raftwet attacked in doomed ship

raftwet jewell attacked at the Doomed Ship


raftwet attacked in doomed ship, originally uploaded by rafeejewell.



Yikes!







I got a tp to the Doomed Ship by some of my builders. The words were simple, "You gotta see this!"





When I arrived, I saw a typical sci-fi build of a space station or spaceship with the nice textures of a mysterious futuristic place.






It was obvious that the place had the erie atmosphere of an abandoned station where something terrible had happened... role-play was de rigueur.






As we all walked through the corridors, opening doors and climbing stairs, I was suddenly attacked by a green tenacled creature near an opening. Arrrggghhh!



The attack was unusual in that the scripter had a perverse sense of humor as the creatures raped us in a horror reminding me of past alien movies. (Seems like every old science fiction movie has a scene or implied scene about an alien rape.)



OMG! we all yelled as we realized what we were seeing. Weird pink penis jolted out as the creature mounted us. Gawd, what an animation!




Go check it out, but remember I warned you. Revel in the animations and the build; it was amazing. I just hope my avatar doesn't have an alien baby!

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AMFORTE CLARITY Live Music

AMFORTE Clarity Live Music


AMFORTE CLARITY Live Music, originally uploaded by rafeejewell.














I really, really, really, really, really, really, really LOVE her voice.

AMFORTE Clarity sings covers and originals. Strong vocals with the right amount of angst that touches your heart...

...yah... she made me cry.


Venue: Galaxy Isle

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Ballet Pixelle presents AVATARA

Ballet Pixelle presents AVATARA


Ballet Pixelle presents AVATARA, originally uploaded by rafeejewell.



Ballet Pixelle 

presents~~~~~~~~


AVATARA


Final show: Aug 22, 2010 on Sunday
5pm SLT


http://slurl.com/secondlife/Quat/32/21/107



Finale party at Alien Lounge after show
w/ dj Frank Eizenhart
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Information:



BALLET PIXELLE™ PREMIERES "AVATARA"
A NEW ORIGINAL BALLET
Second Life -- Premiere Date: June 2010


Ballet Pixelle™ (formerly Second Life Ballet) will premiere its ninth  work “Avatara” in June 2010.  Ballet Pixelle™ is the first performing ballet company in the virtual global community Second Life.  Says the Company's founder, Inarra Saarinen, “As artistic director of the Company since its inception, I have enormous pride in Ballet Pixelle™.  Our goal is to investigate and explore the interaction and intersection of physical and virtual dance.  We are excited to celebrate the future of dance.  We are dancing into the digital future!”

Before there was Second Life, there were avatars...

Avatāra (Sanskrit for "descent") refers to a deliberate descent of a deity from heaven to earth, and is mostly translated into English as "incarnation", but more accurately as "appearance" or "manifestation".  Isn't that what it would be if a virtual being became a physical being?  And if a physical being became a virtual being...

A real, physical dancer wonders what it would be like to exist in a virtual world where she could move past her physical bodily limits --- without regard to her joints and muscles.  And without physics limits -- to hover and fly at will.  Is there such a place?   Can she visit?  What a memory to hold!

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Members of Ballet Pixelle™ come together from all over the world, Japan, Europe, and North America.  Animations are created by Inarra Saarinen and put into dance phrases.  There are no artifical synchronizing devices and the dancers truly perform dancing with each other and the music.  Each performance is truly live and unique, and takes advantage of the characteristics of Second Life to extend the art of the ballet in new directions. “Avatara” is the ninth and newest ballet in the Ballet Pixelle™ (formerly Second Life Ballet) repertoire.  Come see it and participate in this innovative artform.

Performances take place on Sundays at 5:00pm SLT at the Ballet Pixelle Theatre
Come early because seats fill quickly.

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For More Information

For more information on Ballet Pixelle™, search for the group "Ballet Pixelle" in Second Life and join the group to receive notices of all performances, auditions, newsletters, and other news and invitations.  There is also a Subscribe Service in the theatre which allows you to receive notices.

