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Posted on: February 20, 2006

The tides of history roll on, and the assertions of the uninformed are welcome. I'll share a little anecdote: back when I used to make music (which seems so very far away), I played with a lot of hip-hop scratchin' noises. For example, on a track named "Carrion Luggage", which had its roots in a morbid horror movie monster not unlike the Candyman in my imagination, I chopped up numerous samples of actual nu-gramophone mastery and arranged them to keys on my synth—the result being that each black and white key would play a WIKK! or a TZZZT! or even a TZA! Playing many keys chromatically would give something very similar to an actual turntable performance.

Cranking the speakers up and blaring the noise through the house as I hip-hopped to the proverbial beat, my Mom came downstairs—and I'll ever forget this—asked out loud where all the barking dogs were. I was blindsided for a sec, but then realized she was referring to scratch samples. There's a lot of room for interpretation.

This may not seem like it connects, but o, it does (as it always does in my world): Salazar Jack announced that the Nova Albion Infohub (for lack of a better name) is nearing completion. This fantastic shot of the city goes is his; ain't it a beaut?


I'll be on my way to visit shortly. To be even more adventurous, Sal put up an .MP4 documentary which you can download to get a narrated tour of what's going on. Is it machinima? I don't know. But I do know that home movie-style vids are really rare, so there's something so poignant and frank about the way Sal presents this. It doesn't have to be sepia'd either to be a treasure!

Especially… in a temporal world where so much changes. Where you can live in a sim, especially one of the newer regions, and so much will go by. You may never know your neighbors, altho if you could, would you?

There are some older communities still in place, altho the villagers don't come 'round much anymore: the Welsh people are very friendly, Taber is notable, and there are institutions like the Kazenojin stronghold in Gray. Nova Albion is also very old, and cohesive cities in SL are rare. But what's even rarer is the old being revitalized, and Nova Albion's time is now.

What I love about working at Linden Lab (among many other things I'm sure, and by at I refer to LL's presence as SL) is motivation that comes with selecting your own projects that'll benefit the company and the community, making for an absolutely antiunilateral win. While there are priorities, things do not get bogged down in a mess of ugly politics… I hear the word "actionable" used a lot, I think it's a favorite of Philip Rosedale's. Being the CEO and Founder of Linden Lab, he wants things done. And when I went from Torley Torgeson —> Torley Linden, I immediately hopped on the Infohubs with the encouragement of Robin Harper, who heads Community Team which I'm on! And she's absolutely awesome!

So, things happened really quickly. And I think in the pulse of life, and Second Life, when everything moves so fast and your head's in a spin… you want to eventually go sit down in a corner and rebalance yourself so you can unwind and tell the tale, explain what went on. I often find this is the way when blogging, so I reference my Snapzilla roll, including captions written in the heat of the moment, to remember what I was doing.

What's this tulip doing here? I remember! I have a story about it I'll tell you in a few days, I hope.

I visit clubs in SL to this day. And no, I don't go when there's trouble either—I just go to gr00ve and have fun with Resis, because it's what matters. Used to be a mentality of when a Linden shows up, peeps ask "What's wrong?" but when I'm in tha hizzouse, I want it to be about "What's right!" People feeling good, enjoying SL… that's what we want! Came across this wikkid build by Leyla Firefly and Joey Eisenberg @ Hantu (174, 109, 33). Appropriately sweet-toothed, it's dubbed THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, and choco certainly factors in to the Wonka-inspired design. Met some familiar faces before I had to beam off to—

Astrin Few performing live at The Power Plant @ Mallard (88, 58, 37). Micala Lumiere made the worn-down atmosphere, which features some dangerously high-voltage live wires outside, fallen in sad little heaps. But no sadness to be found inside. I came to meet my Jadey and Mel Cheeky here. If you look closely at Astrin's guitar, you'll see plywood textures. All this connects because:

  1. Astrin is a famous musician in SL and the first time I saw him perform inworld was over a year ago in Clementina Park @ Clementina (84, 243, 22).
     
  2. Micala is working on making a historical bookstore, something on my checklist of things to see in SL that I really haven't seen done to make me react… yet.
     
  3. The lovely Mel, who is also a musician, dedicated a song to Jadey and me when we got married on Valentine's Day.
     
  4. I ended up discussing the future of music and events in SL. This continues…

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