Relay for Life 2009

Last year I was honoured to take part in Relay For Life 2008, fundraising for American Cancer Society. This is its' fifth year in Second Life and to date 220,000 USD has already been donated.
Last year Sara Carr and I built an entire sim, this year we have a smaller plot for our display of about an eighth of a sim.
The theme is "One World, One Hope" and our plot is based around research for cancer treatment and cures, the Hope part, and that many of those have been discovered in various exotic and mundane places within the World, the World part. We are trying to show various creatures and especially the environments in which they live and breed. Living organisms such as Sea Squirts, Primrose, Yew, and mud loving Bacteria, many of which have developed their own forms of cancer prevention.
On the right is part of the build as of today. To give you an idea of scale, you can probably see me above the Andes in South America; the moon surface is 60x60m and the earth at the back takes up another 60x60m, I am hovering above the moons horizon and only half way into the build.
More information about American Cancer Society

Tanglia builders

These are the people who have had most to do with making Tanglia what it is:-
Pristeen Barbosa - Manager of Worlds' End Tavern who schedules the events, conceives, builds, and organises the scenery, keeps order and is overall fantastic! Enthusiastic, organised and one of my best friends in Second Life.
Lexa Sands - Runs our two music and games servers which are located in France and Las Vegas, programs all our various gadgets, helps Pristeen to build.
Talia Jiang - Owner of Tanglia. Overal concept and running the Island.

From Talia's second life

Left to right: Talia, Pristeen and Lexa

World's End Inn

I want my Second Life estate to be social and friendly. A place where people can gather, talk, chat and go do things together. I am used to running a guild in other games, having a good friendly atmosphere, doing things together, talking and having fun.

After going through a lot of names, we decided "The Worlds End" was a great name, summed up its location and had so meanings.

We talked about running a pub and I started building one a couple of days ago. My design is for four buildings linked together with a dance-floor in the middle. While building I was thinking of a typical old british farmhouse. A central old building with newer buildings added on. A family home that had been expanded over the centuries as it grew, different styles and sizes of building added as needed.

The above photo is nothing like my building but it does shows the typical European style of oldest building in the center with extensions added to extension and that is the look I am after.

The photo is from here