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The Neil Young Archives

August 8, 2007 By

Zak Claxton’s Neil Young Archives is a compact but effective tour of the artist’s work. You can listen to some of Young’s work whilst browsing the visual discography or replicas of Young’s favorite instruments.

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Zak Claxton’s take on it all:

“Neil Young is a personal favorite musician and songwriter of mine, as well as someone who has embraced change and technological advancement throughout his long career. After about eight months as an SL resident, acquiring some building skills and so on, I decided that building a tribute of sorts to an artist for whom I have the utmost respect would be a good use of my time in SL. Plus, I felt that other residents of SL who happen to be fans of Neil Young would really enjoy visiting and learning more about him.

BUT WAIT. THERE’S MORE.

I’ve named the area “Zak Claxton’s SL Neil Young Archives” for a rather tongue-in-cheek reason. In case you’re unaware, Neil and his team have been working on a massive project called the Neil Young Archives for many years, beginning back in 1991 I believe. The latest incarnation of the Archvies is a 2-DVD, 8-CD set of music and media collected over Neil’s career, with over 40 years worth of rare and unreleased material included. Unfortunately, the project has been delayed for over a decade while Neil tinkers with it. It was actually just daleyed yet again, with the most recent date being early 2008 on Reprise Records.

In any case, my SL Neil Young Archives was built as a true labor of love. I don’t intend on selling anything there through which I could profit, even on the microscopic scale of Second Life. It’s my goal to merely give SL residents a place to enjoy Neil, his music, and explore the mystique around one of music’s most enigmatic icons. It was built with the highest level of respect.

Lastly, while I’ve just begun announcing the SL Archives’ existence, I don’t feel it’s anywhere near complete. It’s a slow process for me (I have things like a job and a family to take care of while I’m not playing around in world), but I will be continuing to add to and build on the SL Neil Young Archives for quite some time. I hope people really dig it. If I do it right, even those who aren’t fans of Neil should find the environment a nice spot to hang out in SL”.

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There’s also a machinima tour of the exhibit:

(Disclosure: Zak Claxton is part of SL Coyote that advertises at times on SLOz)

Check it out in-world

Filed Under: Landmarks of note, Music Tagged With: , ,

Lake View Waters Fishing World

August 7, 2007 By

If fishing’s your thing, you can get a small taste of the virtual version at Lake View Waters Fishing World. It’s owned by Australian SL resident Stephen Carpenter.

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To fish you just need to pay L$1 to buy a fishing rod and then L$2 for each fishing attempt. Each ‘fish’ you catch is an object or money prize. I had two attempts and got a gun on one of them. It’s more a lucky dip than fishing simulator and would work better over a larger area, but it’s a different activity all the same.

Check it out in-world

Filed Under: Australian News Tagged With: ,

The Great Barrier Reef and Whitsundays

August 6, 2007 By

The Great Barrier Reef in Second Life is part of a wider group of islands including the Whitsundays. Australian SL resident Sebastian Oxide summarises his aims with the islands:

“I hope to offer fair land deals for Aussies but also for all SL residents who seek a nice, “no-drama” regions. I am also working on an Environmental Project where I hope to raise awareness on the issues facing the Great Barrier Reef and to educate people about this important spot on our globe. By simulating the effects of global warming, pollution and fishing on the reef you will be able to visit the reef in Second Life and see the effects that might take 50 years in the real world under a week. In a way, this is why I joined Second Life”.

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There’s a website devoted to the environmental project and it’s follows another worthy environmental project we’ve covered previously.

Check it out in-world

Filed Under: Australian News, Business, Landmarks of note Tagged With: , ,

There always had to be a Gold Coast in SL

August 1, 2007 By

This evening I stumbled across the Whitsundays, Great Barrier Reef, Noosa Heads and Gold Coast:

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We’ve contacted the owner for a chat about the latest virtual part of Australia so watch this space. I’m guessing there’ll be no Jupiters Casino though.

Filed Under: Australian News Tagged With: , ,

Thursday’s Fictions

July 25, 2007 By

A fascinating Australian collaboration is about to make its SL debut. ‘Thursday’s Fictions’ is described as a surreal dance fantasy and it’s screening on ABC TV this Sunday, 29th July at 3pm AEST. Directly afterwards at 4pm at the ABC Ampitheatre on ABC Island there’ll be a Q&A session with Dr Richard James Allen, Dr Karen Pearlman, Gary Hayes and Story Consultant Jacqueline Turnure.

A standalone SL presence based on Thursday’s Fictions is close to completion. Gary Hayes was kind enough to point us to the build for Thursday’s Fictions for a preview and it looks like being an interesting and interactive presence. It’s likely a landmark for it will be provided at the Q&A session on Sunday.

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Check the ABC website for more details on the screening or the LAMP blog for more detail on the SL build by Gary Hayes.

We asked Gary for his thoughts on the build:

“It was particularly exciting recreating what I had read and seen of the film and making it relevant to Second Life – so I was careful not to just clone the sets or be too real world in translations of the metaphors of spirituality – but try to imagine given unlimited pallette what the choices around reincarnation could be”.

Gary also gave a brief synopsis of the film and the SL build’s relationship to it:

“It is the story of a lady called Thursday who tries to cheat reincarnation in that she takes the wrong things with her into each new life. So the Second Life experience is to get you, to think about what qualities you would carry with you into a new existence. I have built a small user journey through this and the idea is to go into further development to build all the story elements – the days representing new lives. Richard Allen and Karen Perlman have been great in allowing me to work with them to be very SL specific with this”.

Update: Check out Thursday’s Fictions in-world”>

Filed Under: Art, Australian News Tagged With: , , ,

Greenies are good enough

July 16, 2007 By

The Greenies House is one of those builds that comes from nowhere and just astounds you with its originality, attention to detail and pure whimsy. We don’t want to take too much away from experiencing it yourself, but the pictures say it all:

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Builds like this define the opportunities virtual worlds provide. Thanks to SL Insider for the heads-up

Check it out in-world

Filed Under: Landmarks of note Tagged With: , ,

Garden for the Missing

July 2, 2007 By

The Garden for the Missing is a simple but powerful presence on the mainland Remora sim. Motivated by the tragic end of a missing persons case in her neighbourhood, owner Ronnie Rhode set up her presence. She states she’s been passionate about the missing persons issue since 2002 but only recently joined Second Life.

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The pictures of missing persons are sourced from a range of US-based organisations including the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, BeyondMissing and Project Jason. Ronnie is hoping to move to a larger location and has a donation wishing well to help her achieve that aim. While we were there another SL resident was donating assorted flowers etc to help decorate the area.

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As Ronnie herself said when we had a brief chat, the more people that see the faces of the missing the more likely they are to be found. It doesn’t get much more worthwhile than that.

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Thanks to Aussie SL’er Rails Bailey for suggesting the story.

Check it out in-world

Filed Under: General News, Landmarks of note Tagged With: ,
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