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Second Life Birthday: What SLB Is and Why It Still Matters

Black and white charcoal drawing of a Second Life Birthday celebration with avatars gathered around a giant birthday cake, fireworks, event signs, live music, Shop & Hop, and community exhibits.

Every June, Second Life throws itself a birthday party. Here’s what SLB is, where it came from, and what SL23B looks like in 2026.

Is Second Life Really Becoming More Affordable?

Linden Lab has published a new round of Second Life pricing changes, and the headline sounds simple enough: lower land prices, reduced LindeX buy fees, and expanded value for paid membership. On the surface, that sounds positive. Land has long been one of the highest costs in Second Life, and anything that makes virtual land … Read more

From Stonewall to Second Life: The History of Pride Month and the Virtual Legacy of Second Pride

Charcoal-style poster showing Pride history moving from Stonewall and early protest marches to London Pride and a Second Life virtual Pride celebration, with small rainbow accents.

Pride Month did not arrive polished and corporate. It arrived at the end of a truncheon. A history of Stonewall, the first UK Pride march, and how Second Pride in Second Life carries that lineage into virtual space.

UK music festivals still coming up in 2026

Charcoal illustration of a UK music festival crowd watching a distant stage, with tents, flags and signposts listing festival names.

Here’s a clean run-down of major upcoming UK music festivals for the rest of 2026, from June onward. This is not every village field with a speaker and a dream, but it covers the big, useful, blog-worthy ones. Quick note Glastonbury is not happening in 2026. The official site says the next Glastonbury will be … Read more

Ocean Photographer of the Year at Brunel’s SS Great Britain, Bristol

Open: 1 April to 28 June 2026. Venue: Brunel’s SS Great Britain, Great Western Dockyard, Bristol. Opening times: Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm.Important note: Closed Mondays, so it is not available on Monday, 8 June 2026Entry: Free with admission to SS Great Britain For anyone looking for an offline exhibition between 8 and 14 … Read more

What’s On: UK Art & History Exhibitions 2026

This is a list of some of the ongoing exhibitions in the UK. Exhibition Where Dates Type Why it fits M.C. Escher. The Exhibition Somerset House, London 5 Jun to 6 Sept 2026 Art Strongest art pick. Pattern, perception, impossible spaces, optical weirdness. Open Tue to Sun, closed Monday. Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait National Portrait … Read more

Purple Does Exist, Just Not in the Way People Think

A soft pastel gradient moving from red through violet into blue, illustrating how red and blue-violet tones can visually transition through purple.

On non-spectral colour, cone cells, and the internet’s favourite science misconception Every now and then, the internet gets excited about colour science and boldly claims that purple is not real. Some people even go further and say humans cannot actually see it. That idea is only partly true, and the real story is worth understanding. … Read more

Short story: When the Algorithm Moved to Town and Asked to Be Friends

Black-and-white charcoal illustration of a woman standing in the doorway of an old post office or gallery, facing a filing cabinet mixed with a server rack. The machine displays a local culture blog and asks whether she would like to follow it, while a misty town street stretches outside.

I. The Registry Mara had always had a registry. She couldn’t remember when she had set it up. Sometimes it seemed to sit behind her left eye, other times under her sternum. The spot shifted with the day, the weather, or how long she’d been online. In her mind, it looked like a mix between … Read more

Who Gets Seen? How Second Life’s Destination Guide Curates the Virtual Art World

Second Life’s Destination Guide quietly functions as one of the platform’s most important cultural tools. For a community of 30,000 concurrent users, understanding how it works helps artists, curators, and builders use it better.

Five London Exhibitions Opening Next Week, 8 to 14 June 2026

Graphite pencil drawing of a hand writing a list titled “Upcoming Offline Art Events,” with notes for gallery openings, exhibition previews, artist talks, workshops, and community meet-ups.

A quick guide to five London exhibition openings next week, from Baselitz at White Cube and Le Parc at Tate Modern to Panafrica at the Barbican, Hepworth at the Courtauld, and Survivors at Fitzrovia Chapel.