In our Second Lives … remember the places, and win L$5000: a Prim Perfect Contest at the SL10B Community Celebration

For this year’s Prim Perfect installation at the SL10B Community Celebration, we have a beautiful building designed by Troy Vogel which holds two photo installations.  One of these, by PJ Trenton, is a tribute to places that have vanished from the grid – and will form the basis of a photo essay in the next issue of Prim Perfect.

Some Have Gone … Photo Essay by PJ Trenton

The other display is a collection of pictures from Prim Perfect’s 48 issues, produced over the course of the last six years, and the core of our inspiration for the exhibit which was In My Second Life, taken from the Beatles’ Song …

There are places I remember all my life
Though some have changed
Some forever, not for better
Some have gone and some remain

Over the years, a wide range of talented photographers have worked for us, including PJ Trenton, Honour McMillan, Wildstar Beaumont, Twisted Lemon, Wren Carling, Judith Lefevre, Beq Janus, GM Nikoiaidis, Stephen Venkmann, Raven Haalan, Ceejay Writer, Winona Wiefel, Paolo Bade. This installation is a tribute to their work.

We wanted to share these with you because – in our Second Lives … we loved them all.

In Our Second Lives … we loved them all

But we also wanted to issue a challenge – we will give a prize of L$5000 to the person who can identify the largest number of images in the six panels at the northern end of the Prim Perfect installation.

If more than one person has the highest score, we’ll hold a draw.

You will find all the images in Panels 2 – 6 in past issues of Prim Perfect magazine.  The images in Panel 1 (the double row on the left wall) come from the magazine and from the blog too!

How do I enter?
Visit the Prim Perfect exhibit at SL10B Astonish, and study the pictures.  Write down all the ones you know (it’s fun to do this with friends too!).

Even if you haven’t been in Second Life that long, you will be able to find older images in back issues of the magazine. And it will be a great way of learning more about the amazing builds in Second Life!

Organise the ones you can identify by Panel (1 – 6) and then from top to bottom, left to right.

When you have as many as you can identify, send a notecard labelled Prim Perfect SL10B Contest to Zadira Barzane inworld, or by email to primperfect@gmail.com.  You may not need to identify every location to win the prize – just send as many as you can!

Prim Perfect Building, created by Troy Vogel

Helpful Hints:
You will be able to find the images either in the magazines, or on the blog (a few). And you don’t even need to spend hours in the build (as miss some of the amazing builds at SL10B). You can take photos of the panels and then study them at your leisure.

Closing date for the contest is July 5th, and the results will be published in our August magazine.

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Prim Perfect and Ekphrasis talks at the SL10B CC Auditorium: Tuesday 18th June

Prim Perfect is sponsoring three talks today at the Auditorium at the SL10B Community Celebrations.

Xandi Mars, Cklass of 2003!

First of all, at 1pm, Saffia Widdershins will be talking to Xando Mars of Del Sol Furniture – who, we hasten to say, doesn’t look like this these days!  Xandi was one of the earliest users of Second Life, going all the way back to 2003.  She’ll be talking about this – and about having been a top furniture designer in Second Life for ten years.

Ekphrasis Talks at SL10B Community Celebration

Then, at 3pm, in the next in our series of Ekphrasis talks, Rowan Derryth will be talking to the very talented photographer, Whiskey Monday. You can see more details of that here.

Callie Cline and Judy Chestnut talk about Breedables!

And last for today, at 4pm SLT, Saffia Widdershins will be talking to Callie Cline of KittyCatS! and Judy Chestnut of the Dwarfins about their wonderful breedables.

Do come and join us!

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Have you collected your free gifts and voted in the SL10B CC photo contest yet?

There are exciting things going on at the Second Life Community Celebrations!

Linden Gift Vendor

Firstly, in special Linden vendors set up around the sims, you’ll find exclusive limited Linden gifts (some are also available on the Marketplace), but each is only available for a limited time. We can’t tell you when an item will be ready for grabbing or even what might be offered at any given time. You’ll find one vendor near the Welcome Area on SL10B Beguile – or have fin hunting down the others – and see some very cool exhibits on the way!

Photo Contest Voting Board

Secondly, we need you to vote in our Photo Contest! You might remember that we asked you to take photographs that matched the theme: “Looking Forward, Looking Back”. We have selected the best of these and have placed them out for you to vote on. Which do YOU like best? Come and register your choice!

The Board is located near the Welcome Area in Beguile – and maybe you can pick up a free gift from the Linden vendor at the same time!

Pssst … we’ll have news of another great Photo Contest soon … so keep reading the blog!

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Prim Perfect and Ekphrasis talks at the SL10B CC Auditorium: Monday 17th June

We have two talks today at the Auditorium at the SL10B Community Celebrations.

sachi Vixen of Adam n Eve

Firstly, at 1pm SLT, I will be talking to sachi Vixen, of the fabulous Adam n Eve store. Some of my earliest outfits in Second Life came from Adam n Eve – I was delighted to find a store that made beautiful clothes for the businesswoman, as well as elegant evening gowns.

Then, at 3pm SLT Rowan Derryth will be talking to the artist Gracie Kendall – you can see more details of that here.

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Prim Perfect Talks today at the SL10B Auditorium

There are two Prim Perfect Talks today at the SL10B Auditorium

Just Meshing About …

At 1.15pm, we will be talking to some of the masters (and a  mistress) of mesh creation – Maxwell Graf, Cain Maven and Froukje Hoorenbeeke.

