Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0705301022240.17683@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Stem, Ning, Second Life
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 10:22:35 -0400 (EDT)
One of the best sites for online avatar / Second Life work is on Odyssey; Sugar Seville has opened a space on Ning (similar to Facebook) for discussion and presentation. Among other people, Gaz and I have work there - it's at http://odysseyart.ning.com/video . Ning is better than Youtube in terms of video quality (although not audience numbers). I've been largely disappointed in my own work on Youtube in this regard. In any case, check Ning out, if not Odyssey itself on Second Life. Stem "I think this deserves another look. I think this deserves a look-see." http://www.asondheim.org/stem.mp4 she said. She wandered around the space, as Ballard said, like a mad madonna; she left trails of skin, kindred tissue, organelles. Ballard added that one might construct a bridge of DNA although for what purpose it was hard to say; raveled strands rarely ad- hered in plank- or vector-formation. But the primitives stretched between nodes, positions, states, syzygies; it took all that computation, they said, to make a stem. The lingam in the Siva Purana; no one could measure it, get to the bottom of it, just as no one could get to the bottom of this avatar riding herself or the invisibility of the world. She said she saw nothing. She said she felt it just the same.