OK, I do way too much for me to dedicate this entire blog to fashion. I love fashion–don’t get me wrong–it’s just that if I were to do fashion-fashion-fashion all the time, I would get bored. I have to cycle between totally different–yet related–projects. I have to basically continue doing things or else I’d go crazy. I’m in seclusion, literally, locked up from physical contact from the outside world for over half a year long in my seclusion experiment. This SL stuff is what fills up my day 24/7.

Fashion & Skin releases will periodically be posted here or I might forget. Sometimes I might not post them here, especially if I am planning on releasing a full series of skin tones (Gaeae for ex). My flickr is usually up-to-date, but the inworld store is your best best. Sometimes I make something but never actually get to release it until a year later or more.

Not all of my projects are on my blog. Your best bet on my SL projects is to drop by with a flight feather and explore my 4 sims on Second Life. It’s really an undocumented experience, cutting edge research in its own way. o.O

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sLiterary is a proud supporter of “Drawing Day 2008.” This is an international event where everyone around the world takes the day to DRAW — and, if you’re a purist… you do nothing but draw for the entire day.  This year, the global effort hopes to reach the goal of 1 million drawings worldwide to art-in-lieu-of-shout: “art for the sake of art!”

On Drawing Day June 7 at midnight SL Time, I will be starting a 24 hour drawing vigil. I’ll have my Wacom pen in-place-of-a-lance as I draw non-stop (aside from bio-breaks). You can join me on this marathon by drawing and uploading your works for display inworld. We have setup a special gallery inworld where you may display your pieces drawn on this special day pro bono: http://SLurl.com/secondlife/sLiterary/116/30/25

Ina Centaur
“The Artist of sLiterary”

More INFO (from http://drawingday.org) :
When is Drawing Day?
Drawing Day this year is June 07, 2008. Unless otherwise noted, Drawing Day will be the first Saturday of June each year.

What is Drawing Day?
One day a year, the world stops to remember that joy we had when we first picked up a pencil and created our first piece of art - that’s what Drawing Day is all about. The goal for Drawing Day is simple - to create enough drawings to make some noise worldwide for the sake of art. 2008 is the first year of this initiative. Our goal is definitely a long-shot, but we’re aiming for 1 million drawings worldwide. We have no precise measure to know if we reach this goal. If we come close we will all definitely know. Even if we reach 10% of our goal in the first year of this initiative, it will be a great achievement but we will continue aiming for the magic million. Check out our press release. http://www.prweb.com/releases/drawingday/2008/prweb939464.htm

Why is Drawing Day important?
Illustrators and artists alike often go unappreciated. The creation of art and illustration captured our minds ever since we were children and our parents turned the pages of our first book. These stories came to life via the illustrations that took us to an imaginary world full of inspiration.

Whether you’re a professional illustrator or you just enjoy the occasional scribble, you can give back to the illustration community by drawing on this day. By injecting more and more illustration and art into our community, we are not only showing our appreciation to our fellow artists, but we are spreading awareness of the joy of drawing. It is important that you contribute - Drawing Day will only be a success if we all participate and make some noise. So, please tell your friends and spread the word.  http://www.drawingday.org/spread-the-word.php

How do I participate?
To join in on this event is simple - as simple as picking up a pencil and drawing. However, the most important part is sharing your art with the world.

In today’s age of technology, the ability to share your art with the world is easier than ever. We have compiled a huge list of ways to participate and share your art online.

Inworld, the sLiterary “Drawing Day” Gallery will host all drawings done on June 7 by participating Second Life artists. On June 7, we will also hold a 24 hour drawing marathon-vigil at the Gallery:  ????

Outside of SL, these are some of the of the best ways to reach a broad audience. http://www.drawingday.org/participate.php

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6/2/2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Skin City, Second Life: The merchants of Skin City have hidden
Sones Skin City Soda bottle caps with skin and av accessory
booty prizes in the one and only 1-stop city for…
skins, shapes, eyes, and other avatar accessories:

http://SLurl.com/secondlife/Skin%20City/124/94/563

Drop by to grab the booty — finders keepers for both small
things and pricy things — including select individual packs of my
4 earliest new releases:
 
   
 
My legendary eyes:
   
… as well as legacy eyes … new Soda caps released
several times a week starting in June!

And also… booty from these Skin City merchants:

Alady
Alessandra
Another Level
Arrogant Lioness
Ashia
B&B
Beauty Avatar
Body Project
Digit Darkes
Falln Angel
Kitheres Industries
Magika
Minnu
Nora
Playboy Designs
Shape Territory
Soda
Starfuker Skins
Unpredictable
VIP - Sculpted Talking Faces
Wunderlich’s

More soda caps added daily… as new merchants arrive and get set up! 

