I’ve been mostly retired as a virtual world reporter for about a decade, but Hyancinth Jean’s party last night in her Groovyverse grid inspired me to consider coming out of retirement. If you haven’t visited Groovyverse, you can hop on over there on the Hypergrid at groovyverse.com:8002. If there was any doubt that OpenSim avatars can be good looking, the assortment of good looking avatars dancing in the snow last night proved that it’s possible.
Hyacinth’s created a fascinating and growing world. It’s the only grid anywhere that I’m aware of where avatars can take a train ride to explore large swathes of it. I’m sure I’ll be posting more about it.
“Dont Panic” is the name of one of the five sims in Burn2. Here are photographs of a few of the builds you can see there. This is not a complete list. It’s just a few of the builds you can see there. Click any photo to see an enlargement.
The Temple is the site of daily dancing led by Lamplighters today, tomorrow, and Friday at noon and 6pm SLT. On Sunday evening, the Burn2 festival will conclude with the burning of the Temple. You’ll find the Sensor on the second floor. If you have any prayers for departed loved ones or any other special thoughts, you can leave them in the Sensor and the will be read ou while the Temple burns on Sunday. This is a tradition that’s been followed in the Temple for nearly two decades.
Built by Daark Gothly, it’s beating heart is a human dimension to the I, Robot theme of the festival.
I’ve been too busy this week to write, so here are some photos of the Temple in this week’s Burn2 (Burning Man in Second Life).
If you do only one thing at Burn2 this week, be sure to come and dance with the Lamplighters at the Temple (full disclosure: I am a Lamplighter Elder). Lamplighters leave Lamplighter Village in a procession at about noon and 6pm SLT (Second Life Time) today, Thursday, and Friday and arrive at the Temple about 15 minutes later. You can teleport to Lamplighter Village at maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Burning Man- Deep Hole/140/128/25 and you can teleport to the Temple at maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Burning Man- Dont Panic/167/95/25
The Temple is the spiritual heart of Burn2. A tradition there for nearly two decades has been for people to leave special thoughts in the Sensor, such as prayers for people in their lives they have lost. On Sunday, the last day of Burn2, the prayers and thoughts will be read aloud as the Temple burns to the ground to end the festival. The Sensor is on the Temple’s second floor.
Lamplighter procession leaving Lamplighter Village on way to the Temple
The Temple, created by Daark Gothly
Dancing at the Temple – everyone is welcome to join in
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Attendance at this year’s Second Life Community convention is much less than I expected. The last time I attended one, in 2009, halls were crowded with SL residents conversing and the Grand Ballroom was packed. This year there are a lot fewer of us. It’s disappointing that I’ve only met two people so far who I know in SL, but the two breakout sessions I’ve attended so far, portrait photography and a basic mesh tutorial, have been excellent.
