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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Happy Hunting takes a Long Walk, and pays a visit to Allie Munro’s Evil Bunny Hunt

Join us in the treet.tv studios in Garden of Dreams at 3pm, Friday 14th, with our host Cinders Vale and hunt reporter Rosamoo Mendelsohn of Hunt SL for another great show!

The Beached Bunny Hunt

This show features an onsite interview with Allie Munro of the Grumble Hunt shopping sim, she is the awesome creator behind the The Beached Bunny Hunt.

The Long Walk Poster

Plus there is news from Rosamoo of Hunt SL of exciting hunts that are happening at present – and that will be coming up soon! And that includes the very special Hunt at the SL10b Community Celebrations – The Long Walk!

So join us at 3pm today in the studio for the broadcast. Bring along your hunter friends too. We will be glad to have you all join us for the show.

Or – if you can’t attend in person – tune in at 3pm SLT on Friday for the live show on
http://treet.tv/live
or on the Vimeo channel – or catch it later in the week on our shows page on the Treet.tv web site at
http://treet.tv/shows/happy-hunting
.

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Prim Perfect Jigsaw: It’s all about Power Generation: The DJ Stage at SL10 Community Celebration

DJ (Power) Stage at SL10B CC

As well as Pictures of the Day from the SL10B Community Celebration, periodically, we’re bringing you some fun and games – such as occasional jigsaw puzzles of elements of the celebrations.

Today we have a view of the DJ stage, created by KT Syakumi. The stage is high in the cooling tower – and it’s stunning. There’s also plenty to find here – in the tower itself, in the tunnels underneath – and in the wastelands that surround it all.

So you can take in a set – and explore too. But – be careful out there. There are Hazards!

DJ (Power) Stage at SL10B CC

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Catch up with your Prim Perfect jigsaws (showing images of Second Life and other virtual worlds).

If you’d like to submit a photo of your own to feature as a jigsaw, send it to the Prim Perfect Flickr Group. It should be sized 800w x 600h, or else it will need to be re-sized.

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Can you be an agony aunt (or uncle) and give good advice?

This week’s Quest for the Golden Prim features a dilemma for some of the characters.

Dilemmas for Nan, Ralph – and Lola!

Nan thinks that the dashing Ralph Montcalm is thinking altogether too much about that wicked female pirate captain that he met and fought back in the woods of Steelhead.  A woman who had, we should remind ourselves, proved herself ruthless in kidnapping Nan and addicting poor Minnie to opium.

And Ralph … well, he thinks he’s thinking too much about the dashing female pirate too. But then there’s Nan …

Even Lola the dog has problems (in Finnish).

Can you advise the lovelorn three?  That’s the fun project associated with this week’s Quest! Read their letters, and see if you can advise them …

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Second Life 10th Birthday Community Celebration Jigsaw!

Arcadia Asylum Living Library at SL10BCC

As well as Pictures of the Day from the SL10B Community Celebration, periodically, we’ll be bringing you some fun and games – with news, for example, of the Hunt we are planning – and occasional jigsaw puzzles of fun things we have found too.

This exhibit has been created by Prof Grey, the Curator and Creator of the Arcadia Asylum Living Libraries. His goal is to help preserve the works of Aley (A.K.A. Arcadia Asylum & Aley Aria) and help to distribute them for all to enjoy.

These fantastic freebies are to be found in many places across the grid – and you have probably come across some on your travels. Now you can admire, and learn more, at the SL10B Community Celebration.

And you can do a jigsaw too!

Arcadia Asylum Living Library at SL10BCC

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Catch up with your Prim Perfect jigsaws (showing images of Second Life and other virtual worlds).

If you’d like to submit a photo of your own to feature as a jigsaw, send it to the Prim Perfect Flickr Group. It should be sized 800w x 600h, or else it will need to be re-sized.

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Prim Perfect Jigsaw at the Home and Garden Expo: Prim Perfect Taverna

Prim Perfect Taverna

The Home and Garden Expo has finished but here’s a picture from there again, of ourtaverna. And that’s because today’s Designing Worlds show is coming from the Expo.  More details will be emerging later (so watch the blog) but to get us into the mood, there’s the jigsaw!

The Expo was a great success and has so far raised over US$30,300 (that’s nearly L$7,600,000). It’s a fantastic outcome for a week of selling virtual goods and pets … but there were other huge pluses too, with the talks and the classes, and the opportunities for people to discover that they could become a part of this – and to discover their inner creativity.

You can find out more on tonight’s Designing Worlds show. But first … let’s do a jigsaw!

