lost 3D ent

bump in the 3D road

2011-02-21T16:40:00.000-08:00

This is the corner where I used to dwell in virtual. I witnessed many a crash there, this sigh is needed, people would speed along and then their motorcycle or whatever would end up stuck in a tree or spin off into the "air". :P funny.

This is me, that green thing, seated on my last 3D "home" just before it sold.

photo slide show - just because tis fun

2010-09-06T07:38:00.001-07:00

I'm now just a free radical

2010-09-04T13:22:00.000-07:00

I was a lost ent with an art tower, it sold and I downgraded to a free radical.
Just today I logged in to my old land as in the 2nd plot I bought out of 4, bought and sold. And for some reason my face wouldn't load. I like it these kludge mistakes, so I took a picture.

old 2007 vid of tree with sandy face

2010-09-04T12:03:00.000-07:00

This was filmed at Prose & Poetry on the rocks! May, 2007. The original build had what my friends referred to as the dragons nest, with only a handful of poetry "eggs".
Later it had over 50 poems at the base of my beanstalk. Then I tore down my beanstalk and moved a couple times.

Ah! such is "life" in Second Life. Oslar 239 10 87

Now, I'm thinking about quitting the game, because I rarely log-in, and I find this old vid again, and I think it somehow sums up how I feel about most of the time spent in there. Note: I'm alone and I think it's funny to fall and fly around as a tree. I did have a few friends, I think I still do, but just like in RL I just don't seem to connect with people, I mean I do sometimes, but then just wander off, not that isn't what we all do by default, maybe I don't know what I mean. hm.. anyways.

about time sinking

2010-07-22T23:09:00.000-07:00

From lost 3D ent

View in air above SL home taken using old SL viewer.

I have a few moments. So I think I'll test SL viewer 2 again.

From 2nd building

View in air above home using view 2. It seems to be working Okay now. Except I just got stuck in a wall, in my neighbors place, that hasn't happened to me in years. Oh well.

The new browser ? does anybody like it ?

2010-05-07T09:42:00.001-07:00

I should have taken photos of the first time I tried to log in with the new Second Life Viewer 2.0.1 - I just happened to be wandering in the Chakryn Forest and as a tree it's terrible to find your body covered with barbie doll flesh - I have artist friend custom made green skin and wear a complete suit of bark — shirt, pants, underwear, gloves and socks. My skin and my bark clothing is made from my real life art prints & my face (made by Gonz Streeter ) is a Super 8mm hand colored photo of real life me layered with my art. My avatar's body shape is also as tall and lanky as is possible with the sliders. I find my branches already hit some roof tops, so tall with big hands feet nose and elf ears, seems tree like enough for me to function as an AV that likes to wander around and explore virtual art. Anyways, there I was all pink, short and "Ruth" shaped with no clothes on in the middle of the normally crowded Chakryn forest ?! So I TP-ed (tele-Ported) home to fix my body. And found that the next time I logged in I had to do it all over again. After being startled by the mutilation of my AV with the NEW SL viewer, I then took a look at my home. These gray block photos are the 3rd time I tried to log in. Yes, sometimes the old viewers loaded slowly, and sometimes they kept artifact esp. particles, I have particle pollen that I've tried to get rid of 5 or 6 times and the new view fixed that. ha ha... But, there is something to be said about artful kluges and funny zany bugs,(see funny AV error, image from SL past) and the new view, is terribly slow, and not true at all my art and textures in world. After waiting what seemed like forever for my home to load, I found that is was all glowing ? I had adjusted it all to a medium bright, that I felt fit in with the weather, not full bright. Ugh. I just didn't have the time to fix every single prim in my entire art tower. So I removed the new viewer from my doc and the next time I logged in I logged in with the old viewer and listened to chat about how much other people hated the new viewer and how they were going to go find an open source option .. and I thought, yikes, I don't like to complain, I'm not really angry at the Lindens, I think the 3D world is still an interesting game and space to visit. But, I am posting this.

