Cylindrian’s Grace Notes

Greetings from Tyngsborough, Mass outside of Boston.

Here’s the low-down of what’s going on for all of you who are in the area or planning on coming to the Opening Saturday night.

Friday, April 25th: 2pm-whenever: We will be at the Gallery setting up the sound equipment, listening to music, sweeping, getting tables set, testing the video/audio stream, and shhh…martini’s will be served thanks to Angus (Holli Hollwood’s husband).

We would like to invite all of you who are in town or might not be able to make it to the actual opening to come by and spend the evening with us. This will be chill-laid-back-enjoy time!

Filthy’s counterpART Gallery 128 Merrimack Street Lowell, MA

**Map to the location in the link above**

Saturday, April 26th: THE GRANDE OPENING…GRANDE!!! Super mega ultra Grande!!!!

This starts at 7:30pm! We are expecting a nice turn out. Read the above flyer to see all the festivities and events taking place. (SL Location embedded in the picture above…just cleeeeek eeet!!)

I have special CD packages available for purchase ($30) which include a brown paper bag with original artwork on the front, 2 CDs: Cylindrian: Virtually Live and the newly repackaged Grace Buford: River. A handmade keychain…made with love from my mom (Cyrcyulyon Pigeon in SL), a button, sticker, and other goodies.

So join us today if you are able…just pop on by and sit a spell. The doors will be open and we look forward to meeting you and getting the chance to hang out and enjoy the “fusion” of virtual and reality.

ITS LADIES NIGHT!!! OH WHAT A NIGHT!!!!

Wednesday nights Blue Fusion hosts:

Keiko Takamura: 6pmSLT

Cylindrian Rutabaga 7pmSLT

Juel Resistance 8pmSLT

***You can order CD’s Direct from the Artists from their Websites***

We’re getting ready to Rock YOU! Folk YOU! Blues YOU! and ROLL YOU!! We’d like to invite you to bring some friends that maybe haven’t heard of Live Music before….who can bring the most friends tonight to Blue Fusion?? I’d like to challenge you…go to the Welcome Center of SL and start friending and teleporting NOOBS!!! Lets get people educated about the ART and MUSIC side of Second Life(tm). This is where I think a lot of people completely miss the bigger picture…SL is full of creativity of all types. Lets expose some of these new people to Art and Music at the Lakehouse on Blue Fusion tonight. Just follow the SLurl by clicking on the PICTURE BELOW and once there…look behind you at the sign…right click on #6…that will take you to THE LAKEHOUSE of Blue Fusion right next to Artropolis. That is where we’ll be performing tonight.

The Lakehouse where Keiko, Juel, and I are performing

The Navigation Sign on Blue Fusion: Right Click on 6 to TP to the Lakehouse.

**Special thanks to Holli Hollwood, Fricker Fracker, Damon Hitchcock, Faerie Mcarie, Chad Swanson, and the rest of the Blue Fusion STAFF. You all make this one of my favourite CLUB VENUES in all of SL!**

Also…feel free to travel around the island and even to the neighboring island (Where I reside in SL) Artropolis! This is a wonderful dual community: Artropolis and Blue Fusion!! Check ‘em both out as you have time and stop by my parcel to leave me a message on my board. I like to know people pop in to look at my junk. (yes, I am a slob)

Well…I have the answer direct from the avatars text: (Thanks Lisa!!)

Hi Cylindrian! Looking forward to the show tonight!

I wanted to tell you a little more about Wishfest since you were asking
about it, and, well, it’s not exactly obvious what’s goin on over there on
Solaris
II.

The idea is something we came up with a couple weekends ago called a
“Flash Festival.” Similar to the Flash Mobs of Real Life,
a Flash Festival is an ad hoc DIY combination of music, dance, film and
art festivals all in one — for as long as it lasts!

We asked ourselves: “What if we made a big art installation, with a main
floor, three stages, and also an underground cavernous area (The Rabbit
Hole), where anyone could stake out a little area and set up a display.

Then we thought we’d take it a step further: what if we set up each stage
with it’s own media url, and each with its own set of video screens, and
wrote some code to enable anyone that belonged to our “Wishfest
Performers” group to jump on stage, load in their stream, and just start
playing.

If all your friends sign up for the “Wishfest 1.0″ group - you can send a
notice to them to let them know you’re onstage and playing (or in advance
to let them know when you will be going on.

Yes film makers, djs, and video artists, you can invite some friends and
load in your pre-existing video/media streams, if you wish. It will work
fine! Have a party - Throw a Rave! This island should be able to hold a
lot of people. We made it sturdy with lots of Wishfarmer love.

So teleport
to Wishfest on Solaris II and check out Cylindrian at 7pm, April 10,
2008 — to kind of kick of this first of its kind “Flash Festival” –
courtesy of Wishfarmer Somatika
Xiao, who whipped this island up on a Saturday afternoon, after a
brainstorming session with myself and Wishfarmer Gary Bukowski.

If anyone has any questions, or tech issues, comments or ANYTHING - IM
Haley Bailey in world or email Haley Bailey/Lisa Rein at
lisa@wishfarmers.com.

Hey there…WISHFEST 1.0 on one of the coolest and oddest locations EVER!!

I have been falling into the rabbit hole all day today and loving it. The artwork on display so far is really quite cool and I can’t help but feel like I’ve entered the world of TRON in this place.

Thanks to Haley Bailey (read her blog by clicking on her name) for setting this Art and Music Fest up!

Join me Thursday night April 10th 7pmSLT for some music amid the grid on Solaris II.

GET INVOLVED!!

PERFORMERS:

If you’d like to perform, just drop me, Haley Bailey, an IM, and I’ll send you an invite to be in the “Wishfest Performers” group.

Then you can jump on stage and type “/777″ + the url of your stream.

You will be piped in to the sound system and are free to perform LIVE!

**FYI this sim is directly next to the sim where Angel Dorei Museum is located where I played the Autism Experience on Monday night. Quite cool how all these places are so nearby.**

Tonight: April 7th: 5pmSLT I’ll be performing at this event. Please just click the picture to teleport to the location. I am debuting two songs inspired directly from Mariposa’s personal experiences raising an autistic child. The songs are entitled:

• Your Mind is a Labyrinth
• Embracing the Tapestry

From Mariposa Upshaw of Angel Dorei Museum:

To fully and accurately describe the experience of autism would be nearly impossible..but i urge you to view the new exhibition at Angel Dorei and see the interpretations thru art by Ro Gastel, Blue Tsuki, Elros Tumominen, Esch Snoats, Filthy Fluno, Gracie Kendal, Ianlee Patton, Michelle Babii, Calli Chirstensen, Elorian Ayres,  Charlot Dickens, Enali Haller, Sarah Graff and Cheen Pitney - more works by more artists will be added.
Musical Events/Benefit performances:
Monday   April 7 5sl  - Cylindrian Rutagaga
Monday April  14 2&3 SL - Mash Rhode and Jace Collins
Monday April 21 - to be announced
Auction Sunday  April 27th - all proceeds from auction and donations will benefit SL sims/groups Brigadoon Explorers - Dreams Sim,  Virtual Ability, Inc./Heron Sanctuary and the Autistic Liberation Front  - Autism Museum.
These groups provide support, a safe haven, education and  technological assistance to residents on the autiism spectrum.

This show is dedicated to my  RL son, in world Algernon Kardex, an aspie, who is my inspiration in so many ways, and to all the unique individuals on the autism spectrum.