LEA FULL SIM ART SERIES (NOVEMBER): Tyrehl Byk's CATHARSIS & quadrapop Lane's RETROSPECTIVE

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TYREHL BYK'S CATHARSIS

The stunning opening to the LEA FULL SIM ART SERIES, Rebeca Bashly's Inferno was a hard act to follow. Tyrehl Byk's Catharsis however has already proven to be a more than stunning follow-up for the November month. Long term champion of the arts in Second Life, and the original curator of the UWA 3D Art Challenges, quadrapop Lane shares the ground of the SIM with "Retrospective Highlights of 4 Years of SL" which will evolve as the month progresses.

Tyrehl Byk Premiere Public performance: November 4th, 2011 6-PM SLT
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QUADRAPOP'S RETROSPECTIVE

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Quadrapop's retrospective includes works such as: Ultra Violet, a Grand Finale work for the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge, and which is a collaboration between quadrapop (prims & textures) & Corto Vieria (sculpt maps) from August 2010, also Sea Grass Fronds and the Rainbow Metallic Sea both from 2008 originally made in one of quad's building alts.

Quadrapop's Retrospective Highlights are drawn from a solid 4 years of making art in SL - starting with humble beginnings in 2007 showing in a small mall gallery to running a successful mainland Gallery at which the likes of Glyph Graves, Gracie Kendall and Manx Wharton had shows, to a full private sim in 2008-09 (where art and music met in The Rooftop venue) and on to a solo Gallery once more on mainland showing fully immersive environments featuring the collaborative work of quadrapop's texturing and Corto's sculpties.

The Rainbow Sea and Fronds have rarely been seen as they require many prims and space to be fully appreciated, they were last displayed on UWA Winthrop in 2010.


FreeWee Ling photo Gallery of Tyrehl's Catharsis
Quans Travelogues on Tyrehl
Kara's Korner on Catharsis
Secret Rage's Photo Gallery
Virtual Real Blog
Real Art from Virtual Worlds
Living in a Modem World
Honour McMillan's Blog
Victoria Lennoire on Tyrehl
Cait's World on Catharsis
Landa Crystal - Metaverse Tribune
Temi Sirbu (Japanese) Blog
More from Quans Travelogue
More from Modemworld
Leanna's Quest
New World Notes
Gridjumper's Blog
Catharsis by Moana @ Koinup
Catharsis by Moana @ Koinup Part II

Tyrehl Byk's "Catharsis" is an immersive, 24 minute adventure ride into the curious, the irreverent, through the sublime, and back out the other side.

Using a specially scripted theater, Byk takes control of the audience's cameras and, (if Second Life is behaving well), synchronizes a sequence of scenes that rely heavily, but not exclusively on the use of particle effects to interpret a musical track including compositions in a variety of styles from contemporary to classical.

While it would be easier to simply create a machinima of the sequences, Byk has chosen to offer this process as performance art, in order to remove the idea of an unchanging linear experience that may be captured, commodified, and assimilated alone, and replace it with a shared, group experience that is never the same twice.

The nature of the Second Life construct informs the performance with its own curious continuity, supplemented by the qualities of the each audience member's viewing platform, viewer settings, and bandwidth connection to the internet. All of these combine to make each performance of the work unique, not just from an overall perspective, but for each and every participant.

Audience members are encouraged to arrive early and please, please, *PLEASE* remove all heavily scripted items before the program begins to make the experience as enjoyable as possible for everyone.

Those lucky enough to be invited to a special private screening before the public launch were astounded:

"Tyrehl Byk as the great PuppetMaster takes the control of our view to let us literrally fall in his great travel, a travel guided by lights, colors, music. I never saw  a show in Second Life  so impressive, it's very clever, we are really watching an animation movie with its moment of tension, joy, sadness and pure beauty. This show is simply what Second Life has the best: creativity at its paroxysm. I am sorry to make a comparaison, but this one comes to me: Fantasia by Disney..... emotions made of images and sounds, it's Art." Cherry Manga


"Amazing, astounded at the work involved. this masterfully shows what is possible when you control the viewpoint of your audience. Expertly done particles and editing of the music and visuals. Tyrehl is surely pushing the limitsand setting new bars for others to aim for." quadrapop Lane

