Skates on with Tina

Tina Bey's art has garnered her a huge following of admirers and collectors. Her sixteen year long inworld career as a digital creator in open sim is founded on her studies at the National School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires; her imagination and passion for science fiction, environmental causes, and a love of play - bringing humor and a lighthearted sense of youth into our often world weary realms -  inform and give flight to those very creditable foundations.

This new build, which has been an ongoing project for several months, finally got its big opening with a HG safari visit, our first destination of the fourteenth Safari trip of 2026. The location of the event - Star Ravenhurst's grid TenthDimension. The region, Imagination Island (full HG Address at the end of the post) is an annex to the main gallery, Le Beau Retrouve, which opened in the summer of 2024. 

We were all invited to wear skateboards to take the tour as they are fast and fun. Most of us got ours on before we left the clubhouse, but they were also available on the region so if you jump over to view the sim, look  for the green and black rezzing area and take the board from one of the boxes.

Star Ravenhurst: Welcome Everyone!

James Atlloud: Loving the colors here!

Forest Azure: oh, snow! cold feet!

Tina Bey[es→en]: please read the posters hehehe....  all is free, as a gift

Thirza Ember: ahahah of course Lumi is the best on the skateboard

Luminalore Resident: Hahah you know me too well now. XD

Tina Bey[es→en]: let's start!!! follow me

James Atlloud: Tina has a one-wheel board!! <jealous>

Tina Bey:  Thirza's usual question, always spot on: What motivated you to create the Region this way? (Typical Thirza question!!! lol)  Mainly COLOR. I wanted to learn in this situation to interpret the vibration of color, or rather the reaction of opposites. Everything that the NeoPop style represents, and I hadn't explored it enough, and this was a good opportunity. Luckily, the concept always flows.

Tina Bey: The THEME: a snapshot of contemporary society. Joy, nostalgia, play, rest, balance, and peace. The characters are now part of my family, moving through different actions, bringing to life possible, imagined, remembered, and invented scenarios but all of them speak of something, whether painted or not. They speak and say many things for me… each one will resonate with a different viewer, not necessarily in the same way. A piece of music, a face, will trigger a memory or a dream, a good or bad experience…

Tina Bey:  This time, color was the protagonist. The rest is play and situations that usually lead to humor and tenderness. Star Ravenhurst offered me the opportunity to experiment in this region that so generously welcomes artists. So… I set out in mid-2025, and everything unfolded with great calm and enjoyment.

Tina Bey:  Simultaneously, LUDUS was created at Pangea at the invitation of Lampithaler Artist and Marlon Wayne; at Craft World, Rosanna Galvani invited me to create freely in the Garage area, from which a multitude of playful creations emerged, all sharing the same premises, ample space, and a desire to create. That is enough to make me happy... aqui un breve video  muy rapido

The short video is really short - under 20 seconds! but there are chairs available to sit and watch it multiple times. We however rushed on immediately to the next part.

Tina Bey[es→en]: here is my bar

Thirza.Ember: good place to stop at the bar!

James.Atlloud: my drink is a Cosmo please

Shelenn Ayres: was lost haha

Rosanna Galvani: fantastico!!

Shelenn Ayres: where is tina? a beautiful exhibits as always thank you for the invite

We finally stopped for a moment - on water! 

James Atlloud: my childhood bath tub!

Thirza Ember: there must be 100 figures here, maybe more... wow

James Atlloud: easily more than 100 - fun mesh!!

Thirza Ember: this is my first water-borne skateboard

Star Ravenhurst: Yes usually they sink

James Atlloud: it works well Thirza!

Luminalore Resident: I almost forgot too. I was watching a friend's livestream and they mentioned HG Safari was on today

Tina Bey[es→en]: can we continue?

Thirza Ember: yes please

Rosanna Galvani: io sto facendo un po' di foto

Tina Bey[es→en]: this is the town square

Jupiter Rowland: Okay, you can't jump if you keep hitting the wrong key.

Tina Bey[es→en]: I love that we collide

Dings Digital: I like this chaotic terrain, feels good

Luminalore Resident: It's very colourful. :D

Kimm Starr: I kind of liked the whole skateboard experience

Star Ravenhurst: Skateboards are fun

Kimm Starr: Love love love this world exhibit Tina!!!!!!!!!!

Tina Bey[es→en]: get together here again, follow me so you don't get lost

Thirza Ember: Star, can you please tell us something about this exhibit?

Star Ravenhurst: I gave Tina full freedom to create whatever she wants. And this is it!  I knew it would be fun and colorful. I think the idea of the skateboards is to add some fun and a quick way to get around the region to see as much as possible

Thirza Ember: in your gallery how long do you give an artist to work? do they have a time limit?

Star Ravenhurst: In Tina's case, she has had longer than usual. With problems with the grid and my avatar, it took a long time to fix those things. So Tina had a lot of time to come up with ideas and do the work.

