Shyla the Super Gecko ( aka KriJon Resident), a published and well known Second Life poet, kindly agreed to answer five questions on her poetry. Her poem “PAIN” is featured after the fifth question. FIVE QUESTIONS What, or who, first motivated you to write poetry?I don’t know. I wrote it from a very young age….
Halloween celebrations for 2021 have now come and gone – but for those who were at the the nine hour music and dance marathon in the Strawberry Fields venue of the Chelsea sim, it will no doubt remains vivid in memory for a while, The event commenced at 1pm and wound down at 10pm when…
In its Hey-Day, the Chelsea Hotel in New York City had summer ‘beach’ parties on the roof, mostly just half clothed people sitting around drinking. The roof-top “End of Summer” Beach Party held at Virtual Hotel Chelsea on Saturday the 18th included 4 hours of live music on a real beach with surf, sand and…
If you shine a light into your subconscious, what do you imagine you’d see? Will it be clear images with easily relatable meanings attached – a clear roadmap definitively detailing what you know and believe? Or might the light shine upon overlapping images drawn from memory and incidents – along with a sense of half-submerged…
Wherever you are in SL and whomever you are – your experience is highly individual – it is yours alone. No one experiences this environment precisely as you do, and, of course, the same can be said of our presence in the physical world. Our perception is uniquely ours and ours alone. So how does…
Have you ever been to a party on the roof of a multi-story hotel, or any building come to that? You have? Okay, did it have a beach with lapping waves and warm sand – and maybe a shark fin cruising the shallows? Admit it, you haven’t. Between 7 and 11pm, (SLT) on Saturday September…
There aren’t many things that can keep one happily glued to the computer for hours on end but the Woodstock Celebration Festival on 17 Aug at Chelsea did just that. The purpose-built stage was set in a gently sloping amphitheater just a short walk from the magnificent Hotel Chelsea, with speakers set up on a…
August 17, 2021, 1 pm until 10pm SLT Yes! Some of the finest musicians on the grid are coming together August 17th, starting at 1 PM SLT, to celebrate the 42nd anniversary of what is arguably the most well-known concert event in history. The music starts at 1 PM SLT on booze-day, schmooze-day Tuesday, August…
Wandering through Second Life I chanced upon the virtual Hotel Chelsea and was immediately impressed with the scale of building, the quality of the build, it’s myriad rooms, and simple but imposing presence. (Since then I have compared some details of the real life Chelsea Hotel in New York City with this replica and find…
Every story has a beginning…. The virtual Hotel Chelsea can be looked at as a continuation of what had begun in a section of Manhattan many years ago. Painters, sculptors, writers, photographers and musicians began to gravitate to the area surrounding the hotel, and to the hotel itself. What the virtual Chelsea has done is…