Rufferta
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Speaking of art, here is a gallery that is slowly fading away now that the original artists are gone. There used to be multiple sky platforms, sandwiched one over another, but some of them have disappeared entirely, and some are starting to disappear. The Sculpture Gallery is still intact, though, and parts of the Alien Jungle.
Mainland may sometimes look deserted, but you never know what you will find up in the sky.
('Age of Sorcery' day cycle from library.)
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12 hours ago, Aethelwine said:
With this next Region it needs to be clarified that I am including it here as part of how I described the scope of the thread at the outset, ie regions contiguous with mainland, not solely those with a mainland covenant.
It is another Starax Statosky statue from 2004, in private ownership and not on a region that would have been around at the time. The location has however been there a long time, and well known. The picture hints at its function.
Hollywood - 125/116/24. BTW. I found a wonderful collection of Starax sculptures, and other art, at the Aho Museum on NMC Campus.
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Starax Statosky Snowman Statue in a Linden-run shopping center. Where am I?
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On 3/19/2021 at 9:42 PM, Claire Atheria said:
Found this comfy lacy spot in a Mole build while exploring recently ... where am I?
I love the lighting in this photo.
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4 hours ago, Aethelwine said:
I am now going back in time to before moles.. this is resident made...
Notice the Banana on the table? the creation date for it is June 4 2002..
Older than that of course is the beach ball in our libraries from 29 April 2002. I think the oldest object in SL apart from something Maddeleine McCann has that I forgotten what it is... Anyway it is an old banana... and probably past its best.
Another view from outside to help locate it:
Edit to add, from the notecard the oldest object in SL is a 5 Cent piece Maddeleine McCann has, from February 11, 2002. The Banana isn't actually included in the list, but is older than most other items that are included.
Welsh Island in Welsh 91/30/22
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3 minutes ago, LittleMe Jewell said:
I really, really wish people would just stop buying things - rezzable items - that do not have a floor model out. If everyone would just stop buying such items, then creators would actually start making sure they have a floor model out for people to look at. There are just way too many creators that aren't putting out floor models. If LI is tight, then they can just put out a rezzer, so that not all of the items are actually rezzed at the same time.
Blessed are the builders who tell you the dimensions of their build, and those who will give you a demo prim so that you can check the size on your land.
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11 minutes ago, Rowan Amore said:
I must have been in SL for about a year before someone explained how and why to set items square. Especially houses and furniture. But that was after I accidentally deleted the house and was trying to set it back up around the furniture. Some people might not know. I'm a fairly intelligent person but just never paid much attention to placement.
Actually I didn't notice the house was off-kilter until I tried to put up a hedge to hide the fact that there was air under part of the building.
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One of the things that annoy me are the trees and other landscaping items that are just plonked down on the terrain (see left example) without any effort at blending into the ground. Most of them can be partially retextured with the terrain textures in your Library (right example) . ( Yes, I could have done better.)
Also I would like to complain that one of my neighbor's houses is set three degrees off true.
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While exploring a remote area I found Blue Linden's "remnants of the Cornfield". Perhaps residents who came here as teenagers will recognize it. Where am I?
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2 hours ago, Sylvia Tamalyn said:
Hint: This boardwalk area is in a region that used to be part of the Teen Grid before it was integrated into the main grid in 2011.
This is in Wellfleet Harbor near Bay City.
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17 hours ago, Sylvia Tamalyn said:
While we are snacking, how about checking out the catch of the day at this Mole build? Where am I?
Clue please?
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Having a snack of hot buttered spuds and roasted chestnuts while I watch the Aurora Lindenalis. Where am I?
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3 hours ago, Aethelwine said:
Maybe a tip is in order.. That date for construction predates the Atoll by a year.... This map shows what was around in 2004 and will narrow it down:
Ps if you haven't already visited it the New Kadath Lighthouse Art Gallery has a fascinating selection of old maps:
THIS dead end appears to be in Hotel - 202/95/28.
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I needed to sell a parcel on one region so that I could increase my acreage in another region, and I wondered how to stage it. Who (besides me) would want to live on the side of a rock?
