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Hot Latin at Costa Rica Sims on Live n Kickin This Tuesday Night

Hola Música en Directo Ventila! — Hello Live Music Fans The Music of Mario Metsovaara Torrez known in Second life as  Arimo Teixeira is the mating of two Acoustic and/or Electric guitars. Both musically weaving in and out with one another. Thus, Arimo creates a new era of “Latin Fusion” & “Latin Americana” music.

Arimo was introduced to the Spanish guitar through his Mexican American family roots. At the age of five he began singing and playing with the guitar. While living with family in Belgium and Finland Arimo traveled Europe. There he was introduced to the Gipsy music of Belgium, France, Luxemburg, and the Netherlands. At the age of eleven he began performing on solo guitar while attending school in England.  Arimos  education included Classical and Contemporary music, such as Blues and Rock. While attending College in the United States, Arimo continued his musical education in Classical, Finger Style, Latin, Spanish guitar, and Music of South America.  You can check out more on his website http://www.myspace.com/mariometsovaara Now from his studio in Chicago he performs for us  live in Second Life and now  on Live N Kickin.

For a man who plays “Latin Fusion” we were fortunate to find a Fusion of Latin sims called ” Costa Rica Sims”  http://costaricasims.com/ and more specifically  a spot that represents Costa Rica”s Las Baulas National Park ..Created in 1990 to protect Leatherback turtles from profit-making egg poachers, Marino las Baulas National Park is one of the foremost nesting sites for the leatherback turtle.  This area is also known for the excellent surfing.

In Second Life Giancarlo Takacs and team have developed  an incredibly beautiful  set of  sims  where we found a nice little Cantina by the Sea  ”La Tortuga Feliz”for Arimos performance and even if you cant make it to the  LnK  taping on Tuesday I highly suggest you visit these sims you will be glad you did.

Arimo Teixeira on Live N Kickin Tuesday Dec 15, 09  at 9PM PST (slt) at Turtle Cove http://slurl.com/secondlife/Las%20Baulas/178/49/23

Tunes in Sl will be there to give away another CD to a lucky  live audience member but space is limited so please be early if you want to attend.   We have a “Latin” dress theme this week if you like but it is  not required.  If you can’t make it to the taping you can still watch live  on “in world”  Tv’s  or on  the web at   http://streams.treet.tv/live.mov or later on itunes or Treet TV  Archives.

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This Weeks 13th Dec Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe

This Sunday 13th December 2009 on Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe 6pm slt at Northpoint Studios.

The entire nature of journalism and traditional news outlets has changed dramatically with online news services, You Tube, Facebook, Twitter, blogging and feeds, providing many of us with our daily and in-depth news.

One Journalist who is definitely not old school is Mitch Wagner, known in Second Life both for his reporting on Second Life through the Tech News site Information Week, and as the man of Copper as host of the Second Life podcast Copper Robot. This we find out what makes Mitch Tick, and what he sees as the future of News in this new World.

Yes amongst a world of unique names Mrmulti Writer has a very unique and interesting name, which comes from his real life computing buisness and his ability to create his own music on many different instruments and electronica. His influence is James Taylor and Paul Simon, but I also hear some Phill Collins in his voice.

Come hear him sing live and find out more about the man behind the Multi Talent!

The Holiday Season is upon is, allready the carols are being sung the decorations hung out, but for some people this is not the time of year they feel most joyous. Suicide Prevention is such an important issue, why is suicide in the Western World so prevalent? and why at Christmas? Krissy Sinclair has brought both her real life expertise as a councellor and Mental Health professional and her talent as an Artist to combine with a Second Life project called SOS or Survivors Of Suicide, perhaps not the most uplifting subject to be discussing right now, but certainly and unfortunately one of the most important.

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The Diva Phaylen Fairchild, Sasy Scarborough, And Strum Diesel!

What a great show! Paisley’s guests on the show today include What’s New SL Founder Sasy Scarborough, musician strum Diesel and comedienne Phaylen Fairchild.

Sasy talked theft in Second Life from the perspective of a Store Detective for Super Star Store Maitreya. Its amazing what she discovered…Strum Diesel had heaps of his Fans at the show, and talked Punk to Folk! a really really lovely musician great song! Then finally Phaylene Fairchild, gave us a small taste of her sell out show! on the 13th December, and talked WOW and releasing her newest episode of Divas! yes she said she would never release another! but here it is the start of a whole new series and its it hilarious! see it here!

“Phaylen is one of my favourite people in SL” says Paisley find out why!

