Breathe of Life

Uich gwennen na ‘wanath ah na dhín.
An uich gwennen na ringyrn ambar hen.
Boe naid bain gwannathar,
Boe cuil ban firitha.
Boe naer gwannathach, [...]

You are not bound to loss and silence.
For you are not bound to the circles of this world.
All things must pass away,
All life is doomed to fade …
Sorrowing you must go, [and yet you are not without hope].

How the time is fleeting. Recently somebody reminded me that he lives in Second Life for the whole of thousand days. Surprisingly, I am also here more than these thousand days. Is it many or few? It is a question. Definitely, I would not want to do here some recapitulation of my being in SL, rather to remind or to remember the distant and past things that has happened me. I would not want to repeat too much, because I wrote here about many things once yet, so only several notices.

Birth of a city was one big adventure. When Vilem Beaumont gave a space on the sim named after mythic vaporous island Avalon, Bohemia city was born there. Some community of great and interesting guys appeared around this city. In some time, the city was moved to own sim – Czechoslovakia – and The Old City is actually Bohemia’s heart. Only informed people know how it was and anyway for me they have certainly nice remembrances of these days and of Club Paradise, where it really lived. The thematic parties have not repeated anymore.

It is Angara’s fall and then its rebirth. It is Angara that then disappeared in time again. Angara is next catching point of my wandering in SL. Angara, where Club Paradise came back in other look and with other name. Angara, where the most beautiful dragon was made and created (in my private opinion). Angara, where you could buy stylish clothing, which is selling now under PXD Toxic label. Angara broken into a sand of a desert.

The Lost Gardens of Apollo I have not even to introduce. They belong to the most beautiful sims in SL. I never stopped to feast my eyes on its beauty, its high towers, trees, flowers, birds and many other magic things. You can only stay on the bridge above the sea and only to look around and to hear.

Breathe of Life.

(Source: YouTube)

Cry into the Dark

I want to cry and scream loudly, let the whole Second Life hear it. Desert again reaches its own and Angara disappeared without any trace. So, it already looked that the resurrection was coming after certain time and when new buildings and objects filled the sim. New inhabitants and visitors were coming as well. Then, it happened, all is away.

Is it the end of all things?

Reincarnation

Unreal thing became real one! Outlines and shapes are coming up from depth of desert sand. Some lonely group is waiting by fire.

Recently I have written about Angara and at the same time I have said goodbye. Never I would think that after so short time Angara is appearing in its all beauty. Of course, this process is not fast. You cannot build the new world in one day, but all is probably on the right way. There is the first building on the sim –shop of PXD Toxic mark. So, your favorite dresses and accessories are back.

New address is following: SLurl

The Lost World

Something is changed. I fell it in my bones. Nothing is like was. The places once known do not exist. The places once beautiful disappeared in desert dust. Who is staying there? Only they, who created these places. Survivors. Maybe they are enriched by something. Feelings. Experiences. History became legend. Legend became myth.

These words sound rather pessimistic. But what one thinks oneself, when he/she hears that something is already not or it will be not. Destruction, ruin and sorrow. Angara has passed out of his existence today.

Desert has absorbed everything. Only wailing wind is spreading and moving grains of sand. Runway with an aircraft is vainly waiting for passengers. I am also vainly watching for wanderers in desert. Nobody is coming.

It remains only hope that one day the city comes up from desert and an ancient glory will be restored. I believe.

Second Life 5

So, I have decided to write something about my life in Second Life shortly after my one week of “labor-lazy and lazily-labor” stay during the international conference DIMAT 2008 at Lanzarote at Canarian Islands. This story already happened long time ago, but it was fascinating and amazing, as I will describe later.
Even if Bohemia is my the most visited place and I work there, my sympathy and tendency is turning to Angara. It is partly changed now so as its creators wish. They want so that Angara complies with the catastrophic scenarios and the vision of the world after apocalypse. Further, the old good club X-ko is working again and so you are heartily invited. The change touched also my favorite place to laze. There is no anything beautiful than to be under the starlit sky. This place was one very gorgeous furnished – quality minimalist design – house. I relaxed upstairs in some room with both glass wall and ceiling. One could see only the ocean and stars. This house did not disappear, but it is nothing like that as it had been. All things are away, only the bare, dark and cracked walls. One can enter inward through the big cracks and wander and think about past and future. And only the wind is wailing how it is penetrating those cracks inward.



