Someone has a birthday coming.....

Yep it is nearly that time again, SL's 8th birthday, while the actual event is not until June, the chance to get a spot to build in comes much earlier and can be quite a competition to get. So my friend and I are now on the lookout for announcements on when the areas are open. We have already seen a picture of the sims map, so the rest can not be far off.

Now if we manage to get a spot, what do we build?.....

You came, you saw, and you listened

Well the judges had a hard task with all the great works, but they made some great choices. The concert had a slightly rocky start due to a couple of griefers, but once they were kicked, a great time was had by all, listening to the great voices of Strum Diesel, Thunderfoot Lorefield, and Dusty Smythe.
We were featured in online magazines, various blogs, we were top of the search system, and even got listed on the sl Facebook site (wow, talk about being busy, at some points we were getting one person arrive at the platform every 2 minutes).
Everyone dragged their friends along to look around, have a ride on Fred, the zip line, and a fly around on the bunny's (we even had a bunny race which was a great laugh).

Of course with all the fun there was still the fundraising, and the water drops grew ever rounder as time went on. While I of course wanted the moon and the stars, we at least reached up into the clouds and I know in these hards times, that people gave all that they could.

The Judged Winners

No more building

Well building phase ends at Midnight on the 20th, but most have been finished a good while now. This means the next phase can begin, the judged voting. And what a task is that going to be, there is so many good pieces, it is going to be very hard to choose between them.
Popular voting still continues, so get over there show some charitable generousity.

And here are the other great supporters

Donators of prizes, givers of things we need to make other things work, and performers giving up their precious time. Thankyou, you are what makes the world go round.

Alesia Barbosa
Alicia Stella
Aruba DeCuir
Attica Bekkers
DragonLady Majestic
Ginette Pinazzo
Korgi Lerwick
Lilith Heart
Mayfly Cyberstar
Neeks Moonshadow
Strum Diesel
Thunderfoot Lorefield
Winter Thorn

Check out the artists

Below is a list of the artists taking part in ArtFest come and see their wonderful work:

Adrianne Torrance Alesia Barbosa Alizarin Goldflak Aloisio Congrejo Asmita Duranjaya Attica Bekkers Belinda51 Unplugged Billy Laffer borges19 Oh Fuschia Nightfire Giovanna Cerise Gleman Jun Huntress Catteneo

Jiran Lane Lagu Indigo Louly Loon Mare Brown mayfly Cyberstar Moeuhane Sandalwood Molina Rhode Neeks Moonshadow Nema Galicia oona Eiren Penelope Parx Pixie Tungl Rebeca Bashly

Sandhya Patel Scottius Polke Shangreloo Kuhn Sheba Blitz Silene Christen Solkide Aver Stardove Spirit Tani Thor Tegan Jenvieve Thor Effingham Ub Yifu

ArtFest looking great

Things are looking really good now, art, art, everywhere art, and it is good art too.
This is a picture of the landing platform, it also has
- the portal down to the underwater garden where you can take a ride on Fred
- the Bazarr where you can shop for a few things
- the cafe area to sit and chat in
- the dance area
- posters and information you can grab
- items currently up for auction that you can bid on
- concert area for the singers when there is a show on
but wait, there's more..
it also leads off to the islands to go and see all the great works

ok, most sculpture spots on the sim are now occupied, lots of wonderful works are lready out there and the general feel of the place is open warm and friendly. For those that want to donate their money themselves there is a webpage for ArtFest set up through the Red Cross here:

http://www.redcrossfundraising.org.au/ArtFest

ArtFest competition details

An entire (mature) sim is being devoted to this competition, each category will have two forms of judging, that done by actual secret judges, and the popular vote where people show their appreciation for the works by donating lindons to the donation box with it (remember this is a fundraiser).

CATERGORIES:
SL snapshots and manipulated SL pictures
RL photos
RL artworks and picture manipulations
Sculpture, 3D art
Anything not covered by others, poetry, writing, performance, whatever.

COMPETITION DATES:
Already started - can join anytime up to end date as long as spots still available.
End building - midnight Sun feb 20th
Presentation and Concert - Mon Feb 28th
Final close - Sun Mar 6th

Singers and DJ's are welcome to fill the sim with music when there are no conflicting events, show your talents and you never know who may hear and want to book you for future shows.

Artists whether in the competition or not, are welcome to sell their items in the bazaar, but must agree to a profit split from all sales where at least 50% goes to charity.

This is the chance for all creative people to show what they have, jump on board now.

Poster for ArtFest fundraiser

ArtFest for Flood Victims

So of course I tend to never stop, so now that the work part with Artmaze is done and it opens shortly to everyone, I have drowned myself in a new project.

This time, much like my hunts, I have decided to run my own thing and make it a mammoth task (why go small when you can dive in and totally drown yourself). And no, as I wrote that bit I did not even think about the connection to this event and if it was an appropriate saying.

So the next big thing is a huge fundraiser for the flood victims around the world. And I say around the world, as even though I am in Australia, and the floods in Queensland are devistating everyone, there are other current floods that are just as bad or worse. So this event is for Australia, Brazil, and Sri lanka. I don't know about anyone else, but when I see footage of a dead elephant stuck up in a tree from where the water had carried it, people sitting on their roofs with no other sign there is a house beneath them under the muddy water, or hear of all the people swept away or buried, my heart aches.

I can't do a heck of a lot, but I know I can pull something together that people will enjoy and hopefully it will help raise a little money for a good cause. The money raised will go to the Red Cross, since they are one of the few organisations I know of that work all around the world helping out in disaster zones, without religious overtones. With the current problems around right now I encourage all to donate to some group that you know is helping in some way.