Muses: SL Profiles III

At this juncture we've discussed incidental wallflowers and those who stand out in the crowd. How one comes to find them self in contact with said individuals varies but how does one react when they are contacted at random by a diety or at the very least a true avatar working on behalf of some Greater, Multi-Hued Swirly in the sky?

Yes, it is true, I had recently seen a small piece of this young ladies dynamic installation at the Computer Club Records, *69 Art Exhibition recently but I was simply not prepared for what the event of meeting her would mean..it's funny where one finds religion, though she'd surely shudder at the notion. There's a truer essence realized, ironically, by this person who outwardly rejects all notions of divinity or damnation. An evening with her probably took me to the edge of both...I mean that in a purely complimentary way of course.

Fairy Godmother of Particles: ColeMarie Soleil

Unless one of your crazed, SL-ex's has tracked you down to where you reside and has started griefing your property en masse, you certainly don't expect a random visitor to start in with an unprompted light show that rivals anything you may have witnessed over the holidays but upon arriving in my lounge the Fae muse set about moving through a constant vortex of color and light changes. Getting her to "turn it down a notch" just so I could take a few casual pics seemed an honest chore that she humored me with, as she seemed to effortlessly pulse with a certain innate visual synergy, the likes of which, I have yet to witness contained in any single individual. I say this not with subtle lust, or flagrant ass-kissery but with a marked reverence. You spend any viable amount of time with this lyrical presence and you realize there's something other-worldly, at hand.


Now, I wouldn't even attempt to show the range for these abilities here..they were just too numerous and extensive to post but suffice it to say, in less than two hours I'd witnessed something akin to 50 unique light signatures and 20 phenomenal costume changes. Hell, I don't even know that she would do this for anyone else at random, I never stopped to ask, "So like are you always..um..freakin' amazing like this or ..uh.." Ya know, she could appear perfectly common to someone else and leave them none the wiser, I'd wager.

So I ask her at some point to take me to a few of her favorite locations...and I ..again..was not so much prepared.

The first stop was her Untitled Installation that is the full realization of her a fore mentioned exhibit, with Live streaming video she had crafted herself and stark pieces playing at every corner set off by a overtly addicting song entitled "I Love Your Music". I dropped my professionalism like so many prim pants of yore and started dancing immediately all over the installation, jumping from pedestal to pedestal like a contestant in a heated competition for Village Idiot. Enthralled, with no residing pretense, a child at play.


Wearing: Hair- TM!-Forsaken *Shirt- Valiant- Star Bite* Pants-*Valiant- Autumn Suit Pants* Necklace- Redgrave- White Claw























ColeMarie Soleil: This art is my hobby, my personal side of sl. This build is personal, not a single thing is trivial. Every single build almost, save a few things, have a real life story. Most of these things I spent hours in black boxes, toiling over, crying and swearing.

From there we visited the Straylight sim, an enchanted fantasy laden, forest where I was led deep into the heart of the woods into a magical glen of sorts. Our conversations quickly turned to existential meanderings and random expletives.

M: I believe that people are placed in one anothers respective paths at different times for a reason..to teach you things...about yourself and which side of your nature you serve, I don't regard things such as this as purely chance.

CM: People aren't split into parts there's nothing you need to know about yourself you don't already know you know... you take the side you take when you take it. If you choose to take one at all or you could be smart and not care because it's the least important thing ever.

M: Mmmm, you're the 2nd person in recent weeks to send me a message that my notion of duality is a myth.

CM: It's true. No one is a mirror of anything, people should get that idea, "You are my mirror".
If I ever, EVER hear that again I will shoot a *CENSORED*! To truly love someone and to be good for them you need to compliment them, not mimic. People get mad when I say that, god and devil, right and wrong, it's all bullshit do what makes you happy just don't *CENSORED* other people, amazing easily.

Hahah! That's it, noooooo secret. Key to Life, 2nd Life and toast. Duality is a concept a Pisces like me should like, totally believe in but I choose not to.


The final stop along our little sojourn was at the Adamsway Gallery , an amazing little combination of all things, art gallery, nature reserve and oceanic base of operations..it looks very lived in and somehow.. impossibly plausible. It was here that Cole, played for me a bit oh her live singing performances and showed off a myriad prism of original ensembles.



















