Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.
-- Edward Snowden

Private eyes
They're watching you
They see your every move
-- Sara Allen, Daryl Hall

Every breath you take
And every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
I'll be watching you
-- Gordon Sumner

The HG Safari trips are on hiatus for the summer, but here's a round up of some other news from around the HG on the Safari blog:
A great new art collective led by Victoria Logan
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/07/vicky-does-it-again....
Theater on the French grid SV3D
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/07/cool-poule.html
OSgrid's 17th
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/07/happy-17th-birthday-...
A trip through time on Zetaworlds
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/07/in-mix.html
and some hints about opensim in general
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/07/how-not-to-be-lonely...
Plus posts about Creanovale, AMV, GenesisRP Grid, Ruritania on Littlefield Grid, and more...

Avedon Park is happy to welcome Chi-Chi's Boutique! Located at Luna's Landing in Avedon Park, Chi-Chi's Boutiques specializes in complete outfits and accessories for the Athena Petite and Legacy Perky mesh bodies. There are not one, but two stores to shop in. Stop by Lunas' Landing and explore Avedon Park. You can also find more of Chi-Chi's outfits at the beautiful Yin-Yang region.

Hi folks! Been a while since I posted something. Out now is this semi-circular sofa, named by the public, sitting up to 8 avatar (4 couples) and with tons of animations.
Some of the texture available look better on a 'latex' type of shine.
Remember the furniture store is located: hop://playground.darkheartsos.com:8002/Boutiques%20NW/768/...

Simon Stålenhag display at:

hg.osgrid.org:80:Mech Lab

Simon Stålenhag a Swedish artist, musician, and designer specialising in retro-futuristic digital images focused on nostalgic Swedish countryside alternate history environments.
The settings of his artwork have formed the basis for the upcoming film The Electric State.
To Explore Simons Artwork at Mech Lab teleporter to: 02 STORE district.
You will find the fan Gallery celebrating the work.

Replacing the old (non-reflective) mirrors in the hairdressing salon with PBR mirrors
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The windlight of BW Castle had to be adapted to the new display with PBR, as it suddenly appeared much too dark. Another PBR inconvenience was the need to retexture the terrain, as all regions in the new viewer were displayed with standard ground textures. Black White Castle with green grass texture doesn't work at all ;)
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Austausch der alten (nicht spiegelfähigen) Spiegel im Friseursalon gegen PBR Spiegel
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Das Windlight von BW Castle musste an die neue Darstellung mit PBR angepasst werden, da es plötzlich viel zu dunkel wirkte. Ein weiteres PBR-Ungemach war die Notwendig der Neutexturierung des Terrains, da alle Regionen im neuen Viewer mit Standard-Boden-Texturen angezeigt wurden. Black White Castle mit grüner Grastextur geht gar nicht ;)
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Are you a fairy, wizard, or other magical being in need of a beautiful wand? Check out Abby Willowroot's custom made magic wands. Beautiful wands adorned with a jewel will make any fairy smile. :) https://willowrootwands.com/product-category/01-all-wands/ Many styles and designs to choose from!

Thanks to the AMAZING Firestorm and OPENSIM NGC team (and a bit of work from us!) our whole grid is now running with PBR textures and terrains. IN fact this image doesn't use PBR materials, just the standard texturing. Wow.

News! Take the Teleport in the Darkroom located in the commercial area (in front of the swimming pool) and you will get directly to the new area or -------> hop://astralia.eu:8002/TierraDeVolcanes/57/358/3146

New! List Subscriber! GREAT FOR DJ'S!!! GREAT FOR SHOP OWNERS!!! People can click it to subscribe to your list! Then the dj can send a notice out to all the subscribers in the list, even if they are on many different grids! Great for parties! New in this version: Click once to be added to the list, click a second time to be deleted from list. Owner click will bring up the menu to enter or send a message to all the subscribers. :) New in this version: Saves the entire subscriber list to a notecard so your subscribers are never lost! :) Get yours now at cyberdatastorm.com:8002:SandBox I'll leave it here a few days before deleting it. :)

We have opened a store for you with various tattoo equipment and furniture as well as decorative elements. All furniture does not have menus. You can equip it yourself. The small tattoo store can be found above the Welcome Tower in the old town of Yin Yang Town.