Uva's 4th home in Second Life is in the sea

2010-02-12T19:59:00.000-08:00

Well, not "in" the middle of the sea, but in the water next to a protected sea waterway through some islands.

I've been building another art tower there. This one is less beanstalk and more mossy stone spiral that one can walk up. I plan to display my art collection, and interesting stuff here. I only tend to log-in every now and then so progress is limited by free time, of course

Hoppy Hole'O-Daze

2009-12-25T10:16:00.000-08:00

Just logged in and noticed quite a few cool people were on-line, went to visit one group and got this chat Christmas card from another group. So I took a picture.

peace & good cheer everybody

building a new home

2009-11-24T08:35:00.001-08:00

So easy to start over in 3D, it's like playing blocks plus you can add art to any surface, photos, sounds, scripts etc.. Been feeling gray and thousands of miles away from my family. The grinch in me humbuggingly calls this time of year "hole'O'daze'. It starts on Halloween for me. Halloween night 2006 is when I started my tier account, so I could build a beanstalk with a castle on top of it, a castle in the sky. (not an original idea at all really) Lately my AV has stayed ash gray and I've been building a new art tower on my 3rd plot of Second Life land. Happy turkey day everyone, and don't let the turkeys or tofurkeys get you down.

K

one thing great about Second Life is you can always start over

2009-10-27T20:47:00.000-07:00

Here I am with zero Linden dollars and not a single meter of virtual land on my tier and I've got what seems like infinitely deep pockets. .. and I can be a neutral-grey sand-person if I want.

I plan to make some art, go land shopping in a few months. But right now I'm enjoying just being free to explore and edit my avatars.

pic 1. is an AV nicknamed Uva Jane, 2. is me the Ent / tree-person with extra fire for Burning Life,

Uva Oxide: hi, :)

pic 3. my neutral-grey stick-person AV with sea goggle on.

thank you it was fun :) goodbye Prose & Poetry on the Rocks !

2009-09-08T09:20:00.000-07:00

poets & friends - this post got a little long winded,

As I deleted the poems to sell my land I read them again, some I've posted here. I don't think I truly understand what is the best prose or poetry, I seem to like short, and funny, and morbid and sometimes sentimental writings. Who knows what makes opinion what it is.

Below are some bits of writing I enjoyed, I'm posting them here in case you might enjoy them too. Also if you want to read any of the poems listed by title but not posted on this blog, If you find me in world, I'll dig up the rock for you.

Best writing and art to you- Uva Oxide

P.s. I also posted a script for making your own floating text prims at end of this page.

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Gonz Streeter (Aka Spectralface)
Drunk in time - Excerpt

Am I real and am I really me,
what can I see?
The scene keeps reeling, I can't help
feeling like I'm falling freely,
in and out of context and consciousness.

I am aware of the world outside of me,
my vision is fixing to see another side of me.
I cant lie to me,
but I try to be,
maintaining basic motor skills.
Conversation's such a thrill,
unil my head gets, disconnected,
who's directing? - no memory for me...
If I'm not there how can I be?

2007-08-22 02:41:00

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Glorfindel's Breakfast Blues , Haiku

"No Pancakes today!
or syrup for the bacon;
Oatmeal mush again!"

- - -

Ode to Newbie by Patric Styrian

Newbie as 'Toddler'
Eager for friendship, they offer 'friendship cards' in all directions.
I get one every time I'm near a Newbie.
They change clothes in public, with no 'shame' about nakedness.
As the toddler looks around in amazement, and takes baby steps, so does the Newbie.
The world is a Mystery and a Delight to the toddler-Newbie.
Communication is very basic for the Newbie. Typing and texting evolve rapidly, however.
Inventory items (such as boxes) are frequently discarded by the exploring Newbie.
Finally, the Newbie gains enough skills to pass the mysterious barrier where he/she is no longer a "Newbie."
A resident "kid" now. With all the social games that go with it.
Second Life is like the "New Childhood."
A magical thing to go through.

- - -

"extremely brief poetry by Crap Mariner"

"Will become what with my data?
Ask the reset from my password.
Open preview ticket. The putty is bugged.."