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Second Life Television Production Company need P.A

Production Assistant Needed for Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe

Dec 4th 2009

Production Assistant/Personal Assistant Needed for Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe

Perfect World Productions who produce Tonight Live are looking for a production assistant to work closely with Paisley Beebe the producer and host of Tonight Live.

This job is a 6 week internship to start, and if successful the applicant will start on 4,000L per week. If the applicant progresses to a more senior level there is a percentage of advertising profits, and increases in salary according to dedication and reliability.

This job is for you if you are serious about Virtual Television, other production assistants have gone on from this position to produce their own television shows.

You do not need a background in Second Life Television to apply. But Blogging or journalistic skills are a must!

Requirements:

You need to be available most days of the week and at short notice sometimes, flexibility in your after-hours is best, and the ability to be contacted quickly if needed by email or IM.

You need good equipment, and internet the programs you will be asked to use and run need a good reliable set up.

You need to feel comfortable on voice and Skype.

You can work your own hours but the job can at times require a few hours a day to complete.

You must be able to commit to one production meeting a week on Wednesdays at 5.30 – 7.30

You must be able to commit to appearing at the recording of Tonight Live on Sundays from 4.30pm – 7.00pm slt

You need to have initiative, problem solving abilities, and the ability to find odd things at odd times in Second Life and on the web.

You need to have been in Second Life long enough to be very knowledgeable about community and currant affairs and events in Second Life.

You will be looking for stories to feature, following up guests and making sure they are comfortable and we are well prepared for their interviews, through researching and communication with them.

You need to have great communication skills, through all aspects of Web.2 applications including Skype,Twitter,RSS feeds Facebook and Blogging.

You need to be good with deadlines and following strict procedures.

You need great administration skills.

You need to be able to take enquirys from real life and second life professionals and handle them in a professional manner, including press enquiries.

The Benefits of Working for Perfect World Productions.

If you are serious about journalism and media in virtual worlds you will be working with the longest established and busiest Production company in any virtual world.

Perfect World Productions has pretty much written the book on how to do television in Second Life.

You will be working with a dynamic group of dedicated and fun colleagues.

You will be working in a professional environment where respect and good will is our number one priority, you will not encounter drama or hissy fits at our company.

You will be working at a company that has spent a lot of time working out ways of using the best talents of our staff and helping each other out when needed.

You will be working for a company that has an incredible future, and a proven track record.

Perfect World Productions has a real life contract with Treet.tv the largest Television broadcaster in any virtual world.

Working for Perfect World Productions is never dull, its exiting and creative and lots of fun. But its also striving for more and more professional improvement and increasing viewership in both Second Life and on the web, and so we need applications to take this very seriously.

We will not hire until we find the right person

Are you that person?

If you are, do your research on us before you apply.

Contact Paisley Beebe with your resume at paisleybeebe@gmail.com

Im’s or notecards won’t be accepted.

www.perfectworldproductions.com.au

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Advertising Manager Needed For Perfect World Productions

Advertising Manager for all Perfect World TV Productions.

You must have a background in sales. A proven track record in sales in Second Life. Magazine Advertising Sales or similer in SL a must.

25% commision on all ads sold, plus a small retainer. Trial of 6 weeks to start.

A Mature and enthusiastic attitude is a must, and an ability to work as part of a team. We are a fun company to work for but are very serious about our productions. We require a 6 week unpaid internship.

Please send a resume about your Second Life and Real Life professional background, and why you think you would work well in our Team. You don’t have to have worked in television or Machinima on any platform, real or otherwise. paisley.beebe@gmail.com

Be sure to research us before you apply.

www.perfectworldproductions.com.au

www.paisleybeebe.com

www.tonightlivewithpaisleybeebe.com

www.fabulousfashiontv.com

www.slcn.tv

www.treet.tv

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This Week On Tonight Live

This week Sunday December 6th on “Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe” Paisley Talks to Sasy Scarborough, Sasy is a Fashion Blogger but her story is far more interesting that just that. Sasy has some pretty strong opinions on content theft from the point of view of being a store detective of sorts for one of Second Life’s highest profile Fashion Stores, Maitreya. After readying a heartfelt blog by Sasy about her reasons for giving up her role at Maitreya where she talked about the realities of tracking down her freinds stolen Content, and how pervasive the theft was becoming, and how ultimately it took such a toll on her personal and professional life she quit out of exhaustion and frutstration and never being able to get on top of it, Paisley decided that Sasy’s point of view was quite a different one from the norm. This week Sasy will talk about some of her experiences and some sides of the whole issue that you may not have known before…

In 2008, Strum Diesel entered the world of Second Life, upon recommendation from a friend. Within 3 months of participation at open mic’s and live shows on the virtual reality commerce game he has amassed a devoted following with fans hailing from California to Germany. Known as Sean Kagalis in real life Strum is a real life musician. Sean began playing guitar and writing songs at 13. A year later he landed his first gig at an old rundown Daytona Beach, Florida gas station turned biker-bar dubbed Charlie’s. After receiving the approval of a presumably tough audience, Sean began to realize that being a performing songwriter was his destiny.

