While my country is in lockdown and now also has a curfew till at least 9 february, it’s a good thing we are able to travel the world in Second Life. I’ve done this for the past 13 years anyway, so in all fairness I do not feel all that much different with all the…
Cravone City
Some nights I just want to go to place and take pictures. Images to play around with in Photoshop (I am still learning!). It’s something I enjoy, both being in a cool place and finding objects or angles for a picture and afterwards trying out all kinds of stuff in Photoshop and see if the…
Back to the office
Once upon a time, before the year 2020, it was not unusual to have a day job that required you to leave your home and go to an office to work. Sounds crazy, right?But it is true, working has not always been sitting in your sweatpants behind a laptop at the kitchen table, while you…
Dear Nico – ‘Unbetrayed’
Hello dear readers! First of all I wish to express my gratitude to Caitlin for giving me a platform for my column and therefore being able to help the many Second Life residents who are struggling with burning questions concerning relationships, manners and style! In my Second Life I have dealt with almost every drama…
Introducing my guest blogger: Nicoli Batista!
I am proud and honoured to introduce to you one of my oldest and best friends in Second Life, Nicoli Batista, who will be writing her columns on my blog! Nicoli, which is an alias for privacy reasons, is one of the most down to earth and empathic persons I know in Second Life. She…
The Antfarm Light Gallery
Are you in the mood for something different? Something colourful and epic? Endless tunnels with lights and music and gorgeous paintings on the crossings? Then you need to make some time and visit Regi Yifu’s Antfarm Gallery of Light on the LEA 4 region. It is fun and beautifully made, just enable the experience and…
The Valley of the Pondering Eggs
Yes, you read that right: Pondering Eggs. In a valley. That is where I spent my Monday night and it was lovely! The Valley of the Pondering Eggs (A) is an installation by Num Bing-Howlett and Clifton Howlett, the creators of the Empire of Dreaming Books a while ago. The Pondering Eggs are huge, well…eggs….
Mystery Guests, a review of MAEVA Bora Bora
A few weeks ago Dirk Lemon, owner of the The SL Hotel Inspector website, asked me if I would like to do a review of one of Second Life’s luxury holiday resorts. Of course I was more than happy to do this, I love his website and who doesn’t like a vacation! Because a holiday…
Yet another New Year party invite
Originally posted on What the Huck?:
https://youtu.be/3XTNuhsb9ik Video by Caitlin Tobias New Year parties? Never liked them all that much, if I’m honest. All that standing around waiting for an arbitrary moment of time to arrive and trying to find things to talk about with friends of friends you’ll later on in the year cross…
A weekend trip to the Lotus Palace Retreat
Going on vacation in Second Life is really a thing. And also a thing I recommend to everyone in need of a few days of safe traveling. And aren’t we all? The other week Huckleberry Hax and I got invited by Ian Garrett (Beric01.resident) to stay the weekend in the new Lotus Palace Retreat. Ian…
Tufted Velvet – never goes out of style
(advertorial) After summer, it is time to go back inside and make my home ready for autumn and winter. And no, I am not even thinking about decorating for Halloween – nor do I feel the need to use the typical fall colours, yet! Perhaps that changes in a few weeks, but for now I…
STÖMOL takes second place at SUPERNOVA film festival
Originally posted on What the Huck?:
Friday night was the concluding night of the 2020 SUPERNOVA Digital Film Festival, and to see it out a live awards event was held on Zoom. SUPERNOVA is the first film festival I’ve ever entered and I was delighted to hear, back in August, that STÖMOL had been selected…
Interview Huckleberry Hax with Ivar Zeile about STÖMOL
Originally posted on What the Huck?:
https://vimeo.com/447983110 Yesterday afternoon I spent a very pleasant hour talking to Ivar Zeile, Founder and Creative Director of the SUPERNOVA Digital Film Festival, about STÖMOL and filming in Second Life. STÖMOL has been selected for the festival, and is one of two feature-length films showing. 2020 is the first…
Kidaka Resort, our vacation in Second Life
Have you ever been on an all inclusive holiday in Second Life? I haven’t. Well until this week! Huck surprised me with a fancy vacation to a luxury resort, the Kidaka Resort, where he booked a lodge in the wilderness for us. He only told me to pack for ‘safari’ and to take some days…
STÖMOL, what a journey it was!
When Huck asked me to pose for a ‘short video clip he had in mind’, in February 2019, we could never have imagined it would turn out in a full feature-length movie complete with a private premiere, an interview in Second Life’s Live Talk-show ‘Lab Gab’ with Strawberry Linden, and interview in Eclipse Magazine ánd…
Voice-acting in a Second Life movie
When talking to Strawberry Linden in last week’s Lab Gab one of the questions was about the voice acting in STÖMOL and if we hired actors for that. The past year, when I told friends about what we were doing, this question also came up a few times ‘how do you film speech?’ Well, we…