Come for a sneak peek and the chance to find high quality skins and more
hidden in buy-for-0/1 soda caps…

and…

Come see designers incognito as they try to find the hidden caps.
(I can only tell you what I’ve hidden - don’t ask any of us for where
other booty’s hid… cuz we dunno and are out there searching
with you! o.O)

Ina Centaur,
Skin City Mayor

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Skin City “Sones” Soda Cap Scavenger Hunt

Skin City, as you know, has its own fictional soda company. Namely, “Sones Soda” - not at all affiliated with Jones Soda. In fact, the labels on Sones Soda only show images from Skin City. You can pick up a bottle of Sones Soda for free from any Skin City Soda vendor.  

Anyway, the “Sones” Soda Cap Scavenger Hunt is a Skin City-wide scavenger hunt that you can participate in to find skins, shapes, and other avatar accessories booty packed in soda caps scattered all around Skin City. It runs from 6/2 to 6/23. More caps added daily. Visit Skin City to find them all. Google up people’s blogs to find people’s finds! o.O
“Preshow Setup” by Skin City merchants:

Participation is simple.

1. Simply rez a Sones Soda Cap
2. Put stuff in it.
3. Set it on sale for L$0 or L$1.
4. Hide it somewhere in the city. (Record the location so you won’t forget!)
5. Poke me about your participation so I can add you to the PR list.

Scavenger Hunt Announced to…
   The Skin City Update Group on Wednesday 5/28
   FashCon on Monday 6/2

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So in the middle of setting up Primtings after posting the call for artists earlier today… Paula Dix aka Able Whitman(?) TP’s in and rezzes a megaprim. I got the confirmation earlier today (while at Skin City) from Wiz that Mega’s were disabled. But, apparently it’s only to do with server versions. Fortunately, the Primtings sim is fairly high up there and hasn’t been rolling-restarted yet. 

That means - today we just had another round of “performance art”… Ina Atlas starts the hour off with Paula Dix taking on the next two hours. (Seriuosly, was feeling kinda super tired. Didn’t get much sleep last night.)  

So the summary of the day so far goes… after the usual admin stuff including the RFL prom, sLiterary, Primtings, IM hell, customer service, I got to start blocking out a Mondrian out of megaprims (Composition). Several actually. TP’ed some nice people in to help, but most left at the sheer size and variability of the boogie.

Oh, also, we’ve gained two new excellent Primtings and possibly a third! Soon to be announced to group:-) Stay tuned!

The performance art today was (is — again I’m stealing time away from it, letting Paula please the crowd) interesting in that the sim was set to rez-all and anyone could rez.

Emotionally, my fave part of this event is that sort of Catcher-in-the-rye wholesome total good abandonness thing. Kinda like being the catcher of megaprims. Sorta giddy feeling as I rez a megaprim with huge expanse that displaces everyone momentarily until I either raise it and elevate people or move it and they all fall or just phantom it to not displace them even more.

All together though this event truly is performance art and it’s totally of philosophical interest, as well. I mean, where else but on Second Life can you have an artform that’s dependent on the audience and their ability/understanding-of-tools to create, a bunch of people being spontaneously decapitated or levitated or otherwise ballooned by blossoming megaprims custom created based on the people’s voice, and also corporate-community politics that initiatied the extinction-anon of the endangered speccies? (See my post from yesterday for something perhaps more coherent. I really need to zzz soon…)

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Somewhat heart-pained by the needless and superstitious discrimination against megaprims and also Sidewinder’s earlier comment about mega creator’s to be terminated  by tomorrow… and then WarKirby’s warcry in AWG (or was it Adv Scripters)… I finally got about to grabbing the Nicholez viewer to… spawn megaprims!

I think I was inspired by Eshi Otawara’s vision of “performance art,” although it really wasn’t clear to me what I was doing the whole time of the event… until much later.  At the end of it, the right words to call this event just spontaneously arose: once-in-a-sLifetime interactive temporal performance art.

So getting back to the multiple levels of inter-related allusions. Megaprims (aka mega’s)’s are discriminated against, and thus their lifetimes are limited — temporal like live theatre… susceptible to deletion through not time’s scythe but that of politics and misunderstanding. Poor mega’s! Poor, poor mega’s…

Performance art is about creating visual art, one part of which is both created and dies in the process of performance, and the other part survives. In this case, the artform is interactive. Visitors can drop by and request which mega to spawn. Atlas would spawn and place the prim somewhere… and after the first series of plywood prims, the usage of coloring started to become necessary to distinguish between where one prim ends and the other begins. After a while, the colors became a whole entire array covering more or less a sim — Primtings Museum. It became living modern art as more and more visitors swelled in a differential equation equal to a constant 50 for the duration of over two hours… and even after Atlas and the sim crashed and didn’t get back on until an hour later at like 1 am … people continued to come in. 

