Southern Cross's "Lord of the Trance" event on Sunday, December 20, 2009

SL URL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/The%20Hallows/108/44/22

TheArtfullOne Skytower & Southern Cross presents:
"LORD OF THE TRANCE."
on Sunday, December 20, 2009

Featuring 4 hours of some of the very best
in higher state of consciousness trance tunage,
found in SL. Come & join us & let your spirit transcend.

DJ Lineup:
4pm slt: DJ TwinStorm Sciarri
5pm slt: DJ Ashido Twine
6pm slt: DJ TheArtfullOne Skytower
7pm slt: DJ Kobe Xenno

Southern Cross Ventures is now on Flickr!

Howdy All,

Just thought I'd let you know, that Southern Cross Ventures is now on flickr. You can find us here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/southern_cross_ventures

Right now, I have uploaded images of Southern Cross I, to showcase it's beautiful builds, landscaping & terraforming. I will be adding more photos as time goes by.

Southern Cross Ventures is the 'brain child' of TheArtfullOne Skytower & I. It encompasses all of our creative talents & endevors within Second Life. From building, landscaping, terraforming services, Graphic design services, custom commissioned builds for clients, event planning, personal builds for our sim, club & shops, our hosting & DJ efforts to our general, all around everything, miscellanous pursuits.

If you require any of our services, please do not hesitate to contact us, as we will be more than happy to assist you in any way we can.

Kindest Regards on this beautiful Tuesday,

Mikayla Basevi

1st Annual Children In Crisis Rockabout Charity Benefit - Saturday, December 12, 2009 & Sunday, December 13, 2009

* Flyer By Mikayla Basevi *

EVENT SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Nightvision%20Myst/196/48/2

On behalf of the supporters of Children In Crisis organization, we iinvite you to join with us & celebrate in loving memory of Wollas Beaumont at our "1st Annual Children in Crisis 24 hour RockAbout Benefit". Starting at 6pm slt on Saturday, December 12, 2009 & ending at 6pm on Sunday, December 13th 2009, a line up of talented DJ's will rock your world with hourly contests & great gifts.

Wollas Beaumont was a loving soul, who is no longer with us & it is in her honor that we host this event for her favorite charity to which she was so deeply devoted. The Children in Crisis organization exists to improve the lives of children around the world affected by conflict, deprivation, poverty or other hidden crises, by working in partnership with local communities to provide education, healthcare and protection.

Please come & show your support & share with us some great tunes, great prizes, and great people all joining their hearts & hands together to help millions of children around the world. Let's all do our part & make this a great event, one that will do justice to Wolla Beaumont's beautiful spirit & legacy.

All proceeds from this event will be donated to the C.I.C.O in Wolla's name. To find out more information, or to make a donation on their website: http://www.childrenincrisis.org/
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*** Please be advised, this a PG / FAMILY event, please conduct yourselves accordingly! ***--------------------------------------------

DJ Lineup:
Saturday. December 12, 2009
6- 8pm George Orellana
8 - 10pm Evermore Noel
10 - 12pm TheArtfullOne Skytower

Sunday. December 13, 2009
12pm-2am Sten Dirval
2 - 4am Gino Aichi ok
4 -6am DJxHALLOWEEN Boa
6 - 8am Deckard Eames
8 - 10am DjGoGo Dreadlow
10 -12pm Cae Diesel
12 - 2pm Jaycee Kass
1-2pm Live Music - Gins Allen
2 - 4pm Rafworx Rhapsody

Southern Cross gets involved to help "Children In Crisis Charity Benefit"

Hello All,

I would like to thank you all from the bottom of my heart, for answering my call & by donationg your time, creations & energies into helping me plan & execute an awesome charity event for the Children in Crisis Organization & for helping a sweet soul named Moanaiti LittleBoots.

For those that do not know, Moanaiti LittleBoots is the event coordinator & this benefit is to honor his RL Girlfriend - Wollas Beaumont, who passed away a few months ago. The Children In Crisis Organization, was a humanitarian organization that they supported together in real life. The couple went to Africa with the organization to help build a roof on a school house, because in this small village, the children outnumber the adults & the adults that are left, are old & handicapped due to fighting in war, where most of the other adults died. You may find information about the organization here: www.childrenincrisis.org. All of the procceeds made from this event will be donated to the C.I.C.O. in Wollas's name.

