So, Wednesday night, I crammed to set up my booth at Hair Fair. Pulled a 24 hour thing and dozed off a bit at the PJ party but still managed to take ample paparazzi photos and also to spend about 8 hours browsing all the HF booths thoroughly. FINALLY organized my photos in my main flickr account and also my raw snapshot/postcard account into sets and changed the layout to collection + photos. Just saw S3 for the first time. Spiderman 3 is totally the type of movie I like - lots of action and subplots concisely woven in a significant way. So, I analyzed it.
Posted on Saturday, August 23, 2008 @ 05:52 am in Daily Sumly
This is really exciting. For some odd reason I felt compelled to post to twitter after seeing my fave ep in my xfiles catchup project (4×07 - it’s a corny 45-minute antiheroic Forest Gump wannabe so I guess I’m easily amused) and found timeless’ post on touch coord’s to be implemented in LSL!
X-Files … currently just finished 4×07… it’s interesting how Mulder & Scully have changed through the seasons (Season 1 - Mulder was the more compassionate one, and now it’s the other way around), and how the past few episodes have grown to be more profligate and wild than well-edited like the first season. The first few season’s had finale’s where the X-Files were on the verge of being closed, which, I guess is the storyline allusion to the show being canceled. The interesting thing in “Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man” is that had the publisher accepted the guy’s work, he would have resigned… and probably get killed by another gov mafia though. It’s funny to see his character in awkward mode.
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
Right now I’m eating a late breakfast of ?? - supposedly “limited edition” as made by the owner of a famous Taiwanese ?? store. (Made once a year for Dragon Day.) I’m already in the mood for drawing day… and I can almost hear the sounds of the nostalgic beach from memory where I spent the precious hours of one summer doing beach-side sketches on-the-spot for the passer-by’s… as I ran away from the research I should have been doing for NSF/REU…
I’m thinking about Primtings and pieces I want to interpret in 3d. I woke up at 3 AM and one of the first sites I visited forced a popup of google.com’s homepage with:
This might just be the primting I’ll make. 
Well, more importantly, I’m thinking about my vision for Primtings and defining a new art movement. So Duchamp launched the “readymade” art movement, and everyone on SL takes snapshots that blend their own figures and interpretation into a 3d piece… now what would it be like if people can obtain parts of a painting to do what they want with it and create their own interpretive extensions? That’s sort of the trend with the web nowadays - it’s all about mashup’s and what you create from the new interpretation of old information. There’s the old “open source” referring to source code, and then there’s “open (source) knowledge” (Wikipedia) and… might the new thing be “open (source) art”?
“If everyone contributes to something, then the piece belongs to everyone.”
The data center where my servers are hosted at has had a major emergency fire this past weekend. Many features of my site are not available until they fix the resolvers - ETA this week.
Downtime affected (and still affects) quite a number of people. They got /. and dck’ed.
Posted on Tuesday, June 3, 2008 @ 04:11 am in Daily Sumly
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…)
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…
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’
Really bored. Asset servers failed. Crashed SL is not accepting logins. I feel like doing a problem set! (Seriously!)
SQLzoo answers to…
1b. List the name and region of countries in the regions containing ‘India’, ‘Iran’.
SELECT name,region FROM bbc WHERE region in (SELECT region FROM bbc WHERE name IN (’India’,'Iran’))
1c. Show the countries in Europe with a per capita GDP greater than ‘United Kingdom’. (Denmark Iceland Ireland Luxembourg Norway Sweden Switzerland)
SELECT name FROM bbc WHERE region=’Europe’ AND gdp/population>(SELECT gdp/population FROM bbc WHERE name=’United Kingdom’)
1d. Which country has a population that is more than Canada but less than Algeria? (Kenya)
SELECT name FROM bbc WHERE population>(SELECT population FROM bbc WHERE name=’Canada’) AND population<(SELECT population from bbc WHERE name='Algeria')
2a. Which countries have a GDP greater than any country in Europe? [Give the name only.]
SELECT name FROM bbc WHERE gdp > ALL (SELECT gdp FROM bbc WHERE region=’Europe’)
1b. List all the regions - just once each.
SELECT DISTINCT region FROM bbc
1c. Give the total GDP of Africa (410196200000)
SELECT sum(gdp) from bbc WHERE region=’Africa’
1d. How many countries have an area of at least 1000000 (29)
SELECT COUNT(name) FROM bbc WHERE area>=1000000
1e. What is the total population of (’France’,'Germany’,'Spain’) (187300000)
SELECT SUM(population) FROM bbc WHERE name IN(’France’,'Germany’,'Spain’)
2a. For each region show the region and number of countries.
SELECT region, COUNT(name) FROM bbc GROUP BY region
2b. For each region show the region and number of countries with populations of at least 10 million.
SELECT region, COUNT(name) FROM bbc WHERE population>=10000000 GROUP BY region
2c. List the regions with total populations of at least 100 million.
SELECT region FROM bbc GROUP BY region HAVING SUM(population)>=100000000
The SL Shakespeare Company’s Miniproduction #1 is *finally* over after the press-only show earlier today! LOL, for the first time in a looong time, I got to take a break to check out the various other live events on SL. Fun!
And in other news, I really have to start finishing Skin City and Shakespeare. Hmm, so why am I not hiring out? Well, I bought 4 sims… and now I’m broke… and not just that, I almoooost forgot how much I love building!
Posted on Sunday, March 16, 2008 @ 07:56 pm in Daily Sumly
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