Fictitious people and the story thus far.

2008-01-22T14:29:00.001-08:00

Something new to go with the pipeline I have built from Maya to Second Life.
An Animation Heads Up Display that takes up the right corner of the screen and when you click on various buttons it plays various animations I did in Maya. The animations are of short dance steps from the Roaring 20's

I also made a caricature of myself as a character mascot. A little Orphan Annie joke. An easy one to make.

At left is the store I opened up in the Paris 1900 Simulation. Complete with my perfectly awful lack of grasp of the lovely French language.

Msr. Lune and Big Daddy Lindybucks are my way of infusing Second Life with whimsy.

Msr. Lune covers 1890-1920
BDL covers the 1920's into the 1930's
I like fictitious people. They are lots of fun at parties.

Msr. Lune a little closer.

Here is the little lady I like to call the Gear Stripper. I had someone put the idea of a "Steam Punk" exotic dancer in my craw...and this is the result, half way along.

Non a macula

2008-01-16T20:53:00.000-08:00

Latin for approximately

"Not a step"

The thing often printed on a plane wing where your foot might compromise the "airframe" or at best the skin of the fuselage. See....4 languages...French, Engineer, Nerd and English just in that last sentence.

Early in my Second Life I thought it would be fun to have a water tunnel leading from one side of my sky box to the other....Can you see where I am going with this?
I made a tube from a pre-existing water prim and the first time I tried to to walk across it to the other side, much like a chicken, I plummeted 3 football fields to the ground. Thus I discovered what the phantom check box was useful for in the edit panel.....other that to create a spectacle to amuse my neighbors.

The most fun part of this first post of this blog is that I chose a phrase that always amused me and the story came about from a tangent that occurred naturally in this god given sponge in my noggin connecting to a memory that amuses me because my ignorance and imagination led me to a better understanding of my world.

Which brings me to James Burke. His Connections Series is on DVD....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)

And his The Day the Universe Changed is still not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Universe_Changed

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pELGr0pTruc

or should I say...it is available for 750 RL bucks...
http://www.buyindies.com/listings/1/0/1021399257718.html

You cant buy Connections via BBC America
but you can get the Henry VIII Disappearing Wives Mug.
http://www.bbcamericashop.com/house-and-home/henry-viii-disappearing-wives-mug-13690.html?AID=10273980&PID=854671

You can buy Connections 1 via Amazon.com individual sellers for 150 RL Bucks
And Connections 2 for about 135 RL$ directly from Amazon.
I assume Connections 3 would be about the same...price....if it were released.

The Day the Universe Changed was a pivotal thing to me. It is a very important nexus. I discovered that I was not completely alone....and whenever someone who appreciates it is around there will be endless "convo" about it if the subject is broached.

As you can see in the clip of Burke on YouTube it talks about Wittgenstein and perception.
And how things we assume are true untilproven otherwise.

Wittgenstein is the favorite Philosopher of a pal here in SL named Jez, whom I wanted to buy something from and I had no idea of boxes and how they worked, so I did not know that I was ignorant and contacted her and complained and made a friend, and thus began my collecting of fun, sometimes strange(in a good way), muse-ish women here in the land of Linden.

I am now (I believe) less ignorant. But I think I will keep stepping on things regardless of the outcome...because there is apparently....no better way to learn for me.
Ouch. :D

FunStuff for your Second Life

Fictitious people and the story thus far.

Non a macula