A Visit to Laurel Arts Isle on Designing Worlds

Saffia and Elrik tour the Ancient-Egypt themed Laurel Arts Isle, where Circe Broom has created extensive multiple music stages in a beautiful Ancient Egyptian environment with the help of her colleagues. It includes the longest-running music venue in Second Life, which has been operating for over eight years.

A Visit to Laurel Arts Isle on Designing Worlds, posted with vodpod

They learn that sadly, the venues may have to close in the near future due to the costs involved, unless they receive additional financial support from patrons. Regrettably, therefore, this show may represent another “Last Chance To See”.

If you’d like to visit Laurel Arts Isle, This link will take you to the Sunset Jazz Club (in the sky), and this will take you to the ground level entry. Find out about some of the musical events and, if you can, support Laurel Arts Isle!

Laurel Arts Isle: Sunset Jazz Club

SUYS – the choice is ours (part 2)

Welcome to the second weekend of the January SUYS event! This month’s theme is ‘Designer’s Choice’ and it’s totally up to our designers to make whatever their hearts desire!

Our designers for this week’s SUYS are:

*Art Dummy! [SLurl]
Croire [SLurl]
Fucifino [SLurl]
Funky Junk [SLurl]
La’Licious Designs [SLurl]
LISP Bazaar [SLurl]
Organica [SLurl]
Trompe Loeil [SLurl]

Remember – everything released for SUYS is just $150L or less, but only for this weekend!

You can see pics of all the SUYS items over on our Flickr page and be sure to join the in-world Spruce Up Your Space group to get the SUYS notices, LMs, etc!

It officially starts at 9AM SLT this morning, January 28 – enjoy!

Happy Hunting! is filming today!

Happy Hunting! logo

We’re back in the studio today to film the next episode of Happy Hunting! at 3pm today, Friday 27th January 2012. We’ll be in our super set in the Designing Worlds studio on Garden of Dreams2 – and you can join our live audience to be a part of it!

Our guest in the studio will be Xandra Bressig of Sour Pickles Hunts , who is currently running the Frumpy Furniture Hunt, which runs to January 31st. But for this show, which is broadcast on February 3rd, she’ll be talking about her next Hunt – the Shining Star Hunt, which runs from February 1st – 29th … and features over 50 stores!

Shining Star Hunt

The theme of the Hunt is what you would see in a celebrity’s house and Xandra tells us to keep in mind this can be furniture, decor, clothes, ANYTHING!

In addition, Frequency Picnic, our hunt reporter, will be on hand with all the latest hunt news, and some examples of the wonderful items she’s found. And she and Cinders will be discussing an important issue – how to hunt … and keep your inventory under control at the same time!

And, of course, we’ll be bringing you the details of the winner of our Where in the World is MarkTwain White? competition! Did you find the place where the gnome was hiding? We’ll be revealing the location – and naming the lucky winner!

And there will be a special mini-hunt available only for our live audience!

So do come and join us at 3pm today- and if possible, get here a little early to be sure of getting a seat!

Do you have Valentine News for Prim Perfect?

This is your chance to submit news for Prim Perfect’s Valentines issue, which will be out shortly – at the moment we are looking for news stories to feature in our popular News from the Grid feature.

If you have a news story to share about your store or your sim, you can use the special Prim Perfect news service, to submit your news story directly to the magazine.

All you have to do is to go to www.primperfect.net/news_form.html and complete the simple form. If you want an image included, send it to primperfect@gmail.com.

To appear in our next edition, we must receive your news story by 1 am SLT, Saturday 28th January, 2012.

The news story may also appear on this blog, especially if the story concerns, for example, the kind of time-defined event we like to cover – a special store promotion, or a charity concert.

So what are you waiting for? Send your news to us – and see it in print very soon!

Designing Worlds visits Laurel Arts Isle

Join us at 2pm SLT today, Monday 23rd January, at our beautiful studio in Garden of Dreams2 for the second show of our new season as we explore the beautiful Laurel Arts Isle, created by Circe Broom.

Laurel Arts Isle: Sunset Jazz Club

And, sadly, this might be one of the last chances to see the magnificent Isle. You can find out why in today’s programme.

On the show, we explore with Circe and Vince Merrick the different stage areas including the Luxor and Memphis stages, and the Cairo Theatre – and we also visit the well-known Sunset Jazz Club as well as seeing the area where popular poetry and story-telling sessions take place.

And we also discuss changes in Second Life that are causing areas like Laurel Arts Isle to close.

Laurel Arts Isle: Memphis Stage

We will be screening this show in our studio, designed by Kayle Matzerath, on Garden of Dreams2. Do come and join us there at 2pm!

Or – if you can’t attend in person – tune in at 2pm SLT on Monday for the live show on http://treet.tv/live – where you can now chat with other audience members and even some of the participants during the show – or catch it later in the week on our shows page on the Treet.tv web site at http://treet.tv/shows/designingworlds- our very own version of the iPlayer!

Learn all about the TNT Cabin Fever & Bookworm Hunts & the Whiz Glam Hunt with Happy Hunting!

The new season of Happy Hunting! starts here!

The guests on this opening show are mariposaroja Resident of -TDT- Hunts who is running the Cabin Fever Hunt ( which runs from January 1st to 31st) and the Book Worm Hunt (which runs from January 15th to February 15th), and Winona Wiefel of the The Whiz – A Whizical Glam Hunt (which runs from January 5th to 31st).

