Kerrypet, snobby stone, scripting

some snap shots










Moonlit hotel launch event where I met a real life doctor who has a clinic in sl, treating respiratory patients.

Hanakos fancy ferris wheel, each pod is a small patch of private garden where you could lay quiet and see the sky above moving

Kerrypet came to help me resolve the linking and instant rezzing of the 3200 prim of random gift house. We fussed and fussed, very interesting. At the end, we got it to rezz, but they are not perfectly aligned this, is already a v gd result. What is sl if we have no scripting skills?

I try to explain to non-internet, non virtual world friends what it is like in the vw environment. I agree its got some great potential, its the future. But do I want to be a teacher in sl, no. Do I want to stay full time in sl, nooooooo. The charm of sl, once again and again and again, is the human element. Its like a sweet kindergarten type of environemnt where we could be silly and no one cares. But sl and make believe entire narratives restricted to sl is not so much fun. I love sl, but I love rl even more. How could I explain all this to my rl rl friends?

Suiseiki stone, the stone has very interesting conversation, it could distinquish messages from objects from real life avatars. To an object, the stone says, I am not available for chat... but in the same breath it speaks to me. hahahahha. Snobby stone.

DGM Easter gift: Cavior Egg for Bunnyjam Egg contest

My entry for Bunnyjam Egg Fest; drink the wine and pop the caviar... my kind of egg!

Digital Guqin Museum Easter Gift : Caviar Egg

Linden Lab as a bank, why rl is so important, Aimee Mullins, Escher, VanGogh in Prim Painting = Primting

Eschers walking around topology puzzle in Primting

VanGoghs bedroom : want to buy it? And live in it? So you know how it feels like if you were VanGogh.

Eschers lizard in polygon graphics, sit on it!

Linden dollars make the SecondLife experience feel real - I imagine if LL has no real micro economy - if its all play money, I dont think so many people would be in it. It feels real. Like a tiny tiny me walking around. But, as usual I much prefer to be in the real size world. I want to see real people. Sl people are fine, and there must be very good reasons that they prefer to stay in sl. But I do miss seeing certain people in the flesh. I start to imagine, what does that person really look like? As I am a visual person, often what people say and what you feel from a direct visual input from looking at them, being near them, are two different packages of information. Usually in real life, the visual input overpowers their words. I believe I capture more from what I see - but its not really seeing as such, but having a physical presence. Some kind of aura, or vibration or some such unquantifiable input - altogether, I get an instant overall impression - no word will be able to explain and speak of this. Even buying a coat, you want to try things on, why would anyone begin to "fall in love" without having seen the real person? They are inlove with love itself. Anyone will do - give them a balloon and they could flesh out a face on the surface. :)

There is a new art gallery with unlimited prims for "primtings", basically, you would re-construct a famous painting in 3d - for example, VanGoghs room, reconstructed in prims. You could buy the room for yourself. Its a great idea, I like it, like toy houses. Then, I think why not exhibit some virtual models? Just like any object in sl... i saw reconstruction of real life sculptures into sl, like Leda and the Swan etc. Now painting in prims.

Good idea, mainly for fun! Like Clae Oldenberg's pop art objects: Giant size lipsticks, or electrical plug out of canvas - hes actually making models. Today, we have many new installation works including the top productions such as "The Cremasters" fantasy erotic real life execution for his films. He uses real athletes, and tiny waist persons. Real life phenomena of ideas carried up as far as the person could. Aimee Mullins, I like her!

I like them, this courage and generosity of exposure of unusal events. The fine execution of unusual aesthetic experiences, it makes you think, nothing is impossible.

There is so much in the world that we dont know about.

BD 11pic; twinheaded buddha "Ming"

HuaHui Mobile Music under a tree




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More about being a fairy...
Never thought I would enjoy being a fairy, but, and yet, here we are, and I am looking pretty w my newbie green wings too! :)


Mobile Music at ShangriLa, Fairy installation for fashion show of Wisteria Loon by Shenlei Flasheart

A beautiful book by Shenlei for Misteria Loon, great book, glossy pages, wow. I want to have a book like this tooooooo.... :) from sl to rl. Good memories!! Nice coffee table book!

