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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: CIAC electronic magazine on Second Life Art; More Julu Experiments
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:46:10 -0500 (EST)
CIAC on Second Life Art Check this out - articles by Patrick Lichty on Second Front and Second Life art in general; Domenico Quaranto on my installation; a good article on Gaz' recent work; Fred Forest dans Second Life par Fred Forest; and others. http://www.ciac.ca/magazine/sommaire.htm The whole magazine is really good; I've been looking through back issues. More experimentation with Julu Twine: Look closely and you'll see a red circular object, as well as a number of other shapes, dropping in steps from the sky back into the installation. Here is how it happened: Julu Twine rode the object (i.e. sat on it) as it revolved on the floor of the installation. The object has a Disappear script which requires it to rise 25m when an avatar is present. Since the rising is accompanied by the avatar, the rising is continuous until the avatar leaves the object; at that point, the object very slowly begins to sink back to its original position. Dropping records the sinking. http://www.alansondheim.org/dropping.mp4 There is also http://www.alansondheim.org/julurising.mp4 - Julu approach- ing the object, sitting on it - at which point the object immediately begins to rise. One can imagine an elevator system running on Second Life Physics - how- ever it might take a half hour or so for the elevator to return to the ground; not only that, but if you stepped on it somewhere up in the sky, you'd only go higher. So a cheap rocket up and down, but the latter without passengers. | Alan Sondheim Mail archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ | To access the Odyssey exhibition The Accidental Artist: | http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/48/12/22 | Webpage (directory) at http://www.alansondheim.org | sondheim@panix.com, sondheim@gmail.org, tel US 718-813-3285