Tina Bey[es→en]: here you can breathe a little

Thirza Ember: the quality and originality of the mesh is wonderful

Original Character: yeah the description says the regions id "by various artists" ...do they each get a piece or is it more like a time?

Star Ravenhurst: So far there have been two artists that have exhibited here. I usually give the whole region, a 2x2 t the artist. In the future, I am thinking since it is such a large space, asking a few artists to come in and do something.  Maybe even a collaboration between all of them. That could be fun.

Thirza Ember: i would love to see some of the Mobius artists come and do something here... a sort of pan grid thing

Star Ravenhurst: I haven't have a lot of time to devote to the gallery, but I should have more time and energy to spend on it now

Original Character: Yeah that might be cool, or have like a gallery where each artist has a parcel

Tina Bey[es→en]: I like this place a lot

Rosanna Galvani[it→en]: Everything is beautiful Tina. Thank you Thirza for this tour

Thirza Ember: that's a lot of space to fill!... no lag here, at least for me

Cooper Swizzle: shouts: Awesome exhibit Tina

Kimm Starr: It is amazing and soooo you!, It screams your name! So much fun riding around on a skateboard too!

Yara Eilde: Thanks, Tina, for showing us. Your figures are so imaginative. And thanks for sharing them with us.

Tina Bey[es→en]: let's get into the disco

Tina Bey[es→en]: I warned that it would be a different safari

Star Ravenhurst: It certainly is different!

James Atlloud: Luv it

Shelenn Ayres: tina is one of my favorite artists :) ... good to see everyone too

 Rosanna Galvani: Bravissima

Tina Bey[es→en]: I'm happy to see you all here

Tina Bey[es→en]: At the entrance there is a sign explaining.  It has all the works so that they can take them as a souvenir

Rosanna Galvani[it→en]: it's nice to see these works all together

Thirza Ember: i love the textures she does, so original

James Atlloud: Tina, you make mesh look easy, but I'm sure it is not!

Shelenn Ayres: an interesting interpretation of color vibrations and fun chaos

Lavia Lavine: I think it's amazing, it gives me a kind of Alice in Wonderland feel.  I love it. Fantastic job Tina!

Tina.Bey[es→en]: yes, the color, which makes us creators suffer so much

Thirza Ember: anyone want to say in 5 words what Tina's art reminds them of?

Forest Azure: what .. how.. why .. oh, that's just 3

Lavia Lavine: Alice in Wonderland.

Star Ravenhurst: Lavia, so true

Shelenn Ayres joined us on the Safari and took the opportunity to speak about the upcoming Opensim event, OSFest. The date has not been set yet, as the organizers want people to have a say in determining both the date and the theme of the 2026 edition. 

Shelenn Ayres: btw we only have 11 votes so far on the dates or OSFest! if you haven't voted please do that in osfest server or send me a dm and i will proxy your vote... I very much hope everyone here participates whether on osfest grid or home grids!

Original Character: I'm in the OSfest discord so I'll take a look at what's going on, has the theme been decided already?

Shelenn Ayres: see polling channel... vote on dates then we vote on themes

Original Character: I really wanna  try getting a parcel there some time but I better haul to make my models and stuff to put there

Shelenn Ayres: the way osfest works since last year is people can choose to exhibit on osfest or at home grids by scheduling calendar time... first come first serve ! i need to upgrade the grid before we open to build for those wanting a parcel

Luminalore Resident: Can i get a link to the OSFest Discord?  

Shelenn Ayres: https://discord.gg/vJNEDd375Z

Tina Bey[es→en]: Thanks for coming,  It was fantastic, messy the way I like it hehehe

Tina Bey[es→en]: Thank you for this opportunity

Koshari Mahana: I love all of your work Tina, thanks for having us.

Yara Eilde: Yeah, everything's so cheerful

Shelenn Ayres: tina is everybody's bey hehhe

Lavia Lavine: This work is a "cheerer upper"!

Luminalore Resident: Time to teleport. :D

 Star Ravenhurst: Thank you Tina for this wonderful exhibit. You have out done yourself! Bravo!

James Atlloud: Thank you Tina - this was fun!! I very much enjoyed it.

Jupiter Rowland: Well, then see you on the other side!

HG Address: grid.tenthdimension.org:26002:Imagination Island

Safari Gets Sky High

Marlon Wayne: Hello everybody

Yara Eilde: Hallo Karsten :-)

James Atlloud: I feel some crashin' in my future!

Karsten Runningbear: hi james

Dings Digital: that is the kind of optimism we need

Karsten Runningbear: most people crash only one time :)

Karsten Runningbear: hello everyone welcome to our little airfield... we made some extra things... first please change visibility to 1024m if possible. Its a 6x6 var sim. We made airplanes usable for everyone, 2 fighter planes, which can use a race timer, or fly just for fun, a rescue helicopter, 3 waterplanes, and a Zeppelin, scenic flight with explanations.

James Atlloud: PLANE!!