Pic from Crap Mariner on Flickr

Phaylen Fairchild of “Diva’s” fame, comedienne, script writer and television producer,
is about to launch her One Woman Show “Phaylen Live” on the 13th Dec 09. What started out as a one off stand up gig, has morphed into an event that will be filmed, and a night out that everyone is hoping to get a ticket for as seating is limited. Phaylen will be previewing some of her show on “Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe”. So come along and see what the excitement is all about! Previews of the show are already being discussed with some people saying it will be the funniest show ever seen in Second Life.

The SLurl for our Studio is http://slurl.com/secondlife/Northpoint/153/48/29

Doors open at 5.30pm and not before to conserve lagg during rehersals. Show starts at 6pm slt.

If you would like to know who is going to be on the show each week, join our subscribomatic placed at the studio, to unsubscribe just click the subscribomatic again.

Anyone who can’t get in to the studio during the show, can watch the show live here http://streams.treet.tv/live.mov

The show will then be uploaded to the Treet.Tv website and available on iTunes as a download.

All our shows are now available on Flash Player which means cleaner crisper definition, and the ability to copy and paste the player on your own website.

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Dyslexia and Me

What Dyslexia Means to Me.

Dyslexia is a hard word to remember how to spell.

Dyslexia is embarrassing….why is it embarrassing? Because people still judge you based on your gamma and spelling. You are not seen as “professional” if you can’t spell or write well.

Having Dyslexia makes writing anything very slow and frustrating, particularly if you are trying to get the spelling correct.

Dyslexia and Dyscalculia are linked, one is having trouble recognizing grammar and words and how to say them and spell them, the other is not recognizing or remembering number progressions and being able to do basic maths. I have both.

Dyslexia and Dyscalculia is hard for me knowing that genetically I gave both also to my son.

Dyslexia means I can’t help my 9 yr. old with spelling and grammar and he tells ME how to spell things. But he loves me and understands we can’t all be good at everything.

Dyslexia means having to suffer confusion in my sons teachers eyes, when she can’t explain a maths problem to me to help my son, or forgets and doesn’t understand I cannot correct his spelling and grammar, she looks at me like I don’t care enough to do it, she forgets I have Dyslexia and I have to remind her…but she doesn’t really understand.

Dyslexia in Australia, according to the Government does not exist..and there is no support for my son in our education system, they just keep throwing the same methods at him. Look up Dyslexia and Australia….you will see what I mean.

Dyslexia/ Dyscalculia means I can’t add up my own change at the shops. It means I have to trust the shop keepers that they are giving me the correct change. I have to use a calculator for even the most simple sums.

Dyslexia means I can’t help with toting up the bill at restaurants. I get too flustered to even use my iphone.

Dyslexia means I’m sensitive to people ridiculing my errors in spelling and maths and grammar.

Dyslexia means I was told constantly that I was lazy at school, that I seemed to be so bright but so lazy.

Dyslexia means I never thought or considered I was bright enough to go to university.

Dyslexia means I can be discredited when I write something publicly by people who consider correct spelling and grammar far more important than the message written.

Dyslexia means I have to keep it hidden or explain it to people who don’t understand why I can’t just try harder…

Dyslexia means having to constantly tell myself that I’m good at a lot of things that others are not.

Dyslexia means I can’t read Music but have to learn by ear.

Dyslexia also means I listen well…and am a good mimic.

Dyslexia means I can read, but can’t write my thoughts out well.

Dyslexia means having to explain to people I can’t read words that are new to me out loud correctly as I have no understanding of how to break them down and pronounce them.

Dyslexia means if you do not have a recognizable name and I get the pronunciation wrong, its not because I don’t care about you, its because I haven’t integrated it the new word into my memory, it takes a lot of time and effort for me to do that, much more time than the non-dyslexic person.

Dyslexia means I do have a name now for my lack of ability but I hate having to keep telling people I have it, in order for them to understand I’m not sloppy or carless but just missing a vital part of my brain cognitively.

Dyslexia means I have become an expert at disguising my inability for numbers, time, and anything that requires the ability to understand calculations or progressions.

Dyslexia means I became expert at skills that did not require mathematics or correct spelling like Drawing and Drama and Singing.

