I went to Burning Life this morning - it's a good time to find those installations you missed. There aren't many around so it's much easier to sightsee. As I was making my way between sims I saw this really interesting avatar.
Now, lately I've become interested in "abstract avatars". I've visited Joshua Nightshade's Sector7 (sorry, I couldn't tp in to get the SLURL for some reason) and purchased a few of his mechanical ones. So when I saw this one this morning I had to go to the source. The source turned out to be Yeti Bing & Yoa Ogee, World's Greatest Smile, Shop, Playground . I'm pretty sure this will turn out to be something everybody else in SL knew about - but I've just discovered it. Here are the two I purchased. :)
I have no idea when or where I would use them - but I love having them. :)
I'm afraid I've left it too late to make it to all 12 of the juried installations. I'll try to do more tonight - but at least I made it to AM Radio's.
Ahh to have 1/1000 of his talent!
So I was ready to make a stand. I avoid drama like the plague - but I felt very strongly. I wasn't going to blog about it - first because you just get slammed if you post an unpopular opinion and the issue gets ignored; second because it seemed like a "private" issue within the group. So I posted my concerns in the group's forum. A few others also posted similar concerns (and to be fair I wasn't first so it's not like I was the trail blazer).
There was no response to the concerns in the forum. I understand there was some discussion in the group yesterday, but I was at work and missed it.
I decided that posting no comments about our concerns (never mind actually considering them) was a comment in itself. Therefore, I would leave the group. But I would make a "statement" as I exited.
I went back to the forum and said what I just said about there being no comment in response to our concerns. Then I quoted JellyBean Madison and said "kkthnxnbai". I thought that made a nice short, yet dramatic, exit line.
Then I removed myself from the Ning.
Turns out, when you remove yourself from a Ning - everything you ever did, said, posted etc. gets erased. Including short, yet dramatic, exit lines.
fizzle
Sometimes you just get really lucky - I called up Burning Life on the map thinking I might go for a quick visit and saw all these green dots - but they weren't at the main stage. So I tp'ed in to take a look and heard Philip Linden shout hello to everyone. I figured I'd better stick around. :) Good thing too - they were Burning the Man!
Torley has done a great video (well duh) of Burning the Man.
Tomorrow they will be burning the temple - this is from the Burning Life website:
I found this installation as I wandered this morning - it deserves a look! From the notecard you receive Nga Kaitaki Whenua
is an experience based on selected myths, legends and customs of the Maori people, native to New Zealand. My photo's don't do it justice - really.... go visit!
This Clockwork Spider is neat - you need to go in person to appreciate all the moving parts. My question though is why are there so many spiders? Is this a theme this year (I mean in addition to the American Dream which is everywhere)?
