Toronto boxing day, dressing up

One of my favorite things in sl :: top 100 ::
number 85 :: Fine Jewellery :: sl Jewellery is made using tiny prims. And yes, it makes a difference to the avatar - just like in real life.

Toronto Boxing Day, people run in and buy buy buy. I discovered Titanium rings - I like this material, super strong, its what people use to make drill bits out of... imagine! I like the hard cool metal - these rings comes in many different styles, polished, unpolished, very shiny etc. You could buy single rings, or double pairs for mariage purposes. I bought 2 rings, small diamond costume jewellery, and squarish single diamond set, two titanium glossy rings. Now, I understand why Lagerfeld has all this stuff all over his hand... its fun, and its also a very specialize design area.

Then furs, I have this very nice couture rabbit fur long shin length coat, with frizzy sheep fur collar and cuffs - I took the cuffs off as it might get very messy it covers my fingers plus one palm length. The color is of a sable reddish brown. Very pretty. K said, the rabbits furs we find here are short coats and never this nice. I think they took just the backs of the rabbits and stitched it together into one large surface. Its seamless one piece unlike the little clumps of gray white gold type of rabbit fur.

And wind was 110miles per hour, icy. It was fun to walk outside but not too long.
I had these Salomon apres-ski short ankle booties - very warm - looks like kung fu shoes. And a top hat in felt wool, light gray.

Everyone was not dressed warm enough, I could see that they were chilled to the bones, as they ran in little steps here and there. They were hiding behind embrellas, trees, while we visited this open air park for the sleeping at Mount Pleasant and Pine Hill.

Avatar Parade projection in real life, Grand Palais

Lights along the Champs elysee next to Grand Palais

I went to Grand Palais, and saw a few avatars - I am quite impressed with the avatars that showed up. You could see that they really put the best of themselves on camera. Some are really very well designed figurines - like the things you see in Japanese manga comics. The display frame is on the wall, back ground is black. Each avatar gets to perform some minutes, swimming gestures, flying, arm waving; bobbing up and down. And some comes with their own dancing gestures, for example macarena, or strip tease shimmy etc. Some avatars are very fat, dancing the sexy dance with a tail, and tattoo all over the body etc. Others came as an elaborate monster fish in brocade silk kimono wear. After a few minutes they drop and another comes on.

I would like to see all the avatars, like so many dolls, but the sequence is often much too long.

Some routines are nice to watch others less interesting just like in real life in casting screen tests situations.

films viewed:
I feel good 3*,
the singing here comes from somewhere - very emotional singing. Wow, tears fall down my face listening to them. Didnt know James Brown is so good.

Louise Michel 3*
Very good script, good actorss, good humour... very French.

Avatar Parade at FlyingSoul Scribes Studio, Live at Grand Palais Paris

Live at Grand Palais, Paris. met Nick Rhodes and FlyingSoul Scribe, Yooma, Elora, and many other friends

Swannjie waternymph outfit - one of the earlist concert attire, used at Club Fabulous Tokyo, owner Taka Teatime

Swannjie cerise outfit, Greenie Guitar on Kitchen table concert attire, outfit presented by Saitot Tammas of Misty Cybermare Group

Swannjie wearing Plum Snow kungfu silk pants, floral gold inlaid lacquered geta flip-flop by Rumi Simpson to achieve a relaxed entertainment for self look.

Yooma, the high quality designer of nostalgic Japanese beach. Many fancy wrist and waist accessories.

Elora, sexy Owl Bay Island owner. Realistic persons face.

FlyingSoul Scribe and guest av, Swannjie in cerise outfit

Inside the light tube, resting on witch broom bed by HiRop, HiRop could be found at Little Heaven.

Light tube and studio

Swannjie trying the war dance animation

FlyingSoul Scribe in real life running the Studio

This is playback of the real life scene so sl people can see whats in rl at Grand Palais.

Swimming animation preset into the pose

Playing testing what animations are possible in front of the camera.

Testing with Guqin, I have to wear the guqin! And best available pose is the folding arm one.

Mobile Digital Guqin Museum is on hand for waiting comforts, just in case... some food, sleeping futon etc are on hand. Life is full of such waiting moments. Be sure to have a good book and food with you!

Mixed Reality with FlyingSoul Scribes Studio installation at Grand Palais, 18dec - 30dec08
I received an slurl from FlyingSoul, so I played around in his studio for a few hours! Yes, a few hours!! Since there was nobody there. Very good, I find this installation is high quality and such a fine set up. The studio is planned so avatars could land, play around in a light tube first; then go into the waiting area - on sofa and globe chairs - then sit on pose ball - exported into the stage - people could wait in a line, not to leave an empty stage. I was number 147 on the counter.

Swannjie tried to play the Guqin infront of the live audience, hmmm.
Are there sounds on site? To do more than the few animations proposed, we need more preparations, trying out workable positions etc.
Such a wonderful interface designed ready to go and with real life live audiences too.
:)

Braaaavo!!!

FlyingSoul Scribes mixed reality installation, Medieval Horses, Sengoku sculptie fish, DGM sim visits

One of my favorite things in sl :: top 100 ::
number 86 :: Mixed reality Art Works :: FlyingSoul Scribes Installation at Grand Palais

A pretty fashionista waiting to be called for the picture taking at FlyingSoul Scribe's installation at Orange Island, Orange temple. I flew outside of the temple and see nothing just a block, but yesterday one girl showed me a space she had been, but also nothing happened there. (It was a long tunnel of light attached to a square box built like this temple.)