I spent the rest of the evening hanging out at her home with her and her charming and rather playful brother, Takuma Setsuko who is a fellow lover of Mahjong so he gets automatic cool points in my book. Watching video's they had made with their friends the established sense of family and bond within in their Fae circle was very evident, leaving me with a very distinct longing for that in my own SL existence knowing fully well that such things are not so easily acquired or forced and the ardent wish that this wouldn't be the last I'd see of these two.

You can view a nice listing of some of these very original and mesmerizing video clips at:

http://www.youtube.com/user/rockerfaerie

One backtracking visit here to their Gallery rendered a few pics I will leave you in parting. As always, such things are for your enjoyment, so please feel free to do so.

Muses: SL Profiles II

Continuing forward with "Muses"as my official category for interviewing and generally harassing the lovely inhabitants of SL, we actually have our 1st male entry into said, category today. That is, if a half insane robot would be considered male? Don't ask me how we'd go about establishing it's gender, I'm sure there are a great number of Hentai anime's that would allow you to draw your own conclusions in such a matter, not that I would ever participate in viewing such deviancy, beyond two entries back I am completely absolved of having any actual knowledge of the rather embarrassing thing I just mentioned...what was I saying again?

So yes a decidedly shorter snippet today...

Digital Love: Epshill Forman & Sarah Polock

















Having been friends with Sarah Pollock here for quite some time prior to activating an account on Second Life, (yes, this is the person responsible for dragging me kicking and screaming into SL so you know who to blame) I immediately made the acquaintance of Epshill Forman her honest to goodness, robot boy fri-.. er something, it remains ambiguous. Sarah almost immediately set about showing me the ropes here on creating and manipulating prims and is very much credited with helping me shape the mega prims that formed my original build for the Blue Lounge, Uzamaki, The Purgatory Lounge. A truly artistic soul, despite being a native Brazilian, sporting English as a 2nd language she has always brought my thoughts and descriptions into being flawlessly, often dovetailing any creative whim I've collaborated with her on with innovation. Gushing a bit miserably at this point, the relationship is a Big Brother/Little Sister Dynamic, though her abilities far surpass my own.

The Robot, sometimes android, Epshill, is no mere gimmick. He is for all intentional purposes a construct, an ingenious, vehemently, off kilter piece of artificial intelligence downloaded into the World Wide Web at some point in the late 90's to sow seeds of outright confusion and reckless abandon, with a monitor display that simply flashes the single word "TILT" in repetition. He's scared off many a lovely bird from my nest with his random incoherant ramblings and expletives (something about "launching the siege engine"). An artist in his own right, he works with all forms of media, from prims to actual artwork and photo manipulation. He does amazing things with color, basic shapes and lighting that seem deceptively simple at first glance but are well beyond most peoples grasp. He is not role playing his station , he is in fact the resident ghost in the machine.

Below was my brief attempt at an interview of sorts with these two.

[23:07] Epshill Forman: I originally planned this computer to play Spore
[23:07] Epshill Forman: turns out Spore sucked lololo
[23:07] Meta Constantine: Now, I would love to have a submission from you on your thoughts on SL
[23:07] Sarah Pollock: AHAHAHHA!
[23:08] Epshill Forman: man you realize this means I have to interview you later?
[23:08] Epshill Forman: It is a thing of professionalism.
[23:09] Meta Constantine: Yar.
[23:09] Epshill Forman: Anyway, SL as a system is pretty rad.
[23:09] Epshill Forman: the main thing holding it back is the apathetic and frequently mentally deficient user base the software involved.
[23:09] Sarah Pollock: ahahahha!
[23:09] Epshill Forman: So I guess that's actually two things?
[23:10] Epshill Forman: but really, the reason we're up at 4000m here is because, at ground level, the lag is terrible.
[23:10] Meta Constantine: I can believe that.
[23:10] Epshill Forman: But despite the lag, crashes, and people who want to cage you in sandboxes, SL really lets us work creatively.
[23:10] Sarah Pollock: true.
[23:10] Sarah Pollock: even if you have no monies.
[23:10] Epshill Forman: I'm actually considering an arch class or maybe even a minor in it.
[23:10] Meta Constantine: This is true.
[23:11] Epshill Forman: but even if I don't, I really like both building things and seeing people interact with them.
[23:11] Meta Constantine: Oh yes like when 2 people and an a cat that looks semi-human all jumping on opposing poseballs?
[23:11] Epshill Forman: SPEAKING OF WHICH, HAVE YOU SEEN THE FUCKING GUITAR?!
[23:11] Sarah Pollock: what?
[23:11] Epshill Forman: has he seen the guitar?
[23:11] Sarah Pollock: sure he did.
[23:11] Sarah Pollock: AHAHAHHA!
[23:12] Sarah Pollock: not in that way.
[23:12] Epshill Forman: oh god.
[23:12] Meta Constantine: I saw the beginning of the guitar ages ago never saw the finished product


