Creative Power

Ok, this is for those who won't be making it as far as InWorldz....just to give you a taster.

Best in full screen and HD of course.... turn the soundtrack down if it drives you potty.

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Party at Creative Power build.

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It was a great night, with good music from Megan Cline that got everyone up and dancing... lively chat and good humour.










Megan the mega DJ.







Sorry if I missed anyone...(I am sure I took a photo of Bradd...but it has since disappeared...spooky)..... we all missed Jeri Rahja who's computer had burst into flames and so was unable to come.

I hope people will return and have a better look... camming around isn't quite the same experience as there is a bit of a soundscape that alters as you move around the build.

...anyway...all in all a good time..

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New Sim Show InWorldz.... and party

For those of you who don't know and for those of you with poor memory (like me) ..this is just a gentle reminder about a new build I have finished in InWorldz.

There will be an opening tomorrow (Saturday 31st) at 12 noon (pm I am told) with Megan Cline DJing some very good dancie numbers for a couple of hours if you want to come over and cut a rug.

The sim is called Twisted Isle and can be searched on the map, or just IM me.... for those of you who haven't been to Inworldz before, you will, of course, have to register an account (totally free)...here. ...don't you just love a form that asks you not to use your real name!.... and you may want to arrive a little early to deRuth ....you will be helped by a (team of) mentor/s.

I'll be there for quite a few hours and any inhabitants of the southern hemisphere will, of course, be welcome for a preview/postviewing at a time to suit. The sim will be there for a while.

There is a shop there which sells all the stuff I created specially for the sim and it's for sale only at this one location. The funds generated there will go towards the tier of this and sister sims which will, eventually, make up an art collective sponsored by Jeri Rahja.

If you are expecting to see my more typical trees and flowers you will be surprised as this build is a bit different to my previous sims... I have called the sim Creative Power and posted some ideas earlier about it.

I hope you enjoy it...

Be there or be elsewhere.

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Sim Crossing ... how it should be done....

Many thanks to Mera for bringing this to my attention.





A great demonstration of why we were all getting so excited about Phlox in InWorldz a few weeks back when it was first rolled out across the grid.

Tranq and Legion have really set the bench mark with the new script engine, one which LL will never be able to compete with. Never? Well, as far as I understand LL shot themselves (and us) in the foot when they decided to have servers in different states servicing adjacent sims .... that, as I commented at the time, is never going to work.

Balpien Hammerer is the genius scripter of this vehicle, I believe....

...well, whoever it was it shows why I believe InWorldz is gonna steal the show .... PhysX next....

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A Week on the Net

While I've been engrossed in putting a machinima together of my new build, Creative Power, for those that won't make it as far as Inworldz next week, I have had my eye on the latest bits and pieces around the interweb.....

Obviously the local news is dominated by Mesh....(no comment) ... and G+, still, the latest being that Crap got suspended even though he was using his RL name... bizarre... and a post by Botgirl has the G+ hierarchy saying "The online world hasn't captured that natural human experience. We think our software begins to do that." ....that had me in fits of laughter. I was told last week of a new shampoo "respects my individuality" and of a "5 door hatch-back that rewrites all the rules", so I guess software that "captures the natural human experience" shouldn't surprise.

The saddest thing is that these people begin to believe their own hype .... as do all politicians.

Washington is currently the target of a large Twitter campaign by people who have discovered that they have, for once, a voice... #fuckyouwashington is the tag. This is exactly the sort of thing that governments fear, as, although it might be cool to watch a revolution in an Arab country, no-one wants their own population deciding to speak their collective mind with no control.

This latest piece of kit that Washington has ploughed $70 million tax dollar into is the sort of thing that could backfire. The NYT reports about a "stealth wireless network" machine that could bypass the Internet, giving free access to Freedom Fighters (Freedom Fighters are terrorists that Washington approves of). Now, it strikes me that as our home hardware becomes more and more like servers, the day could dawn when we could all bypass censorship and control ... bring it on!

