Jan 2 2015

2015: The year of the NEW and Improved “AAcme City”

We are so eXcited to finally start on a brand new AAcme City located on the 3rd Rock Grid (which is now Hypergated enabled) we can barely contain ourselves. Our last AAcme City, covering two regions on the InWorst grid, was home to over 40 residents and over 75 merchants and shops. I understand they still have us listed in their Index as AAcme City Steampunk although AAcme City was totally destroyed in April 2012 by an fierce Meteor storm created by an evil witch for reasons too ridiculous to mention. Our NEW AAcme City style is what we like to call ‘Industrial Fantasy’.

3rd Rock Grid was chosen because AAcme Fall and Sunbeam Magic had first cousins (Virtual Builder and Venus Moondance) still residing there who kept telling us to come there and begin anew. After traveling to many many other grids searching for our destiny we finally decided V & V were correct. 3rg (as most call this grid) had kept the awesome wonderful ‘Copper Zepplin’ (thank goodness the pilot was able to safely land on 3rg after leaving during the evacuation of AAcme City, IW. The air ship known as the ‘The Copper Zepplin’ created by AAcme Fall. is a popular tourist destination being toured by hundreds of Virtual World travelers yearly. Admission is Free.

AAcme City is well under way since breaking ground on December 8th 2014. A Grand Opening celebration is slated for April 2015. As with all cities, construction will never cease. To date the NEW AAcme City, AAcme City Southside and Dolphin Beach has roads laid out and buildings rising high and wide . The beach area has a broadwalk, shops, roller rink, pizza shop, coffee shop and plans for a bowling alley are being finalized. AAcme City and AAcme City Southside will be home to Hotels, Apartments, Shops, ‘AAcme Tunes’ Dance Club and many secret passageways and tunnels making AAcme City a fun place to explore and hang out. A new shop, located near the Town Centre called ‘Blogz R Us’ will feature Metaverse bloggers, Hypergrid Business and AAcme City Adventures for all to keep up to date on new and interesting developments written by various Metaverse bloggers such as Minethere Always, virtual christine, Daniel Voyager, Prim Perfect (Saffia Widdershin), Honor Mcmillan, Leighton Marjoram, Danko Whitfield, Oshi Shikigami. ChapTer Kronfeld and Oddje Otoole to name a few. There are spaces available for more bloggers whom wish to be a part of this One-Stop Blog Shop.

Time to don my Construction helmet and get back to work. Feel free to stop by( http://3rdrockgrid.com/) monitor our progress, pick out a shop or home (as always rents are FREE) plan a party for you or your friends at the Dolphin Beach Roller Rink or just stroll around and see if you can find the secret doors. Most of all, just have fun. Our New Year’s resolution and just eXactly what we intend to do ourselves in the year 2015: Have Fun!!!

Happy New Year!

Aug 26 2014

June Gloom Lasts over a Year

Wow! I’m ashamed of myself for letting my little blog sit idle for a year and a couple months. Shame on Me!!! The first few months I was just in a funk! Then I went tumbling on a concrete floor and broke some bones. OUCH! Then I started playing a time consuming internet web based game called City Of Steam:Arkadia… I’ve always been a be fan of anything remotely Steampunk. My characters reached the highest level offered on four of the five servers (3 usa and 1 european) … AND I reached the highest level rank in my company guild. Phew! and there my friends is where my days have vanquished into gloomy mist and colorful pixels.

Although, every once in a while I would get a desire to pop into a Virtual World and when I did I had a fine time, especially when I was so honored in Second Life, as my Surfing Mermaid Kohana Schimmer, when asked to Judge at a SLSA Surfing Competition the day I popped in. What luck! What a great thrill seeing everyone and watching the surfers up close and personal. I’d also pop in on my four sims located on Metropolis. Here I have placed a few of my favorite things like unicorns and beautiful flower gardens but alas I never stayed long. My gloom caught up with me.

I don’t know what possessed me to do a post again, and also update my City of Steam page… but here I am typing away like I know what I’m saying.

I still believe the internet and metaverse hold a powerful magic and I still enjoy my time at the keyboard but I think … but still don’t know why gloom is ever present. Perhaps my post today will make the sun shine brighter while chasing away the gloom so mine eyes might see a glorious dawn.

May all your dawns be breathtaking!

Apr 16 2013

And the Winner IS….

Sunbeam Magic! YAY! whoa! we were shocked and thrilled. Thank you to Metropolis and everyone who voted for Sunbeam. She was moved to tears.

The first two weeks of April was quite exciting for Sunbeam with lots going on in many grids. First, Congratulations goes to the Metropolis grid celebrating their 5th Birthday (April 2nd thru the 6th 2013). Sunbeam joined the Birthday Build-Off (urged by Miney) where constestants were challenged to duplicate an image (image by_Zdzislaw_Beksinski_1978) via prims. Sunbeam met some wonderful builders at the contest. Sun so admires each immensely and will be to follow their works much more closely. Sunbeam enjoyed parties, readings, concerts and light shows (Torben Asp and Wordfromthe Wise) Excellent awesome fabulous celebration. One of the big highlights for Sun during the birthday celebration was exploring Cyberbohemia Art region! Galen Dreamrezzer, owner of this region, also did a great video (on youtube) of the fabulous celebrations. Well worth watching.

Sunbeam was pretty busy in rl so she didn’t get around to as many grids as she usually does. She continues to slowly work on her Fairy Castle on Tundra 3D and recently became a ‘Greeter’ for this beautiful grid. Sunbeam was also honored by Tundra when they chose her Steampunk Globe for the newly built Observatory by lucio Vallas grid owner.

Sunbeam added another resident to the fantasy free region, welcome Rowland Larkham!!! to Hidden Glenn Olantica. She worked more on the landscape and design at Hidden Glenn and showed her friend Mellow Merryman. Sunbeam roamed around in her Na’vi avatar while on Virtual Highway grid enjoying the beautiful landscape and flowers by Marianna Monentes creator. She also visited ‘Winners’ Trixie and Tendrik at their Steampunk region Port Lovelace.

She visited her friends on Island Oasis grid and especially enjoyed Judy Muircastle showing her the wonderful mansions and fountains Judy has been making and selling in IO. Her friend, Annallisia Ford, in Germany, was hospitalized and Get Well wishes along with some Pixie Dust was sent to Anna. We all miss her so much!

Sunbeam visited her heart~sis Minethere Always (on Metropolis grid) making a Chinese wall ruins for Miney’s latest FREE oar give away Chinese themed. She and Miney attended many of the celebrations held for Metropolis’s 5th Birthday together and had the BEST time! gesturing and throwing pixie dust!!!! BTW did I say it was due to Miney’s encouragement that Sunbeam joined in the Build=off contest. Thank you Miney… you always make me feel like a winner just being my friend!

And that folks about sums up Sunbeams first two weeks of this month. Sunbeam visited six (6) grids and took lots and lots of pictures once again. She did two more videos posted on her channel at youtube, Sunbeam Magic, and posted a new puzzle on SunbeamS Jig page. Hope you enjoy the following Sun as gridhops around the Metaverse. Until we meet again, Fly HIGH, seek peace and laugh daily. HUGGS

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