soror Nishi's Tree of Trees

soror Nishi's Tree of Trees, originally uploaded by misssorornishi.

Well, for those of you who haven't flown through the particles, mushrooms and clouds....here's a little taster...


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Enjoy... a nice Sunday experience. ....here

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Opening night at IBM

Tasty Hax was the first to take the decks and spin a really great set. Laid back, sweet and tuneful there were people dancing all over the sim.




...and the actually DJ desk she rezzed looked like it had been made to fit in...cool..





DoubleDown Tandino took over and played some stunning good music...and a 100 people came and went in the course of the first 2 hours...





Luckily ColeMarie Soleil came and played the first tracks from her new album which was great as the Born Again Pagans couldn't show... maybe RL probs..

The great thing was the people there...we had a good laugh and there was some witty chat...all cool.

Cole kept us all on our toes with some magic...it was excellent...

Got to bed late, over 120 visitors later.. one of the best parties I've been to for ages....well, I would say that wouldn't I..

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Magoo Soror dreaming

Magoo Soror dreaming, originally uploaded by kumi kuhr.

Wow, I have only just discovered this piece of history. It's from Magoo and the Temple of the Prim which I did last year. Kumi Kuhr is the photographer and I love the opening photos particularly...

Thanks Kumi...

This is the link to Kumi's sets on Flickr

Brill

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IBM, homology and Goethe.

There’s a thing about nature that I have been trying to express these last three years that is intrinsic to the way nature works.

Nature is economical. It takes matter and sculpts it in the most efficient manner to suit its ends.

Johann Wolfgang Goethe wrote a book in 1790 called The Metamorphosis of Plants, in it he points out how a stem is basically a transformed leaf, as is a petal, as is a root. The basic unit of the plant is simply metamorphosed into different ‘organs’ by, as we now know, a fairly mathematical process of the changing shape and nature of the unit cell.

This process is almost identical to the one I use in Blender. I can only do one thing in Blender, namely change the distance between vertices.

In plants this is called homology and has a lot to do with why my plants in SL look as they do. All my plants have evolved in this manner from a single group of vertices in a Blender file: this is Virtual Homology.

The prim as Increatum was very much the basis of my build at Magoo last year and this subject of homology has been in my mind a lot as I have been building IBM.

....altho...my press release is less philosophical...

"Tree of Trees

This build is an attempt to condense my last three years work in Second Life into an experience which demonstrates my vision of landscaping in virtual worlds.

All 11k prims are sculpties I have made in Blender and coloured with textures which started life as paintings.

I think of myself more as a landscape artist but had to first make the plants and other pieces as there were no satisfactory elements in SL for me to use.

I am very grateful to IBM for their generosity and particularly to Tezcatlipoca Bisiani for making this such an easy thing to arrange."


Avatar Architexture..

..at around 300 meters I have rezzed a little home. It is a sample of the type of building I would imagine avatars inhabiting rather than poor copies of RL houses. My reasons for the general dislike I have of current SL architecture I have given voice to previously.


Look forward to seeing you there...

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Tree of Trees

Well...just wanted to clarify....

...about Saturday 11th... and Tree of Trees at IBM..

Tasty Hax will be the first DJ to open at noon SLT
...thanks to her for filling a gap while DoubleDown Tandino has a chance to get some lunch before ...

DD Tandino will play from 1pm til 2pm...and then time for me to get some supper before....

The Born Again Pagans will play live at 3 pm SLT.

OK...let's hope that's the final line-up..:)))

In other me, me, me news... a very nice article by Thirza Ember..
Arbor virtualis: trees of soror Nishi.
Thirza also did a great post about Aliz.

Other gossip is that Eshi Otawara has been banned "it's all my own fault"... no more details as yet...

...and Philip says very little in a recent interview ..We're really regarding the situation as serious," Rosedale said. "We've got a lot more work to do." bla bla bla...

...and the Hair Fair gets a lot of criticism, not by me this time...tho it sounds horrible....here.

...and as emerald becomes illegal... a new Viewer....god...I think a post is brewing... this one is a tuna-based one called Dolphin, still, not as badly named as Phoenix (cringe)... I think its by the Cool Viewer guy, but really I have no idea, I just can't keep up.....and I'm not the only one.

Amazingly 25% of people that read NWN use the Infuriating Viewer (2.0) .....

oh well, no accounting for taste.

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InWorldz welcomes big name stores.

Fanciful Muse is pissed off...just wait til she reads this.

Fanciful Muse has decided what sort of an InWorldz she wants. It’s one of peace, love, harmony and dodgy freebies.

She has decided that people who make money are the devil in disguise and certainly doesn’t want them setting up shop in her grid. Worse....she is not alone...

Ever Astounded is absolutely right to rant, she and I have at least some common sense, which is more than can be said for various commentators on the InWorldz forum...more snivelling, tight assed fools.

In ANY WORLD there are expensive goods and cheap crap...that is the consumer society, and, if you wanna eat junk you can buy your food cheaper than anyone else... you want a crap computer...go buy a cheap one...just don’t set down some ground rules for a whole grid.

To think that your cheap spending habits should be applied across a whole grid is plain daft, and I would not waste virtual ink, normally, except I would hate people to think you represented anything but a tiny demented hippy minority.

Grow up.

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Tree of Trees

We all know that the tree has been a meeting place, a landmark, shelter and a source of warmth (firewood) and food (fruit) for a very long time and, globally.

It is no real surprise then to read.... “the commonest associations to it’s meaning are growth, life, unfolding of form in a physical and spiritual sense, development, growth from below upwards and from above downwards, the maternal aspect (protection, shade, shelter, nourishing fruits, source of life, solidity, permanence, firm-rootedness, but also being “rooted to the spot”), old age,personality, and finally death and rebirth.” [CGJung].

It was a symbol taken up in many an alchemical treatise to signify the development of The Work, the Opus, and was often called The Philosophical Tree as the gold (goal) was called The Philosophical Gold. It was said to grow out of the salt water with a golden trunk and seven branches with the sun and moon as fruit.

There are not many cultures who do not have a tree included either in a creation myth or a significant fairy story for, presumably, the tree was our first home or shelter. Even in places where no tree grows naturally, their imagery is included in myth.

“In so far as the tree symbolizes the Opus and the transformation process “tam ethice quam physice” (both morally and physically), it also signifies the life process in general. It’s identity with Mercurius, the spiritus vegetativus, confirms this view. Since the Opus is a life, death, and rebirth mystery, the tree as well acquires this significance and in addition the quality of wisdom...” [CGJung].

Well, this is just some philosophical background into why I have called my build at IBM Tree of Trees. Add to that my feeling for trees, in general, and it’s not so hard to see why I have spent three years trying to improve the basic bio-diversity of the very dodgy flora I first encountered when I came to SL.

I think my build at IBM is a sort of milestone, it says, well, this is how far I’ve got so far.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I have building it.

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