NotTooHot Closing

We are announcing the closing of NotTooHot effective today.

We have pursued the idea of a private club but have found that the idea as we conceived it does not work. Event attendance and Club attendance has remained very low for months. Rather than encourage performers to continue with an empty Club, we decided to close the Group.

Thank you to so many of you who performed music, dance or DJing. You remain in our hearts.

The Club will be there as a hangout, but we will not organize events. The NotTooHot Group will no longer be used for Notices or Group IMs.

Thanks to all of you for going through this experiment with us.

xxx
Riddle and Nottoo

EXHIBITION: Isle Biedermann's Glamour and Nudes

Isle has set up a new exhibition on the outside back wall of the Club. It's titled "Glamour and Nudes" and lives up to its title.

Today (Friday, May 2) we have the Opening at 12 noon and you will have a chance to meet Isle, view the photos and discuss the finer points of nude photography. Some of the models will be there also

The exhibition will run through the end of May.

If you would like to exhibit your photos, art work or creations at the Club, please let me know.

xxx
Nottoo

REGULAR EVENT: What's In Your Closet?

I love it when a member wants to try a new event at NotTooHot. A couple of weeks ago Emelia Preston (Eme) approached me with an idea for a new game. I liked it and we will start it Saturday, April 26. Here is what Eme will do ...

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"What's in you closet?"

                

                 

Come along for fun when we play "What's in you Closet?"

 

A theme will be announced and the timers set, to find something creative in your closet to represent the theme.

There will be a voting system and all the best will go through to the next round, eliminating one or two people each time until the three best at creating suitable outfits win.

Dance to great themed tunes provided by D.J Panther and let out your wild side.

Saturday April 26th at 1pm SLT.

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Eme will be running the event and has already arranged three judges for the first time. Since I have a huge closet, I am planning to be there and I hope you will be too.

xxx

Nottoo

SPECIAL EVENT: KING'S DAY 2014

Many of you know that in RL Riddle lives in the Netherlands (Holland). What you may not know is that there is a King and Queen of Holland. Sunday, April 27 is the official King's Day in Holland when the entire country shows its love and respect for the King and the Queen.

I thought it might be fun to celebrate Holland's King's Day for Riddle at NotTooHot. Riddle and I have joked about this for a while, since the Queen of Holland is from Argentina ... woo hooo. Hey! That's where I am from.

Riddle answered me with his wishes for King's Day with "I would like a flea market." Hahahaha, well, if King Riddle of NotTooHot commands it, it will happen. I put on my 'let's have fun' hat and came up with some additional activities for the day. Here is the official schedule for KING'S DAY 2014.

OFFICIAL KING'S DAY 2014 SCHEDULE

6 am (The Dutch get up early) - Dutch Tango for the Argentine Queen of Holland with Joaquin Gustav of Argentina. I get to play Queen and will wear Queenly clothes. You all can dance tango with royalty or just sit and drink Heineken.

7 am - FLEA MARKET
As soon as you read this blog post you can claim one of the 36 flea market spots (28 spaces and 8 carts) set up on the sim in front of the theater. These are available on a first-come first-served basis (one per member). To claim a spot just put at least one prim on an available space (see below). You can rezz up to 30 prims to sell whatever you want to anyone who shops starting now during the entire week through Sunday, April 27. Please, keep your prims within your space or on your cart. From 7 to 8 am Sunday we will invite all Club members to come and shop. All left over items will be auto-returned Monday.

The sandy-white areas are flea market spaces and the carts with a roof are the carts. It will probably rain, so be prepared.

8 am HOLLAND DANCES & PRANCES - If you want to do something to entertain the Club members, this is your chance. It can be dancing, singing, musical instrument playing, joke telling ... whatever you want, BUT it must relate in some way to Holland, e.g. canals, wooden shoes, Delft pottery, Bob Smit en het Duke City Sextet, Anne Franck, drugs, you name it. The maximum time you get is 10 minutes of the hour. We may ask Riddle to sing in Dutch if there are no volunteers.

9 am King's Day Auction - You can see the auction stand in front of the theater with chairs lined up for bidders. I (Nottoo) will be the auctioneer. Any item you want to auction can be placed on stand 01 or stand 02. We will auction from those stands alternating between them (i.e. when the item on Stand 01 is being auctioned, you may set up an item on Stand 02). You can set a minimum bid if you want. All payments go directly from the winning bidder to the seller. You can auction anything, but you can only rezz items of 100 or fewer prims. If you have something that is larger than 100 prims or not an object, you can provide a description or picture.

