Tom’s Blog

Creative and restless Wanderer in Second Life

When Second Life was not yet present in the (German) media at the beginning of 2007, I came across this virtual world through research for my podcast at the time. I was fascinated by the possibilities right from the start. Creating, meeting interesting people and traveling to wonderful places. I was drawn to the clubbing scene early on. Great clubs that offered a unique experience. A few years ago, I opened my first club, which I called “Tom’s Cozy Harbour Pub”. After a few detours and detour, I have now built up my small club the “TTLF – Trip The Light Fantastic“on Durdane. It was always important to me that the club had ambience and a certain style. Everything just not standard. When I found my perfect match in Lizzy, I started to spend more time in the international arena again and traveled to many exhibitions and places with her.

The “real” Tom

In real life I am a media designer and web developer, so I have a lot to do with graphics and programming. Second Life therefore offered me many opportunities to try things out. Many of the logos, posters and this website for FA&M were designed by me and I have also been able to create my first PBR textures. My knowledge of Blender and Adobe Substance was extremely helpful. In real life I like to take nature and landscape photos and edit them with Photoshop, but only to the extent that minor image/exposure errors are corrected. I don’t have much time for complete photo setups, so I concentrate more on photos that don’t need much preparation. This also applies to Second Life pictures. Here, too, I only intervene a little in the pictures and try to paint with the right “light” using the viewer tools.

My passion: Music and beeing creative

My greatest passion, however, is music. Over the last few years, I’ve put together a small sound studio, which I’ve equipped with a few vintage synths. I also have a few master keyboards that I use for my DAW. Unfortunately, I don’t have enough time for that. So it’s DJing that I (re)discovered for myself a few years ago. I’ve been DJing regularly in Second Life for 4 years now. I have also worked as a presenter for an online radio station. With Lizzy as my partner, we started DJing as a team a year ago. We share a stream without physically sitting next to each other.

My posts will be more about Second Life as a whole. Also with the new features like PBR and Mesh. When I’ve put together a cool outfit, you can look forward to that too. Of course, I’ll also be looking at great places and sharing my work with you!

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ArtWorks [full resolutions on FLICKR]

Music Projects [FromSource on Soundcloud]

Album “AdAstra” (W.I.P.)

Cover of my first “Single” from the planned Album “Ad Astra”.

Single “Children from Planet Earth”

FromSource · Children From Planet Earth

Inspired by one of my Favourite “electronic” Musicans J.M. Jarre – Recorded in my little Homestudio. Made with Cubase Pro and serveral Sound-Plugins (and some “Retro” Instruments: Roland Alpha Juno, Kawai K4r) . It was the fist track of my planned Album: “Ad Astra”. The Samples are originals taken from the NASA (Golden Record – Pioneer Mission, Apollo – Mission)