So I am on secondlife.com and I am making a virtual me.
My name is Rouri Magic.
My Birthday is February 5, 1985.
When you are deciding on a name for the virtual you, they provide a list of last names and check to make sure you are not duplicating another persons virtual name.
Now I am choosing my avatar. They don't have many choices to pick from. Two of the choices are not even human lookalikes . . . . and for some reason it didn't let me create one... so I will try again.
So before I skipped the community part. Now I am going to join Avatar Island. Hopefully it works. . . . yay! It worked. Same name, same birthday. And now I am installing the software. I just logged in and it says there are over a million people who visited second life in the last 60 days!
When I entered my island, I learned how to fly and teleport. I also learned how to buy things and sell things. I met a couple people on the island. One girl was a person who had the job of helping people who are new to second life. I was chatting with her and she gave me all kinds of new free clothes. So I changed my appearance and my clothing. When you go in to edit your appearance it asks you all sorts of things. I made my girl look like me, but I wonder if people who are using this all the time create an avatar thats looks like what they would like to look like or what they presume to be attractive. While I was chatting with this girl (her name was myst), there was a guy who entered the island and asked, "What is the purpose of this game?" Only guy there named Craig answered him saying that it wasn't really a game. He called it a "socially virtual life". He explained how people can get jobs and earn money just like in the real life but you very rarely have to spend your own money. He also said you could go to school and learn different things to get a job with a better salary, etc.
So then I decided to leave to conversation and transport to explore. I looked at the map and since I can't really tell what each place has in it I just clicked on one. It was a vacation spot with an ocean that had a diving board off the edge and a boat that was docked. So I tried to go on the boat and drive it but that didn't work. There wasn't anybody in site on this island so I couldn't ask around. And then I tried to dive and it actually worked. You can select what type of dive and your avatar will do it. They have back flips and twists and all sorts of cool moves.
This is literally like a video game, except it can be, and generally is, used as an actual second life for people who spend all of there time at there computers. I can definitely see getting addicted to it because over an hour passed while I was doing it and I completely lost track of time. It takes time to learn the moves and different types of things the program allows you to do. I can also understand, from the perspective of someone who isn't social, meetings friends and possibly a person to date on here. I don't know how "real" the relationships would be if they are over the internet though since you don't really know who the other person is.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
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Monday, June 9, 2008
Who would have ever thought to recreate there dead parents?
I was watching this video and one statement suggested the recreation of dead parents. Would anyone actually consider this? Would they be the same or just have the same DNA? There experiences would be completely different and external influences change the way a person acts, talks, makes decision... but would you actually consider it?
Sunday, June 8, 2008
MFA Visit
Last Thursday we visited the MFA to see art from different time frames like the Medieval and Renaissance times, first hand. Below are the pictures I took in slideshow format.
I have two favorite painters - John Singer Sargent and Claude Monet.
Claude Monet was a painter during the impressionist time. He did many paintings that focused on landscape. His landscapes looked as if it were a dream. They seem to be very relaxing areas that he paints, like fields and shores, and are very peaceful. One painting we saw by Monet that I particularly enjoyed, however, was of a man and a woman dancing. The couple was clearly from the working class because they weren't dressed up but you could tell the clothes they were in were probably the nicest clothes they own. You can notice the cigarette butts on the ground and the beer in the background of the picture which makes the scene seem so realistic. The woman was kind of upset with the man because he was sort of drunk and he was pulling her into him, but he was pulling her too close in public, and back then that wasn't allowed. The realistic part of the painting is why I love the painting so much. This is one painting Monet didn't paint a dream state or make reality seem so perfect.
We also saw a couple paintings done by John Singer Sargent. He is so talents and to know that he did some of the paintings we saw at such a young age is so inspiring. The first painting we saw was of an African American man, nude. The man has everything exposed, including his genitals. In one sense, I thought, "Why is this man posing like this for the artist?", but in another sense I am trying to figure out what the pose is insinuating. Maybe that the man is so peaceful with himself and understands who he is that he doesn't mind exposing his body, heart, and soul to the world. His chest is puffed out and there is the perception that a halo is surrounding his upper body. It seriously makes you think about taking some time to self-reflect. Are you comfortable enough with yourself to allow others to understand you?
The second painting we saw by Sargent was The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit. There are four young children in the painting and each one is shown at a different stage of there life. You can tell by the posture of the girl and the expression on her face around what age she is. For instance the youngest girl is sitting on the floor with her doll in her arms looking directly at the viewer. She has these big blue eyes and looks so innocent. It seems like she is so interested in what she is seeing and could be so easily amused like the nobody else is in the room but you and her because she is having so much fun. There isn't any knowledge involved in her expression besides knowing that her family is around her and knowing how to use her imagination to make games and keep herself occupied.
