Otenth Paderborn's virtual existence
Prim Perfect reports on the benefit for Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders to which I donated two hours of DJing:
Now we are delighted to tell you that this event raised the substantial sum of L$71,120 which equates to a cheque for US $251.67 which has been sent to the New York offices of MSF/DWB.
I had the delightful privilege of DJing for Baron Klaus Wulfenbach’s birthday party in Steelhead on Sunday evening. Behind the cut you’ll find the playlist I came up with. There were a number of very delightful discoveries for me, some at the request of consular staff, others which I found from my colleagues at Radio Riel or discovered as I sought out the requests.
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After an afternoon of being helped by Mr Elrik Merlin, I have, I think, mastered the technical difficulties of being able to broadcast my voice as well as my music!
And that will make my debut as a live DJ tonight ever so much easier. I owe a debt of gratitude to Rik.
If you’ve always desperately wondered what I sound like, or what madness I can find in my music library, come on over to Steelhead Harborside tonight from 6-8pm SLT for a “mad science” party celebrating Frau Annechen Lowey’s motivating spirit’s birthday and Melanippe Karas’s first rezday. Or listen in at http://music2.radioriel.org (you may need to listen at http://66.186.45.115:9012/live or http://snow.slserver.com:9012/live.m3u depending on how you are listening in).
On Saturday, 7 June, we celebrated the second annual Værð, or Warming Day, in Orcadia with a dance and amusements. Wyre is just over a year old, and has been joined by Hoy, Shapinsay, and Muckle Green Holm!
Edwina Heron, the Countess of Swoonsbury, set out amusements in Hoy, including two kinds of bumper vehicles and swan boats. Jameson Despres, the Thane of Shapinsay, arranged romantic settings throughout that island and below the waves. Muckle Green Holm was transformed into a sim-sized maze, a recreation of the maze created by the utopian community of New Harmony, Indiana, in 1814. And Soliel Snook, the Marchioness of Giggleford, entertained an assembled party with ’80s pop and music. (Wings turned out to be the order of the day. Below the group shot are photos of me and of nox Pinion.)
You are most cordially invited to join the residents and friends of Orcadia (Wyre, Hoy, Shapinsay, and Muckle Green Holm sims) for our national holiday, Værð, or Warming Day, on Saturday, 7 June, 2008. This holiday celebrates the first anniversary of the settlement of Wyre, and the recent addition of Hoy, Shapinsay, and Muckle Green Holm.
For your entertainment and pleasure:
I’m broadcasting on behalf of Radio Riel today, for our “Magnatune Mondays.” Today’s connecting thread is “strings.” Plucked, strummed, bowed, or beaten. Have a listen at http://music.radioriel.org.
Last night while acting as the Radio Riel host for a treehousewarming party for the Davies clan in Steelhead Harborside, I was quite overcome by fabulousness. (No, not mine, the home’s and the assembled company’s!) Luckily for me, Miss Myfanwy Davies was prepared to assist not only her guests but her event staff:
Just for the sake of a modicum of self-defense regarding the outfit, I plead temporary insanity by virtue of being egged on in Caledon state chat by Lady Edwina Heron and Lady Diamanda Gustafson earlier in the day. (The Caledon Second Anniversary treasure hunt prepared by said ladies and their minions being an enormous success and the occasion for the foolish chatter on the state channel.)
I’m sorry not to have gotten a photo that would do justice to the tiara and <ahem> lovely hair sent to me by Lady Edwina to accompany the tutu, similarly gifted. I was also holding a rather large, winged steampunk wand for most of the evening.
[missing funny image of a tipjar with an outrageous sum hovering over it]
(No, I didn’t really make L$16,000 in tips. It was a joke.)
Only in a virtual world have I been in a live television studio audience. Gabrielle Riel, the founder of Radio Riel and the Duchess of Carntaigh was on Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe, produced by the SLCN television network.
Miss Beebe’s second guest was Picker Apogee, who played live ragtime guitar.
And the final guest was Miko Omegamu, the curator of the Evolutions Museum, which showcases the early and later work of prominent virtual world designers.
Tonight it was my pleasure to serve as the Radio Riel host at the Winterfell-Caledon Solstice Ball, organized by Serra Anansi, Seneschal of Winterfell, and Her Grace, Gabrielle Riel, Duchess of Caledon. The ball started out in Winterfell Castle in Winterfell, but the sheer fabulousness of the crowds crashed the sim. In the resultant confusion, we regrouped in Caledon Cape Wrath, a brand-new and mostly empty sim that newly connects Caledon and Winterfell. At times we had more than seventy avatars at the ball. Her Grace was the musical presenter and, if such a thing is possible, outdid herself with the loveliness of the music. It was a triumph, and my congratulations to the ladies who planned it.
After my duties for the formal ball were done, I managed to take a few photos without moving from my place (oh, the wonders of no camera constraint and very high draw distance!).
View of Winterfell Absinthe from Caledon Cape Wrath.
Caledon Cape Wrath fresh from the sea.