On a more local note Nordan Art celebrated their first Birthday in SL last night. Flora has done so well with her gallery, I think, ... it's the right mix of size and artists to make it a very friendly place to show and view.

She has also published a magazine to go with the event .... here. I tried to tp over there but the sim was full. ... so... I popped over to InWorldz and went to a Meet the Founders party where, yes, all three founders were cutting a rug , taking time out from code to say hi to whoever wanted to say hi back. Nicely arranged by Tiggs...good idea.

It seems like Aurora is coming good after a while when I heard nothing about it much ... I guess all that code-crunching is like pushing an elephant up the stairs, a spiral one at that (stairs not elephant). A report here will keep you up to date. Interesting concept, namely, that somehow, you don't take your inventory with you when you Hyperhop, but just a 'reflection' of it... and, although I have no idea what that means, it could be like a UUI of a UUI...??? One worth keeping up with.

All these things pale in comparison with the tragedies which unfolded this weekend. My soul weeps for Norway.

Amy Winehouse, in an almost stereotypical soul singers demise, is a talent who will be sorely missed.

The feeling of helplessness we feel in the face such major events is a part of being human, but, maybe, inspires us to use each day we have to the best of our ability.

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Two Years inworldz

Yes, I first opened an account InWorldz on the 10th of July 2009... and as I was very busy at the time with shows in SL and finishing off my RL tree I didn't get around to de-Ruthing properly until August when I built my first tree outside SL..



...and marked the occasion with a post marking the historic occasion... here... then I got the bit between my teeth and by 1st September had the startings of a forest....here.... hosted by the instigator of my move, Scotsgreymouser Janus, or Mouser for short.




This is Mouser, I remember she just sold her sim in SL and moved as soon as she heard Elenia had started a grid... and she said how much they needed trees and flowers in this brave new world......and nagged me over...luckily.





Now, two years later I no longer look like a bag woman as I have loads of shops to haunt... (it was difficult to get good hair and shoes in the very beginning..) ... and a better taste in skins, it seems...lol.





Anyway....hosted by Aliz we had a sushi party to celebrate the day and gathered at Aliz's new build which should open shortly, we hope, for light conversation before a lot of dancing...




I met Ahuva there, tho all the others were people I have known quite a while now..




Aliz who I have known for years and who was a wonderful host, the sushi was amazing...




Juanita of Treeline fame (and brill artist in her own right)... and friend




Lalo (great blogger) who is a complete convert to Iwz and has discovered the joy of building... we first met in 'comments'..




Miso, a fabulously creative artist and good friend...




Nur, scripter, good friend and v classy lady




Scottius, otterly amazing artist and coolest of dudes.




Wizzy, my sis, and geowizardly genius.




...and Zauber, bug exterminator, builder and my first neighbour in Iwz...

....and if I forgot anyone, I know I am dead.... many thanks also to those who sent their best wishes etc... a very cool night for me, thanks.. (big grins)...

So, now for the next two years.....

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New Products for InWorldz

This is my new Foxglove Orchid which I am more or less finished making. The flower prim is based on the shape of a foxglove (digitalis) hence the name... though I doubt we'll ever see a foxglove in RL with these colours.

It should go on sale soon on my sim soror Nishi Island.




Nyx Breen is doing a show of various elf-inspired floating islands on his sim, details to follow, and this group of floating islands (in Tree of Trees colours) I thought could be something someone might want on their own sim, so I have it/them for sale on my sim ... contact me for details....

Now, I'm not sure if I have mentioned in these pages that Nazz Lane has done a very competent interview with me on his excellent blog Lane's List....

...and I am sure I haven't mentioned Neph's post on the ecological advantages brought to her bog by the planting of the Telepathic Bog Lilly which is a more recent post... here. Dark Moon sim is in SL, and mentioned previously here.

...and....


.... have a good sunday..


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New... Allure Magazine

Well, as some of you may have noticed, I've been a bit slack on the blogging front last week... and there's a reason. I've been doing some graphics ( layout and some photos) for the new InWorldz based magazine, called Allure.





