Lalalala Gallery,

Well, the opening day arrives and there is a bit of a buzz cos quite a few people have popped in already, to avoid the lag, which is not a bad idea at all given the puters some of us have to live with..:))

People have been very kind with their comments and I am quite excited, tho slightly nervous at the prospect of giving a talk at 1pm..... if I say anything interesting, I will blog it for those that miss the talk. Probably, tho, my regular readers will know a little about me, so if you cant make it.....you wont miss much..:))))

I have to mention Charlot Dickens, an old friend who has managed to tame her RL enough to be seen again in SL....welcome back.....AND my good friend and trusty neighbour on Lifstaen, Izabella, who I have seen after a break of many months where her RL employees have been working her too hard.

and Avalon, a new friend..... mmmm.... nice to have new friends...:))

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Lalalala Gallery, Avendale

Yes, the time has come....well, almost.... my show is starting this Sunday and I will be giving a talk at 1pm SLT.

at 2pm there will be music. Phoe Nix will be singing and playing piano... so catch that too if you can.



When you arrive, you arrive at the Town Square. You will have to wait a bit til the signpost rezzzes..........then click on Lalalala gallery.

Its not at all uncommon for there to be these central tp points, mainly, i assume so that someone can count numbers (traffic) which is all very logical and scientific....weigh, measure, record..... good old fashioned Victorian cataloguing....
But.....to illustrate the nonsense of it...a lady asked me if I would like to show at her gallery....she had traffic of 8500 and something.....I laughed out loud.
Bots dont buy art.
And this whole incident just reinforces my previous posts about bots. They ARE spin, traffic spin.
So the inconvenience caused to people like you and me at places like Orange, Caerleon, and many other with central tp points is pure sillyness..... traffic is really the most useless piece of information going at the current time.

I want to tp where ever I like . Thats one of the joys of SL.

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New NPIRL girl....

Wizard Gynoid is the latest member of NPIRL, and very welcome she is too. Wizzy is apart from other talents a very good creator of geometrical shapes, the E8 being her most famous, and intricate. Sadly no longer eating prims at Rezzable, she is hatching a new build for Caerleon....watch this space.


NWN also picked up on my observation that the stats for SL were temporarily disabled, as I mentioned in a previous post, 28000 sims, and have provided a link to a map of the entire grid just further reinforcing the diluting effect this massive land production has on life and business in SL. I cant even recognise where i live from this. EEEk.

The day after I posted the suggestion that some of the 5.5million US$ they take as tier each month should be used on advertising, they sent me a Resident Survey to ask if I recommend SL to friends....well,.... excuse me...but that is surely your job, and not mine !!

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Image

Well, both Botgirl and NPIRL have articles today about art, and I am not gonna add to the general discussion, cos its one of those things, like love, that have already had enough words written about them, although I did comment on botgirls piece. I have bored my regular readers enough with my definition of art.

More interesting for me at the moment is to decide which image to have on my Profile.... its the start of a downward slope if one image is meant to depict you more, or better, than another. Seems like a good idea when you first come to SL, but theres RL thinking behind it.
In RL you cant be a fairy one day and dragon the next.
so.... I have to decide (metaphorically speaking) whether I am more dragon or fairy, or, more accurately speaking, how I would like to present myself to my peers.

I think that, eventually, a series of profile photos of the same person, over the months/years, will be like a biography, a detailed account of how one person would like to be seen.

Men, in SL at least, seem to change their clothes seldom, well, thats my experience anyway, and people who build a lot, like me at times, have more pressing demands on their SL time than to be messing around with their invents.
If you have a major piece of work, like a dragon, or just an avi you like a lot, then obviously you stick with it, you feel comfortable with it: it seems to say something about one part of your personality.

The reason I said its the start of a downhill slope to decide on one image is that its a shame to stop investigating other parts of your unconscious by settling on one SL "personna".

Thank god for alts.....

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28,000 sims

Yes, thats what i worked it out at, tho the economic data was temporarily, maybe still is, suspended......
28000 sims....and about 77,000 max online, minus 20% bots...... 63,000 residents on 28,000 sims.....
its no wonder it feels like a ghost town/world out there.

....now some of that 5.5 Million US$ monthly tier could surely go on a bit of advertising to get some people in to fill up the place, but that is not really a problem for LL. Their bank balance increases the more land they make... the sound of virtual tumbleweed doesnt worry them, I would think. Unless they sob all the way to the bank. ...:)))

But it is all a bit short-sighted again of them, really, and I know some of that money does get re-invested, but...... come on guys, sort it out. As I wrote before.....rising land prices have kept this country going for all the years since we stopped making things to sell... Land in SL is averaging between 1L$ and 2L$ per square meter over the past few months, and that is pretty bad for those that have bought land, good for those that tax it...

blog that I innocently wrote on the 18.3.2008.... 64000 people online....well its not really changed since then, the traffic, unless you think bots are traffic, which I dont, they are a waste of prims.

I doubt, of course, that any of em read this blog, or care....but friends are here to listen to you complain, aren't they...:))) and so.....bigs hugs and kisses to you all for putting up with my funny little moaning...:)))

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My Big Show

My first big show in a gallery starts next week....the 11th January, so put the date in your diary, I can guarantee it will be worth dropping in to. I am nearly there, just a few bits and pieces to touch up. Its looking good.....:))
I will blog and spam you all so that the address and stuff is firmly engraved in your brains..:))




This is NOT one of my trees. In fact, I wouldnt really give it prim-room..... the texture change script changes to give you four different textures for the 4 different seasons, but if all 4 are as bad as this tex, I think its a bad use of 4000L$..... lol.....the most expensive tree I have seen for sale to date.




My friend Caro...:)) ......it was an oversight from my previous post, not to have a photo of her...:))

Other breaking news is.... hmmm....not much really.... I am making a special prim for a competition at Caerleon for a One_Prim Wonder.... contact Sabinaa for details. The idea is that you enter just one prim for the competition/show and so I have had the Blender whirring, and now a magnificent tex is called for..... should keep me busy next week..

New Years resolution that I always make, and keep, is to never make New Years resolutions....it works for me....every year.


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Tom Foolery

Start the new year with a new look......

Put these first few items for sale in the shop....:))

Get em while they are hot !!!


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