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.

MM3 aluminum cubes, real life r<->sl, € € €, $ $ $ : Gromike, Horten hears the Whos,

Mobile Music 3, aluminum cubes

Mobile Music 3, aluminum cubes

Who are the people in "French community"?
Gromike

Very interesting blog, and its really big time sl+rl work.
Not microscopic silly steps... hahahha

After looking at this, the scale of reality is so evident.

Its much easier to go from big buck rl into sl, and make a splash.
Very difficult to go from sl, microscopic steps out into rl : and without transforming yourself into giants, because when you are a giant, the essence of being little "whos" is no more.

I want to be a "Who" and I want to be heard too!
no no no, I am not the "who", hahahah, wrong wrong, Swannjiejie is in whoville.
I have to be careful and not become like the "who" - making myself all small in Whoville (sl = whoville ? ).
Swannjie is an av, and I am a regular size person!
And the point is to be in the loop, as much as possible.
Just join the loop !!!
Swannjiejie must tell people, that she wants to be in this loop, in that loop,
Time to get to work !!!

Like a giant putting his finger into the little flowers popping up in spring time, the little Whos living in the flower will have much more difficulties making themselves heard to the giants outside.

How do you make the Hortens hear the Whos?

an aluminum skin ball, Digital Guqin Museum Guest house, Linden Lab CEO, Mark Kingdon in Paris

aluminum cubes

aluminum cubes

Tilly Myst flower house re-purposed by Swannjiejie

Inside this guest house for Digital Guqin Museum with with a private line to "xfactor" the ice cube - :)

"xFactor" is an intelligent robot who will learn to respond to your questions. The special mission of xFactor is to answer you while the real Swannjiejie is away; and to transmit your questions to her when she comes back.

Linden Lab CEO came to Paris, and here is what happened:
WangXiang blog
Ange Zanetti blog
Zanetti reports the people as follows:
Dan, Nick & Julien d'extralab, Richard de Stonfield, WangXiang, Gromike, JeanRem, Fred Cavazza,Etienne Armand Amato, Yohan & Nicolas de Concept SL, Coulaut & Audrey de la biblio, Jean Marie de metaverse3d, yanis de Folies estate, Myriam de Grandir

Frédéric Cavazza

People noticed that there was only 1 woman, and no creator. But these two groups are quite numerous, to not say to make up at least half of sl user.
Wouldn't Linden Lab like to know what these two groups think ?

I think this is not quite "representative" of sl users in France - as of now, sl user is represented by a limited group of men who are finance, ad people. The meeting is not open enough to be "representative".

This talk might be just "non-scoop", auto promotion selling as reported by bloggers - which is likely to be the case - but we also like to hear how CEOs make big sales pitches. :) Hear it first hand ourselves if we had wanted to? instead of being limited by secondhand reports.

In fact, its a "product announcement" type of meeting. So, its mainly for buisness people. Linden Lab makes a sales pitch to French people. Thats what it is.
Especially after I looked at the profiles of the people who went.
Interesting.

John Thompson's review of Digital Guqin Museum from sl to rl

Master guqin player John Thompson's review of Digital Guqin Museum in sl:


The two main reasons I find the Second Life Virtual Guqin Museum interesting is that it brings the guqin before a new group of people, and it allows the presentation of the music within a context that can in some ways evoke aspects of the guqin tradition better than the standard performance environment can.

Although when well played guqin music is very beautiful, by tradition it is not so much a performance instrument as an instrument for self-cultivation or meditation. In landscape painting it is commonly depicted played in the countryside, and yet from a musical standpoint such an environment is often unsatisfactory (waterfalls are too loud, modern sounds intrude, there may not be an appropriate place to sit or on which to place the instrument, and so forth). However, such an idealized environment can be evoked and perhaps more readily controlled in cyberspace. Another ideal environment is said to the an "elegant gathering" involving other literati arts such as painting, calligraphy and refined conversation.

Again, such an environment can also be created in cyberspace through the addition of appropriate imagery and participation of invited guests. The totality of the guqin makes it very much a multi media instrument by nature. When fully devoloped the Second Life Museum has the potential of bringing this all together.

John

Mercedes F-cell, Skyball, Chinese music streaming site

live streaming Chinese music

Mercedes F-cell

Skyball by Tilly Ayres

WITH closing, farewell party, Venice, super geek gal Kerrypet, Tillys Skyball4 friends, Live Music venue

Super geek gal Kerrypet speaking to xfactor. :)

Live guitarist from Argentina
Live Music Venue, owner: Circes Broomes


















Tilly Ayres made a Skyball, from the Myst flower house in 2006, to the SunFlower giant house to the Secret PixiMushroom House with Dungeon, now the Skyball. I really like this Skyball, you could rezz from a tiny ball that you wear on you, or carry in your hand, click, the whole house envelopes you. From the previous secret rings operations, now we have a standard wood panel with the label - in French - open and behind 2 rows of buttons. Rezz, and you get all the rooms. With thrones, hot tub, cuddling bed - library. Everything. The house now is light, very soft and no longer mystical Wicca tinted. I like it very much.

She gave a spawner script and I tried to solve the problem - how to rezz different rooms - how to apply this problem to the DGM club house?

Once again, I had to ask all around, and I found super geek gal Kerrypet ! She wrote a script and we made a spawny spawner - not only it spawns, it gives you wise cracks ! Kerrypet Llewelyn only took a month to learn all this "basic stuff", because she is a mathematician! I am so thankful for her just-in-time gift of time and solution.

I have asked several of my friends, all geek guys, including one who suggested that why dont I "do them" - just SLsex fun. They help me dont they? That, is the brain of a guy guy. Super geek guy coming out with his "guyness". Yes, why not? and why yes? and why write aobut it? I think in sl, just like in rl, how much meaning you designated to an action will make that event feel very strong or like rain off your back.

In sl the room for multiple meanings is much more generous than in rl.

I have met avatars who told me that they get hurt very deeply just like in rl, that from manual workers to super geek teachers. I think how hurt you get from anything depends on how much importance you set the meaning at the beginning. Just like a script for the spawner. You tell the script to "spawn object" - it will.

The critical point is not "do them" or not, its what comes afterwards. Will it become a chain of "do them" moments, and talk related to "do them" moments? If a tree fell in the forest, and nobody knew, they cannot talk about it. Would the "do them" be such a pleasure, a large cookie - and any cookie will do - that they want to elaborate and enjoy memories of it? Of course!! They want every last bit of that cookie. Otherwise, its not a true cookie.

Why talk about this so much? Ideally, the "do them" moment would have taken place without words.

There was a movie about this, Intimacy, by Patrice Chéreau, I think. Set in London, a woman who comes in every Wed to an apt and just make love with this man, without a word and leaves. If people do have an animal instinct somewhere this is a movie about the difficulties between reality, words and action without words. Where are the layers of emotion in all this. I remember the movie, and the excellent actress, her face and the man, but not the names - I am a visual person.

Maybe this is a good subject for research.
At what moment would you make love or have SLsex without words? (I am sure a lot of people have data on this) Who is the research for... I let sl researchers take care of this... hahahahh











I discovered WITH a high quality sim yesterday, and today is the last day. There was a carnaval ball. All the avatars came in long dresses w masks, and streaming the very dainty court music. There were animal avatars too. One avatar had a horse, that makes Swannjie want to take out her Freisian Mare for the first time. :)
There was a cafe, with servers and many clients. Coffee muffin, everything. They were really friendly and invited me to their parties.