New NPIRL girl....

Wizard Gynoid is the latest member of NPIRL, and very welcome she is too. Wizzy is apart from other talents a very good creator of geometrical shapes, the E8 being her most famous, and intricate. Sadly no longer eating prims at Rezzable, she is hatching a new build for Caerleon....watch this space.


NWN also picked up on my observation that the stats for SL were temporarily disabled, as I mentioned in a previous post, 28000 sims, and have provided a link to a map of the entire grid just further reinforcing the diluting effect this massive land production has on life and business in SL. I cant even recognise where i live from this. EEEk.

The day after I posted the suggestion that some of the 5.5million US$ they take as tier each month should be used on advertising, they sent me a Resident Survey to ask if I recommend SL to friends....well,.... excuse me...but that is surely your job, and not mine !!

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Image

Well, both Botgirl and NPIRL have articles today about art, and I am not gonna add to the general discussion, cos its one of those things, like love, that have already had enough words written about them, although I did comment on botgirls piece. I have bored my regular readers enough with my definition of art.

More interesting for me at the moment is to decide which image to have on my Profile.... its the start of a downward slope if one image is meant to depict you more, or better, than another. Seems like a good idea when you first come to SL, but theres RL thinking behind it.
In RL you cant be a fairy one day and dragon the next.
so.... I have to decide (metaphorically speaking) whether I am more dragon or fairy, or, more accurately speaking, how I would like to present myself to my peers.

I think that, eventually, a series of profile photos of the same person, over the months/years, will be like a biography, a detailed account of how one person would like to be seen.

Men, in SL at least, seem to change their clothes seldom, well, thats my experience anyway, and people who build a lot, like me at times, have more pressing demands on their SL time than to be messing around with their invents.
If you have a major piece of work, like a dragon, or just an avi you like a lot, then obviously you stick with it, you feel comfortable with it: it seems to say something about one part of your personality.

The reason I said its the start of a downhill slope to decide on one image is that its a shame to stop investigating other parts of your unconscious by settling on one SL "personna".

Thank god for alts.....

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28,000 sims

Yes, thats what i worked it out at, tho the economic data was temporarily, maybe still is, suspended......
28000 sims....and about 77,000 max online, minus 20% bots...... 63,000 residents on 28,000 sims.....
its no wonder it feels like a ghost town/world out there.

....now some of that 5.5 Million US$ monthly tier could surely go on a bit of advertising to get some people in to fill up the place, but that is not really a problem for LL. Their bank balance increases the more land they make... the sound of virtual tumbleweed doesnt worry them, I would think. Unless they sob all the way to the bank. ...:)))

But it is all a bit short-sighted again of them, really, and I know some of that money does get re-invested, but...... come on guys, sort it out. As I wrote before.....rising land prices have kept this country going for all the years since we stopped making things to sell... Land in SL is averaging between 1L$ and 2L$ per square meter over the past few months, and that is pretty bad for those that have bought land, good for those that tax it...

blog that I innocently wrote on the 18.3.2008.... 64000 people online....well its not really changed since then, the traffic, unless you think bots are traffic, which I dont, they are a waste of prims.

I doubt, of course, that any of em read this blog, or care....but friends are here to listen to you complain, aren't they...:))) and so.....bigs hugs and kisses to you all for putting up with my funny little moaning...:)))

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My Big Show

My first big show in a gallery starts next week....the 11th January, so put the date in your diary, I can guarantee it will be worth dropping in to. I am nearly there, just a few bits and pieces to touch up. Its looking good.....:))
I will blog and spam you all so that the address and stuff is firmly engraved in your brains..:))




This is NOT one of my trees. In fact, I wouldnt really give it prim-room..... the texture change script changes to give you four different textures for the 4 different seasons, but if all 4 are as bad as this tex, I think its a bad use of 4000L$..... lol.....the most expensive tree I have seen for sale to date.




My friend Caro...:)) ......it was an oversight from my previous post, not to have a photo of her...:))

Other breaking news is.... hmmm....not much really.... I am making a special prim for a competition at Caerleon for a One_Prim Wonder.... contact Sabinaa for details. The idea is that you enter just one prim for the competition/show and so I have had the Blender whirring, and now a magnificent tex is called for..... should keep me busy next week..

New Years resolution that I always make, and keep, is to never make New Years resolutions....it works for me....every year.


