Ghost, literally, in the machine.

Well, its a bit spookie when someone just stands around on your parcel and doesnt speak to you for two days.
Kinda weird..... so, anyway.... turns out she's not here.

A ghost.

So the ghost has an alt....and the owner of the ghost can't log on as LL says she's already online.....gets quite tricky. Anyway the alt had a friend... Cormac Jaxxon, the big guy, and he came over as a type of Ghostbuster to move the girl along.

Trouble with that plan is, that although she looks like she's there, she isn't.

Couldn't kill her, or ban her...

I tried planting flowers on her, just to sort of disguise her a bit, make her blend in...

Told you it was tricky.

Sent in a Jira... lol.....couldn't the Boys make it any MORE difficult to understand... my oh my....what a nonsense...
Hopefully a sim restart will shift the ghost....

:))

new headdress

New but not revolutionary, the Flopsy Headdress is for sale in the shop

in other news.... well, I'm working on a new tree, of course, but it will be a while and then I have to find somewhere to show it, prims are getting low at my place again.

Tomorrow is my rezz day, and I am quite pre-occupied with "where do I go from here" types of questions... probably carrying on carrying on, is the best answer, but a little introspection never hurt anyone.

Still attracting new visitors to the beach which is nice because some people have never seen anything like it before, anywhere in SL. They all think I'm mad or on drugs..:))

Oh well, their stereotypes do me no harm....

Better to be mad than boring in my book...

:)))

Two years ago.

Two years ago, give or take a couple of days, I posted these blogs. They were the first things, more or less, that I wrote....nearly 500 posts have gone by since then and 9000 pages turned. My frustration levels were high, I remember that, but I loved every minute, and still do, mostly..:)))

I am not quite so obsessed with how I look ....or am I?...:)) Obviously its the first bit of design work you do when you arrive...


"well its been a bit mad.firstly shopping takes forever so I still am not fully kitted out.
I went to Harajuku last night to check out my roots. I was born in Japan....but thats another story.
I think I have a sister...?
Anyway, I didn't find anyone. The place was deserted.
I came apon, (the way I walk) a beautiful cherry orchard in full bloom.
I was there with a friend.
And under the edge of the orchard there was a rocking chair which I sat in and thought. I looked so good that I thought I would come back with a photographer.
I couldn't use the camera yesterday (bit better today).
So.
today i went back.
couldn't find it.
So I walked into this little japanese tea room. There were four or five of them. So I saw this seat-light-thing and did me click. wellll
suddenly I'm on my SIDE doing a 50's hollywood film star pose. I'm not fully kitted out yet.
so I IM. Hi, can anyone speak english.
lots of funny squiggles
and
more
and
more
Well I reaconed, no one home; when i get an IM
soror can you put some more clothes on please.
I said sorry and flew up into the roof space."



"thing is I'm not very good at this changing clothes thing
well.....
at least I can open a box
wearing them is the pits.

At last I found a good mall, I'll give you the address sometime.
No time to shop
but plenty too much time being wasted on other things. research...ha!
Get back to work you Idle tart.
Very pleased with skin can recommend X2
great eyes, cant remember who.
love my toes.(X2?)
hair is mine, its real."




"The service is apppppppppppppppppalllllllllling.
If it wasn't for my guardian angel, cant remember name. will post later
who helped me out
I'd probably be in a box or series of boxes, sleeping rough
well.I AM>
sleeping in a field, dont they have hotels????"


"What a disaster. Well, good news as well.
Firstly, I'm learning soooooo much.
Good news first; I found a FREE modelling studio.
terrific
very impressed
Got one good shot.. which is all a girl needs to succeed.
But I lost it in here somewhere. Thing is; I never know where I put. Sometimes I'm quite well organised and stuff, but sometime when it asks you where you want to save it, I just press ok. Could be anywhere.
Its on my profile but how to get it to you good people is beyond me."




"Now, this crummy shot above was done by me.
But the good one on the profile was mine as well. Which all goes to prove that I NEED a photographer. Seems like you have to do EVERTHING yourself. Something wrong with earning money?
Get a grip.
Now, I'm sorry but I got started . Service, ha. I had to teleport all the way back to this so-called Advertising Genius who didn't even reply the first time and so I had to "drop a notecard in his postbox"
My God
Who does he think I am, Einstein? Anyway, whats wrong with his eyes? Blind? dumb? deaf? I shouted enough to wake the dead. Bit of a bad habit, I'm trying to quit actually. I walk into a shop and shout "any service around here or what"
Never get a reply
so rude
But I must stop. I am going to be classy. I've got more to tell you on the clothes front. A hairy guy in a leopard print suit who hangs out with us at the gallery field has kindly offered to make me a decent jacket. AT LAST. His name has got something to do with the Moon. Why dont people have short names in sl?
For a few posh bits I found someone in the search and IM ed them. Help. so we'll see. But really I need Gautier so badly you would not believe.
I look like a tramp.
honestly.

