Event this Sunday - Neb's installation

'In the Hall of the Pumpkin King' event @ Cetus --
Sunday, October 26th, 2008
4 pm SLT/PST

SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cetus/171/29/32

Hope to see you there!

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New Radio Shows Ready

All our shows from 15th Oct. are now available in the archives.

Amy Freelunch's new SL art blog

Amy Freelunch (aka Amy Wilson), who recently joined Arthole Radio, has also just started a new blog, called see-through, dedicated to "art and culture (in and about) Second Life."

Bookmark this site! http://amyfreelunch.wordpress.com

Arthole Radio

In addition to the weekly live broadcasts, we decided to make our shows available in an archive. New shows from Amy, Arahan and Nebulosus will be added after the live broadcasts*.

Thanks to Klink for donating the server space

*The recordings may be available for a limited time only, so try to listen live if possible.

Live every Wednesday:

Arahan Claveau: 9pm UK/GMT
Amy Freelunch: 10.30pm UK/GMT

-INTERMISSION-

Nebulosus Severine: 9pm US/EST
Amy Freelunch: 10.30pm US/EST

You do NOT have to be in Second Life to tune in, simply open this link in your media player of choice e.g Winamp, Windows Media Player, iTunes etc.

Selavy Oh suspended from SL

Dear Selavy Oh,

This email is notification of action regarding your Second Life account, Selavy Oh, for violation of the Second Life Terms of Service or Community Standards. The violation in question occurred on October 4, 2008 in the region of Popcha.

Violation: Community Standards: Assault, Scripted Objects

Creating scripted objects which in any way singularly or persistently target another Resident in a way objectionable to the targeted Resident in a Safe Area or scripting object that prevent other Residents from entering or participating
in damage-enabled areas.

Action:
As a result of this violation, your Second Life account is being temporarily suspended for a period of 1 days. It will return to active status on Sunday, Oct 05, 2008.

To summarise; Selavy had a chain suspended between the two towers at Brooklyn is Watching, it was scripted to swing when flown into and then would eventually break and reassemble. The chain broke and fell onto someone's avatar, that person messaged Selavy, who was not online, they then filed an abuse report which resulted in the one day suspension.

According to Selavy; "the chain breaks because of flaws in Linden Lab's physics engine. the parts of the chain are scripted for self-repair. So I was banned on a private sim because I put a harmless script in a physical prim which fell on someone's avatar due to a bug in Linden's software".

Selavy has appealed the decision and is awaiting a response.

UPDATE 8.10.08

Hi there,

Thank you for the additional information relating to the recent incident. I've noted the details on your account. I've made a correction to your account so the suspension will not count against you in the future.

We now consider this matter closed.

Best regards,
Linden Lab and the Second Life Community team

Neb's Halloween installation at Cetus

'In The Hall of the Pumpkin King'
Installation by Nebulosus Severine [2008]
Cetus Gallery District

Although Halloween is my favorite holiday, I had some difficulty with this installation for weeks. I scrapped several things I started, and ended up building pretty much everything in one day.

Though I used mostly traditional Halloween imagery (pumpkins, gravestones, etc.), the central shrine was inspired in part by the 'ofrenda,' a traditional altar constructed to honor the dead during Dias De Los Muertos (observed November 1st and 2nd). I have echoed this imagery with the sugar skulls on either side of the Pumpkin King.

The name "Pumpkin King" is not intended to refer to Jack Skellington in 'The Nightmare Before Christmas.' Rather, this Pumpkin King is the Halloween Everyman, the spirit of All Hallow's Eve that resides within all who revel in this holiday.

This installation is rather simple, and is meant to be. It is a celebration of color and light and atmosphere -- intended to be a whimsical and a little bit eerie.

SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cetus/171/29/32