More gallery fun ...

Well, last night was the debut of the new series of art classes over at the Avatrait Gallery (LINK) with Ryker Beck doing "SL Art 101: An Introduction". This proved to be very popular, and most of us "Simuality Management" types ducked out early to keep the stress on the server at a minimum (and we did manage to have well over 40 Avatars in the classroom, following an audio/visual presentation, without crashing!).



The start time of 6pm SLT was not very popular with the European S.L. crowd (as that was around 3am their time!), so Ryker has agreed to do another session of this class on Sunday, January 27th at 9am SLT (about 6pm in Europe)! Given the popularity that these classes are evidencing, it's probably a good idea to double up on them like this, because were everybody to try to get in all at once, it would surely have crashed the server. I hope that Linden Labs is working on the "scalability" issue ... it would be great to just "order up" extra bandwidth when events like this were happening.



Next week brings the start of the Art History classes at the gallery. S.L. newcomer Hitoshi Mayako, who has an MFA from the University of Chicago, and is on staff at the Art Institute, will be bringing top-level expertise to the subject. That's going to be happening at 7pm SLT (sorry Europe!) on Tuesday, January 29 ... needless to say, we're probably going to have to look at doing a "reprise" presentation of this as well!