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| SL14B Cake Stage skyline. Build by Mikati Slade |
How about that Second Life Birthday?
I scored several slots at SL14B for a total of five. Excessive? You snooze you lose. No two were alike.
I was approached a week early by Cake Stage leads regarding an event hosted by the Lindens. It had to be to their Carnivalesque theme: mostly New Orleans Mardi Gras mixed with Rio: I don't know how they knew I could do this, other than a wild guess from my exhibit theme ( Or Marianne? Going to have to ask her). They said my application would be for a separate set. I wholeheartedly agreed.
A week later came the offer of a prime time slot Tuesday on Stage Left. With the start of SL14B openings trickled in and I jumped on Wed 8-10am, Friday 4-5am, then Sunday 8-9am.
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| DJing the World Pop set Sunday morning at the Cake Stage |
On Monday morning I woke up to notices & an official Email about SL14B's big party, a Masquerade Ball. Wait. That's my time slot.
People had a great time. Nobody walked out from the music. Word came through that staff were chair dancing. This isn't bragging so much as reaffirming I hadn't let anyone down. No voice just uninterrupted music. The tips - for which I am always grateful - paid my stream for July and a couple of weeks' rent. The event was a success!
I had my "regular" DJ set the following evening on Stage Left: Swing Moon type fare consisting of vintage jazz, big band, boogie woogie, movie soundtracks, retro revival & electro swing. It was Midsummer's eve (really it was, so stop laughing), and a conflicting event I would otherwise have attended, was announced on short notice; it pulled most of my friends and Rosehaven neighbors away at the halftime. The fact is for timezones west of Eastern Daylight Time, summer solstice occurred at the end of their day. The crowd was light until the next talent arrived with their manager (jeez). I got tips from their growing number of followers, which was nice. I like to think I helped move the time more quickly for them in a pleasant way ;)
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| This year's DJ stage atop a festooned top hat |
As mentioned earlier I grabbed Stage openings as quickly as I could and landed three: a New Wave set on Stage Left on Wednesday morning SLT (prime time Europe), Classic Funk early Friday morning on the Cake Stage, and World Pop again at the Cake Stage Sunday morning. I kinda wished I had a chance on the DJ Stage but never saw any lists of open slots for there. Also the Cake Stage team & I go way back, so I must confess favouritism.
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| Classic Funk set Friday morning - Shiva approves! |
This year we had performer badges. I hadn't noticed at first until my stream check for Stage Left that there was a box of them. Having not noticed a box the previous day I created my own badge (Right) for the Cake Stage. Then got the official one (Left) on Friday. Click for larger images to compare the two:
I loved being able to offer up a range of music throughout SL14B, plus bring a little Mardi Gras to those who had only heard about it via my exhibit "The Other Halloween". Thanks to my friends who posed on the float for shots (when I'm done with it I'll link to a machinima in this post, so check back). My exhibit was situated in a neighborhood with Bay City, Burning Man and the Ivory Tower of Primitives. A lucky spot across from the Welcome sim.
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| My exhibit The Other Halloween |
There were some really fun things at SLB including two interactive percussion areas, a tribute to the late Ladyslipper Constantine, an awesome region (literally: SL14B Awesome) of sights & games.
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| Interact with images at Inside-Out |
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| One of two Faux DJ booths on SL14B Awesome. |
This year's auditorium was based on Radio City Music Hall, Stage Left was a humongous mythical Thai guardian (I saw somewhere someone mentioned Chinese... most definitely not), and of course Mikati Slade's Hirajukulicius pixel Cake Stage.
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| Stage Left |
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| Loki Eliot's party in his head |
Alas all celebrations come to an end so that we may look forward to the next time. The Cake Stage collapsed the following Sunday. Again look for a link.
Thank you SLB staff and participating Lindens. Thank you attendees. See you next year for the 15th!
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| Stage Left WiP and me |
blogged on iPod over an iced Decaf venti SFV 2% latte at 7am
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