This is a picture that is very much secondlife related.
In sl animation is often done via poseballs. There is a general rule: blue is male, red is female.
Poseballs have often text hovering above them to describe what they do.
Some places are littered with these ugly things. I will upload an example soon and i can show me steampunky me look too. I love it!.
It is a also wink towards some people who like to dominate others. I wonder why? Are you so insecure you need to control others?
Via Flickr:
Another version I made. With more explanation. I like the one without, leaves more to explore.
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Broken
My movie broken with music by Amanyth. It is based on a real life event. A mother we knew from school committed suicide.
I hope to get it released in June. The shoots are finished, but I need to edit it. With the current sl9b and my vacation and other activities there is not enough time left.
This it the flat I made for the movie with a parkinglot in front and a big add sign. Not everything I built myself. The cars are freebies as is the large add sign.
The rain is free as well.
The helicoper is not in the movie. I just sometimes like to fly it around for a bit.
I hope to get it released in June. The shoots are finished, but I need to edit it. With the current sl9b and my vacation and other activities there is not enough time left.
This it the flat I made for the movie with a parkinglot in front and a big add sign. Not everything I built myself. The cars are freebies as is the large add sign.
The rain is free as well.
The helicoper is not in the movie. I just sometimes like to fly it around for a bit.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Second life: Big L and me
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| Big Luciano |
It was just a moment of inspiration when I saw the above couch. There are some vague rules I abide to, perhaps they can be better described as a set of feelings.
- Big L should be seperated from the other subjects. So either Big L is in the foreground or in the background.
- Big L should have no direct interaction with other avatars or the subjects or objects.
- It must be a bit questionable. So it can contain nudity(on paintings and pictures in the background), but no actually sexual content.
It is interesting to sense the double feel in this. We are basically watching pictures in pictures. Can that be sexual in nature? Is a painting of a nude mature or adult? Is the picture of such a picture mature or adult?
Above is Big L on a couch of some grungy store I was in. The couch attracted my attention. There was a board in the top left of the picture that changed pictures. I waited for the one in the picture to appear.
This is actually the first Big L picture. I was following a hunt for furniture. I actually never hunt much, I just follow the lines of stores that are connected by them. When I saw the couch and the painting in the background I wanted to do something with it. That is when I got the idea of putting Big L on the couch.
The store was called The Vault. The painting is Beautiful Rafaela (1927) by Tamara Lempicka.
This is Big L on a seat in a gallery on Gemini Elysia.
Big L in another gallery also on Gemini Elysia. This is work made by Bobbi Laval.
Big L in yet another gallery on Gemini Elysia. I forgot to write down the artist(when you know, let me know)
Yet another picture of Gemini Elysia. This was a picture inside a tattoo parlor on the Gemini Elysia sim.
And why not. Tattoo's can be art to.
SL9B: the masque of the red death
This year I am trying to focus more on the use of sound and voice for my small movies.(I tend to think of them more and more as multi-media storytelling) I found myself however a bit sidetracked as I was expanding myself in unexpected directions. For one thing I am now taking part in several activities centered around a place called bookstacks. Of this more in a later post, let's return to the subject at hand: which is audiobooks.
I got the idea that I might use audiobooks to add sounds to my movies. This idea I developed last year as I browsed through the free audiobook sites. There are a lot of free audiobooks to be had. Here is an overview of some of them:
Top then free audiobook sites
However, before I did anything I made it a point not to use books that I can't be used. For instance, in my country the copyrights are absurd. This is what the rule is: copyrights expire 75 years after the death of the copyright holder(usually the author). Notice: 75 years after the death! Since writers tend to have their creative peaks between their twenties and forties this means a book is copyrighted for say about 100 years or more. Of course, this law is not imposed on behalf of the author. This is a rule for the publishers so they can make money out of them well after the death of an author. And 75 years is imposed on the offhand change that a brilliant writer dies early. A point in case is that this law has been implemented somewhere in the eighties of the twentieth century. Before that it was fifty years. In some countries it was even less restrictive: it was fifty years after the publication of the work. After the change of this law people found themselves suddenly outlawed because the above law was imposed retroactive. That is what governments do behind your back while you are not watching. If a company changes the conditions of sales of contracts retroactive, it can be dragged before a court and sued, but government can do whatever they please: it's democracy right! The will of the people!
