Congratulations to all the Founders and residents of InWorldz, that's quite a milestone....
:))))
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
10,000 while I slept...
Congratulations to all the Founders and residents of InWorldz, that's quite a milestone....
:))))
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
There be dragons.....
My first three dragons, Dotty, Doris and Darren are for sale (900L each), flying high over Nishi Disposals platform....here..
They are static, currently, tho Mouser wants to make them into avis for InWorldz....we will see...
.:)))
Acquarella by Alizarin Goldflake
There are many of you who are familiar with Aliz's work I'm sure.
Aliz is an artist in both worlds and has that dedication that lifts her out of the Casual Doodler category into that of a professional as can be seen on her website if you haven't caught her shows in SL yet.
So, after an initial machinima which she took herself of her build "Acquarella", she determined to make an offering for the World Trade Fair in Shanghai.
I was involved as one of the nymphs along with BridgetMarlene McDonnell and Yman Juran , all credited on the machinima below. Chantal Harvey filmed it and cut and edited it to a suitable length for showing in China.
We rehearsed, Aliz rewrote, we rehearsed, Aliz tweaked, etc.... until we knew what we were doing, and Aliz was happy...see the result below.
Colour, No Colour was one of the themes which organiser Aino Baar from OPEN THIS END wanted for the show, and so this little fable fits well within that category.
Direction was by Corcosman Voom and the smooth voice and narration by Alfred Ajami ....all in all a huge amount of work, well done to all involved.
:))
Aliz is an artist in both worlds and has that dedication that lifts her out of the Casual Doodler category into that of a professional as can be seen on her website if you haven't caught her shows in SL yet.
So, after an initial machinima which she took herself of her build "Acquarella", she determined to make an offering for the World Trade Fair in Shanghai.
I was involved as one of the nymphs along with BridgetMarlene McDonnell and Yman Juran , all credited on the machinima below. Chantal Harvey filmed it and cut and edited it to a suitable length for showing in China.
We rehearsed, Aliz rewrote, we rehearsed, Aliz tweaked, etc.... until we knew what we were doing, and Aliz was happy...see the result below.
Colour, No Colour was one of the themes which organiser Aino Baar from OPEN THIS END wanted for the show, and so this little fable fits well within that category.
Direction was by Corcosman Voom and the smooth voice and narration by Alfred Ajami ....all in all a huge amount of work, well done to all involved.
:))
Monday, 9 August 2010
Two in a row... more trivia...
Like buses come two at a time when you have been waiting for them, then this rambling comes along two days running in like form...
I just had more stuff...
Me with new makeup at Wizzy's new workshop in InWorldz...well...with free uploads I can change makeup everyday..... not enough to warrant blogging, I'll admit....
I don't know anything about this, except that Wizzy sat on it. Whatever it is it is probably against ToS..... as everything is, actually.
The scruffy git who looks like he just stepped out of a bad edition of a 70's comic has gotta be a real laugh to wear that stuff. What a great outfit... THAT shows imagination and inspiration, I must say.
Victoriana has just taken 9 sims in Inworldz... get your glad rags out... and feed the horse.
Bumped into Artfox Daviau in Inworldz, this is one of his 11 sims in SL. A landscaper too. Nuff said.
So, an amusing few hours spent....
...also...Brinda has been bewitched by Born Again Pagans...and why not... the girl has great taste...(heheheheh)...
...and Lalo has had 5000 hits on his blog...Yay!!
so...all good
:)))
I just had more stuff...
Me with new makeup at Wizzy's new workshop in InWorldz...well...with free uploads I can change makeup everyday..... not enough to warrant blogging, I'll admit....
I don't know anything about this, except that Wizzy sat on it. Whatever it is it is probably against ToS..... as everything is, actually.
The scruffy git who looks like he just stepped out of a bad edition of a 70's comic has gotta be a real laugh to wear that stuff. What a great outfit... THAT shows imagination and inspiration, I must say.
Victoriana has just taken 9 sims in Inworldz... get your glad rags out... and feed the horse.
Bumped into Artfox Daviau in Inworldz, this is one of his 11 sims in SL. A landscaper too. Nuff said.
