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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: last days and building notes Odyssey
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:29:09 -0500 (EST)
last days and building notes Odyssey http://www.alansondheim.org/ lastdays images C:\Users\alan\AppData\Roaming\SecondLife I thought it was fine but we need to have the coordinates, how to get there, your sponsorship, etc. I put a couple (3) almost invisible prims in the sand, they're hardly there... I need a blurb in .txt form to add to the chat stuff we had yesterday so I can send to the lists. I've got 37 pngs up already of the installation - you can use any of them - the other I don't have But I can come back in an hour or two - that would be great! I'll do that, but I doubt I'll hear from her - I wrote her twice recently and nothing... Tried the teleport - it made "as if" to move me but I stayed in the same place. Hi - the piece is finished - extensively changed textures etc. - thanks Are you there? Could you take my objects? I have to teach today - This messes me up, - at the moment I'm teaching and can't remove my ob- jects - I also have a documentary being done on the site Thursday ess for me - I can't reply or do anything now I saw that - it really fucks me up at this point. I don't have time to copy this show and I've put so much damn work into it. If you can, could you take copies of the stuff and pass it to me? I'm teaching this afternoon and can't deal with this until later and anyone can come in and just erase the whole thing This really isn't right I'm pasting in the dialog with - but someone put up a piece directly cutting into my installation - do you think I can return it? now this isn't right - I don't have time to remove things and anyone can make them disappear. It was only for a couple of days. I'm teaching in ten minutes and can't deal with this and by the time I do they'll likely be gone. That would be a huge huge relierf...,no I've been here everry day - I wrote you - you must not have gotten it No problem and thank you so much, maybe write I really appreciate this - I just want to work on the documentation properly as well. I'm sorry to h that's not it ... wners are and it's clotting up the upper regions of what I did - I need to video this - please ask these people to take this down at least for a week, thanks yes vertically - there's a huge piece which cuts into mine this must have been put up in the window she left open I might be able to return it but that seems bad mannered do you think I should return it? I don't know what to do it's builder and owner right next to the installation cutting into it in the sky - it's huge. I can teleport you if you want yes Hi - look up - give me a few minuts, I'm demoing the installation - back soon ok sorry - No it's not happening to me. Perhaps I should give you the piece if I haven't already? But I think I have - Things are always strange like that - you have three chairs at about 700m above the installation in Odyssey - which I quite like; and I talked there.. but I didn't hink you put them there deliberately? if you want to speak with him Let me know when the meeting is, but please try and get to reply? The is 3/4 missing - only one image on the grounds itself and large gaps in the particle pro- jection thing. Given that, I want to experiment - nothing dirty - haven't heard from you in a while, back later - done again again are you around? did you get my messages? Whatever it is, I changed the installation somewhat radically I'm more concerned at the moment, what we might do - we only have three days or so dum de dum dum ... it would help if you could change the texture of the sim to flat black I do. will install his piece again and I think might put his up as well. Once that happens it becomes difficult to change things back - and I had to work on it Documented yes but it will be really difficult to copy all of this - some of it isn't mine, some of it goes 1km in the air, beneath the ground, etc. etc. I haven't been able to at least with the tools/ select tool/edit command (or the others for that matter) somehow we'd have to copy the whole group of parcels - ?? I'm here - I think might have set that because the permissions were loose = hold on If I go to world about land objects refresh I'm getting 230 in the parcel I'm in which is zoneE Julu Twine (other me of course) has additional 7 ZoneF I have 757 total ZoneB 138 ZoneD 139 Zone1 524 That seems to be about it If I had the chance and the time and space and some idea of the length of time it would be up But there are maybe 1400 objects, it would be hard to do that I can't figure out how to save these as they are. I'd have to reconstruct from the prims themselves and it would be a different installation. the thing is now whether to let this thing go or try to preserve the space, what we were talking about earlier today someone would have to have the money of course well the problem of history is a big issue nothing lasts forever but it would be nice to keep this work and your work and gaz' work up at the moment, and the whole space is nicely configured for that matter the last is a very real issue you would have to ask her or we would have to ask together that would mean another land area and moving this or rebuilding - it would also mean your prims as well and the containing space you have here maybe you me and that money is way beyond me... at the moment I'd like to find some way to support this - neither of thsoe is remotely possible in this climate, take my word for it so it would have to be moved in any case then - then there's no reason to talk to , etc. - that's true the piece is really site-specific - your suggestion is good - all of that's true, but there's a deadline what makes sense it to take care of the immediate problem if that's possible and then have a group to work out the future of the space if there is one how is that possible? can you send me the info = 3 gigabytes that's about it yes I'm not worried about that but send me information - Is that the lower one or the one at 1km the one at 1km was missing almost everything there was only one slab left on the flat area out of about 20 on the squares that moved with particles coming out of them maybe 1/2 were missing no just checking again, nada could be but it seems to be an endemic problem up there. so the black spheres are easier to replace but I do need if you can to have the floor surface flat black and from below as well (at the moment it's transparent from below of course) if not we can leave it the way it is, but it would be better the other I think if it's flat black texture wouldn't slow up - no shine alpha black yes meet you there just saw you walk under me :-) you're below me at high resolution this is beautiful from outside are you there? maybe instead of flat black try just dark red? with texture? ah maybe not it's the top that's more important - it does look more organic without the bottom black yes what if the top were transparent as well - can you try that? totally clear glass no! just immediately below my feet :-) yes, perfect! clear! this is really mysteriour this is what is great about SL - the surprises - the spheres? neither, they're just slowly rotating in groups but they're enough of them that they seem to be moving in relation to you if they realy did they'd go off world up here to be sure where the pin is? I assume it's still there, a bit hard to see I did that - it works well with this ok keep me informed about everything I'm going to stay here a bit and look at the changing silhouettes thanks for this so much! and this is easier to repair | To access the Odyssey exhibition The Accidental Artist: | http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/48/12/22 | also installation at OCAD Hybrid