Fecund Life - A Burning Life Exhibit

Linden Lab sposored another Burning Life recently (I won't call it an annual thing because it hasn't been around long enough and they may never do it again, who knows). It is, for all practical purposes, a virtual art exhibit in the spirit of the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada (Burning Man). There were tons of interesting things going on (think nekked drumming sessions) and some really great virtual builds (time traveling viking pirates). The one that really struck me and coaxed me out of my hole was an exhibit on vivi Odets' plot (I'll have to find out who was involved because it was not apparent, a complaint I had overall about the whole joint, but that is neither here nor there).

The plot, Fecund Life, was a major statement about SL and where it stands today, complete with red ban lines indicating that you couldn't actually access the plot, some Fecund Life signs, and a few trash cans labeled "Feedback Container", complete with a lid labeled "Your Comments Are Appreciated! Deposit feedback in this container". The signs and trash cans seemed to be a clear statement about the closing of the official SL forums and the general feeling about resident relations with LL at the moment. The blue box that would normally pop up upon trying to enter a no parcel plot indicates "Teh For-Umms (CLOSED, KEEP YOUR FEEDBACK TO YOURSELF)". I thought the whole thing was great and had to see it as soon as I was informed of its existence (thank you, kaia Ennui, for the heads up and the pic of Kendra's Viking Pirate Time Travel Ship!).

The signs are brilliant, having what appears to be a warped LL "hand" logo that is flipping the bird, a Fecund Life slogan - "Your Imagination, Our Profit Margin", and a notice, to wit...

Lazy Labs are committed to providing a fun, enjoyable experience for our empoyees. However, due to you, the customer, whining about 'quality', 'stability', and 'griefers', we have decided to close Teh For-Umms. We apologize for the action, but it is critical our employees only do 'fun' things, not dull stuff like bug fixes.

Please continue to feel free to leave feedback at our one-way communication mechanism, the LazL Blogs.

Now get out, ungrateful wretches. We have to work on our Tao of Lazy.

Sincerely,
Pharticulary Lazy, CEO.

To make the whole thing complete, there is a cheap Lazy Lab t-shirt distributor that you can, presumably, click on for a t-shirt. Now, I'm not suggesting this was the design of this particular Burning Life plot, but my night was complete when, upon "touching" the distributor, I promptly crashed out of SL.