PgUp Performances Saturday 30 June - Part 1

This is such a mega blog post that I am going to split it into three parts to do it justice. Today, I will cover Douglas Story's beautiful installation, Chambers and Landscapes. Still to come, coverage of Wirxli Flimflam and Fwwixli Swindlehurst's amazing performance, Ageplay Performance Residue #1, and another brilliant concert by Avatar Orchestra Metaverse.

After a slow start, Saturday's PgUp event went well in SL and rl. It took a while for people to turn up in both venues - in London, we had terrible weather and travel chaos caused by the Pride festival to contend with, and in Second Life, it took a while for everybody to wake up. For the Americans and Canadians, it was, to be fair, extremely early in the morning, and many of the Europeans had attended Angrybeth Shortbread's remix of Brian Eno's 77 Million Paintings at what was for them 3 or 4 in the morning. While waiting for things to get going, I hung around Virtual Haidplatz and took virtual drugs with Fwwixli and Miulew ...

You: hey miu!!
Miulew Takahe: hello spin! ;)
Miulew Takahe: i am socializing with Fwwixli a little...
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: do you see my hallucinations ?
Miulew Takahe: i can't believe she is talking drugs at that young age...
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: my dad is a drug dealer !
Fwwixli Swindlehurst gave you Here's your half of the Sunshine Acid , EAT IT ! (wear it) 2.
You: woohoo!
You: i'm on acid!!
Miulew Takahe: ahh Sunshine Acid - -is that good Fwixxli?
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: very
Miulew Takahe: is that something you take?
You: yep
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: good colours
You: wear it
You: teehee!
Miulew Takahe: are you on acid spin?
You: yep
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: /ahem
Miulew Takahe: ok - i took too
Miulew Takahe: greato! ;))
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: No but,
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: yeah but,
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: no but,
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: yeah
You: we are just about open at Notice
You: few peeps here
You: TIME WARP!
Miulew Takahe: great - - - hallu's! ;)
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: Uh - ooooooh!
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: Uh - ooooooh!
Miulew Takahe: yes - is it now - or one hour later it starts?
Miulew Takahe: i mean gallery opens...
You: now!! hahaha
You: can't move camera when on acid!!
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: you fat bloated idiot
Miulew Takahe: oh rocky horror - i hear meatloaf! ;))
You: taking off acid cuz i can't move camera
Miulew Takahe: hmm - might be a good idea
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: yeah
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: trying to drive on acid
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: is
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: impractical
You: hehe
You: We are the Knights who Say ...
You: GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: Hey!
Miulew Takahe: must do some belly dancing...
Miulew Takahe: it's the acid..
You: good thinking miu!!
Miulew Takahe: actually i would like to jump in a car and go drive a little wild...
Miulew Takahe: anyone care for a joyride?
Miulew Takahe: and anyone has a car?
You: i have a good rideable pig
Miulew Takahe: ahh the gaz. drums are doing good with the acid...
Miulew Takahe: ahh pig might not be the same... but - i might reconsider later...
Miulew Takahe: i am flying high
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: heellllllllppppp
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: tp me down
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: I'm hightscared and stuck
Fleep Tuque: Still rezzing, can't see a thing.
Fleep Tuque: :)
Miulew Takahe: then you don't see my bellydance either! ;))Miulew Takahe: so you got the notecard?
Fleep Tuque: I did, thank you!
Fleep Tuque: Douglas is a good friend, so I was planning to attend anyhow, but I didn't have the TP point, so it came in handy. :)
Miulew Takahe: great! nice
Fleep Tuque: Goodness, the coffee hasn't kicked in yet, what a horrid sentence.
Fleep Tuque: :)
You: we are ad-libbing while waiting for douglas

Fleep Tuque: Welcome E!
egenerica Dagger: thanks. are there any movies?
Miulew Takahe: there is this one that Gaz. made
Miulew Takahe: for Fau
Miulew Takahe: it is down here below the fountain
Miulew Takahe: please come down and look at it...
egenerica Dagger: cool... i'm still getting the hang of finding things to do that aren't based around shagging half dressed people and dancing like a retard in SL
egenerica Dagger: i've been looking for some good art but it's hard to come by
Fleep Tuque: Everyone has that trouble at first, e, but don't give up
Fleep Tuque: we're out here. :)
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: we love doing all that and call it art
You: hehe
egenerica Dagger: that's good to know

We all seem to need coffee and/or drugs today - I have both!