Web site is: www.balletpixelle.org
MySpace page: myspace.com/balletpixelle
Facebook as Ballet Pixelle

Machinimas (videos) and information on previous ballets, information on auditions, current Company members bios and photos, newsletters, press and reviews, etc are available on these sites.

For Ballet Pixelle™ work done under the name Second Life Ballet you can search YouTube for Second Life Ballet or see the www.balletpixelle.org website.

Written by Inarra Saarinen for Ballet Pixelle in Second Life
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Umbrellas, Winner of Peoples Choice at UWA Art and Design Challenge

"Umbrellas" by Nishi Mip shown at UWA Art and Design Challenge


Umbrellas, Winner of People's Choice at UWA Art and Design Competition, originally uploaded by rafeejewell.










University of Western Australia just held their UWA 3D Art and Design competition. Allowing the people to choose their favorite artists and giving them awards, UWA encourages artists in Second Life to create digitally what can only be done here.


My very favorite was Nishi Mip's works. Her "Umbrellas" was the People's Choice 1st Place Award, but I also loved her other piece with the robots housed inside a strange orange cubicle of programmed lights. What a remarkable artist she is!


Another favorite was Uby Ifu's "Tristan Areless" avatar. Amazingly real, as real as an avatar can be; the piece made me smile.














With the arts suffering world wide from a lack of government and consumer support due to economic woes, I was glad to see that education and UWA step in to support the artists here.















Thank you to UWA for their wonderful art and design competition. Here is the notecard info that you can collect at the show. To the left of the voting wall, you will find a click and receive board for a notecard full of information. Here is what it says:
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(Scroll to bottom of card for list of entries as shown on vote board)
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How To Vote

1. You have up to 3 votes to give.
2. Only one vote per item on the board (you cannot give one item more than one vote).
3. Touch the item for which you would like to vote. The board will tell you alone in chat and in a blue confirmation menu which item it is you are voting for.
4. Click YES if it is the correct item, or NO if you wish to change your mind/have touched the wrong item.
5. You have 60 seconds to respond before the confirmation menu times out.
6. The board will confirm in chat which item you have voted for and how many votes you have cast. As you get the chance to confirm or declien a vote no discussion of "misplaced votes" will be entered into.
6. You can vote only for a maximum of 3 items.

If the board appears to be down or you cannot find the image of the piece you would like to vote for please send a notecard with the artist and title of the work/s to JayJay Zifanwe.

If you have any queries about the voting system please contact quadrapop Lane by IM and notecard.

