Miss SL Universe 2009

It is well known that there are many different competitions in Second Life and Miss is one of them. The Miss SL Universe 2009 will take place on Saturday 6^th December at 10:30 am SLT. The SL Newspaper informed about this event and the whole article can be to find here. The list of 20 candidates contains also representative of the Czech Republic. Lacey Alderson. Who is it? After simple SL search, her profile shows beautiful picture:



But I am surprised, she has in her language box: English, Typonese. And whereabouts Czech is, if she represents the Crech Republic? Who is this mystery beauty? Perhaps we found soon an answer.

Second Life 4

After longer pause when I had to devote to RL, the new contribution is coming. It will be small review of one project that is closely connected with Second Life. I don’t have to urge anybody how Second Life is extensive in a sense of its area or of number of active or inactive SL residents. Just read Economic Statistic Report and everybody can imagine it. Such a huge space is overfilled by all possible information that to obtain, to find or to handle their bigger part is absolutely impossible. The communication either personal or by force of the different interest groups has to be main and motive motor inside SL. Every avatar is certainly a member of some group and he/she usually receives different type of information, e.g. notice about taking place of some event like an exhibition, a wedding, a party, etc. It could be also a message that is highly important for the group members.
However, the limited number of groups in avatar profile doesn’t achieve to register bigger amount of information. Further possibility is a usage of Search inside of SL. It has not to be easy to handle this technique. Sometimes it is difficult to obtain relevant information, even if the system of SL Search is same as whichever known searching in Internet. However, I think that the system of bookmarks for search in categories and subcategories is high sophisticated to successful finding of anything in SL Search. In RL, except the classical media – newspapers, journals or TV – also Internet is important source of information about SL. First of all, the specialized blogs purvey much information about that, what is happening in SL.
I would like to introduce to you just one of such blogs or many blogs, respectively, how I will explain later. First, how do I found this project? It was coincidentally also through one blog. It was published in article about Ancapistan Capital Exchange (ACE) at www.secondlife.cz. Since this exchange seemed interesting for me, so I started to trade, but about that other time perhaps. I found the following hyperlink The Second Life News Paper (SLNP) at ACE web presentation. SLNP is a virtual daily about SL. Avatar JamesT Juno is founder and CEO and his SL partner Dana Vanmoer is co-foundress. These two together with team of realization (20 persons) created the most read newspaper in SL. Although SLNP is classical web homepage, the individual sections have the blog feature. And which specifically:

Finance – The business world of Second Life
People – All about the people columns, interviews and newbie tips
Explore – Place to see, things to do in our amazing new world
Events – Articles about events that have taken plus news on upcoming
Design – Fashion news plus all about things that have been created
M.A.C.E. – Music, Arts, Culture and Entertainment
Red Light – A heaving industry in SL, but where should you go?
Extra Extra – Mostly fictional stories and columns plus occasional PR

As I said, each of these sections is blog. So, if you use RSS service, you have no problem to be informed in time. You can visit main office here.

Main Entrance

Inner Yard

Under Stars at Midnight

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?

Second Life 2

Everybody is born and Second Life is not an exception of that. Although the avatar is not born naked, unlike the real world, anyway he/she would like to belong somewhere. To be a part of something, to be a member of some community, to find friends, anyway to belong somewhere. Same or similar history befell also me after my materializing in the world of Second Life. I also groped a lot of, but I learned myself, but as I wrote elsewhere I had absolutely excellent mentor. One could expect that it shouldn’t span long time and I found the community of Czech and Slovak (CS) here, as I am Czech even though from Moravia. However, something was still missing. Some strong point, where I could return and where the main gross of CS avatar is concentrated. There was nothing for long time, no place and no island. However, then it happened something what all awaited. The mists of Avalon disappeared. Word for word. The city called Bohemia rose on part of island behind the AVALON DESIGN shop behind the rock. However, it is necessary to search Bohemia in Second Life under the old name of my country – Czechoslovakia, but only temporarily. This city doesn’t exist anymore. It is only in memory of them that was there or in a form of ones and zeros as pictures in PC. What was there then? Watch the video here.

AVALON DESIGN SHOP


Avalon

So, back to Avalon yet. Do you know that Avalon or also Avignon are two names of mythic island of apple trees and Celtic priesthoods? The Celtic word abal means apple. In fact, it is the island, where the human souls come. They say that the mythic island Avalon is rest place of the legendary king Arthur and of his wife and where the sword Excalibur was forged. By the way, the shop AVALON DESIGN is still at the Avalon island a and it is excellent shop with skins. The owner name is known for Czech and Slovak community. It is Vilem Beaumont. He is also the author of SL fantasy adventure „Catacombs of Avalon“. The mists of Avalon covered up Bohemia for some time to appear in new beauty at new place after that. The new island Czechoslovakia with city Bohemia appeared. The Old City and New City expanded on flock of other nice places and buildings as the time goes. A little remained, a little changed or was changed and a little disappeared forever. What remains are the inhabitants of the city, who have taste here to stay and live. On the other hand, also the invisible men those care for city and so on. The following pictures maybe are not the characteristic sample, but look over.

Old City Place


Old City Place


Chapel in the park


New City - Radio Building


New City - O₂ Telefónica


Old City - pub


CR Police Station


New City - Infopoint


(Zdroj: Wikipedia)

Second Life 1

This is the first contribution that begins the series of contribution, which would deal with some for me interesting place in Second Life. This place could commonly known or found by me or somebody recommended it me. I should begin with the place that I know the best and where I am very often, so Bohemia, but maybe next time. Since this idea to write such contributions occurred me three days ago and I was invited at one such me pleasant place, I will write about it.
How I already mentioned above, I didn’t find this place, but I was invited there. It is a shop called Gransy Fashion. It is focused fashion in Neko style. I always said myself, which sort of avatars looks as cats have lived in SL. But no literally, they have kittle ears and cat tail, but otherwise human appearance. Afterwards I remembered that such creatures could be seen in Japanese cartoons in manga. Really, the word “neko” means domestic cat in Japanese language. And kitties and cats and probably young tomcats and tomcats, they all like to dress too. This shop is for them and also for others. What do they have to offer? The fashion in style Neko of course, but also Punk and Urban fashion. There are many pieces mostly for cats, but you can find here also three ones for tomcats. The prizes range from 55 to 299 $L.
And if you don’t wish to shop, there is the Japanese garden with maples and lake in the middle under the open sky. Sit under one maple, listen something nice for you or meditate under the rustle of butterfly wings.

You are welcome and finally some pictures.

Music Festival

This weekend was rich in both sport and cultural events in Brno, Czech Republic. As every year, The Grand Prix of the Czech Republic was organized at The Masaryk Circuit. There were about 250.000 visitors. At the same time, the so-called Brno’s Day took place. This event is organized every year as the remark of the important historical thing from history of Brno and the remark of the heroism of the Brno inhabitants in besiege a town by Swedes during Thirty Years' War (1618 – 1648 in Middle Europe) in year 1645. The small group of the defenders with help of city inhabitants resisted to the attack of the huge superiority of Swedish army of the general Torstenson and Brno was never captured. The 400th birth of the marshal Louis Raduit de Souches was celebrated this year. He was the army commander of Brno then. This year was also open public his crypt in St. Jacob church.
The third event, which has begun last Thursday, was the 9th International Spilberk Festival organized by Brno Philharmonic every year. I was also there and the Hollywood Night was on program, i.e. movie music. The following ones had the big success: C'era una volta il West (Once Upon a Time in the West) and The Phantom of the Opera.

(Sources: Wikipedia, www.brno.cz)

Several pics from the Spilberk castle.