After last years debacle if I’ld visit the sims or not (in the end not) I felt like going again this year.
Now I know, the event ended over 2 weeks ago, but I only now managed to upload all the pics of stuff I personally found interesting to snap, and I really wanted to do that first before publishing this (which is why this has been a draft for several days).
Anyhoo, the 20 sims (+1 TeenSL® that I couldn’t visit) weren’t easy to visit all with giving enough attention to all the stands, displays, expos, events and alike. But I think I did pretty well, I finished all of those 20 sims, but must admit had to divide my attention between what looked interesting, which people I had heard of were participating, and those that seemed less appealing to my personal tastes from the exterior (I still panned inside those ones, but often noticed it wasn’t totally my kinda thing and moved on).
It also was a very dodgy timing: 4 more grand scale events that interested me took place within a similar time frame: Hair Fair 2009, Fantasy Faire 2009 (missed out on that entirely 
), Make Him Over Hunt (ended at the end of June, so around the time SL6B started, barely finished it in time) and Just For The Guys Hunt (started 1st of July, still not even halfway on that FYI).
Now, I’m not gonna make too much fuss about it: SL6B wasn’t bad, but at the end I figured I could scramble everything I really really liked into just 4 sims, maybe 5 (at the most). It wasn’t disappointing, but I expected a tad more form it.
I snapped about 60 pics, of which 49 came out well enough to play with and upload to Koinup and Flickr.
Below is a selection of my personal 5 favourites of the entire SL6B event.
The Entertainer
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This was one of the first fun things I stumbled upon on my first visit to SL6B. I liked it because it was simple, made almost entirely out of normal prims (I think only the hat of the saxophone player is a sculptie) and the music on the parcel finished the whole experience.
Out of all my favourites, this one gets the highest ranking, cuz it was so much fun just standing, listening and watching!
I regret to inform I forgot to check who made it *facepalms*
Space Between the Trees (by AM Radio)
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Most of the people into the artsy scene of SL® know who AM Radio is. His skills with the prims amazes all, and his SL6B space was no different. You actually were able to get a free kick-ass race car, but… I’m not that much into cars (though I still got a copy of it 
).
No, what interested me a lot more then that car actually, no matter how fab it was, was the globe “pinnacle thing” behind it. It’s so retro, somewhere between Art Deco and fifties style, I instantly fell in love with it. It would make such a neat office ornament, RL or SL®!
(in case Mr. Radio might catch word of it, I’m interested in a small copy!)
The SL6B Main Stage
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Say what you want about it, the build by Prad Prathivi rocked if you ask me. Flawless in execution, brilliant in concept. Spread out over 4 sims it was one of the few “massive scale” futuristic structures of event.
I’m kind of sad I never mastered a decent picture of his other stage (the Futurist Stage) but at least I managed 3 good ones of the main one 
Isolated Ascension
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2 piles of garbage leaning towards each other, a computer at the top on either side and a futuristic cyber-couple (hooked onto their puters with wires) that are jumping towards each other. That’s all you need for a strong and touching image!
I’m not all that much of a cyber-future RP person, but I loved this!
My compliments to Shallow and R0bb1n Graves, the 2 models (very likely bot avatars, I know, but those are the only names I wrote down, and better credit them then nobody at all, right?).
Virtual Life in a Virtual World
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This image doesn’t totally do it justice, but I figured I better took one of the exterior, even though it was what’s inside that I found interesting. Why the exterior? Well because I couldn’t possibly take pics of the entire interior, which would be needed for you to actually understand the total experience.
It was an exhibit space by Jenne Dibou (the woman behind Mechanical Toy Factory) devoted to the futuristic possibilities for Virtual Worlds (there was a similar exhibit called “The Nostradamus” on an other sim). In this future the Virtual Worlds would become about the most intense part of our Reality than we could ever have it… because we would have the opportunity to upload ourselves.
But then… you get this upload error and are confronted with what even the most beautiful and Utopian Virtual Worlds would lack.
I hope this exhibit one day will find it’s way back to the Mechanical Toy Factory, where I hope a lot more people get to experience it.
The cutest freebie!
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Oh… a 6th pic!
Yes, I’m posting 1 more, because SL6B also had quite a bit of freebies.
The most impressive one without doubt is the free racecar by AM Radio, I doubt anybody will disagree there, and the free Blue and Red colored Tron Light Cyckles will have caused a few cheers here and there I’m sure, and the Cyberfashionista hair by Digit Darkes was sublime, yes, but when it comes to being cute, none of the other free items stand a chance against this nicely made Tiny Giant Snail Racer from the Giant Snail Racers!
