China sl, virtual world in China, Ancient Indian flying machines/houses

Hamlet Aus trip to Beijing China, an old blog - just discovered.

The same blog tranlated into Chinese by Tzigane. :)


Great firewall of China and the virtual world.

Chinese immersive world HiPiHi

Reading : news on SanXingDui - origins of this culture is the ancient Jewish people?

Parallels to the Pale Ink book, and the subsequent follows ups, investigations in North America of the British Columbian sightings of Chinese rock carvings.

Stories on the Fusang tree. Mexico and China.

Must visit: Senor José Ostiz de Tapia has now in New York a museum of Mexican antiquities

Indian flying machines/houses in a rare text, "channeled" through a writer in Sankrit, tranlated into English, orphaned copyrights, e-book on a very interesting site, sacret text com. free.

Proust and neuroscience, great books, Marie-Antoinette, Julia, Deutsche Post

"A truly great book (and here I’ll steal Nabokov’s definition of great literature: something the makes the hair on your neck stand on end."

Proust confirms what Neuroscientists discover now - only smell and taste stays in long term memory.



Went to see Marie-Antoinette at Grand Palais, I like her. Spontaneous, genius at play. Went against stuffy court rituals... her only fatal error was to be born as a princess and married into France. If she were a commoner, how lovely it would be, nobody to bother her. Reminds me of the case of Prince Charles, if he were a commoner, there would also have had less problems for him. However, his bad times are over. I am happy for Prince Charles, its a great love story he has with Camilla. :)

In the show, all the paintings were unremarkable - expressions un clear, overall as if swabbed by cotton balls. Except one unfinished pastel sketch by a Polish painter Alexander Kucharski 1741-1919. In this pastel sketch on paper, MA looked royal and kind with an inner expression - unlike the other portraits that are lifeless mannequins. The show was staged very nicely. There were fancy furnitures, teacups etc etc. and the famous diamond necklace - its a replica thats showned. Very clean lines, sober design. Marie-Antoinette did not deserve all this punishment, it was cruel and injust. Of her short life, married away from home at 14 year old , 23 years of court life, then guillotined. Injust. (Will put up pictures when i get them.)

There was a small mobile vendor of macaroon sweet cookies - almost everyone who came out bought a few of these cookies. They share the dainty sweet - a heritage from Marie-Antoinette? This delicate sweet moments of pleasures - robed in a courtly glamourous light - isnt this important, also a great contribution of culture to France ?

Deutsche Post had a Fun card service, sending sl postcards to rl. But I have no sample of those cards on hand. Will try to find some. Their Post Island just terminated on 13Feb08, because sl has done what it could for them.

Film viewed:
Julia 3*
Many shots and scenes that are quite fresh and "authentic" not seen in the usual American/Mexican, Women drunks, rich boy, crazy women scenes.

Tilda Swinden can look absolutely at once destroyed and when with make up , quite an elegant lady. Very good actress.

Every moment feels fresh in this movie.
The dialogue has punch.
The director has original views of standard stories. Attentive to details, an artist.

Clothes, toys, skins for DGM

Now, I must start making clothes, and toys for the Digital Guqin Museum Boutique.

This is a recommended blog on how to make things. Mermaid diaries. Looks good. I will read it.

Tattoo - wear your tattoo like a t-shirt!

How to make your own tattoo

more on tattoo, step by step

Digital Guqin player on a flower, clothes : sl -> rl, Guqin Concert on Greenie Guitar

I visited Saitot, Misty Cyber Mare, she bought a new tree... now, thats real living. This is a photo by Saitot. Wonderful! Good time. rl sl a tree with shades is magnificent.



Digital Guqin players will be exported to a rl painting. In sl, avatars are miniature versions of a real person - whether its in the image of the real person, or in the essence of the person controlling the avatar - they are schematic representations of a body.

What will happen if i take the schematic outline and make a real painting based on the outline?

Back to secondlife, next, I must make some custom Chinese clothes - each experiment should explore different sets of skills.

Doublehappiness jeans - an installation from sl to rl at SunDance festival - ha, I really like this idea! But i would want to print it out really in cloth for long lasting wearing, not just as an "art" piece. Its Art, but must be bona fide useful too.



And I re-visited Greenies again, the purple glass gallery reminds me of Toyo Itos building :) Finally i discovered the tour begins from the Bread box, and it flies around the kitchen. I landed on the guitar, and compared the size of the guitar to my guqin. Its HUGE. I played the guqin and some avatars stopped to listen.



Greenies is a sim that has constant visitors without any particular activity nor camping. It is also generous, I could rezz and play my guqin without problems! That is really nice, you really feel welcomed.

To give you an idea of the scale of a small part of the greenie sim. Here is an aerial view of just the kitchen area. The guitar sits on the kitchen table.

Snakekiss Noir, Limitations of sl, is there really a Secondlife, antique book dealer

Talked to SnakeKiss Noir, I wanted to know after 5 years why would she consider quitting sl? 5 years is a long time, what kept her interested in the "game" and why is she thinking of quitting? In sl, she is a landscape designer, and lover of all ancient music, including the koto and samisen.