"I was privileged to witness a landmark in SL art. Tyrehl created a masterpiece of live performance creating an immersive machinima experience with astounding visual effects. My jaw dropped, took a limo downtown and went dancing..." FreeWee Ling

"Breathtakingly spectacular and a Must-see-to-believe adventure!" Galea Yates

"This is by far one fo the coolest things I have *ever* seen in SL... and I've seen a lot!" Sasun Steinbeck

"This is just brilliant, i have never seen such thing here! it was super! that camera control thing is awesome!" Rebeca Bashly

"This is the most beautiful and amazing things I have ever seen in SL. I'm speechless" Ponchituti
Boucher


"Most incredible Particle Show i ever seen in sl .. a must see for all !!! :)" claudia 222 Jewell


"Once Tyrehl takes the controls you are plunged into an immersive blend of color and sound that relax and stimulate the senses in amazing ways." Taralyn Gravois

Ongoing performance calendar may be found here: http://bit.ly/rOaEJb

PREVIEW IMAGES

Transport Station to the Event Horizon Theater SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/LEA6/173/192/501

MachinimUWA IV: Penumbra Carter's 'A Discreet Infiltration of Thought'

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A Discreet Infiltration of Thought from Penumbra Carter on Vimeo.

'A Discreet Infiltration of Thought', by Penumbra Carter features the artworks by the creator that were part of various rounds of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge. This machinima is now part of MachinimUWA IV: Art of the Artists, which unites the powerhouses of virtual worlds, Artists and Machinimatographers!

Entries to the L$300,000 MachinimUWA IV close on the 10th of November and looks for the creation of machinima featuring artworks that are part of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge.

Artworks Featured:
Heroic Egg
UFO-Control-07
Deep Down Kepler
Cosmic Lighthouse

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MachinimUWA IV: Urban Steampunk's 'Sad Robot'

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'Sad Robot', by Urban Steampunk features the artwork of Yabusaka Loon, 'Bloody Love' that was part of the October Round of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge. This machinima is now part of MachinimUWA IV: Art of the Artists, which unites the powerhouses of virtual worlds, Artists and Machinimatographers!

Entries to the L$300,000 MachinimUWA IV close on the 10th of November and looks for the creation of machinima featuring artworks that are part of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge.
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Fax 'n Figgers.

After a few months of curating the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge, it quickly became clear that I was amassing a substantial dataset. Each month we had many entries and many artists and every entry has been recorded and photographed. I kept most of this in a Google spreadsheet that I could share with JayJay so he could check and verify the records with his own records. For the final accounting, I moved it all to a MySQL database on my web server since I'm fairly comfortable with that technology and scripting syntax and it allowed me to do some more in-depth analysis than the rather cumbersome spreadsheet.

Here are some of the more interesting statistics I gathered.

UWA 3D Open Art Challenge
STATISTICAL SUMMARY by FreeWee Ling
Total Entries:	858
Total Artists:	243
Total Countries:	24
Total hi-rez photos taken by FreeWee:	2,543
Average entries per month:	71.50
Average artists per month:	54.00
AWARDS
Total Awards Given:	236
Total Award Winning Artists:	83
Average awards/artist:	2.84
Artists winning 5+ awards:	18
Total People's Choice votes cast:	12,822

Total artists who identified nationality: 202

USA	88
UK-England	20
France	16
Australia	14
Italy	14
Germany	10
Canada	9
Netherlands	7
Brazil	4
Spain	3
Switzerland	3
Denmark	2
Greece	2
Japan	2
Portugal	2
Serbia	2
Argentina	1
N.Ireland	1
Russia	1
Scotland	1
Sweden	1
Taiwan	1
Wales	1

18 Artists won at least 5 awards:

	Awards	Entries
Cherry Manga	14	24
Artistide Despres	8	9
Miso Susanowa	8	13
Misprint Thursday	8	3
Typote Beck	7	6
Anley Piers	6	11
Betty Tureaud	6	11
claudia222 jewell	6	4
Fuschia Nightfire	6	9
Harter Fall	6	10
Nish Mip	6	4
Oberon Onmura	6	4
RazorZ	6	13
Romy Nayar	6	3
Silene Christen	6	15
Gingered Alsop	5	15
Josiane Sorciere	5	2
Nino Vichan	5	11

MachinimUWA IV: Hypatia Pickens' 'Love Prayer'

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Love Prayer from VimPickens on Vimeo.

