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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Eifachfilm Cacirca's installation (and some changes in mine) in SL
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:31:16 -0400 (EDT)
Eifachfilm Cacirca's installation (and some changes in mine) in SL There's an installation by Eifachfilm Vacirca in Second Life - if you go to my installation at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/48/12/22 then go to the area to the right with the strange texture - there's a three or four story floating environment I like a great deal - do check it out - as well as the texture itself - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/72/45/58 might work directly. Sugar Seville did the ground, Gazira Babeli did the meteors. Ian Murray's OCAD campus is in the background. All of this is really worth seeing; I've spent quite a while with Einfachfilm's piece. Some images of hir installation along with Sugar's textures and in relation to mine at http://www.alansondheim.org/ eingazugar pngs. (Some images and video of the dynamic aspects of my installation as of yesterday at alansondheim.org - brb pngs and especially brb.mp4. All of these are the latest, so at the top of the directory if you click the date twice.) Eifachfilm's installation exists on four levels, but there are ghost falls reflecting the natural world, that reach the ground and below. It's spikey and moody and it's good to stay awhile. I caught up with him somewhere in my own piece and talked to him about it; it was about 3 a.m. my time. S/he was in Zurich I believe and gave permission to include the following. [23:57] Alan Dojoji: hi - really like your installation - it's amazing [23:58] Eifachfilm Vacirca: tnx :) [23:58] Alan Dojoji: i hope it can stay up for a while and if you write something & sent it to me I'd like to advertise it on the lists I'm on [23:59] Alan Dojoji: the detailing is beautiful and it's one of the few things I've seen that works with nature in an intelligent way here [23:59] Alan Dojoji: it works well above Sugar's texture too [23:59] Eifachfilm Vacirca: it is very difficult for me to write about it [0:00] Eifachfilm Vacirca: its about cutting prims [0:01] Eifachfilm Vacirca: its about unique prims [0:01] Alan Dojoji: it's also about emissions and things that are only partly there, almost peripheral I think [0:01] Eifachfilm Vacirca: about nature never generates copies [0:01] Alan Dojoji: but because we're familiar with - yes - and we're familiar with romanticism so we tend to fill in the gaps [0:02] Alan Dojoji: azure and i go fungus hunting sometimes - photographing slime molds and things - and this reminds me of that - you stumble across small things that resonate [0:03] Alan Dojoji: and it's as if they're growing there instead of possessing the kind of artificiality the trees have for example in this space [0:05] Eifachfilm Vacirca: its like a musician [0:05] Eifachfilm Vacirca: i rez it [0:05] Alan Dojoji: ok - [0:05] Eifachfilm Vacirca: like a note i play in a jam session [0:05] Eifachfilm Vacirca: usualy you dont write it down [0:06] Eifachfilm Vacirca: it just happening [0:06] Eifachfilm Vacirca: some enjoy it [0:06] Eifachfilm Vacirca: some not [0:06] Alan Dojoji: it's intrinsic, not extrinsic [0:07] Eifachfilm Vacirca: a text about it will also give me the feeling to cage it [0:07] Alan Dojoji: i mean what's present seems inherent, not externalized - these sphere here are the opposite, they're following the order of an avatar path [0:07] Alan Dojoji: at lesat with music improv - Derek Bailey for example - there are writings about the music that don't pin it down - [0:08] Alan Dojoji: they're much more open than that [0:08] Alan Dojoji: i'd hope that good work here gives one the space to think about things [0:08] Eifachfilm Vacirca: yes [0:08] Eifachfilm Vacirca: it happens [0:09] Eifachfilm Vacirca: people think a lot [0:09] Eifachfilm Vacirca: in here [0:09] Eifachfilm Vacirca: develop new social structures [0:09] Alan Dojoji: some do - some rely on easy surrealism or fantasy here - i think most do [0:09] Eifachfilm Vacirca: and change em day by day [0:10] Eifachfilm Vacirca: it sthe pain you have to take with you - Alan