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
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.
My brand new SL home!
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Recently i moved to a new sim, it was kinda hard since i was living in Ursa Major for some years but maybe i should be all zen and think life flows and one just needs to follow it.
So, as i said, i moved. Got a new house and was decorating this last week, and that’s the result (slideshow above)! Wanted something let’s say “classy hobo vintage” *chuckles*, something personal, warm, welcoming… A lot of the details around are made by good friends.
Still need to add some more details, specially in the garden, but that’s basically as it will be. Hope you like it!
Constant evolution
Second Life is, indeed, a world in constant evolution, that’s its nature probably. In the four years i’ve been in Second Life my life changed a lot, i mean my life as avatar (my Flesh Life changed too anyway), and in the last times i’m living one of those weird periods where mostly everything seems to change… or maybe it is i’m changing the way i face some things in life.
After living for three years in the same sim, Ursa Major, i’m moving. That’s actually a pity for lot of reasons, first because Thaumata, the actual sim owner, is a lovely woman and a really good friend, second because i love the sim and how it’s looking and third because some good friends (including Thaumata) are still living there. I’m right now living in a tiny Linden Home… so one can wonder why i was living in a really cool place and moved to a Linden Home? Well, because things change, friendships change too and the “life together” with some other people was not so easy anymore. Yeah… shit happens. I think this is a good moment to say thanks to Thaumata, because she is just too cool.
Also i’m working on some mid-term projects… but well, i won’t speak about them, don’t want to jinx them. And meanwhile i’m writing this i’m laying in my sofa, in my old mountain retreat, thinking about all those projects and all the changes.
Sweet Second Home
For some time i was thinking in taking some photographs of my home in Second Life, but you know, didn’t found the time. But some days ago i though: “Why to take only some pics when i can do a simple machinima? People will see the same and will be fun to make it.”.
So here it is. After i bought a new computer some months ago is easier for me to make machinimas with decent frame rates, in the old computer that was impossible. For the image capturing i used iShowU and for the edition, iMovie 09.
Hope you like it and, sincerly, it feels good to show my small peaceful space.
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