Today is a great day for a little Odyssey. "When light bounces off of something and is reflected back into a human’s eyes, we perceive color. For millennia, color has been one of the elements of art that artists use to render the world as they see it." When you view the colors the Mind Odyssey artists display, such as Nyx Breen, you will see a dance of color and movement. Make sure you take the time to spend here and appreciate the artists of OpenSim.
Cherry Manga
Nyx Breen
Shirl Tainted Angel
three.hills.grid.outworldz.net:8002:Mind Odyssey

Image is "Forces in Motion" Nyx Breen

Available on the OSGrid Sandbox Plaza III for about 22 hours from the post time here.. This is the Zodiac Wheel a new update of an old old mod I made of Linda Kellie's Topsy Turvey Ride. Free to copy rezzed out. Free to copy/buy for 0 boxed. I will give it a more permanent home later.

Got another ferris wheel I'm fighting with but this one works:)

Rez it while facing North.

hg.osgrid.org:80:Sandbox Plaza III

hop://homelandz.opensim.fun:8802/Gloeb%20Mall/401/154/23

The next selection for the Homelandz Public Library might be the most useful, for some. 489 pages helping anyone from beginner to advanced Blender user to understand the VAST many capabilities of this wonderful and FREE software called blender! May we all improve our Blender skills and help OpenSim to grow to be a more beautiful and amazing place!

Note: Seriously, if you can spare some dough to support the author, PLEASE DO. Especially if you can get the pdf as cheap as me via Amazon ($3usd). Yes, there is a TON of free info out there on Blender, but to get so much in easy to understand, step by step instructions...perhaps decide if it's within your budget to show the author some support! :D

https://www.amazon.com/Blender-4-2-Guidebook-Step-Step-ebo...

Always busy working (which I love) most of the time you will find me on a platform or a sim creating the next idea. I never really took the time out to create a "home" One day @ferdfrederix IM saying, "Hey!! I created a nice place I think you will like!" He loaded an OAR to 3HG called Rock Island, all you have to say is rocks to me and I am there! I love it so much ❣️ He had placed a perfect little tree house that makes an excellent home, thank you Ferd! I am home. Please stop by anytime to visit, there are horses to ride and really neat trails and caves!
🌳🌳🌳💗💗💗🌳🌳🌳 three.hills.grid.outworldz.net:8002/RockIsland/106/108/23

Fara Meta wird zum ersten Mal im Pangea Grid singen. Sie ist die Tochter von Putri Solo und hat eine wundervolle Stimme
Fara Meta will sing on the Pangea Grid for the first time.She is the daughter of Putri Solo,with a wonderful voice
Wednesday, July 16
Start 20 Uhr CET / 11 am SLT
hop://pangeagrid.de:8002/GypsyCamp/298/367/22

Khiron Ametza Singing Live
Tuesday, July 8th, 2025

Join us and help us make the party goes wild!
Great music, as you know, and a wonderful time with this amazing singer!

3pm @ Barefoort Ballroom
Attire: Elegant Casual to Formal
http://hg.neverworldgrid.com:8002/
Region: Barefoot Lands
Location: 793, 804, 39
hop://hg.neverworldgrid.com:8002/Barefoot%20Lands/793/804/...

When the horses are busy, you saddle up the next best thing. 🐷 Country glam meets piggy power oink oink! @FerdFrederix thank you!! When you visit !New Silver Stirrup Stables check out the pig! 🐽🐷🐖🐽

spacegrid.online:6002
Свадьба Omellija Star💖Sergei Uzdemir 04.07.2025 г.
Этот день — день вашей свадьбы — теперь ваш личный праздник среди прочих праздников в году. И пусть он останется приятной памятной датой на долгие и счастливые годы!
hop://spacegrid.online:6002/Ocean/939/580/22

Something new for Petite

🌞 Summer, Style & Statement – at BK-Mode!

Five looks, one mission: to carry you through the season with ease, elegance, and unmistakable flair! Whether it’s poolside, the promenade, or a city stroll – these outfits deliver that extra spark. Feminine cuts, airy fabrics, and a touch of glam await you at BK-Mode Shopping Park.