So, an amusing few hours spent....
...also...Brinda has been bewitched by Born Again Pagans...and why not... the girl has great taste...(heheheheh)...
...and Lalo has had 5000 hits on his blog...Yay!!
so...all good
:)))
Sunday, 8 August 2010
omnibus of trivia
Sometimes there are bits and pieces of things you might find interesting that just don't fit in anywhere else, so, as is my habit now, I mash em all up in a sunday stew....
Imagine Magazine has a small article on me, heralding a more comprehensive piece next month. For those that like to kick back with a mag, I can send you a copy should you want one....
Wizzy, Miso and I were at the 6th rezz day party of Doctor Gascoigne last night. "It's been a strange sort of journey" he said... or words to that effect...and I thought...hmmm...that HAS to be the understatement of the week....:)) well done.
...and I popped over to see what Frigg Ragu had done with the skybox for bunnies I made....she has made a really nice place of the shell I provided....IM her if you are a bunny-nut....It's worth a look...
Last week saw me listening to some classic rock, old-school I would call it.. streaming from the wires of Anek Fuchs. It was Great.
...and then today I was at the UWA awards....full details here.....shortly, the boys and girls have to get some sleep first...
...suffice to say, Nish Mip and Bryn Oh were the joint winners of the Imagine (art) Challenge....and UWA CULTURAL PRECINCT GALLERY AND LABS by DB Bailey and Patch Thibaud won the Flagship (architectural) Challenge.
Pixi won an award on her first ever competition entry and was completely flummoxed...:)) cool
Loads of other awards were won, and I was kinda sad that August will be the last month of this event. Check out the UWinSL website (link above) because the UWA has made some amazing contributions to SL both in credibility as a teaching platform and as sponsors of this, the best art event in SL.
...and if anyone wonders why I get so irritated with the Boys over their attitude to the arts, it's simply because in ONE YEAR only, UWA has sponsored, financially, 200 plus artists with cash as well as with enthusiasm.... without any long list of rules, but with a smile and light touch that has made it a pleasure to take part.
Quad and Jayjay deserve an award too.
In other news.. InWorldz has topped 300 sims and 9500 residents......a 25 to 30% increase in 6 weeks...(old post)...and the shopping just gets better.
...and, tho the number of residents can mislead, those paying tier are real enough numbers, money in the bank......so, soon approaching a quarter of a million dollars in tier (per annum) has gotta help pay the electricity bill.... now...if they can just hold off the Vulture Capitalists...
:)))
Imagine Magazine has a small article on me, heralding a more comprehensive piece next month. For those that like to kick back with a mag, I can send you a copy should you want one....
Wizzy, Miso and I were at the 6th rezz day party of Doctor Gascoigne last night. "It's been a strange sort of journey" he said... or words to that effect...and I thought...hmmm...that HAS to be the understatement of the week....:)) well done.
...and I popped over to see what Frigg Ragu had done with the skybox for bunnies I made....she has made a really nice place of the shell I provided....IM her if you are a bunny-nut....It's worth a look...
Last week saw me listening to some classic rock, old-school I would call it.. streaming from the wires of Anek Fuchs. It was Great.
...and then today I was at the UWA awards....full details here.....shortly, the boys and girls have to get some sleep first...
...suffice to say, Nish Mip and Bryn Oh were the joint winners of the Imagine (art) Challenge....and UWA CULTURAL PRECINCT GALLERY AND LABS by DB Bailey and Patch Thibaud won the Flagship (architectural) Challenge.
Pixi won an award on her first ever competition entry and was completely flummoxed...:)) cool
Loads of other awards were won, and I was kinda sad that August will be the last month of this event. Check out the UWinSL website (link above) because the UWA has made some amazing contributions to SL both in credibility as a teaching platform and as sponsors of this, the best art event in SL.
...and if anyone wonders why I get so irritated with the Boys over their attitude to the arts, it's simply because in ONE YEAR only, UWA has sponsored, financially, 200 plus artists with cash as well as with enthusiasm.... without any long list of rules, but with a smile and light touch that has made it a pleasure to take part.