'Love Prayer', by Hypatia Pickens features artworks by Briawinde Magic, Cherry Manga, Soror Nishi & Hypatia Pickens that have been featured in the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge alongside artworks by other SL luminaries Bryn Oh, Rebeca Bashley and Scottius Polk. This machinima is now part of MachinimUWA IV: Art of the Artists, which unites the powerhouses of virtual worlds, Artists and Machinimatographers!

Entries to the L$300,000 MachinimUWA IV close on the 10th of November and looks for the creation of machinima featuring artworks that are part of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge.

In Hypatia's words:

"Tam Lin" meets Finnish love song where I've changed both for my own story. Another contribution to MachinUWA IV which focuses on Soror Nishi's enchanted trees, with tributes as well to Briawinde Magic, Bryn Oh, Cherry Manga, Rebeca Bashley and Scottius Polke.

I was enchanted by the song by Laura Ryhanen featured on Simon V's Digital Christmas Album. The story does not represent the lyrics... entirely. And it finds something sinister in a region that isn't. But I heard in the song something more ominous than its short lines relate, and put everything together in a magic tree. ;)

My poetic rendition of the song, with the help of Quark and Andrew:

I, a maiden, sing and pray
For you the last verse that I say.
Love sends many to the grave
If the one you love you cannot have..

The Journey Continues: L$300,000 MACHINIMUWA IV: Art of the Artists

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MachinimUWA IV : Art of the Artists - L$300,000 Prize Pool
Sponsored by Open This End, AviewTV and UWA

DATES:   Submissions open through 10th NOVEMBER 2011

Entries will be displayed on the University of Western Australia (UWA) Second Life Blog.  http://uwainsl.blogspot.com/

Winners will be announced during the announcement of the Grand Prize winner of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge from 6am SLT Sunday 11th of DECEMBER at the UWA-BOSL Grand Amphitheatre.

THEME: Create something that will take our breath away


SUBJECT MATTER: The Artworks in contention for the Grand Finale of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge (as listed below) or any artwork that has featured in the monthly rounds of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge.


LOCATION OF SUBJECT MATTER:
UWA 3D OPEN ART CHALLENGE Grand Finale Artworks

UWA 3D OPEN ART CHALLENGE Non-Scripted Grand Finale Artworks


 NOTE: The artwork may be filmed in situ, but it is not a must to film in situ, so long at the focus of the machinima is centered around the artworks. You may communicate with the artists to film their SUBMITTED works in other locations. Also, please contact Jayjay Zifanwe or FreeWee Ling if you need to be able to rezz blue screen, etc as part of your filming process.

THE CHALLENGE
Create a machinima that features some (or one) of the artworks submitted to the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge. You can choose to film as many (or as few) as you like, and you may submit any number of entries. There is no enforced time limit, however a recommended time limit would be between 3 - 6 minutes.

Method of Entry & Other Info:* Load the Machinima anywhere, preferably youtube or vimeo, and provide the link to Jayjay Zifanwe & LaPiscean Liberty
* Please acknowledge the artworks you feature
*  If you need to rezz (blue screen etc), contact Jayjay Zifanwe or FreeWee Ling
If you have questions or want to discuss anything, please contact Jayjay Zifanwe