I have two favorite painters - John Singer Sargent and Claude Monet.
Claude Monet was a painter during the impressionist time. He did many paintings that focused on landscape. His landscapes looked as if it were a dream. They seem to be very relaxing areas that he paints, like fields and shores, and are very peaceful. One painting we saw by Monet that I particularly enjoyed, however, was of a man and a woman dancing. The couple was clearly from the working class because they weren't dressed up but you could tell the clothes they were in were probably the nicest clothes they own. You can notice the cigarette butts on the ground and the beer in the background of the picture which makes the scene seem so realistic. The woman was kind of upset with the man because he was sort of drunk and he was pulling her into him, but he was pulling her too close in public, and back then that wasn't allowed. The realistic part of the painting is why I love the painting so much. This is one painting Monet didn't paint a dream state or make reality seem so perfect.
We also saw a couple paintings done by John Singer Sargent. He is so talents and to know that he did some of the paintings we saw at such a young age is so inspiring. The first painting we saw was of an African American man, nude. The man has everything exposed, including his genitals. In one sense, I thought, "Why is this man posing like this for the artist?", but in another sense I am trying to figure out what the pose is insinuating. Maybe that the man is so peaceful with himself and understands who he is that he doesn't mind exposing his body, heart, and soul to the world. His chest is puffed out and there is the perception that a halo is surrounding his upper body. It seriously makes you think about taking some time to self-reflect. Are you comfortable enough with yourself to allow others to understand you?
The second painting we saw by Sargent was The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit. There are four young children in the painting and each one is shown at a different stage of there life. You can tell by the posture of the girl and the expression on her face around what age she is. For instance the youngest girl is sitting on the floor with her doll in her arms looking directly at the viewer. She has these big blue eyes and looks so innocent. It seems like she is so interested in what she is seeing and could be so easily amused like the nobody else is in the room but you and her because she is having so much fun. There isn't any knowledge involved in her expression besides knowing that her family is around her and knowing how to use her imagination to make games and keep herself occupied.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
What is alchemy?
Alchemy has two main descriptions on dictionary.com
al·che·my
The picture on the right is called "The Hermetic Garden" and is a symbol of Alchemy with the hand of God emerging from a cloud above and patting a child on the head and in the right hand of the child there is a flaming heart. It is an alchemical emblem taken from the alchemy website (http://www.alchemywebsite.com/index.html). This picture is a perfect representation of Frankenstein and his creator, Victor. Victor is portrayed as God in the novel. He is trying to recreate life when he studies alchemy and tries (and succeeds) to bring a human form to life. Victor, also known as Dr. Frankenstein, removes organs from the bodies of humans that have been tortured or sentenced to death because they were criminals. The flaming heart represents the heart of the monster because in the previous life the heart was not necessarily considered an angelic heart.
Alchemy can be known as the search for the philosophers' stone, which can turn any metal into gold. It is the experimentation of combining different types of materials to see if gold can be created. There are all different types of alchemical studies and it is present in different nationalities. But alchemy is also known as a supernatural type of study where the scientist that is doing experimentation can perform "other powers" on the solution they create, almost like a form of witchcraft or wizardry.
There are over 100 ALCHEMICAL PROCESSES -> http://www.alchemywebsite.com/alch-pro.html
al·che·my
| 1. | a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life. |
| 2. | any magical power or process of transmuting a common substance, usually of little value, into a substance of great value. |
The picture on the right is called "The Hermetic Garden" and is a symbol of Alchemy with the hand of God emerging from a cloud above and patting a child on the head and in the right hand of the child there is a flaming heart. It is an alchemical emblem taken from the alchemy website (http://www.alchemywebsite.com/index.html). This picture is a perfect representation of Frankenstein and his creator, Victor. Victor is portrayed as God in the novel. He is trying to recreate life when he studies alchemy and tries (and succeeds) to bring a human form to life. Victor, also known as Dr. Frankenstein, removes organs from the bodies of humans that have been tortured or sentenced to death because they were criminals. The flaming heart represents the heart of the monster because in the previous life the heart was not necessarily considered an angelic heart.
Alchemy can be known as the search for the philosophers' stone, which can turn any metal into gold. It is the experimentation of combining different types of materials to see if gold can be created. There are all different types of alchemical studies and it is present in different nationalities. But alchemy is also known as a supernatural type of study where the scientist that is doing experimentation can perform "other powers" on the solution they create, almost like a form of witchcraft or wizardry.
There are over 100 ALCHEMICAL PROCESSES -> http://www.alchemywebsite.com/alch-pro.html
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