Anyway, I'm still sitting in the lounge at this ad agency, waiting, and the sofa is not very good, if they don't mind me saying so. I've been here over an hour. Are they in church or something.....

Well, anyway, I suppose I've got better things to do than sit here.
Lucky for me Burton told me how to write a notecard, so I told him, very politely, to put me at the TOP of his list.

Oh, and a really sweet girl showed me round a brothel!!!!!! and I found a GREAT swimming pool, didn't go in cos no swimwear as yet. Where is a personal shopper...is there a personal shopper in SL?
Got to dash now."


"I've just written a heart felt plea to Jean-Paul for help. I told him I am a maiden in distress which is obvious to anyone who has seen my underwear and I cannot think that he would brush me aside if he has one single compassionate bone in his body...
Well, I guess he's probably a bit busy, but when you're that famous you should have time, what with having 'staff' and stuff, to be able to do a good deed."

Jean_Paul Gautier didn't reply to my RL email...shame...could have been great. I gave up my modelling aspirations, luckily, and started building... the rest is better documented than these early days, and my spelling/grammar has improved somewhat.

:))

Island Life

Well, lots of small bits to report... I finished my waterfall, one of those "Things I Must Get Done"... and..well...this is a rather dodgy photo of what would have been better as a video...but you can see my first waterfall build here




Pixi came over....after we had a dance at her place (which is worth a visit) with the famous Mr Malroy. It is exactly two years ago to the day that I sat and had RL coffee with Malroy and Kaltusaran and they told me about Second Life. The first I had heard of it.......




Pixi told me how she had pointed out to her neighbour the error of his building ways. In the absence of any planning laws, what else is a girl to do???




I got a Steam Funk Tree planted on the other side of my island, I hope Izabella likes it...:))




and a new species has started to colonise wet parts of the beach....it's called the Giant Island Taro....

and fajitas are off the menu...

:))

AM Radio..,

Well, not much to say really about this.

AM's new build... here

His usual extremely detailed RL style things in large open areas..... well, you have to do that when you concentrate all your prims in a machine or house.....it works.

There's a sort of luxury which comes with having so much space...its nice.

:))

Daphne's Demise, my latest tree.

It was Aliz that suggested the name, the Daphne part anyway. Apparently Daphne turned herself into a tree to escape Apollo's advances. Bloody gods....always trying to shag someone or something.... :))

Anyway, the tree is on the beach, and this is not a very good photo because it looks like some strange orange smoke is coming out of the side, in fact there are particles in blue and green, which I didnt even attempt to photograph. You'll just have to go check it out if you are interested.



Kirstenlee Cinquetti has a new shadow Viewer, if you have a PC..... (come on Boys....sort it out).... and Vint Falken
has some good advice for those of you who wanna try it.


In other news.... well NPIRL has a more mature article on the Mature question....

My best friend in RL, a certain "Bill Ellis", painter and musician, now living in Paris, has this to say about censors and gallery owners... "fuck 'em"..... which sounds like a more immature take on the question.

Said, however, with a small shrug of the shoulders, it's really quite Adult.

:))

Technique

I am very interested in matter, and have been for years; I have spent many hours thinking about it in fact.
My interest started with my fascination with Alchemy and has continued with my craft work (silversmithing and others) and other artistic productions.
The relationship of matter to prims has then, obviously, pre-occupied me a great deal since I started building in SL where there is no matter although prims are a visual symbol used for matter. [More of that in another post.]

So I was surprised when Selavy told me yesterday that no-one had blogged her recent piece at Primavera. I mistakenly said to Bryn that there were no pieces there (at the show) that I would remember in 10 years time (harsh maybe, but you know me). I hadn’t seen Selavy’s piece at that time, or had the chance to think about it.

For those of you who haven’t seen it... it is a series of three sets of three prims (the numbers are not so important) which have been subjected to “physical” for a second. The resultant movement has been fossilized, captured in time as a recorded event.
This for me is almost the definition of technique. It has the “air” of chicken entrails thrown by soothsayers to forecast the unknowable. It is recorded history as well.

Technique is vital in all production (and in art even more so), in that the technique used in the manufacturing of a product is normally visible and forms an integral part of the piece.
For example; when I fashion a piece of silver using my hands and basic hand tools the resulting piece is unique in that it differs from all machine made pieces, and from all pieces not made by my hands. It shares, however, a similar “look” to all ancient/”primitive” jewellery made using similar techniques. Similarly my prims are different to everyone else’s, because no-one makes prims like I do.

Selavy’s piece is a non material 3D fossil of an “unnecessary” event (random rather than biologically/socially/economically determined), it is "physicality" in a non physical world and, with true artistic integrity, it records SL History in a way that is only possible IN Second Life. That makes it a piece that I will not forget.

:))