Safari Jukes it Out

Unadecal Masala: personally, I am a sucker for wrists 

The Jukebox was invented by Louis Glass, and the first commercial use of this iconic music maker was in 1889, in the city of San Francisco.  An intriguing and beautiful invention, it brought together technology and art in one magical box, very much like the two builds we visited this week, in two completely different styles, but both pretty mindblowing!

Aphra Hendrix at Jukebox

 We visited Coopersville on Kitely, the enormous Edwardian region owned by Koshari Mahana, where you can enjoy a wide range of activities, from ballooning to old time movies to bumper cars, all in a perfect historical setting. You can read about that on the post after this one. Before that, we jumped over to Cherry Manga's brand new Jukebox installation, on CopyKat grid. Complete hypergrid addresses are, as always, at the end of this post.

Cherry Manga is one of the most sought-after artists in Opensim, and Jukebox is a fascinating build that revisits and relocates lots of her best creations from over the past decade or so. Using Advanced Lighting, which enhances immensely their complexity and beauty, each installation is accompanied by a piece of music that is significant to the theme of the build. Use the retro Jukebox as a teleporter to move around the various rooms!

Well that's what you're supposed to do with the Jukebox, but this being the Safari, right from the get go, there was a certain amount of abusive sitting going on. 

By the way, pro tip, if you arrive at Jukebox and do not see the grid pattern, then you don't have Advanced Lighting turned on. See your local Firestorm dealer for more information on that.

Han Held: I'm sure I'm pushing ppl around, I'm afraid to land -sorry about that!

Kelso Uxlay: Fantastic! Cherry is the absolute master of OpenSim

Roland Francis:  I'm in awe with this setting

Thirza Ember: each room's so different, even though the art is familiar to anyone who knows Cherry's work. Seeing it all together makes one realize how diverse her output is. With some artists, every piece they make is similar, but Cherry is very innovative

Cherry Manga: saying in Voice about old stuff recycled lol

Thirza Ember: well, that just means it's a green build 

Cherry Manga: lolol yes, it's saved assets, at least ;)

Thirza Ember: did you think of the songs after you made the installation, or while you were building it here?

Cherry Manga: for this green recycling, after ;)

Thirza Ember: hehe so even the music is retrospective

Nara.Nook: It's a perfect place for setting your imagination loose. I love the variety of musical styles

Cherry Manga: everything makes sense with the music, well, to me... :)

Roland Francis: Totally in love with this one

Roffellos Kisses: a dream of the last plant shared by all Cherry ?

Cherry Manga: it's a sad story, the plant, but probably a future one...the last plant on earth..it's not a dream, an apocalyptic nightmare... and the beautiful and pure voice of Portishead :))

Dabici Straulino: Cherry est-ce que c'est le même principe que la notion d'esperience dans SL ?

Cherry Manga: oui, j'ai fait le même délire sur SL avec les experiences

Dabici Straulino: vraiment magnifique

Kelso Uxlay: des animation forcées sans demander de permission - génial

Cherry Manga: oui, j'aime bien le forcing immersif, I'd love to force voice to "force singing" also!

Cherry Manga on Jukebox

There are half a dozen different builds, - and they are very different in style, color, musical accompaniment and 'forced' animations (the kind that capture your avie and make you take up a pose or dance that matches the theme of the build) - so make sure you visit them all, we just didn't have time to completely absorb them all, in the 50 minutes or so that we had on the region. But for most of the approximately 25 present, lag seemed to be minimal, even though we were rushing around randomly. Kudos, or rather Shoshan, to Lady Copykat.  What a great trip! Our second hour was on Kitely, you can read about that on the post called Super Coopersville

HG Address:

Jukebox by Cherry Manga           grid.copykat.ovh:12000:Jukebox