IMAGINE ART ENTRIES
http://slurl.com/secondlife/UWA/65/140/250

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July Round Imagine & Flagship Challenges
Winner's Announcement
6am SLT Sunday  8th August  2010 @ UWA Art & Design Platform
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Imagine Entries - July
List is (mostly) in alphabetical order by artist first name -
Top Row
001 1Earthling Rang - VJ Central Video Art
002 1Earthling Rang - Magical Video Art
003 Abdullah Yazimoto - Sacred, Danish
004 Abstract Baroque - Et in arcadia ego
005 Alizarin Goldflake - Hephaistia Paper Lanterns on a Line
006 Alizarin Goldflake - Immersive Art_Summers Halloween
007 Asmita Duranjaya - Piece (or Peace?) of Nature
008 Betty Tureand - Lolipop
009 Bignorrs Barbos - Welcome to the Machine
010 Bryn Oh - 26 Tines
011 Corcosman Voom - Jump
012 Daco Monday - incontro (meeting)
013 Daco Monday - E LA LUCE...FU
014 Emilin Nakamori - Dangling Chain Demonstrator
015 Flora Nordenskiold - Culmination
016 Flora Nordenskiold - Displaced
017 FreeWee Ling - Guitarzan
018 Fuschia Nightfire - magic wind
019 Gingered Alsop - The Chamber
020 Giovanna Cerise - sirio
Second Row
021 Gleman Jun - Dream
022 Gleman Jun - Both myself
023 Gumby Roffo - Community -Glass
024 Gwen Difference - Wild Horses
025 Herick Straaf - Cubico
026 Herick Straaf - Anodyne
027 Ichiko Miles - Space Needle
028 Ivy Lane - Love Flows
029 Ivy Lane - HotPink Susan Chair
030 Jaydn Firehawk - Mothership
031 jeri Rahja - Whimsy of the Sl Flower
032 Jesse Keyes - Toxic World
033 Jimmy Debruyere - Slow Morning Totem
034 Joe Rozenblum - I am
035 Josina Burgess - In Darkness You Can Always Find Light
036 Kicca Igaly - Profile
037 Kicca Igaly - Orchestral conductor
038 Kyra Roxan & GeeJAnn Blackadder - MICROCOSM.
039 kyra Roxan - Eternity
040 Lea Supermarine - LS - Neural Nonsense
Third Row
041 luciella  lutrova - escultura con bailarina
042 luciella  lutrova - Flowers swimming
043 Magggnnus Woodget - FriendMe Chair 1.0
044 Marcus Inkpen - Know Thyself
045 Maya Paris - Drift
046 Miso Susanowa - The Fool
047 Miso Susanowa - Raindance
048 nehema Yif - Phoenix Rising
049 nessuno myoo - The Mechanical Knight
050 nessuno myoo - The spirit of Mechanical Angel
051 Nish Mip - OVERLOAD
052 Noke Yuizta - Xibalba
053 Oberon Onmura - Overflow
054 Oxil Zane - Into The Vortex
055 pao Homewood - Truth of Earth
056 Patch Thibaud - Cloud Theatre
057 Patrich Merlin - UFO Rainbow divine light vehicle
058 Penumbra Carter - July Entry
059 Petra Weksler - Drops of Happiness
060 Pixi Cosmos - SLice of Tranquility
Fourth Row
061 Pol Jarvinen - herbes 258
062 pravda Core - The Vampire Heritage
063 pravda Core - Minotaur's Wrath
064 Rose Borchovski - Lessons in Democracy
065 Sabrinaa Nightfire - Broken Bowls Flowers
066 SaveMe Oh - Laugh & Die
067 Selavy Oh - The Empty Chair (Identity Chair)
068 Silene Christen - Red Tapes on Stone Dancers
069 soror Nishi - The Happy Tree
070 Takni Miklos - 12 Roses - Touch Me Not
071 Takni Miklos - chatmorpher
072 Teal Freenote - Growing Pains
073 Tolsen Decycla - A new life
074 Tolsen Decycla - New Beginning
075 Ub Yifu - Tristan Careless
076 Wizard Gynoid - Nested Stellated Dodecas sans faces
077 Yabusaka Loon - Life
078 Zola Zhun -  Black and White Swamp
079 Jester Jyraffe - kazoo
080 Jester Jyraffe - turtle


OWNER of UWA Commercial Land group:::
Jayjay Zifanwe

University of Western Australia
Achieving International Excellence

Artemesia
Living with Art

The UWA 3D Art & Design Challenge
People's Choice
3 votes to cast.
Winner was Nishi Mip for People's Choice "Umbellas"

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FTC - Federal Trade Commission - USA

Since 1995, I have been blogging on the internet. Of course, then we called it journaling a log about our experiences. A digitally written diary of the minutiae of our lives. Ridiculously unimportant and filled with personal anecdotes about nothing. Occasionally, I would mention a cool product that I bought or a place that I went to such as a restaurant or store. And, even then, the journals were just my musings.



When the internet exploded with journals, we started calling them blogs. Blah blah blah logs became blogs. The content was still about nothing much, but we could see that someone was reading our little missives and it made a difference in our businesses. Another way to connect with our consumer base.

