Flaking Out

Cornflakes Week, the last seven days of February, has come around again and once again it's time to celebrate a uniquely Opensim tradition.

This year on Wednesday 25 February, at 12 noon Grid time, HG Safari will be celebrating Cornflakes Week on the Cornflakes Tribute region, which also has a shop area with extras inspired by or based on Cornflakes creations - the tp is by the arrival point.

Cornflakes 

Not linked to any real world national or religious festival, it's a time when people can just be silly in their own, unhinged, untethered, utterly Opensim style. 

Some of Cornflakes' stuff might be characterized as solo creations, a single statue, but far more of it is made to form a tableau, each one poignant, with a story to tell if you have time to look for it. Here's just one of the many. 

Tying together the everyday with the fantastic, they represent everything that is best about authentic, hand-made art that is born from combining an idea with the trial and error painstaking process of building with prims. There really is nothing quite like it.

Message in a bottle... in a bottle

The primmy creations of Cornflakes Woodcock are key to the festival, because his genius with prim twisting was on another level, and his art is instantly recognizable. No matter how often we've had events on this sim, there always seem to be things there that you may not have noticed because of the way the sim is set up, anarchic in proportions and pattern.

Car for fish

The artwork here leaps from broad humor like a pooping dog or a cute fat elephant, to this astonishing scorpion...

Scorpion

As often as possible, the HG Safari version of the party has been held on his legacy region called Cornflakes Tribute. But on OSgrid and other places, you'll find Cornflakes content very much part of the event too. 

Cornflakes Week transforms Event Plaza each year

Cornflakes didn't start this tradition, but his story kind of inspired the idea of a silly event based on uniquely opensim creations. You probably know about it but if not, you can read it here and here. 

Not just his story, also his incredibly detailed creations, his modesty, his offbeat take on the world, his rejection of the idea that everything and everybody has a price - all that is really the best of Opensim, for many of us, and it's a spirit we need to keep alive in a constantly more selfish, grabbish, short-cutting world. Struggle is a huge part of this art, it's not all laughs. Just like life.

For a long time after Cornflakes died, the region he was best known for was kept online by his friend Wordfromthe Wise, to whom Cornflakes had vouchsafed the .oar. 

Wordfromthe Wise, friend of Cornflakes Woodcock,
preserved the Cornflakes Tribute region for many years

Word moved the sim to his own small grid Scripted Magic so it continued to be visitable by those who knew where to look for it. But with time, Word's interests changed and his grid went offline. In 2025, Word very kindly passed the .oar to me so that the region could be put back online and it is now part of the HG Safari grid. Come visit any time, and enjoy the silly!

HG Address: grid.hgsafari.org:58002:Cornflakes Tribute