10 am Dutch Singing - I hope to arrange a Dutch singer or musician for this hour.

xxx
Nottoo

THIS WEEK AT NOTTOOHOT 140421

The weekend was fun as usual with the Easter Celebration as the highlight. Here are the three winners of the Easter Egg Hunt and they each now have the title HEAD EGG ...

Tiffani

Lorraine

Shayna

Forty-one eggs were made by members with contributions of one or more eggs by Kat Feldragonne, Laz and Moto, Psyche, Skal, Lucky, Summer, Zeg, Eme, Bray, Gunner, Babypea, Ili, Riddle, Candy and Lorraine. Thank you to all who contributed eggs. The winning egg was made by Lucky and sits this week on the bar for all to admire. Here is EGG HEAD Lucky holding her egg. 

Here is what is in store this week ...

MONDAY 140421
6am WORKOUT
12Noon DJ Ridd - Blues

TUESDAY 140422
6am WORKOUT
12Noon DJ Pierre - Blues

WEDNESDAY 140423
6am WORKOUT
12Noon DJ Unbroken "G" Teardrop - Blues

THURSDAY 140424
6am WORKOUT
12Noon DJ Ridd - Blues

FRIDAY 140425
6am WORKOUT
11am SHOW TIME 
11 Nottoo & Volunteers - Neutron Collider
11:15 Emelia Preston (her solo dance debut)
11:30 Available
11:45 Seville
12Noon DJ Derrick Stewart
6pm Gweeb Live 

SATURDAY 140426

SUNDAY 140427 - King's Day
6am Joaquin Gustav Live - Tango for the Argentine Queen of Holland
7am King's Day Flea Market
8am HOLLAND DANCES for King Riddle and his Argentine Queen Nottoo
9 am King's Day Auction
10 am Dutch singing

12Noon Look in Your Closet - A new event run by Eme ... details soon

xxx
Nottoo

SPECIAL EVENT: Easter Celebration Update

In case you missed it, we are having an Easter Celebration on Saturday, April 19. Details are here and this note is to give you an update.

EASTER EGG HUNT

So far we have 21 eggs. I've gotten eggs from nine people and made twelve myself. Here I am with all but three of the eggs made so far ...

There is still time to make an egg and send it to me. We will have at least 25 eggs in the Easter Egg Hunt.

EASTER PARADE

I made my Easter outfit including the hat. Let me show you what I did. First, I found a freebie hat made originally by Eric Linden. Its a cowboy hat of sorts. It's the left hat in the photo below. Then, I took a mod, purchased hat from Coco in red. It's the middle hat in the photo. I decided I wanted to make a purple outfit since that is Riddle's favorite color. So, I took the Linden hat and retextured it with a photo of purple flowers I found on Google images. Then, I colored the Coco hat purple and unlinked it. I moved many of the petals form the Coco hat to the flowery Linden hat and linked it all. There it is on the right in the photo.

My Easter hat kind of looks like a purple blob from outer space, but, hey this is SL. Next, I went through my entire inventory of purple dresses. Finally, I found one that sort of matches the color of my Easter hat. It's kind of a short dress, but I'm sure Riddle will approve of it. Here I am ready for the Easter parade.

So, you can make your own Easter bonnet (hat) and outfit or buy one, BUT, be sure to be in the parade.

I am adding to the list of events that I will make photos of the Easter outfits for display in the front of the club and, of course, for the blog.

xxx
Nottoo

SPECIAL EVENT: Easter Celebration

This coming Sunday is Easter and at NotTooHot we are celebrating a day early ... Saturday, April 19. Here is the schedule ...

12 Noon - EASTER EGG HUNT

EGG PREPARATION

I have made an egg (Egg 0) and placed it on the bar at the Club. If it looks like an undecorated egg, it is. Before we can have an Easter Egg Hunt, we need to color the eggs. You can be an EGG MAKER. You can take an egg and color it any way you want. Once you have colored your egg, put inside it anything you want as a surprise for Club members who find it. I've placed a Give All Contents script in the uncolored eggs. Once you have created your egg, send it to me FULL PERM. I will give it a sequential number starting with 1.

