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Performance art this Sunday "The Fortress of Beat"
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A moment frozen in time
Isn't nature amazing?
Hurricane Irene
We knew we were booking a trip in the islands on the edge of hurricane season or "the rainy season" as people call it here in Puerto Rico. We figured the worst thing that could happen is we would experience a hurricane in the tropics and frankly we have lived through hurricanes before and the thought did not worry us.
Welcome hurricane Irene. The storm was really not that bad at all. The singing of the coqui was magical last night and the waves were beautiful. I got a little nervous when the glass door was shaking but it didn't last too long. There was a lot of water on the floor this morning but the hotel is taking good care of us and it seems the worst is past us. The worst part is there will be no swimming in the ocean for a few days. The rip tides could be dangerous but we are looking forward to seeing what the storm washed up on the beach.
Yesterday morning before the storm we visited the amazing Rio Camuy Caves. Here are two phone pictures just for fun.
The one where Chestnut admits to being addicted to RL
The other day I got on a plane and flew south to where there are palm trees, crystal blue waters and most importantly a swim up bar.
This is my crew.
This is the view from our balcony.
Who and What are "Art Screamers" Anyway?
I recently posted about about the opening of Glyph Graves' exhibit at Art Screamer, which was a big success. People really love the work he has done to use Kinect to integrate RL with SL to create a blended reality. We are happy to have provided the prims for Glyph to show his work.
But who and what are "Art Screamers" anyway? It is about time I said something about us, don't you think?
Art Screamers is Zach Cale, Amase Levassuer and me. You may know Zach as a piano player and singer and I sure hope you have been to one of his shows. Zach also runs Project Z through which he provides ongoing support for various SL art installations. Amase owns and operates the art sim called Originialia, which houses all original art by top SL artists. I am blessed to be part of Art Screamers because it gives me the chance to work with these two fabulous people.
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Random Observations on a Hot Monday in August
I am not going to lie. I have been having a rough time on several fronts. Without going into too much personal detail I will just say that I am feeling edgy, oversensitive and more than a little unlovable. Now, I am no Skylar Smythe or Gracie Kendal so that is all you are going to get out of me with respect to my personal struggles. Still, I have been thinking a lot and I want to throw a few things down to get them to stop eating me alive.
First, I firmly believe we create many of our own problems. I see myself creating the very situations that upset me. Why do we do this? I wish I knew but it seems clear that if by engaging in negative thinking we create problems, it would be simple enough to change our thought patterns and then things would be better. It sounds totally stupid and probably it is but I wonder what would happen if I replaced "I want...(fill in the blank) with "I have...(the same thing with a positive spin.) I should give it a try and let you know how it goes.
Just because a lot of people think something or someone is fabulous doesn't mean they are fabulous. For years and years I used to think I had it all wrong when my opinions were so out of step with the mainstream. Now, I kind of like being the weird one in the bunch.
I had my first negative experience because of my tattoo the other day. One of my daughter's friend's parents asked her why I would "deface" my body that way. I would be happy to discuss my reasons but leave my kid out of it, tyvm. I was really fired up about it but I suppose I got the tattoo in part to demonstrate I am not like the other soccer moms so mission accomplished. They can all talk about it at Starbucks over lattes if it makes them feel good.
I have discovered my well of support has a bottom. It was a bit shocking actually. I usually am only too happy to put my own needs/desires on the back burner in order to make sure people I love are happy. Lately I am feeling a whole lot of "fuck that" and "if you love me its about damn time you stopped saying it and show me." I am like the personification of Missouri the Show Me State. (For short intervals when I am not building a sim for you or writing for you or tying your shoes or organizing your closet or kissing your ass, that is of course). Hey laugh if you like, its progress.
Do you ever wish you could see yourself through other people's eyes? I really wish I could. I think it might help.
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"Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, 'So what.'
'My mother didn't love me.' So what.
'My husband won't ball me.' So what.
'I'm a success but I'm still alone.' So what.
I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget."
— Andy Warhol
'My mother didn't love me.' So what.
'My husband won't ball me.' So what.
'I'm a success but I'm still alone.' So what.
I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget."
— Andy Warhol
Glyph Graves Uses Kinect to Create Real Time Art in Second Life
Compositions in Reality
by Glyph Graves
Opens Sunday August 7 at 10 AM
Live Mixed Reality Performance Art at 10:30 AM
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In his latest exhibit, Compositions in Reality, Glyph Graves continues his exploration of mixed reality art. In previous work he's pioneered the use of real-world data systems to power virtual creations of ethereal beauty that seem to act with a mind of their own. These art objects are scripted to receive real-world data feeds, such as from weather and lake buoys, and behave in response to the changing natural world conditions with virtual world movement, sound, and texture changes.
As part of Compositions in Reality Glyph creates the data stream in real-time using Kinect by XBox. Kinect is a gaming device that uses motion sensors instead of hand-held controllers. Glyph programmed the software to capture movement and depth of field, and translates these readings into a real-time data feed that he streams in-world. During his performance Glyph will use his physical body to interactively control 3D virtual objects. Glyph intends to re-create his own face using the Kinect to control prims on the Art Screamer sim in Second Life. This is a real-time art performance piece, so you must be present at 10:30am SLT Sunday August 7th to see it in action.
Even if you cannot attend Glyph's performance, I strongly encourage you to visit Art Screamer. All of the beautiful objects were created and scripted by Glyph Graves using real world data to drive movement and sounds to create innovative virtual art that interacts with you as you explore. The island is full of elegant art and scripting, including the forest of rivers - trees with color and sound, the Magnetosphere, Lake Mendota, Polyp Ball Nova, Convoluteda, and more. Compositions in Reality is virtual art at its very best.
While many of us have been pre-occupied with virtual identity lately, this work seems to obliterate the boundary between real and virtual. One can see the future in the "face of reality" - virtual is just another color in the artist's palette, another tool in the shed. How long before the larger art world concedes the expanding palette, forged by this quickly-fading boundary?
Visit Art Screamers for our opening this Sunday beginning at 10am. Don't miss Glyph's demonstration of his Kinect driven performance art at 10:30am.
Visit Art Screamers for our opening this Sunday beginning at 10am. Don't miss Glyph's demonstration of his Kinect driven performance art at 10:30am.
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