Ichimomo liest dunkle Geschichten

"Halloween" ist zwar am 01. November vorbei, doch Ichimomo Nakamura hat noch ein paar gruselig, blutige und böse Geschichten in ihrem Handgepäck, die sie euch nicht vorenthalten möchte.

Bei einer gemütlichen Runde am Lagerfeuer erzählt sie uns vom Tod, dem Teufel und der Welt.

Grid: Dorena's Welt

Region: Arashiyama Mura

Höhenmeter: 1500 m

Uhrzeit: 20:00 Uhr (11 am pdt)

Datum: 02.11.2014

Die Lesung findet in deutscher Sprache statt und per Voice !

Destination:

Dorena's World Region Arashiyama Mura

Dorenas-world.de:8002:arashiyama mura

Meta_Body

It started all in 2011, when CapCat Ragu aka Catarina Carneiro de Sousa and Meilo Minotaur aka Sameiro Oliveira Martins initiated the project "Meta_Body" in the virtual world of Second Life.

The idea behind it, one can read in the documentation,
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/261563798_The_Meta_Body_Project
written by CapCat, herself:
"Meta_Body is a project initiated by CapCat Ragu aka Catarina Carneiro de Sousa and Meilo Minotaur aka Sameiro Oliveira Martins, in the virtual environment of Second Life (SL) in response to an invitation to participate in the 6th edition of the exhibition All My Independent Women (AMIW), in the VBKÖ (Austrian Association of Women Artists) space. A couple of months before the exhibition opening, CapCat Ragu and Meilo Minotaur built and distributed in SL, more specifically in their sim, Delicatessen, a set of 18 avatars, freely available and open to be transformed and shared with other SL residents."

Since then, Meta_Body 1 Avatars inspired many artists to use those metaphorical bodies in numerous Machinima -, Show -, Picture - and other projects within the Second Life environment.
Because of the limitation to use those fantastic Avatars only in Second Life, the editor of the "Hyperzette", zaphod Enoch, were thinking about, that, having those Meta_Bodies within the OpenSim community, would give the creative and innovative people in this growing virtual environment the opportunity to use those Avatars in their own projects and show their results to a broad audience, as done in SL.

In August 2014 zaphod Enoch contacted Capcat Ragu and Meilo Minotaur to ask for permission to transfer the Avatars with the same rights and licensing as in SL to OpenSim and in this case to spread those Meta_Bodies all over the Hyperverse.
And both artists agreed, gave permissions and the needed licenses for doing so.

And what would be the best to offer those Avatars, than in a hyperverse grid with a strong art community ?
A grid that would fit best is Nara's Nook. With writers experimenting in visualizing their storytelling within the virtual environment, it would be a perfect symbiosis of both.

And it was Nara Malone, owner of the grid "Nara's Nook", who gave zaphod Enoch  a little parcel on "Paradise 1" region, to set up a location, where to get the "Meta_Bodies 1"
Here they are now:
18 fantastic Avatars, free to copy/take, copiable, modifiable and transferable, giving total freedom of use for all the creatives in the Hyperverse.
They range from the realism of "Godiva" to the improbability of the "Meta Bird", to the impossibility of  "You can see me inside", without yet become completely abstract, without losing its metaphorical dimension.


I want to say a big "THANK YOU" to Capcat Ragu, Meilo Minotaur and Nara Malone for the support and all the needed permissions to realize an idea to offer of those Avatars to the OpenSim community.


Let me finish this article with a thought of CapCat Ragu:
"The virtual body is a metaphorical body and therefore a body of expression and language."

More Information:
http://delicatessensl.wordpress.com/
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/261563798_The_Meta_Body_Project
http://www.capcatragu.com/



Destination:
Nara's Nook Region Paradise 1
world.narasnook.com:8900:paradise 1

French Painter Prodyck Theas at "Beeblebrox"

Prodyck Theas

Vernissage at October 26th

20:00 CET, 12 pm

(Caution: Timechange in Europe!)

Dorena's Grid

Region Beeblebrox

Parcel Maximegalon

Special Music Guest

20:30 CET, 12.30 pm

Deceptions Digital

Destination:

Dorena's World Region Beeblebrox Exhibition Area Maximegalon

Dorenas-world.de:8002:Beeblebrox

Destination: Destroyed

My scary travel started in the Southeastern corner of the region in an abandoned subway station. A few very odd colored pumpkins are placed in one corner.

I took the stairway up and found myself in a misty dark area. With the exception of some weird creatures the whole scenery is murky and destroyed. And exactly that is the place, I am at "Destroyed", the regions name on Metropolis grid, owned by Ange Mendes.

Nani Ferguson and Ange Mendes created a region, which fits perfectly in the Halloween season.

And it is not only the fine and detailed build of the region, which gives one the right scary ambiance when walking through.........

...there is more, much more.....

....there are pumpkins.........many pumpkins........

And some hold a secret. Just find them.
Go on the Halloween hunt on "Destroyed" region and find the 10 secrets, before the living deads find you.



Destination:
Metropolis Region Destroyed
hypergrid.org:8002:destroyed

Destination: Willendorf

West from "Alsorna", one will find "Willendorf".

The Eastern area is a cluster of little islands and mostly forest or meadow.

The first house which comes in sight is a small watermill.
Inside the mill one can see a working grinder driven by the mills waterwheel.

Small stone bridges crossing the many waterways and bring you dry feet from one island to the other , where you can find a wrecked ship half sunken in the flat waters.

But to get to the main landpart of "Willendorf" from the Eastern part of the region, you have to either fly or swim, where I preferred the flying this time (forgot to taken my swimsuit with me). I landed next beside an old wood and stone shack. You may move in if you want to, it is still empty ;-)

From the shack I followed a path to a building that reminds to a Norwegian "Stavkirke". This is the name of the old wooden churches build by the vikings in ancient days.
'A stave church is a medieval wooden Christian church building once common in north-western Europe. The name derives from the buildings' structure of post and lintel construction, a type of timber framing where the load-bearing posts are called "stafr" in Old Norse and "stav" in modern Norwegian. Two related church building types also named for their structural elements, the post church and palisade church, are often also called 'stave churches'. '
(Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stave_church).
This one here is not exactly a rebuild but looks similar and the viking ship in the back strengthens the impression.

In general "Willendorf" buildings have a touch of the old scandinavian architecture, as, for example,
the old wooden merchant house.

Well, the clerical stone building and the tree houses next beside, won't really fit in this scandinavian impression ;-)

The main building of "Willendorf" is another stone church build in cross form. Inside you'll find the well choosen texturing, typical for the Ignis Fatuus building team.

A green spheric teleporter brings you to the top of the steeple, from where you have a good view over the area.

With that last look, I am finished with "Willendorf" and now have to make a bigger jump to my next Destination "Coorhagen". Meet you there !



Destination:
Ignis Fatuus Region Willendorf
ignis-fatuus.no-ip.biz:8002:Willendorf