Why do governments do this? What purpose does it serve them? Well, i think the best explanation is one I heard from Bakunin. Any group of people that holds authority eventually serves only one purpose: self perpetuation. Change is a danger. Creativity is change. Hence control must be exercised over creativity. Governments and the class of people that are active in them or serve them want the exercise control and control stifles creativity: either directly on purpose or as a side-effect.
But why does this stifle creativity, one might ask? Using an others work is stealing, not creative. That might be true, but picture the people who are inspired or interested in expanding on someone else's work? People built on the works of others. They get inspired by them, they want to set text to music or music to text. The older law was more agreeable: 50 years after a work is published seems to me a fair rule. There is a difference between fair and absurd.
I digress, let's get back on track.
I decided to begin simple with a small audio story. The first one I used is published as the movie virtual.
It is a tongue-in-cheek joke about second life. The poem is by Walt Whitman(yes, he has been dead for 75 years now):
Are you the new person drawn toward me?
To begin with take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose;
Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal?
Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover?
Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction?
Do you think I am trusty and faithful?
Do you see no further than this facade, this smooth and tolerant
manner of me?
Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man?
Have you no thought O dreamer that it may be all maya, illusion?
The voice is from peter bobbe.
The tongue in cheek-in-cheek-joke is that you see my avatar merit in various appearances and I found out that people interests in me vary with the way I look or behave. The tiny is cute, isn't he?
After I made this one, I experimented with the next movie, which was based around the story the stranger, by Ambrose Bierce. It is 6 minutes and has several layers of description. It would have been easy to make if I wasn't looking to give the story an additional twist. It is still on the drawing table, but pushed back by other projects.
One of those projects is the Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe.
Some time ago I talked to a friend Veleda Lorakeet about doing something with the Masque of the Red Death. I had an audio version from librivox read by Glenn Halmstrom. (This is his blog: http://toomuchjohnson.blogspot.com/)
I liked his reading and it inspired me to do something with it. I always have a kind of attraction to end of the world themes. This story reminded me a bit of der untergang. The people drowning in parties, while their world staggers towards the end. (Poe writes this: " In the meantime it was folly to grieve or to think.The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure."
The happy few shut themselves away from the world( Poe: "he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court). And the external world was left to it's own devices: (Poe: "The external world could take care of itself.").
The parallels with both second life and real life are obvious. Second Life vs Real Life and in real life, the poor from the rich, us from them. On one side the happy few, partying; on the other side the lost, death, decay and destruction.
This project I was going to work upon for the 9 th birthday celebration of Second Life (sl9b), but was postponed when Linden Labs(owner of Second Life) decided not to sponsor it anymore(bad sign!). About a week ago I heard that the celebration is still on, albeit no longer sponsored by Linden Labs. Of course we got about a month to make something. Which is a little bit short, given the fact I have a vacation of week in between.
However we got on with the idea and threw it into the group. Lux already made the black room. I am working on something along the above mentioned themes. Veleda is making the room. We hope more people will join in.
I am currently trying to create something with this story and around the theme: community, that is the theme for the privately sponsored sl9b.
More on it lateron.
link to sl9b
I got the idea that I might use audiobooks to add sounds to my movies. This idea I developed last year as I browsed through the free audiobook sites. There are a lot of free audiobooks to be had. Here is an overview of some of them:
Top then free audiobook sites
However, before I did anything I made it a point not to use books that I can't be used. For instance, in my country the copyrights are absurd. This is what the rule is: copyrights expire 75 years after the death of the copyright holder(usually the author). Notice: 75 years after the death! Since writers tend to have their creative peaks between their twenties and forties this means a book is copyrighted for say about 100 years or more. Of course, this law is not imposed on behalf of the author. This is a rule for the publishers so they can make money out of them well after the death of an author. And 75 years is imposed on the offhand change that a brilliant writer dies early. A point in case is that this law has been implemented somewhere in the eighties of the twentieth century. Before that it was fifty years. In some countries it was even less restrictive: it was fifty years after the publication of the work. After the change of this law people found themselves suddenly outlawed because the above law was imposed retroactive. That is what governments do behind your back while you are not watching. If a company changes the conditions of sales of contracts retroactive, it can be dragged before a court and sued, but government can do whatever they please: it's democracy right! The will of the people!
