Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Wolf Leaps Forward

 When a grid migrates its servers to a new rl location, it's often quite a tricky process. Just the words 'grid migration' have your average opensim resident shaking in their thigh length boots, admit it.
But that's not always the case... sometimes it can go as smooth as a silk, or the silky fur of a Wolf...
That was the case today, when Wolf Territories Grid announced they have moved their

Saturday, March 23, 2024

Littlefield Eleven

Littlefield Grid turns 11 years old as an independent grid and they're celebrating!
From Nasa to Firestorm, Littlefield Grid is celebrating the past and the future
There's a special Anniversary region on the grid where many of the grid's residents have set up displays that illustrate the range of builds that you can visit here. There's also a gallery that explains the history of Stonehaven, from the days of SL onwards.

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Egg Static

Hunting easter eggs - it's your classic springtime activity, and once again Nani Ferguson and Ange Menges have been working on a delightful storybook build that, as usual, will be open right around the holiday weekend, and then gone for good. 
The build is, of course, not yet open - hey Easter isn't until the end of the month! 
This sneak peek gives you an idea of the charming style of the region, called Dhoglin, and located on OSGrid. 
The regular Safari tours are on a break, but there will be a special event for hunt lovers, at the usual time, 12 noon SLT or 9pm in Europe, on Wednesday 3 April, if you want to come and join in the fun!

Friday, March 8, 2024

IDD - Great Idea

 This photograph was blatantly stolen in the night from Zoree Jupiter, there, I said it. 
And what a night it was! 
A night of 30 minute music sets on a special region AMV International,  showcasing singers from around the world, and celebrating the vibrant and fascinating multicultural community we're all part of. 
 The celebration of all things international is of course in the air with the HIE event coming up in April 19-21. HIE is a sort of opensim convention, with a big but simple Expo 

Thursday, March 7, 2024

Safari meets its Speculoos

So this was it, the final mass gridjump of crazy Safarians from SharingIsCaring to Speculoos. This Belgian-but-a-bit-caribbean-with-a-side of welsh grid has some idiosyncrasies, in particular when it comes to Inv and Lms, making it a little bit of a challenge to reach, but perhaps we needed to stretch our ingenuity muscles. And it was certainly worth it to see one of the most unusual builds in opensim, Brussels' famous Grand Place flooded and turned into a tropical beach. Global warming, anyone?
arriving in Grand Place
Tosha Tyran: Hi everybody.... wipes her forehead.... it really was a fight to get here :D
Thirza Ember: teleport totem! I think everyone made it however!
Lavia Lavine: Hail hail the gang's all here.
Andron Rae: woo beach party , lol :)
Thirza Ember: we are all here Gudule!

The Journey of Pat Babii

The final meetup of this first season of 2024 took us to a brand new grid tor the HG Safari and the tourists were out in force to visit SharingIsCaring grid, and discover some lovely and thought provoking art. The full HG Address is, you guessed it, at the end of the post.
Pat Babii: Welcome to the Gavezdois Virtual Museum. 
lifted pixel: Thank you for having us Pat! :D
Pat Babii: My oldest avatar on Opensim is already 11 years and many months old, and in SL, where the surname Babii came from, the avatar has existed for 17 years. The person who gives life to these avatars is Brazilian by birth and Portuguese by adoption, and I spent most of my life in Sintra, Portugal. I don't say much more than this about my RL. This museum, which was once a museum exclusively with exhibitions of classical art, is now set up more like an art gallery than a museum.
Pat Babii outside her SharingisCaring gallery
Pat Babii: What is on display now is a current type of art, composed exclusively of images made by Artificial Intelligence software called Midjourney. To obtain images in this software, the user needs to describe in text what they want to be in the image, which may vary in styles, reference artists, materials, eras, colors, etc. The options are endless

