The return of the Space cowboy (it is only a title actually)
So yes… i’m back. It’s not i was out for a really long time, but my lifes (both, first and second) were pretty busy in so many ways. In first life, well, basically summer holidays, traveling and being out of town and far away from computers for almost a month. I’m sure you all will understand this, sometimes this is something we all need, at least i so need it sometimes.
About Second Life, well, in the last months i was enjoying being part of the Soup Radio project with a really wonderful team of people, sadly this project is finished now, but i’m proud and happy about the work on it. Well, the project is not exactly finished, but we are planning the last show of Soup Radio for October 1st. From here i would like to give a huge hug to all the Soup Radio team, specially Arahan Cleveau, for all the help, support and ideas.
So, since i’m back i would like to say a couple more of things. First, right now i’m building an installation for Burn2 so i will inform more in this blog, about my project and about Burn2 itself. And second… thanks for keep reading my blog! *Raul sings “Welcome back” to himself*
A house with a view
So, as i told you some posts away i had to move in Second Life. After having some problems in the old Estate i moved with some friends-neighbours (because they are-were both 
) to a new Estate, and after trying a couple of plots we got THE one we needed!
Instead of buying different plots we decided to get a big one (some like 1/5 of a sim), subdivided in different plots and deeded them to a group, this way we share rights and… prims! 
In the picture you can see my house and part of the central park we have, this park was built by my friend Gahum and looks great! We are going for a 50′s – 60′s brutalist style, you know, flat lines and lots of concrete. Once we are totally done i will post some more pictures and maybe even a video.
Really hope you like it!
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- A house built on quicksand (raulcrimson.com)
Some of the measurements
The sweet Strawberry Singh posted few days ago in her blog about “What’s your digits?”, or about proportions and measures on avatars in Second Life.
Sooo… this are some of my measures… some others are kinda private. Nah, joking… Proportion is something difficult to find in avatar shapes, it is pretty easy to transform your avatar into a caricature, and that’s ok… only if that’s what you pretend, of course. But the most important is to feel comfortable with your shape… and to have a shape with “Modify” permissions, of course!
First of all, i would like to thank my friend Khamudy Mannonen for his help with my shape, it was a gift he made specially for me, and would like to thank him also for making it “modifiable” so i could make a lot of adaptations to the different skins i had.
A house built on quicksand
If you follow me in Twitter or Facebook you probably read about that change of home in Second Life i’m into now. I will resume the story: One of the estate managers told one of us the estate owners have not be around for some time and none of the managers had any news about or from the owners, also they were not sure someone was actually paying Linden Lab the monthly region fees.
We were a nice group of friends living in that sim, so we just didn’t renew our rentals and removed all our prims before they would be removed and deleted. We decided also to look for a new place all together… and we are now in that process. 
We found a couple of nice sims we would move to, so you will have soon-ish some pics of a new place.
Well, all together is not actually a big drama, just an inconvenient, but anyway this makes you think about the nature of Second Life. This (virtual) world is made of people and full of what that people makes, it is dramatically dynamic and time has a special relativity in it (the SL cycle of day/night is 4 hours and it seems like the REAL time cycle of SL, 6 days in one, 6 years in one).
It seems one should not feel attached to “something” in Second Life, or even to “someone”! Places and objects change, they get destroyed, deleted, rebuilt continuously. People come and goes, you meet new great people and suddenly that one you really liked doesn’t come “inworld” so often. About people, the good thing is you can link with them in other ways (email, other social networks, etc.) but what happen with the places or the objects in a virtual world like ours? I presume that’s why a lot of people, including myself, love SLphotography, it’s the way to “keep” those places or objects, to keep the memory of a virtual world.
Will rebuild my home soon, will be maybe better than the old one, and i will enjoy doing it. That’s part of the charm of Second Life, the ability to change everything again and again… only to change it again. Some way is fascinating how we expend time and energies in houses built on quicksand, but maybe it’s only the illusion of permanence we need, the illusion of living in a world that never changes.
There’s a “Like” button in there… somewhere…
my Facebook Fan page
Facebook is a “strange” place for an avatar. First, because Facebook in their TOS only accepts real information (names, etc) of real people. Actually they deleted the account, or at least blocked the account, of some people who was identifying themselves as avatars, from Second Life or other virtual worlds like IMVU, etc… I had an account for my avatar totally independent of my “real persona” one, but finally decided to delete it for those TOS things i just mentioned.
Since then i was wondering how it would be possible to use the power of Facebook as social network for my avatar… and the option was a “Fan page”. This way i can control my avatar page from my “real persona” account and have access to all the information and to the ways to share it easily. Actually i’m showing there some “pre-releases” of my pics, comments, videos and other things, always Second Life related.
Since, after some comments of Rodvik Linden, it seems Facebook is a place where Linden Lab plans to develop some plans for Second Life i thought “let’s try it!”. So if you feel like when you see in my Facebook page please click the “Like” button.
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