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Millimina Salamander: Dark Moon är en vacker och fantasifull sim. Här bjuds det på en dramatisk och färgsprakande miljö med en massa läckert och kreativt skapande.


Vandra runt och upptäck det som simmen har att bjuda på: rekreation och exploring när den är som bäst.








Musiken som spelas här får en att känna sig som medverkande i en fantasyfilm - helt magisk.




Här följer nu ett bildsvep över Dark Moon:
















http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Dark%20Moon/190/189/22

Farbror Ib citerar

Farbror Ib satt ett tag i mörkret på Solace och prövade hur det kändes att knyta en näve igen... men nöjde sig sedan med ett citat.


Stycke hämtat ur slutet av kapitlet DE GAMLA BRÖDERNA i Sigrid Combüchens bok Spill med undertiteln EN DAMROMAN:

I den norska dokumentären "Heftig og begeistret" om en manskör i Berlevåg vid ishavet finns en man som vägrar ge upp idealen. På bussutflykt till Murmansk knyter och höjer han gråtande en kommunistisk näve vid ett monument. "Man må kalla det naivt, sentimentalt och aningslöst. Men här i sammanhanget är det den lilla människan i opposition mot en enda, världsomspännande åsikt och ett enda världsdominernade intresse. Heder åt ett sådant grus i maskineriet!"

Tips för torsdagar

Förra torsdagen började '' the V Room, a wordless fiction '' 1/4 på simmen Pirats Art Network. Flora Nordenskiold har skrivit om det på sin blogg och typote Beck har lagt ut en snygg photostream från eventet för oss som inte kunde vara där.

Denna torsdag kommer andra delen av fyra med start 22:30. Missa inte det!

We are pleased to invite you to the art performance '' The V Room, a wordless fiction '' given by Vive Voom aka Luca Lisci and produced by Marta Lanzius, Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 22:30 FR - 1:30 pm SLT.










http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/PiRats%20Art%20Network/127/146/29

The V Room is a virtual art piece built by special invitation of Pirats Art Network.
Luca Lisci explores the inner side of his art project , the Voom Hotel, by experimenting storytelling made by use of virtual worlds in a interactive live performance.

As every other room in the Hotel the V Room is a manifestation of a particular personality, in this case we'll witness the identity of Vive Voom, the artist's avatar.
The piece has been developed in 4 different acts: Alpha , about birth, Gamma, about fighting, Epsilon, about love and the final Omega, about truth.

Audience attending the performance at Pirats' island will listen a special soundtrack streamed live, while deeply involved in a everchanging, surreal hyper landscape showing Vive Voom's innermost memories, dreams and nightmares.
Every viewer will be engaged in a pure immersive storytelling, a truer than truth fiction without words.

Vive Voom

Annabellas Café öppet igen

Ett så viktigt event kunde naturligtvis inte Apmel hålla sig borta från. Det fick bli en sväng förbi trots att kroppen ville ligga till sängs.


DJ Betty Idler spelade rockabilly som aldrig förr och stället var packat såklart, som alltid när Annabella bjuder in.


Satorin satt i baren.


Bock dansade på den.


Annabella Lundquist: men gud så många gamla vänner
Annabella Lundquist: jag e rörd


http://slurl.com/secondlife/Denmark%20Bornholm/190/155/31

15 minute rants @ Red Star Bar

Imorgon redan 13:00 svensk tid hålls en första runda av dessa 15 minute rants.


(Thursday 31st ) 4am PDT Red Star Bar
Tomorrow will see the first of our 15 minute rants.

Rules –
You write for 15 minutes on a political issue that is important to you – this can be local, national or international. Write it on a notecard and then send it to Plot Tracer who will publish it on the SL Left Unity blog (www.slleftunity.com )

These notecards can then be given out to those present for a follow up discussion.

No personal differences will be published – this is not a platform to denigrate anyone (though political differences with RL representatives will be considered).

You have 15 minutes to set out your stall!


http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Flagg/216/14/114

From Wikipedia: The Ranters were an alleged sect in the time of the Commonwealth (1649–1660) who were regarded as heretical by the [establishment] of that period… The Ranters' [beliefs] allowed them to reject the very notion of obedience, thus making them a great threat to the stability of the government.

They seem to have been regarded by the government of the time as a genuine threat to social order.

Ranters were often associated with nudity, which they may have used as a manner of social protest...

