LotD 2009-08-16

I don’t like shopping nor do I care much about fashion… however, being in SL somehow awaken in me a new perspective of myself…

So, I do like shopping and I do like fashion to a certain extent… eh, go figure… anyway… my babe’s a expert shopper and helps me out picking out nice pieces that blend well together. Since there aren’t many good male shopping advices out there, I thought I’d give it a go. So, here’s my 5 cents.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/petrosmiklos/3827826892/

Outfit Details:
Hair: =IZUMIYA= Hair&Black Knit
Eyes: -Belleza- Eyes Magic Emerald B
Skin: >TRUTH< Francois [tan] [C]
Piercings: .:CoLL:. Charisma Lip/Nose Piercing Set
Necklace: M.R.M. Dog Tag #02
Shirt: *SL* V Neck Shirt Seal Brown 4
Pants: *SL* The Dude:Jeans Wrecked Darkblue
Sandals: Kalnins Sandals – Earthshine

Notes: Hair & Piercings were a free gift from DSN network. Shape was homemade along with plenty of input from my pumpkin fashion adviser

Wall of Life

I don’t know much about art. I either like it or I don’t. That’s it essentially. Pollock’s paintings (above and below) are, from what I’ve gathered the subject of high praise and much debated arguments on whether that is art or just blots of paint on a canvas that a monkey could do too. Of course… there’s the argument that a monkey could indeed do art too which would raise quite a few interesting questions, but that’s not my point.

Personally… On the surface I don’t see much on these painting. Reading a book that by chance brought these painting in to discussion made me curious about them and somehow open my eyes to look at them with a different perspective.

No… I don’t see a pink elephant blissfully jumping from lily-pad to lily-pad on these, not no ulterior interpretation of Humanity struggle to overcome their meaningless trifling. It does however makes me wonder about time and life.

I often used to see the World in a stylized black and white painting. Good and Evil. Right or Wrong. Yay or Nay. Eh… so much for those simple times. Now its all a blur of grays. Hard to see where Pure White or Pure Black exist… they might be there, maybe I just need to look harder… maybe not.

Time on the other hand. Well… it keeps running. You may have noticed it yourself. Were I a super-hero (or villain) and had the possibility to choose my special power I would pick the power to stop or manipulate time. Just the idea of being able to freeze a moment in time… *sigh*… it would be indescribable.

Problem is, that’s not the way the game’s played. You’re thrown in to the deep end and the clock is ticking. Sure, you’ll make bad decisions, you’ll never grasp the bigger picture, you’ll miss important events or hints that flash by you. Opportunities are flying by you as you go… You either grasp them or you don’t… You might do well… you might end up worst…

Is there a pause? Is there a goal? Is there a pattern we’re missing? Am I missing it? Or is it not there, everywhere we look?

Hmmm… I can almost feel that I can grasp it (whatever it may be) sometimes. I never can though, at least so far. I doubt I ever will. I could keep making plans, re-assecing opinions, decisions, objectives and so on… where would I end up? Eh… I think John said it right in one simple sentence:

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.

So I look again at these apparently confusing paintings and I wonder again: Are they random burst of a mad man delusion… or are they just a depiction of the nature of time and life? Yes.. it looks chaotic, its erratic and extremely complex. However… it somehow works. There’s order within the chaos. There’s beauty even.

Guess we just don’t see the bigger picture.

But… if we did…

Would we understand it and appreciate it?

Virtual Dreams aren’t just made of pixels

A rendering of virtual personas or a projection of real emotions?

I have little doubts about it.

The 8th Poltergeist

I like my real-life job.

Every now and so often things happen that shouldn’t happen. Sometimes its bad. Sometimes its good. Sometimes its really good. Other times… well, things just happen and a yelp of fear is suddenly taken by an immense curiosity for nature…

Avast Alien !!

Meet… oh wait.. haven’t named him… her… it…

Meet Alien! He just popped out, probably literally, after a very windy and spinny ride from God knows where in to our microscope field of view along with the rest of the expected inhabitants of that particular culture plate.

Eheh… it was fun. Not easy to use your cellphone to take pictures through a microscope btw (we should buy a camera thinking about that…hmmm….).

Oh well, I got to know it was a cousin of some arachnid… more precisely a species of mite. Now, they don’t like those room temperatures, and this one must had been having an hard time there too! Plus it was quite tiny, no bigger 0.05 mm wide… so… well… it was interesting.

Have I mentioned that I like my job?

Quite an exciting day today too. No actual new results… but fun and laid back eheheh

The moon and the planets are shinning above

Did you saw the night sky yesterday? You didn’t… well, you should. Looking up to the nightsky is good. It gives you perspective on many things; on how small you are and on how pointless so many fights are (if not almost all of them)… its good to look to the nightsky. I like it. Last night… well, last night it was special.

Some pictures on BBC website

One piece of news about it too

Eh, it’s funny how things are. How sometimes all things come together and you don’t quite know how to explain them, making you feel like a kid staring in awe, while trying to act like a wise man understanding all the rules and theory of how things work and behave… but deep down, we’re all just teenagers, winging it as we go, amazed by things that have been around for so many time, that so many people have experienced… yet all this is new to us.

Eh, Strange World indeed… not in a bad way, but just in a way that we sometimes forget that that’s how it actually is, instead of the colorful, dull gray or black & white pictures we like to paint it in our brains.