Dyslexia means I was sacked from jobs that required good literacy or maths. I cannot work behind a counter at a store or be anyones PA or secretary, I have rarely had a job where I have had to do that.

Dyslexia is not something that can be “fixed”

Dyslexia means not being able to remember a word you want to say.

Dyslexia requires a different approach to learning, but as yet most teachers don’t understand that.

I hate my Dyslexia and my Dyscalculia its painful, and when its clear that I can’t hide it, or disguise it, it brings up very deep feelings of hopelessness and memories of not being “good” enough. Memories of people laughing at my ineptness and lots of red crosses and lines across my pages of work. What I wrote was not read well…as my grammar and spelling was terrible.

Dyslexia and my ability to appear intelligent despite of it, has meant I did not discover it until my son was diagnosed with it a few years back. This means I had to go through a great deal of grieving for the little girl that I was, who tried so hard but was told she didn’t try hard enough so often, she believed she was lazy.

I was never diagnosed with Dyslexia I was “too bright” to have had it.

My brother was not diagnosed with Dyslexia he was also “too bright” to have had it.

I’m  amazed that there is still such shame about illiteracy.

I’m amazed that there are a lot of people who would balk at making fun of a deaf person or a sight challenged person, but have no compunction about laughing at or sneering at a person who cannot spell or write well. Even if it were because of lack of education…why is that still happening?

What is so right about getting the exact right grammar and spelling correct, in this world of so much text.

Read the intent if you can, behind the words, and never assume a persons bad grammar or spelling is carelessness or thoughtlessness.

There are plenty of careful caring intelligent people with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia.

Thank god for spell check..but sometimes spell check asks me what the hell am I trying to say!

I wish Dyslexia was taken more seriously and understood better.

And please don’t ask me to explain it. Look it up, there’s plenty written about it.

Why am I writing this? Because I don’t want to live in shame any more. And I am sick of making excuses for it, or explaining it, and reminding people of it.

Yes I can’t spell well, even the most simplest words, yes I can’t add up, and its not because I don’t try or  was lazy or stupid. My brain was designed to do think differently. I’ve more than compensated for it. I do not want my son to grow up thinking he is stupid and lazy…he is already saying that, and he is only 13.

There are many many people out there with Dyslexia or who have had a gap in their education. Why put them down for it? why the need to correct. Get over it, and read the content folks. Yes good grammar is important and yes correct spelling is important to get the correct meaning but some can and some can’t.

Correct my spelling if you are a friend, I appreciate that sort of help, especially if asked. But If you read something I write and only comment on my spelling you may just be asserting how bright you are and how stupid it appears I am. Is that what you really wanted to say?

Paisley

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Sad Day For Radio….

Before I created the concept for “Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe” with Treet.tv, I worked as a volunteer Radio Host for nearly 3 years at what most Americans know as a “Public” Radio Station “Community Radio” as it is known over here. I hosted ,to start with, a 2 hr Jazz program with interviews called Jazz@5 on Fridays,(you can still hear some of my interviews on my www.leoniesmith.com website),  then moved into Morning Radio for another 2 shifts. The Station was known for its eclectic tastes in Music, from Jazz, Blues, Soul World ect…FM99.3 had the reputation as one of THE most successful Community Radio Stations in NSW winning various awards ect..but surviving on mostly community good will, sponsorship, some Govt subsidies and volunteers. It had a great community around it. But  new management moved in and decided to broaden its appeal, by stearing away from the music side of it and its Jazz Blues World Music side. My show was axed and a “Drive Time” show was put in place. I declined to host other shows as the Jazz Program was of course my favourite, and the Fri night shift suited my hours. I had stopped hosting the two Morning shows I was doing, when Tonight Live got more and more demanding.

I did think of going back to Bricks and Morter Radio, maybe for money, especially as the kids were now at school, and I had time to do so, and was contacted more than a few times to come back and co-host and Host shows on FM99.3, I had, by that stage good skills and experience, I knew they were finding it tough to find qualified volunteer hosts, but “Tonight Live” was just too interesting and challenging to me. It was fullfilling my creative side in not just interviewing very interesting guests in Second Life and discovering great music and musicians and promoting them, but also the visual side of producing which of course you cannot get in Radio. So after a call earlier this year from another host trying to get me back I decided that I wouldn’t go back at all, not even to fill in, I gave up any ambitions I had of being a paid radio host to concentrate on producing TV in SL, even though I thought our numbers were very small compared to R.L community Radio even.