The Ranters were largely recruited from the common people, and there is plenty of evidence that the movement was widespread throughout England…

Omskakande

Kan man inte få bli frisk i fred?! Ska man behöva läsa att Tina slutar att blogga just när man svettande satt sig vid datorn för att läsa den?


Den ska drivas vidare läser man sedan. Men på vilket sätt?

"Jag har under nattens timmar överlåtit min blogg till sex ytterst pålitliga personer i Second Life som skall driva den vidare.

De är alla vana i Second Life, andra världar och några från bloggvärlden med. Fyra är Svenskar en är Danska och en Norman. De har alla mycket bestämt valt att vara anonyma tills den dag de ev träder fram.

Av skäl som många förstår efter den senaste tidens vuxenmobbing, trakasserier via IM, mail, falska anklagelser, lögner och annat jag vet om... alla häxjakter i Svenska Second Life. Och som drabbar och drabbat fler än mig numera."

DE HAR ALLA MYCKET BESTÄMT VALT ATT VARA ANONYMA TILLS DEN DAG DE EV TRÄDER FRAM!!!!!

Vad är detta? En blogg med anonyma inlägg? En blogg utan bloggare? Jag skulle trott att det var en ära att få ta över denna berömda blogg och att de som blivit så utvalda skulle börja med att presentera sig med stolthet!

Dags att rösta igen

När ens primatar känner sig ur form är det skönt för själen att kunna skicka en avatar på konstrunda med en god vän. Fram t o m söndag kan man dessutom rösta på sina favoriter bland de 76 utställarna i UWA 3D Open Art Challenge för mars månad.

Här är några av upptäckterna denna månad. Den kompletta listan finns under bilderna. Pga att Apmel är medansvarig för Nordan Art-priset får det konstkritiska samtalet mellan Kludden och ush förbli mellan dom denna gång hur gärna än min primatar hade velat publicera det:))




















People's Choice Vote for the March Round of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge is now open. Come see the 76 wonderful works on display! UWA (67,127,249) voting closes approx 36 hours before the announcement ceremony, which will be 6am slt, wednesday 6th April

Landmark for the artwork and the announcements are
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/UWA/59/136/249

1 Alexandra Mensing Tidal Force
2 Alexandra Mensing Lush Vision
3 Anley Piers Remember
4 Archael Magic 8th day
5 artist Loon Tree plantation
6 Asmita Duranjaya Dagoba Sri Lanka
7 Asmita Duranjaya BloodFlinders
8 barry Richez Electroman
9 Betty Tureaud Sky Dancers
10 ChapTer Kronfeld Never Forget
11 Cherry Manga Flight
12 Cherry Manga The Sphinx
13 Corcosman Voom The Rut
14 Corcosman Voom Cut flowers
15 Daco Monday Pittore e modella
16 Daco Monday Musico
17 Dekka Raymaker Garden of Eden
18 Dusty Canning Flying in Space
19 Fae Varriale Pods
20 Fae Varriale Identity
21 fiona Blaylock Jaz
22 fiona Blaylock mardigras dana
23 gina Broono Weeping Earth
24 gina Broono original paintings - travels and nudes
25 Ginger Lorakeet Rock Box
26 Gingered Alsop Aurora
27 Gingered Alsop Shattered
28 Giovanna Cerise La bonne chance
29 Giovanna Cerise The dark moon
30 Gleman Jun The sublime act of creation
31 Gleman Jun The fragility of the soul is not a defect
32 Gore Suntzu Cosmic Spectroscopy
33 Haveit Neox Marionette
34 Jesse Keyes Turtle with the flat earth
35 Josiane Sorciere Musicbox
36 Julez Odigaunt Never Made It Home
37 KaiShun Oleander Bordeaux Cloud
38 KaiShun Oleander KaiLaiDai 2
39 Kalie Fang Cosmos Reborn
40 kyra Roxan Eternal Love
41 Lea Supermarine and Jarapanda Snook The Crystal Nymph
42 Louly Loon Revolution of the Sun
43 Louly Loon Loon
44 Luko Enoch Future Tributes to the Now Man
45 mcarp Mavendorf Kaleidoscope
46 Milly Sharple Time Waits For No Man
47 Milly Sharple Stained Glass Trio
48 Miso Susanowa Olah
49 Nino Vichan La Maledizione del Conte di Monterone
50 NuxVomica Mint Fiend
51 NuxVomica Mint So Long and Thanks For All the Oil
52 Oxil Zane Trilapse
53 quadrapop Lane Fragmented Woman
54 quadrapop Lane 80cubic glow cube
55 Randy Firebrand Subjective Projection
56 RazorZ Torn sky glaze
57 RazorZ Order of Fractals in a Digital World
58 Reezy Frequency Second Story
59 Scarp Godenot Repentative Alpha No More
60 Secret Rage The Woman of Why/The Woman of Woe
61 Secret Rage ...and still I dream...
62 Silene Christen Spanish Bull
63 Silene Christen Tribute to Goya
64 soror Nishi Spring Energy
65 spirit Radikal Center of the Earth
66 Susan Cloquet Cubic Sushi
67 TheDove Rhode Guild Light Travelers
68 Xon Halostar Bear Globe
69 Xon Halostar Puppet Theater: 3 Little Pigs
70 Yooma Mayo Mantis Praying
71 Cullum Writer Angel
72 Rebeca Bashly House where nobody lives
73 Kati Kristan Mandala I
74 Kati Kristan Mandala II
75 Neeks Karu Fallen Angel
76 Kobuk Farshore Only Money Makes Bunnies Rich?

