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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Amazing Grounded Universes and Other Phenomena
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 03:10:43 -0400 (EDT)
Amazing Grounded Universes and Other Phenomena Some skysphere spaces are interspersed among the objects in the Odyssey exhibition space. These spaces revolve slowly, are textured, can trap avatars attempting to negotiate them; they carry a mute symbolic which goes nowhere, as if it came from nowhere, instead of coming from already surfaced textures. But they're relatively enormous, part of the sky; you can hardly see Julu Twine living and moving among one of them. Good for Julu! Julu: "These are so cool! In Second Life, where I am and you are too at times there for me, the Unwieldy doesn't exist! Something twenty stories high moves as quickly as a glove; a building behaves like a ball, a tree like a pebble or stone or plate; a tree like a picture, a picture of a tree. Everything runs on equal power here; no one gets sick, everyone will die, disappear. But for now on the hedge or ledge of things - take a look! - miracles occur in utmost safety... " http://www.alansondheim.org/ lindy jpgs 01 to 12 - new exhibition landscape images - edgy, potentially reflecting SL limits / limitations http://www.alansondheim.org/ pourtrait excellent jpgs 1 to 4 - new Julu Twine outfit and outfitted with skysphere personal http://www.alansondheim.org/universalander.mp4 - video of grounded skyspheres in motion Do check out - the new nuances of The Accidental Artist @ http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/48/12/22 !