Rain is a quite curious and unpredictable meteorological formation. It takes down in a form of common small or big drops. Or as heavy rain, when the water strands lash earth and the lightnings cross the sky. It is often changed on the way and we are bombarded by thousands of frozen hailstones. Sometimes however it is raining three months all the time, as in the case of the monsoons.
I do not like flood.
However, I like such the fine rain, such the small drizzle, when it is not even some need to open your umbrella. You feel, how the small drops fall on your face. The air smell of pleasant moisture. (By the way, such the rain is very healthy and very good for our skin.) Even if my glasses are in a moment covered with the small drops, but, nevertheless, it does not matter. It is interesting to watch the world through such steamed up and semipermeable glasses.
I like watch.
Try something yourself so only to look around yourself, not only in our real world, but even in this other. The looks through such windows offer the interesting pictures – not clear figures in the fog, changed colors, mysterious lights in the dark corners. And then sunrise is coming, all is going clear, we are seeing the beauty of the tropic archipelago, which is hidden somewhere in the ocean.
I like blueberries.
However, the tropic storms are treacherous and your ship can be driven to the wide seas or to unknown shores of other islands. But even here, you find the people that would like to enjoy themselves and those that really enjoy themselves. Even that is the look through the window, even though bit another. Colors and lights, people and things are more clear and more obvious, nevertheless, still more distant, outside the reality.
I like do a dance.
Again the thunderheads are appearing yet. Only several lonely people are solving mysterious lettering on the square. The shadow are becoming longer, the figures are disappearing in the fog, the facades of the old houses are changing their colors and mysterious lights are coming form the deep.
V úterý 27. 7. 2010 v 18 hodin budou zahájeny paralelní výstavy obrazů brněnského malíře Lukáše Orlity z let 2008- 2010 s názvem "HARD & SOFT". Půjde vlastně o výstavu jedinou, která bude probíhat souběžně jak ve světě reálném v galerii Slévárna Vaňkovka - Salon, Ve Vaňkovce 1, v Brně, tak také ve virtuálním světě Second Life.
The exhibition of the pictures of Lukas Orlita, Tuesday 27.07.2010 in 6 pm (RL - UTC +1, SL - 3 am PDT), it is the beginning of the parallel exhibition of the pictures of the Brno painter Lukas Orlita (2008 - 2010 years) with the name of SOFT and HARD. This only one exhibition and it will take place both in Rl in Wanieck Gallery Brno and also in SL in Educatica, sim Shinyland. Here is the SLurl.
RFL Fair: "Another Fair, another fundraiser! Relay For Life is probably one of the largest Fair organizers, seeing as there are several every couple of months. Anyhoo, this one proved to be a majestical pain in the ass as the fair was made up out of no less than 43 sims, and only lasted for 1 single [...]"
(Notes: Nice pictures and mayby also the 43 sims. Amazing!)
Linden Lab Stock Sinks at SharesPost: "The return of Philip Rosedale as interim CEO of Linden Lab has apparently left real world investors unmoved, as offers to sell heavily discounted Linden Lab shares sit untouched at the SharesPost.com site. While SharesPost reports sales of Linden stock at $5.50 USD/share as recently as February 2010, current offers to sell stock go begging [...]" (Zdroj: Alphaville Herald)
Other World Notes: Can Unity Save 3D Virtual Worlds?: ""Can Unity Save 3D Virtual Worlds?" is today's question I'm asking in a new post on Social Times, writing around the Beta launch of Friends Hangout, a virtual world running in Unity 3D: A number of highly-touted 3D virtual worlds..." (Zdroj: Alphaville Herald)
After long time, I have decided to continue in article series, which I had named Long Way. Only for reminding, my second birthday in SL was an impulse to begin and surprisingly now it is my third one again on 11.07.2010. The year passed and there are many flocks of changes, new and old friends, extinctions old places and births of new ones in this world of Second life.
Today I would like to write about photography. I take pictures in my common real life too. I have abnegated still to take pictures on a classic film, so then this agreeable waiting for these pictures from a photolab. Will they bad or good? So this feeling is just irreplaceable, On the other hand, there is really the digital photography boom nowadays and one can simply buy a camera from a common compact to the high advanced digital reflex cameras. Nevertheless, it has not caught me.
Actually, I have taken pictures in second Life from my existence begin. I have taken everything possible around me, not only an environment and countryside, but also people around me, my friends. Many of these pictures have been created before I had begun to write this blog. Much of them are of course private and non-publishable. After begin of my writing, the photography frequency had been increased. Sometimes, there were the pictures only to add to a text, sometimes, they were its inspiration.
On the other hand, the photography in Second Life could be considered as some form of the digital photography. To the intent that you can produce such pictures in huge amount as long as you have enough place on your hard disk, and then you can sort and delete them or possibly changes them using different graphic software. It is same as by RL digital photography.
However, what cannot be done in RL is the possibility of some immediate change of environment. Since SL is dynamic world, it is possible immediately to change Estate Time and with help of Environment Editor Function also what kind of sky, clouds and water will be; all this can be done either manually or using already made templates from the SL creators. And provided you have already the last viewer version, that you can achieve another amazing effect with advanced options. The possibilities are plentiful, but sometimes more is detrimental and sometimes it cause the fall of all the viewer even all computer, because the hardware requirements are enormous.
