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Survivors? Lorsagne was so busy gathering up anything she could haul in from the bay that she didn't even think to look for bodies...laugh.

After the DECADES festival and ball...what comes next to generate ongoing financial support of Royal Courts and Historical Communities?

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WOW!!!!! They are all glorious! #1 and #3 get my vote! Thank you!

After the DECADES festival and ball...what comes next to generate ongoing financial support of Royal Courts and Historical Communities?

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Here is the basic "sign" for the gallery(ies). The sunflower is the motif for signage, teleport pads and etc. for the DECADES Festival, so I have used it as the basis for a simple sign/LOGO. It could use some work by a professional graphics person (hint, hint, hint). What do you all think?

After the DECADES festival and ball...what comes next to generate ongoing financial support of Royal Courts and Historical Communities?

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i sent Tat a note earlier today that she suggested I post here. . . So, here it is. I would love to have input, ideas, suggestions and discussion about the notion of curated exhibits that exist to generate funds to help pay for this website and increase its reach throughout the virtual world of people interested in supporting historical communities.

Lorsagne/Sister

Tat,

As you probably know, Steph (Freda Frostbite) and I are splitting the cost of the sim for the DECADE festival and have been working together with many folks to get it built out, exhibits created and events planned, etc., etc.

When the event is over, there remains an ongoing need to raise funds (and awareness) for Royal Courts and to promote RP within SL and other grids in hopes that more great sims and RP efforts dont go the way of the Dodo bird and poof.

One way I can help with this is to fund DECADES galleries in different RP and educational/historical sims where my alts and I hang out. The galleries would sell one-of-a-kind (or VERY limited edition) decorative itemfurniture, paintings, artifacts, etc.created by builders who get it right in terms of historical fidelity and careful construction. Monies from the sales would be either 100% donated to Royal Courts site or a 50/50 split between Royal Courts and the objects creators. The gallery/shops would not take a cut; thats my gift to help create awareness and additional markets for RP efforts.

I have two suitable locations at the moment and will include several of the things I have made for the DECADES exhibit . Building isnt my forte, but I create good period and eclectic room settings and make decent paintings, rugs and some modest mesh furniture pieces that are period specific and contain detailed information about the era and why the piece is representative, etc., etc. For fun I put some on Marketplace and they actually sellwho would have thought!

But for the DECADES galleries, anything I offer under the AMDG brand (the Jesuit motto that drives all the orders work in this world) will be one-of-a-kind and proceeds go to support Royal Courts/historical sims. I am far more interested in showcasing beautiful objects created by others who share my passion for original and high quality recreations of historical objects.

In other words, I am not a merchant. In VR, I write and tell stories, I decorate rooms, my alt Trolley performs literature live and in-voice and Lorsagne does a small amount of 18^th century RP at Rocca Sorrentina. The RL typist has a great interest in seeing immersive historical projects continue and grow in places like SL, so a small chain of DECADES galleries with changing and curated collections might be helpful.

I will post this on RC later today; I wanted to let you know what I am thinking of and get your input and feedback before I go public. Steph and I have chatted about it and I have a small number of builders who have indicated they would like to offer/donate pieces of their own creation that fit the requirement of a) historical accuracy, b) original creation, c) structural integrity (decently built!).

Regards,

Lorsange's typist

updated by @lorsagne-de-sade: 06 Oct 2016 06:35:18AM

Goatswood and Venexia sims to be closed this month

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Steph passed this to me in an e-mail a few minutes ago....

https://miyarpjournal.wordpress.com/2015/05/29/venexia-and-goatwood-sim-closure/

I suspect this move will motivate a lot of folks to seriously consider alternate platforms for their RP and creative building.

Goatswood and Venexia sims to be closed this month

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You both make excellent points.

RL takes time...SL takes time. And always each at the expense of the other.

And as somebody once quipped to me when I was going around feeling rather pleased with myself for being labled a catalyst for a RL project, "catalysts are consumed; there gone without a trace." Sort of like a lot of builds.

Goatswood and Venexia sims to be closed this month

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Mecury wrote: "Without life, it's not worth to finance it, I agree."

I have only spent a little more than two years in SL, but have literally grew up in the virtual world and communities and over and over you see enormous creativity, technical brilliance, real commitment and passion for a project that is in the words of someone whose RL experience with the rise and fall of many commercial ventures in VR is unsurpassed say that sadly it is all casting pearls before swine for the most part. (Gad! That was a LONG sentence....sorry!)

We live in a RL (and SL) world--increasingly so--of consumers not doers. Passive, not active. GOOD RP takes work, a backstory, a willingness to leave your ego outside the door and collaborate, compromise, problem solve and innovate.

When was the last time in RL you saw a bunch of people willing to put forth that much effort? So much "easier" for them to sit in front of a green screen and command a joystick for a packaged video game...or come inworld to place like SL and hop on a poseball and etc., etc.

What I see people in this forum do in SL and other places is wonderfully creative. Since it's never going to appeal to the "masses" in all likelihood, it would seem to me that the more we all work together, explore, and strengthen the ties between communities, the better our chances to survive and transition to new platforms and ways of creating in the future. Change is a given. Adapt to it or fail to survive.

Land costs are an issue...a genuine impediment. But I don't think it's the whole problem. "We have met the problem and it is us." People.

Goatswood and Venexia sims to be closed this month

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What a magnificent build!

Someone Help Me Figure This Out Please....

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My guess is the word "witches" is tripping it up.

En Garde for DECADES Fest & Ball - Need a wizard....

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Thank you! I'll IM when I am inworld next.