Link on 'Your Machinima' Website

JUDGING PANEL
Professor Ted Snell (RL) - Director, Cultural Precinct, The University of Western Australia
Rhett Linden (SL) - Vice President, Experience Design, Linden Labs
Yesikita Coppola (SL) - Official Machinimatographer for UWA 2011
FreeWee Ling (SL) - Curator, UWA 3D Open Art Challenge
Cisko Vandeverre(SL)  - Winner of the Original MachinimUWA
Laurina Hawks (SL) - Winner of MachinimUWA II
Cristina García-Lasuén (RL) /  Aino Baar (SL) International Curator, Art Writer, Founder & Owner of Open This End group 
Jay Jay Jegathesan (RL) / Jayjay Zifanwe (SL) - Manager School of Physics, The University of Western Australia (SL), Creator, Host and Curator for MachinimUWA IV; Creator, Host and Co-Curator of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge
Wagner James Au (RL) / Hamlet Au (SL) - Editor in Chief of New World Notes 
Nazz Lane (SL) - Journalist and Author
Rowan Derryth (SL) - Art & Design Historian; Writer for Prim Perfect Publications
Dr. Phylis Johnson (RL) - Media Professor, Southern Illinois University, Author - Machinima: Aesthetics and Practice (a.k.a, Sonicity Fitzroy, SL Virtual Journalist)
Mal Burns (SL), Metaverse News Aggregator and Broadcaster
Dousa Dragonash (SL) - COO Metaverse Television
Phaylen Fairchild (SL) - Award Winning Writer, Director, Comedian
Chestnut Rau (SL) - Journalist
Thirza Ember (SL) - Art Blog Writer
Pia Klaar (SL) - Machinimatographer and Winner of MachinimUWA III Viewer Event
Editorial Clarity (SL) - Metaverse Journalist and Senior Writer, BOSL Blog & BOSL Magazine
Flimsey Freenote - CEO of Metamix TV (Mixed Reality Television)
Persia Bravin (SL) - Journalist, SL Media Producer and TV host
Suzy Yue (SL) - Artistic Director, Running Lady Studios
Madeline Bates (RL) - Program Manager (Film), Perth International Arts Festival, UWA
Naya Pinazo - Open This End Group Leader for  SL and Facebook

ARTWORKS IN CONTENTION FOR GRAND FINALE
(Note, the artworks you select DO NOT have to come from this list. They can be ANY that have featured across the year at the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge)

1. FLY WITH THE WIND by Josina Burgess
2. FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE by Miso Susanowa
3. THE GLOWING SERPENT by Ginger Alsop 
4. LAZER BALLS by Betty Tureaud
5. DREAM OF THE COLD SLEEPER by Typote Beck
6. IL PLEUT SUR MON COEUR COMME IL PLEUT SUR LA VILLE ("It's raining in my heart, as it's raining in the town") by Cherry Manga
7. TRAVEL IN THE SHADOW OF TECHNOLOGY by Anley Piers
8. PARANORMAL FROTTAGE by Misprint Thursday
9. THE ILLUSIONIST by Gleman Jun
10. LIGHT TOWER by Betty Tureaud
11. TURNING THE TIDE by Nish Mip 
12. CHOOSE YOUR BLOSSOM by Suzanne Graves
13. SYMPHONY IN THE BARREL OF A GUN by Arrow Inglewood
14. PLANET CENSORED by Anley Piers
15. STRANGE PLANT...UGLYNESS & BEAUTY by Claudia222 Jewel
16. THE RHYTHM OF MOOD - Lea Supermarine & Jarapanda Snook
17. DIGITAL GLOVE by Misprint Thursday
18. THE WILD WILD WORLD OF ILLUSION by RazorZ  & Olga Soulstar    
19. THE MINOTAUR OF CARTON by Typote Beck
20. ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND by Cherry Manga 
21. SHATTERED by Ginger Alsop
22. THE FRAGILITY OF THE SOUL IS NOT A DEFECT by Gleman Jun
23. SPANISH BULL by Silene Christen
24. TROIS PETITS TOURS ET PUIS S'EN VA (Three little turns and it goes away) by  Josiane Sorciere
25. JUNGLE CHALLENGE by Dusty Canning
26. THE DOCK SPIRIT by Scottius Polke
27. ULTRA VIOLET by quadrapop Lane
28. THEATRE OF WAR by Miso Susanowa
29. VENUSTRAP by Claudia222 Jewell
30. ONE AND FOUR TIMEBOARDS by L1Aura Loire
31. UNE HORDE DE CORDES by Aristide Despres
32. 5x8 COMPUND CUBE by Wizard Gynoid
33. TIME AS A HELIX OF SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES by Miso Susanowa
34. THE HUMANICAL FROG by Lollito Larkham
35. HERE COMES THE SUN by Sledge Roffo
36. TV MORNING EXERCISES by Dusty Canning
37. PIUME DI PAVONE by Nino Vichan
38. DANGLING NARROW CHAIN DEMONSTRATOR by Emilin Nakamori
39. HARMONIES IN C GREAT (+) by Artistide Despres 
40. NOT EVERYTHING IS PLAIN BLACK & WHITE by Fuschia Nightfire 
41. LIVING FRACTAL by June Clavenham
42. THE MATTER OF IDEAS by Gleman Jun
43. THE SUPERHEROES BREAKFAST by Typote Beck
44. DOWN ON THE DATA FARM by Miso Susanowa
45. PETITE ETUDE SUR OLIVIER MESSIAEN by Artistide Despres
46. OMNIPOTENT by Pixels Sideways
47. THE CHASM by Oberon Onmura
48. EXCERPTS FROM REALITIES by Glyph Graves
49. THE ABANDONED DAUGHTER by Eliza Wierwight
50. YOU CAN'T TOUCH HEAVEN by paleIllusion 
51. AUTUMN by nexuno Thespian
52. THE CROSSING by Nish Mip
53. FANTASIA EN LA SOMBRA by Romy Nayar 
54. PRIMSCAPE DREAM by Sledge Roffo
55. 99% by Harter Fall
56. BLACK SHIRT by Misprint Thursday
57. IN DREAMS by Blue Tsuki
58. SWALLOWED UP BY THE CROWD by Fuschia Nightfire
59. L'IMPATIENCE by Josiane Sorciere