Learn all about the TNT Cabin Fever & Bookworm …, posted with vodpod

Mariposaroja joins us in the studio, while we travel to the Whiz headquarters to find out all about the Glam Hunt – and a very special associated Quest.

Our reporter Frequency Picnic had lots of news about hunts currently going on - you can see all the details here.

Our next taping will be on January 27th at 3pm PST. Come on over and be in the studio audience for that too. Happy Hunting to you all!

SUYS – the choice is ours! (part 1)

Welcome to the first weekend of the January SUYS event! This month’s theme is ’Designer’s Choice’ and it’s totally up to our designers to make whatever their hearts desire!

Our designers for this week’s SUYS are:

Ambiance [SLurl]
Cheeky Pea [SLurl]
Cleo Designs [SLurl]
Little Boxes [SLurl]
MudHoney [SLurl]
Second Spaces [SLurl]
{what next} [SLurl]
Zigana [SLurl]

Remember – everything released for SUYS is just $150L or less, but only for this weekend!

You can see pics of all the SUYS items over on our Flickr page and be sure to join the in-world Spruce Up Your Space group to get the SUYS notices, LMs, etc!

It officially starts at 9AM SLT this morning, January 21 – enjoy!

Part 2 of this month’s SUYS will be next weekend, January 28-29, with more great stuff from more great designers

ChangHigh Sisters – Fireshow of Light, Life and Love on Designing Worlds!

Our opening show of this season featured the work of the amazing ChangHigh Sisters – a performing arts troupe who are well-known throughout Second Life, where their popular performances draw significant audiences.

ChangHigh Sisters; Fireshow of Light, Life and …, posted with vodpod

Elrik and Saffia try some of the Sisters’ acrobatic poses themselves, and discover a little of the deep spiritual and esoteric background behind the ChangHigh Sisters’ Fireshow of Light, Life & Love.

ChangHigh Sisters – from the Designing Worlds show

The programme culminates with the Sisters’ unique show – staged especially for Designing Worlds – of stunning acrobatics with fire and dazzling colours, including inspiring narration and music from leading in-world and real life composers and musicians.

ChangHigh Sisters - from the Designing Worlds show

Join Happy Hunting! to see our guests on the January 20th broadcast

From Ciders Vales, Host of treet.tv’s Happy Hunting!

Please join us for our first Happy Hunting! broadcast of 2012, on Friday, January 20th at 3pm PST in the Designing Worlds studio on Garden of Dreams2.

My guests are mariposaroja Resident of -TDT- Hunts who is running the Cabin Fever Hunt ( which runs from January 1st to 31st) and the Book Worm Hunt (which runs from January 15th to February 15th), and Winona Wiefel of the The Whiz – A Whizical Glam Hunt (which runs from January 5th to 31st). Both ladies put on great hunts for all you hunters out there on the Second Life grid.

The Whiz Glam Hunt

And my co-presenter, Frequency Picnic will have all the latest hunt news for you. We’d love to have you join us in the studio to watch the broadcast.

And there will be gifts for you to find hidden in the studio too – so please join us at 3pm!

Our next taping will be on January 27th at 3pm PST. Come on over and be in the studio audience for that too. Happy Hunting to you all!

Photo Contest with L$3000 prizes at Gumi’s Flower Shop!

Gumi's Flower Shop

Gumi’s Flower Shop is holding a photo contest.

There are two categories:

1) Second Landscape
Judges: PJ Trenton (Chief), Saffia Widdershins, Tricia Aferdita

2) Scenery with Prim Flowers
Judges: Saffia Widdershins(Chief), PJ Trenton, Tricia Aferdita

The first prize is L$3000!
Please join the contest and maybe you will win that L$3000!

Submission box location:

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Epirrita/65/223/129

Deadline: February 15, 2012

There is a FIVE (5) photo maximum per applicant.

The winners will be announced late in February.

All three of the winners will have their photos displayed in the store for at least a week. Submitted photos will be displayed at a special location and/or Gumi’s Flower Shop for at least a week.

It is recommended that photos be set to have full permissions. If you don’t want to submit full perm photos, we will accept your photo, but keep in mind that they will require additional work.

Gumi Yao reserves the right to deny your submission for any reason.

Theme and submission details:

1) Second Landscape:
Images MUST be snapshots taken in Second Life. NO Photoshop, NO processing your photos outside of SL. Please change your snapshot name to “photo title – your name – photo pixel size”, for example, Cold Sea – Gumi Yao – 1024×786.

You must include the sim name and location in the photo description field. SL will include it automatically. Make sure this stays in the photo description.

Calas Galadhon - a fabulous landscape in Second Life! Photographed by PJ Trenton

First place: L$3000
Second place: L$1000
Third place: L$500

2) Scenery with Prim Flowers:
Photos taken in Second Life.
Photo must include prim flowers. Textured flowers can be included as long as the prim flowers are the more important subject than the textured flowers.

Examples could be flowers in a vase, a woman holding a bouquet, an imaginary flower in future. etc.etc.

Your photos should be titled “photo title – your name – photo pixel size”, for example, My Garden – Gumi Yao – 512×512.

Prim flowers in Gumi's Garden

First place: L$3000
Second place: L$1000
Third place: L$500