List of Monumental sculpture projects 2015

  • 1 http://swannbb.blogspot.fr/2015/02/sunday-robot-play.html
  • 2 http://shuengitswannjie.blogspot.fr/2015/02/interactive-reading-room-tea-house-2015.html
  • 3 http://swannbb.blogspot.fr/2014/06/neo-ming-bed-luxembourg.html
  • 4 http://swannbb.blogspot.fr/2013/02/yuzi-paradise-tell-moon.html
  • 5 http://swannbb.blogspot.com/2011/09/12th-changchun-international-sculpture.html
  • 6 http://www.saatchionline.com/Shuen-git

Friday, 7 March 2008

sl artists, Brooklyn is watching, sl and only sl, oldest avatar




A window into real life. A Brooklyn Gallery installed a permanent window, if you go to this place, you could be seen by anyone looking in - say Hi from sl to rl. :)

I talked to two friends today, they are great artists doing very special precision creations in sl. They would give anything to travel in rl, but due to illness, they are mainly expressing through sl.

They told me of an avatar who began in 2003! The oldests avatar I know. Would like to interview her.

Someone who stayed in sl for 5 years, is a fairly long time!

metaverse artist, orphans, happiness

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart. Learn to love the questions themselves."
~ Rilke

somebody sent me this.
Very useful - I like to collect useful things - to be filed along with Almodovas praise for mothers and many women in his life.

more research on metaverse artists.

Earlier on, there was Esprite Xavier - a charming cool guy - whom i interviewed and later chatted as a friend to- an art student and super sl katana swords designer maker, scripter. He received a first Swannjie Post card. You tube on how to make tiny prims, you will see a whole skyscraper neighbourhood in the chunky stilleto heel of a shoe.

Now, second time this term mentioned, Cao fei - artist who uses the metaverse as canvas.

Film review:

The Orphanage 2.5*
Horror film one situation after another, as I watch this movie from one scene to another, I keep on asking questions... no one would do that... inspecting a haunted house in a wheel chair after being attacked by some unknown spirit, and where is the loving husband? Horror porn? Stepping back, the horror is not so much the haunted sequences but underneath all this we see how in orphanages, for one reason or another children ended up there, and who knows what they suffer from the care givers there?

Compared to the film John John 3*(Foster child) a film from the Philipines, the Philipine way of solving the question of orphan problems (every country has their own orphan problem to solve, in France, there are houses where fields of not-adoptable children are housed. Some parents put their children there, becasue the couple had a fight! I know of a case where a medical doctor and his wife had a fight and that is where their children went! Unheard of in an Asian society ) is much more humaine - because the care givers are visible by everyone. There is an informal "peer" evaluation - just like in Asian social worlds, there are general "peer" surveyance of mothers, families. Here, in this movie, we see love - a metisse boy selected Mr. Philipine because his foster mother convinced the school mistress, and after giving him a shower, she ran inside to get a towel, and the boys all naked just goes off to play with others, when she came back, she re-wash him again, lovingly - like a little treasured statute (I could imagine, she could have yelled at him... but did not etc) There are many details in this film that shows the foster mother truly loves the boy. He is her metisse. A special one among the full collection of lovely children. The brother, the younger son of the mother also takes care of the mother, when she finally had given JohnJohn over, she suddenly got dis oriented and didnt know where to go. He was the one who told her, come home, John John doesnt need his little towel (that she forgot to give him) anymore... etc.
So many small details that outlines her feelings. John John likes to eat noodles, John Johns scrap book, his birthday. etc etc. Then how did children became orphans? Well, during a visit to the orphanage, casual chat... this one is because... that one... and this one, the childs father is the grandfather. etc etc. This is not a rosy world either.

In a more individual society, people could die in a house for days, years, and no one will know.

Someone did a research a few years back - reported in Time Magazine? Turns out that the Philipines are happiest in the world - even though they dont have so much material goods. Japan ranks the worst - most unhappy. Have to find the link to this.

