A Midsummer Night's Dream

The occurrence of Midsummer is celebrated in most countries of the Northern Hemisphere. It can be either on the solstice like the pagan sunrise ceremony at Stonehenge, or the Christianised holiday a few days later at the year quarter celebrating the nativity of St John the Baptist (born 6 months before Jesus Christ).

Some people say fairies dance at midnight on Midsummers eve. While Ed and Isobel were at Stonehenge in sl a fairy did appear miraculously.

Ooohh.... That's a nice picture

Lady Ga Ga plays the beach Club at Tropical Harmony.

Girl band Burning Bush on stage at the New London Village sim.

Ed and friend jamming in the Union Jack pub, Tropical Harmony.

An Invitation to DJ Janis's Hang Out Club

DJ Janis Short has opened a fantastic new London themed club which Ed is very excited about.The club which is at The Hangout @ Butler's Wharf has a very unique and atmospheric feel to it and is sure to become a favourite venue for Ed and his friends. Butlers Wharf exists in real life London and was built in the late 1800s, at that time it was the largest tea warehouse in the world. After it fell in to disuse in the 1970s it became an important venue for early UK performance and video artists. Today it has been redeveloped into an area famous for its restaurants and leisure facilities. Ed wrote an article about the club for Virtually London (lite).

Coming Home

Major Tom (Coming Home) - Peter Schilling

Ed was wandering round a shopping mall when he heard this on the radio. The lyrics struck a chord with Ed and using the magic of SL he soon found the track on YouTube. This animation is amazing, although it's not SL it should be possible to achieve something similar with Machinima or better even!

The last Apollo mission to the moon blasted off on 7th December 1972. Today Shuttle launches have become routine but the sheer spectacle and excitement of the mighty Saturn 5 rocket rising from the pad is something that will not be forgotten by those who witnessed it.

Across the stratosphere... a final message,

"give my wife my love"... then nothing more.

Far beneath the ship... the world is mourning,

they don't realize... he's alive.

No one understands... but Major Tom sees,

now the life commands... this is my home.

I'm coming home.

There is an electronica version by Shiney Toy Guns here.

Doctor Who What You Gonna Do?

Doctor Who - Parry Gripp

World Expo 2010 Machinima

Lady Carmagnolle from Bryn Oh 5:10 minutes

A character from Bryn Oh's SL sim Immersiva

with a wonderful piano backing track and a Limerick!

Lady Carmagnolle was a lonely soul,

who drew faces on rocks... and things.

She murmured soothing words...

pretending they were birds,

who had somehow lost their wings.

When the acid rain...

would wash away the stain...

of the faces upon her rocks,

she would gaze to the sky ...

happy tears in her eyes...

dreaming they had found a place..

in a flock. - Bryn Oh

Guess What?

'I Am Not A Robot' by Marina & The Diamonds

Music is important in Ed's second Life and he likes this video by a lovely girl singer who reminds him a lot of Kate Bush. There are some great lines in the song... 'better to be hated than loved for something you are not'?