Vortex going strong

Not mentioned the Vortex for a while. I've been DJ'ing there pretty much every week for the past 3 years. It's coming close to its 4th birthday soon and if my show last night is anything to go by, it's still going strong. Like Goony island the place is ingrained into the Second lives of many Kid avatars as a place where they first met friends and heard stories.



I Still enjoy playing my latest findings in modern music to the crowds that turn up during my 2 hour set. The last two shows were a blast :) Who else has any fond memories from the Vortex?

The Future of Second Life is .... a bit boring.....

So yeh, was excited about doing stuff for SL6B. And in the short time i had, built something i thought was interesting and involving. As an after thought created an SLC area with the help of Myrtil, Jimmy Winnie and Sven. Marrianne has made a really nice area too with a kool huge retro rocket :)
We all watched on the gypsy Cove out door screen the opening speech from Phillip, which i cant remember anything of. Tried for ages to get into SL6B sims after the speech but there was a screw up with allowing people in, DOH.


When finally we got to Cryo where my Exhibit was, we found a ghost avatar. A ghost avatar is sumone who has crashed but not been logged out. They stay there for ever untill the sim is restarted, and becos cryo is part of the main stage we had to wait 12 hours to get rid of the ghost. But us being childish, decided to dress the ghost avatar up as a clown.

After looking around a bit at the exhibits..... i got bored. I just felt like SL6B had not proven to anyone that Second life had advanced at all since the previous year. Instead it tried to cover up all the crap about age verifications, open spaces, Grid and asset limitations and Zindra by getting everyone to think about a fantasy world known as the future of virtual worlds.

OK so a futuristic theme was a nice idea but it kinda took the eyes away from what we as a community are currently doing.






I went for a walk around the exhibits with Lugo. There was a lot of borring stuff, but a few interesting exhibits. Truth is that most of these artists have much greater and grander examples of how to use virtual worlds, but cant squeeze them into the small squared out sims of SL6B.




I think next year or even at Burning life all exhibits should really be about showing other residents what YOU do, what your COMMUNITY is all about and WHY YOU keep coming back every single day, because there was nothing at SL6B that represented why i come to SL every day and i think thats the whole point of celebrating SL.


In the end i went back to my island, it's peaceful, its familiar and all my friends are there.

Teaser for the SL6B Nostradamus

Here is a quick teaser for the Nostradamus Build at SL6B second life 6th birthday celebrations.

SL6B - Here we go again :)

Well so far it has been a very different experience than last year. Those of you who rememeber, Kid Avatars got banned from representing themselves at the event.

This year however LL seem to be getting a whole lot of things right, not only are Kid Avatars allowed to build community exhibits right from the word Go, they even have a well thought up THEME. The theme for this year is 'The Future of Virtual Worlds', and everything there is going to be space aged and futuristic. The whole place is set to Night time so alot of consideration is going to have to be made into the lighting of the builds.

This year i plan to do a build that discusses the possible future of virtual worlds, SL, kid avatars and Opensim with the Exhibit is called "The Prophesies of Sir Thomas Hob".

The Nostradamus was created by Thomas Hobb and sent back in time to enlighten those who are loosing heart in the future of virtual worlds.

Built into the Nostradamus is a virtual OSAv called Tobi who appears as a boy and guides you through the Prophecies.




Along with the Nostradamus there will also be an SLC exhibit hopefully a wonderfull floor covered with many child avatar faces from the SLC group.

Chapter 7 - The Great Rescue Mission

Yesterday i was discussing nuts with Myrtil when suddenly we were ambushed by the dreaded green gelatinous cubes. We had no warning this time from the signal transceiver and i was powerless to save Myrtil as she was dragged down into the old mine shaft.

A call was put out to the Goonies and a determined team arrived to help go down and rescue Myrtil.



As you can see from the video, it was a close call. We still need better weapons :-p

Goony Island will not go up in price again!!!

As my fellow Goonies know, Goony island was under the threat of becoming too expensive a hobby. Linden Lab are trying harder and harder to convince everyone that its a viable platform for serious business while making it increasingly impossible for the social hobby residents to enjoy their virtual projects.

I HAVE TO THANK everybody who has donated to the hefty monthly tier price of USD$95. There has been one or two occasions where i thought it was all over but someone always seems to pop up last minute to save the day. I REALLY APPRECIATE the support and try to put as much effort i can into making the place enjoyable for all it's fans as it means so much to so many people.

It was planned that in July the price for tier would go up AGAIN to USD$125 making it officially a rich mans game. But Thankfully Linden Lab have for some reason decided to hold off the price hike for another year on Homesteads that were purchased before July 1st. This is great news for Goony island and all it's very supportive Goonies :)

Perhaps by next year a major advance in Open Grid technology will allow the Goonies to break free from the lab... but until then we can only shout loud that 'GOONIES NEVER SAY DIE!'

Chapter 6 - The Grand Master sends a message

A group of Goonies were startled to find a hovering angry looking robot in the club house. It starred at them before giving them a recorded message from The Grand master



It seems the Grand Master thinks we have not been able to reform the Goonies after the Twatha Tower ejected nearly all of them. Lets hope now we can reform and be prepared for what ever the Grand Master throws at us next!

The Goonies Weapon CONTEST!

Starting today i am challenging the goonies to bring forth proposals for a Goonies weapon pack. For too long have the Goonies been at the receiving end of Gemini's guns, bomb, missiles and rockets. It's about time the Goonies got some fire power back, especially with the Grand Master threatening to return with his Lizard men.


Weapons must be in true Goonies style. For example, goonies make all their inventions out of things they find in junk yards or parents cupboards. In the film, Data is a classic example using boxing gloves, fake teeth and sucker darts to create amazing inventions that help him overcome peril.


Weapons that fire animals or other creatures will be disqualified. Bright coloured lazer beams and things that explode on impact will be expected :-D

Next month we can test the new weapons on Separatists Castle.