I created a pair of Cheers2023! Glasses for you. With the New Year, we can all strive to do the best we can. Challenge yourself by learning something new this year that you have always put off. I wish everyone a prosperous New Year

The Christmas Market @ Winterfest, Alternate Metaverse Grid

Visit one of OpenSim's best ever Christmas Markets for all your Decorating and Gift Giving Needs! 22 Market stalls filled with goodness from edibles to Dinkie wear to Christmas animeshes, decorations, Trees & so much more! Open now - All content is free! While there explore the region, go ice fishing, skating, skiing or peek in on Santa at his workshop!
Part of Winterfest- Alternate Metaverse Grid. What do YOUR Christmas fantasies look like?
alternatemetaverse.com:8002:Christmas Market

MAGIC MESH TREE with animated colors texture.. ** ARCHED VERSIONS NOW INCLUDED - Up to 08 arch trees into 1 single prim *** Available for FREE and FULL at STORE 04 (X-mas store - look for a vendor with this same texture). Enjoy :)

Another great find from Sketchfab a beautiful diadem, uploaded and in the Monentes Jewelry store foyer. virtual-hg.com:8002:Monentes Jewelry
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/diadem-ae752f07b806474c98c...

WORLDPREMIERE AT AUTUMNVILLE
Hocus Pocus...THE SANDERSON SISTERS arrived at Autumnville and will put a spell on you!!!
Come and listen to their smash hit but take care not to get bewitched. (made by Kimm Starr)

Hello Hella,

We are so happy to have you join our community of artists at the Art Factory. Your images are hauntingly beautiful. What is the inspiration for your art?

“About my inspiration it's about the feeling in a present situation, always in the NOW, we can call this "états d'âmes" in French, "states of mind" in English ? “

Your art is a visual representation of current feelings and moods? That is so interesting. Do you have other galleries or exhibits in OpenSim or in Second Life?

“For my art in physical life, it's another route that I don't mix with virtual worlds.
For the photos, which relate only to life in SL and Opensim, I only exhibit on Flickr and in Opensim. Many captures, come from the world of SL and since 6 months, taken in Opensim.”

I have followed your Flickr for a long time now and look forward to seeing your posts. Hella, what do you enjoy about your art inworld?

“Art changes my frequency and makes my life a dream. In the virtual world as in life, practicing an art is a pure expression of oneself and it feels good to do good :)”

Ernest and I are overjoyed to have you join the Art Factory community. Would you tell our readers how you got involved in the project?

“Art Factory is the first place I visited that challenged me, I took some pictures from elsewhere that I put on Flickr, months ago. The Thirza Safari Tour allowed me to rediscover the Art Factory region and to meet Ellen and Ernest "in person", I had had some contact with Ellen on Opensimworld, I was happy to meet Ellen and Ernest :)”

Thank you for taking the time for this interview, Hella. And welcome to the Art Factory community!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/195175838@N04/

Visited Tropicana Bird's Nest, it's well done.
Then I met this guy. But he said he isn't Wolfman Jack. I don't belive him. I'm sure... he is!
https://opensimworld.com/hop/87742

Guess Who - Clap for the Wolfman (1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk7xzzzwDiI

Bonjour

Je voudrais vous parler, ce jour d’une confusion trop fréquente concernant les likes sur le site OpenSim World
Le probleme provient des likes donnés aux photographies.
C’est gentil mais ce n’est pas vraiment le but recherché.
Les likes, sont à l’origine prévus pour les terrains, établir leur classement, leur position de manière générale,
Donc, liker une photographie est bien mais cela n’aide pas le terrain, car il faut le liker aussi.
Car on trouve des photographies avec beaucoup de likes, alors que le terrain en a quasiment pas .
Ce qui est un problème !
Si vous pouviez y penser à l’avenir, merci pour ceux qui travaillent sur leurs terrains, quelque soit la réalisation,
merci

Enfin, autre point :
Comment pouvez vous visiter un terrain en quelques secondes ?

Merci d’avoir lu, bonne journée.

Hello

I would like to talk to you today about an all too frequent confusion about likes on the OpenSim World site
The problem comes from the likes given to the photographs.
It's nice but that's not really the goal.
The likes, are originally intended for the grounds, establish their ranking, their position in general,
So, liking a photograph is good but it doesn't help the field, because you have to like it too.
Because we find photographs with a lot of likes, while the field has almost none.
Which is a problem!
If you could think about it in the future, thank you for those who work on their land, whatever the realization,
Thank you.

Finally, another point:
How can you visit a plot of land in seconds?

Thank you for reading, have a nice day.

Love Thyself
It's said we can't truly love someone unless we first love ourselves. Fine. But some people take it too far. I recently told a guy "I love you." He said, "We have so much in common! "I love me too!"

The outfit features the "Love Myself" crop top -- part of a fatpack with an assortment of graphics. The sneaker HUD gives you incredible options to customize the look.

This outfit replaces the "N (SH) PINK + CROP + SNEAKER" which unfortunately now has a number of missing assets. Let me know if you find other outfits with the same, or any other problem.