Wollas Beaumont owned a gesture shop in SL, where she donated the monies made with her creations to the C.I.C.O. , and Monanaiti LittleBoots joined SL, to help keep her 'vision' & her gesture shop alive in SL & to plan this charity event in her loving memory & honor.

How I came to be involved in all of this was, my SL Partner - TheArtfullOne Skytower was asked to DJ for this event, and Arty asked me to IM Moanaiti LittleBoots and ask him a simple question about the event. This simple question, lead to me to finding out about all this sad & uplifting at the same time story. I also found out that Moanaiti LittleBoots has only been in SL a month, someone has donated the land for him to use for the event, and he is trying to plan this HUGE event all by himself, without really the knowledge, experience, or networking abilities that it takes to operate an event such as this.

When I found this out, I could not sit idly by, and let him try and handle this on his own. This is what I do. This is what I know & what I am good at - it's event planning & helping people.

So I jumped into this task with both feet, and am giving it my all, to help Moanaiti LittleBoots, throw the benefit of his dreams, to help his healing process for his loved one & to help him honor her in the manner that she deserves, and also help support the charity that she was so deeply devoted to.

So that is it, in a nutshell, about for whom & why I'm doing this & again I appreciate you all for your support. There is strength in numbers, and when people join their hearts & hands in loving efforts in service of others, that is the kind of energy that moves mountains!

Thanks again & Kindest regards,

- Mikayla Basevi

TheArtfullOne Skytower spins his Real Life Music @ Club Union from 4-7pm slt on Saturday, November 14, 2009

* Event Flyer by: MIkayla Basevi *
Click to enlarge, for better viewing.

TheArtfullOne Skytower aka "Lectro Spektral Daze" is a DJ, Producer & Sound Engineer from South Island of New Zealand.

He will be premiering a full set of his originally produced progressive & trance tracks in second life at Club Union on Saturday, November 14, 2009 from 4-7pm slt.

You can catch a sneak preview at some of his tunes here on the Southern Cross Music website. http://www.southerncrossmusic.co.nz/

Come on down to Club Union & catch this awesome rare event!
Club Union SL URL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tanita/188/228/23

We'll be waiting for ya!

- Mikayla Basevi

Metamorphosis Event was a HUGE Success!

Thank you to everyone who took time out of your busy schedules, to join us last Saturday for our Re-Opening of the club & sim! Your support is, as always greatly appreciated. We hope you enjoyed yourselves, and that the music & build met with your approval.

Thank you VERY much to our DJ's played. You all were phenominal, and definately on your "A" games. Your friendships & talents are true treasures, and we thankful & blessed you share them with us.

Aside from the few small glitches that all events usually have (most of ours were SL related performance problems)&the noob asshat who tried to mow us all over in the jeep & kill my chickens, I hereby deem the 'Metamorposis" event a HUGE Success!

I'm not sure how many people actually attended through out the evening but our traffic was less than 800 before we started th event, and after it was up to 10,000. HOORAY!

Thanks again everyone, you all truly make it worth our while, and remind us exactly why we do what we do, and for whom.

Be well & see you soon at the next event,
- Mikayla Basevi

Foul Attack on Foul at Southern Cross

A violent bird on bird attack occurred today, that resulted in the slaying of one sionChicken.
The victim was a sionChicken named ANTIPASTO, who was maintained & cared for in his carefully crafted prim pen, where he happily co-existed within his cyberspace constraints for 3 weeks.

The perpetrator was a sibling, a sionhchicken named DINNER, who accosted the peaceful Mr. Antipasto in a what seems to be a flailing enraged fit of cyber testosterone. The senseless & brutal flogging scuffle caused ANTIPASTO serious bodily injury, which lead to him eventually succumbing to his wounds. A truly untimely demise.

This type of injustice, the slaying of one brother by the beak of another, can only be compared to that of a similar story that's found in the Holy Bible. In the book of Genesis, Cain & Able, were Adam and Eve's first & second sons, and Cain killed his brother Able, in fit of anger, as well.Both stories bear painful endings.