Why do governments do this? What purpose does it serve them? Well, i think the best explanation is one I heard from Bakunin. Any group of people that holds authority eventually serves only one purpose: self perpetuation. Change is a danger. Creativity is change. Hence control must be exercised over creativity. Governments and the class of people that are active in them or serve them want the exercise control and control stifles creativity: either directly on purpose or as a side-effect.
But why does this stifle creativity, one might ask? Using an others work is stealing, not creative. That might be true, but picture the people who are inspired or interested in expanding on someone else's work? People built on the works of others. They get inspired by them, they want to set text to music or music to text. The older law was more agreeable: 50 years after a work is published seems to me a fair rule. There is a difference between fair and absurd.
I digress, let's get back on track.
I decided to begin simple with a small audio story. The first one I used is published as the movie virtual.
It is a tongue-in-cheek joke about second life. The poem is by Walt Whitman(yes, he has been dead for 75 years now):
Are you the new person drawn toward me?
To begin with take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose;
Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal?
Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover?
Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction?
Do you think I am trusty and faithful?
Do you see no further than this facade, this smooth and tolerant
manner of me?
Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man?
Have you no thought O dreamer that it may be all maya, illusion?
The voice is from peter bobbe.
The tongue in cheek-in-cheek-joke is that you see my avatar merit in various appearances and I found out that people interests in me vary with the way I look or behave. The tiny is cute, isn't he?
After I made this one, I experimented with the next movie, which was based around the story the stranger, by Ambrose Bierce. It is 6 minutes and has several layers of description. It would have been easy to make if I wasn't looking to give the story an additional twist. It is still on the drawing table, but pushed back by other projects.
One of those projects is the Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe.
Some time ago I talked to a friend Veleda Lorakeet about doing something with the Masque of the Red Death. I had an audio version from librivox read by Glenn Halmstrom. (This is his blog: http://toomuchjohnson.blogspot.com/)
I liked his reading and it inspired me to do something with it. I always have a kind of attraction to end of the world themes. This story reminded me a bit of der untergang. The people drowning in parties, while their world staggers towards the end. (Poe writes this: " In the meantime it was folly to grieve or to think.The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure."
The happy few shut themselves away from the world( Poe: "he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court). And the external world was left to it's own devices: (Poe: "The external world could take care of itself.").
The parallels with both second life and real life are obvious. Second Life vs Real Life and in real life, the poor from the rich, us from them. On one side the happy few, partying; on the other side the lost, death, decay and destruction.
This project I was going to work upon for the 9 th birthday celebration of Second Life (sl9b), but was postponed when Linden Labs(owner of Second Life) decided not to sponsor it anymore(bad sign!). About a week ago I heard that the celebration is still on, albeit no longer sponsored by Linden Labs. Of course we got about a month to make something. Which is a little bit short, given the fact I have a vacation of week in between.
However we got on with the idea and threw it into the group. Lux already made the black room. I am working on something along the above mentioned themes. Veleda is making the room. We hope more people will join in.
I am currently trying to create something with this story and around the theme: community, that is the theme for the privately sponsored sl9b.
More on it lateron.
link to sl9b
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Experiment.
An expirimental picture. I lined prims and made them slightly transparent.
The resulting picture was edited for more effects.
The resulting picture was edited for more effects.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Gemini-Elysia
Another arty picture of gemini-elysia an artistic simulator in second life. It is full of galleries and exhibits.
Update: I heard it is closed. There was a call out for support, but well. I wish I could have contributed something, but one has so a limited amount of money to spent. Pity.
Update: I heard it is closed. There was a call out for support, but well. I wish I could have contributed something, but one has so a limited amount of money to spent. Pity.
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