FEDERATED FETE

Swinging with Soleil Mirabeau and Celebrity Trollop (background)

Thanks to everyone who gathered on Shipley cliffs for the first Federated Media Salon in Second Life-- most especially for Eggy Lippman who created the suave office space and dance floor, and DJ Master Spin Martin of KSSX (RL blog here), who arrived at short notice to lay down excellent tunes and hipster palaver in between tracks.  (Dubious deployment of ABBA notwithstanding.)  For awhile there, it looked like John Battelle himself would show up, but a delay in his jetsetter trajectory prevented him from making it in time.  Nonetheless, FM advertising executives Lovisa Tackleberry and Jonas Gasparini ably held court at a Salon which quickly evolved (or devolved) into a full-press dance off accompanied by fairly bizarre party chat that made Shipley's M rating come in handy.

More screenshots after the break.  Since this Salon went down during the inaugural of Version 1.10, these ended up becoming a showcase for SL's new local lighting system-- which I have to say, despite my earlier crabbing about other aspects of the 1.10, is pretty excellent. 

The FM office, by the way, is still open for business:  go there to get the latest advertising rate card with L$ listings and direct links to pertinent FM webpages.

Games Prototype provides instant bar (and human bonfire) to the party

Soleil Mirabeau syncs the crowd

NWN contributor Aimee Weber and unidentified hipster capture the center, while FM ad exec Jonas Gasparini stands amazed at left

At Aimee's instigation, DJ Spin threatens to unleash ABBA on an unsuspecting party

Dulcet-voiced fashionista Torrid Midnight arrives late to a roar of greetings

Resembling French New Wave starlet, Ms. Mirabeau and penguin companion take well-deserved smoke break

Comments

[Aimee Weber]

This was a total blast. Nice chance to schmooze (and by schmooze I mean...alienate the crowd with my ABBA music. YAY ME!)

By the way, that Hipster getting down with me is the talented SL animator Kiari Lefay.

[Celebrity Trollop]

Hi Hammy. My name's misspelled (no "E" in trollop -- well, maybe in Shakespeare's day) but it was a blast to hang out.

The photos with the 1.10 lighting are flat out amazing. Wow, so cool.

P.S. ABBA rules!

[Tao Takashi]

More photos in my blog entry here (a little down).

Was a nice hangout. Unfortunately I had to go to bed then.. next time I will try longer ;-)

[Hamlet Au]

Thanks for coming, Tao! Those are really great screenshots, how'd you get them to look so cool?

[Aimee Weber]

Celebrity Trollop : "P.S. ABBA rules!"

<3 !

[Hamlet Au]

I can't second that emotion, but I can correct Ms. Trollop's last name mispelling-- sorry about that!