You: hello folks
You: we are a little late starting with the PgUp programme this afternoon
You: but in a few minutes, Douglas Story will be here
You: to show us round his installation
You: Chambers and Landscapes
You: then at 7.30
You: we have Wirxli and Fwwixli's performance
You: Ageplay Performance Residue#1
You: that will be upstairs here
You: you can get up there using the teleporter that is a spinning sculpture in a sphere
You: at 8.30 we will be drawing the raffle in the rl gallery
You: (where we are being screened live right now!)
You: and then at 9 we have Avatar Orchestra Metaverse
You: who will be performing here in the square
You: including the premier of SLippery SLope
You: you can get a full programme from the table next to the poster
You: and some elderflower champagne
You: it is a very informal atmosphere in the rl gallery today
You: people are able to ask questions and ask me to zoom in on things
Miulew Takahe: Both Spinster and Wirxli has blogged about the thursday happenings - pretty extensive on their blogs
You: Douglas is on his way now

Douglas arrives

By the time Douglas arrives, in his pyjamas, both venues are starting to get busier ...

Douglas Story: huh? wha?
Douglas Story: Oh, hi.....
You: hello douglas
Tayzia Abattoir: Hello Douglas
Douglas Story: It's 6:45 am inCalifornai
BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: :-)
Douglas Story: grin
You: douglas story has made a wonderful photographic installation
Fleep Tuque: Love the slippers!
You: called Chambers and Landscapes
You: we are announcing in rl right now too
You: say hello to the notice gallery everybody!!
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: hello londong
Tayzia Abattoir: Hello :)
Miulew Takahe: /hi london! ;)
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: sorry misspelling
BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: CIAO
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: hello notice gallery !
egenerica Dagger: hola londres
DannyDarko Raymaker: cheers London!
You: big hello back from london
Douglas Story: Greetings from the colonies.
DannyDarko Raymaker: Britain I'm your lost SON!
Miulew Takahe: /waves
You: howso danny?
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: London....
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: ...so secret...
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: ...controller of this vast network...
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: ...
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: ...upon who's shoulders...
DannyDarko Raymaker: cause i live in Italy but my soul and mind are English/Ireland i hope to move there soon!
You: hehehe fwwix
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: ...ever alert...
DannyDarko Raymaker: yay!
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: ...cut away you fool!
Douglas Story: love the soundtrack! hehe.
You: ok douglas
You: are you ready to show us around Chambers and Landscapes?
Douglas Story: Yes, please use the TP device in the yellow globe
You: lead on ...

We have terrible problems with the teleporters, leading douglas to say a very rude word! Luckily, it was in IM, so only I saw it. (and everybody at Notice Gallery) (and now the rest of you - sorry Douglas =-p)

Fleep Tuque: Oh dear
Fleep Tuque laughs.
IM: Douglas Story: it's not working.
Miulew Takahe: fleep - right click
IM: Douglas Story: TP people up?
You: not working fleep?
Miulew Takahe: and choose teleport
Tayzia Abattoir: I will go last so I dont look so silly :)
Tayzia Abattoir: lol
You: ok we use the other one
IM: Douglas Story: f**k! (edited for decency)
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: tp is broken
Fleep Tuque: Hehe, think the center ring needs to be unlinked. :)
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: is porting up to the skyboot, right? was there thursday
Fleep Tuque: Ahhh touch the ring
IM: Douglas Story: (forgot folks in the gallery can see this)
Fleep Tuque: not the center ball
IM: Douglas Story: darn!
Fleep Tuque: :)
egenerica Dagger: i get a message to teleport that does very little
Fleep Tuque: Oops yes indeed.
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: select target works not
You: over here folks!!!
You: this thing
You: right click and choose the location

Eventually, we all arrive safely in the entrance room to Douglas's installation, 700 metres above virtual Haidplatz ...

