furniture using the absolutely bare minimum in prims and in many cases no more than just 1 prim!

He only ever uses the best poses (no static freebie poses for him) in all his furniture. You are always offered multiple texture options in order to fit in with any decor scheme.  

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M Linden Speaks at Gallery Opening of His “Doodle Art”- Ramon Federal Reporting...

Staff Reporter • Monday, March 29, 2010

M Linden (Linden Labs CEO Mark Kingdon) inaugurates a virtual exhibit of his “doodle art” at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery on the University of West Australia campus



The toast of Second Life society turned out at 3 pm SLT on Saturday afternoon, March 27, 2010, to attend the opening at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery on the University of West Australia campus of the SL exhibition of “doodle art” by M Linden, also known as Mark Kingdon, CEO of Linden Labs. This Second Life event took place in conjunction with the opening one day earlier, in RL, of a similar exhibition at the actual University of West Australia. 

http://slurl.com/secondlife/WASP%20Land/204/217/28

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SPOTLIGHT FEATURE: An Interview with Olivia Isabella and Grizel Halberstadt at Olivia's Playground and Sinema- Ramon Federal Reporting...

Staff Reporter • Monday, March 15, 2010

Olivia Isabella and Grizel Halberstadt talk about the origins and operation of Olivia’s Playhouse & Sinema



 Olivia Isabella and Grizel Halberstadt, co-owners of Olivia’s Playhouse and Sinema, talk about how they built their sex club sim and why they think it’s the best one in Second Life.

Second Life Enquirer sat down in the spartan office of Olivia Isabella and co-owner Grizel Halberstadt at Olivia’s Playhouse and Sinema on March 11, 2010, a little after 6 pm Linden Time to talk about the origins and operations of this well-known sex club.

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Griefer Report- New Hall of Shame Inductee- Shay Sandalwood- Lanai Jarrico Reporting

3-5-2010- While minding my own business and trying to get my pop lock and drop on at Club Empire. Some Random chick rolls up on me swinging and droppin the B word on me for no apparent reason So without further adue---presenting Newest Hall of Shame inductee.....Shay Sandalwood. ~L.J

SPA DUM TAH!

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Griefer Report- 3-5-2010- Drama gone wild- Hall of Shame Inductee JaTorya Python

ROUND 2 DING!!!! !DING!!!!!! DING!!!!!!

After Posting Shay Sandalwood's Griefer Report I recieved a random friend invite from this person trying to strum up so more drama and here's how it went down....

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News in a Nutshell- Lanai Jarrico Reporting... (OLD ARCHIVES)

Staff Reporter • Wednesday, March 03, 2010

From Tigers Public apology, natural disaster and the Winter Olympics games Our real world news outlets are all tied up in sports, entertainment and world drama at the moment.

It's an interesting place to be caught in between keeping up to date with local news and the news generated by avatars in a virtual world but decided since I get news leads popping up all the time from residents of Second Life about this and that I figured I'd sum it all up into a news Nutshell....

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