This is the second day that I tried to experience this mixed reality event, but nothing happens. Didnt work yesterday. Dont know what happens after this waiting room. On the display screen, it doesnt show the real Grand Palais event either. Usually media/projection/etc works something could go wrong easily, will try again today. I am curious to see how it works. This concept could have many flowering of smaller interesting works. Too bad, i didnt see anything once again.

One of my favorite things in sl :: top 100 ::
number 87 :: Medieval Horses - a well made role playing sim

Orange Island role playing sim

Medieval Miniature Pony

Medieval Horse all decorated for tournament with wire mesh protection on the body

Templier flags in tapisserie weave - beautiful details.

tarot card reading in a Medieval tent. When you click on the deck, it flashes some cards and reads it for you.

Mobile Digital Guqin Museum visiting SIMs in Secondlife - landed at Orange Island 3, but met no one to play the guqin to. :)

I took the Mobile DGM - and rezzed it at a Medieval Place. Saw two really cute horses. And tents for tarot reading, tournaments, dress-ups. A very well made fun oriented role playing game place. How is role playing game setting different from say, professional training? They are both simulated role playing. But usually, places built for role playing game purposes are much more prettier, livelier, and you could imagine real people bustling around having fun. Whereas in professional simulations, all I see is how the person going through such a "training" must perform specific required behaviors - thats the whole point of training. To not make a mistake when interaction time is short and errors might be costly. This reminds me of a certain US company - they invested huge blocks of money to make a simulation site for Americans going to China (hahahahaha) they put chat-bots to "train" their employees! So, I say, maybe its not as silly as this, let me look see it first. The sim is accurately built more or less - however, dry and awful. Deadly, because nobody is there we only see chatbots. But, howcome, here at the Medieval role playing sim, as its also empty, howcome I feel lively fun ambiance when its also empty? Whats the difference?

Sim visited : to a simulation of a real castle at Sengoku, also empty. Found a very nice sculptie on the roof.

sculptie fish icon and its snowing periodically

Shuri castle, Grand Palais mixed reality, Bertrand Dezoteux, Shaolin Temple

A real life use of an sl site. Burning candles for peace at Shaolin Temple.

I often dont enjoy going to temples, in real life as in sl. I have been to many different types of temples and churches of all faith. The heavily religious air, Buddhist chanting smells of constraint and sadness. I enjoy being in nature, or clean looking designs, there is harmony in the physical space as is. It is enough that the space is in healthy splendor, well balanced and clean. Whether tropical humid lushness or spindly rainy foggy air like in Chinese painting. I dont really like the layering of Buddhist statues, Gwanyin etc somehow they bring in something that adds some greasy smell... sorry, this is the word i can think of, greasy. I have little use for symbolism with Buddhist heads and such. All I associate with this is smoky incense and dark, smothered air inside. Meditation etc does nothing for me, I prefer anytime to go take a walk down the street, in a park; on horseback riding or swim in an ocean, or a pool, or ski - even tiny slopes, no need for extreme sport black trails, just beginners, an almost like a no-danger street with tiny sliding - even that, I feel freedom and happiness. I need to be in open spaces. (I recognise that there are people who like to be in confined spaces)


One of my favorite things in sl :: top 100 ::
number 88 :: Shuri Castle and Woods


Visiting Shuri Castle and the woods today. Builder creator Inyuasha Meiji and Silverfox. There are details everywhere. Wind speed, horse riding speed, little crabs, undersea treasures, waterfalls, chickens, everything is realistic and well made. Here Swannjie flies on the roof top - flying is still the most hassle free way of getting around - notices the weatherwane is not just moving; it has all the data about temperature and humidity - maybe real life data?

The creator of this object? Garrin Guffey, and hes says about his weather system...
"the MG Automagic Weather system is Second Life's first automated weather system that uses SL environmental variables to gererate weather conditions ... Based on Real Life weather calculations."

There are three horses for visitors to ride - how nice! these horses also come with speed, walking, its a realistic reproduction of horse back riding... with clic clac sounds.

The avatar parade mixed reality project at Grand Palais, after teleporting to Orange Temple and came across several avatars, it seems that no one knows what to do and no one gave us further slurl to do the next steps.

Will try to visit Grand Palais again today to see how the Mixed Reality project works in real life, in situ.

mixed reality at Grand Palais, Paris, 17 to 31dec08

A mixed reality event at Grand Palais - show your avatar on screen! Angezanetti is the ring master. The interesting part is the guy at the computer, the one on the right, with the SONY projector, he could pull the plug on you avatars anytime!

The guy behind the projector wants to be seen - hence the poster here - and the avatar is self-driven to be seen. Will both get what they want? Why and how do they want to be seen?

Orange island - whats on the other side.

Orange island avatar display sample

casting poster at Orange island

posters on the wall


Grand Palais, set up by Le Fresnoy

mixed reality : les ames volantes in Paris, Grand Palais!
For those sl avatar who wants to show their face in real life! Here is a moment for you!

See the installation at Grand Palais, free entry!

Exporting VW fashion models to real life

One of my favorite things in sl :: top 100 ::
number 89 :: exporting 3D models from sl to rl : such as fashion

I discovered a lot of sites where you buy clothing from sl shops to rl online shop. Especially lingerie. So many brands and pictures of angels. I think, how do you know these clothes will fit? It is often made to measure. Maybe clients who buy on line dont really care that much about fitting details... the important thing is to get understandable prop garments, useful garments. :)
But i see also this huge shop in sl + rl is for sale. Why sell a profitable business? We are no longer in sl issues.