You: phew made it!
Douglas Story: yay.
Douglas Story: Set your light to midnight, folks.
Douglas Story: and use mouselook through the tunnels. I suggest going through only 2 or 3
Douglas Story: at a time.
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: mouse or skateboard?
Tayzia Abattoir: lol
Douglas Story: ha! skateboard look will do, too.
Miulew Takahe: this is sooo nice! ;)
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: (sorry - not used to the mouselook)
Fleep Tuque: Hehe
Fleep Tuque: It takes some getting used to.
BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: can enter?
Douglas Story: this isn't really a mass audience entertainment.....
Douglas Story: oh sure...step in if you wish.
Douglas Story: I'll meet you on the other side.
DannyDarko Raymaker: it's my turn?
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: sure dan
DannyDarko Raymaker: thanks

BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: wow
Douglas Story shouts: The management is not responsible for acid flashbacks!
DannyDarko Raymaker: ehehe
You shout: doug fwwix is giving out acid today!!
Douglas Story: uh oh. getting crowded in there?
You: hehe
Tayzia Abattoir: psssst...that spinster walks like a noob
You: lol tayz! they just discussed that in the rl gallery too!
Miulew Takahe: even though she got a cane... ;)
Douglas Story: never had so many people in there at once!
You shout: douglas - why flowers?? london asks
Douglas Story: Well, London.....
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: why flowers and not why jammies ?
Douglas Story: I started with them just playing with the closeup capabilities of my new camera
DannyDarko Raymaker: so nice here
DannyDarko Raymaker: flower power
Douglas Story: literally shoved the lens in rose,

You: this room suits you danny
Douglas Story: and the results were striking and unexpected
DannyDarko Raymaker: right:D eheh
Tayzia Abattoir thinks Douglas knows how to capture real beauty
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: :)
DannyDarko Raymaker: cheers up!
BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: DOUGLAS is wonderful
Douglas Story blushes
DannyDarko Raymaker: greetings Doug!
Douglas Story: any other questions from the Old Country?
You: gin says that is not why that is what and how!
You: gin is our rl announcer
You: (sorry about gin)
You: hehe
Douglas Story: Announcer? part of my job is torturing voice-over talent
Tayzia Abattoir: How long have you been involved in photography Douglas.
Douglas Story: Oh, since high school.
Fleep Tuque: Ahhh!
Douglas Story: when we used ACTUAL FILM!
Douglas Story: the digital thing reawakened my interest.
Tayzia Abattoir: And did you photograph nature then as well?
Douglas Story: Yes.....but also any geometric shapes,
Douglas Story: bicycles, etc.
Tayzia Abattoir smiles
Fleep Tuque: I love this one, it's almost too beautiful.
Douglas Story: most of these are flowers, but..

Douglas Story: can you tell what this one is?
Douglas Story: (group exercise)
egenerica Dagger: my money is on feather or butterfly wing
Tayzia Abattoir: a zebra ;)
Fleep Tuque: Ahhaha! This one stumped me.
Tayzia Abattoir: lol
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: not really
You: ooh i know i know!!!!
Douglas Story: good call, egen
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: feather
Tayzia Abattoir: a tree
You: am i allowed to say doug?
Tayzia Abattoir: ohhh
Douglas Story: it's a primary flight feather of a Great Horned Owl
Tayzia Abattoir: nice ;)
Fleep Tuque: Ooooh, e wins the prize!
You: what does she win?
Douglas Story: note: it makes owls VERY cranky when you pull out their feathers.

Tayzia Abattoir: Tell us about this one Douglas, I love this one.
Douglas Story: Tayzia, that is a very, very tiny cactus.
DannyDarko Raymaker: yay!
Fleep Tuque: This one looks so surreal, too crazy to be organic.
Tayzia Abattoir: It is beautiful
Douglas Story: probably about 3/4 inch across in real life.
You: can you say something about the scale of your work in second life douglas?
Douglas Story: I've always loved very very big images in galleries
DannyDarko Raymaker: me too
Fleep Tuque: Yes, the ones that envelope you.
Douglas Story: and actually had some of my flowers printed by
Douglas Story: an industrial shop
Douglas Story: on vinyl.
Douglas Story: a company that makes huge, building size adverts
Douglas Story: the idea of displahying thse big like this here was appealing.
Douglas Story: they're 5 megapixel digital images,
DannyDarko Raymaker: macro world of tiny things
Douglas Story: printed as big as 3 x 4 feet in real life.
You: how big can you go with these here?
Douglas Story: ha!
Douglas Story: well, my new piece is about....ummmm... 120 feet high.
Douglas Story:
Tayzia Abattoir: lol
DannyDarko Raymaker: wow
You: WOW!! megaprims?
Tayzia Abattoir: and a beautiful one it is
Douglas Story: Tayzia and Fleep have both seen it.
Douglas Story: yes, megaprims.
You: and me
Fleep Tuque grins.
Douglas Story: oh yes....you too, Oh Sleep-Stealer.
Fleep Tuque: It's gorgeous.
You: can you explain what a megaprim is?
Douglas Story: megaprims are semi-legal objcets in SL, much bigger than the 10 x 10 meter limit
Douglas Story: usually imposed.