Quad and Jayjay deserve an award too.
In other news.. InWorldz has topped 300 sims and 9500 residents......a 25 to 30% increase in 6 weeks...(old post)...and the shopping just gets better.
...and, tho the number of residents can mislead, those paying tier are real enough numbers, money in the bank......so, soon approaching a quarter of a million dollars in tier (per annum) has gotta help pay the electricity bill.... now...if they can just hold off the Vulture Capitalists...
:)))
Friday, 6 August 2010
Gender and Identity.
Now, not being an expert on child development I can only say that one of the earliest steps we make on our path to self knowledge happens around the age of 2 (ish), namely, a recognition of our gender. I am not suggesting that we know what gender is, but, shortly after we learn our Name we learn that we are a Boy or a Girl..... our first step (or second, after Name) towards an Identity....and probably well before we are conscious of our Race.
As one two year old said to me...”I know who is a Boy and who is a Girl”.....”oh” I replied “how do you know then?”....”it’s very easy, girls have hair slides and boys don’t.”
Now, as a child we realise these are two exclusive clubs you belong to, one or the other, it’s easy. There are those in later life who would like this easy state of affairs to continue as was seen recently with the attempt to outlaw same sex marriages. Some religions and cultures are very keen to segregate these two clubs, one or the other...it’s easy.
Cross-overs are rarely welcomed, some are tolerated. Of all the cross-overs, a ‘tom-boy’ is probably the most internationally tolerated gender subversive. Boys that play with dolls or dress in girls clothing are possibly the least welcomed in a community or household.
Now, coming into Second Life where ‘anything is possible’ there are those who decide to do a bit of experimenting with their identities, fair enough. No one gets very excited about a dragon in SL if they find out that he/she is not in fact a dragon in RL. This is not the case with gender experimentation.
I have two avatars, one male, one female, so, in one incarnation I am role playing a gender specific ‘game’. Unlike the dragon, I have heard gender role-play referred to as ‘deceitful’, ‘dishonest’ and other generally negative connotations. This interests me, as does anything that excites a rather illogical response.
Why does this disturb people more than the dragon?
Now, being an amateur Jungian, I always refer to the good doctor for words of wisdom as he has helped me often sort out my ideas. Jung is of the belief that the gender we are not, the opposite gender, is repressed and hides in our personal unconscious. That means.... if I am a girl, all the male parts of my psyche are forced ‘underground’ where they coalesce into an archetype he called the Animus.....and for a boy, his unconscious female psyche, Jung called an Anima.
These unconscious elements, because they are beyond conscious control (by definition as they are unconscious) are autonomous. They appear in dreams and fantasies (though we often call them by names of people we know in waking life) and take on various helpful or demonic qualities depending on the circumstances.
That means, in easy speak, Girls have boy psyches and Boys have girl psyches.
That means, in easy speak, we are both sexes.... one is conscious (biological) and one virtual (psychic).
Is this what disturbs us when people gender role-play? It shakes our (2 year old) belief that its easy to tell the difference?
For, in reality there are, one assumes, exactly the same proportion of deceitful dragons, foxes, lesbians and robots. The playing of a role does not make one more deceitful than someone who is glued to their personna.
I have a friend who has 30 alts. For me she is a sort of hero because I firmly believe that the psyche is that diverse and fragmented that choosing to represent the whole of our psyche with just one or two avatars is a poor show, the psyche is richer than that.
I would have more alts (I have 3 currently) but I forgot where I put that invitation to that Memory Enhancement Seminar as I would forget all my passwords...... that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
I can tell you from my experience of 3 years of being female and male, sometimes at the same time, that it is quite possible under periods of extreme ‘immersion’ to experience oneself as male and as female. This may sound illogical or impossible, but I assure you this is my honest experience.
So, lighten up people... it’s a game, and a research laboratory for the psyche if you so choose.
...get more alts....... you’ll like em...
:))
As one two year old said to me...”I know who is a Boy and who is a Girl”.....”oh” I replied “how do you know then?”....”it’s very easy, girls have hair slides and boys don’t.”