We started reviewing the things we liked and the things we lived with daily. A restaurant would send a voucher for a dinner or a manufacturer would send a freebie t-shirt. Benign gifts of accolades and thank-you's.

Then, we started getting the big gifts. The stuff that was expensive and made us feel a bit creepy accepting. Sure, we loved their products but it made me feel like a paid agent for their company. So, I made a decision and said, "No more.



The decision was made way back in the late1990's. I would have to check my archived files for those first disclosure contracts. Yes, I had my entire team sign them and the legal language was harsh. If you wrote something and you were given a monetary gift, you were fired.

In this virtual world of international interests, the lines blur. People send gifts to each other for all kinds of kindness. I get gifts from avis from my group, and I return them or delete them after letting them know that I can't accept them. On THE A LIST! the lines blur even more. We are a business group and our members give the group gifts. As long as it is a gift that is shared among the entire group, then Xavier and I feel that it is not a gift for blogging.

The problem is that if a gift is given and I wasn't online and it is sitting in my inventory; that fact alone may taint my reputation if ever the logs were reviewed. It is a difficult situation for me. In THE A LIST! we have asked our contributors to disclose gifts, and we have a disclaimer on those blogs. Because both of us are on American soil with FTC -Federal Trade Commission blogging laws over our heads, we want to try our best to adhere to US laws.



We know how ridiculous laws can be, but this one tries to protect the consumer. I think we know gifts are given to bloggers from Consumer Report. It is obvious that the product manufacturer gave the blogger the product for review. The reason we believe Consumer Reports reviews is that the evaluations can be harsh... very harsh. So, we believe that the products are honestly evaluated and CR has a disclaimer.

I am the blogger on THE A LIST! and I want to make sure that people know that I do not accept gifts from any of the group members unless they have shared that gift with the entire group. So, my blogs do not have a disclaimer. Some of the contributors have a disclaimer on their post because it is a product review and the item was given by the creator.

How the FTC reviews the millions of blogs in the real world or virtual world is interesting in itself. And, the law will fine the blogger and the product creator, too. Ouch! Double slam. So, we try to protect both interests. No gifts period is a good policy. It's best that we stay as squeaky clean as possible. As far as some industries, it's practically a given that those gifts to the avis are for reviews. But, now we disclose that in those specific posts and let you decide.

xavier and raftwet at university of pacific

xavier and raftwet at university of pacific in northern california


xavier and raftwet at university of pacific, originally uploaded by rafeejewell.







University of Pacific is in the heart of the Great Valley in California. In close proximity to San Francisco and the State Capitol of Sacramento, UOP resides in Stockton.




A beautiful brick campus, it is a lovely place to hang out and just meditate on the brick walls or near the library.



In Second Life, UOP is a strong presence. We met Pacific Tigerpaw, the administrator and manager of the sim.






Go check out this virtual university!
slurl.com/secondlife/U%20Pacific/166/141/22

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raftwet jewell is an avatar builder and networker in second life


raftwet jewell of WETLands Group, originally uploaded by rafeejewell.




I built my first sky waterfall on Bisque in 2007. The build has 
morphed many times and I placed the current version on RiverLand.




My inspiration was the sky waterfall at SL Botanical Gardens. 
The builder there has been my most favorite builder here in Second Life. 
Her region is one of the best on the grid.




My version is a bit psy and a nod to the incredible waterfalls that 
I have seen in real life. Only Mother Nature can create what I have 
seen and my pitiful attempts are just to pay homage to her.




I own WET Builders, WETLands Group, and both regions 
WETLands and RiverLand. As a builder, my focus 
is nature and water elements. Of course, this is Second Life, so I usually add a bit
of psy to the build, too.
 



All my lands on the mainland and the regions are open to the public. 
The only place that has barriers is my personal home. You are all 
welcome to everything else. Please enjoy!

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