Oh HELLO: Outfits you will love.
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I wasn't sure if I would open the sim this year. A lot of bad things are happening in this world right now. But then you would miss a lot of new things and that would actually be a shame.
So, on to AUTUMNVILLES SECOND YEAR , where good meets evil and in between..
I open early, so you still have enough time to make your sim autumnal.
What can you expect? ---A lot!!!
Stroll through the countryside and enjoy (and pick up) the beautiful autumn decorations, see spooky places that will make your blood run cold, voracious flowers just waiting to eat you for dinner and so much more.
New for this year: Stuff in the shopping areas around the sim had been added, an enlarged, completely revamped freak show, a second fully animated band,the Wolftones that´s second to none, an ice cream dealer you'd rather not meet in the dark, and so much more. Find out and just have fun.
And remember a lot but not everything can be copied. PLEASE RESPECT THAT!!! You can see beautiful things "made in open sim- for open sim" for example made by Kimm Starr, Cloee Heslop, Luna Lunaria ,Bibiana Bombinate and many more.
Please make sure to have a good balance between Music and Sounds, otherwise you would miss half of the fun.
Rezzing problems? Then please relog!!
There is a lot to discover, what are you waiting for?

Red Run Spelled Backwards Is Murder.
Please excuse the run/rum typo. I type sixty mistakes a minute. Fast but not accurate. But sure, there is plenty of red in this running outfit. Rum not included. It's for the best, actually.

oh HELLO: Outfits With Options
grid.copykat.ovh:12000:Xinashi

Win the Best In Ghosting Event by befriending the most number of people there that you will never see or speak to again. This event will never happen...or will it?

Got any bad event ideas of your own? Let's hear them.

PINK & PURPLE
When I think about pink shorts, I think about purple hair. And when I think about purple hair, I think about pink shorts. A lot of thought has gone into this outfit, including wondering if cowboy boots should be part of it. Thankfully, the answer was "yes!"

oh HELLO: Outfits for thinking people with purple hair & love of cowboy boots...
grid.copykat.ovh:12000:Xinashi

Mind Odyssey art exhibit is a spectacle of vibrant colors and animation. If you are free this weekend, please consider taking the time to visit this exhibit. Art is presented by these artists:
Nyx Breen
Cherry Manga
Amaranthim Talon
Shirl Tainted Angel
Bibiana has beautiful pieces about too!
and me~
A special thank you to Reyn Softly for creating this great region! When here you must view the land looking down from above, you will see a very cool head residing here! continuum.outworldz.net:8002:Mind Odyssey
continuum.outworldz.net:8002:Mind Odyssey

According to our Observatory experts, many visitors crash when trying to teleport to Novale. This would seem to be related to a known bug, a conflict between Firestorm viewer and Vivox.
Good news, there is a way to go around it : prior to teleport to Novale, go to your preferences/Sound&Media/Voice and diseable Voice.
Try it and let us know if it works for you !

Just a touchy-feely ... a friend of mine wanted to know about an online witch-coven, I would consider building it, to help her out.... just want an opensim feedback first... please leave your comments

Extraordinarily Ordinary
Not all of us can be superstars. This is an outfit for those of us who strive to be great at the ordinary things in life. Getting out of the house on time instead of late as usual. Unloading the dishwasher. Remembering to bring cloth bags to the grocery store. Taking the elephants out for a walk. Did I say elephants? Silly me. I meant aardvarks.

And, as is ordinarily the case, this oh HELLO outfit is full of fat-packs. Hair? Fat-pack. Jacket/Shirt combo? Fat-pack. Pants? Yup, them too. Oh ya, and the boots. What about the boots? Pay attention pumpkin. Fatpack!

Oh HELLO: Outfits For Elephants. Or was that Aardvarks? Sorry. "Outfits with Options."
grid.copykat.ovh:12000:Xinashi

I THOUGHT that I had found it! The PERFECT nude beach in opensim. Okay, not PERFECT maybe, but close enough to DO, with a few tweaks here and there that I thought the owner could do quickly and easily. And GLADLY, in that they would improve the experience for ALL users.



My requirements for the perfect nude beach are simple and few.
1> clothing optional. While I'm perfectly happy nude, I realize SOME people are NOT, and I would like a beach that is inviting to as many people as possible. Opensim IS a social experience after all, and it's difficult being SOCIAL while sitting alone on a deserted beach. I can do THAT at home!

2> Attractively decorated. Being a HOPELESS landscaper myself, this is important to me. I want to be in pleasant, realistic, IMMERSIVE surroundings. I want to FEEL like I'm sitting on a sunny, windswept beach, with the sound of waves breaking on the shore when possible.

3> Human only. Call me a hater if you like, but this is simply an extension of my IMMERSIVE requirement. I have nothing against non-human appearing av's, or those who choose to play them. I count them among my friends in probably a similar proportion as they exist in the general opensim population. But they DON'T EXIST in reality! So that pretty much conflicts with a realistic environment. And YES!! I realize this contradicts my desire for a sim that appeals to as many AVs as possible, but SOMETIMES you just have to make some hard CHOICES.