[23:12] Epshill Forman: I think Sarah has the only copy.
[23:14] Epshill Forman: but, yeah, I looked up basic guitar construction online.
[23:14] Meta Constantine: remove hood so I can take the snapz.
[23:14] Epshill Forman: the only part I don't really like is the head.
[23:14] Meta Constantine: That is too awesome not to post.
[23:14] Epshill Forman: the strings are individual prims.
[23:15] Epshill Forman: the frets are individual.
[23:15] Meta Constantine: Dayammmnnnn!
[23:15] Epshill Forman: if I remember it's like 170 prims.
[23:15] Sarah Pollock: ok....
[23:15] Meta Constantine: Sarah remove your hoody for a sec.
[23:15] Sarah Pollock: 101
[23:15] Epshill Forman: can you check for me quick like Sarah?
[23:15] Meta Constantine: thanks.
[23:15] Epshill Forman: oh, really? still...
[23:15] Sarah Pollock: that's a lot for a guitar!
[23:15] Meta Constantine: any special name for it?
[23:16] Epshill Forman: I tried to think of one but all the -caster variants I liked were taken.
[23:16] Epshill Forman: it made me craaazy sad!
[23:16] Epshill Forman: man I should sell these things
[23:17] Meta Constantine: sickness


[23:17] Epshill Forman: did she take her hood off?
[23:17] Sarah Pollock: I did
[23:17] Sarah Pollock: you took the pictures already, right?
[23:17] Meta Constantine: yes
[23:18] Sarah Pollock: :D
[23:18] Epshill Forman: just making sure for, bro.
[23:18] Meta Constantine: that guitar is a labor of loveage.
[23:18] Epshill Forman: Oh dude you are telling me!
[23:18] Epshill Forman: I swore so many times
[23:18] Epshill Forman: while making it!
[23:18] Sarah Pollock: AHAHAHHH!
[23:18] Sarah Pollock: ahahahhahahahhaha!
[23:18] Epshill Forman: I thought I would punt a kitten through a pane of glass!
[23:18] Sarah Pollock: AAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA!
[23:18] Sarah Pollock: Make sure to include that on your post, meta :D
[23:18] Meta Constantine: Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
[23:19] Epshill Forman: nah, that's "punt a kitten through a cardboard box."
[23:19] Sarah Pollock: dude you're just too mean.
[23:19] Meta Constantine: All going into a note card, I'll paraphrase but we'll capture the warmth of this cold unfeeling machine, yet.
[23:20] Sarah Pollock: x)
[23:20] Epshill Forman: CRUSH ALL HUMANS!
[23:20] Epshill Forman: I need to finish my new av sometime..
[23:20] Epshill Forman: the KINGS are going through another style change,
[23:20] Epshill Forman: the top hats are gonna stay but I need a new suit.
[23:20] Sarah Pollock: yeap.
[23:22] Meta Constantine: Any parting words of advice for the kiddies?
[23:22] Epshill Forman: Education is very important.
[23:23] Epshill Forman: Also 420 MAKE SHIT GLOW EVERY DAY
[23:24] Sarah Pollock: that's sexier.

I'm modeling one of Epshill's original "Ska Bot" Avatars next to his original artwork dubbed "Grasp", one of my personal favs.

Muses: SL Profiles

From time to time you meet individuals who stand out in a crowd and occasionally you rub shoulders with a wallflower playing the corner. You take a chance, send an IM, start a conversation and find that everyone in SL has their own story to tell. Accounts range from the raunchy to the ridiculous, dramatic and mirthful. Memories are made, bridges are burned and occasionally one trips, slip and finds oneself on the compromising end of a poseball.

One thing stands to reason, that everyone has a motivation that keeps them coming back, be it abject boredom, loneliness or just a place to try out ones artistic chops in a place that makes so many wonderful unlikely things possible, like anthropomorphic sex in real time, custom prim babies or even a *gasp* active social life.

Below are a few individuals I've met this week, tossed in with a few I've known for ages, each person has a bit of that "spark" and so we stopped for a pinch to take a few lovely pics or have a discussion. Enjoy.