It’s… I dunno. Surprisingly natural what happen yesterday, but it makes you wonder, makes you think, makes you feel things… and that is good. It open ups your mind, ya know? It was a surprisingly unexpected surprise, one that life, destiny, God, your pick, from time to time sends it on your way and you just catch it not really knowing what to expect… and thats just it – Carpe Diem -

I wonder what will happen next? What will aligned itself next? Yes, there are rules to predict them… laws constraining these things, but… in the end, all things just play out as they should… amazing isn’t it?

Eh, and with my wanderings I end with an awesome piece of art, by none other then Mr. Frank Sinatra himself… “Fly me to the moon”. Love that song.

Fly me to the moon
Let me sing among those stars
Let me see what spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars

In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby kiss me

Fill my heart with song
Let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore

In other words, please be true
In other words, I love you

A bird told me

So I sort of kept my promisse.

I stated that there would be no party. I refused requests for suprise parties. I’ve kept my end of the bargain and no posts on your rez day…

BUT…

That was yesterday already on my watch… so…

HAPPY (belated) REZ DAY SUMMER SWEETY

Summer, my tender sweet love

My big sis, Katerina’s Rez Party

Its been a week already since my SL sis first rez day party, but it’s still a memorable event to write about, especially taking in to account the great gal she is.

Katerina Manamiko, my SL sis, my great dear friend, also known as Kat, or the General Manager of the club we work at, Sweethearts, first rezzed on the 11th of November of 2007.

Through countless perils we come to meet each other at Sweethearts where we both started working around the same time there, when Sweethearts was just a brewing idea on the minds of Charity & Dilbert. We’ve been there from the early beginning, and despite not talking every day with each other, when we do talk, we tend to share deep emotions between each other.

Moments have come, hard to undertake all on your own, where we have counted on each other to wind out and spill out what was trapped inside us. I thank her for that, for being there when I needed her shoulder… I only try to be there for her as well when she needs it too…

Hmmm… well, what I mean to say is that I’m really happy to have met you Kat. Getting to know you has a person as been a amazing experiment and I hope you can keep shining your light with all of us for many many more years to come. You’re a kind, giving, selfless person, always putting other before your own interests. Sometimes people don’t understand you (way to many more then I wished for you) and fail to see what a shining star you are. My only wish is that you may find you path to happiness soon and that life will ease up the burden you often carry all by yourself…

Love ya sis

On the meanwhile, here’s some pics of the party Sweethearts setup for our beloved Katerina on her Rez Day. Me and Summer were there and hope we spiced up the party a little bit, making it a memorable day for you Kat.

*big hugs*

Katerina Manamiko

Me & Summer @ Kats Rez Party

there was CAKE!!!!

View of the party

Why was it a defining historical moment?

Why was it a defining historical moment for the USA?

Well, amongst other things I’m sure… and I also HOPE so… but the following cartoon is a good starting explanation to that question…

follow the link

Chapter III

And so it is. Three months. Three whole months. A few breaks in between, a few angst days, a few storms… but in the end, as I look back: three months of pleasure; getting to know you, sharing with you, learning with you and being happy with you…

Though often I have some ability to write, I lack today the words to express myself.

You run through my veins now. You’re part of my everyday. Part of every night. Part of my imaginary. Part of my reality. Though you thank me often and feel some need to ‘pay me back’ all that I have given you… well… you really don’t need to do such thing at all. All that you give me is more then enough, more then I expected.

Love you pimpolha! <3

Rezparty Photo’s

It was last week already, but my RL as been hectic to the point of not having much time to write, or even just to sort out the pics from the party… I finally managed to get some time yesterday and pick a few pics, and today to write a small text about what was a wonderful night where me and my SL twin sister (Ana Vhargon) celebrated our very first rez day (ie: we started our second life in Second Life, one year ago… the birthday of our avatars).

I was quite doubtful about the whole thing. I tend not to like big parties with many people around, I go along well without the focus of attention on me… so… I was somewhat ambivalent about the whole thing. Happy for Ana & Summer to have organized a wonderful event to celebrate our rezparty… but expectant to how it would turn out.

One such anxious moment were the “15 minutes of mystery”! Lol… they were fun and a lovely gift and surprise from my sweety Summer. Loved it! (minus the endless suspense)

the end of the 15min of terror ;P

Then, we ride to the party! eheh, well… not really… but you get the point.

The party was at the lovely ‘For Us’ club, owned by my sis Ana and her husband JL. Lovely place and a great night of music planned as well. With great performances by Peltzer, Orangelife Holmer, TB Andel & Pa Dacosta. We had a great time, listing to all this wonderfull portuguese musicians. Thank you all

Orangelife @ rezparty

TB Andel @ rezparty

Pa Dacosta @ rezparty

My SL twin sis Ana @ our rezparty

For Us club view @ rezparty

For some reason… It seems that only me and Summer decided to dance along the lovely tunes while having a blast singing along them… or trying in some cases. eheh. It was a great reminiscence of how we ocasionaly met for the first time

Dancing & Singing with my sweetheart Summer @ rezparty

About 3 hours later the party ended with only a skeleton crew (but what a fine selection of skeletons, let me point it out!) of the large crowd that stopped by to wish an happy rezday to Ana (oh… and to me too, sometimes… lol). Poor sis, she got a sore throat from screaming over and over that it was also my rezparty as well

The final group that made it all the way to the end of the rezparty

It sure was a memorable evening.

One I didn’t expected to celebrate one year ago… but one I will deeply remember for times to come. Thanks to you all that made it possible, specially my sis Ana and my sweetheart Summer

Love ya all.