Grid Downtime & Lost friends

Osgrid had an outage. Not too much details are known to us, but for what we understand we've read on twitter, there was an issue in the datacenter. After last time's PSU failure, and Neb playing with Databases, the 3rd outage this year. Yeah thats news, as it's pretty amazing that a 10.000 sim 60K+ user grid, hosted around the world through a gazillion networks is as stable as it is. Chapeau for the hard work of the admins and not to forget the dev's making this possible.

by avelinademoray

A couple of weeks back the creator of Port Azure, Tasha Violet, passed away. She was a great builder, and  the community lost a very creative mind. Some of her sims, and much of her work are still around for you to enjoy.

Last week i found on OSG forums also Hans Hausermann passed away. He was a cheerfull and very friendly and funny OSG regular, that i met in LBSA quite often. Some close friends have built him a nice memorial. It makes you realise the infinity of the pixels, the spirit people put into their builds, and the friendships that can evolve between the people behind the avatars  in virtual worlds.
These people will be missed, but their memorials and builds will hopefully last forever.

Not the most cheerful topics for in a Blog on virtual worlds, but unfortunately death is inevitable. We can only be grateful to live lives rich with filled with good friends to enjoy them with, and hope our legacy and heritage outlasts the time we have been given. Rest in Peace.

Off and On

As usual in summertime, Foxx spends less time on OSgrid, and more time elsewhere. As a fanatic gamer I've spent quite some time in LOTRO ( The lord of the rings Online ) which you can play for free. (also available via Steam btw).
Red Dragon now also exists as a kinship in LOTRO, located on withylwindle server. You can find our kinship webpage here :  http://red-dragon.theonekinship.net/ Since Riders of  Rohan will be released in 3 weeks, my summer abcense might be a bit longer than usual. ( Mounted combat and fresh Trolls to whack).

In case your dutch, and like to be in a dutch kinship, try http://dutchberzerkers.guildportal.com in which my "main" character (a level 75 champion) is officer and webmaster. Next to LOTRO we also play Battelfield ( Still BC2 ), Skyrim (cool), Civilisation (for old times sake), the GTA series, World of Tanks (gotta love Tanks! )  and some other games (days seriously need more hours....).  So far for the heads up on my "Missing Avatar".

In the few hours i am online in OSG (mainly weekends) you can likely find me hanging at LBSA, D&J's friday party on close encounters region, or building on Red Dragon club. (still 3 floors to fill).

OSG is almost back at 10.000 sims, of which you can be sure they were online in the past 3 weeks. (else they would have been purged from the map). Make sure to checkout the machinima Vid of OSG5B by Cyberbohemia in case you missed all the party's. Also grab a copy of the latest OSgazet which reports on the OSG5b celebrations. You can still join the weekly town hall meetings for the latest news, or compete in the speed building contest or primwords. Info on those events can be found at LBSA plaza, or by talking to one of the admins. Fresh updates on OSG related stuff will follow soon.

OSG5B

Happy B-day OSG !
Its the OSGrids 5th brithday, which means clelebrations and Partytime !

Here's the full Party - schedule :

FRIDAY, 20 JULY 2012

Fri 20th at 4.00 pm PDT: ‘monologues’ – Em Jannings: Call me Ishmael – on the north side at region OSG5B Northeast - a live-voice performance by Avatar Repertory Theater
Fri 20th at 11.30 pm PDT: D&J OSG5B Party at region Close Encounter with DJ JayMaze – all different styles of music.

SATURDAY, 21 JULY 2012

Sat 21st at noon PDT: Opening and welcome speech by Osgrid president Nebadon Izumi at region OSG5B Central
Sat 21st immediately after the speech: Live music with Greybeard Thinker and friends with guest stars “Just Us” at region OSG5B Central
Sat 21st 2.30 pm PDT: Live-voice performances by Avatar Repertory Theater – Mr. Nakamura (Corwyn), a scene from Zoo Story (Thunder and Em) and a dramatization of The Child a story (Pip) – on the north side at region OSG5B Northeast
Sat 21st 3.00 pm to 4.00 pm PDT: Live music with fritz clawtooth at region OSG5B Central
Sat 21st 9.00 pm PDT to late: Saturday Night Dance Party with music mix from the 60’s to the 00’s and live performances by Walter Balazic / Littlefield Authority (and possibly Hiro Protaganist) at Speakeasy Club at region Speakeasy.

SUNDAY, 22 JULY 2012

Sun 22nd 1.00 pm PDT to late: The Belfast Maritime Club "on the road" featuring Truelie Ellen, Casias Faltas, Kitzie Lane, and special guests at region OSG5B Central
Sun 22nd 5.00 pm PDT: Avatar Repertory Theater – Affairs of the Smart - a short play by Kayden Oconnell (Rowan & Em), a Two Person Conversation from the Short Play Buffet (Em & Kayden) – on the north side at region OSG5B Northeast

MONDAY, 23 JULY 2012

Mon 23rd from 1.00 pm PDT: Techno Music with DJ Tommy Jonas at region OSG5B Central
Mon 23rd 6.00 pm PDT: Live-voice performances by Avatar Repertory Theater – No Exit revisited – on the north side at region OSG5B Northeast

Also make sure to visit the OSG5B regions, that have many displays of various sims & builders on the grid. Loads of cool new stuff there, in wide varieties. Also an excellent moment to harvest landmarks so you can  do some sightseeing and hopping & shopping later. You can reach the sims via LBSA plaza which has a sign setup to teleport there. For more info, hit the Forums

Photo Studio's

Today we had our Picture taken at Marty's Art Gallery. You can find the sim right next to wright plaza. Make sure to go check it out, and find pictures of all the (Famoush) OSG residents in it's gallery's.

To have your own portrait taken, you can visit martin's studios, and IM him to have your pictures taken. (Martin Spiritor). You can also request your picca's to be snapped at your sim of preference.

For more  photostudio's, check wright plaza, Red Dragons Studios at FBI AR, or any of the OSG sweetspots that make excellent background for photoshoots. You can easily find such spots allover the grid. (Check pictures from eralier articles to find some quickly, else try hitting one of the Travel centres ).