just the preview! Will Open to public on 31 July 1500 SLT!

We will have a new–MOST SENSATIONAL SCULPTURE ever made in SL to launch Greenies will into SL.

Thanks to everyone for kind words and hope to see you in our home on your grid.

Love, Verde

Niether could the ‘low intelligent’ blingfags who roleplay gangsters and buy expensive shit to feel superior. Which is about 75% of SL…

HOWEVER this is wonderful work, the attention to detail is brilliant. Incredibly well done. The ‘super intelligent’ griefer types couldn’t do this if they tried. Thanks for finding it.

Years ago, before my time ol starax made a giant house himself, so researching this build we looked into it. Starax’s build was maybe 50x scale, phenomenally huge, but ours was scaled to fit the greenies which is about 28x. The old build was so big that evidently it had an entire small snow covered house in a forest scene concealed inside the couch. Ours is not even the only giant kitchen in left in SL. EGO Terra – Giant House, Toon To, Saphira (91, 112, 113) is still around I believe, and a wonderful inspiration to us in developing our own. Even though it is only about half the scale of ours, the oven’s still big enough to roast an elephant, though that sounds like a nasty thing to do.

Unfortunately little of that or many of the great builds of SL survive any more except for in pieces in some peoples pockets. It turned out that there was a surviving copy of a giant dollhouse by starax at that scale, which we considered putting in, but when we looked it dwarfed the rest of the sim and looked very wrong. Instead we rebuilt the original prim by prim(with a few tweaks) at our scale as a cultural reference to SL art history. Oldbies have identified it as such and got the reference. It’s been fun to note that the “crappy house” people have been describing is a copy of the kind of art that was once the pinnacle of the sl experience. Not a great deal has changed since then, imagination is still the most important tool, but the toolbox techniques of the sl artist has grown substantially.

Thus the surviving part of starax in that build, and probably the cause of some confusion, is a reference to history. It’s also a comment on secondlife in general – we all live in doll houses here, something we often forget. We hoped it would be a reminder that your avatar really is a toy and secondlife can be an imagination playground.

It’s true Littletoe and I have worked here and there, but this is the first time we’ve been given an entire sim to build so this is a first for us. We started out like everyone as prim pushing grunts contributing to other builds and as trust developed were pulled into larger things. Light waves is well known from dropping early greenies builds on sandboxes – where most of the poor starving artists in sl ply their trade. Matching the build quality and style of the greenies (by pulling them apart and figuring out their tricks) was a large part of our learning process. None of the tricks by the way are particularly tricky, but careful building is time consuming.

Unfortunately one of the few places people have the time and resources to produce quality work at scale is in commercial builds. Thankyou whoever did that car sim I was looking at – though the build wasn’t very interesting due to the corporate constraints put on the content, me and Orhalla Zander spent hours staring at the shadows of a few plain boxes and the care that went into the effect was an inspiration.

Hopefully the existence of greenies home will give SL artists who have so much to give, the inspiration to stick at it. If the corporate world realizes that it has much to gain from acting as a benefactor to SL’s strengths and community rather than treating it like other media, we may see more sponsorship of projects such as this. Surely that’s a better marketing strategy than making a sim so dull you have to pay people to be there.

Thanks to Tenshi for the article, surprised thanks to Prokofy Neva for such kind words, and my gratitude to the artists of SL both corporate and community, you are an inspiration to us all.

Because if I wrote what I really think Prokofy, they wouldn’t print it. Actually, that’s not true. Maybe they would, but nevertheless, I’d like to think that this build, given the attention it’s garnered over the past few days, will throw down the gauntlet to the many other talented and creative residents of Second Life.

I make no claims about possessing such skills myself, I can, however, recognise a quite special achievement like we have here.