All you punters stay tuned, and we shall be announcing the next tour as soon we’re allowed out of the stables.

• Aus>NSW: Mon 8/20/2007 10:00 PM
• NZ: Mon 8/20/2007 12:00 PM
• Canada>Ontario: Mon 8/20/2007 8:00 AM

The tour will run for about an hour and will commence at the Odyssey (with big thanks to the wonderful Sugar Seville) in Second Life. The slurl is: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/49/19/22/.

To join us inworld in Second Life you will need to install the software and sign up to get an avatar. You can join Second Life for free and at the site you will also find advice about system requirements .

Big thanks for this tour goes to the empyre guests, empyre, ANAT and last but not least the amazing: dLux Media Arts!!

Last Saturday we launched the inaugural d/Lux Pony Club trail ride and it was a hoot! 10 or 11 people turned up at Odyssey around 6pm (in SL time) and they were all given a pony. Each pony is magically tethered to the tour guide (me) so that when I move, they follow in a more or less orderly fashion. (two of the ponies seemed to keep trying to hump each other which was a bit embarrassing – a scripting bug that hopefully will be ironed out eventually).

We flew around Odyssey for a while and then teleported over to Clangers Inventions. Clangers is the closest thing you can get to taking acid without actually breaking any laws. Word has it that Clanger is also a close personal friend Brian Eno (unconfirmed). After that we headed to Ars Virtua, where there’s an interesting show about dressing up in RL and a series of RL paintings of furries. I like this show - it turns that old complaint about ‘remediation’ of RL Art in SL on its head.

In terms of serious critical discussion we haven’t really got there yet – we were having too much fun to get down to the serious business of talking about art. I’d love to have known what people on the ground thought when they saw 12 pastel ponies flying by overhead.

I think the next issue for the dLux Pony Club is to start looking making the tours a little bit more rigorous. At the end of the tour last week everyone gave me a bunch of new works to visit and maybe I can schedule them into the tour this weekend. If you have any other suggestions let me know by going to our Open Call page. I’d also like to look at getting people to be guest tourguides and taking us to their favourite sites and telling us why they like them. Again, if you are interested in doing this let me know.

Finally a huge thanks to Cubey Terra who built (bred?) the ponies, to Lythe Witte who trained them (and the tours generally) and Sugar Seville for stabling them at Odyssey. (thats enough cheesy metaphors)

and Anya blogged about the tour!
http://angelaathomas.com/2007/07/14/150/

The next our is on:

Friday 20 July, 8pm PDT (Second Life time)
ExhibitA Gallery, Odyssey
1pm, 21 July (Sydney time)
Australian Centre for Photography

More soon,
dArt Oh (Malcolm Smith)

The dLux Pony Club Launch

Friday 13 July, 6pm PDT (Second Life time)
ExhibitA Gallery, Odyssey
Saturday 14 July, 11am (Sydney Time)
Australian Centre for Photography
Join us at the Australian Centre for Photography or online from the front desk at ExhibitA Gallery, Odyssey for an introduction to Second Life. As well as visiting some of SL’s most respected gallery spaces, these tours will also visit artists in their inworld installations and go to some of the more interesting communities that have sprung up in SL.

dLux Trail Rides in Second Life

Friday 20 July, 8pm PDT (Second Life time)
ExhibitA Gallery, Odyssey
1pm, 21 July (Sydney time)
Australian Centre for Photography

Friday 27 July, 8pm PDT (Second Life time)
ExhibitA Gallery, Odyssey
1pm, 28 July (Sydney time)
Australian Centre for Photography
Second Life After Dark

Saturday 28 July, 1am PDT (Second Life time)
ExhibitA Gallery, Odyssey
6pm, 28 July
Australian Centre for Photography

Join us at the Australian Centre for Photography or online at ExhibitA Gallery, Odyssey to visit the ‘dark side’ of Second Life. The focus of this tour will be to explore the ways in which Second Life has become a locus for new and unique sexualities. Bring a sense of humour.