[Five Questions To A Poet #3] Continuing our series of getting to know prominent Second Life poets, the following questions were asked of poet- musician RoseDrop Rust with his poem “The Pitch” as our featured poem for March 2022. 1) What, or who, first motivated you to write poetry? I started playing music as a…
Sabre (aka Sabreman Carter) has selected his poem “As We Dance Together” for our December 2021 feature poem. This is the second in our series of Five Questions to a Poet. Sabre’s poem follows the five questions below. (We gratefully acknowledge the work of SL Artist Mistero Hifeng for the subject matter of the feature…
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…