The people are told to spread the mega’s, spread, spread, spread. They are the sole witness of this event. They are the only people who can bring this event’s memory onwards — as well as the mega’s generated… although

The mega’s are packed in a 2×2x13.5 “totem” on Primtings Campus.

Anyway though, In this case, Atlas’ last-minute idea to turn this collective community’s striving to spread mega’s into an artform is, perhaps, her last opus before her account is banned (RIP Gene Replacement, bless his soul. RIP Charles Fauna, bless his soul).  Her performance, like the megaprims, is temporal… ephemeral… and her account far likely gone by the time you finish reading this. Fin. (RIP Ina Atlas, bless her soul.)

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I get so much done when SL is offline.

Finished makeup editions for Kassia and Dria, and also finally pdf2tga’ed the SL Shakespeare Company programme!

And now for more SQL fun @ SQLzoo…

Two Table Join

1b. Show the who and the color of the medal for the medal winners from ‘Sweden’

SELECT who,color FROM ttms JOIN country ON (ttms.country=country.id) WHERE country.name=’Sweden’

1c. Show the years in which ‘China’ won a ‘gold’ medal.

SELECT games FROM ttms x JOIN country y ON (x.country=y.id) WHERE y.name=’China’ AND x.color=’gold’

2b. Show which city ‘Jing Chen’ won medals. Show the city and the medal color

SELECT city, color FROM games JOIN ttws ON (ttws.games=games.yr) WHERE who=’Jing Chen’

2c. Show who won the gold medal and the city.

SELECT who, city FROM games x JOIN ttws y ON (x.yr=y.games) WHERE color=’gold’

3a. Show the games and color of the medal won by the team that includes ‘Yan Sen’.

SELECT games,color FROM ttmd JOIN team on (ttmd.team=team.id) WHERE team.name=’Yan Sen’

3b. Show the ‘gold’ medal winners in 2004.

SELECT name from team JOIN ttmd ON (ttmd.team=team.id) WHERE ttmd.games=2004 AND ttmd.color=’gold’

3c. Show the name of each medal winner country ‘FRA’.

SELECT name FROM team JOIN ttmd on (ttmd.team=team.id) WHERE ttmd.country=’FRA’

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Really bored. Asset servers failed. Crashed SL is not accepting logins. I feel like doing a problem set! (Seriously!)

SQLzoo answers to…

SELECT within SELECT

1b. List the name and region of countries in the regions containing ‘India’, ‘Iran’.

1c. Show the countries in Europe with a per capita GDP greater than ‘United Kingdom’. (Denmark Iceland Ireland Luxembourg Norway Sweden Switzerland)

1d. Which country has a population that is more than Canada but less than Algeria? (Kenya)

2a. Which countries have a GDP greater than any country in Europe? [Give the name only.]

SUM and COUNT

1b. List all the regions - just once each.

1c. Give the total GDP of Africa (410196200000)

1d. How many countries have an area of at least 1000000 (29)

1e. What is the total population of (’France’,'Germany’,'Spain’) (187300000)

2a. For each region show the region and number of countries.

2b. For each region show the region and number of countries with populations of at least 10 million.

2c. List the regions with total populations of at least 100 million.

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For the first time in a long time, I took a break from it all and actually watched through a whole movie (after devouring a profligate amount of… fruit coffee cake!). 300 was the movie, as championed by Frank Miller.

 Somewhere during the movie I had the oddest of epiphanies — and I’m not sure whether it’s because moviemakers tend to come from this sort of background or whether the same mentality actually applies one and the same… but, basically, the conjecture goes like this: advertising professionals are the modern analogues of religious idols.

So, the Persians had these Immortals, the personal army of the alleged God, the Persian King. They had their mysticism and magic and all that glitter (literally). They make people fear them, believe that aluminum is steal and all that… and thus sway them to kneel to them. 

Similarly, advertisers have these Innocents, the open-minded modern public, who can be led to believe in anything were a “solid” line of reasoning “provided.” They have their tricks and campaigns and all that flattery. They make people buy things, become things, and turn into things…. and thus sway them to make others pay for them. (No one cares about kneeling nowadays. Modern homage is about getting paid from effort other than your own.)

Coffee has the same effect on me as margaritas would have on others. I’m collapsing. Good night!

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