Party Pictures Monday

My buddies and co-bloggers Carl Paneer and Jeff Ellsworth present us with more great pictures from the parties at the Second Pride Festival yesterday!

Bock, Tomais & Carl at DJ Yifu's set Monday
Photography by Carl Paneer

NakedCarl: Second Pride - DJ Yifu
Jeff Ellsworth. Witnessing A Second Life: Second Pride 2014 - Live and Lively (One continuous post, so scroll way down for the latest pictures.)

The Second Pride Chapel

Away from the busy stages and shopping areas the Build Director Jak Calcutt has created a little haven of peace and serenity where we can all visit to remember our lost ones for contemplating life and it's never ending caprices.

The non-denominational Second Pride Chapel is a beautiful build by master builder Jak as you can see in the pictures in this post.

Inside the wonderful little chapel there are candles that you can light in remembrance of a lost loved one. (Just touch a free candle and then write the name in local, without < or >, as I mistakenly did *sigh*.)

The chapel is located in the Southwest corner of the main sim or you can use this landmark for easy access Second Pride Chapel (SLurl).

I'm So Lazy

This is only the second day of my first life summer vacation and I have already dropped down to the level of maximum laziness. Only three work related contacts on Monday and two today.

I have nothing on my agenda for this week except covering Second Pride and my appointment with a CT scan on Thursday morning.

Picture of the Day - 117

"BLOG: Sail Away." Photography by ElviraMidnight

If you wish to see more of ElviraMidnight's photography, please visit her Flickr photostream here.

Second Pride Hugs, Days 1-3

Tomais Ashdene

Karl Kalchek

Petr Hastings-Vanbeeck

Jak Calcutt

JJ Goodman

Eric Quimby

Come back for more Second Pride hugs, and why not try giving a few yourself!

How To Make A Quilt

I found the instructions that Jace Byrne, the holder of the previous quilts, sent out concerning how to make a quilt in SecondLife. The following are essentially the instructions he gave.

Be creative and don't worry about people judging your work! Focus on your feelings and relations to the person the panel is for.

Set everything to full perms. This is VERY important. quilts have been lost over the years due to being restricted perms.

You should put the name of the person in the object's name (i.e "Ars Northmead Quilt") and write a little something in the description too. A notecard giver script is also acceptable.

There are two main ways to make a panel. 

• Make an image in Photoshop or GIMP or whatever you use for textures. Upload the image and put it on the top face of a flattened cube. That's it, you're done. 
• The other way is to use the build tools to construct a panel in 3D. 

 Specifications

1. PG only, please don't make panels that can only be displayed on a Moderate or Adult sim.
2. Panels can be up to 12 prims. They must be linked together. The root prim should be the base or frame of the panel.
3. Maximum size is X: 2 m, Y: 2m, Z: 1m. (If you go over a little in height that's OK, we just don't want things to tower over other panels.)
4. No scripts (Notecard giver or one rotation are acceptable), particles, animations, spinners  etc. Absolutely NO glow or sound.
5. Set permissions to full perms (copy/mod/trans), to do so make sure you have checked all three boxes under Next Owner Can in the edit window.
6. You can use the notecard to say something about your friend. If you do, say "click for notecard" in the description.

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Now you know how to create your quilt, so you can get  it done in preparation for a hoped for permission from the Second Pride Board of Directors to go ahead with the suggestion I made in the post titled A New "Names Project" for Second Pride. 

Do not, I repeat not, send anything to the Second Pride Avatar until we have been given permission to do so by the SP board.

My Parade Blunder

Remember how I have been going on about how much I have missed the opening parades at Second Pride? And how happy I was when I learned that we would have one at this years Second Pride?

Well, I managed to botch up my participation by going for a short nap four hours before the parade was going to start and then sleeping for five hours. This despite having set several wake-up calls both on my landline telephone and my cellphone, all for safety's sake as I could not imagine I would sleep that long.

Luckily my family members (hubby Tomais, son Guyke and son-in-law Garrett) were at the right place in the right time and could represent the McMillan colors.

Photo by Tomais Ashdene

Photo by Tomais Ashdene

Photo by Jeff Ellsworth

According to the reports I have received from the Opening Parade it was a tremendous success, with more than 180 avatars taking part or watching from the adjacent sim. There were only a few problems, which were to be expected considering the amount of avatars there. I am so upset with myself for missing it.

Well, when I finally did wake up I logged in as fast as I could to calm my worried family and could get a feel of the parade anyhow as it runs 24/7 (except the short while the sim is restarted everyday). I went a little crazy and tried out many of the floats, as documented below by blogging buddies Jeff Ellsworth and Carl Paneer and my Tomais.

Photo by Jeff Ellsworth

Photo by Jeff Ellsworth

Photo by Tomais Ashdene

Garrett & Guyke watching the Bock-parade
Photo by Carl Paneer

For more great pictures from Second Pride Festival, please visit my blog buddies Jeff Ellsworth; Jeff Ellsworth Witnessing A Second Life: Second Pride 2014 Live and Lively (live blogging) and Carl Paneer: NakedCarl Second Life.