leave home, feel the wind blow

[15:17] Tree Rat (treerat): Is this thing broken?
[15:17] Iradium Piros (raaseer): No
[15:17] Baran Breen: which
[15:17] Tiana (malkia4657): Nope
[15:17] Bowno Scarbridge: Many things are broken in the world.
[15:18] Riot Hax: the thingermabob is broken the contraption is working well
[15:18] Tree Rat (treerat): Kintsugi makes it all better.
[15:18] Stitches (angrynoob): Every cog in Contraption is mal-aligned
[15:19] Tree Rat (treerat): Keeps things nice and off-beat.

Have I mentioned how much I love the Contraption store group? I really do.

Today and yesterday, and possibly over the weekend too, the SLEA--the Second Life Endowment for the Arts--is having their "Crystal Carnival". The dance stage is amazing. As I'm still recovering, I'm not going to fancy up the shots, but it deserves to be seen.



The main view just using the cam behind me--I'm the person in pale blue you can't see against the pale blue ice.



Violet Scrivener, the DJ, put up the spinning pink tree so people could touch that for ice dances. Neat.



A more complete shot of the stage.



Cam spun to the left to take in more of the build. Front right is a wood-fired pizza oven. I'm amused.



And Violet herself, dancing atop a rocking horse made of ice. Neat.



Finally, camming out behind Violet, taking in the whole dance stage.

This is beautiful. And there's so many little details you really need to be on the ground to pick up. Which, thankfully, we may get more chances to experience, with or without Violet, because--in tracking down the SLEA blog, I discovered the event is running until February 28th!

So plenty of time if you want to traipse by and view the contributions by SLEA artists to the project, dance on the ice, or listen to whomever's playing at the time. Enjoy!

I found something interesting and we should discover it together

So, today was the grand reopening of the SLEA sim (or sims), after a long hiatus. I wasn't there for all of it, which I'm sure my processor is grateful for, because towards the end, the particles came out by the bushelful. Artists.



Now, amusingly, I didn't take any pictures until SaveMe Oh arrived, and the reason she's named is that she brought most of the particle effects. Also, she arrived and promptly died on the dance floor, a huge Pfizer-branded syringe through her chest and "HAPPY 2021" spelled out in bright green coronavirus orbs.

That was an entrance.



Someone said, "Oh, are we doing shots now?" And...this was next.



And then the effects really kicked up.



It got crazy for a bit, there. Somewhere in all that glow is a gigantic ribcage that would make Godzilla's chest seem small.



And then the 60's arrived.



And it kept going...



With a brief detour through strawberries and a yellow submarine:



...and finally, ending in a field of sunflowers:



While the DJ played The Golden Sun Rises Upon The World Again, by Fovea Hex. Appropriate:



Not badly celebrated, all in all.

It will be fascinating to see what they do from here.