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A peace by Maureen Aeon

Loves dagger is emotions rainbow
Invading and changing course

A labyrinth for the lost
Seeming reality for shattered hope

Or hidden warmth beneath angered waves

Our twisting souls

Blooming life
Taken from two
One stumbles without hand
Or surfaced thought

Two meant fall
From busy lives and afterthought

2008-05-02 11:39:01
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Haiku by Ada Radius

Lady Lovelace's love
For indifference Engines
Pretty escort girl

- - -

MANIFESTATATION by Prole Pinion
-
manifestation

got a dead doG froze
on a link chain
in the back yard

had an ice storm
last night & it glazed
him like aspic

tried to move him
but he’s stuck i didn’t
want to use an ice pick

but he’s pretty
kinda holy like
he’s sleeping in a freezer

sun dripped halos
hover round him
& i’m building him an altar

ever present
never changing
representing safe asylum

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Healing Spell by Rose Mackie

Wrap thee in cotton.
Bind thee with love.
Protection from pain,
Be around thee.

Brightest of blessings
Healing and peace
This day may Joy
Be around thee.

So Mote It Be.

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Things
poem by Stellair Miles

"There are things I said
and things I didn't.
Things I shoud have said
and things I shouldn't
The problem is the lack of correspondence."

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My Laughter by A2nd Planer

Laughter as a form of transcendence
Elevating the soul
Releasing its weight.
Laughter as a form of relaxation
Even for an instant
Just to let out some air.
Laughter as a channel to freedom
When truly laughing I lose my breath
Only to be able to breathe.

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DEATHWISH

Fresh dew still dampens the new leaves and blooms,
the glistening hills ornamented. Soon
the dew will rise, with scents the wind tinting,
intoxicating, and not relenting
until my soul wakes.

I do not want this breaking forth of life.
Give me instead the still of deepest night,
the breezeless silence soft, beckoning sleep.
The silken moonlight on rooftops and leaves
quiets my heartaches.

--Persephone Lednev

2007-08-28 11:07:35 note card
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The Gardener by Jamys Vuckovic

She rules from her knees;
noble brow ballcap-crowned,
Sturdy denim her royal garb,
wielding her trowel-scepter.
--
She is goddess here;
Benevolent Mistress
over all that lives within this soil,
holding Gaia, compliant, on a leash.
--
She bathes in sunshine.
Perfumed by fresh-turned earth,
bedecked in pearls of honest sweat,
Smudges of dirt, appropriate rouge.
--
She is at home here,
entwined with nature,
connected to the leaves and vines,
rooted sure as the oak standing watch nearby.

2008-01-06 18:48:51 note card

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Gene by Dingle Dinkin

brother, we're not coming out of this alive
I've seen what it has done, this poison in your blood
you're a shadow without any drive
is the second hand ticking to slow for you to see?
don't ever think the crosshairs of time aren't watching
you had a chance but you now have the future you've made

time isn't friendly get it out of your head

2007-06-14 01:38:22 note card

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Six Good Qualities By
eman Avedon

Rebel

Thinker

Doer

Lover

Optimist

Universalist

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Nothing There by Ismene Calcutt

There's a place,
In my mind, behind my mind,
encompassed in it.
I sit in the corner and
think.
Thoughts, hopes, dreams, fears,
all fighting for my attention.
Can't keep anything straight it all runs
together.
Friends, I see them, reaching out to me.
Trying to pull me out, but its too
late.
I am gone,
lost in the recesses of my own self,
help didn't come soon enough,
strong enough,
too little too late.
I sink further down,
fall, tumble, plunge, float, it changes
receding into the unknown,
less explored area.
untamed thoughts, feelings, things I never knew.
I see, hear them, coaxing me out,
Reaching in and pulling, pulling me away.
I feel the tugging at my heart, head, mind,
but they can't pull me out.
I sit, unmoved, and there I will stay,
until I find someone
worth coming out for.