ANTIPASTO's loving owner, Mikayla Basevi was quoted as saying:

" I was really shocked to log on this morning and receive an offline message from ANTIPASTO that stated: The object 'sionChicken rev2' has sent you a message: I (ANTIPASTO) died because of another chicken! It was almost as if he knew he wasn't long for this world, and cried out to me for help, but I was too late. Upon further investigation,I stumbled across his decomposing prim body. He lay there lifeless, as if someone had scripted him to do so. I hope he fought like hell! He was a good chicken and will always be remembered for his incessantly annoying clucking, his expensive eating habits, and his complete and utter ability to single handidly lag out the entire sim. We are deeply saddened by this loss, Southern Cross has always been a peaceful, fun-loving place where everyone gets along. Now, if you will please excuse me...(SOBS)".

Rest in cyber peace, dear ANTIPASTO, Neo and Trinity will guide you safely on your journey to the "Eternal Matrix". The Oracle awaits...

We've Been Blogged on THE A-LIST!

Check out the blog about our Metamorphosis event, on THE A-LIST! here:
http://thealistsl.blogspot.com/2009/11/southern-cross-metamorphosis.html

Our biggest thanks goes out to RAFTWET Jewell & her partner Xavier Theibaud. They're the owners of the SL Group - THE A LIST! Through their hard work, THE A LIST! is a group that strives to bring you the very BEST OF THE BEST of all types of different Second Life events from Art & Fashion, to the best dance clubs and RL DJ's, to ballet, Opera & Live Jazz, to exploring beautiful venues & sims. THE ALIST! group is by invitation only, to ensure that the people in this group are of the same genuine mindset, that being, for us to strive towards helping to promote & support the finest creative projects that SL has to offer.

RAFTWET & Xav have always been huge supporters of TheArtfullOne Skytower & I and Southern Cross. They have been coming to Artfull's DJ Gigs and our club for over a year, and have been blogging our events & progress along the way.

Thank you both for all of your hard work, and your support, and taking time out of your busy lives, to help promote our endeavors, and for enriching all of our lives, with your good deeds & kindness.

Wishing you many blessings, in all your future pursuits...from our family to yours!
Keep up the good work!

-Mikayla Basevi

"Metamorphosis" - Club & Sim Re-Grand Opening Event @ Southern Cross

* Flyer Design by: Mikayla Basevi (Southern Cross Owner)

Come & check us out on Saturday, November 7, 2009 from 2pm-10pm slt for our "Metamorphosis" Event! Southern Cross will be unveiling our new club build, on our new sim. We have a full day of some of Second Life's finest DJ's, who will be showcasing their talents for us.

In an effort to give our patrons a full visual & auditory experience, we will be setting the sim's environment settings to a new setting for each DJ, thus making our event 'feel' as it would in Real Life, if we attended an all day event such as this.

8 hours...8 DJ's....8 different sim time settings.

DJ LINEUP:

2pm - Afternoon : DJ Vikto Galli with hostess Meeshel Gothly

3pm - Late Afternoon: DJ Summer Zeritonga

4pm - Sunset: DJ Evermore Noel

5pm - Night: DJ Jasminx Saenz

6pm - Midnight: DJ JackFlash Ireto

7pm - Early Morning: DJ TheArtfullOne Skytower (Southern Cross Owner)

8pm - Pre-Dawn: Jaycee Kass

9pm - Sunrise: Dane Koba

So as not to ruin the surprise, I will post the SLURL for the landmark later.

Hope to see you all there!

- Mikayla Basevi

TheArtfullOne Skytower DJ's at AngelsNaughty Destiny 2nd Rez Day Party

Event flyer created by: Mikayla Basevi

AngelsNaughty Destiny celebrates her 2nd Rez day at Club COnspiracy on MOnday, November 2, 2009. The DJ lineup is awesome with some of SL's finest DJ's taking over the wheels of steel:

4-6pm slt - TheArtfullOne Skytower

6-8 pmslt - Jaycee Kass

8-9pm slt - Nimo Svenson

9-10pm slt - Sebastian Neiro

Come on down & shouw your support & enjoy some good times & great tunes.

Hope to see you all there!

Club Conspiracy SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Indigo%20Hills/155/89/2501

** I do take on comissioned graphic design work - Event flyers, logos, SL Textures & Etc.

Preview some of my work here: www.flickr.com/photos/mik_b

Any inquiries, please contact me in-world. **

-Mikayla Basevi

GIANT CHICKEN RAMPAGE!