Now, as a child we realise these are two exclusive clubs you belong to, one or the other, it’s easy. There are those in later life who would like this easy state of affairs to continue as was seen recently with the attempt to outlaw same sex marriages. Some religions and cultures are very keen to segregate these two clubs, one or the other...it’s easy.
Cross-overs are rarely welcomed, some are tolerated. Of all the cross-overs, a ‘tom-boy’ is probably the most internationally tolerated gender subversive. Boys that play with dolls or dress in girls clothing are possibly the least welcomed in a community or household.
Now, coming into Second Life where ‘anything is possible’ there are those who decide to do a bit of experimenting with their identities, fair enough. No one gets very excited about a dragon in SL if they find out that he/she is not in fact a dragon in RL. This is not the case with gender experimentation.
I have two avatars, one male, one female, so, in one incarnation I am role playing a gender specific ‘game’. Unlike the dragon, I have heard gender role-play referred to as ‘deceitful’, ‘dishonest’ and other generally negative connotations. This interests me, as does anything that excites a rather illogical response.
Why does this disturb people more than the dragon?
Now, being an amateur Jungian, I always refer to the good doctor for words of wisdom as he has helped me often sort out my ideas. Jung is of the belief that the gender we are not, the opposite gender, is repressed and hides in our personal unconscious. That means.... if I am a girl, all the male parts of my psyche are forced ‘underground’ where they coalesce into an archetype he called the Animus.....and for a boy, his unconscious female psyche, Jung called an Anima.
These unconscious elements, because they are beyond conscious control (by definition as they are unconscious) are autonomous. They appear in dreams and fantasies (though we often call them by names of people we know in waking life) and take on various helpful or demonic qualities depending on the circumstances.
That means, in easy speak, Girls have boy psyches and Boys have girl psyches.
That means, in easy speak, we are both sexes.... one is conscious (biological) and one virtual (psychic).
Is this what disturbs us when people gender role-play? It shakes our (2 year old) belief that its easy to tell the difference?
For, in reality there are, one assumes, exactly the same proportion of deceitful dragons, foxes, lesbians and robots. The playing of a role does not make one more deceitful than someone who is glued to their personna.
I have a friend who has 30 alts. For me she is a sort of hero because I firmly believe that the psyche is that diverse and fragmented that choosing to represent the whole of our psyche with just one or two avatars is a poor show, the psyche is richer than that.
I would have more alts (I have 3 currently) but I forgot where I put that invitation to that Memory Enhancement Seminar as I would forget all my passwords...... that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
I can tell you from my experience of 3 years of being female and male, sometimes at the same time, that it is quite possible under periods of extreme ‘immersion’ to experience oneself as male and as female. This may sound illogical or impossible, but I assure you this is my honest experience.
So, lighten up people... it’s a game, and a research laboratory for the psyche if you so choose.
...get more alts....... you’ll like em...
:))
Thursday, 5 August 2010
Qarl
Now, I have no real idea of the sort of person Qarl Linden was, I say 'was' because he's been sacked, but from the disbelief and shock that has spread thro the blogsphere I can assume he was both talented and pleasant.
Qarl brought us sculpties, shortly after I joined SL and has therefore changed all our worlds, our clothes, our landscapes etc. and is a lover of SL.
This is the third really bad move that I have blogged about this last few days.
I want to impress that I do not have a negative "Hate Linden" attitude, but, following the messianic resurrection of Philip we are all looking for more than just nice words...
1) The decision by Philip not to attend SLCC is not a good move.
2) Making BUM 2.0 pay tier is not a good move
3) Sacking skilled staff that your customers like is not a good move.
...and as far as getting rid of the Welcome Centres...well, I am suspicious about that move too.I have no idea now how to go about mentoring noobs (an occasional hobby of mine, and many others) as I have no idea about Viewer 2.Crap..... dump them on our doorsteps if you think that will save money, Boys, but will it increase retention...?
Few people now to slog away at the attempt to bring us F.E.F..... we are all watching, The straw that broke the camels back comes in many shapes and sizes. Qarl going has been that straw for some people.
byee, and thanks.
:((
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