Caleb Booker

Note: this post will contain a grand total of 14 images, several of which (see just above this note) are in 1600×1200 format. There just wasn’t any way to do justice to this incredible build.

Today VeeJay Burns tipped me off (via Twitter) to this place. (SLurl) It’s called Greenie’s Home Rezzable. I have to admit, I thought I had the wrong place at first. It was a crappy looking uneven tunnel that let out to a crappy looking house… but as it turns out, the tunnel was a mousehole and the house was a dollhouse. I found myself in a gigantic room filled with small green aliens and the most detailed work I’ve ever seen in Second Life.

After a few minutes I came across a very put-out Pavig Lok. Apparently Tenshi Vielle wrote the place up in the Herald and did NOT give credit where credit was due. Instead of interviewing the builders, she wrote an edgy little “is Starax back?” piece. Now, I get that… it sells. You namedrop an infamous builder (who, by all accounts, left SL ages ago) and people will get excited. Unfortunately…

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… neither Pavig Lok and LittleToe Bartlett get their due credit that way. While everybody is busy saying “gee wasn’t Starax great”, nobody is saying “holy cow Pavig Lok and LittleToe Bartlett are GENIUSES!”

The real story on the sim is that it’s a Rezzable gig. Now, let’s discuss Rezzable for a minute because they’re doing something unbelievably balsy.

They may be another content creation company, like MOU or ESC, but we’re really not sure what they are. I’ve narrowed them down to two individuals inworld: Vega03 Straylight (probably an alt, established 04/2007) and RightAsRain Rimbaud, but that’s only a guess. Website’s blank, no inworld locations, and all groups are invite-only.

In fact the only thing we know for sure is that the Rezzable group has purchased a number of sims, found creatives, and told them to just have at ‘er.

They bought the Greenies from Light Waves, which is an alt for… I don’t know who…

… so now we don’t know who spent the thousands for the place to be built or why they did it. They’re certainly not advertising themselves.

So meanwhile, I’ve been coming back to the sim over and over in an attempt to catch somebody online who can tell me what’s going on. Instead I’ve been seeing some odd role-playing involving children, spiders, big piles of poo, fly-people, Ghostbusters, and giant boots you can drive around the sim.

Weird, weird scene all around. I’ll let you know if I ever get answers on this, but check it out in the meantime.

UPDATE: Just before I hit the Publish button, I ran into LittleToe. I found out that LOTS more is being added to the sim, and something else too… actually a bunch of something elses that I’ve been asked to keep confidential for now. Strictly speaking I know nothing yet, but investigations continue.

I think somebody knows how much I love a mystery.

UPDATE October 28, 2007 - There’s so much more I could say about this. Starax is Light Waves. Jon Himoff doesn’t like too many questions. Volumes and volumes more that I won’t make public. Bottom line though - I’m done done done with Rezzable. Feels good to be at the finish line. Movin’ on.

Posted on July 15th, 2007 under art, content, new media, passion. RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback.