Water

If we were immortal, we would not respect the life so much. (Jacques-Yves Cousteau)

He gave human being knitted to Earth the key to the world of silence. (The epigraph on the National Geographic Society Gold Medal, which Cousteau received from the hand of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1961.)

For bee and even for dolphin, the life itself is happiness for them. For human being, it is happiness to see life and to be amazed at it. (Jacques-Yves Cousteau)

Today, I have begun my contribution with several citations, which have not only inspired me, but at the same time are fascinating for me. The see deeps are one big unexplored world. Unlike that we look at the stars and fly to them, but still we know about the underwater universe quite little. There is a micro- and macro-world around us that is maybe an analogy of space distances measured by kilometers, astronomic units and light years. The space, where the stars come to existence and die in a cataclysm of energies of mega-, giga- or terajoules, Energies, about which we know nothing.

Water is one of the Aristotle elements, where belong also fire, air and earth. No, he would assign them himself, but he talked as the first one about them in Greek philosophy. There is also some elements system in China philosophy. Unlike Aristotle, it includes wood and iron. And whole system becomes hexagon and connection of all six systematically placed elements in circle give a star symbol with its all relations.

The world of Second Life is of course closely connected with water. Except Mainland, all sims are placed on the surface of Second Life ocean. Water itself is also on the sims whether as free surface of lakes and ponds, or as part of rivers and waterfalls or fountains splashing water in the cities.

When I searched for suitable pictures I used in internal search word “elements”. So of course many links appeared for different places. The first one is sim named Elements, where I liked small lakes. But the hillside with a dance floor is bit cluttered up. But Dolce Valentina hides in some shop just these four elements. So, I made the snapshots for you.

SLurls: Elements, Dolce Valentina

Silence

Yesterday’s day (04.01.2009) was a little bit funny, but also even sadder and silent, at least by me. The funnier part was set in RL, I was at some degustation of wines from Vinofol Novosedly wine making. These wines was no any miracles, but we have tasted ten samples of white and red wine in an agreeable atmosphere of nonsmoking room in restaurant called in Czech “U zámečku” (Restaurant by manor). Humor was funny, in places too noisy.

After the degustation, I have already moved in Second Life. The 2^nd November has in calendar written All Soul’s Day. Even if it was on Monday, then Momo Seriman and Scalex Overton prepared nice audio evening consisted of songs and music only so for contemplation and silent. That all in La Fabrique club.

I will not name individually all interprets on playlist, because of course I do not remember all of them. I have found on YouTube three examples that were heard in this evening.

Marika Gombitová – Koloseum (Colosseum)
Hana Hegerová – Lásko prokletá (Cursed Love)
Věra Špinarová – Jednoho dne se vrátíš (Once Upon a Time in the West, music from this movie by Ennio Morricone, Czech text by Zbyšek Malý)

It was great day spent in very pleasant society.

(Source: YouTube)

Baphomet

Recently I have read some article about rock club Baphomet by xender Xenno at Globe blog (in Czech). Surprising I have received an invitation to party in this club. Behold, I was kindly surprised. The club has gone through several exterior and interior changes.

Two maybe fallen angels welcome you at the entrance. They stand on the pedestals with mysterious inscription in foreign language. The inscription symbols burn in color of fire. The column capitals are crowned by four big human skulls. There was only one fallen angel, was not there? I think so.

There is a big burning dance floor inside. Pictures and symbols move on this floor and one has spin head. After hard dance and music, everybody settles for some drink at very style bar. Possible one gives himself/herself to laze on a big sofa. There several possibilities to relax there on poseballs and also in pair. By the way, there are two sofas in club; one of them is near to dance floor.

Personally I am not fun of the music, which is played there, but if you switch off, it is never mind. The way is simple in club, use only this SLurl.

Do not burn yourself!

School

With permission of Fanda Ryba I would like to offer you a translation of his article about Bwindi Orphans Project. It concerns a new school for the orphans in Uganda, see here for more info.

