The Journey of Pat Babii

The final meetup of this first season of 2024 took us to a brand new grid tor the HG Safari and the tourists were out in force to visit SharingIsCaring grid, and discover some lovely and thought provoking art. The full HG Address is, you guessed it, at the end of the post.

Pat Babii: Welcome to the Gavezdois Virtual Museum. 

lifted pixel: Thank you for having us Pat! :D

Pat Babii: My oldest avatar on Opensim is already 11 years and many months old, and in SL, where the surname Babii came from, the avatar has existed for 17 years. The person who gives life to these avatars is Brazilian by birth and Portuguese by adoption, and I spent most of my life in Sintra, Portugal. I don't say much more than this about my RL. This museum, which was once a museum exclusively with exhibitions of classical art, is now set up more like an art gallery than a museum.

Pat Babii outside her SharingisCaring gallery

Pat Babii: What is on display now is a current type of art, composed exclusively of images made by Artificial Intelligence software called Midjourney. To obtain images in this software, the user needs to describe in text what they want to be in the image, which may vary in styles, reference artists, materials, eras, colors, etc. The options are endless

Cornflakes in Bloom

The second half of an uproarious, imaginative, and musical Cornflakes Week party was on Winxtropia! A big shout out to everyone who makes the effort (and it's not always easy, as we're all busy people) to honor the event with their great costumes, and by showing up and being part of the fun! But most of all, of course, to our hosts who do so much work behind the scenes, it's crazy. Here we are arriving on Crescent Melody, Winxtropia, among the incredible instruments that play such a vital part to the event.

Jupiter Rowland: Finally I get to see this sim on a decently powered machine.

Bloom Peters:  hehe i love all the cool new avatars to see

Lavia Lavine: ...she said I reminded her of a bag of Wonder Bread

Bloom Peters: Angelic with a cool avatar too, very unique

Lavia Lavine: So I guess I'll just loaf around.

Farstar Enoch: hehe

Star Ravenhurst: Angel always looks amazing

Cornflakes on Neverworld

Cornflakes Week comes round once a year, and it's a great opportunity to show off your imaginative side in a uniquely Opensim way. This year, as usual, the Safari celebrated the week long event with our Wednesday tour split into two halves, with our first party destination on Neverworld Grid. 

Never Plaza... the calm before the storm.

Be ready to be amazed by what the Neverworldians pulled out of their corny inventories...

But first, a shout out to everyone who dressed up! Lots of cornflake hats, plus Angelic Kisses rocking an Alpha Tribe outfit by Felix Ringtail, Lavia Lavine and four-legged friend sporting spots, Roff clowning it,  James in a vintage carpetman avie with lit-up face, Forest ant-itified, while a colorfully ringed lifted pixel took to the corny dancefloor, as she prepared to livestream the event. 

Atlas TV

We arrived, all of  group, on a wintry welcome region of the Francophone grid, Atlas. It was our second destination for this week, and the tech talk portion of our adventure. Home to Harthelie, Chip and Jeff, it's a grid where ancient architecture hints at supernatural powers...

Cherry Manga: wow both are working, inworld Voice and Mumble, my brain explodes :)

LadyKa 007: lol, Cherry, ou alors, tu entends des voix

Cherry Manga: that's magic! wizardry

Jeff Kelley: Welcome back to Atlas, the grid with technology. Harth, Chip and Jeff are your hosts. We have two topics tonight: A hot one : Mumble (15 minutes). A visit to our new TV studio (40 minutes).

Star Ravenhurst: *-* YeSS! *-*

James Atlloud: ! very nice

Jeff Kelley: There is an extensive coverage of Mumble by Snowbody Cortes here I, at some point, mentioned online that we had a fallback Mumble solution in case Vivox pulls the plug or suffers an outage, which happened weeks ago. Thirza popped and asked me to talk about it. It is a minimalistic Mumble integration. A two-step process : First, click the panel and proceed to the web page. Then click the offered link.  If the Mumble client is installed on your computer, you are now connected to the Mumble channel for this region with your avatar's name.

Jeff Kelley: I see many of you has joined This is not a replacement for a fully-integrated solution which, by the way, had existed in the past (2011) but broke thanks to the smart concept of hardware/OSes/APIs/libraries/everything-obsolete next year. See here Ange Menges' blog from 2011

Akata Ocean: Bonsoir tlm

Jeff Kelley: I shut up for now to give you a chance to try / ask questions.

thirza ember: was it simple to convince atlas people to join Mumble Jeff?

Jeff Kelley: they love it

LadyKa 007: Not only Atlas people ! lol, I have it too

Once in a Blue Moon

The Blue Wave Club is an old soul in opensim, and it carries its memories lightly, with long friendships.  The club is located under a pyramid that gives the sim its name, and under the sim water, that gives an unearthly light to the dancefloor. 

Unlike so many clubs which are as huge as aircraft hangars, making the dancing public seem like ants, this is an intimate, primmy, colorful space, with that warm, lived-in feel to it. Full HG Address at the end of the post, as always.

Cherry Manga: hello!

Elamanu Pastorelli: hi all

Samira Samtanko: hello all  welcome to the  Midweek Party

Cornflakes Week

'Tis the season... but wait, no real world seasonal atmospherics involved, this is all virtual. Cornflakes Week is coming!
Always held during the final 7 days of February, this year's Cornflakes Week is 22-29 February. It's a festival just for opensim, and for everyone... not linked to any religious or national festivals, making it an all-inclusive addition to the many fun real-world oriented events that happen inworld. 

The first Cornflakes Week event was celebrated in 2015, and HG Safari always celebrates it

Here Be Dragons

After our first, super romantic hour on Soul Grid, our second stop has its own romance, with a big dose or art and adventure thrown in. This was a return trip to Barefoot Dreamers grid, on the invitation of DJAlex, and the first impressions of the build were ..awesome in the true sense of the word.

Home Sweet Home - dragons arrival point

Tosha Tyran: oh, this looks dangerous

DJAlex Harper: welcome to all

Secret Fantasys: Thank You all for coming

Huga Bug: welcome everyone

Star Ravenhurst: Hey Lavia! You made it!

Forest Azure: hi alex :)

Nara Nook: Neo is the redshirt guy ...dragon bait

Lavia Lavine: Yes I finally made it.  I was at the first one as well... Hail hail the gang's all here!

Secret Fantasys: everyone looks so awesome

DJ Alex

DJAlex Harper: OK plz follow me we will start at starting point, you get the best view from up here to start

Tosha Tyran: wow, but it is also a little dangerous

DJAlex Harper: yes a bit, plz be careful