Yesterday was Talk Like A Pirate day, so we're doing the Pirate thing on Safari this week...
DESTINATION 1 Pirates on Dereos
Vivienne and Victor Clary welcome us to their seafaring regions, for a dance (and maybe some freebie shopping!)
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DESTINATION 2 Pirates on Digiworldz
Strannik Zipper invites us to come dance on his region, Pirates Atoll, and also to hear a Dramatic Reading by Emil Jannings, taken from Herman Melville's famous novel, Moby Dick
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It's been a while since the Safari visited Futurelab and South Horizon, regions that form one of the best art and performance regions on Metropolis, and our return was a veritable four course feast of words, colors, music and remarkable images.
Juliette Surrealdreaming, the perfect hostess, led us seamlessly from place to place as we sampled a literary tribute, an original installation, a curated show of 'rl' art, and a fabulous light show. HG Addresses of the places we visited at the end of the post.
Here are the details of today's Safari trip
Two spectacular destinations this week
DESTINATION 1 (90 minutes)
Snow Crash on Metropolis, by Art Blue and Juliette Surrealdreaming
This is a performance to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the novel Snow Crash, which gave rise to the vw use of the word 'metaverse'.
This performance was originally part of a Second Life event.
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DESTINATION 2 (90 minutes) Here Comes The SUN! A party to celebrate the contribution of Sunbeam Magic to the opensim community, with music, dancing, and more. Our host is Bill Blight, and there will be lively music and dancing.
Wear your wings!
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Some people step away from their online presence with a big, drama filled dust-up, or do the shock-overnight-exit; some make a long fond public goodbye, and others disappear gracefully. It's a choice all of us eventually will make, and there is no right way to do it, for behind the screens and scenes, a life our virtual friends can only hazily perceive is going through concrete changes. When someone moves on, we, the friends left behind, have a duty to respect and remember.
One of the most intriguing parts of virtual life is to muse on the names people pick for themselves. It is a little romance about the character behind the avatar.
Minethere Always, or Athanasios, is one of those names full of hidden meaning. You know you're dealing with a poet, with a life full of incident and feeling. That's the first thing I learned about Miney.
Well, maybe not the code, but for sure we broke Neiferleaf, at least for a little while. Yet, would it really be a Safari if there was no crashing?
Exactly.
Back after a two month break, over 40 people joined - or tried to join - the Safari this week, a sign that the interest in opensim destinations remains as strong as ever. Two really interesting places were our goals on this our 155th outing - Vibel grid, and CitizenFour on Osgrid - complete HG addresses at the end of the post.
Today is the first day of the 2017/2018 season of Safari trips around the hyperverse, so welcome back to the crashy, crazy, creative and often semi-nude adventures of group hypergridding.
There are some new features of the Safari.
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| Mobius Grid Safari base |
We have a new base on Mobius Grid, courtesy of Serra Royale. The new base was put together by Wizardoz Chrome, and contains some information about our trips and some freebies.
Spike Sol has added some HG Safari information, in both English and German, on the Weltraumbahnhof, the hypergrid portal base on her grid, Soloton.
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| Weltraumbahnhof |
The Safari is on vacation for a few weeks, but of course, that does not mean that opensim sightseeing comes to a halt. This week and indeed right up to July 23, there is a Summer festival on DeReOs grid, well worth hypergridding over to see it - HG Address at the end of the post, as usual.
Here's the rundown of this year's Sommerevent Wednesday 12 July, 9 pm The traditional 'Wednesday party' with Samira (12.00pm SLT)
Thursday 13 July, 8 pm Western party with Sylvia from Nextlife (11.00 am SLT)
Saturday 15 July, 9 pm Wolem Wobbit Live blues concert (12.00 pm SLT)
Wednesday, July 19, 9 pm Samira's party (12.00 pm SLT)
Saturday 22 July, 8 pm Kueperpunkt Comedy Decaffeinated and out of control (11.00 am SLT)
Saturday 22 July, 9 pm Rocking music with DJ Prince Von Halberstadt and announcement of the winner of the Exhibitor Contest (12.00 pm SLT)
Sunday July 23,, 4 pm Quiz with Vivienne (7.00 am SLT)
Sunday July 23, 8 pm Kai and Marina Baer with their 'showtruck' (11.00 am SLT)
DeReOs is a relatively young grid, but its origins are venerable. It began
as a group of friends, and then, as people's expertise increased, a group of regions on OSGrid. The name comes from "German (Deutsche) Regions of OpenSim". From SL to OSgrid, in some cases then to Metropolis, and finally to a grid of their own, these friends have all got many years of virtual experience, in technical, artistic and social terms. More about that below.