Up until today I was under the impression that my RL radio job had thousands and thousands of listeners. I was never really told of the listenership, just that my show was “one of the most popular shows on FM99.3″, which is hard to gauge with over-the-air broadcasts, and is usually done by surveys and guess work. The station did not start streaming on the Web until about a year ago. (I nagged and nagged the Station manager and engineers, to get it streaming but was always met with resistance…luddites..)

Today I found out about the demise of the station after some 27 years, it apparently was run into the ground by the same people who felt drive time radio would be more popular than Jazz between 5-7 on a Friday night…I ALSO found out the REAL figures of the listnership. The Director of the station…(who will remain nameless), stupidly left a private powerpoint presentation up on the web…publicly… from this years Annual General Meeting. (I wouldn’t want these figures publicised if I was Station Director, I’m not suprised the station has gone to the wall with such stupidity) I found it easily, by just googling the station Directors name, I wasn’t even looking for it! The numbers of listeners to the station, documented by the management, was gobsmakingly small! Now.. this was no small station, it had the reputation of being the highest profile, most successfull community Radio Station in Sydney, if not NSW, and there are hundreds and hundreds of community radio stations in NSW. The figures on that presentation were- 1000 listeners a week, -less than 100 listeners at any one time, and no more than 500 listeners for a really popular show…(was it mine snort…?)

You could have knocked me down with a feather…here I am, aware that “Tonight Live” gets a global audience from anywhere between 10 thousand and 18 thousand viewers per show! and I’m telling people, that its “like a community Radio Station sized audience!” wow how wrong was my thinking…I thought all this time, that my real life gig was the one with the big audience. Holy Hell! Thank god I jumped! Now, it maybe that the size of the audience for FM99.3 has dropped considerably since I was there..(people cried when I left …well not really but in my imagination they did, they certainly complained..) But its is nowhere near what we are getting on Treet.tv. I don’t have any idea of listener or subscriber-ship numbers on other Community radio stations in Australia, and certainly no idea what Public radio gets in the States…even if you could trust anyones figures! but thats a huge difference. We aint doin so bad!

I have also heard unconfirmed reports of Cable TV getting tiny amounts of viewership much much less than what you would expect compared to Treet.tv shows.

All of this is interesting for me, because of the perception of what I’m doing here in SL when I talk about it  in real life When I try to explain why I left bricks and mortar radio, (which was allways an easy sell, people know what that is, and treated me somewhat as a minor celebrity because I was on Community Radio! for goodness sake,) to do what Im doing now.. !!! he he well you can imagine…”who watches that?” sometimes there is a sort of sad patronising look in peoples eyes…like “poor dear she can’t get back into radio so she’s doing pretend radio..in some weird internet game with pretend listeners”.

I can sort of understand that…I mean if I hadn’t discovered S.L and decided one crazy day to have a go at this, I’m sure I would think the same. But this whole thing has got me thinking…what are the REAL stats out there for viewership and readership?…How can I translate the viewership we have on my three TV shows (Tonight Live, Fabulous Fashion and Live n Kickin) to dollars? how can I present what we are doing, and prove how many people we have watching these shows to real life interested parties, (without Neilson) who might promote us or advertise with us particularly those who are interested in global reach?

Ok.. so compared to commercial Radio, TV, and some major online broadcasts, we are totally small potatoes right now, but where are we really by comparison to other broadcasters? On my shows in RL Radio I used to cue up sometimes 10 to 15 ads a show! (used to drive me insane on a 2 hour shift) It’s astounding to me that FM99.3 got that many advertisers for so little audience!..Its really about credibility isn’t it, and marketing not numbers?…well maybe numbers at the top of this game, but there is definitely misconceptions about success and figures I think.

With more and more broadcasts of many different kinds hitting the internet, and now with Digital Radio and digital TV & Cable, the competition for the listeners and viewers is going to be incredibly intense.

FM99.3 may not have had a patch on the listeners we have on Tonight Live, but 27 years in the community gave them crediblity even if the advertisers were lied to about the listenership…and I bet they were….if the listenership was that small no wonder it was tough to get enough advertisers, (we did a lot of subscription drives!) the advertisers and sponsors they did get would have seen very very little, in fact, almost no increase in sales if the adds went out to so few listeners…yes they played the same adds over and over on all shows, but in March 2009 that was only 1000 listeners a week!…

I suspect that internet broadcasting just doesn’t have the cred that bricks and mortar does…yet…..but it will change. I wonder how long, it will take? I’ts got to be just common sense, if you can spend less to broadcast, reach more people…cater your advertising better..present it better?…surely its got to get some attention.

The lack of credible listenership and viewership stats for lots of internet broadcasts means that  they get bypassed by advertisers.

Interesting times.

thanks for watching

And have a great Thanksgiving all the viewers in North America.

Paisley