The second place, where I like to be, is situated in the shopping area. There is small sofa near the burning taxi. If it was not there yet, I had sat by the stones in sand. Sometime, it was dark, I was there and the small point appeared near to me in the mini-map. But I did not see anybody and also no these common avatar names and group titles above avatar head. That awakened my interest and I changed the environment to midday. After that I saw something what surprised me. I know that the avatar shape can have whichever forms and sizes, but this case was really stunner. Judge yourselves in the pictures. I know this avatar and I also know that he lives in SL only in this inhuman form. Very good job!

Second Life 3 Once Again

So, Angara is still gloomy and dark place. The sky is still drowned in the darkness during the day, only in the night it shines with the billion stars. The dark recesses and the secret staircases attracts to the insight. Something is moving in the dark, the strange noises are reaching our ears. Is something approaching or moving away? Angara is not resided only the avatars, but sometimes also other creatures are appearing. Lived corpses – zombies.

Me and Stars

The Stars

Zombie 1

Zombie 2

Lost in the Darkness

Zombie Attack

Escape

Second Life 3

Ce qui embellit le désert, dit le petit prince, c'est qu'il cache un puits quelque part…

(“What makes the desert beautiful,“ said the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well...“)

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

Yes, the desert is a strange place. These are the never-ending places of the sand dunes and also of moving sand, which gives downfall. This is the place, where the torrid sun troubles the tired wanderers. This is the place, where the sky is full of the stars so closed to anyone like never. Sometimes the wail wind runs around and the sand tempest comes. What is constant, these are only “ships of the desert” – the camels and the fata morgana. This is an optical phenomenon, which owes its own name to mythic Morgana La Fey. It is hopeless to search the lost cities in the sand. Maybe only the silent oasis can wet the dry lips and strengthen the body before the further wandering.
Is it a fiction or a reality? It is a question. Maybe such desert exists in RL and maybe not. Angara Desert is another desert at Angara. Some ghost city was built there as an apocalyptic vision of the total loss and of the vainness inspired by the The Resident Evil phenomenon. It is both the Role Play Area and the shopping area. It is:

Being and Order

Downfall and Chaos

Army and Transport

The Crash and the End

Elsewhere Far Out of Us

The Death in the Sand

The Tower Break Down

The Explosion

The Contact with the Outer World

The Three Sisters

Time to Fight

The Tunnel

The Lights in the Darkness

The Quiet Oasis

The Way of the Being

The Inside

The View to the Eternity

The Destroyed Life

The Last or the Lost Train?

Party in X-ko Club

The list of the themed parties for period from 20.06.2008 to 25.07.2008.

20.06.2008 – Neko Party – Come in Neko style clothes.
27.06.2008 – Prison Party – Prison guards and prisoners in striped.
04.07.2008 – Motorbike Party – Are you funs of the motorbikes? Then Harley, Chopper, leather jackets and pants, it is just for you.
11.07.2008 – Worker Party – Dress togs and go work! All types of working dresses are welcome!
18.07.2008 – Horror Party – All vampires, werewolves and other monsters are welcome.
25.07.2008 – Gothic Party – Black style and right make-up, that’s it.


All parties begin at 20:00 (Central European Time – GMT + 01:00), an ideal time for beginning.

And where? Here at the isle Angara.

Mysterious Underground

"Mysterious recesses, gloom somewhere in a corner, on the wall, a dark smudge that was once bloodily red, the sounds of dripping water, the sounds of creaking pipes or squeaking rats.

Remembrance of world where everything was easy and everything was possible. Lost and forgotten civilization, the victim of its own destruction.

I am roaming and still I am not finding. Indeed, even I do not know how I got here. Area around extending and shrinking again, fog is deepened and disappeared. Paintings are dancing before my eyes as the glow-worms in the woods. I am cowering by the wall in the twilight and I am sensing either space nor time.

Perhaps the last quiver, flash of light in the corner of my eye. Force I will try to rise again and i am going to the light. Staircase is emerging from the mist, a high degree of rising upwards. Finally exempt!"


I do not know whether it might be so, but the visit of the club inspired me to this crazy text. So I would like you all to pass through underground and showed a few points and also club.


We can enter the underground here



or here.



Just to meet a few stairs, pass through a long dark corridor,



pass around the grille



go donstairs



and we are in the club



and the bar is not missing.



You are all invited to the Xclub on Angara. Contrary to earlier practice will be thematic party only once a week on Friday, in the usual 20:00 Central European Time (GMT + 01:00).

Social Party in Club Xparadise on Wednesday 11

The Social Party has gone ahead in the Club Xparadise yesterday. I have made a few pics to show you the club and its environs.

Dance floor



Place to sitting and talking with friends



Dance whirl 1



Dance whirl 2