Juria Yoshikawa arrives - greetings all round ...
Douglas Story: (she's like Norm at Cheers)
Juria Yoshikawa: yah!
Tayzia Abattoir: HAHA
Fleep Tuque laughs!
You: heehee
Juria Yoshikawa: lol
Miulew Takahe: if you havent been walking the tunnels here juria - you must do that - - inside there are some marvellous things! ;)
Juria Yoshikawa: gimmee a beer
You: london likes your belt juria
Douglas Story: (an American television reference. sorry, London)
You: we get cheers!!!
Juria Yoshikawa: bye it at muji
Miulew Takahe: cheers! without beers
Douglas Story: Let me whip up a picture of the new piece to show y'all.
Fleep Tuque: Building under pressure! Brave man!
Miulew Takahe: ;)

You: am explaining your process to the people at Notice
Juria Yoshikawa: go douglas!
You: we like it as a multiple image too
Douglas Story: as you can see...it's big!
Tayzia Abattoir: A picture does not do it justice ;)
Douglas Story: it makes music, too.
Douglas Story nods at Juria
Fleep Tuque: Oh there you are, tiny as an ant down at the bottom.
egenerica Dagger: is this roughly the size of a small building?
Douglas Story: I collaborated with a musician that Juria's worked with too.
Fleep Tuque: The soundscape is fantastic.
Douglas Story: it is that size egen
Douglas Story: you can see me standing there very small.
Wirxli Flimflam: think I need to zoom in there, Douglas ;-)
Douglas Story: Sugar saw an earlier version of this sans music.
You: tell us about the sounds in this installation please douglas
Douglas Story: I collaborated with the wonderful musician Aldomanutio,
Sugar Seville: its beautiful Doug : )
Douglas Story: and a genius scripter named Desdemona Enfield
Douglas Story: I got lucky....and have an entire sim to display it on.
Juria Yoshikawa: i wanna live there

Douglas Story needs more coffee.
Wirxli Flimflam: Wirxli Flimflam also needs coffee
Coffee Mug whispers: Ahh! Fresh Hot Coffee
Douglas Story: (laughing)
Tayzia Abattoir: lol
Fleep Tuque grins.
Douglas Story: any other questions?
You: yes did you get your slippers from evo?