2009-06-12 22:11:48 note card

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REAL by Daeudi Enoch ( prose in green text "click" image to read )

Dragon Spawn, by Ada Radius

Happy Yesterday? by A2nd Planer
Happy Yesterday? by A.blogget

It Leads to Happiness by Ismene Calcutt

do not go steping in others people heads by Alejander capalini

True Confessions, SL style by Patric Styian

Broken Dreams... by Gonz Streeter

Two Loves by Dara Karmin

To an earnest poet by Dray Brocco
Saint Poetry by Dray Brocco

The Heart of a Poet by Stepan Martinek

'distant shores' --Prose Capalini

Cold Winds By: MoodyBlues Mougin

Sunset By Star Lake by Meroveus Merlin

Praise be - by Calder Drechsler
The Eternal Winter - by Calder Drechsler
To A.C. - by Calder Drechsler

Their Dance by Jojogirl Bailey
The Surface by Jojogirl Bailey

Then You Came - by Mykyl Nordwind

Calypso soaring by Joffa Geoffrioion

Space by Kiana Writer
Pond by Kiana Writer
Dragonfly kisses by Kiana Writer
Catcher of Lucid Dreams by Kiana Writer
Four Wings by Kiana Writer

There is a man ... by Zeratul Lisle

Carnal Night by Mariner Trilling

A sudden light by Verian Felwitch

One is Fine, Two Divine by Secundo Dharma
July 24, 2007 (ViIllanelle)

Limber by Persephone Phoenix

"Lethe" by Persephone Lednev
"Romeo Hesitates" by Persephone Lednev
Deathwish - Persephone Lednev (poem posted above)
+
EROS by Persephone Lednev

Love came to Dante carrying Beatrice
and weeping, weeping because
who in their right mind
really expects love and joy?

The goddess Night bore from her dark womb
Strife and Vengeance and monstrous harpies
that snatch away children in life's first bloom,

and Love,
she also bore Love.

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Wide striaght and obvious by Flux Fairey

The neverending , fairy tale by Bonach Ireton

orgasm of love BY Pussywillow Woodget

One More Go Round by Juilia Sutter

Affection Keeps "John Sly"

THE END

(for now - prose & poetry is eternal
anyone is welcome to pick up where I left off)

first for last 1 poet rock was
why did I came here by FlowX Canning

2007-05-29 14:28:46
- - - - - -
- copy text below the dashes and paste in a script in SL -
------------------------------------------------------
//script - notes are written behind these // slash marks
// how to make your own floating text poetry or short story "prim".

default
{
state_entry()
{

//write poem or text in the Set text (".." the numbers in this case
//BLACK <0,0,0> is the color.
//GREEN is <0,3,0>
//TEAL is <0,9,9>
//YELLOW is <1,4,0>
//RED is <1,0,0>

llSetText("propel propel your vessel,
placidly down the solution,
ecstatic, ecstatic, ecstatic, ecstatic,
existence is but an illusion.",<0,3,0>,1.0);

}
}

//(sung to the tune of row, row your boat)
// lyrx adaption by Loni Miller RL*LC OR 1987

From goodbye Prose & Poetry rocks

ent exploring art in Second Life

2009-02-13T09:13:00.000-08:00

I go into this ever expanding virtual universe and one of my favorite things to do to escape RL (real life) is to explore art. It is in my opinion worth making an account and learning how to navigate just to go into the game and experience the art, alone. The social stuff is optional.

why post 13,870 dots ?