The Organizer: Jenniewren Writer


A master of all things inventory related, Jennie is even recruited by friends to log on and see if something can be done with the miserable quagmire that comes from buying and greedily snagging freebies first and asking questions later. Also a fellow traveler and explorer, Jenn does it all in style and has a penchant for thriftiness I have yet to acquire.


I met with her In her favorite club, known for it's Indy flair and live venues, The Firefly Cafe. The rather modern exterior of this building betrays the assumption that the interior of this lovely build is anything but organic in it's inspiration, the lag here was very low and the fireflies were positively dreamy in their meandering. Jennie suggests sunset as the best time of day to view this club.















The Party: HeftyHoney Mighty

Laugh at the less than subtle name all ya like, Hefty is the premier party girl, avid photographer and host behind of one of the coolest tropical themed beach side clubs I've come across in ages, Koola, which was very much the happening place to be upon my arrival, filled to the brim with extroverts and tiny shirts. I sat down for a moment with the Mighty one to see what was what.

M: How long have you been here in SL? Is this your 1st av or an alt from your original account?
He : July 2007, I've used the same account but have gone through close to 30 skins in that time.
M: what would you say has driven you to change your look over the years?
H: Vanity. Since I joined sl in 2007, I've only ever used one av although my looks have changed to the extreme, I've always worked at trying to get my avatar to look like me in real life.
M: Well I think that's always a good lead I myself attempt to bring a few of my personal traits here, as well.
H: Yes, I believe many people do.
M. So what got you interested in photography you have a seriously impressive range of work here.
H: well I have always played around in Photoshop and then I started looking at profile pics and saw some great ones that really inspired me. I started paying 300 plus linden for a single shot then decided I could probably do just as well so I began shooting and that's how it started.
M: PS has been a fairly challenging for me to get any good results from, any tips for people just trying to get started with it?
H: It's best to just to play around with the various filters on the same picture so you can really see the differences in them, initially, to see what you enjoy. Try to learn too many things at once, even now I probably only know 30 % of my software.
M: Today you sent me a TP to a fresh, little tropical style club, the Koola how did you get involved there?
H: Well, I'm well known as a bit of a party animal in sl so I used to go to all the best clubs and one day I befriended boo.rang, the owner of Koola and eventually she offered me a job there.
M: How long have you been working there and what are your primary responsibilities?
H: The Koola is based on a rl club in Cornwall, UK. I manage the place a few times a week which means I hire my own DJs, I get the crowds in, I write group notices and I take pics for the blog site. Recently, I came up with the idea to have a DJ competition called the Koola Klash, the prizes for which are almost 100k. We started this competion on the 19th, so right now the DJs are just fillling in the applications we start hearing them next week.
M: I imagine that can be a bit taxing at times?
H: Not really, because I have a lot of energy and I love what I do
M: This is a lovely home you have here, who designed it?
H: The same creator who made Koola, Scarlet Creatives.













M: I can immediately see the similarity, really clean and modern which I like very much, what would you say is your favorite feature of this build?
H: Hmm.. Probably the windows in the roof and the clean modern open plan design. I love all of scarlet houses and lived in a huge one before this but I find this more cozy.
M: The general decor here seems pretty eclectic and diverse, would that be safe to say?
H: Yes, I have great taste. *laughs*
M: I'm sure you taste wonderful.
H: Naughty, naughty.
M: always.

Time & Space: Cherelle Capra & Helena Stringer.

It is rare that a customer forms a long lasting friendship of any kind with a vendor here in 2nd life. Despite any parlaying for discounts or chummy reception you receive upon entering your favorite store, the bottom line is more often the not, your linden.

And so with Cherelle here, amicable and intelligent as ever, I had no reason to really think differently. Our conversations initially, were far and few between, revolving around custom work and decor as her workload at C&D Designs (which I would much rather think of as "CC Designs") has kept her busy and somewhat aloof at times. In recent weeks, maybe in my imagination at best, our friendship took a bit of substantial root and we actually have strayed from the professional script of employee/customer relations. No, no stop with your immediate assumptions, this is just to say that on a personal level, I see a very genuine and likable person here, who's made a real success of herself and currently holds court over my single favorite furniture store in the entirety of 2nd life which is maybe saying a lot, but the range and diversity of modern and retro styled lounge pieces found within the store are impeccable and tailored to my exact tastes.