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Cornflakes in Bloom

The second half of an uproarious, imaginative, and musical Cornflakes Week party was on Winxtropia! A big shout out to everyone who makes the effort (and it's not always easy, as we're all busy people) to honor the event with their great costumes, and by showing up and being part of the fun! But most of all, of course, to our hosts who do so much work behind the scenes, it's crazy. Here we are arriving on Crescent Melody, Winxtropia, among the incredible instruments that play such a vital part to the event.
Jupiter Rowland: Finally I get to see this sim on a decently powered machine.
Bloom Peters:  hehe i love all the cool new avatars to see
Lavia Lavine: ...she said I reminded her of a bag of Wonder Bread
Bloom Peters: Angelic with a cool avatar too, very unique
Lavia Lavine: So I guess I'll just loaf around.
Farstar Enoch: hehe
Star Ravenhurst: Angel always looks amazing

Cornflakes on Neverworld

Cornflakes Week comes round once a year, and it's a great opportunity to show off your imaginative side in a uniquely Opensim way. This year, as usual, the Safari celebrated the week long event with our Wednesday tour split into two halves, with our first party destination on Neverworld Grid. 
Never Plaza... the calm before the storm.
Be ready to be amazed by what the Neverworldians pulled out of their corny inventories...
But first, a shout out to everyone who dressed up! Lots of cornflake hats, plus Angelic Kisses rocking an Alpha Tribe outfit by Felix Ringtail, Lavia Lavine and four-legged friend sporting spots, Roff clowning it,  James in a vintage carpetman avie with lit-up face, Forest ant-itified, while a colorfully ringed lifted pixel took to the corny dancefloor, as she prepared to livestream the event. 

Thursday, February 22, 2024

Atlas TV

We arrived, all of  group, on a wintry welcome region of the Francophone grid, Atlas. It was our second destination for this week, and the tech talk portion of our adventure. Home to Harthelie, Chip and Jeff, it's a grid where ancient architecture hints at supernatural powers...
Cherry Manga: wow both are working, inworld Voice and Mumble, my brain explodes :)
LadyKa 007: lol, Cherry, ou alors, tu entends des voix
Cherry Manga: that's magic! wizardry
Jeff Kelley: Welcome back to Atlas, the grid with technology. Harth, Chip and Jeff are your hosts. We have two topics tonight: A hot one : Mumble (15 minutes). A visit to our new TV studio (40 minutes).
Star Ravenhurst: *-* YeSS! *-*
James Atlloud: ! very nice
Jeff Kelley: There is an extensive coverage of Mumble by Snowbody Cortes here I, at some point, mentioned online that we had a fallback Mumble solution in case Vivox pulls the plug or suffers an outage, which happened weeks ago. Thirza popped and asked me to talk about it. It is a minimalistic Mumble integration. A two-step process : First, click the panel and proceed to the web page. Then click the offered link.  If the Mumble client is installed on your computer, you are now connected to the Mumble channel for this region with your avatar's name.
Jeff Kelley: I see many of you has joined This is not a replacement for a fully-integrated solution which, by the way, had existed in the past (2011) but broke thanks to the smart concept of hardware/OSes/APIs/libraries/everything-obsolete next year. See here Ange Menges' blog from 2011
Akata Ocean: Bonsoir tlm
Jeff Kelley: I shut up for now to give you a chance to try / ask questions.
thirza ember: was it simple to convince atlas people to join Mumble Jeff?
Jeff Kelley: they love it
LadyKa 007: Not only Atlas people ! lol, I have it too

Once in a Blue Moon

The Blue Wave Club is an old soul in opensim, and it carries its memories lightly, with long friendships.  The club is located under a pyramid that gives the sim its name, and under the sim water, that gives an unearthly light to the dancefloor. 
Unlike so many clubs which are as huge as aircraft hangars, making the dancing public seem like ants, this is an intimate, primmy, colorful space, with that warm, lived-in feel to it. Full HG Address at the end of the post, as always.
Cherry Manga: hello!
Elamanu Pastorelli: hi all
Samira Samtanko: hello all  welcome to the  Midweek Party