EGG HIDING

Riddle and I will hide the eggs on the sim between 0 and 100 M. We will do this between 10 am and Noon on Saturday. No cheating and looking for eggs before the Hunt begins.

EGG HUNT

We will assemble in the Club at 12 Noon on Saturday and shortly after that the Easter Egg Hunt begins. When you find an egg, click on it for the surprise that the Egg Maker put inside. Be sure to take a copy of the egg too. 

EGGZACKLY

At 12:30 we will assemble again in the Club and whoever has found the most eggs, gets her/his picture taken as "HEAD EGG" and a blog post for all to read about. You can keep the eggs and surprises.

We also will line up all the eggs and vote on the best egg. The EGG MAKER of the winning egg will get his/her picture taken as "ËGG HEAD" and a blog post for all to read about.

12:45 pm - EASTER PARADE

You cannot have Easter without a parade of HATS. Find, make, buy  or steal the hat you want to wear in the Parade. We will have a fashion show where you alone or you as a couple can show off your outfit and especially your Easter Hat. The Parade will be narrated. Be creative, sexy, silly or whatever you want.

1:30 pm EASTER DANCE

We will adjourn to the Club and there we will have a dance featuring music of the 20s, 30s and 40s. 

xxx
Nottoo

THIS WEEK AT NOTTOOHOT 140414

We have a lot of pics from this past week-end. Thanks to Summer, Laz, Babypea and Nicole for their contributions.

 

Here is what is on tap for this week ...

MONDAY 140414
6am WORKOUT
12Noon DJ Ridd - Blues
2pm TITANIC Kittens & Tigers

TUESDAY 140415
6am WORKOUT
11am Beatrix "Shadows of a Country Hotel" Opening
12Noon DJ Pierre - Blues
5pm DJ Panther - Blues

WEDNESDAY 140416
6am WORKOUT
12Noon DJ Unbroken "G" Teardrop - Blues

THURSDAY 140417
6am WORKOUT - Volunteer Leader (Nottoo gone)
12Noon DJ Ridd - Blues

FRIDAY 140418
6am WORKOUT
11am SHOW TIME
   11:00 Diawa, Nottoo and a volunteer - artistry
   11:15 Emelia Preston (her solo dance debut)
   11:30 Nova - FAST DANCES
   11:45 Seville - Mystery Dance
   12pm DJ Big D

SATURDAY 140419
12Noon Easter Egg Hunt
12:45pm Easter Parade
1:30pm Easter Party

SUNDAY 140420 - Easter

6am Joaquin Gustav Live - Tango Time

I will be on European time for four weeks starting April 18, so USA/Canada events may be limited during that time.

xxx
Nottoo

THIS WEEKEND AT NOTTOOHOT 140411

Summer Nachtigal and Chip Takacs provided some photos of the activities so far this week ...

This weekend's events are ...

FRIDAY 140411
6am WORKOUT
11am SHOW TIME 
   11 YMCA Dancers - This can be a bit wild 
   11:15 YWCA Dancers - Summer, Nottoo, LUCKY, Bray, Eme
   11:30 Nova - FAST DANCES
   11:45 BabyPea - Mystery Dance
12Noon DJ Derrick Stewart - Big D and the Divas
2pm Mar Biddle Live
6pm Chip Takacs Live
7pm Blueboi Live

SATURDAY 140412
7pm Laz, DJ - She finally gets to play her playlist

SUNDAY 140413
6am Joaquin Gustav Live
8 am Psyche Mahal Solo dance show (nudity) sky - "MaHal Solo - Uncensored"
12Noon Grif Bamaisin Live
7pm SHOW TIME 
   7:00 Cher - Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold
   7:15 santih
   7:30 Cher & Nottoo - Twerking
   7:45 Led, Marv, Nottoo - Commandant

xxx
Nottoo

EXHIBITION: "Shadows at a Country Hotel" by Beatrix

Beatrix (bea, mbeatrix) is sharing with us a new exhibit called "Shadows at a Country Hotel." She has installed it on the north side of the club (click here for a slurl).

Here is a photo of Bea in front of one of the photos ...

On Tuesday, April 15 at 11 am we will have an opening party. You will have a chance to meet Bea and discuss her work as well as photography in general. Please, stop by.

The exhibit will be on display through mid-May.