Tayzia Abattoir: lol
Douglas Story: I forget!
Douglas Story: I spent two hours shopping last night for this silly joke.
Tayzia Abattoir: Next time tell us it is a pj party.
Fleep Tuque: And well worth it!
You: hehe
Fleep Tuque: Artist in PJs!
Douglas Story: hey, I'm a comedy professional!
Tayzia Abattoir: :)
You: i want a slipper exhibition next
Douglas Story: (sometimes)
Miulew Takahe: yeah - a slipper exhib.! ;))
Wirxli Flimflam: heheheheh
Gazira Babeli: ahahah
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: I'm going to make some
Miulew Takahe: maybe we should all wear on SLippery SLope - - the piece of Wirxli - we do later today
Miulew Takahe: SLippers i mean
Wirxli Flimflam: good idea, Miulew
Wirxli Flimflam: brb...coffee break
You: great idea miu!
Wirxli Flimflam: 2 mins
Man Michinaga: ahahah
Douglas Story: if you came directly here, please walk through the tunnels
Fleep Tuque: The entrance is round this way.
Douglas Story: let me show you
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: oops
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: lag
Sugar Seville: hi little fwwixli...brat : )
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: and acid
Juria Yoshikawa: these are really beautiful Doug
Man Michinaga: ACID! ACID! ACID!
Douglas Story: back through here, folks.
You: we have a rl child in the gallery fwwix!
Douglas Story: thank you, Juria
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: you fat bloated idiot
Juria Yoshikawa: intense color
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: woohooo
Wirxli Flimflam: heheheheh
Douglas Story: btw...none of these images have been enhanced at all.
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: her parents should cover her eyes
Juria Yoshikawa: jeesh
Douglas Story: images straight from the camera.
Wirxli Flimflam: trippy!
You: i am her (his) parent!
DannyDarko Raymaker: I'm crashing and Crashing like monkey with a miniature Cymbals!
Juria Yoshikawa: that's amazing
Juria Yoshikawa: you go monkey man
Wirxli Flimflam: whoa...guy or gal, Spin?
Wirxli Flimflam: do you know for sure? ;-)
You: who me?
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: then you should use a towel or something
Wirxli Flimflam: heheheh..Danny
You: everybody asks that!
Wirxli Flimflam: yeah, you Spin :-)
Douglas Story: btw, this has a permanent home on the University of Cincinatti sim, run by Fleep here.
Wirxli Flimflam: I think I am stuck in Douglas' exhibition
Wirxli Flimflam: Spin, can you TP me outta this flower? ;-)
You: look for the arrow wirxli
Wirxli Flimflam: pleez and thank you
Wirxli Flimflam: uhhh...
Wirxli Flimflam: thanks
You: yay well done
Wirxli Flimflam: I could not even find the arrow I was so lost
Wirxli Flimflam: thanks for the TP, Miulew
You: are you hiding douglas?
Zodial Semple: This one looks like blade grass growing through a body
Chi5 Shenzhou: fwwi!
Chi5 Shenzhou: how are you kiddo?
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: dizzy
Miulew Takahe: i love the sounds from inside the tunnels -- what are these douglas?
Wirxli Flimflam: Douglas did not want to sign autographs, maybe that is why he is hiding
Man Michinaga: Fwix, now don't you dare tell me to pick on someone your own size.

Gazira responds to Chambers and Landscapes

Douglas Story: ha!
Fwwixli Swindlehurst: that acid
Fleep Tuque: I think he's going back through the tunnel part of the exhibit.
Douglas Story: I'm trying to direct newcomers through the effing tunnels.
You: those are pj's douglas!!!
Wirxli Flimflam: did you lose yourself in your own tunnels, Douglas? ;-)
Fleep Tuque: If you missed the tunnels, follow the back wall to the left
Man Michinaga: Beter than the geeng tunnels
Fleep Tuque giggles.
Fleep Tuque: I saw your slippers before you, D.
Fleep Tuque: :)
Douglas Story: come on, you slackers! that's the fun part!
Douglas Story: come on...
Wirxli Flimflam: heheheh...SLackers is right
Juria Yoshikawa: let's dump boiling oil down the tunnels doug
Wirxli Flimflam: hahahaha
Wirxli Flimflam: sounds kinda SLick, dont'cha think, Juria?
Juria Yoshikawa: slick like boiling oil?
Wirxli Flimflam: yep
Wirxli Flimflam: heheh
Man Michinaga: GREEK FIRE AND ACID
Man Michinaga: YAY!
Fleep Tuque: Wow Man, your head is on fire.
Man Michinaga: I'M A LITTLE HOTHEAD.
Fleep Tuque: muahaha!
Sugar Seville: i like the new shape Man : )

BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: Douglas thank you
BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: for wonderful show
BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: Spinster say Ciao for me to London RL
You: k blaise especially Babette ;-)
BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: hahahaha
BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: my special greets naturally is for Babette
BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: :-)))))))

Babette Pauthier, coordinator of Pages Exhibition

You: ok so it's 7.30 doug, do you want to say anything else before we move on?
You: btw the people here love yiour work
Wirxli Flimflam: yeah, it is very kewl Douglas, I will explore this area by myself too to get the full immersive effect
Fleep Tuque: Thanks as always, Douglas, good show!
You: thank you so much Douglas Story!!
Douglas Story shouts: you're welcome, Miss Spinster!
Douglas Story: thank you all for coming.
Wirxli Flimflam: thanks Douglas
Douglas Story: it was worth waking up for!

Check back soon for a post on Wirxli and Fwixli's Ageplay Performance Residue #1, and pictures from Notice Gallery as they come in.

Real Life Pics from Thursday at Notice Gallery

Before the next mega-blog-post on Saturday's events, here are the first of the real-life photos from Thursday's PgUp screenings at the Notice Gallery. All pictures by Francesca Vilalta ...

