Hello again ...

Well, how time flies when ... well ... all sorts of stuff is competing for a limited slice of time! It looks like I'm going to be falling well short of my "8 posts a month" target this time ... sorry about that.

Anyway, Eschatos was poking around in some of the SL "5th Birthday" activities yesterday, and stumbled over this rendition of King Kong on the Empire State Building ... I have no clue who did it or why, but it seemed interesting enough to share with y'all! That little fly-like spot hovering over the big ape is Eschatos ... doing his typical alt-zoom wandering.



Eschatos had been over that way to check out part of the program being run by Gwenette Writer and Trip Potvin of Broadway Live (LINK) Trip's a long-time real-life Broadway performer and producer, and they've put together some real top-notch entertainment as part of the SL celebrations.

I know these folks because Eschatos' first "permanent home" in SL (once he quit "sleeping" in library lounges over on the old Info Island!) was up in the Broadway Live Tower ... here he is on his balcony overlooking the ocean. If you're interested in finding a very reasonable place to rent that is fun, classy, and well-ordered, you should check out the various options there. They have two high-rise buildings with apartments as little as L$250/week (that's just a real-life buck), and various other "vacation housing" down by the beach.



I'm hoping to have some very exciting news to report next week ... this is big, and it's going to make things very busy around Simuality (although the work itself is going to be outside of SL) ... but that's pretty much all I can say about that right now!

More later ...

Oh, look ... a NAME!

Well, we finally have the domain lined up, so I can start using the name of the "fashion district" that I've been mentioning ... it's going to be called Pattern9 and, as you can see from these snaps, it's a lot more than just clothes!

Here's Eschatos perched on one of the cupolas of the "white palace" which is going to be the major "mall" of designer showrooms. The dock area just went in yesterday, with big yachts that are available for rental. Our client is big into "fun and games", and there will be cars, boats, hang gliders, surfboards, jet-skis, etc., etc., etc., available across the current six sims of Pattern9!



Most of the planning and work over there is in the hands of our in-world build team, so it's always amusing for Eschatos to take a bit of a fly-around over in Pattern9 to see what's new. This is all centered around Club Mannequin (LINK), which was the start of the "fashion & fun" concept, but it grew so much bigger than that ... and speaking of bigger, the waterway in the above pic (going under the bridge) connects with the Mannequin lagoon, and out into the open ocean which will be navigable out a full sim's worth on each side, making the water activities much more satisfying than just playing in a land-locked lake.



Last time Eschatos posted here, he was checking out the new buildings on the other side of the complex ... well, here's a little peak at the "southwest" corner (although I'm pretty sure that it's actually on the south-east sim), with a railroad, a giant "chopper shop", a Native American village, and circling buzzards (which may even be ridable), looking back towards those apartment towers.

There's lots of stuff still to come over there, with even more expansion plans, so Eschatos is probably going to be foisting more about it to y'all in here ... hope you don't mind. I'll probably be grinding out some P.R. releases too when we start getting the sign-ups for the designer showrooms set. Anyway, Eschatos is excited about all the new stuff, so wanted to share.

More later ...

Geez ... ya go away for a few days ...

So, Eschatos was MIA from SL for quite a few days. As noted previously, we've been moving the Simuality offices and that went OK, but my computer was feeling poorly from the ride, and it took until today to get back in-world.



In the meanwhile, the build team seems to have been busy working on the upcoming fashion district, so Eschatos had to head over to check out what had been whipped up whilst he was in virtual limbo. Here he's standing over in the "residential" area, on top of some of the boutique buildings.



Just in case you couldn't see him in the wide shot, here he is up close (you know how he gets when he feels like he's appearing in an off-brand "where's Waldo"!). Maybe later this week we'll be able to show you the bridge that's appeared on the other side of the lagoon ... it's in, but the road sort of doesn't go anywhere yet and there are some strange "placeholding" brightly colored blocks where "stuff" (the nature of which, I've not been informed) will eventually appear.

Anyway, we're back ...

Land, lots of land ...

Not too much to report ... we're still waiting for the City inspectors to tell us we can move to our new offices ... and I'm sure we're going to be insanely busy once we get in there (we just heard some news from a client-in-waiting than makes us think that's about to start rolling!).



Eschatos decided to take a walk and check out the new islands that got delivered last weekend south of the Simuality (LINK) sim. These are going to be part of the "fashion district" that's being built around Club Mannequin (LINK), which is very "unfinished" at the moment, but will be very cool when done!

Anyway, it was a dramatic sunset when Eschatos got up on top of the as-delivered island, so a snapshot seemed to be in order ... he even put away his coffee cup for the occasion!

More later ...

Uh, oh ...

Oh, dear ... I guess showing Eschatos where we're moving the RL office was a mistake ... he seems to think that we're moving the in-world offices as well, and has boxed stuff up and appears to be waiting for the moving van!



Around Simuality, we're sort of in the same place ... obviously, we've not boxed the computers as yet, but we've got all the files, kits, promo stuff, etc., etc., etc., packed up and ready to go ... we're just waiting for the various City of Evanston inspectors to tell us it's OK to get into the new space. As soon as they say "go" we'll be into moving mode.

Oh, by the way ... the two other islands that we've been waiting for (to complete the "fashion district" being developed around Club Mannequin, out the window behind Eschatos there) arose from the virtual depths over the weekend, so things should be picking up on that project!

More later ...