If you would like to show your work (photos, art, builds or anything), let me know.

xxx
Nottoo

THIS WEEK AT NOTTOOHOT 140407

First, thanks to the many of you who offered advice and solutions when I was a cloud. Fianlly, ROKU2 suggested something that worked which was an outfit that replaced all 30 avatar attachment points plus all of the on-screen points. This worked! If you ever have cloud issues, let me know.

We had a lot of fun over the week-end and here are some pictures. Thanks to Laz and BabyPea for some of the photos ...

Here is the schedule so far for this coming week ...

MONDAY 140407
6am WORKOUT
12Noon DJ Ridd - Blues

TUESDAY 140408
6am WORKOUT
12Noon DJ Pierre - Blues
5pm DJ Panther - Blues
7pm DJ Quentin - Whatever he wants like Rock

WEDNESDAY 140409
6am WORKOUT
12Noon DJ Unbroken "G" Teardrop - Blues

THURSDAY 140410
6am WORKOUT
12Noon DJ Ridd - Blues
6pm DJ Cheryl Nitely - Blues Mix and Inventory Scavenger Hunt

FRIDAY 140411
6am WORKOUT
11am SHOW TIME 

• 11 YMCA Dancers - Riddle, Zeg, Marv (we need two more for this classic show)
• 11:15 YWCA Dancers - Summer (Construction), Nottoo (Police), LUCKY (Nurse), Bray (Fireman), Eme (Angel)
• 11:30 Nova - FAST DANCES
• 11:45 BabyPea

12Noon DJ Derrick Stewart
6pm Chip Takacs LIVE

SATURDAY 140412
7pm Laz, DJ - Whatever she wants (finally)

SUNDAY 140413
6am Joaquin Gustav Live
8 am Psyche Mahal Solo dance show (nudity) sky - "MaHal Solo - Uncensored"
12Noon Grif Bamaisin
7pm SHOW TIME 

• 7:00 Cheryl - Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold
• 7:15 santih - Mystery Dance
• 7:30 Cher & Nottoo - Twerking
• 7:45 Nottoo with Marv and Led - Commandant

xxx
Nottoo

THIS WEEKEND AT NOTTOOHOT 140404

I don't have any photos to show you for the past few days.

BUT, we have some fun in store for you this week-end ...

FRIDAY 140404
6am WORKOUT
11am SHOW TIME
   11:00 Diddy Hyun - Mystery Dance
   11:15 Kat Feldragonne - Mystery Dance
   11:30 Summer Nachtigal & Zeg Spear - "NotTooHot in a Nutshell"
   11:45 lilangel - Mystery Dance
12pm DJ Big D & the Divas
6pm BlindBoink Parham Live - old-timey blues (and maybe one tango)
7pm blueboi Live - his rezz day

SATURDAY 140405
:-(

SUNDAY 140406
6am Joaquin Gustav Live - Tango Time
7pm SHOW TIME
  7:00 Katiana Blinker - Desert Rose Dance 
  7:15 Katiana Blinker - flamenco and belly dance
  7:30 Diawa the Princess and Nottoo - White and Black
  7:45 Nottoo & Cher - Twerk Demo 

xxx
Nottoo

EXHIBITION: "SL DESIRES" by Bamboo Barnes

Bamboo Barnes has installed a new exhibition of her SL photography along the outside back wall of the club. The exhibit is called "SL DESIRES."

Here is a photo of Bamboo in front of one of her photos ...

You can get more nformation about Bamboo and the exhibit by clicking the title picture at the exhibit. "SL DESIRES" will be on view through the end of April.

If you would like to exhibit your work (photos, painting, creations) at the Club, please let me know.

xxx
Nottoo

Membership 140301

This note is the monthly update on NotTooHot membership. Retaining membership in NotTooHot requires two things:

1. Treat others with respect - NO RULES JUST RESPECT
2. Visit the Club at least once a month

NO RULES JUST RESPECT

During March there were no major incidents that I am aware of where a member treated another member or guest with disrespect. I do know of one minor incident in which a comment was made in public that was inappropriate, but in this case the person who made the comment did not continue.

VISIT THE CLUB ONCE A MONTH

I keep a spreadsheet (see here) with the summary of NotTooHot membership. We started the month with 308 members (March 1) and now (April 1) have 317 members. The net increase in membership is 9 for March. I expected the rate of growth to slow after our opening in January since Riddle and I had invited all our friends to join. The increase in March is entirely due to members inviting their friends.

