Torley island

Friendly greetings! Here is Torley Linden's island in Second Life. It's focused on video tutorials which teach you skills in a fun and fast way. There's also swatches of content creativity to explore and enjoy. By gaining a greater hands-on understanding of the beauty of Second Life, you'll be more confident and open to the fantastic possibilities which await you. In other words, Enlightened. » CLICK HERE TO VISIT HERE!!!

What it looks like Here

Check out Here pictures taken by fellow Residents, and add your own on Flickr!

Hotspots on Here

Click any of these to teleport in Second Life:

• Video Tutorial kiosks - You can find a number of these spread around Here. They may rotate as seasons change, but when in doubt, there's a big screen showing the newest Video Tip of the Week! They look like this, and all you need to do is sit down (or stand nearby), and make sure your media is playing.

• Welcome Corral - Where you'll start on Here if you didn't pick another destination. Yup, it's a reference to ye olde newbie corral. Pick up your free Torley Textures and other goodies!

• Torley's office - I'd be delighted to chat with you in-avatar! See my office hour times.

• Terraforming sandbox - One of the most fun parts of owning land, especially an island, is reshaping it — feel free to mold this terrain like clay! Move it up, down, and all around. Also watch my terraforming tutorial in the kiosk nearby.

• WindLight billboard - Watch the ad! WindLight's also known as "atmospheric shaders", and I've made many sky + water presets for you to play with! Make your days prettier, your nights more mysterious... you can get them here.

• Das boat ride - Prefer to travel by water? This'll take you partway around the isle.

• Torley's big head - Click my head to read my blog posts!

Other "exhibits" are subject to change... Here is lively, dynamic, and engaging!

How we got Here

After all this time, I finally have an island. I mean, it was an eventuality... I began my Second Life with no land, and even when I started working for Linden Lab, I usually scrounged parcels here and there. Sometimes I'd "camp out" on other Lindens' land when reproducing bugs and running other tests.

Things came together gradually. I:

• Kept getting asked by awesome Residents where video tutorials could be watched inworld.
• Wanted an increasing amount of space to advance research & development — you know that show MythBusters? I do sort of the same thing in SL.
• Needed a place to store example content objects referred to in my videos. (It's frustrating to follow an older video up to the end, only to find featured "Come here and get this!" items no longer exist!)
• Believe it's of the utmost importance for Linden Lab employees to understand Second Life by simply being a part of it and doing casual everyday stuff. Here is my manifestation of that.

Among other reasons. And so, I packed up my stuff from my longtime inworld residence of the Linden Village in Grasmere, and have since moved... here.

Special thanx to Harmony Linden & Concierge Team for getting me setup, my wife Ravenelle Zugzwang for being my collaborator — some things, like wildly gesticulating at a computer screen and say "Move that here!" are still easier done in first life — and of course, thank you for visiting.

If you possess a curiosity to contact me, you may do so here. I warmly welcome your awesomeness!