…editing practice, tractors, buildering, and stuff

*laughs* This week’s SLife has been incredibly quiet. Not such a bad way to be when first life is filled to the brim with stuff. My short time inworld offers a nice refuge, as it should. ;=)
I had a chance to use some old pictures and continue my practice editing on an odd sort of [...]

Song of the week (and video!) … “I will find you”

This week’s video was inspired by this song I have been saving forever to do something with … Clannad’s “I will find you” from the film “Last of the Mohicans.” I recorded the machinima over the course of several days and since Doc and I have a somewhat hectic summer schedule right now, we slipped [...]

Song of the week (and video!): “Train Song” by Vashti Bunyan

I love trains, among so many other vehicles in SL, as those of you who know me can attest to! And, I really love this old song by Vashti Bunyan (and recently covered by one of my fave musicians, Leslie Feist.) I really wanted to use the original tune for this one, though.
I was [...]

Gaze (and Helen Fisher on Love)

I’ve been reading several fascinating books and articles by anthropologist Helen Fisher for a project I am working on in first life. If you haven’t seen her vids at TED, take a look. Helen Fisher at TED
Start here:

Haha! I so heart English Majors … ;=)

Okay. God! These are good and I just have to save them somewhere to remind myself to do this sometime with my own student-to-student critiques …

Collected by Tanya Rey and posted at McSweeney’s … some samples:
“I love that everybody in this story has the same name, but it was a bit confusing.”
“It’s your story, [...]

Texture gathering with Emily Dickinson

I saw this beautiful cloud formation this morning in the first life texture gathering walk I do now on Wednesday mornings. Since I know this poem by heart, I actually got to gaze up to the sky and whisper it to myself. If anyone was looking out the window and watching, I am sure they [...]

Happiness is … Folly! ;=)

I am not generally online until Tuesday, but our new sim came today … and her name is Folly. OMG! It’s so big … and we can make mountains and ride tractors and shoot fireworks every single day there! hahaaaa! I do believe my nesting instinct carries over to my virtual life as I lived [...]