Monthly Archives: May 2008

Long-Awaited Final Sale for Prim & Proper

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Shenlei | Comments Off

To my customers of long-acquaintance, I’ve finally gotten around to setting a date for Prim & Proper’s final appearance for sale on the Second Life tm grid. I’ll be hosting the sale on behalf of Relay For Life, so you get to have the satisfaction of knowing that while you’re satisfying your last P&P need you will also be doing good.

The dates selected are June 14 to 21st. The vendors will be placed the evening of the 13th going into the 14th, and the sale runs till 5 pm SLT, June 21.

On June 21, we’ll be hosting an Ode hunt in the morning in honor of Midsummer’s Eve. To kick off the festivities, we’ll be hosting an early Midsummer’s Night Eve Rave starting at 6PM SLT.on June 14. More details on that to follow.

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Shengri La Spirit

Posted on May 20, 2008 by Shenlei | 4 Comments

An early view of the 40,000+ prim build on the collaborative OpenSim, Shengri La Spirit, built by the Fashion Research Institute on the IBM-hosted OpenSim platform.

I’ve had requests from people to enter Spirit.

Spirit is a closed research build. This means that we are only letting people from our Fashion Research Institute-IBM development team into the sim. It’s a very short list of people with permission and access. Less than seven, in fact, and we call them out in this blog.

But because so many curious people want to see what Spirit looks like, I present to you this machinima. I have many talents. Machinima, pretty clearly, isn’t one of them.

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Raving Utopian Lunatics and Ode Hunters…

Posted on May 20, 2008 by Shenlei | 1 Comment

To round out our festivities this week (new artists, a few moves around the sims), we hosted a five-sim wide Ode Hunt and one of our (now legendary) Raves for our IBM collaborators.

DJane Qee Nishi is Up! Up! Up!

Monarch Wings Everywhere!

The hunt for Ode-containing butterflies was a real delight to watch. Five sims, with green dots spasming all over them, and getting tangled up with the butterflies already in place in Shengri La – well worth the price of admission. I stood atop the Bridge of Dreams and watched it all.

Monarch Me And Rez in His Ghod Suit

Utopian Chestnut Rau Waves Her Wings

Later, when we finally wound the hunt down, we opened the Monarch Rave. Attendees threw themselves into the spirit of things, with attendees in outfits from the everyday to the wildly exotic.

Calli Looking Lovely

The particle effects were fierce, the DJane fab, and in short, a great time was had by all. Our next Rave is Saturday, June 14th: A Midsummer’s Night Dream. See you in Shengri La!