Designing Worlds Visits Seraph City

In this episode of Designing Worlds, Saffia Widdershins and Elrik Merlin explore the beautiful Art Deco environment of Seraph City … and also the phenomenon of Dieselpunk.

This relatively new form is known as dieselpunk – where the setting, rather than a dystopian future or cyberpunk, or the steam-driven alternative world of the 19th and 20th century, is actually driven by the diesel engine, and draws on the aesthetic of the 1920s and 1930s.



For more photographs of Seraph City, please visit my Flickr photostream.

Lunatorium on Designing Worlds

The November 1st episode of Designing Worlds saw Saffia & Elrik meet with artist Lunata Lupino and scripter Bavid Dailey at their very large Lunatorium shop and discover some secrets they use for helping people explore the wonderful things they make for above and below the sea.

See more photographs from Lunatorium on my Flickr photostream.

Radio Riel Players : Halloween

"The Radio Riel Players Present" is Radio Riel's independent radio production of classic stories, poems and plays, all performed by The Radio Riel Players from around the world.

This episode features Tricia Aferdita reading Mark Twain's "A Ghost Story", and two works by Edgar Allan Poe: "The Tell Tale Heart" read by Rowan Derryth and "The Raven" read by PJ Trenton.

You can listen to "The Radio Riel Players Present" through the following direct link to the show on Archive.org, where you can listen to it as a stream or download the audio file directly.

For more information about Radio Riel or to subscribe to their RSS feed, visit their site at http://www.radioriel.org.

Radio Riel Players Tonight @ 6 pm SLT

Tonight at 6 pm SLT I invite you to tune in to Radio Riel to enjoy the re-launch of Radio Riel Players, with some spooky tales read by Rowan Derryth, Tricia Aferdita and myself. We might even have a tale from Miss Riel herself, who is handling all the creepy production!

Miss Derryth will be reading Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”, while Miss Aferdita offers up "A Ghost Story" by Mark Twain and I share Poe's "The Raven”

Better than just tuning into Radio Riel, come and join us for a listening party at Harmony Cafe in Avalon – costumes welcome!

Hope to see you there!

Primgraph Issue 13 on Newstands!

Well, The Primgraph has sailed the seas with pirates, soared above both land and sea in airships, and now, in Issue 13, with a very exciting addition to their roster of writers, The Primgraph plunges beneath the waves to encounter mermaids and sundry strange craft that lurk in the deep blue.

The exciting news: Jess Nevins, the author of the seminal Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana, and well known for his Concordances to the works of Alan Moore (especially The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) and other comic books, joins The Primgraph team to share with us his love of pulp fiction. This issue he explores tales of underwater craft in America, Europe, India and Japan in a fascinating article on The Super-Submarine in Fiction after Verne.

Miss Ceejay Writer explores our chosen stretch of water - The Vernian Sea (and its Deeps) in New Babbage, while Mr Linus Lacombe ventures farther afield in search of some spectacular underwater architecture. Miss Beq Janus discovers what the wonderful troupe of Belly Up Mermaids Dancers have been up to since we last encountered them performing over a year ago.

Another fabulous issue beautifully laid out by the very talented Terry Lightfoot.

This issue also includes the latest episode in the epic adventure, The Quest for the Golden Prim. Find out what is happening with our group of academics, adventurers and villains as they continue their quest in Steelhead.

My thanks to all of our intrepid actors and extras for their great work in helping to bring the Quest for the Golden Prim to life. It is such a fun and creative journey under the direction of our intrepid publisher Saffia Widdershins.

I am so tremendously fortunate to be involved in this epic adventure as photographer and designer and love the challenge of bringing this story to life. Catch up with the characters and story on the Quest blog and read the latest episode in this issue of The Primgraph.

Issue 13 of The Primgraph is available online at http://en.calameo.com/read/000004234442faa4832ff.

Enjoy!

Animals in the Scribbled Wild by Scott Rolfe

Here is a totally awesome calendar created by everyone's favourite otter Scottius Polke!

One of the most creative and interesting people I have met in my almost 4 years in Second Life, Mr. Polke's talent seems to know no bounds.

I have been honoured to have him exhibit some of his work at Exposure Art Gallery and of course, some of the neatest places you can find in Second Life, like MUSHroom and Lunamaruna are the results of his boundless creativity.

This gorgeous looking calendar features "scribbles" created by Mister Polke, Scott Rolfe in RL. These were created in Scribbler 2...an interactive drawing tool on the web at http://www.zefrank.com/scribbler/scribblertoo/.

For more fabulous art by Scott, visit his blog at http://srolfe.com/.

More information about ordering this calendar and/or greeting cards, visit http://srolfe.com/?p=415.

Prim Perfect 29 on Newstands

The Halloween issue of Prim Perfect is now on newstands! This spooktacular issue comes jam packed with great articles and stunning photographs from around the grid! Featuring the Epic Toy Factory and a plethora of scary places to visit just in time for Halloween, be sure to check out the latest issue!

Even more fun is had by Miss Rowan Derryth and myself as we head out on assigment for the magazine...it gets a little intense but I did my best not to lose my head! Check out our adventure in the Village of Nyght.

Congratulations to the entire Prim Perfect team for putting together another spectacular issue. I am so very fortunate to work with some of the most creative and talented people in the metaverse!

The latest issue can be read online by visiting http://en.calameo.com/read/0000042345c6d7fe1cf42.

Subscribe in-world to get the new Intellibook version which gives you the exciting new choice of being able to link to the stores you see featured in Prim Perfect advertisements. There are landmarks embedded – and there is the possibility of embedding postcards too. And if you look carefully, you’ll find free gifts embedded on some pages – this is a treasure hunt of a magazine!

Enjoy!

Nemo by Sextan Shepherd is Closing!

For those of you who may not have heard, the stunning Nemo trilogy build at France3d Futuna will be closing on October 29th. This is one of the most amazing places I have ever visited in Second Life and the result of many hours of work by the immensely talented Sextan Shepherd.



Mr Shepherd has decided it is time to move on to other endeavours and while I am sad to see these amazing builds disappear, I am rather excited to see what he will come up with next!



Time is running out...and this is certainly a must see destination before it disappears. Get thee to Nemo... http://slurl.com/secondlife/FRANCE3D%20Futuna/91/148/21.

For more photographs of Nemo, have a look at my Flickr photostream.

Heroines! Aether Salon w. Miss Bookworm Hienrichs

Do you know one? ARE you one? From self-rescuing princess to those daring gals who save the world and look fabulous doing so (hey, soot is IN), all the while cooking, cleaning, and raising brilliant children. Who isn't a little bit curious how they do it all? I mean, trouncing and squashing and humiliating Evil-doers is a huge job, right? For the Aether Salon's two-year anniversary, Miss Bookworm Hienrichs enlightened us all, and shared a few tips and tricks she picked up along the way.

What a memorable and eventful Salon with a special, and unwelcome guest!

Check out more photos from Miss Book's salon on my Flickr photostream.

For more information about the Aether Salon, please visit their official blog.

Metaverse Arts (Episode 5)

Episode 5 of Metaverse Arts saw host Tricia Aferdita interview Raven Haalan and Emcee Widget on the opening day of Burn2.



Photographs from Burn2 featured on the show can be found on my Flickr photostream.

For more information on Metaverse Arts, visit their blog at http://metaversearts.wordpress.com/.