RAFTWET Jewell is the Second Life avatar for W.E.T. River Trips, a California whitewater rafting outfitter on American Rivers in the USA.
Builder of networks with business applications and how it applies in virtual reality, real world, and social media.
This is why I am here. This is why rafee is an avatar for outdoor recreation and the protection of water, streams, rivers, oceans and wetlands. Listen carefully and apply these concepts in your own backyard.
These are the champions who dedicate their lives for a singular cause to protect one river in their community. Protect the land, rivers and oceans in your community by volunteering your time and efforts. California American River is a jewel of a river that stretches from the high Sierra Nevada to the urban cities in the valley. The river gives us drinking water, agricultural water, power, recreation and beauty and is worth protecting for all.
My heartfelt thanks to this crew of volunteers, artists and filmmakers for a job well-done!
<3 rafee <3
MANKIND TRACER'S PEACE, LOVE & BELIEF IV MEGA CONCERT:
On October 3rd, Mankind Tracer will be holding the largest ever multi-sim concert event in Second Life's history.
Over the past few years, Mankind Tracer, SL's most recognized live performer, has held his Peace, Love & Belief Concerts, with the last PLB III on 34 different sims. During PLB III, Mankind played a few songs at each venue, jumping from sim to sim for over 6 hours straight. While this is still the recognized record for most simultaneous sims, Mankind will be going for 50 sims at Peace, Love & Belief IV.
The major difference this year is that PLB IV will be a Live Video Concert. The concert is planned to last for three straight hours. There will also be a live audio stream just in case residents don't have the ability to see video. Mankind will stream his live show across SL via the new "stage screen" and thus will not need to jump sims. This year, there will still be the Land Mark Board which, as with all previous PLB Events, will clearly display the names of all participating venues/sims and each will be clickable to their respective LM's.
The idea of Peace, Love & Belief is something Mankind Tracer offers all attendees at his shows and has been doing so for well over three and a half years since he first started performing. In Mankind's own word's, "I wish you peace in your minds, love in your hearts and belief in the generosity and the goodness of the people that share the world with us." Millions of people have likely heard his message and his hopes are to spread his message even further.
Participating venues will be provided with a "Package" which will include all setup material including the video screen, audio stream info, the LM Board, promotional material and an instruction notecard for setup. You will need to place the provided texture in your land settings under "Media Texture".
During his long time performing in SL, Mankind Tracer has won many prestigious awards, performed countless charitable events for both large and personal causes and he has released 3 SL CD's which have seen tremendous success in SL. His concerts are usually packed with most being driven by audience requests and of course his truly amazing and insightful original music. In the saturated live music scene, Mankind Tracer, still after all these years, remains the most widely recognized SL live performer. He is the "goto guy" to help launch the Linden Labs' events like the SL Birthday parties and Burning Life events. Through all of his success, Mankind Tracer remains a kind and generous man and all around nice guy!
Be sure to get on board this historic SL Event as many SL and RL eyes will be watching this one!
THIS IS GONNA BE BIIIIIIIGGGGG!!!!
• Event Promotion
Banners advertising the event will be placed all around SL, on Second Friends, FaceBook events, MySpace, Reverb Nation, SL Radio Station and more.
• Sponsorship
If you are a business in SL and would like to sponsor the event, there are only 10 spots available. Sponsors will have a square image embeded onto the LM board which will be placed at all participating venues offering great exposure. Sponsor ads will also be clickable to a LM of your choice.
Those who choose to sponsor the event will also be offered a discounted ad rate for one month on Second Friends, the Social Networking Website for SL residents only, created by Mankind Tracer:
http://www.second-friends.com
• Contact
If you would like to be part of this historic SL Event, either by carrying the stream or by sponsoring the event, please contact Mankind Tracer, Kalli Birman or Roos Tomsen to get further info as soon as you can. There is only room for 50 venues/sims.
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Look for more information and details about this historic event on THE A LIST! blog.
Submitted and written by Mankind Tracer for THE A LIST! from public distribution releases.
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!
Finale party at Alien Lounge after show w/ dj Frank Eizenhart ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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!
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.
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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(Scroll to bottom of card for list of entries as shown on vote board)
**************************************************** 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
************************************* 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"