My first thought was that perhaps a witch who needed to jumpstart her broom would appreciate the steep drop outside the front door, but then looking through my inventory I found quite a bit of dragon-themed stuff, so I thought maybe I could dress it up to appeal to a dragon rider?
The lovely, messy, Mainland
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The windsock is a high-prim artifact from Cape Ekim.
I still love the view!
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2 hours ago, Aethelwine said:
It is in McCavity, the Underwater World Ruin
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Macavity/75/197/27
Aah....when I tried to sit on the column I fell through......:)
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11 hours ago, Rabid Cheetah said:
There was a small plot for sale, right up next to The Tube, with protected land on another side. The price was right. It's mine now. 😄 Plus The Tube window adjacent to the parcel is one of the ones that you can walk through to get into and out of The Tube.
I hadn't actually looked at the surface, and I didn't know there was a side entrance, but it looks like a lovely area.
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2 hours ago, Prokofy Neva said:
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In many ways the world reflects the Lindens roots, and to some extent current nourishment, by the California ideology or their predecessors in the Whole Earth Catalogue, which was the precursor of the Internet. So they may become more explicit with this,.
.... People don't really want to live in the future. They want to live in the past.................
If the Lindens go "Whole Earth Catalogue" then we might get domes made from recycled autos, earthships, and 'green' homes that have solar- and wind-energy components. I don't think they will do Jetsons - the Lindens were giving away 'futuristic' homes in Zindra and Horizons, and I haven't seen many of them being used.
Perhaps it will be 'back to the land' with smaller houses and larger parcels so we can all have little gardens in the front yard and raise chickens in the back yard...
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Speaking of mermaids....here's my next one. If you are sailing by you might not be aware of the ruins underwater (or the giant squid). Clue: T. S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats."
Statues by Earthy Mole.
Apologies - the second photo was taken in Griddlebone, a region next to Macavity. Griddlebone is a (sometimes) character in "Cats", depending on the version of the screenplay.
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11 hours ago, Rabid Cheetah said:
Well, I thought it might be an extension of The Sunken Highway (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Whitlock/84/166/78), but it's not.
I don't remember seeing this before. Thank you for giving me another landmark to add to my list!
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This is the Dongyeongiu to Seoraksan tunnel in Jeogeot. The tunnel is transparent, and there are all kinds of interesting things in the water outside. (That's not my avatar.)
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This location is in Bellisseria.
This is in an area with a large undersea tunnel network. I spotted a 'half-empty bottle of alcoholic nature', a skull, and a treasure chest while exploring, but nothing I could take home.
The rock spire projects up into the water, with floating chests nearby.
I found this not too soon after I got my first houseboat, so it is fairly new by Second Life Standards. It is in a water region in an area with both traditional homes and houseboats, and shows as a dark circle on the map.
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5 hours ago, Aethelwine said:
It might help to clarify that it isn't a Linden owned sandbox.
I will also add that shallow water and narrow waterways are typical of the area.
Edited to add that big Rainbow must have made my legs look that colour... I am not wearing orange tights.
Ferox Public Sandbox 80/186/24. I don't know if it is just me, but this was easier to find using the official Second Life Viewer than using Firestorm.
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Adam, I have been trying to compare your list to mine, but we have different methodologies - you have yours arranged by type, and mine are arranged by location....:) still, I've already found some I don't have, so thank you.
Aethelwine, I didn't realize there were so many sandboxes in Second Life. I have been finding some amazing things*, but I haven't found the sandbox you pictured - yet.
*Example "Public Avatar Sandbox" - in Firestorm Search I thought it looked like a region filled with individual dressing rooms. When I got there, though, it is a region called Mission Home Store and what I thought were dressing rooms were the tops of giant praying statues surrounding a store that sells Mission Furniture! The architecture is a tribute to Lebbeus Woods. (I'm not getting any kickbacks on this, but it is refreshing to see a region that includes a store that is not all just 'same old, same old'.)
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Right next to Ambat Infohub.
Ambat 21/234/99
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De Haro, 244/136/22 - there are several other Supply Stores and Campground signs on De Haro. I wonder what it was like here when people were camping?