4> Adult only. This one I think should go without saying, but sadly it can't. I'm no lawyer, not even an RP one in world. But I live in the U.S.A. And here, to the best of my understanding, I'm committing a felony by even VIEWING a DEPICTION of a naked minor. It makes NO difference whether or NOT they are engaged in sexual behavior. It makes NO difference if it's actually 2 70 year old guys 'expressing themselves' or 're-living their childhood' by going at it. It makes NO difference if I AGREE with the law or not. I really don't believe the FBI is going to track me down and prosecute me for being on a sim with a naked child-like av, but what, on the other hand, do I stand to GAIN even if they DON'T?

5 Activities. Chat is great, but at this point in time, even the BUSIEST regions in opensim are going to have considerable periods when NO ONE but you is there. And nude regions are, and probably always will be, FAR from the busiest sims. So having things to do when you are alone there is important. Often I spend such times multi-tasking, working on something in RL while in OS too, but if one is not paying attention, this makes you just another AFK avatar, something that OS is TOO full of already. Plus it's fun to have some joint activity (beyond sex!) when other AvS are there. Activities also tend to hold visiting AVs in the region somewhat longer, thus increasing the likelihood of AVs meeting up there.

5 Listed in OSW Okay I KNOW some people have issues with the OSW way of doing things. But, like it or not, it has the largest audience of opensim users I know of. And this is important in that virtually all nude beach sims are going to start out having VERY few visitors. To have traffic there, one will have to build it up and the best way to DO that is for AVs to see that there's OTHER avs already there. OSW is ideal for that. They say that misery loves company, well so do opensim avs!! Aside, of course, from the lonely builders lost in the joys of construction on their own sims!!

This isn't an exhaustive list of desirable features and isn't meant to be. There are others. And there are CERTAINLY many factors that can make for a toxic environment notwithstanding the presence of these GOOD ones. But by and large, I think this is a good baseline of REQUIRED features in my search. But even these aren't immutable though. If you are dealing with an amiable sim owner who is open to suggestions on how to improve their sim and make it provide a better user experience, many negatives can be turned totally around.

But then again, sometimes NOT! And this is where the latest subject of my search sadly falls short. Cayo SW in the Alternate Metaverse Grid is a beautiful sim with MUCH to offer everyone but especially nudists. It has a large clothing optional area and is beautifully landscaped with wide white sandy beaches. It has what appear to be setups for holding live events(nakie beach parties, anyone?) and activities galore!! Dune buggies, a really fun balloon ride, water slides and surfing. Well... sorta, anyway. It's THERE, in part. Surfboards that appear to work, but no WAVE to ride.

On the few occasions in the past when I have brought some issue to sim owners' attention, they have always been appreciative for the information and quickly resolved it. Which makes sense. Often user feedback is the only way an owner CAN learn of a problem. The owner in this case was very friendly and we had a pleasant chat. To be fair, she never SAID, in so many words, that the surfing would be fixed, but what she DID say led me to believe it would be. My bad I guess, since several days have passed now and nothing has changed. It's really not about the surfing itself. That would be a PLUS for the region, but it's not a make-or-break issue for me. However I think it DOES reflect on a sim owner's attention to their regions. If an owner isn't willing to do the small things that MIGHT turn what APPEARS to be a dead sim (in all my visits I've yet to see anyone there other than friends I have urged to visit) into one that might generate some traffic for the grid, then why should I spend MY time on it?

There are other issues as well. Such as having a landing zone that drops you out in the middle of the ocean, a LONG way from anything that matters and no signs POINTING you to them. AND a water front that suddenly drops from @19m to @5 as soon as you step into the water. It's like 'watch out for that FIRST STEP!!!' This can make swimming and surfing (assuming it ever iS working again) awkward at best. Minor things, true and easily corrected. But seeing how my request for having the surfing fixed was received, I've felt disinclined to even ASK about anything else!! All in all it's a lovely sim with GREAT potential; it's just a shame it doesn't receive the love it deserves.

As or me, the search continues!!

My first 3D picture of ViBel's Neiferleaf Castle
Taken with the new Firestorm 6.5.3.65658
3D view on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/rolandfrancis/51958465736/in...

(Just in case you would want to know how to take a 3D picture with the new FireStorm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHryzydZ700 - It proves that anyone can)

My computer fried apparently, while I was yet again having a wrestling match with death. It seems I won yet again! haha! :) I am trying to fix PC but still mostly in wheelchair ATM, n outta money currently. I apologize guys n gals. I am so very sorry my worlds are down. I dunno if I see well enough to overhaul my 96 Gb dual 6 core workstation, or no, but I/when I get me debt down with a now 1k a month income, and 18k of debt... lol :O I will certainly TRY HARD to fix it, and get worlds back up. Prayers, love, hugs, and high 5's everyone. Be well, be happy. :)

I just placed a new Mesh Avatar in the Rigged Avatar Store-Free-Full perms. Please meet Lil Col Sanders, Sanders in his youth lol, I created this avatar one year as my Halloween costume to trick or treat at @Jamie Anna Wright region. It was such the fun night that I thought I would offer him. He comes with a crispy attitude! You can find the Rigged avatar store here continuum.outworldz.net:8002/Catena%20di%20isole/336/323/32