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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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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Prim Perfect Talks at the Home and Garden Expo: Isla Gealach of Cheeky Pea

Throughout the Home and Garden Expo, Prim Perfect has been running a series of talks at the Prim Perfect Temple on Home Expo 6. You’ll see a full list of the talks at the bottom of this post.

Meet the Designer: Isla Gealach of Cheeky Pea

Today, Wednesday 29th May, we have Isla Gealach of Cheeky Pea, who will be talking about Mesh, Events (and maybe Mesh Events too!) and shopping areas. Isla, of course, is the owner of The Nest as well as Cheeky Pea, and has been running some very interesting projects there.  We hope to learn about them at 3pm – so do join us!

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We have a full programme of talks coming up at the Expo – make sure that you don’t miss them!

Prim Perfect Talks at the Home and Garden Expo

And make sure you don’t miss our daily lantern ceremony at 4pm, when we invite people to join us at the Prim Perfect platform on Home Expo 6 every day of the Expo at 4pm SLT for a communal release of lanterns both to celebrate the living and in memory of those we have loved and lost.

Lanterns Lifting

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Prim Perfect Jigsaw at the Home and Garden Expo: Barnesworth Anubis

Barnesworth Anubis at the Expo

Barnesworth Anubis is, without any shadow of doubt, one of the most respected creators in Second Life, and one who has played a major part in shaping the look of the grid. When I first rezzed in 2007, a Barnesworth house was seen as the epitome of style, and those building attractive shopping areas seized on his beautiful range of Mediterranean stores.  Over six years later, his designs are still highly prized and his new releases eagerly awaited.

This year, at the Home and Garden Expo, he’s showing a new Santa Barbara home with oodles of California chic including the special Catalina Cabana. Do go over to Home Expo 3 and admire it for yourselves.

But first … here’s a jigsaw!

Barnesworth Anubis 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.

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: Meshworx

Meshworx at the Expo

Yesterday we were very traditional, with Cierra Anatine’s gorgeous manor house. Today we have gone very modern, with Loz Hyde’s Meshworx cube on Home Expo 3.

Loz was one of the first designers to start working in mesh – and his chandelier was one of the stand out “wow!” creations of last year’s Expo. This year he has gone for a very sleek modern look – with this fascinating cube design. It’s well woth checking out – as is his new main store – Meshworx.

And you can catch Loz talking about his work with Maxwell Graf, Kriss Lehmann and Cube Republic at the Prim Perfect Talk on Friday – back by popular demand!

But first – let’s do a jigsaw.

Meshworx at the 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.

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: Kismet at the Home and Garden Expo

Kismet at Home Expo 1

I’ve always loved Cierra Anatine’s manor houses. They have a lovely traditional English feel – you expect to find muddy Welleingtons and spare barbours in a cupboard near the door, and to be greeted but an aged but still enthusiastic retriever before piling into the main room for sherry and a tale of your adventures in getting there – “Oh, I thought it was turn left at Upper Slaughter? Yes, the GPS gave up the ghost somewhere between Shipton-Under-Wychwood and Great Tew … “

Of course, these lovely buildings (just part of a wide range from cottages to churches to eleven artefacts that Cierra creates) are often used in medieval roleplay – a roaring spit fire where I’d expect to see a battered Aga (with a comfortable tabby sleeping on the snuggest part). But these houses have been inhabited by knights and scullions, by Cavaliers and dour Roundheads, improved, expanded sometimes (if there was, all too fleetingly, money from marrying into trade) but above all loved.

And this I think is the real key to Cierra’s art – she makes homes of many sizes that are to be loved. Go and see her at Home Expo 1.

But only after you’ve tackled a jigsaw.

Kismet on Home Expo 1

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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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