Manchester Sim's Hacienda Exhibition
looks like there's another build commemorating the eighties rave club "the Hacienda" being simulated here in second life. i don't mean the ORIGINAL i wrote about a little while ago. that build is rudie rickenbacker's. a great bloke and a fun group to be in love with. oops, involved with. oops, tangentially familiar. this next inworld build i'm writing about now was created by the real world Manchester, UK's cultural exhibition centre urbis.
when i first got a notecard from someone from the urbis management group telling me that the 25th anniversary of the hacienda was going to be celebrated inworld with a live feed from the real event and an opportunity to chat with some of the principals behind the real world club's establishment i didn't give it much notice. it was certainly not anything to spark my attention. the first note had no landmark, no images, and seemed to be hastily prepared. when the next note came in i did some investigating. i wasn't able to get in touch with rudie but i did get to chat with rose rickenbacker (rudie's partner and manager of the hacienda club).
just prior to chatting with her, a member of rudie's Fac 51 - The Hacienda group asked about where and when the event was taking place. goodie, i would surely find out the SL time (a matter the notecard sender had not considered) from the group chat. alas, rose was adamant that the urbis build was not something she wanted to promote on her 300 member group channel. when i reached her through IM she wished the urbis build well but didn't want to give them any free advertising. her communications with the corporate builders stopped after they declined the invite to move their build to manchester's sims.
while i pride myself in knowing rudie and i admire the work he's done on his build i am still very much interested, as i think most other members of the hacienda group are, in sharing their real life experiences and virtual lives in the days of the hacienda era. when you think of the hacienda, there should only be one place you should think of. rudie rickenbacker's.
nonetheless, i did get to the urbis hacienda exhibition for a look see.
you walk through the doors the landmark drops you at and take a right. you'll see the urbis rendition of the hacienda's dancefloor directly in front of you. never having been to the real hacienda i'm not sure who's is more accurate. since the urbis crew only built the dancefloor, and rudie's simulates the entire building, i'd say rudie's has a leg up on the immersive reality bit.
up the stairs onto the second floor you'll find some historic memorabilia on display. mostly framed photos of the period, some old newspaper clippings. if you have any love for the 80s music scene or the history of this club you'll have a good time checking them out. i'm not sure how long the hacienda exhibition is likely to be viewed but the real world exhibition runs to feb08.
on Sunday, August 26, 10-12 pm GMT (you figure out when it is in SLT) the urbis exhibition team will syncronize their real world 25th anniversary party (held at sankeys soap in manchester) into their inworld build. along with a live stream, graeme park and peter hook will have avatars inworld to chat with.
Chat live to Graeme Park: 10 - 11.15 pm
Chat live to Peter Hook: 11.15 pm - 12 (times in Grenwich Mean Time)
anyone able to make the real scene at the real manchester sankeys soap can get more data here.
2 comments:
Hi, came to this via blog search on Hacienda Second Life, apologies if men aren't allowed! Having been to the opening of the Hac exhibition at Urbis and chatting to the peeps doing the SL feed, and having been to both SL sites (And the real Hceinda in the old days), I have to say neither SL site is very like 'the real thing', but I don't think the Urbis one is meant to be. Its really like the foyer at Urbis with some Hacienda decoration.
From what I understand, their reason for not going in with the already existing Hacienda site was that the latter was done without talking to the people who own the rights to the name and the clubs. Its fancruft, nothng wrong with that of course, but could be difficult for the exhibition where they had to do all that boring stuff with contracts.
Not sure what the IP situation in SL is like, cloudy perhaps??
John Drake
all welcome here john. as to everything else, it's simple. yer doing it for love or money. not to overly qualify the corporately sponsored urbis exhibition i think rudie's build is entirely based on his singular passion to represent his Hacienda experience. his immersive media-rich living art does that.
there are so many components and political decisions that have to be made within a larger assembly of personages that the vision, however the process develops, may get skewed. not to say that the individuals who make up these corporate committee based organizations aren't artists on their own.
the initial intent of any art stems from BEING. the receipt of this vision is to the one individual tasked with the will to DO it. bathing in the glow of the perfectly implemented plan is cake. rudie should be made to feel proud. i'm not sure you stressed that in your comment.
second life elevates one to one communications/connections. one doesn't connect to a corporation. IM a thanks to rudie next time yer inworld. be beautiful. connect.
moiling for gold.
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