This was our second stop of the week and what a treat!

On Centauri

 Our first stop this week was on Geo Portal's Outofthisworld grid. It's dedicated to his unique vision of the future and while Geo is not personally a mesh maker he has surrounded himself with some great talents, and on this grid you'll find the work of Luna Lunaria, Tina Bey and Symphony Vive, whose work was particularly being showcased during this visit.

We were provided with comfortable chairs, somewhere for us to sit as Symphony and Geo explained the ideas behind the region and of the grid in general.

Centauri arrival area

Geo Portal:  welcome to the last city of frontier Centauri creation of Symphony Vive we meet and she collaborate with this futuristic creation

Geo Portal

Symphony Vive: ty  Geo,  your ideas  and vision is  inspirational

Thirza Ember: you make a good team!

Geo Portal[es→en]: she create many creation at her mesh lab and I see ask her she can make city and she said ok and this is the beginning great futurist city to visit and explore  Rios  is to another helper and Zafiro,  plus Tina Bey. Also my friend Luna she is not was us anymore, only in spirit

MARICRUZ WORLD[es→en]: you have the imagination for movies

Thirza Ember: how long have you been working on this, Symphony?

Symphony Vive

Symphony Vive: We  Geo  and  I  have  been developing  this grid for several months....   bit  by  bit as  Geo  creates more areas to create the  vision.

Monica's Venice

 It sometimes happens on Safari that there's a last minute emergency. It's a tribute to the platform and its people that this is a very rare event, but it happened this week when just about twenty minutes before go time, our lovely host Monica Chanel discovered her internet wasn't working so she would not be able to join us to show us around her build, on Bloodmoon Grid, called Venice.

Monica Chanel, on her region VENICE

Thirza Ember: Here we are in VENICE on Bloodmoon grid

SoA BAD: Don't forget to give me the 10 EURO entrance fee

Star Ravenhurst: Loaded fast for me too

Dings Digital: ooo nice, that is where the good books are

Thirza Ember: Sadly just a few moments ago, our host Monica discovered she could not get inworld, she has problems with her internet, she is very sad about that

Lavia Lavine: Awww that stinks, I would be pretty upset too

Thirza Ember: but we can take a bit of a tour in company with Pierre here Pierre is co owner of the grid, so he can tell us a little bit about Bloodmoon grid as we walk around

Lavia Lavine: The internet is unpredictable

Pierre Segrov: Welcome everyone

Luscious Leshmor

 Our second stop this week was on Genesis Roleplay Grid, and our host Lavia Lavine has woven many great stories on her various builds. This time, we went to see Leshmor a luscious fantasy region with a deep and rich backstory to every part.

The official landing point where the Beacon is located is a small room, possibly a prison, in an ancient tower. We were soon teleported away but not before Taarna stepped up on the table! 
Dings Digital: beer and bread, who needs more?

Thirza Ember: Taarna if you're going to stand on the table, you better dance

Pete Taylor: cosy :)

Taarna Welles: ?? I'm on the floor in my screen?  But I can dance :)

ArtDestiny Turns Five

This month, ArtDestiny grid celebrates five years of fun, art, and contributions to the Opensim community. It was fifteen years ago, back in 2011, that RL couple Loru and Tryad found their way to OpenSim.  

Like so many of us, they were previously in Second Life, and after making 'the great leap' they made their home on OSGrid. 

While everyone on ArtDestiny grid is a talented and valued opensimmer, cultivating a wonderful sense of international camaraderie, there's no doubt that Loru is outstanding, and is a much loved figure across Opensim. She has always given so much time and so much of her talent, patience, and understanding to our community, I'm a huge fan not only of what she has achieved, but the way in which she has done it. 

At the Hypergrid International Expo conference last year she gave a wonderful talk about the need for tolerance, for embracing the opportunities of virtual worlds and living our best life here rather than trying to bully others into conforming with our prejudices or ideas, or trying to turn a misunderstanding or a difference of opinion into some pointless drama. As if the world didn't have enough drama. Loru's words and wisdom often come to mind when I come across someone who wants to play pixel police across the hypergrid, I admire her very much. 

Pangea Festival 2026

The 2026 edition of the Arts and Culture festival on Pangea grid is about to get started, don't miss this opportunity to enjoy imaginative builds and thought provoking exhibits. 

The festival, first held in 2022,  is organized by Lampithaler Artist with of course lots of tech input from the other Pangea residents, and the event is held on various regions all across Pangea, over many months. 

Lampithaler Artist

Events are posted on the Pangea website and also in places like the Events page on OSW, in the Pangea facebook group and so on. 

The whole thing kicks off on Friday April 24 at 8pm in Germany, 11am Grid time, with of course a dance party. It's a chance to celebrate the 20 years of Virtual Cologne - yes, all the way back in 2006,  Marlon originally had a virtual Cologne region on Second Life. Since then of course he discovered the opportunities of Opensim, and Koeln is at the heart of his grid Pangea!