Wednesday, 5 March 2008

Joi Ito in sl

I was curious about the landowner of RMB City, and searched for the profile of joi ito.
Very interesting person. Open.

A linkage oriented nodal point. His blog is at once personal and professional. A very fresh type of mix. Metaverse person?

Tuesday, 4 March 2008

China Tracy blog (Cao Fei), Ou Ning blog, Chinese contemporary art, architecture, Hong Kong bookstore news, John John

China Tracy Youtube videos and blogs, very interesting and well made, alive. This is art using the sl medium.

Ou Ning blog - very informative news on Chinese contemporary art and culture. I am happy to come across this url.

I am impressed by the quantity and quality of the work - the writing, the activities, do they ever sleep?

A new place to check everyday, when do i see something built? How fast the progress, and what are the schedule of events? Very interesting case. :)

1// I first saw the China Tracy work at Venice Biennale, but there was literally no sign, or maybe i just somehow missed it? However in the catalogue there was a picture of an sl avatar named China Tracy.

2//There was a launch last week in rl at a New York Gallery. And in sl at RMB city with China Tracy, Ken March and Hamlet Au.

3// A pleasant pop video of RMB city in YouTube. Very nice video. Slick entertainment.

What happens next?

Film viewed:

John John (Foster Child) 2*

Documentary styled fiction. Actress, Cherry Pie is very good. Natural, reminds me of a friends home helper. I see the kindness and humanity, maybe even the precious part of being in poverty? Its a lot warmer in the people relationships. As one critic says, we live in it, why pay cinema ticket price to go see more of the same? We want to feel happiness, amusement, not more of the same. And the viewer is absolutely right. This is the same for HK films. People want to be entertained for their movie viewing experience - and we all know that to make people laugh is so important, and sooooo hard.

George Sand, There will be blood, FileMaker, Ma ke, KK

Parisian museum of Romantics 3*

Very pretty house, with objects from George Sand, gardens, twin atelier. 12 rue Chaptel Paris, 75009

KK showed me a picture of her grandmother on her mother side, such a huge house!!
And furniture from her architect husband. I like them. Fine, proportions. Beautiful and earthy wood. Beautiful beautiful. Italians are very good at this, old age, dust, sun light, this layering of history makes the place beautiful. Timelessness.


Film viewed:

There will be blood 3*

Very good performance overall, very good effects - the music is terrible. What if the movie was a silent flick? The preacher is just as greasy-awful as the oil man. The story is missing some central motor. Finer surfaces of the characters interior were never entered into. Dramatic scenario. But still empty. We see fire, accidents, but not moving. Just being ambiguous is not enough - ambiguoity does not mean "open endedness of interpretation" here. Lots of details missing.

Saturday, 1 March 2008

Pop can tabs, ebay

Went to a friends house, she said, she has thousands of pop can tabs, and she was going to show me what she does with them. Then, her husband some how had put them away, and she decided not to show me. In anycase, I thought thats intersting, what could you do with the tabs?

Ebay sells them - one person sold 1000 tabs for 2.50us, so if you need some tabs, just buy them off e-bay! :)

Hamlet Au, Ken March, China Tracy, RMB city

RMB City was opened yesterday with an interview of China Tracy, Ken March, Hamlet Au. I didnt see anyone else on sl site - however I only got home around 2am, so maybe the interview had gone a fair bit alreay.

This is an instance of a sim in sl, launched also in rl at an art gallery. It would be nice if there were video cams to show the rl situation to the sl people.

The RMB city will be built over the summer. China Tracy is the developer.

Hamlet and Ken came to visit the Digital Guqin museum, which had mainly the garden and guqin instrument.

So many things to be done yet.

Anyway Hamlet said i should make an event and inform him, so he could talk about it in the blog.

I wish to promote Ancient Fine Chinese culture. It is a lot slower - due to archeology and virtual model making. Two phases.

If i had an existing body of raw data, I would have mainly the virtual model part to do.

It is a big bite. So maybe i will limit this to a small area... right now, it is way too big.

Maybe make a tiny convivial space first. Everything starts somewhere.