City Streets Awards

Today we had the awards ceremony for the City Streets photography contest. I used the speaker HUD I got from Ida, which was scripted by Theo. I shocked Osprey using this mechanical voice, but it was much easier for me. I usually type the words into a notecard and then copy and paste them into the chat slot, but this way all I had to do was click the HUD.

HBA won with his moody shot of a low sun in a canyon of tall buildings. I think he was surprised. He really admired the very beautiful and skillful piece by Makeda, which is impressive, but the judges chose ambience over technique.

Kahruvel Design

I have not been wandering in Nova Albion for some time, but today I found myself floudering in a canal, after the roadway gave way under my feet. I leapt out and found myself in Kahruvel Design. There was a black and white video of Osprey and Salazar doing the High Flyers in their street clothes, a link to Salazar's website, and a Wired magazine article on Second Life. What a nice way to get out of drowning!

RatePoint Concert Hall

Elliott Eldrich has been a friend now for a while. He was very kind to me at an event, when I was feeling out of place. Since then, he has been doing builds of various kinds. This one was done as a gift to Circe Broom, and it is spectacular ... ornate, lush, it is a jewel box of a concert hall. I hope there will be many concerts!

HBA Gallery

Enjah boldly goes to HBA Gallery, a sky-hung set of floors with a ramp between them.

Ed Does the Town(s)

Ed was in Nova Albion doing research on his upcoming detective clue hunt, when he stopped at the Miramare Infohub (a magnificent Salazar Jack build that everyone should see, by the way). There he met a group of young people who call themselves The Miramare Brickwarmers.

He was intrigued by their lack of experience with our world, and took them to the Seaside Village, which they loved. Unfortunately they got stuck between floors on the lighthouse elevator, but by and large they seemed to enjoy themselves.

He then escorted them to HBA Island for drinks and they sat around the campfire for a bit. Then he had to race off to see Johanssen Scarborough do Wizard fighting, and finally he went to Combat Cards in Europa, where he fought and died and ran into Maxie Schneider, among other friends. Whew! Ed gets around (uh, he is usually hiding out in his office or behind the office in his apartment, so this is a good thing for him to do).

I Am With Young

I was at home looking in the mirror at my new SensiDress (NOT shown above), which does not quite perform as advertised (it lifts up when I sit, exposing my lovely undergarments for all to see), when I saw that Young Geoffrion was at home. I called her and she was kind enough to invite me to come view her mentor's work-in-progress. Dr. Fluxus was not in at the time, but a neighbor came by to visit, and we all made fabulously smart remarks to one another. It was scintillating stuff.

I Fergott ta Tell Ya ...

IDA CAME BACK!!! One of the most delightful features of The Show Must Go On! is the friends I have made ... and one of the greatest artistes in our troupe is Miss Ida Keen.

I hope she can stay with us in the new show. She is having vertigo issues, so I am not sure she will be able to handle the Knitters! She was a big part of that collaboration, so it is ironic.