
05/31/2025
The "big news" is here! We're officially rebranding from the old Rolling Bones name to "Skylyne Events". We're experimenting with different logo designs and considering different titles like "The Skylyne Club" "Society" and so forth but the general outline of plans is there: it's time we made a change that better fit the image, culture, and activities of what we do. Skylyne, with our tendency to focus on rooftop spaces, fits that better than our old name does.
A brief history of "us":
This year marks 20 years I've been doing social events in my life. My first time was in college, believe it or not - in World of Warcraft. I basically recruited several hundred of my classmates to the game and into our guild and when the weather got warm I'd organize huge BBQs and beach parties in places like Myrtle Beach, Folly Beach, Charleston and Savannah. They were hugely successful with 400+ attendees sometimes!
Fast-forward to present day, and I've been doing one shot community oriented events in Seattle since 2014, but Rolling Bones was born out of the post-pandemic world in 2022. I'd noticed there was a constant stream of posts about the Seattle freeze and how it was difficult for the introverts and shy folks to make meaningful connections and friends across social media, so my idea was: get them into a discord server, which at it's peak was 8.3k members, get them playing video games together, and then get them out to events to hang and make those connections they were struggling to make in their normal day to day lives.
While it definitely "worked" the amount of constant moderation it required was enormous and extremely taxing mentally. I decided to close up the server to just event announcements and after a few more months, just deleted it altogether. It was definitely the right call to make looking back. But, the old Rolling Bones name stuck for a while and now that we've shifted back to my roots from 2005-2020, I think it's time we have a rebranding that reflects that.
So here we are now: Skylyners!
It's been a journey, and I'm beyond grateful you all are still on this journey with us π Here's to another 20 years of connections π«Άπ
Thank you all so much!