Speedbuild on Little Blue Island sandbox

Not easy for me to get to since it starts before I finish work - even when I *plan* to quit early by making up the time ahead of time ...




.... but always fun to watch!

Downtime

Actually, nobody was feeling down - just hadn't been inworld a whole lot for a few days because I had a late visit from Santa over the last part of the holiday.

It's always nice when your Second Life friends turn out to be pretty much the same in real life - or better :-)

Concerts on the Ridge tonight - it will be fun!

Christmas All Year Through

Wasn't that a party!??

Just a short post to say what wonderful fun yesterday was and how much in the way of good feeling was shared - and what's a  good party without a bad griefing ?! 

While that was definitelty annoying and it took me a few moments to stop the griefer objects which were replicating, it didn't sour thing for long and the griefer didn't leave much of a mark.  As a matter of fact, because of the timing, just as Djai and Toby were about to stream, for the very first time, the mp3 recording of Christmas All Year Through, that people had been waiting for - one remote listener commented that hearing comments about the griefing on the stream added to the suspense in an almost good way - at least from a remote pov.   So whatever the motivation behind this was - let the griefer consider that it backfired ;-) .

Thanks to all those who helped by id'ing the owner of the objects while I was returning them, and particularly the calm solid advice to the crowd  while I was too busy turning stuff off on the land tab and returning replicating objects.  

Too busy to take my own piccies at this one - hoping someone will have some I can hotlink to :-)

Here they are - from Sally Silvera's photo stream on Flickr:  (thank-you Sally!)

Carah Nitely

Toby & I

Zak

Djai & Toby playing the last set before the release of Christmas All Year Through

Get It Together 2 - Christmas All Year Through

Come and get your free MP3 of a collaborative recording of a beautiful song written by Djai Skjellerup, featuring 22 SL musicians, mixed and mastered by Toby Lancaster.

Playing LIVE at the party:

12:00 - Jean Munro

12:20 - Franciscus Paine

12:40 - BabbleGrabble Swindlehurst

13:00 - Zak Claxton

13:20 - Carah Nitely

13:40 - OhMy Kidd

14:00 - Kiaranne Flanagan

14:20 - Tpenta Vanalten

14:40 - Lonnie Nightfire

15:00 - Djai Skjellerup

15:20 - Premiere of "Christmas All Year Through"

15:30ish onwards is a Collaborators Open Mic

Details at the Get It Together website as well as my own site.

Come a bit early for a replay of the recording of A Christmas Carol from the 13th - starting the stream at 10:30 am SLT

A Christmas Carol - the rest of the cast and other credits

We did it - it's done (but maybe not - watch this space) ... in the meantime - kudos go out to everyone involved, among others, Montian Gilruth who was the official "listener" to all the voices and turned the chaos into a stream so that the audience would have a seamless time of it.

Gotta love those listening antennae ;-).

The multi-talented Santa Kwassman was an amazing Scrooge - and on top of it made his own costume to wear for the role.
The set created by Paddy Wright - I've mentioned that before but I simply cannot get enough in one eyeful of this - perfect for the reading, and the ghostlike procession of images evocative of the scenes that are so familiar to us from this classic tale.  Couldn't make up my mind which shot of this to choose so here are a bunch.

The people who came to listen - thank-you!  If you enjoyed this a tenth as much as we did, I'm happy :-)

Two cast members not mentioned earlier - Jane and Sidhe - who joined us for the performance and sounded great!

Finally, without our "guardian angel" Aaack we would have surely experienced some interruptions and questions from arriving audience members - he kept everything flowing smoothly.

Santa Claus is coming to town ... er, Teal

Santa Kwassman, captured during rehearsal - looks for all the world like Crap Mariner had better not pout ;-)