Included in the details of the spreadsheet, you will see that 17 people chose to leave the club on their own. I send a notice each day of what's going on, and I send group IMs. For some people that active nature is too much and they leave. Also, maybe they don't like the activities of the club. I got some feedback from those who left and the reasons were:

• Did not like at least one other Club member
• Did not like the Club practices
• Did not like the way scheduling/planning is done

Of course, 291 members remained in the club, so for most the notices, group IMs, activities, scheduling and membership are okay. Using arithmetic I calculate that 26 (317-291) people joined the club in March. 

Since we have now been open over two full months, it is time to apply the requirement that a member visit the club at least once per month. On March 2 I had identified that 107 members had not visited in February and sent a note reminding them of the requirement to visit once a month. There are now 50 members who have not visited for two months in a row. Today, I will send each of them this note:

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Last month I sent you a note card about maintaining membership in NotTooHot. 

Unfortunately, you have not visited for a second month in a row. I realize that the Club is not of interest to everyone, and by not coming, you are indicating that the Club is not of interest to you. We are aiming for a Club with 500 active members and want to have space for them.

Tomorrow, I am removing you from the NotTooHot Group :-(

If i missed your attendance or you want to stay in the Group, please let me know. If you want to rejoin the Club, you will be added immediately to the Club if we are at fewer than 500 members, or placed on the waiting list if we have 500 or more members.

This is a note card I send to anyone who has not visited. Sorry it is a bit impersonal.

xxx
Nottoo

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Tomorrow, I will remove from membership the people who do not respond or visit.

There are also 48 members who have not visited for one month. I will send them later today the note reminding them of the requirement to visit once a month. So, of the 317 current members, you can see we have only 219 (317-50-48) who are fully meeting the attendance requirement. Culling the membership is not an easy thing to do, but over time it means the club members will be people who like the Club and participate. I anticipate the number of club members to actually decline over the next several months.

CLUB ACTIVITIES

You are starting to see that the Club has a lot of activities. Riddle and I are trying to make NotTooHot a place you can call home because you have fun. Of course, even active members do not like very activity. We have music (blues, rock, house, country, R&B, Latin, classical and more). We have live performers from the membership. We have dance shows. We have special events like the Ides of March. We have exhibits. Over time we will continue to have these activities and the ones that get attendance will continue. Those that do not will die off. Part of the fun for me is to create new things so I don't intend for us to be static or dull.

With the visitor tracker I know the number of visitors to the Club each day. You can see that we have had a decline in daily attendance in March versus February. I do not know if this is a normal decline because the Club is not new any more or whether some of the events are just not of interest. Events come from the members and I am open to just about anything you want to do. The lack of attendance at events is the most worrisome thing for me. .

xxx

Nottoo

THIS WEEK AT NOTTOOHOT 140331

Here are some photos from this past week-end ...

Here is this week's schedule ...

MONDAY 140331
6am WORKOUT
12Noon DJ Ridd - Blues

TUESDAY 140401 - April Fool's Day
6am WORKOUT
12Noon DJ Pierre - Blues

WEDNESDAY 140402
6am WORKOUT
11am Gweeb Live - Blues & laughter
12Noon DJ Unbroken "G" Teardrop

THURSDAY 140403
6am WORKOUT
12Noon DJ Ridd = Blues
6pm DJ Cheryl Nitely - Blues Mix and Inventory Scavenger Hunt

FRIDAY 140404
6am WORKOUT
11am SHOW TIME
   11:00 Diddy Hyun - Mystery Dance
   11:15 Kat Feldragonne - Mystery Dance
   11:30 Summer Nachtigal & Zeg Spear - "NotTooHot in a Nutshell"
   11:45 lilangel - Mystery Dance
12pm DJ Big D & the Divas
6pm BlindBoink Parham Live - old timey blues
7pm blueboi Live - his rezz day

SATURDAY 140405

SUNDAY 140406
6am Joaquin Gustav Live - Tango Time
7pm SHOW TIME
   7:00 Katiana Blinker - Desert Rose Dance 
   7:15 Katiana Blinker - flamenco and belly dance
   7:30 Diawa the Princess and Nottoo - White and Black
   7:45 Nottoo & Cher - Twerk Demo 

xxx
Nottoo