Calendar Girls
Ever since we began going on our HG journeys last year, it's been in the back of my mind to make a real world HG Safari calendar.Whatever there is of ephemeral about virtual worlds seems to be...
View ArticleZafari with a Zee
If there is one thing worse than being mauled to death by a zombie, it's when the zombie that mauls you is a clone of yourself. It's bad for you, but it's super fun for those who see it happen. This is...
View ArticleThe Trick of Treats
Kodinpump is the latest build by Nani Ferguson and Ange Menges. Available contemporaneously on two different grids, Metropolis and OSGrid, it is a Hunt, and celebrates the Autumn season with a...
View ArticleSo Wrong it's Right
A giant smart phone in a soup of whatnots, the wistful implications of insanity, blocks and heads, and a sort of glorious heavenly carrot cake - these are just some of the impressions to be...
View ArticleNon Stop Safari
Nothing but movement, movement, this week - heck, even the musician was whirly - Whirli Placebo, to be precise, but we will get to that later. All hypergrid addresses are of course at the end...
View ArticleSafari goes to the shows
George.Equus: Now stuff makes sense :) The one thing that is always the same about our safaris is that they are never the same. Most weeks, two or three new friends join us and even when we go to...
View ArticleSafari starts at a fest and ends up in Jail
It was highly inappropriate, to be on a cathedral sized art installation doing a girl gangnam style dance but that's how we roll. Two trips, and a shorter safari than usual, yet it felt like we...
View ArticleA Scifi, Scofi, TP try and try Safari
Beacon opensimworld: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. So, back to Metropolis for the Summer of Arts which has morphed...
View ArticleSafari Goes Jogging
GeR.Orsini @craft-world.org:8002: benvenuti in Craft grid e in Italia If you have been thinking OSGrid is a bit off color these days, between Notecards and prims and Landmarks and Friends...
View ArticleSafari goes Hunting
In Open Sim, as in the real world, two things are guaranteed, nobody reads anything, and travel is dangerous. Well, of course, that's not true. It is just that sometimes, there is such an...
View ArticleVar Out
Aime.Socrates: i'm looking much more intelligent with those hornsDabici.Straulino: certainly more brilliantsnowbody Cortes: lol AimeLucy.Afarensis: Like your Xmas decoration Snowysnowbody Cortes: oh ty...
View ArticleThe Snowind Swansong
It is their swansong, and so it is up to you and I to make the most of it. After many years of providing fun and delight to their fellow residents, in the form of their...
View ArticleSmokin' Safari
It's that time of year when we are all subjected to a sort of mass hallucination that the whole world is knee deep in presents and snow, family and mistletoe. That makes it refreshing,...
View ArticleAz... good as it gets
Snakedance Moonwind's lovely avie said it best...2015 was on it way out. Some of the Safari regulars met to talk about what they thought the year had brought. It was a two stop...
View ArticleWho Dereos Wins
It's fun to visit new places, and in open sim, 'new' often means places that have only recently come into existence. This week the Safari took a trip over to visit the predominantly German...
View ArticleRadiola
There is something of the divine at Radiola. It is a land that provokes lightheartedness and a light step. Tread carefully, for you tread on dreams. And what dreams may come,...
View ArticleWhat Is OpenSim For?
What is OpenSim for? Many things. It's like a large garden, with different flowerbeds, trees, rockeries and ponds, maybe a vegetable patch, and a compost heap too. Each zone has its...
View ArticleZan and the art of Hypergridding
So now we know. The secret to an absolutely perfect Safari where nobody loses their hair, gets lost or freezes or has chat lag is... to predict that everything is going to go horribly...
View ArticleSafari Goes Boldly
The word maze means to be confused or bewildered, and may be related to Scandinavian words like mas - 'exhausting labor' and masa, a Swedish word meaning 'to be slow or sluggish'. Clearly a...
View ArticlePleasure Craft
Congratulations to Craft, and all who sail in her, the grid turns 6 years old on Wednesday January 27 and celebrates with a party in the evening, European time, and the announcement of the...
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