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
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.
Posted by: Aimee Weber | Friday, May 26, 2006 at 12:14 AM
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!
Posted by: Celebrity Trollop | Friday, May 26, 2006 at 12:30 PM
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 ;-)
Posted by: Tao Takashi | Friday, May 26, 2006 at 04:01 PM
Thanks for coming, Tao! Those are really great screenshots, how'd you get them to look so cool?
Posted by: Hamlet Au | Friday, May 26, 2006 at 05:25 PM
Celebrity Trollop : "P.S. ABBA rules!"
<3 !
Posted by: Aimee Weber | Friday, May 26, 2006 at 05:34 PM
I can't second that emotion, but I can correct Ms. Trollop's last name mispelling-- sorry about that!
Posted by: Hamlet Au | Friday, May 26, 2006 at 05:41 PM