Prim Perfect Taverna, photographed by Aisling Sinclair

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Catch up with your Prim Perfect jigsaws (showing images of Second Life and other virtual worlds).

If you’d like to submit a photo of your own to feature as a jigsaw, send it to the Prim Perfect Flickr Group. It should be sized 800w x 600h, or else it will need to be re-sized.

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Prim Perfect Jigsaw at the Home and Garden Expo: The Lantern Ceremony

Lantern Ceremony

And so the Home and Garden Expo is drawing to a close – and it’s been amazing.  If you haven’t been to visit yet, do get over there today.

The last of the Prim Perfect talks was last night. We’ve had a great range of designers taking part in talks and panels and some fascinating issues were discussed – mesh and materials being very popular!  In fact, Max Graf has been inspired to post his thoughts on materials – which you can read here.

The talks have finished, but there will be one final Lantern Ceremony today at 4pm, when we pause to reflect, to remember those we have lost, and to celebrate those still with us, as we watch the beautiful lanterns, designed by Alchemy Immortalis, rise into the night sky.

And hence today’s jigsaw. Do it – and do come and join us if you can.

Lantern Ceremony at the Home and Garden Expo

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Catch up with your Prim Perfect jigsaws (showing images of Second Life and other virtual worlds).

If you’d like to submit a photo of your own to feature as a jigsaw, send it to the Prim Perfect Flickr Group. It should be sized 800w x 600h, or else it will need to be re-sized.

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Prim Perfect Jigsaw at the Home and Garden Expo: Pamela Galli’s San Marino House

San Marino House

I think it’s not secret that I am a fan of European architecture (and where is the Umgebindehaus of my dreams, eh?). This year I am loving the Italian style of Pamela Galli’s San Marino House. It’s whhat we expect of Pamela’s La Galleria: cool, stylish, elegant – and mesh – the last of which pretty much goes without saying at the Expo. Beautiful arrangement of rooms for living – as usual, with a house I like, I started picturing the family. A family home, but not children. An elegant professional couple, probably – mother a lawyer, father maybe an academic. Or senior police (I am watching too many Euro cop dramas … ).  Son … at university, or just post university. Still living at home … but probably heading off to see a girlfriend in the city …

It’s definitely the kind of home that inspires stories.

You’ll find it on Home Expo 3.

After you’ve done the jigsaw.

San Marino House at the Home Expo – designed by Pamela Galli

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Catch up with your Prim Perfect jigsaws (showing images of Second Life and other virtual worlds).

If you’d like to submit a photo of your own to feature as a jigsaw, send it to the Prim Perfect Flickr Group. It should be sized 800w x 600h, or else it will need to be re-sized.

Check out our talks at the Home and Garden Expo – and don’t forget the beautiful lantern ceremony, every day at 4pm.

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Prim Perfect Jigsaw at the Home and Garden Expo: Steaming Ahead / Gothic Musing

A Steampunk Folly

One of the fun things of any large event like the Home and Garden Expo is discovering new and unexpected things. And so it was today. Wandering around the regions (mercifully, things have calmed down sufficiently that a walk at a European morning time is a pleasure and not a purgatory) I came across this lovely little … well, I would call it a kind of Folly.  It’s a room for entertaining friends, set inside a lantern, and it’s rather fun.

It’s created by Steaming Ahead/Gothic Musing and is one of the sadly few steampunk elements at this year’s Home and Garden Expo. There are some rather fun balloons too – do check it out on Home Expo 8.

But only, of course, after you have tackled the jigsaw!

A Steampunk Folly from Steaming Ahead / Gothic Musing

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Catch up with your Prim Perfect jigsaws (showing images of Second Life and other virtual worlds).

If you’d like to submit a photo of your own to feature as a jigsaw, send it to the Prim Perfect Flickr Group. It should be sized 800w x 600h, or else it will need to be re-sized.

Check out our talks at the Home and Garden Expo – and don’t forget the beautiful lantern ceremony, every day at 4pm.

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Learn all about the Bobbekins (and their creators) on Designing Worlds – now live on the web!

Now available on the web – our latest episode, as as we are joined by Chantal Harvey, the well-known machinamatographer and Tony Dyson, the designer who created R2D2, who will be joining us to talk about their fascinating new project – the Bobbekins – which utilises Second Life as a part of a wider project to create interactive electronic materials for children.

Chantal and Tony talk not only about their project (currently online as an Indiegogo project), but also about their work and careers. It’s a great chance chance to find out more about Tony, Chantal and their fascinating project!

The World of the Bobbekins

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