Hello All,

Happy After Hallo-weird to ya! Hope everyone is well and not too beer or candy bloated from the weekends holiday festivities. Just a quick post of today's "Twin & Mik Sim Mayhem" on this lovely sunday afternoon.

Those of you that know me well, know that I have recently developed a serious addiction to clicking "Midnight Maddness" boards. I've gotten so bad with them lately that Artfull & Twin, are discussing staging an intervention for me. :S I am constantly annoying them with " Ohh..I'll be right back...gotta go click..TP me back in just a sec.". BRB, BRB, BRB, seems to be my M.O. these days.

For those that don't know what MM boards are, it's a way for shops & sim owners to gain legit traffic numbers. They place an item in the boards to be given away, with a target number - say 100, and if 100 people come and click that board before midnight slt time, then everyone who clicked that board all get the prize that is given away. Fun times. 95% of it is total crap that is given away, but every now & again you get some real gems. Hey, if it's FREE, it's for ME! \o/

Thus, brings us to today's post about "GIANT CHICKEN RAMPAGE". Meet my new favorite friend "Chicken Little". Only Chicken Little...isn't sooo little. He infact is almost taller than the new Southern Cross Club.

Twin has been having problems all morning with his WiFi and has been crashing in and out of SL, so on one of his crashes, I decided that I wanted to rez and take a look at this "giant chicken with super engine" car thingy that I had won on MM. Once I rezzed "CL" I could not see a dang thing, my entire computer screen filled up with this huge chicken ass & feathers, and I had to cam zoom all the way out to even be able to see what was going on. Once, I could distinquish which end was up on this thing, I climbed aboard and sat in the drivers seat.

About this same time, I see Twin log back into SL, and on my scanner he was about 40m ahead of me. Now in the drivers seat, the cam view automatically changed on it's own, into a view from the back of the seat, now I could really see nothing but the brown wood texture of the seat. I 'gently' tapped my up arrow once, to possibly move mr. chicken forward wee bit, and the sucker took off like a bat out of hell. I had no idea what was happening.

All of a sudden, I see the back of Twin's head, and his little arms flailing on my screen, as I must have mowed him over and he was tossed up onto the "beak/hood" of my mobile, while I caught wicked mad air and shot up over the mountains. We kept going, flying through the air, across to the other side of the island & didn't stop until we slammed against the sim border & landed into the water. Poor Twin, I hit him hard from behind & he never even saw it coming, because he was too lagged to tell what was going on. It looked like we were moving in slow motion, nothing but Twin's flapping arms in view, then blue water. And all of this from one small tap of the arrow key.

Needless to say, I laughed so hard I was crying, and Twin still didn't know what happened, as it took him almost 5 minutes to respond to my "Omg Twin, I am soooo sorry" IM, as I left him stranded & drowning underneath the ocean.

Moral of the story: Watch your lagging back on Southern Cross Sim.

Happy New Week & be mindful of your "up arrows"!

-MB

*Pictures are of Me & "Chicken Little" around the island.

You can catch a small glimpse of the new club build.*

All In A Days Work...

Work'n hard....

or hardly work'n....

When the mouse (TheArtfullOne Skytower) is away...

The Cats (TwinStorm Sciarri & Mikayla Basevi) play!

SoCro summit is: Mad Air Tested, Jeep Approved.

Southern Cross moves to New Sim!

Hello SoCrolites!

Well after a few days of being homeless, we FINALLY have our new sim! We moved to a full sim with friend & business partner TwinStorm Sciarri. This move is actually better for all of us, since it allows us more room to build, more freedom, and has a less expensive tier fee. \o/

Arty has slowly started to terraform & begun some of the landscaping, while Twin & I have been busy roaring about the land in motorcycles & Jeeps, riding amusement park rides, and hatching sion chickens. We now have 2 new resident foul: Chickens - DINNER & ANTIPASTO, both male, are chirping away in their new pen.

We also put the hunt gift back out for the "Total Fusion Mix&Mingle Hunt", and had the LM's are re-routed to the new sim. Our apologies for any inconvience this may have caused.

I will try to keep you all informed here, about how things are going with building, when we plan to re-open, general mayhem & etc.

As always, thank you all for your support & we should have things up & running back in party mode for ya soon! Take Care, see ya on the grid!

-Mikayla Basevi