If it was all so simple in real life as it is in the virtual world. It would be sometimes too nice, but sometimes also not. If children had amongst themselves man like Shiny Iceberg in Ugandan village Angola. He would build the school them possibly without a blink. And maybe he also would fit the WC door by all manner of useful sensors. These children have maybe amongst themselves some like Shiny. So, their Shiny have to more learn. But where? Well, he has to go to the school. Do you think that he has a chance to prove himself in the classroom with other 150 classmates?

So, you know that there is some fund-raising campaign both in SL and RL to build the school.
Bigger chance could be given to all Shinys to learn something there. Do you know ever how this school should look? We acquired plans of the school that should be … What should … It WILL build even many of you. Therefore, Shiny Iceberg took the tools and he dared to call even me (Fanda Ryba) for some pair of helping works (but only to hold the timbers and to mix the clay in mix-machine). Now, you can scan through the model of the school that will serve the children in real world, the children, which receive school fees from some yours personally.

So, where is this school? HERE!!

(Pictures with permission of Fanda Ryba)

Antinomies

So, it is here again! Hour between dog and wolf has already passed, but I am remaining somewhere in wasteland. There are only the following things as my companions – a muesli stick, a silent railway station, vibrating engines of some train, a ticking railway station clock and then nothing.

Second Life is maybe only wasteland too. Sometimes we roam and grope there. We look for something and somebody and we still do not find anything and anybody. Is that vainness or? No, it is only my motional effusion at so moved hour, when strangely influenced brain is producing these lines.

I would only like to dream and fall asleep in the arms of some honey or only to fall in the embrace of beauty and nature of the lost gardens of Apollo. Small interruption of a local drunk, who is talking to himself and bit diffusing early morning glooms and fogs. Some bird screams in the darkness maybe brings beneficial Sun.

Small mouse is running around the rails and it is an observation of reality of our world. After long waiting, a rescue is coming. It is the leaving train, in which, of course, I am sitting. The escapes from and the returns into the world of Second Life separate only PC switch on and off and log on, log off. Such as the Yin and Yang principles are the antinomies each other, then also Second Life and Real Life drown one in other and they take from the other, what they need.

Burning Life in Flames

“Rise ancient city from sand of desert and show its own beauty!”

In fact, I do not know where I have heard it. However, even I already long time ago heard the sounds of wind in sand dunes and saw the flashes of the fire flames. Yes, the Burning Life festival is in full swing and the individual installations already are covering the big space of Second Life now. I also have not withstood and have clicked to some places using of the interactive map at official website of Burning Life. What arises from that, you can see on several pictures below.

Temple

Tokyo Stage

Berlin Stage

Snakes

Funny

Long Way – Point Nine – Job

Work is a word of which interpretation at the first sight is not so simple. You understand it in physical point of view, and then we talk about mechanical work, electrical work or other ones. But in result, it will be again some kind of energy. On the other hand, we can talk about physical work using human powers and muscles, which result in fantastic constructions and buildings. They were created during course of human history on many places of our globe. They are again human pieces of work, which were launched outside our planet and gravitate many planets and moons or head distant star, as for example the space probe Voyager.

There is a basic dilemma, which I have solved and I am still solving during my Second Life wandering: to work for myself and to make lindens for me or on the other side to work for someone else and to be paid for that. At my SL beginnings, I got down to some job and I worked for me myself. Actually, I worked with my friend together. Unfortunately, this job was cancelled.

However, another job came along. I have written about it there – newbies support. This one captured me, it was creative job and I do it from its morning till now. Nevertheless, man still seeks something new and perspective. Later, it was work in magazine Globe. How one can say it, this work became “my living love”.

“Ça va,” as Frenchmen say. I felt for writing and correcting of articles. I looked forward to every new Globe issue. My native language is all for me, because I see and hear everyday, how people use it, in newspaper, broadcasting, TV or infinite (or finite?) medium as Internet is. I am really disturb, how people use their language. So many orthographic and grammatical faults in newspaper and using of terrible neologisms make me angry.

Thereafter however, it comes some break point. Maybe it relates to autumn with its rainy and foggy days, when people have spleens. All is otherwise the next moment and the we realizes how we are tiny.

... somewhere in Norwegian Forest ...