10 years! OMG - time did fly! Its indeed hard to believe that Second Life was launched already 10 years ago. On June 23rd, to be precise.
It saw a lot of changes in that time. Some good decisions, some bad ones and some plainly stupid too - but there was one constant remaining over all these years: As long I can remember, people say SL is dead ;-)
Well, it seems quite alive actually. Just by looking at the many many green dots I saw at the
SL10B-sims (on a monday! in hot june! - not quite the typical time to spend in front of your PC/Mac/steam-driven Difference-engine), its clear that there is a vivid community celebrating a truly unique part of the internet.
I am also happy to say that the quality of this year's exhibits seems to be very convincing. I had literally tons of photo opportunities today and certainly haven't seen much more than a fraction so far. This proves again what a fantastic platform for creativity SL is - but enough words. Take a look:
And here some memorable exhibits I discovered on my first day. Be careful, its going to be a long post!:
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| It doesn't look much spectacular from the ground. |
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| But once you take the elevator to the top this changes! |
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| Space! |
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| A dinosaur-killing space-potato! |
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| Eeeeeeeeek! Oh... just Phil ;-) |
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| One of the fantastic installations from last year. |
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| Lots of history here! |
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| Wow - SL really did start small! |
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| Taxes for rezzing prims?! That was truly one of the more stupid ideas... |
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| Of course they missed the most significant event of 2007 - me joining SL! |
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| The best facelight I saw so far! |
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| Oooooh! Airplane! |
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| Of course I couldn't resist trying it. Btw: you can clearly see one of the disadvantages of baked textures: when you use one single texture on a large part, it get quite blurry. |
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| Yes - definitely one of the more fitting names. Don't ask me whats the meaning of this installation is though ;-) |
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| A big - arch! |
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| With readable content! And its an ooooold arch! |
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| No SL-birthday is complete without this installation: Yes, its a huge water slide! |
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| No comment. |
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| The name isn't promising too much! |
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| A really spectacular exhibit. On your way to the top you follow the a narration about the origins of the beast. |
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| Obviously it covers a lot different themes. |
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| Of you click these uhmm... gnomes(?) a comic-like sequence starts. |
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| "I am the queen of SL!" |
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| A training group for fighting RL catastrophes. Quite interesting idea as long no-one gets the idea to just de-rezz a tornado... |
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| Wasteland barbecue! Funny that just across the street the Wastelands have their parcel. Its one of my favorite places to explore. If you like the Fallout-games you will love the Wastelands! |
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| Great to see my favorite content creator has a parcel here too. She made countless fun and great looking creations over the years and never took a single L$! Btw: the big flying castle in the background is only 30 prims! |
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| Taffy demonstrating how to power the grid with green energy. |
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No surprise I couln't resist featuring this: Steampunk! And Exploring! Niiiice!
This exhibit is featuring a graphic novel made by using SL screenshots. Really a fine idea. |
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| I had no idea exploring is so simple! According to his map Africa is just a few centimeters away from my home! |
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| A gallery featuring some dashing explorers! |
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| Simple, but really fun! I hope she doesn't turns off the PC as long Taffy is inside. |
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| Taking a break at the university's fine looking campus. |
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| My feelings are a bit mixed about this one. On the one hand the pictures on display are quite good, on the other hand the installation looks a bit uninspired. You want to make look something artsy? Rezz some roman arcades and a field of poppies ;-) |
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| Quite a pompous title, isn't it? This exhibit was brought to us by the "Happy Hippo Building School". No, I am not kidding - thats really its name! |
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| And here it is! To make a long story short: They made a sculpt-map of the Shroud of Turin using the brightness/darkness contrasts as indicator for its height values. |
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| Call me ignorant if you like, but it looks more like a lunar landscape to me than anything else. |
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| And yes: my LOD was all the way up when taking these pictures. So where did Apollo 11 land again? ;-) |
As you can see for yourself SL10B offers you a lovely mixture of installations. Ranging from amazing to mediocre to... really, really odd. Don't miss it! :-)
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