2009-01-14T20:44:00.000-08:00

....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... - I don't know if anyone noticed but I had 13,870 dots here... (now cut down to 365 + a dash for leap time.) I left the dots up here, for a few days. There is a reason, or if not really a reason, then an explanation of what I was thinking will have to do, I hope... You see I'm 38, a few months, and a few days into my life. 365 x 38 = 13,870.
I was thinking about the rather mindless way we don't think about millions and billions.
One million of something is 2,739.726 per day, or if that something is dollars $1,000,000/365 = $2,739.73.
I hear this old grade school teacher yelling " Time is money people! snap! snap! " And I remember thinking that I really didn't agree. And then someone else mumbled, "I've heard that a million times before." And it ocured to me that I had no idea, no way to visualize what a million looks like. The smallest character, like a grain of sand I could copy and paste with out actually arranging a million things in a room somehow, was a dot, so I typed 7 and then 7 x 52, and then 365 and by the time I got to 38 (the years I've been breathing outside the womb) I stopped. That was enough dots for me, to get the idea that er? 1,000,000/13,870 = 72.09 I would have to copy those 38 years worth of dots 72 times. And to be able to visualize all those million dots in one "image" or glance. I could print them out and lay paper out on my floor. Because they certainly don't fit on my screen. But, before I got there, (seemed like a waste of paper) I stopped myself, with.. "this is silly.. I've got things to do." and there you have it, why I posted 13,870 dots here for a while, just to think about the days I've had, in a very abstract way, I'll admit. (big sigh) enjoy your days for me. sincerely Uva Oxide

Oh ?.. what !! .. it's 2009 already ?!

2009-01-02T09:05:00.000-08:00

I'll rebuild / un-build Prose & Poetry on the Rocks, sometime this year. RL, we partied for 2 days and woke up today and remembered I had thought I'd have some quiet sober time in the wee hours of the am to peacefully putter and build in SL. But, I didn't even get any New Years Resolutions written up, yikes! It's day two and I'm already without a plan. I had so many bright ideas that I was drafting up. Then came the 'Hole-A-daze' Oh well, bah humbug! maybe next year.

Prose & poetry on the rocks to be un-built before the new year

2008-12-28T22:53:00.000-08:00

The 40+ rocks that contain bits of short prose and poetry, currently amassed in my reading garden will receive a serious rebuild sometime in the next couple nights. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Oslar/239/10/87

It isn't that they are a mess, as I rather like both the tangle of too much to read and the simple audacious of that tangle of brightly colored text. But, that I know as they are they are not serving the writers or the readers as I had hoped. The great thing about Second Life it that, I can take inventory and rebuild an infinite number of ways. If you are one of the poets or prose writers of any one of these works, please weigh in -- any concerns or requests are sincerely appreciated.

as always, best writing and good reading to you

Uva Oxide

web network post in progress

2008-12-17T10:05:00.000-08:00

I'm compiling an end of the year link list here for all my Second Life art and literature friends and contacts.

I'm bored and perhaps paradoxically find patterns of abstract connectivity to be entertaining. What I like best is the illogical stuff people do that doesn't seem to directly serve the human animals we live in. Why? because what doesn't fit in the puzzle seems to me to be the best explanation as to why. Not that 'why' ever has an answer, the patterns just verify that what ever it is that makes us human is the source of true chaos, and that chaos like the true straight line doesn't exist in nature but are fabrications of sentient minds.

blue hum through left nostril

2008-12-07T18:36:00.000-08:00

Planted myself on my new meditation floor, and I guess the script needed adjusting. I later found an old script from the elves that works with any prim. To keep a level frame of mind and let go of the floor one only has to stand up.

human body dying.. again.. still.. ugh!!

2008-12-06T17:51:00.000-08:00

The ent person waits, like some strange digital "Barbie" doll. Waits for the mind and fingers to push it around with the keys that are the limitations to its world. While I'm stuck in worry, anger, fear, waiting for lab results, waiting for a call to schedule a surgeon consult, to cut yet another chunk out of the human. The virtual being is trapped by neglect. -- but not technically "dead" yet.

time to rebuild my virtual beanstalk

2008-11-14T15:02:00.000-08:00

".. and my dream castle in the sky. Ah 2nd life, the great time sink, or is it a mind sync ?"

.. My mind syncs into the MUD, and my consciousness finds space and clouds where there is no air. I want to build up into the open sky in a box until I reach the top -- with no fear of falling.

Undesided US voter ? try one of these ..

2008-10-20T07:17:00.000-07:00

blue pill or the red pill.. no we are not in the matrix, but please plug your self in and think seriously for a few minutes anyway. This country needs you to VOTE this November.