NON-SCRIPTED ARTWORKS IN CONTENTION

1. THE COPPER BEECH by soror Nishi
2. LOSS by Gingered Alsop
3. MISS N by Suzanne Graves
4. DAUGHTER OF THE WIND by Fae Varriale
5. GECKO ON THE GEKKO by Yooma Mayo
6. SHATTERED by Ginger Alsop
7. THE FRAGILITY OF THE SOUL IS NOT A DEFECT by Gleman Jun
8. TRIBUTE TO GOYA by Silene Christen
9. MARIONETTE by Haveit Neox
10. HISTORY IN CREAM by Haveit Neox
11. FATA DANZANTE by Daco Monday 
12. SPATIAL by Sledge Roffo
13. SPRING BOX by Cherry Manga
14. TRUST by spirit Radikal
15. TUNNEL WITH LIGHT AT THE END OF IT by RazorZ
16. HURDLE by Corcosman Voom
17. BEHIND COLUMNS by Harter Fall
18. BIRDSONG by Cherry Manga
19. YOU CAN'T TOUCH HEAVEN by paleIllusion 
20. STILL LIFE by soror Nishi
21. 99% by Harter Fall
22. THE REVOLT OF THE MANNEQUINS by Silene Christen
23. USED PIECES by Secret Rage
24. SMALL PIECE OF HELL, The Suicide Forest Infested by Harpias by Rebeca Bashly

With thanks to Eliza Wierwight for the MachinimUWA IV logo
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MachinimUWA IV: Spiral Silverstar's 'The Aerie'

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'The Aerie, by Spiral Silverstar features a number of Cherry Manga's artworks that have been submitted to the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge. This machinima is now part of MachinimUWA IV: Art of the Artists, which unites the powerhouses of virtual worlds, Artists and Machinimatographers!

Entries to the L$300,000 MachinimUWA IV close on the 10th of November and looks for the creation of machinima featuring artworks that are part of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge.

Artworks include (all by Cherry manga):
Fertility
Bird Song
Bird in Love
Seduction
Garden Bird

MachinimUWA IV: Alessia Vegro's (Demaya) 'UWA - A New Way'

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Alessia Vegro's (Demaya) machinima features numerous artworks that have been featured in the UWA Open Art Challenge across the year. This machinima is now part of MachinimUWA IV: Art of the Artists, which unites the powerhouses of virtual worlds, Artists and Machinimatographers!

