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When I meet an AV that looks like a dragon, I always ask them to voice verify. They have to literally melt my speakers for me to believe they are as they present themselves to be. I've never had that happen - which, truthfully, is disappointing. I mean, who would not want to meet an actual dragon?

Even if it doesn't melt your speakers, in-world voice can present a problem. Some people don't seem to understand that Open Sim is not a dating site. It is not a hook-up site. And it can be more than a costume party chat site. At it's best, OS is an immersive world for role-play. And most people don't have the voice and/or the acting ability for the role they are playing. At best, in-world voice is a distraction. At worse, it can make it impossible to deeply and actively engage.

In truth, our avatar is but a pixel puppet. For some reason there can be an extraordinary interest, by some, in who exactly is pulling the strings. I just treat people as they present themselves in-world. Anything else ruins the show many of us take a part in creating.

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

In just a few short very busy days we have really developed this beautiful area, adding water below and attaching Aspen Homesites to the continent. Also, to the east I have added a sandbox for Bountiful Members only. I started putting in some street signs as the roads are very complex. There is a large freeway as you can see running West-East. The Waterways have either raised bridges, or drawbridges. There are tons of embankments and other details. yesterday I added some sims to the east that are named after Fallout 4 place names. Maybe we will do a RP on that area ... we shall see. Come visit, and come get a free parcel. PARCELS ARE FREE TO ALL IN THE CONTINENT NOW. Please follow the few rules: be nice, build only in theme of the region, no ban lines, no terraforming. Thats it!

Hi all, Maria Korolov is joining us tomorrow for the first Safari of the Fall season.
The announced venue has changed, though. Meeting at the OSgrid clubhouse, not on the Safari annex. That's because Avacon grid had something happen with its servers, and although it is back online and lovely, there is a bug in Textures. https://opensimworld.com/events/92284

Find Rangoli isle on Shanti to learn about this art form from India.

Rangoli patterns are created on the floor or a tabletop using materials such as dry rice flour, coloured sand, flower petals, and coloured rocks. They make a beautiful addition to any home.

Visit Rangoli isle to learn more, take home some rangoli patterns, and find links to videos that teach how to create these colorful patterns.

Turn on stream for a special selection of tunes from india.

Come visit Africa - a region dedicated to the music, art, wildlife and cultures of Africa. Turn on stream to hear today's playlist - tunes from Mali, Senegal, South Africa, Benin and more :) Happy weekend :)

The new Lunaria Emporium satellite store at Emmalena Damour's Ocean Waves Mall on DigiWorldz is coming along. First floor is nearly done ?

You can find my store here:
HG Address: login.digiworldz.com:8002:Damour Enterprise Three

The central spot for the sim environment of interstellART_exhibitions, introduces sometimes collaborative projects of independent artists on the basis of a specific topic and serves sometimes as a creative area for the sim-variations of Asmita Duranjaya.
In the moment the sim basis shows on its 9 regions the exhibition "MnemoScapes - Forget Me Not".
Asmita explains: "MnemoScapes try to visualize parts of my composite personality, with memories of the past mixed with imaginations and reflections. It is ME, what you see there on each of the 9 regions: DigiScape, LonerScape, CityScape, PalmScape, DesertScape, WinterScape, FractalScape, ForestScape and the CentralScape with my musical background related to Early Music of the Renaissance and the Middles Ages. In correspondence to my own 3D-installations I found a similar intention in the work of 8 other female artists, who work in 2D. They are presented with a link to infos about the person and 3 examples of their work on an easel-display in the CenterScape." There is a hud available with elaborated information on each of the 9 Scapes and with a tp to every region of interstellART_exhibitions plus interStellART. In a sky-globe there are more exhibitions of 7 active artists in OS-Grid: Caro Fayray, Shenn Tao, Victoria Logan, Cherry Manga, Azi Az, Sujeewa Kumari, lalie Sorbet. All those areas are accessible with the hud.

Close to both Tokyo and Mount Fuji the small town of Hakone holds something of a revelation. However, unless you are from Japan, you may well not have heard of it. The town plays host to a large open air museum where the works of many famous artists are held - outdoors. It balances art and nature in harmony. The artworks, combined with the beautiful views of the surrounding mountains give the visitor an unforgettable experience. Now recreated in OpenSim for all those missing travelling in Real Life.

https://www.kuriositas.com/2010/07/hakone-japans-amazing-o...

Lunaria on Mobius Grid

My goal with all my stores and regions, but especially this region, is to show that even a store can be an artistic expression of the highest order. Every piece I sell and every place I display them is a work of art.

See Lunaria here: main.mobiusgrid.us:80:Lunaria
Use shared environment and advanced lighting model to see it as it was meant to be seen.

AETHER doesn't have line dancing. It has has a club with synchronized group dances on an airborne shade-shifting rotating cube. How wild is that? Aether also offers the use of adult furniture and the viewing of artistic B&W photos, all in modern, minimalist structures. The residents of Aether? They all vanished. All they left behind were shadows. Aether: a world of black, white, shadows and wild sky.

grid.copykat.ovh:12000:Aether

Ich möchte mich auf diesem Weg bei allen bedanken, die so zahlreich aus nah und fern zum Abschied von Cayoun Daydreamer erschienen sind.
Das hat mich sehr gerührt.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who came in such large numbers from near and far to say goodbye to Cayoun Daydreamer.
That touched me very much.

Please pardon the dust of the Ferris wheel while its being fixed, it seems that January 14th or before caused it to break down. Issue is unknown and didn't know it was broken until recently. hopefully soon it will be fixed.

I Plead The Fifth
Knit cap and headphones? I get that. It's cold and, instead of ear muffs, you have "hear" muffs. Biker glasses. Um, OK. A thin robe, almost entirely open and with apparently nothing on underneath? Wait. What? I thought it was cold out. I'm confused. Open-toed platform shoes! You ask, "who in hell put this outfit together?

I plead the fifth.

Oh HELLO: Now conveniently located real close to the Xinashi landing zone, and far, far away, I hope, from the fashion police.
fireandicegrid.net:8002/Xinashi

NEW FIRSTORM FEATURE: 360 SCREENSHOTS! HERE SOME EXAMPLES:
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipP5MIpmAXOWE7VDtYYDlH...

It's the butt, right?
I'm wearing shorts named "Look At Me". And what, exactly, are people going to be looking at? The butt, right? But if you can look at more than the shorts, you'll see lots to love about this, admittedly, butt-centric outfit. Stop by the oh HELLO shop to see both the "look at me" butt and "ooo-la-la" front on display on the greeter NPC.

oh HELLO: Outfits with Ooo-la-la.
fireandicegrid.net:8002/Xinashi

Where Is The Damned Taxi?
I often get an event notice from a group I'm a member of, and it inevitably gives the event link, with the comment "Here's your taxi." First of all, I never get a taxi. A link is not a taxi. Where is the damned taxi? At the very least they can put a taxi at the landing zone to make it look like I got there by taxi.

And don't get me started about VIP group tags. All I'll say is that if everyone is a VIP, no one is a VIP. If I really was a VIP, they would actually send me the taxi!

Speaking of which, I have a taxi in the Xinashi Car Bar Treehouse. It has a wine bar in the trunk. Open bar for all VIP members! (joking). Here is your...oh, never mind. Just click the link.
fireandicegrid.net:8002/Xinashi