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Mal explaining something technical on Inworld Review |
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Inworld Review Returns
Thursday, September 4, 2025
Safari Gets Desolate
Tosha Tyran: I just woke up, am still somewhat uncoordinated
Cherry Manga: coffee?
Tosha Tyran: I got myself a beer - more appropriate I thought, haha
Thirza Ember: can I have a red bull instead of coffee?
Cherry Manga: omg, lol! you both are savages!
Yes, we are savages, which is a good thing because the second destination of this week's HG Safari tour - the Fall season premiere for 2025 - was on a sim that savages thrive on. Well, to be fair, anyone who loves post apocalyptic landscapes, zombies, aliens, elephants, or witty posters, or an adventure playground, or lovely grungy freebies including some great PBR materials would like this new sim Desolate Expanse by Cherry Manga ... yeah I guess that is pretty much everyone. Just about two months old, it's a concept sim constructed with the help of visits by Cherry to some of the best loved Freebie purveyors in Opensim. And while it's desolate, it's definitely not despairing. You'll need to be wide awake to tour this sim without missing all the lovely details, and gifties too.
It all started with a small disappointment for many of us.Thursday, June 26, 2025
Free Expression
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Cube, Cherry Freebies, Pangea Grid |
Thursday, November 28, 2024
The Stars of Exupery
Thursday, August 29, 2024
M is for Music
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Morlita at her new, as yet unfinished, gallery on sim MorlitaM on OSGrid. |
Sunday, August 18, 2024
Dreams on the 10th Dimension
Friday, July 12, 2024
Lost Summer
It was the year when we had a huge party to wish Bon Voyage to Justin when he left to go back to RL, Total Sorbet's Outbreak was the breakout pastime of OSGrid, and Opensimworld was in its infancy - before the highs and lows of Traffic Classification, and the Box with its merry band of prolix commentators.

Thursday, May 23, 2024
Cherry on Hie
Thursday, January 11, 2024
HIE - Art on Craft
Friday, December 29, 2023
Safari Calendar 2024
Thursday, July 13, 2023
Missing the Sky
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Dew Drop Islands, by Azi Az and Danger Lytton |
Thursday, June 8, 2023
Anatomy of an Artist
At the end you'll find the HG Address spelled out for you - and just to say THANK YOU for reading this blog, for following it, for visiting the destinations whether with the Safari group or on your own - it means a lot to our kind hosts! - and for all the comments, suggestions, help and support. It's been a great season, and there is so much more out there to see.
Sunday, August 7, 2022
Cherry Manga 3: OS and SL
Thursday, June 30, 2022
The Gift
The idea of doing an event this season to mark the 122nd birthday of Antoine de Saint-Exupery was already on my mind. His most famous text is The Little Prince, written in French but translated into over 250 languages and dialects, making it one of the most international and best loved books in the world.
But who to take on the job of imagining the book for opensim? It could only be one person, Wizardoz Chrome, machinimer, conceptual artist, word lover and a brilliant and delightful collaborator, not to mention one of the founding members of the Safari. She soon involved others, including Tina Bey, Art Blue, Venus Adored, and Cherry Manga, who presented each of us with a white animesh rose, freshly invented by her, on our arrival on sim Exupery. A truly international group to celebrate these sublime words that have resonated in hearts all around the planet.
Thursday, February 24, 2022
Corn-o-graphy
This week is Cornflakes Week, a festival of fun that is exclusively OpenSim. Only a handful of grids are participating this year (we were up to 11 grids back in 2017) but maybe Cornflakes 2023 can prove to be BIG for original OpenSim silliness, if the world doesn't end up a cinder before then,
Put it in your calendar just in case, February 22-28, 2023.
Just to show that the concept can be modded, brought forward from the aughts to the twenties, and from pure prim to magnificent mesh, Cherry Manga took a journey through the creations of Cornflakes and came up with her own take on gentle fun. The build is still visitable in the sky above our clubhouse on OSgrid, and guitarman Whirli Placebo agreed to sing for us. But before that, we popped over to see fireworks conjurer Wordofthe Wise, who kindly invited us to see a copy of the region where all the Corn fun began.
As always, the addresses of the destinations are at the end of the post.
Monday, April 11, 2016
Chasing the Safari
This week the first destination was something of a load test for the group, and by all accounts it stood up well to the onslaught of the safari waifs and strays. The grid in question, Sailonbye, (full HG Addresses at the end of the post) is a mini grid that brings together three of opensim's greatest virtues: a sense of place, a talented builder of original content, and a generous heart.
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Safari starts at a fest and ends up in Jail
Two trips, and a shorter safari than usual, yet it felt like we encompassed the universe in this our 79th outing. First up, a visit to AvatarFest. This four day festival, part show and tell, part concert, was a huge success both socially and technically.
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Thirza and James sitting on the Safari elephant |
Thirza Ember: I'm so glad we get to celebrate your Fest tonight
Han Held: I am too! I'm glad y'all are coming and that Truelie is performing for us. I'm really proud of everyone and the way we all came together.
Thirza Ember: this time, I plan to actually go look at the exhibits on avatarfest, not just dance
Han Held: I think a lot of people are, and I hope that they come by before the end of the month
Sunbeam Magic: it's such a nice small town feeling , easy to walk paths and not too many exhibits to overwhelm you. and Tom had his DJ debut there, he is great bluesy jazzy guy lol
Tom Frost: now that the Metro stammtisch [grid meeting] is only once every month I will have much more opportunity to be with the safari !
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Safari Summer... of Arts
Apart from the general insanity, and the opportunity to make new friends, the underlying purpose of the Safari is to practice grid jumping, that's why we usually have two three or even four different destinations each week. But due to a last minute cancellation, the 72nd consecutive Safari was all Metropolis all the time. And boy, what a fantastic time it was too!

Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Fun with the Frenchies
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Accueil, Francogrid's welcome area, with TP parlor. Build by DJ Phil and Cherry Manga |
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Safari In Wonderland
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Clustersled! |
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Cherry Manga's new Alice build on Francogrid |
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L'Hiver makes you shiver |