Artworks featured include:The Crossing - Nish Mip
In the mood - Lea Supermarine & Jarapanda Snook
L'impacience - Josiane Sorciere
Fly with the wind - Josina Burgess
Turning the tide - Nish Mip
The wild wild world illusion RazorZ & Olga Soulstar

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MachinimUWA IV: oona Eiren & sayzee Ishtari's 'Remote Control'

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Remote Control (part 1) from reassemble (sl) on Vimeo.


Remote Control (part 2) from reassemble (sl) on Vimeo.


Remote Control (part 3) from reassemble (sl) on Vimeo.


Remote Control (part 4) from reassemble (sl) on Vimeo.

'Remote Control (Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4)', by oona Eiren & sayzee Ishtari is the first ever 3 part Machinima submitted to the MachinimUWA challenge series. This machinima features Remote Control, Hop Scotch & Do Bears Shit in the Woods, artworks that had been submitted to the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge. This machinima is now part of MachinimUWA IV: Art of the Artists, which unites the powerhouses of virtual worlds, Artists and Machinimatographers!

Entries to the L$300,000 MachinimUWA IV close on the 10th of November and looks for the creation of machinima featuring artworks that are part of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge.

In Oona's words:

"Our series of  machinima's uses reassembles three works Remote Control, Hop-Scotch and 'Do bears shit in the woods ? as a starting point. These were submitted to the UWA 3d art and design challenge.  Rather than just record them as single art objects we wanted to intergrate them with other reassemble installations into a multi-layered film piece.

We decided to dispense with narrative and instead rely on improvisation through image, movement and sound.  These works are constructed on the fly with no script or pre-planned notion as to where the improv will lead us. Nearly all  the building of sets  props and sound design is done by us , in some scenes where this is not the case we have credited the artist.

In RL reassemble are the collaborative work of Sheena Vallely and John Say."
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MachinimUWA IV: Scooby Mode's 'Art is Dead'

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'Art is Dead', by Scooby Mode features numerous artworks that have been submitted to the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge. This machinima is now part of MachinimUWA IV: Art of the Artists, which unites the powerhouses of virtual worlds, Artists and Machinimatographers!


Entries to the L$300,000 MachinimUWA IV close on the 10th of November and looks for the creation of machinima featuring artworks that are part of the UWA 3D Open Art Challenge.

Artworks featured include:
The Crossing created by Nish Mip
Swallowed up by the Crowd created by Fuschia Nightfire
The Dock Spirit created by Scottius Polke
Theatre of War created by Miso Susanowa
IL PLEUT SUR MON COEUR COMME IL PLEUT SUR LA VILLE ("It's raining in my heart, as it's raining in the town") by Cherry Manga
TRAVEL IN THE SHADOW OF TECHNOLOGY by Anley Pier
LOST HELP by Lucignolo [coddax]
PARANORMAL FROTTAGE by Misprint Thursday
In Scooby's words, "Special thanks to Ivica Atlanta for sponsoring me with the Sleepy Hollow Horse that can be bought at this link along with a Sleepy Hollow avatar!
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Sleepy-Hollow/2720463

Onto the story.... This is about Two avatars who visit the Real Life realm with the help of a magical staff. The female seems to be happy, and the male don't seem to be enjoying his time there.
While on the other side, in the real life world.... A boy is controlling the avatars, as they are part of his movie script. So therefore one can assume that both avatars have a meaningless existance.
Going back to the avatars, she questions what he considers to be art, and metaphorically a "King" represents what art is to him because a King is passionate, loveable, hateable. A king has control, and see's a world different from his people. A king is all thats good and all thats bad. Tho art is pleasant... It can be destroyed. The young male avatar considers SL to be art, and doesn't like the idea of avatars merging into real life worlds because the real life world should stay to its own kind, and every avatar on the grid should create beautiful artwork that is exclusive to their homes of Second Life, one example "University of Western Australia"

After the metaphor phase, which is a sub story within another story which is a story or should I say movie for a real life person. So 2 stories take place inside one guys mind who is making a movie.

Be sure to watch all of the video, even the bloopers."
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