The avant-garde may be cool, but friendship is infrastructure. A reflective blog post on how creative practice is shaped not by lone genius, but by the conversations, conflicts, jokes, and care that friendships carry into the studio, the gallery, and the digital world.
The original Hotel Chelsea in New York City has long been woven into the mythology of modern art, music, literature, and counterculture. Built between 1883 and 1885, the red-brick building became home to generations of writers, musicians, performers, and visual artists. Its rooms carried the echoes of names such as Mark Twain, Tennessee Williams, Bob … Read more
Scheduled for: 23 May 2026, 10:00 AM GMTCategory: Second Life, Virtual Events, Digital Arts Key points The Grid Gets Its Close-Up Second Life is getting ready for its 23rd birthday, and this year the grid is rolling out the red carpet. SL23B will run from 18 June to 19 July 2026, with Second Life’s official … Read more
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.
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
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.
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.
Second Life Sci-Fi Con is one of the grid’s longest-running resident-made events. Here’s what it is, where it came from, and why it still works.
Pride Month is more than rainbow logos and parades. In June 2026, it remains a global act of visibility, memory, protest, and LGBTQ+ community survival.
Second Life is not just an old virtual world. It is a resident-built platform where people create avatars, explore communities, attend events, make art, roleplay, sell virtual goods, and build places that feel genuinely lived in.