Science debate 2008 : The top 14 Science Questions and Answers, a Side by Side Comparison major American science organization ask the candidates tough questions, it is very interesting read 4. and 5. for example on education and national security.

Colin Powell talks tough about what he believes the country needs.

Richest investor in America Warren Buffett and his take on the economy and TAXES!!!

Just chopped down my castle in the sky! My Second Life symbol for the American Dream!

2008-09-10T19:13:00.000-07:00

I realized that this castle I had built in the sky on-top of a bean stalk -- like the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, was for me a metaphor for the American Dream. My dream castle was a maze like space that was home to my SL art collection. Art I could never afford to buy in real life, and have to save up to buy in SL. And I chopped my dream down because the giants ARE grinding our bones to make their bread !

Don't vote for the rich man who doesn't know how many houses he owns, who's rich wife is making herself feel better by doing social work in poverty stricken countries while American's poor children are having their school lunch taken away (the one warm meal a lot of American kids could count on) was cut by the Republican's massive budget cuts. While the rich made huge profits off of our son's and daughter's who gave their lives for a war that was not sanctioned by the United Nations. A preemptive strike that was sold to the American people with lies they paid for with our tax money. A war that is possibly the worst strategic mistake any president has ever made in American history. A war that has made us WEAKER as a nation in every way, our blood !! how many of our soldiers have died now ?!, our economy and our standing with the rest of the world.

(I can't express how angry I am, phew! I really needed to get that OUT! .. sigh.. OK back to the subject I was trying to expunge).

memorial to American dream in SL

The rich get richer and everybody else loses the American dream.

In real life, we just moved across the country for work related reasons. It was a nightmare, we followed a tornado that was moving the same direction as we were at an estimated 47 - 52 miles and hour until we caught up with it, and had to turn around because some people were killed. It hit a row of houses just minutes before we got there. But, for us the tornado wasn't the worst part. It really should have been.
But, our house sale fell through as we were driving across Oklahoma the next day. It wasn't that it fell through, it was that this was the 5th time that it had made it to signing ! and the 5th time somebody trying to gain their bit of the American dream watched it snatched away from them. I know as the seller you aren't supposed to know or feel any remorse for the buyers. But, these people had given up rent controlled situations, had saved their money and now they were not only having to look for a new place to rent, but they were not going to be able to afford this new rent and the move and there goes all the money they had saved for their down payments. When they say on NPR that more people lost there homes last year then ever before and that our country saw the biggest rise in renters. THIS is what that means!

We are OK, we had to carry two mortgages and a piggy back loan for nine months so now we are in debt .. again. We had just gotten rid of all our credit debt accumulated while in school and were working on paying off our school loans, just less then a year before all this sub-prime mortgage crap hit the country. We made it out with our hides intact just minutes ahead of the storm. But, to all the thousands of American families who didn't make it. and Sen. Phil Gramm -- possible Treasury secretary should McCain win. Don't people recall any of the stone-walling the Republican's did insisting that global warming wasn't real ? How W. kept new electric plants from being built? see the movie Who Killed the Electric car ? Why do some of the extreme rich conniving for more wealth they don't need -- stop much needed environmental work that would have created millions of jobs?

If you want the American Dream to be rebuilt with this country, please vote for change, vote Democrat, vote Obama.

call for opinion and ideas for the IT group

2008-09-07T23:45:00.000-07:00

In Second Life I recently created a group:
IT = Individuals 4 Transcendence

I'm hoping that IT will be a platform for co-opperative ideas. And I'm posting this version of a notice I sent to the group because for some reason SL deleted my last two notices. And also I hope other people who are interested can go here and check for future posts about the group.

So? How are you doing in Second Life ?
How can the IT group help you find an avenue for expression or add to your knowledge and understanding ?

