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There are a number of excellent vacation resorts in Second Life, where you book in advance and get a group tag on check in. Unfortunately there are far fewer hotels I've been able to recommend that look and feel like their RL equivalents, and where just like in RL you can meet people at the bar or restaurant even if you are not staying there. As a result I was really pleased to discover the brand new Plaza Hotel. The Plaza has literally just opened, and Muti and myself were one of the first guests.
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At the end of my last post about Golgothica I mentioned returning to check out the chapel and the windmill. Well..I’ve done that and wow there was so much I missed out! First I had a glance inside the suspected tavern, lovely little place, more on that later..first the chapel. You have to head down the side of the tavern that lets you reach a bridge across to the rather spooky-looking place.
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Today there is a new installation of Lex Machine (Archetype11 Nova). He's been redesigning his region every few months since starting a series of "Hotel California" installations in mid-2019 . For some time now, however, he has been giving each new design an individual name.
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’ll start out by saying I’m getting to Curiosity Lake, the homestead region designed by SadyCat Littlepaws somewhat late in the day – or rather days, given it will closing on February 28th. I’m not sure how it slipped through my net of landmarks of places to explore, but it did. So to fix matters, I suggested to Caitlyn we hop over and take a look this past weekend.
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I scrolled through scoop.it SL Destinations and came across Cravone City. The published picture of a big city caught my attention immediately. The entry led to a post from Maddy Gynoid "Simtipp: Cravone City" (in German) which I read before visiting. Cravone City is built on a full moderate region, that is owned by a…
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Today there is a small series of pictures from the shop region "The Looking Glass" . Because currently you can see quite a few photos of this region on Flickr. It almost looks like a Flickr photographer competition to see who will take the best photos of this impressive region.
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I visited Lightning Bolt, today. I was straight away struck by the attention to small detail, here... ... then, by how much very charming cuteness there is here. Not cloying, kittens on cupcakes, cuteness (who doesn't like kittens on cupcakes!?), but wonderful, whimsical cuteness... ... like these guys. There's so much sweet stuff here, the…
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Thanks to the suggestion of Jarla Capalini, a photographer I think is excellent in the panorama of SL bloggers, I had the pleasure to know Skrunda 2, a new destination with a post-apocalyptic/grunge style. The owner is Titus Palmira, whose profile I explored to get to know him better. I admit that I was fascinated by his photographs posted on Flickr. It is a visual style not evident, which seems to be an exploration into a suffering society’s communicative world. Of course, this is only my impression, as I have not enjoyed exploring this topic with Palmira himself.
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VARGSÅNGEN (Wolf Song in Swedish) is a homestead region designed and held by Camila Runo that has been coming in for a lot of attention of late, having been featured in a number of blogs and in a Destination Guide short video. And it entirely right that it has, because the region is home to an engaging build that is fully evocative of the Viking era.
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In the United States’ modern mythology, Route 66, established in the 1920s, emerged as a symbolic way to hope and freedom, to the promises of a better life or to the dreams of a more authentic existence on earth. This set of images also comes to my mind when I visit Mother Road – Mirage Motel 66 in Second Life, which, together with its neighbor sims, presents a small town built on the desert along a representation of probably the most famous highway that the US has had.
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I found this region through a picture of Doddy on Flickr, this is HERE . Panacea is a beautifully made Sim with a forest, a matching stretch of beach, rocks, hiking trails, resting places and lots of animals that you see everywhere. At the highest point of Panacea you can fly over the landscape in the form of a hang glider.
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Last night I visited the Haus Museum of Art. Downstairs is mostly traditional masters, which are nice, but I don't really go to SL galleries to see traditional masters... ... what I love in SL is contemporary, SL art. There was a bit of this on the ground floor, as well as some SL fashion...…
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On Monday, February 1st, Dya (Dya OHare) contacted me and invited me to see her newest installation called Dya’s little Jordan. As the name already gives away, Dya takes the visitor to the Jordan this time. In 2020 I had seen Dya’s Abandoned Vacation Spot (read here), Dya’s scent of the Caribbean (read here) and Dya’s Southern Twilight (read here). No doubt, I wanted to visit. Dya told me that for visiting you need to be member of her group this time. She had experienced attacks from griefers and haters, hence she decided to restrict access. I can fully understand her motivation, in particular as the moderate homestead is also Dya’s home. You can join the group (the group name is Velvet Soul) by visiting Dya OHare’s profile, the fee is 300 L$. To mention it right here – it is worth the money!
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今日の美しい場所 ご紹介は KAGAMI,The Godless Night Ⅱ, ~神隠レノ夜、弐~ @ Hakoniwa SIM さんです。
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I visited the ‘Natural History Museum of Vienna‘, this morning. It’s many years since I was here last, but it’s not changed much. I don’t think the Bryn Oh exhibition was here, then, she wasn’t very famous when I was here last, though, I could be wrong, and it may have been here; that’s how long ago I visited here, though, so long ago it’s all a bit vague. This is a very old-SL-style build, three dimensional aspects represented by two dimensional images applied to the faces of prims. This looks delightfully dated, now, but has, for me, the same appeal as remembering what sound sounded like from a valve radio (yes, my human remembers that)…
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The other week I explored Planet Idun, a Sci Fi jungle planet. Great for free form roleplay and photography. I took some pretty pics (if I may say so) and planned to return for some more exploring and information for a blogpost. So I did tonight, alas the region is closed,
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今日の美しい場所 ご紹介は ~The Looking Glass~ @ Horizon Dream SIM さんです。
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I visited Where Our Journey Begins, this morning. This is a very conventional, scenic sim, no fantasy trees, here. When they are well done, I love these kinds of sims as much as I love the whimsical ones... ... which isn't to say there isn't the odd touch of whimsy, here, too... ... this is…
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I've featured several Second Life city regions here recently. Some were new, others a little older. When I saw in the highlights from the SL Destination Guide last Friday that a region is now even called "New York City" , I visited it today.
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Recently when I found out that 30 % of my DNA is from Eastern Europe & Russia which includes Belarus, Czechia, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Latvia, and Lithuania. I was happy to find Skrunda-1, also known as Skrunda-2, is a ghost town and former Soviet and Russian radar station located 5 km (3 mi) to the north of Skrunda, in Raņķi Parish, Latvia.
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Currently open at the Janus I Gallery at Chuck Clip’s Sinful Retreat is a truly magnificent exhibition of the art of Kraven Klees which is an truly must-see event. Working in the digital medium, Kraven specialises in the creation of pieces encompassing a range of techniques – art, photography, mixed media = whilst also embracing a spectrum of approaches and styles including fractals, abstraction and photo layering, to create pieces that explore the boundaries of what we might consider art to be, and what it means to us personally.
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Moonshiner is a Club . On Tuesdays, Wednesdays and every now and then on Sunday mornings there are always great parties with very good DJs and live artists. Every now and then there is a party inside the club, on the large terrace or outside on the beach
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The landing point in a small tower that even has an upper floor (see first photo here in the post). Outside there is a colorful landscape with different areas. Among other things, you will also find the photo studio, a brightly colored campfire area, several pavilions and many waterfalls.
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An entry in the Destination Guide drew me to the HAUS Museum of Art, an impressive undertaking in celebration of physical and virtual arts led by Cyraphir. And when I say “impressive”, I mean just that. Having opened in January 2021, this is an expanse facility. Utilising the Omega XL prefab by GullyRivers. with a 100 x 64 metre footprint, the museum presents around 6,400 sq metres of display area across two floors. That’s a lot of space in which to display art, and I’m happy to say that it is space that is well utilised.
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