Here I am enjoying a glass of real-life elderflower champagne

Gin Dunscombe keeps the audience informed with her announcements and commentary

Happy faces in the audience

A screen, a projection and a lighty-up mouse

The audience in a serious mood

Backs of heads

Typing so fast my hands are a blur

Artist David Howells takes some style tips from Bingo Onomatopoeia

Meanwhile, Miulew Takahe has uploaded an audio recording of Rue Blanche from Thursday's performance here, and Wirxli Flimflam, fresh back from the dead, has blogged about Thursday here

PgUp Performances Thursday 28 June

Notice Gallery, Deptford, looking warm and inviting on a typical English summer day

Thursday evenings event went very well in real life at Notice Gallery, and in Second Life at Virtual Haidplatz, Odyssey. AOM were on top form and premiered two pieces as part of their set. Fau Ferdinand and Gazira Babeli's All n00bs are Sailors was fun, beautiful and terrifying! We were interrupted towards the end of the evening by the rolling restart, which meant that Douglas Story's installation, Chambers and Landscapes did not get the attention it deserved. Luckily Douglas has promised to get up very early on Saturday to show us round his work.
Below are some generous extracts from the chat log and some photos from the event. I was unable to take many RL photos myself once everything started, but as I write this post, the first photos taken by guests and helpers at the show are appearing in my in-box, so expect some in the next blog post! The event was also video'd in Notice Gallery. Clips will be uploaded after editing on Monday ...

IM: Bingo Onomatopoeia: spinster, is it true that they are mainly
composed of water?
IM: Bingo Onomatopoeia: i mean these "real people"
IM: Bingo Onomatopoeia: how do they insulate their circuitry?

Beth Collar (left) and Clancy Gebler Davies of the PgUp team helping prepare the gallery

BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: we can have much fun tonight
BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: when i'm free to create damage in
playing
BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: i'm happy
BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: :-)


left to right: Joe Watling, our rl video expert, Gin Dunscombe, our rl announcer and Nici Oxley, co-founder of Notice Gallery

Flirt of the night #1
You: blaise are you french?
BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: no spin
BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: i'm italian
BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: blaise de la france
BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: is art name
BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: :-)
You: ah ok, we have a french woman here who was wondering
BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: who is french?
You: her name is Babette
You: she is working with me in rl
BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: wow
BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: i'm available for meet her
BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: :-)
BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: send her my hello
You: she says hi back
BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: wow
Miulew Takahe: send her italian and swedish greetings! ;)
BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: i like french friend
BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: :-)

You: you are now projected into the gallery

Miulew Takahe: things will start here next hour
You: omg one hour!!!!
spinster Voom panics
Fau Ferdinand: breath deep spin
Miulew Takahe: ahh plenty of minutes...
You: vinyl lettering going in gallery wndow right now

Nico De Oliveira, co-founder of Notice Gallery, with Gin Dunscombe

You shout: welcome everybody
You shout: the rl gallery is now officially open
You shout: the first guests are arriving
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: greetings to real life :-)
BlaiseDeLaFrance Voom: yeah
DannyDarko Raymaker: cheers RL!:D
DannyDarko Raymaker: yay!
Jondolarr Larsson: Aloha all
Maximillian Nakamura: hello
Rasalbott Hax: hey

Three cheers for Maximillian who has no internet connection at the moment and has scoured Berlin for cashpoints and internet cafes so that he could be here tonight!!

flirt of the night#2
Jayke Writer: Fau, as an alien lover, i appreciate the femininity
you have captured so well
Fau Ferdinand: heh
Fau Ferdinand: sirens are mythological beings
Jayke Writer: and so many of us yearn for their myths to be reality :)
(see below for pictures of the beautiful Fau)

Miulew wears the brand new AOM tee (hair and trousers - the model's own)

Miulew Takahe: HELLO! AND WELCOME TO PgUp
Miulew Takahe: WE'RE GLAD TO BE HERE
Miulew Takahe: IF YOU WANT TO READ MORE ABOUT OUR
ORCHESTRA THEN YOU CAN FIND INFORMATION ON OUR
BLOG
Miulew Takahe: IT IS AT http://avatarorchestra.blogspot.com/
You: ready when u are!
Miulew Takahe: OK WE START WITH A PIECE CALLED RUE
BLANCHE
Miulew Takahe: +FOUND SOUNDS