Drop by and discover your signature summer style! ✨


Noch etwas Neues für Petite

🌞 Sommer, Stil & Statement – bei BK-Mode!

Fünf Looks, ein Ziel: dich durch den Sommer begleiten – mit Leichtigkeit, Klasse und jeder Menge Fashion-Flair! Ob Poolside, Promenade oder City-Streifzug – diese Outfits bringen das gewisse Extra. Feminine Schnitte, luftige Stoffe und ein Hauch Glamour erwarten dich im BK-Mode Shopping Park.

Komm vorbei und finde deinen Sommer-Style! ✨

hop://offworld.eu:8002/BK-Mode Shopping-Park/149/25/28

▁ ▂ ▃ ▄ ▅ ▆ ▇ Tribute remix ▇ ▆ ▅ ▄ ▃ ▂ ▁

▶▷▶ Depeche Mode Tribute Remix

Sunday / Sonntag 22 June 2025
◕ starts 11:00 OS grid time – startet ab 20:00 Uhr
☊ DJ CRAZY - Livemix
no Dresscode / kein Kleiderzwang

Taxi: hg.osgrid.org:80:FLORES SeaVibes
░░▒▓◙█◙█◙ CC – CLUB ◙█◙█◙▓▒░░

Today is Friday and a special event @ Rosies outdoor venue, Live performers Nazirah at 2 PM, Khiron at 3 PM and Putri at 4 PM grid time - Pangea Grid. See you there :) No dress code (don't come naked btw)
hop://pangeagrid.de:8002/Cartier/227/45/25

E – Evolution

Nothing stays the same. TAKE Land reflects growth, inner transformation, and the mutations that make us wiser. Every element in this environment was placed with intention. Everything has a purpose.

“What you were, no longer is. Here, you begin again.”

K – Knowledge

This land holds secrets. TAKE Land is a living library: of water, fire, stone, and wind.
Knowledge is in books, in experience, in silence, in watching the horizon from the top of the rock.

“You don’t come here to study. You come to know.”

I searched high and low for the elemental guardians and could not find them so I guess they went the way of anything else captured in the machinations of Opensim. So I shopped and shopped and then I shopped again until I finally found just the right statues, took them home, tore them all apart, and created my own elemental guardians. Earth, Water, Air and Fire are ginormous angelic guardians of the elements and I created them for an Fantasy themed region that can be used for RP'rs if they like. These beautiful guardians are located in the "fantasy builds" department of the Masala Al Kohav mall. Stop by and get yours. Blessings and much Love, Lavia.

I am planing to do special Tribute Sets at Bikers Heaven
once a month or once in 2 months depending if you like
it or whats your opinion about it.

The first Tribute Set will be on the 9th of Juni 2025
what Band will be at the Tribute Set i will let you know
in the Groupmessages.

You also can send advices with Bandnames ingame at AMV
just include it to a notecard as the messages can get lost.

Tribute Set can be just single songs in a row of a special band
or if i can get it a whole concert of the band. The quality of the
concerts arent the best most times.

Hope to hear from you with your ideas and advices.

Have a great day all
Hugs
Dragon

The Collage has been done by VictorvanVoorhees find the original there: https://www.deviantart.com/victorvanvoorhees

NightPetal is a sacred, immersive space for artistic expression and quiet reflection. The gallery and glowing gardens are designed as an ethereal journey of light, nature, and spirit. three.hills.grid.outworldz.net:8002:NightPetal

I couldn't resist, so I spent the last few hours creating a functional AI NPC (looking like me) that you can talk to in-world. He/she still has a few bugs, so I'll include some code snippets when answering, but it's coming.

🚨🛸 INTERGALACTIC VIP ALERT! 🛸🚨

Tired of boring Earth clubs? Zoom over to CHEZ UFO at EUROPA SIM (in OpenSim) — where the drinks float, the music glows, and gravity is strictly optional!