Ideas and opinion of all scale and scope are interesting in contrast to the limitations of virtual reality, so I don't believe that there is anything too silly or extravagant to be of interest as an idea. If someone shares an opinion to the IT group, we can meditate on it, or we can listen and think about where people are coming from and gain a better understanding of being. So please share, I don't want this to be a one way ramble :D

2nd As there is no co-opperation or group even without dialog. I have several thoughts I would love your feedback on,

1. a collection of mantras -- maybe even where one clicks on the mantra and it plays a sound file - does anyone know the limitation of .wav files placed in objects ?

2. a shared art space / gallery where anyone in the group can submit a work of art, the art would have to me moderated as I've limited prims, but I could reasonably show 10 or 15 works at a time.

here is a link to my SL land, You will need a flight feather to fly to the top of the castle and see the gallery.

3. a meditation area open to any kind of mind or memory work, for understanding the self and what it means to be.

4. maybe we should post discussions of philosophy or funny conversations on the web with snaps sent out.

any suggestions and comments welcome

peace - Uva

what ?! .. I was just sitting here thinking

2008-09-06T21:43:00.000-07:00

seems luxurious, all of us with computers fast enough to run this world on, not that it is exactly a pomp and glitz sort of deal, but my family's first computer was an Atari ST, it wasn't even on the internet ? was there an internet ? and here less then 20 years later, sure that's a long time in computer years, but I seriously never imagined that I'd be a tree person in this hobbled together prim by prim 3D metaverse.. with 42,000+ people on-line at the same time, just sitting by myself thinking..

then and now Sept. 008 tree AV

Yes that in my past, long ago for an AV..

Ent wrote a speech ! .. to nobody in particular ?

2008-08-22T13:06:00.000-07:00

OK, my speech wasn't about my reading pool, Prose and poetry on the rocks, it was about the fragmentation of individually created works in the post information age. This is better if you think about it than the isolation of individual ideas in secular cultures in the preindustrial ages. The problem really is the mark and edges of the machine, and all the concrete and fuel the machines require -- of course. So come - write a bit of prose or a poem and lets not think about it!-- too much.

I love glitches and errors in 3D, I know I shouldn't, but who doesn't adore a good kludge?! I've taken pics of a few, this one it just about the best I've seen, its me and a friend and I've been told the error based moss like stuff hanging off our avatars is called spaghettification.

Yep? this isn't right my friend. Or maybe I should say "Heck! this ain't .. what the ?! do you see everybody with their heads in their crotches ? cause damn ! Do we look scary or what!?! "

why would a human being ever wish-to-be a tree ?

2008-08-09T10:00:00.000-07:00

As a human being on Earth ? .. I want something.
I want to survive reasonably well and I want to make a difference while doing so, somehow make life on Earth just a little bit better by my one person's worth of work. (sigh)
But all I know how to do it use.. take.. burn ! -- oxygen up in the air with every breath I breath,I exhale carbon dioxide. Also lately I'm finding it near to impossible to quit drinking beer, then especially with good beer, I fart and add methane into the atmosphere. Plus when I'm drinking I then want more snacks then I'd consume if I was busy doing something or other rather then drinking .. etc.. the cycle repeats, day after day. That's part of the reason I wish I was a tree. Just by being what they are, trees give to life on Earth.

friend made me a new face

2008-07-15T08:53:00.000-07:00

My friend made me a new face out of several Super 8mm images of my real face and some bark art that I made for my tree avatar. I haven't changed the ol' tree AV in a while so, the new face is a very nice addition.

Ah ha! a demo of how a tree jumps out of a nest on top of a beanstalk.

2008-05-04T12:54:00.000-07:00

This was filmed at Prose & Poetry on the rocks! May, 2007. The original build had what my friends referred to as the dragons nest, with only a handful of poetry "eggs" Now I've got well over 50 poems at the base of my beanstalk, and I'm once again thinking I need to rebuild that crazy chunk of 3D land I call. 2B narrative in 3D.

Ah! such is "life" in Second Life. Oslar 239 10 87

I created this blog by accident

2008-04-25T10:23:00.000-07:00

The tree me having a non-productive geek sort of day, updating my del.icio.us bookmarks. and other bookmarks, deleting spam, the kind of stuff an Ent does when just not moving forward with possible real (non-computer) based tasks.

