The Mothership Has Left!

Sunday, June 27th, 2010: The Greenies Went Home

Thanks to everyone who stopped in to say goodbye to the Greenies as they took off for the Rezzable Grid!  There was much exploding and fireworks to celebrate their departure (I'll try to post photos, soon).  All that remains is the blast crater, a bottle rocket, and a mysterious green glow. Be sure to click on the rocket to follow the Greenies and get more information about the Heritage Key and Rezzable grids- but do it soon, the sim will be gone forever after June 30th.

We have been too busy partying in the Greenies for the past week and we are exhausted. The big day is coming very soon. The end of June Greenies are moving to the Rezzable grid for good. They have already packed their boxes and selling some of the stuff that have been features of the sim for the past three years. So now its the time to own one  of these pieces . They are going to be a collector piece soon Hurry up and buy your copy while they are there . TP to the Greenies Kitchen now Ohh and I forgot we have tons of freebies everywhere so TP to greenies Now

Greenies Home in SL to Hold Final Event on June 23rd, 2010

My Second Life began with an alien abduction.

I was two weeks old, proudly wearing a skirt I'd made out of an Atoll terrain texture, and trying to figure out how to use the SL building tools in the Wanderton Sandbox  (at least I didn't have a cube on my head...).  Out of nowhere, I was accosted by a little green man who called himself Light Waves, and my life (in all worlds) would never be the same again.

By now, most of you are familiar with Light Waves' mischievous creations: diminutive aliens that delight in causing mayhem wherever they go; original characters that lit the spark of imagination across SL and inspired thousands of visitors over a period of three years.  

I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to build a home for these little green rascals with my talented and amazing partner, Pavig Lok, and working with the Greenies opened up the world of SL to us in beautiful and unexpected ways.

Remember when All Truth could be put in 5 bullet points?  On a series of transparencies. Projected on an overhead projector.  And presented in a linear sequence with roots tracing back to the old fashioned slide projector.  What do you do with that neatly linear truth when you move into virtual reality?    

You  begin with the horseless carriage model of technical innovation.   You make a carriage with an internal combustion engine.  What do you do with it?  That is obvious.  It is a carriage without a horse.  So you will use it the same way you use a carriage with a horse.  Except you don’t have to bother with the horse. 

Same way with the bullet points and the neat line sequence of “slides”.    The technology has come to be called “PowerPoint.”    So you go into virtual reality and ask people, “How do we do PowerPoint here?”