✨ FOR VIP ALIENS ONLY ✨
(No humans, no probes, just vibes.)

This week's cosmic headliner:
🎤 MARILYING ALIEN MONROE 🎤
Yes, that Marilying — cloned, hologrammed, and singing “Fly Me to the Moon” in Martian.

🪐 Dress code: chrome, slime, or vintage nebula.
🌌 Beam in now, before the wormhole closes!

CHEZ UFO — it's out of this world. Literally.

Opened a little Kite store "CloudChasers" my kite was flying beautifully and Ferd said that is sweet but we could make it better with a string. Magic happened so now we have a beautiful flying kite with string, free at our Kite store. Ferd, you rock! Thank you!! three.hills.grid.outworldz.net:8002/Sweet Spot/624/230/22

My details help your builds!

Textures Too building is Open and includes:
shingles
Ancient Writing
Sci fi
Metal
Stained glass
watercolors
food
carpet
medieval
pirates
glass
raindrops
holidays
Fabrics
flowers

Textures Trees & Scripts now has a total of 8 HUGE buildings! There are 4 Greenhouses for your landscaping needs, 2 warehouses full of textures, a script warehouse and the huge underwater store.

Textures Trees & Scripts - the little store that everyone is talking about!

The SHE SAID DESTROY Art Gallery has it's Grand Opening May 3rd, Saturday!
The opening show; "The Ninth Circle", draws on Dante's epic poem "The Inferno", and draws together elements of many artist's visions of Hell, including Bosch, Giger, Blake, Bacon and Rops. Note - Adult themes. Discretion advised.
N.B.
This is a 2-- center event. For operational reasons the opening will take place at QueendomGallery and not at "She Said Destroy (2)"

Main Gallery:
QueendomGallery
hop://login.osgrid.org/QueendomGallery/457/283/32

Backup Gallery:
She Said Destroy (2)
hop://login.osgrid.org/Nakita%27s%20Place/208/80/27

Occasionally I get asked why I chose the name "Speck", perhaps this may better answer the question.

Betelgeuse is a red giant star (sometimes called a red supergiant) in the constellation of Orion, you can see it with the naked eye on a clear night. It's the red dot on the left shoulder of Orion.

Easy to spot, easier still if you have the excellent Stellarium app which is free to use but has optional paid upgrades.

Stellarium will NOT recommend a cinema where you can go and watch the Beetlejuice movies, that's a totally different universe!

We're likely to see Betelgeuse change quite drastically in the near future, you see it exploded, quite some time ago.

Here's where my name starts to sneak into the story.

Betelgeuse is big, really big, really exceptionally big.

If you swapped it for our sun we'd be dead, in fact we'd be deep inside it.

Even Jupiter, so very far away from our sun might well be swallowed up.

* Sometimes the size of things is hard to comprehend even when they are relatively close by.

Betelgeuse actually exploded a while back, quite a while back, quite a hell of a while back.

It exploded around 650 million years ago, the Earth was likely in the middle of an ice age at the time.

* Sometimes things are so distant in time, we can't quite even get a feel for how long ago something happened.

Betelgeuse is around 650 million miles away.
Fortunately for planet Earth that distance from Betelgeuse means we exist.

* Sometimes the impact of an event such as an explosion is hard to wrap your head around without some point of reference.

At this time I'm compelled to slide in a quote from one of my favourite authors:

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

By the time we see this explosion around 650 million years will have passed.

Because we see light, and light only goes so fast - a mere 3 million meters a second or 186 miles a second or 671 million miles an hour, we can almost get a grip on those numbers, almost.

When we do see it, it will be spectacular and for a long time.
It will probably be as bright as the moon, even likely to be visible in daytime.

So dear reader, if you read this far - well done, I've droned on a lot.
More importantly at least to me is to know what I am in all this majesty of physics, of time and of space.

What else could I be but "speck" :)

Take care of yourselves and each other as we all cling to this fragile rock in the cold of space, it's really the only thing we deserve to be proud of.

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