Happy Valentine's Day

Some silliness on the Ridge for this week -

And a photo that somehow turned out rather well:

MusiCom - Message display and stream manager

Today, Toby Lancaster posted on SLMC:

Inspired by an idea from Montian Gilruth, Bree Birke and I have designed and built MusiCom; a message display and stream management device for venue hosts and performers.
When a live music concert is put on in SL, there is a familar sequence of events where the performer seeks confirmation from the audience that they can be heard. If the audience is very talkative or using chat gestures in open chat, or if several IMs are coming in at once, messages may get missed. This is where the MusiCom comes in. Its primary function is to communicate with the musician, and provide necessary information in an easy-to-see and prominent manner.

There are three components to the MusiCom:

The main communications unit is intended to sit on the stage like a stage monitor. It has a pair of textured surfaces that face the musician. It is accompanied by a RELAY unit which is required for stream setting functions. Copies of the RELAY can be used in the case of multi-sim/parcel venues. There is also an optional musician HUD.

The MusiCom menu provides options to set streams or radio stations (stored on notecards). Appropriate messages are displayed on the MusiCom indicating to the performer whether the stream is "Off", "Stand By" (telling the performer to start streaming) or "On Air" informing the performer that they can be heard. There is also an option to display additional important messages to the performer, e.g. "Too Quiet", "Too Loud", "Some Distortion", "No Sound", "Check IM" etc.

The MusiCom can be purchased for 998L$ at our new shop TBC, near The Comfort Zone.

Partial screenshots above show Toby and Djai Skjellerup with the HUD onscreen, and the main unit on the ground - though I don't think I've ever heard Djai too quiet ;-) .

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