*EUROPA MINES* Now open for public (at least the ones with no faint hearts). Explore among the Magabagalium crystals and beware of creepy creatures that sneak around.....
at EUROPA SIM, look for the big glassy teleport board and pick up as destination EUROPA MINES.
Enjoy ::)

Name that Pink Floyd Song ! Answer correctly for a free custom surfboard rezzer with your logo on the boards that rez. AND I will set your waves up on your region. Just name the song that this image fits perfectly.

Dear Soul-Family and Friends!

We are pleased to invite you to the fourth Grid birthday. Together we have built a community, that merges the boundaries of the virtual and real world.
Friendships have been made and together were looking forward to the next few years with other grids in OpenSim.
Celebrate this special weekend with us, Let's show far we went as One and what we have achieved together.

We look forward, sharing these days with you and were looking forward to the future to all of our virtual world.
Greetings your Nasti
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Liebe Freunde und Souler !

Wir freuen uns, euch zum vierten Grid-Geburtstag einzuladen. Gemeinsam haben wir eine Gemeinschaft aufgebaut, die die Grenzen der virtuellen und realen Welt verschmelzen lassen.
Hier haben sich Freundschaften gefunden und gemeinsam blicken wir auf die nächsten Jahre mit anderen Grids in OpenSim.
Feiert mit uns dieses besondere Wochenende, das zeigt, wie weit wir zusammen gekommen sind und was wir gemeinsam erreicht haben.

Wir freuen uns darauf, diese Tage mit euch zu teilen und miteinander in die Zukunft unserer aller virtuellen Welten zu blicken.

Liebe Grüße eure Nasti

Get Help Finding Stuff
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Polar bears are good at helping you find stuff, if you can find one. So, people are using the box more and more to request help. As you know, comments in the box get drowned out by not nice comments. Even the nice comments push the requests down until they disappear. But there is help with that. Just join the What Are You Looking For group. https://opensimworld.com/groups/1060

• Why: As I mentioned, there is a short time before requests in the box go to oblivion The posts in the group stick around, increasing the chances that you will find help from our over 100 members.
• How to use the group: Post about items you are, well, looking for...outfits, builds, shops, services, skills, and so on. At times, a group member will actually make what you are looking for. How cool is that? (Hint: very cool!)

What happens if you help? First, you become one of the forces for good in the galaxy. OK, in OS and OSW. We need more goodness here, right? And, about every two weeks, I post a list of our recent helpers, a bit of their profile info, and the address of their region(s).

The What Are You Looking For group. It’s what you’ve been looking for!

A Wonderful and fun HG Safari Group visited Mech Lab on Safari...
Thank you for exploring and experiencing Mech Lab HG Safari!

https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/05/symphonys-mech-lab.h...


Thirza Ember Hosts and Blogs HG Safari.
hg.osgrid.org:80:HG Safari

Hi Everybody

I decided to leave Jungle Friends and build my own GRID.
This is an important and difficult decision. I want to thank you all for the support.
Now I will move forward and make my vision and dreams come true.
I hope to see you all soon.
I will return......but on my GRID
Follow updates about the process in Opensim world.
Angie

I'd like to announce that I'm going on vacation from OS for a time. But I've been on a vacation from OS already, for maybe two months now, and I'd have to interrupt my vacation to say that I'm not going on vacation because I'm already on vacation. So, no announcements. Mainly because, at this point, I'm confused about the whole vacation thing. However, while I'm pretty sure I'm on vacation from OS, I still log in to OSW on occasion to check on the What Are You Looking For group. The helpers there have been, and continue to be, incredible! Anyways, if you want to send me a message, I'm likely to see it, and I might just answer.