Her unhappiness with sl is due to the limitations of the av expressions. She wants to have bigger body parts and as is, its not possible. Additional body parts are not flexi, etc. Not natural. She changed costumes to have photos taken, but prefered to change back to her original short skirt when we were just chatting.

She was wearing a knee length giant size ivory white color male penis, which hung down beneath the mini skirt that she wore. The top part of her petite body had mega size breasts. She explained clearly what she does in rl, which is a sex service. It was a straight forward description of a famous sex service - where males practice public group sex by spilling their sperm onto a female - a young woman usually. Big stars command a lot of money, thousands times more than working in an office. The girl must be physically strong, as she has to work all the men, and it takes time. She must also be able to consume unlimited amount of birds milk. Basically it is a profession for the youthful ones. However, due to the Western tourists way of using this art form, its become highly commercialised and mainly about money - not so much about finesse and grace. The profession has changed.

Snakekiss Noir was eloquent. She also added that, this art form is not satifactory in sl because Linden scripts are not able to make the texture and flow of semen realistic, its not sticky, doesnt flow correctly. So, there isnt any such clubs that would work properly in the essence of the act.

I tried to understand what keeps someone playing for 5 years and what are the short comings of the sl platform? Like a lot of avatars, people come into sl to do things not possible in rl, or to gain augmented reality, augment or immerse in a separate reality.

Mainly, for Snakekiss, its the body avatar limitations. She couldnt achieve the body image that she wants and Linden Lab made no improvements after so many years of waiting. She couldnt achieve her dream shape in sl.

So I looked up the proper term through wikipedia.
Bukaki is well known, some Youtubes, and even, young school girls playing at a fun version of bukaki birthday parties! The Birthday girl got wrapped entirely in the blue strings - cocooned inside. This means, bukaki has gone from underground filtered to be used in non-sexual games ! This video shows the girls having fun squirting strings over the target. The humiliation of the target is not there, just a fun repetition of something they knew? Like children pretending to smoke? Or playing ganster?

I have seen another kind of fetish entertainment before - from a magazine - I think Marie Claire. A young pretty women lies naked with slices of raw fish - sashimi - laid out on her body. Her body serves as a kind of giant live platter. And men sit all around and eat the raw fish piece by piece - she is no more than a pretty living plateau, or is she? The young women says its very hard to do this job, even though there is no danger - psychologically its very hard. They are well paid and they do it for a few years and leave.

Previous to this, i saw a live perfomance many years ago, of an artist, he laid down in the middle of a room, bare. With a plastic cover? or nude? or table cloth over hismself. and people simulate digging into him to pull out fruits to eat.

The person serving as plateau submits to a public act, that of being "eaten alive".

Not all jobs could be done by all people. Some are able to do it, and others are not.

Can we change profession easily?
For example, can a software engineer convert into an antique book dealer? In what way does he enjoy his new profession?

In real life, is there really a Secondlife?

In our Secondlife, is it a make believe play, or can you really make it Secondlife? Dont we build our secondlife from our first life?

The converted antique book dealer is interested in pretty pictures, and the sense of touch of the papers, smell of old leather... history of old stories, but he doesnt go maniac over details - such as which edition and variants of the book, whether the edges are a little frayed or too frayed. etc. He mainly likes to organise the titles, the year, the clarity of his database to his inventory collection. :)

xo olpc CeBit Austria, Pixel Qi, Mary Lou Jepsen

xo bag, open source computer, open source bag. :) I love this!

xo olpc is negotiating with China! I am very excited about this.

New product from the researcher designer Mary Lou Jepsen who was the creator of the olpc screen and energy efficient features of the xo olpc - she left to form Pixel Qi, (haha, Qi !! Chinese anything are really in fashion.) - a new, better than xo olpc computer, a 75$ computer! The Pixel Qi brings fresh air to us. I like to have an xo olpc, but it is now a rich persons toy where i live - its the latest fun thing to have, everybody asks where is the hand crank - including me of course.

I have always wondered, if its good for third world countries, why is it not available in say, the rest of the world? Lots of poor, needy people in America, in Europe too.

Asperger`s, Torley, Autism, Snakekiss, Rose Bed for 2

I decided to read Hamlet Au blog to understand sl more - since he was the in-house reporter for sl.

Today, i saw Asperger`s syndrome - something new, i thought Autistic people only can communicate with themselves. And surprise Torley, the person who made tiny prim video has Asperger`s. But in the video, hes really lively - i would never immagine anything remotely autistic linked to this person who speaks a mile a minute.

More understanding of the world for me!

I have a very good friend his son has ADHD who is a genius pianist. When you see him play its fantastic. Now, he was very friendly and self assured and was MC for the concert.

I think so many things in the world that we dont know about. we must not judge right away. Give others time and patience.

Met my friend Inuyasha (he has a chinese name in his label above his head now, now i see its Ghost Dog Devil - previous to this, I only knew the English translation of his name. In English its just a Mangaish label - but in Chinese, its full fledged devil, a bad guy from hell - but Inuyasha is a great artist and not at all devilish. :) kind and competant he answers my beginner technical questions with solid informative details. He told me of his castle - which is facing un uncertain future - the landowner is Snakekiss Noir. His description of her is very interesting. So I looked up her name, and ta ta... we find an entry by Hamlet about her!