Den sexhundratusende besökaren

För febrig och hostig för att fira, men ett litet jubileum är det iaf :)

Robotar för sex och annat

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wolverine/240/244/31

Den stora hallen på Wolverine var glest befolkad igår när TinCan Tryce aka AJung Moon höll ett föredrag med titeln: "Stretching the Moral Yardstick with Robots"


Föredraget hölls som en del i University of Michigans Seven Deadly Sins Event Series i Second Life som pågår under mars och april.


AJung berättade bl a att hon trots sin entusiasm över robotar inte var helt säker på om det inte vore bättre att skaffa fler barn att i framtiden ta hand om de äldre än att förlita sig på att robotar ska göra det.

Hon var däremot betydligt positivare till att använda robotar som sexhjälpmedel.


"Robots for sex, Sexbots, last January in 2010, this robot on the slide, this robot was introduced... Some people might think this is terrible. Why do we even produce these? There is a good side to this also. Is anyone familiar with the idae of sex volunteerism? A group of individuals who offer to have sex with strangers.. the sex volunteerism used to empower individuals. This can be a kindness, a good thing. What are we actually getting into? Is this an abuse of tech? Or are we using it to make lives better?"


Hennes idé om en krigsrobot som inte dödade fiendesoldater utan rykte ifrån dem deras vapen och bröt dom i bitar var defintivt tilltalande om det än lät mer som en dröm.

Simma med afrikansk gudinna!

Den uppmaningen kom med ett grupputskick från Africa Lives Bermuda Firecaster tillsammans med en längre text om myterna kring sagda gudinna.

Heroine of lake stories and urban legends, Mami Wata is often represented in painting where she appears in the guise of a mermaid or a beautiful young woman holding snakes.

Mamiwata is a "pidgin" water spirit, Mamy-Water ... Maa UATI or Mama UATI (Mami UATA), mermaid, woman-fish, half-aquatic, half terrestrial, or female snake with long black hair.

Mami Wata is also the spirit of the sea that appears on the beaches or in the heart of major cities at night.

She is a water spirit feared by fishermen in Nigeria and Ghana, being as well nurturing sea or destructive ocean.


Mami Wata is primarily an Ewe water goddess, her religion is very present on the Atlantic coast, where it symbolizes the supreme power, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo - Brazzaville.

Mami Wata is now part of the pantheon of vodun gods, with many followers in the cult of Dan's royal python, performed by Mina, Adja, Ewe, Fon, Yoruba and Ibo. Her Diviners and healers followers use religious figurines, candles, lights and incense sticks.
According to voodoo belief, who found one of her hair on the beach will have wealth, provided he remains faithful.

In her entourage are often Hindu deities (Rama Mami, Mami Vishnu, etc ...)
Her cult was so widespread in West Africa, Central and South America, on the Atlantic coast of the Gulf of Guinea and the African Diaspora, the Caribbean, and parts of North and South.

According to legend, Mami Wata is a new goddess came from the world of waters, seas, oceans, with the first Portuguese ships, then Deutch, English and French ....
The first Europeans to approach the coast of Guinea seemed to emerge from the sea with their boats. Their bodies were like those of the drowned, their strange tools could only be created by some eccentric water spirits.

This is when the encounter between white settlers and black Africans that Mami Warta has become the favorite goddess of "free women" of post-colonial cities of Africa and became the object of rituals, black magic and sorcery.