Wirxli Flimflam - AOM member

Maxxo Klaar: yay
Miulew Takahe: /THANK YOU
Fau Ferdinand: yey !
Eve Kazan: bravo
Andra Theas: woohooo!
You: YAY!!!!
marco Manray: great
Andra Theas: well done!
marco Manray: clap
Sugar Seville: wooottt!
Fau Ferdinand: that was great
You: rl audience clapped lots
You: sounded great
Miulew Takahe: NOW WE'RE GOING TO PLAY IN FACT THE
OLDEST PIECE WE HAVE IN AOM- - FADHEIT
Miulew Takahe: BY MAXIMILLIAN NAKAMURA
Sugar Seville: i love that song!
Miulew Takahe: WILL YOU SAY SOME WORDS ON THE
PIECE MAX?
Fau Ferdinand: claps
DannyDarko Raymaker: great
Maximillian Nakamura: YEA IT IS A PIECE WITHOUT
RECEIVERS..
Sugar Seville: an all tme favorite : )))
Sax Boa: claps
Dan Cundey: claps
Maximillian Nakamura: SO NOBODY SEES WHOS PLAYING
Maximillian Nakamura: :-)
Maximillian Nakamura: OKAY FADHEIT means something like
boring in english
Maximillian Nakamura: IT IS A GERMAN WORD:
Maximillian Nakamura: I TRIED TO WORK WITH
ELEMENTARY BASIC SOUNDS.
Maximillian Nakamura: we start..
You shout: hooray!!!



Oda Onmura: Amazing, I have a cupboard drawer that sounds
almost the same...
You: /hehe oda
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: /oda you should join AOM!!
You: /weird with invisible instruments
You: /and bring your drawer
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: /!Oda
Onmura: /I'd love to, if I'd know what AOM is
Fau Ferdinand: this is aom
You: /avatar Orchestra Metaverse
Fau Ferdinand: all those people who are coming and going
Oda Onmura: /mmh, thought it was an abreviation for acousto-
optical modulator.
Fau Ferdinand: playing wierd sounds
You: /that too prolly oda
Oda Onmura: /or maybe just too nerdy?

Maximillian Nakamura: OKAY thanks!
Fau Ferdinand: :)
Eve Kazan: very coool
Fau Ferdinand: claps
Andra Theas: wow
Andra Theas: claps
Paco Mariani: :)))
You: WOO!!!!!
Miulew Takahe: WE ALMOST FORGOT TO SAY THAT YOU
JUST WITNESSED A PREMIERE...
Sugar Seville: woottt!!
Maxxo Klaar: yea, first public performance
Miulew Takahe: A PUBLI PREMIERE
Maxxo Klaar: is more fun
Miulew Takahe: THIS PIECE HAVE NEVER BEEN
PERFORMED IN PUBLIC BEFORE
Eve Kazan: cool
Miulew Takahe: SO - -A STORY TO TELL YOUR
GRANDCHILDREN! ;))
Maximillian Nakamura: greets to london :-)
Andra Theas: heheheMiulew
Takahe: OKAY... WE'RE CONTINUING IN OUR
PROGRAM
Maximillian Nakamura: :-)
Miulew Takahe: WE'RE NOW GOING TO DO A SORTOF
IMPROVISED PIECE
You shout: GREETINGS FROM LONDON TOO!!!
Miulew Takahe: IT IS CALLED VICKYS REMIX
Miulew Takahe: AND IT HAS IT RATHER LONG STORY
Miulew Takahe: WHICH I WILL NOT TELL NOW
Matthias Connolly shouts: Greetings from Vancouver Canada
Miulew Takahe: BUT SHORTLY I CAN TELL IT COMES FROM
THE FIRST "PUBLIC" PIECE WE DID
Eve Kazan: greetings from Paris !!! France of course
Miulew Takahe: VICKYS MOSQUITOS #13
Hars Hefferman: back in time ... :)
Miulew Takahe: WHICH IS A PART OF A HUGE PROJECT
WHICH HARS HEFFERMAN IS DOING
Hars Hefferman: One crash a day keeps the doctor away ... :)
Miulew Takahe: NOW WE WILL DO A REMIX OF LOTSOF
THIS SPRIUNG FROM THAT
marco Manray: lol
Miulew Takahe: HARS - DO YOU WANT TO SAY SOME
WORDS ON THE VICKY PROJECT?
You: /london want to know where you are from bingo
IM: Bingo Onomatopoeia: regensburg, germany, bavaria
Miulew Takahe: IT TAKES A WHILE SOMETIMES TO REZZ
NEW INSTRUMENTS - SO PLEASE BEAR WITH US...
You: /np explaining the meaning of lag to londoners
Hars Hefferman: FOR INFO ON VICKY'S MOSQUITOS MAYBE
IT'S BEST THAT I GIVE YOU AN URL ...
Hars Hefferman: INSTEAD OF TALKING A LOT NOW ...
Hars Hefferman: :)
Hars Hefferman: YOU MAY READ ALL ABOUT IT ...
Hars Hefferman: http://www.harsmedia.com/VickysMosquitos/
Hars Hefferman: .. AND AVOID ME HURTING MY THROAT ...
Maxxo Klaar: /spin, bingo and pomodoro bolzano are from
regensburg , thats were this virtual haidplatz really exists :-)
Miulew Takahe: OK WE'RE ABOUT TO START
Miulew Takahe: SORRY TO KEEP YOU WAITING
Miulew Takahe: THIS IS AN EXPERIMENT
Miulew Takahe: THIS NEVER GOING TO SOUND THE SAME
Miulew Takahe: AND THAT IS SO FOR ALL OF OUR MUSIC,
BTW
Miulew Takahe: OK... HERE VICKYS REMIX