I was called in quite late on the project and didn't manage to do everything I had hoped to (but will do for the next issues, I expect) but, as you will see, there are some interesting articles.......click to enlarge.




I would imagine that the interview with Tranquility, Legion and Elenia, the InWorldz founders would be of interest to quite a few.... and the work of PrEYEmal had me pretty speechless.(unusual)...

You can read the whole mag below if you are so inclined....

Open publication - Free publishing - More art

...and if you missed it in the mag...well...



...if you would like to contribute, or advertise, you would be most welcome.


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Euro Phlox Test Party

Well, it was quite a change at a party to be asked to increase my ARC, something I have no problem with at all.

The European guys and gals , feeling left out of the Phlox testing because of time zone considerations actually got to try out this new Script Engine in InWorldz.

So, forty people, wearing everything they could, dancing, collected at the 2nd Birthday Sim on InWorldz to see what Phlox could take....and then 3 horses rode by too...

These are the hard facts. I have a Quad Core Mac Desktop, (2.66 Ghz) so it's not an average laptop, but it has just the basic graphics card (Nvidia GT120, 512Mb) and is mid/upper end, but even so, there is no way, maxed out on Ultra, that I could have still been moving in SL....

I was impressed.






I guess, for most of us, that the times we are most likely to stress out the server is at a party. If we can party, all's well. Interestingly enough Chat didn't suffer either and... it was well tested.

All in all we were all pleasantly surprised and very thankful/impressed by Tranquility's efforts.

Thanks again InWorldz crew... when Physx arrives... wow... what a grid!!

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Four Years of Soror Nishi

It was four years ago, while showing some of my oil paintings in Lostwithiel, Cornwall, that I got to hear about Second Life and how I could try and sell my paintings online. I soon found out that, better than that I could actually create some of my attempts at portraying archetypal Jungian images, in 3D.

..and so began a long process of learning...

This first image, by the talented photographer Lem Skall shows the build I did for Orange, French Telecom..





...and his image of a sea stack I made on my own beach in Lifstaen...




...and the floating shop I built there where my trees and plants were for sale.





Mab gave me the first chance to do a whole sim of my work.. at Magoo





..filmed by the talented ColeMarie Soleil





At IBM I had an exhibition, called Tree of Trees....and made this slide show...




Then, earlier this year I made my first real machinima of the work that I had done in InWorldz...

I have been helping out with content on a proper film, Vlogger, but that will not be edited before June ... and it's NDA stuff, so I'll have to wait to tell about that...

My machinima of Transubstantiation is still awaiting some music, so, until then, for those who haven't seen it (it closes tonight, Saturday)...




..a few images...




...and now, courtesy of Jeri Rahja, Twisted Isle is my current work in progress over on InWorldz...




...this is the first glimpse...

You'll be seeing a lot more of this build when it gets somewhat nearer completion.

The future, well, I could do with better software, Final Cut X Pro comes out in June at a much more reasonable price.... and zBrush, well, I would need a little windfall for that. If the current worlds we create in don't provide a better resolution in the coming years, I may seriously consider Eve Online, even if I'm not BattleStar Hero material .... we need better graphics for the next step ... maybe .... old fashioned paper and paint work for me too.

I'm not gonna wax lyrical about Content Creation, the hours and energy I have put into 3D worlds more than eloquently expresses my love for the medium ...

...and the help, support and love my friends have provided goes without saying.

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Pictures from a Party InWorldz.

Well, I didn't manage to get good shots of everyone, some just turned out crap...sorry...



Mera, Birthday Girl, did manage better with her snaps...here..











I really enjoy going to spontaneous things like that. It was a great night. Witty banter, the stuff dance floors used to be filled with before people drowned out chat with those annoying gestures and sounds like farting whales..... [who thinks any tune is improved by the sound of a bullhorn ... (maybe a few exceptions)]... it was a great gang of people...

Thanks to Jim for the music.

Great way to spend a Fertility Festival night..... tho the rumours are unsubstantiated.....

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