So by my wandering, these my small fragments of virtual existence in Second Life arise. They are stops on the coast of endless ocean, sittings in its changing nearness and in light flashes from the nearby club on Groove sim. It is fantastic and big ABBA party at rezz day of one avatar in Club Arsenal or only usual party in sim Cafemar or in the shadows of Beachwood.
There is relatively a lot of these pictures, but I was sad did not show them. My former works you can find here on Koinup.
The photography has become my integral and essential part that I cannot already imagine that I could not take pictures in SL.
They say that Africa is a humankind cradle. In Olduvai, an ancestor of the contemporary man appeared for the first time – Homo habilis and Homo erectus – and from the heart of Africa, it spread into the whole world. The area of the East African Rift Valley is rich for the many fossil findings and Olduvai is just here in Tanzania. However in year 2002, Brunet et al. published in scientific journal Nature* about the oldest hominid petrifaction. This would not have been anything so strange, but question is: Where were found these petrifactions? The scientists found them in distance of 2500 km (1 553.43 miles) from the East African Rift Valley in central Africa in Chad and they estimated their age between 6 and 7 million years!!! This is Africa surprising.
Africa, these are the streets of Marrakesh, the pyramids near to Cairo, the temples in Luxor and Karnak, the cities like Casablanca and Alexandria, the lost Timbuktu with its doors, the endless plains of the deserted and sometimes green deserts like Sahara or Kalahari, or the deep and impenetrable rainforests with the richness of flora and fauna that often disappear forever.
Africa, these are the Nile River with its cataracts and with all burying Aswan Dam, waters of the Victoria Falls, with snow covered peak of the highest mountain known as Kilimanjaro and the deep mines with diamonds and gold in Kimberley and Congo.
Africa is also the extreme poverty in glamour of the riches. It is hopelessness, high unemployment, pain and sadness, worry and death. These are the depopulated villages. These are prejudices and superstitions. It is hunger, HIV and it is AIDS.
I was in Africa only once sometime in year 1985, it was in Algeria. Nothing of what I have now written, I have seen or experienced. Only the oleander flowers attracted me through their aroma and I drowned in them under rays of hot African sun.
Come back to the reality. Africa has materialized for me on just ending weekend. The theatre “Husa na Provazku” (Goose on String) in Brno has entertained some group of people, enthusiasts, doubters, but even faithful and selfless people and donators this Saturday (26.06.2010). Africa has materialized for me in the form of the large photos, beads and small baskets made by people that are far. Africa has materialized for me in the form of African drummers from Congo; by the way they live in Czech Republic. Their drums have totally overturned the world and the theater has become a furnace of Africa.
However, in an intermission we have listened narrative of Missis Gita Fuchsova about many projects that are under way in Kenya and in neighbouring countries. Missis Gita Fuchsova is the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary and Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the UNEP and UN-Habitat ((UNEP = United Nations Enviroment Programme, UN-Habitat = United Nations Human Settlements Programme).
The wide spectrum of programs has covered, for example, the preventive vaccination of dogs in Mt. Kula mountain chain in Kenya, which is every year made by people from the University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Brno and they do it successfully. It is also “Doll for UNICEF” project, where the voluntaries sew some doll and it is offered to an adoption for 600 CZK. This amount is needed to revaccinate of one child in the underdeveloped countries against six mortal child illnesses. And of course, it was Bwindi Orphans, because this civically association and its activities in Uganda were a midpoint of that day. It has begun by some afternoon talk and has continued then in the theater passage and in the evening also during the concert. It was not missing also a connection between Bwindi Orphans and the virtual world Second Life, which was tried to explain by Fanda Ryba. I think that he has succeeded it. At his presentation, he has shown us also several pictures from SL, where is also placed the school, for which there is a fund-raising campaign through the pink pigs that are on many sims of Czech and Slovak community in SL. Around this school you can see also picture made by the court photographer of Bwindi Orphans Michal Prihoda. The account amount is updated regularly on this web site and all donators (more than 400) are there listed even with the respective amount of Linden dollars. To this day (01.07.2010) people has donated 634 805 L$.
However, the performance of the band called Cankisou (maybe pronounced as Tschankeyshow). This band was founded by bigbeat musicians at some Christmas party in year 1999. With help of the most various instruments form the whole world, they threw themselves into absolutely new waters of ethno, world music and in an original way, and they based their work on some legend about an ancient uniped nation of Canki (Tschanki). During 10 years of it existence, the band has gained the solid place in musical sun and today they belong to the top of Czech world music.
To describe an atmosphere in an auditorium and even on a stage is quite difficult, one have to experience it. So, at least there are several pictures from this event here: ones on the official site of Bwindi Orphans and other ones on Zuza Ritt stream. Well, finally you can look at three clips of Cankisou only for an idea what they play.
Zuha clip was shot in Pakistan by LP Fish during our participation in World Performing and Visual Arts festival 2007 in Lahore. Borrega clip is animated one made by students at Film Academy of Miroslav Ondricek and Independent Film College in Pisek. Last one was based on materials that Michal Prihoda recorded and shot in Uganda.
*M. Brunet et al.: A new hominid from the Upper Miocéne of Chad, Central Africa. Nature418, 2002, 145.
Yours truly is called Coral Ducatillon and I appeared in Second Life just on 11.07.2007. I am wanderer in Second Life. I live in Blansko and work in Brno at research institute of Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. This blog is about my life and about my personal opinions about Second Life. Sometimes it is also about my real life and about some news about SL from another sources.
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