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Tom Foolery

Start the new year with a new look......

Put these first few items for sale in the shop....:))

Get em while they are hot !!!


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2008....the best of..... lol, how traditional

Well, I thought I would put together some pictures of some of my favourite things....and that turns out to be people, of 2008.

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER....:)) and very aware, as I am, that there are many missing. I have particularly missed Izabella and Charlot....two very good friends who have been abducted by RL. I hope they return in 2009.

....and everyone who bought trees from me should have a special mention too..... particularly those that dug deep into their pockets....particularly, Earth, Alex, Pandaemon, Giancarla, Jade, Sabrinaa, the list would just be tooo long...:))

People like Bettina and Fab amongst others have just been plain supportive too....... anyone I have forgotten will know it is my frail brain that is at fault... xxxxxxxxxxxx

EEEEEK.....I knew it would happen...... I have no photo of Caro Babenco...and she is the person I chat most with, probably, thousands of words we've exchanged in 2008.... Ah well, she knows how much i love her,....:))
Its her spirit, her sense of exploration, as much as her humour that keeps us chatting....
and i dont have photo of Selavy, just her work......





Dorney Vaher, a fairly recent friend, compared to others, but has a heart of pure gold and hair to match...:))




Selavy Oh, probably my favourite builder in SL cos of her scripting abilities and her fertile imagination.. . she and Aliz (and Bryn) really understand (as I have said before...sorry) that SL is a medium... and a cos she's a generally nice person.




Bryn Oh ...... Such a lovely looking being would make anyone swoon, I think. A great builder and imaginative artist she keeps creating good stuff.





Although offline at the moment due to house moving, Pixi Cosmos is one of my friends, and like my others, have kept me happy and smiling....





Betty Rogan with one of my favourite avis of all time... posted earlier.... Yao Ogee's humour and Betty's lovely nature....(she's also a budgie at times, when she's not a bee)





This is an old photo of Mr Widget, tho he hasnt aged at all..... best dance music of 2008, I think.... always have a good bop if I'm online at the right time





The wonderful Wizard Gynoid, talented and witty, a pleasure to know.





Sporadic Flow, here pictured with a likeness of Mr Moonsoo, a welcome return of this talented builder. He was my first mentor and a real gem.





ColeMarie Soleil, another very welcome return... A talented girl with great ears and voice...:))) without you I wouldnt have a thing to wear....:))





Alizarin Goldflake I have mentioned before in these pages... great textures and a great friend. Always a pleasure to see what you are up to.

Consciousness and Second Life.

Botgirl, as usual raises the most pertinent questions in her ongoing interest in SL consciousness. I have posted a lengthy reply to her blog ..........
I repeat it here for those who might be interested:

"This post and previous ones have only reinforced my belief that understanding the shift in consciousness that happens as we become a virtual being can only be understood when we go back to the question of how we understand consciousness.

I resisted writing after watching the Ted Talks clip you posted, because, as he said, everyone has their own particular theory on consciousness, and I felt that mine was really just more virtual space junk. Later, I realised that very few people have a theory about consciousness, and those that do, I like to hear.

I think that a major breakthrough has come for the science community now that it has realised that all that black stuff we see in the night sky is not Nothing, it may not be matter as we know it, but it is Stuff. Similarly, consciousness may be better understood when we we start to look at the Unconscious, (and here I am thinking of the individual unconsciousness).

The decisions we take in forming our avatars “ beneath ... conscious awareness” are, like our dreams and inspirations, coming from a place which is outside our conscious control. Because dreams (and, I suspect, inspiration) are uncontrollable Jung called them autonomous, and postulated that the unconscious was both autonomous and older than consciousness.

This, if applied to Second Life, gives this (Virtual) conscious state a very unusual place in our experience, being a sort of waking dream. It is a hitherto unknown mixture of conscious and unconscious words, acts, and decisions. It is populated by Colonials trying to maintain their old culture ( the “real life” brigade) and by those that have “gone native” and become Archetypes, (dragon, elves and the like).

Those of us living in the land between these two extremes are being formed by the people we meet, the experiences we have, the clothes we buy. My human likes to think they make more rational decisions than Soror. But that is delusion.
A dream is a natural phenomenon, it is real. There is nothing unreal about SL either. It is a frontier land for the psyche."

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