(Please note that the start is slightly delayed to allow everyone to attend the Opening Ceremony – and flags will be going up just outside the Auditorium.)

The wonderful A’stra Stage

At 4pm, we will be talking to the people behind the A’stra Stage at this event (also known as the Main Stage and the Turtle Stage!) – Flea Bussy and Toady Nakamura, the janitors of the amazing Grendels.  “As goes Grendels, so goes the grid,” Philip Rosedale (aka Philip Linden) famously remarked.  Come along at 4pm to find out why!

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A final visit to the Home and Garden Expo for Designing Worlds!

Our latest episode is now available on the web, so join us as we pay our final visit to the Home and Garden Expo.

In this second visit we talk to the co-organiser of the Expo, Heavenly Villa, and to Cortiez Brandiss, who organised the associated (and highly successful) Breedables Fair. And Saffia talks to Judith Chestnut and Jaimy Hancroft of the Dwarfins, one of the popular “breedables” at the Fair, while Elrik met Mewroo Resident and Levio Serenity of the very popular Meeroos.

Dwarfins

Then we talk to Troy Vogel who created a beautiful and very unusual House for the Expo, before finishing with the very moving Lantern Ceremony that occurred each day of the Expo – a chance for reflection and commemoration of those who have left us and celebration of those who remain.

Lanterns Lifting

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SL10B Community Celebration is Opening Today!

Sl10B is finally here! Photograph by Rico Saenz

The Sl10B Community Celebrations open today at 12 noon SLT – with music on all four stages!

And at 1pm, there will be a special Opening Ceremony – and we want you there to be a part of it.

So that as many people as possible can share in the Opening, there will be a very simple ceremony taking place in most of the twenty sims.

Across the sims, there will be groups of flags. At 1pm SLT, all the flags will be raised to symbolise the start of SL10B CC. The flags will fly throughout the week, not to be lowered again until the end of the event.

The Flags waiting to be raised by the Auditorium

Raising and lowering a flag is a very simple ceremony, but an important one. It marks the beginning and end of the Olympics and other special events; in some countries, the raising and lowering of a flag might mark the beginning and end of a school day. In Second Life, doing this on as many sims as possible, all at the same time, means that as many people can attend as possible — and it is symbolic of the way so many people in so many countries can come together in Second Life and share the experience. So we will all share the experience of seeing the flags lift.

You can choose your own vantage point, as you can see a group of flags from almost everywhere. You’ll find them positioned near the edge of sims – and we’ll be posting a full list of locations soon both to the groups and on the blog.

We hope you will be able to join in this very special Opening.

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Advertise Your Birthday Bash at SL10BCC

SL10BCC Teaser (general)

There will be Birthday celebrations all over the grid and the SL10BCC folks want to make it easy for their visitors to get to all of the other parties, performances, feasts & festivals from June 16 – 23 as well.

We’ve built a Connections Board which will have posters for events happening throughout the week. They will include notecards with descriptions and landmarks – but we need the information about your (or your friends’) event.

Please send Honour McMillan a folder inworld with the following:

• A notecard with a description of the event; what it is, the date(s) and time(s), the maturity level and a landmark.

• A photo or poster for the event. Please note that the image must satisfy the General Maturity guidelines, even if your event is Moderate or Adult.

• The photo or poster must be a texture sized no more than 512 in any direction.

• The notecard and the texture must be full perm.

Spread the word and make sure Honour is buried in event information!

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Designing Worlds returns to the Home and Garden Expo

Post Architecture by Troy Vogel

Join us at 2pm SLT today, Monday 10th June, for the new episode of Designing Worlds at our studio in Garden of Dreams, as we pay our second visit to the fantastic Home and Garden Expo.

The Expo itself has now closed, having raised over US$30,000. But we were there to visit some of the amazing creations and to talk to the designers behind them.

Dwarfins

In this second visit we talk to the co-organiser of the Expo, Heavenly Villa, and to Cortiez Brandiss, who organised the associated (and highly successful) Breedables Fair. And Saffia talks to Judith Chestnut and Jaimy Hancroft of the Dwarfins, one of the popular “breedables” at the Fair, while Elrik met Mewroo Resident and Levio Serenity of the very popular Meeroos. Then we talk to Troy Vogel who created a beautiful and very unusual House for the Expo, before finishing with the very nmoving Lantern Ceremony that occurred each day of the Expo – a chance for reflection and commemoration of those who have left us and celebration of those who remain.

Lanterns Lifting

It’s a packed show – so do come and watch it 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
– 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!

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Useful images for writing about SL10B, now available on the Flickr Group!

Looking Ruthed at SL10B Community Celebrations

There was a very important group of photos posted to the Flickr Group yesterday by Harlequin Rhode, consisting of useful images and banners and logos to use of your own blogs – as well as this lovely map!

Map of the SL10B Community Celebration

Harlequin is issuing the images with the following information:
You are free to distribute and use these designs for SL10B related items and activities, blogging, etc. however you are not able to use them in any items or object that you intend on selling. In addition, as SL10B is a G rated event, use of the art must conform to the G rating as outlined in the SL ToS and Community Standards.
Using these designs should not imply acceptance or endorsement by SL10B community event organizers.

Enjoy!

The banner

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