Mamiwata is spirit (andjimba) attached to the water, a female spirit who possesses women and makes them seductive, women possessed by this spirit are irresistible and have long hair, to deliver them, one cut their hair ...

A male variant of Mamiwata is tatiwata ...

Mami Wata is often portrayed with a complexion of a young girl, snakes around her breasts, snakes represent a supernatural power.

Benign, it can provide beauty, wealth, family and a long life to those who honor her, but she also has a dangerous side and capsized the boat, makes the soil sterile and drowns his unfortunate victims.

Beautiful, fascinating, she chooses women and men to whom she provides luxury and wealth in exchange for their love, but Mami Wata is a jealousy that is devastating when one does not respect her laws ...

Mamy Wata can take the men she enriches into sexual slavery, exchanging her blesses for a family member or even his manhood.

At other times she is venerated as embodying the spirit of a drowned or as "Ruler of the water and drowned".

She may appear in dreams and visions of those who are dedicated as a beautiful mermaid, or, in the streets of cities in modern Africa, disguised as a beautiful woman.
In Congolese folklore, Mamiwata is prostitute, preferring to visit the markets and visit the bars in the guise of a beautiful woman, man-eater who leads men into madness or the guise of a ghost, as the patron saint of prostitutes in Kinshasa.

Symbol of free women, her image becomes in Congo-Zaire, Mobutu and then with the rise of AIDS, one of the dominant themes of the Congolese popular art.


Mami Wata loves modernity; three of her favorite offerings are some sweet imported perfumes, expensive sunglasses or glasses of Coca-Cola. The Mami Wata colors are red and white.

At the center of the rites of the water, Mamy Wata is the object of worship, black magic and sorcery, but is also a source of hope.

Mami Wata is a wholly African. alien creature, like a siren, spirit that lives in water, but also a former divinity, strange divinity, strange to men and strange to nature. She is a supernatural creature, which embodies the intersection of three worlds: animal, human and spiritual. This hybridity gives her all her powers.

On the eve of the Second World War, fairground displays are found in abundance in the markets of Africa under the title "The Snake Charmer". The reason, the decorations and the face shape to evoke India.

In the 1940s and 1950s, its distribution in West Africa was greatly accelerated by the proliferation of reproductions.

Her picture soon decorates walls of many houses which gathered the followers of Mami Wata. Diviners and healers began to use representations of plastic, wood or cement as figures of worship or advertising.

And here is how Mami Wata was promoted to the rank of divinity. A cult has developed very complex mixing Indian, Buddhist, African, European traditions and even astrology.


Mami Wata ....Feel her spirit at:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Estings/168/137/5

Here is one of many tales about her:

MAMI WATA AND THE MONSTER

Inspired by "Mamy Wata and the monster" Veronique Tadjo (Benin)

Mamy Wata Queen water lived alone in her kingdom. She was very generous ....
Animals could drink in all water points, men could fish wherever they wanted in her kingdom.

Her loved companions were the sinners, large fishes and other animals in good faith.
Mamy Wata spent her days diving into the sea, playing in the waterfalls and swimming in the rivers.

One day she was notified of the presence of an ugly monster. This one was terrorizing the habitants of coastal villages.

It was an aquatic carnivore monster: he had swallowed two fishers and several children.

The monster retreated overnight in a grotto. The Queen of the Water decided to sat near him. Mamy Wata heard his groans in his sleep, and then realized that the monster was unhappy.
The monster tells her his misadventure. "I was once a young man and a witch changed me into a monster because I refused to marry one of her daughters."

Mamy Wata was very sensitive to the monster complaints; she comforted him and made the monster happy.

Taking compassion, the queen of water decided to give it back his human form.
So the monster is transformed into a young man. He freed the fishermen and the swallowed children. He chose to live with Mamy Wata forever.

Contes du Baobab (Baobab Stories), March 23, 2010
Research provided by Artemisia Mathy

Inside Google

Betty Tureaud (klicka på länken och läs Fiona Leitners intervju) har just öppnat en ny installation på Kellys Gallery. Hon kallar den "Inside Google".


När man kommer dit hamnar man inuti en glob med typiska Bettyfärger :)


Går man utanför globen möter man Philip Linden och en mängd bilder som kanske har hamnat där till följd av Googlesökningar.


En ledtråd Betty ger (den enda) är denna:"Libya is a mess :("


http://slurl.com/secondlife/Healy/193/62/423