My thoughts about the above pic "what goose would build with all these white tiles ?.. at least they provide good contrast for a dark green and brown Ent AV (tree person avatar)"

prose and poetry rocks

Perhaps I should dub myself the tester of web networks and blog about them, might be interesting, who knows. I think I will make a linked list to that effect. So I list , the Second Life network sites on the right margin, and the non-SL network sites at the bottom of the page. And then I tire of adding links to this before I list them all. I'm also in Picsa, Google's photo site, and in Google groups, eSnips, I have two del.icio.us pages, I've quit ebay, recently because I've moved to the smallest space we have lived in years and can't collect any more stuff, and I know there are a few more I'm forgetting about at the moment. Anyway, there sure are a lot of these community behind the screen sites.

networking post - links for friends site's & blogs

2008-02-10T12:51:00.000-08:00

web networking

- This post is dedicated to the blogs and websites of people I have met yet never met and to the eclectic diversity in people's expression and esthetics on the web.

Time in an Avatar in a virtual game in the metaverse or 3D MUD ( multi user dimension ) one finds many other players from all over the world. Some form little clique's or hang our with a small group of friends. Most interact with people who share the same interests. Or if a person is an artist, performer or writer they may seek out an audience for their work.

Here is a linked list from A-Z by SL lists Avatar names. All blogs / sites listed here are

art, music, literature (and/or) Second Life related

.

bananartista Cioc -- weAR tHe ART ".. living museum superstar!" - http://www.bananartista.com/ and www.myspace.com/bananartista

Bettina Tizzy

--- Not Possible in Real Life - http://npirl.blogspot.com/

BuhBuhCuh Fairchild

-- Alt-Zoom http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Alt-Zoom ( sl machinima movie production group / studio )

Cezary Fish

-- designer, architect, solution provider - aHead corp. blog: http://aheadcorporation.blogspot.com

Cezanne Barbosa -- artist/painter Kevin Mulligan - http://www.kevinmulligan.net/

Crap Mariner

-- podcaster & writer of drabble / 100 word stories http://podcasting.isfullofcrap.com/

Dancoyote Antonelli

-- Full Immersion Hyperformalism - http://dancoyote.com/

Elfheart Muni

-- Wendy Elf ~ http://elfheartrising.blogspot.com/

Ina Centaur

sLiterary: Elealora Writer, SL Shakespeare Company (the globe), sLiterary Magazine: http://sliterary.com/

MiaSnow Myriam

- "makes the best skins in SL "-- http://www.flickr.com/photos/miasnow/

Nebulosus Severine

-- chromotive ART http://chromotive.blogspot.com/

Patrick Styrian

-- SL / internet Humor blog http://mindpractice.blogspot.com/

Rober1236 Jua -- explores .. the metaverse of Second Life http://thegreatslexpedition.blogspot.com/

Storm Thunders

-- A SL focused blog FROM THE EYE OF THE STORM http://slstorm.blogspot.com/
http://storm.thunders.googlepages.com/SLProfile.htm

Torley Lives

-- the extraordinary helpful & interesting Torley Linden http://torley.com/

Oh, and you know the disclaimer that states that the content and views of ------ in this case of the above blogs, may not be shared or the same or representative of the views and opinions of this blog writer, well. of course not!

In my opinion and beliefs each person is a universe unto themselves and these blogs are an attempt to communicate ideas and entertain, and I'm posting links to them here for other friends to explore and only you can be responsible for the limits and boundaries of your own universe. So take care of your self and if you don't like something click the 'back' button or the little 'x' in the corner :-)

peace and best art and writing to you -- Uva Oxide

the history of a virtural ent

2007-05-09T19:22:00.000-07:00

My old tree avatar version tree03 is in Episode 8 goldfurry

I've made a small album of images I collected, I feel a compulsion to make a record of how I waste my time in this game, it somehow shows the antisocial cold plant like creature I often feel I am that can't be seen walking around in the real world.