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Well, I have gotten into the "it has been too long since I wrote in my Lj I need to do a long catch-up post... and that just isn't happening. *sigh* I think this is the longest I've gone without posting ever.
So... what is up with me? A lot of my brain is eaten by Pomba meditations. And I am having interesting dreams. I am really glad I only have one more day of work before I am off to concentrate on headwash prep full time. Wednesday I spent the whole day with my friends, Kelly & Chris. Kelly had offered to do my braids and it really did take like eight hours. We worked from 9-1 and then went to Oakland to run some errands (I got by Ancient Ways store and got the candles and headwash herbs). Then we hit my house about 4:30 and went until almost 9pm! It was a gruelling day just sitting - I can hardly imagine how sore Kelly must be. We used a really bright red (totally unnatural) and black synthetic hair with some tiny strands of yellow through it. I'll post a snapshot as soon as I have one.
My Second Life continues apace. There was an inworld history conference this week where about 70 educators from around the country came to four different historical sims (including Renaissance Island and Land of Lincoln which are Alliance Library sims). Scar & I helped out on Ren Island and I did fireworks for the final ball on Land of Lincoln. I think it went pretty well and I hope the possibilities of teaching in SL were made clear.
I have an exhibit at the Second Life Fifth Birthday Celebration. I wasn't sure I would, the Lindens were being very weird about kid avatars. First they said, "Child avatars are welcome at the celebration. However, we do respectfully decline the submissions we received to create exhibits for the event." There was also some talk that Goreans, BDSM and some other communities would be excluded. After originally announcing mature sims they changed them to PG sims. *shrug* I don't care about the rating but I do care about the exclusion of avatars based on their community affiliations!
I mean, we have some wonderful artists and content creators who are part of the child avatar community! The thing that mystifies me the most about this is the denial of content by child avatar creators but the allowance of child avatars at the event. And just to be clear, everyone in Second Life is 18+, but some people have second childhoods. The wingnuts are not going to look at pix of child avatars attending SL5B on flickr or whatever and go "well it is okay, they weren't allowed to create anything". How does this make any sense at all? Well, it didn't... so the Lindens then changed their minds and welcomed child avatar creators. And so I decided not to decline my spot (I had applied long before the controversy arose.
So I have spent the last week putting up a gallery with forty mandalas, my biggest show of them yet. And my client has been totally banjaxed so it was a *lot* of work to put up. And now I hear that they are still being weird. They have declared the pictures that have both adult and child avatars in them. I don't feel like withdrawing at this point... but I really hope there will be a fringe festival next year. And I will go to the Kids5B event that was started whilst child avies were excluded. But it is so weird how the fears of this life are magnified in SL sometimes.
Oh! And I should mention the sky tonight. The fires in the Santa Cruz mountains have made the sky hazy and the sunset looked otherworldly. All our friends are okay, though the fire came wihtin three miles of Linnea's place. Fire is scary.
So... what is up with me? A lot of my brain is eaten by Pomba meditations. And I am having interesting dreams. I am really glad I only have one more day of work before I am off to concentrate on headwash prep full time. Wednesday I spent the whole day with my friends, Kelly & Chris. Kelly had offered to do my braids and it really did take like eight hours. We worked from 9-1 and then went to Oakland to run some errands (I got by Ancient Ways store and got the candles and headwash herbs). Then we hit my house about 4:30 and went until almost 9pm! It was a gruelling day just sitting - I can hardly imagine how sore Kelly must be. We used a really bright red (totally unnatural) and black synthetic hair with some tiny strands of yellow through it. I'll post a snapshot as soon as I have one.
My Second Life continues apace. There was an inworld history conference this week where about 70 educators from around the country came to four different historical sims (including Renaissance Island and Land of Lincoln which are Alliance Library sims). Scar & I helped out on Ren Island and I did fireworks for the final ball on Land of Lincoln. I think it went pretty well and I hope the possibilities of teaching in SL were made clear.
I have an exhibit at the Second Life Fifth Birthday Celebration. I wasn't sure I would, the Lindens were being very weird about kid avatars. First they said, "Child avatars are welcome at the celebration. However, we do respectfully decline the submissions we received to create exhibits for the event." There was also some talk that Goreans, BDSM and some other communities would be excluded. After originally announcing mature sims they changed them to PG sims. *shrug* I don't care about the rating but I do care about the exclusion of avatars based on their community affiliations!
I mean, we have some wonderful artists and content creators who are part of the child avatar community! The thing that mystifies me the most about this is the denial of content by child avatar creators but the allowance of child avatars at the event. And just to be clear, everyone in Second Life is 18+, but some people have second childhoods. The wingnuts are not going to look at pix of child avatars attending SL5B on flickr or whatever and go "well it is okay, they weren't allowed to create anything". How does this make any sense at all? Well, it didn't... so the Lindens then changed their minds and welcomed child avatar creators. And so I decided not to decline my spot (I had applied long before the controversy arose.
So I have spent the last week putting up a gallery with forty mandalas, my biggest show of them yet. And my client has been totally banjaxed so it was a *lot* of work to put up. And now I hear that they are still being weird. They have declared the pictures that have both adult and child avatars in them. I don't feel like withdrawing at this point... but I really hope there will be a fringe festival next year. And I will go to the Kids5B event that was started whilst child avies were excluded. But it is so weird how the fears of this life are magnified in SL sometimes.
Oh! And I should mention the sky tonight. The fires in the Santa Cruz mountains have made the sky hazy and the sunset looked otherworldly. All our friends are okay, though the fire came wihtin three miles of Linnea's place. Fire is scary.