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Twin headed Buddha, "Ming", oil on linen, 45cm x 55cm
Published in "Lion Fine Arts" magazine, Jan 1995

Shenlei Flashhearts Fairies Party, Wisteria Loon

Swannjie back at the WalkerIsland: "MobileMusic no3" an installation for Guqin in a wilderness garden.










Wisteria Loon invited me to her fashion show - come come... I said is it w all this catwalk things? No no dance balls, large dance balls. Fairy fashion!

So many fairies! The ambiance is charming! Huge flowers, rabbits, leaves you could sit on. The scenario created by Shenlei Flashheart, and beautiful fairy gears by Wisteria Loon. And the party was completed with photo souvenirs of the team. Swannjiejie had no fairy outfit in her wardrobe - she put on her green wings, the Newbie wings from one year ago - somebody said she was a fairy on vacation! :) So, no vacation from being fairy in this fancy garden party. Just wings will show her "fairiness" in her. The garden with giant flowers with so many people, a very good light and airy time - this time spills over into the rl avatar. Magical.

Photo studio: suspension of disbelieve, Smiling Sands, Fross Maruti, sad installation

These are really more like postcards! A simple message, a cheerful pop note. These are not images with memories, its a message.
Hello! I am here, thats what it says.
Its nice... afterall, who wants to always have to get some message?
At the end, i enclose one postcard like photo, but the installation of a house - with some haunting, sad floating latterns, there is something errie and awful about it. Does the owner know what these words mean? It is the calling of dead souls... who would want that in a chic villa hideout? I like the villa very much, and I like the photo and the installation, but the words... something is not right. I put it at the bottom, so its not up here; it needs a lot of buffering. Lots of ice cream before hand. :)













Was looking for a photo studio - to demonstrate what Digital Fashion could be like using sl. After a round, Smiling Sands gave me a very good place, a Free Photography studio. It is a very good idea, I could see how much fun avatars could have. There are simple back drops w a pose ball, like sending a postcard. Or, phony set up where you pose, like the old days cardboard sceneries. And, 3D sceneries you could sit on pose balls. Many back drops with changing sceneries- and some globe where you sit inside. After an hour or so, suddenly I felt so tired. The idea is very good, and making it available for everyone for fun is good. But how tiresome! I suddenly felt so bored!
Take photos in sl with a real sharing friendship experience make the photo taking fun. But looking back at all these screenshots, only the person in it are interested, I never enjoy viewing machinima, or photos from sl. Some of them are really very good.
Over all speaking, its quite poor. And without a real living experience. Just posing infront of all these things - suddenly, I lost patience.

The idea is still good, but maybe in small dosage. Just like at a county fair, you might like to take a snapshot for fun, but if the entire experience is composed of taking snapshot after snapshot of "poses" - its really quite empty.

Sl photo shoot is to be taken in small dosage, I think. Unless, I am missing something very important. Maybe, a prolonged suspension of disbelieve...

pooped :(



There is something profoundly sad about this installation, even though the picture looks nice graphically. Because the words on the lantern is erry, it totally goes against the rest of the villa: this means, either the owner doesnt know what these words mean, he just used some cute graphics floating (he really doesnt care that much, as long as its Asian and cute); or he knows what it means, but still uses them in this way! as a decoration!! Both scenarios are off. Sad. Sad for the villa, sad for the words, and the lantern ritual. Terrible. But such a nice graphic installation, thats life. Incongruency.

I think the scripting people are happiest in sl - what they do is the real thing, no need for suspension of disbelieve!

Boat burning, MM3 visits Pirate ship, New Iseya koto place, Tooter Claxton

MM3 visiting Pirate ship : see scale of MM3

MM3 on Pirate ship: see scale of MM3

Visited the China Boat, surprise! Its on fire. Why? Nobody knows.

Boat on fire!

New koto playing place at Iseya: large video screen with streaming jazz, volcano, tourism publicity and dance balls.

Tooter Claxtons retro lounge. See, nostalgic "age", dust and dirt in a sim.