On the flip side, you have Cherelle's younger RL sister, Photographer and Hair Stylist Helena Stringer , proprietor of The Stringer Mausoleum and Shrine, who is by no means a stranger to my entries here having all ready contributed some of my favorite photos on this very page. She definitely exhibits the two's love for Sci-Fi and fantasy in almost everything she does. She recently allowed me to be a cheap-ass and modify a very inexpensive set of gear for her rezday gift, which they'll both be celebrating here at the lounge next Wednesday night.

A wild child of no subtle renown, it has been an ongoing source of no small amusement to get her to fess up to Cherelle's every embarrassing secret for later use and outright blackmail. Just kidding, Cher..or am I? mwahaha...

Heaven's Going To Burn Your Eyes

Highlights From The Week:

High Rez-Ultra Snapshot of The Blue Room during Mid Day

So earlier last week I showed off some of Helena Stringer's very cool and original Ethereal Eye Set, recently looking in on Winter Jefferson's latest entry "Don't Shoot Until..." I commented on an equally cool set of eyes I had seen by eye creator, Malkavyn Eldritch, musing that I would love to see a set in Blue.

January 19, 2009 9:11 PM

Meta Constantine said...

The green set (photo 2/panel 2) have a cool old school monitor type feeling with the defined circles cut into the center, there's a very cyborg looking vibe playing off. Wouldn't mind having a set in blue (no surprise there).

January 19, 2009 11:02 PM

Malkavyn Eldritch said...

It's great to see such a wonderful review on eyes Winter! Ruina & Sky both have awesome eyes! Now about those eyes in blue... *grins*

Of course, I thought he was joking but no sooner had I logged on was I passed a very nice couple of items, an eye set dubbed Clubbing: Dune Revisited and some enhancers called "Glow Worms" that light up and lend any given eye set a rather otherworldly feel.

Ethereal set on Ultra

Clubbing: Dune Revisited

Clubbing: Dune Revisited- Glow Worms Applied on Ultra

Big Empty: Everything Must Go Sale?

So while visiting Aoharu earlier this week on Niko's suggestion due to a 50% off sale I realized that a lot of these ultra modern, posh interior buildings were alarmingly empty. Yes there were several quality items here displayed towards the front of these titan like structures but then you would find row after row after row...of nothing?

The 2nd floor, pictured above was even more depressing looking like the final scene of Highlander or something equally despotic, I didn't even get a cheery sword fight to determine the fate of humanity, for my troubles.

Go, Brooklyn!

Hanging out with Brook a bit this week, watching videos on YouTube at her and her girlfriend's very nice residence dubbed "Freudenabteilung", (yes she doesn't know what it means either but it's hella nice) chillin' like villains of no small stature. An NYC resident, she is just a very laid back girl. No pushin', no pullin', just lets me be me without a whole lot of fussy judgements and jealousy, which is refreshing to say the least.

She also doesn't laugh at me when my inner black man comes out and I ramble on, waxing poetic about hip-hop for the better part of an hour and make her watch all my favorite old school videos so there has to be a Nobel Peace prize nomination in there somewhere. This just in: "Freudenabteilung" apparently translates roughly as "Joy Division" a name her girl, Lolla picked out.

What's My Age Again?

So we do our best to get around these days, be social and such, taste the locals, dance with the delicacies or um...something like that. Here's a bit of what we got up to this week.

Bros before Hos: Dancing with the frat boys, Thadeous Drucker and Johnny Barbeque at the Crow's Foot, Indy Club during one of DJ Niko's sets.

Niko's Set List

Wearing?:
*Texture Alt, Barista from Gritty Kitty
*Grey Peace T-Shirt from Random *Afghan Stole from Aoharu
*Black Stud earrings from Muism
*Black Kroko boots from Redgrave
*Ace of Spades bracelet from ]monogrind[
*"He's So Fine" Jeans from Made Man


Standing Next To?: Computer Club Records Recording artist X-AM, whom I tease a lot for sounding like Coldplay if it were dragged in and out of the 7th ring of Hades. She does a very cool computerized voice narration at all of her shows and puts up some rather seizure inducing set pieces next to her key-boards, definitely worth seeing.

What's My Age Again?:

Driving around insanely long tracks on Go Karts at KJ's Racing, masterbating to Hentai Mags in the middle of XSaraho Mornington's roller rink? It's just another day in the life of the GOT-DAMN, boss. Seriously, I said that with a straight face. No, really.

Have fun, be safe, see you next week or sometime similar.
Sin-Meta