The GMF 2008 sponsored by Languagelab has come to an end. We had great DJ's performing, awesome live artists, lots of maxed streams and lovely gadgets. Now we want to hear from you, which performer deserves the $L50,000 in prize money plus $L50,000 worth of in-world merchandise. To vote in this poll you need to be a registered user (how to, or scroll down) to our website and - of course - log in. Voting ends on the 14th of October.

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Isn't there a song that goes 'all good things come to an end?' (Ah yes, by Miss Furtado) Well, the Global Music Festival sponsored by Languagelab was definitely such a good thing that's now after a month of music fun is ending. With more than 40 performers from all over the world we've definitely rocked the grid during the GMF!

If you have not taken a look at the Languagelab website, do so now! ;) But don't worry or shed your tears yet, we still have a few things planned starting October 4th starting 11am SLT:

After much deliberation selection has been narrowed down to 24 machinimas, that are now up for your consideration.  Only the top 12 will go on to the Rezzable Machinima Festival.  Please take the time to review and vote on who you would like to see at the festival!  This is a chance to celebrate the talented machinima makers by showcasing their work at the festival.  Good luck to everyone.

The "Passions of Black Swan" event has come to a close after twenty of SL's most talented designers came together to bring you their own take on the magic of Black Swan through their creations.  Timeless Modeling Agency will showcase these designs one last time at 2 pm SL today to finish the event with a flourish.  Be sure to arrive early and follow the path to be able to have a front row seat as the models walk the runway one last time.

Wizzy has a vision of the 8th Dimension. Check it out starting in October over at the Rezzable Visions sim.

She is the first participant in our Visions series where we are giving over a sim to creative people to unleash something amazing and bold. Wizzy is setting the standard very high with this complex and exciting build.

Information and Ideas Behind the Build from the Artist:

What is the E8 Polytope?

A “Polytope” is a higher dimension polyhedron and the E8 Polytope lives in the 8th Dimension.

The team over at Phatcat's is putting the whole area up for auction on eBay. Check info on their site here  Why would they do this and what is it worth to someone else?

The why is easy enough--too much work to maintain a popular site and not enough revenue from running it.

Eventually anyone would get tired and need to move on. But why is running an area in SL so unprofitable?  Answer: costs and complexity are increasing over time, while new users are not growing--so how much is your customer base worth when it is not on aggressive growth. Not enough is what it is.  It's a great deal for Linden Labs to get people to work and make "wonderous" stuff--for less than what you can make stuffing cold cuts into a sub sandwich. We know Linden is making dough (and a lot apparently) but where's the upside for the mainstream content creators and area operators? Is the grid only profitable for porno and land speculators?

RightasRain already mentioned in the previous post: 'We begged for more and more and it still wasn't enough. I got this Avatar song rattling around in my head now. If you missed this moment in grid history...too bad really, but you can still replay and replay and replay the song here.' For those dared to doubt his words, we've now made available the lyrics & downloadable mp3 for 'Prim in my hand'.  To get & listen to 'Return of the Avatar', just take a look at the Avatar page.

When Clio Cardiff was looking for inspiration to create her "Passions of Black Swan" dress, she found it at the very heart of the sim.  Her gown "Embrace" came from the statue in the middle of Black Swan depicting a man and a woman tightly holding each other.  The statue is one of the many pieces from Light Waves. This master of prim sculpture first envisioned Black Swan and gave it life, especially with his towering statues placed within it like the one Clio loves.

Be "Embraced"

One of the reasons Rezzable decided to do the "Passions of Black Swan" fashion event was the smashing success of "Fashions Inspired By Black Swan" a few months ago.  Part of that success was due to the creativity of Callie Cline and Nebulosus Severine.  Both Callie and Nebulosus ("Nebby" for short) graciously decided to come back to Black Swan and get inspired by the passions expressed within the sim after they both had a great experience the first time.

Hot machinima video from the recent inworld Fashion Show for the Passions of Black Swan event.  See the latest, greatest designs in motion on the most gorgeous sim in the metaverse. Top virtual world fashionistas respond to the challenge of art at Black Swan.

Big thanks to everyone involved in the event and check video out below!

This is also the start of our 15fps of Fame vid program. Watch for the film crews across our sims and be ready to jump and show your virtual world to the real world. 

Vid shot and edited by PG Broadbent www.ididthisfilm.com.

Do you love machinimas? Give Voishe some ideas on which to nominate for best of SL Machinimas here.