Maximillian Nakamura and Wirxli Flimflam playing Vicky's remix

Miulew Takahe: /THANK YOU!!
Fau Ferdinand: claps
Miulew Takahe: ALSO A PREMIERE - AN IMPROVISED SUCH
You: /claps
You: LONDON CLAPS
Miulew Takahe: OKAY - WE WILL DO OUR LAST PIECE FOR
TODAY
Miulew Takahe: AND WE HAVE SPARED THE GOODIES
Miulew Takahe: TILL NOW
Miulew Takahe: WE HAVE THE PLEASURE TO PRESENT TO
YOU THE WEE.NO.KRESH
Miulew Takahe: BINGO DO YOU WANT TO SAY A FEW
WORDAS ON THIS?
Bingo Onomatopoeia: haha, not really...
You: oh go on
Bingo Onomatopoeia: ...let's play the song :-)
You: london wants to know
Bingo Onomatopoeia: ok, you see the spheres...
Bingo Onomatopoeia: there are sounds in them...
Bingo Onomatopoeia: moving around
Bingo Onomatopoeia: a rel 3-d-mix
Bingo Onomatopoeia: as each avatar is his own microphone

dancing to the beats of Wee.No.Kresh

You: /wOOOOO
Matthias Connolly: Pretty wicked folks. Kudos from CANADA.
Good job, Spinster. !
You: thx Matt cya soon xx
Matthias Connolly: Good luck with the rest darling xo xo
You: aom are fab
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: /AOM rules!

AOM member Loop Luo becomes entangled in the Onomatophone

You: LONDON WHISTLES AND CLAPS!!!!
Miulew Takahe: SO- - THANK YOU THIS WAS SO NICE
Miulew Takahe: GREETINGS TO LONDON FROM ALL AOM!;))
Wirxli Flimflam: thanks everyone for checking out the AOM classics ;-)
Maximillian Nakamura:
THANKS ALL!
Wirxli Flimflam: stay tuned for more AOM on the 30th
You: fantastic thx so much AOM
Miulew Takahe: PROBABLY SOME SOUNDS FROM THIS
PERFORMANCE WILL BE ONLINE FOR LATER LISTENING
ASWELL CHECK http://avatarorchestra.blogspot.com/
Bingo Onomatopoeia: THANKS FOR COMING!
Maximillian Nakamura: ALSO CHECK OUT:
http://myspace.com/avatarorchestra
Maximillian Nakamura: :-)
Paco Mariani: all of the pleasure is mine :)
Maxxo Klaar: yes thanks, so lovely audience, brilliant weather and
the aom in a very good shape, yay!
Miulew Takahe: YEP was a blast! ;))
DannyDarko Raymaker: cheers
Wirxli Flimflam: ok, where is the next performance happening with Fau and Gaz?
Miulew Takahe: hope you have a nice stay at the Notice Gallery - -
and kudos to Spinster - our heroine! ;)
You: that is here wirx and we are due to start but need a 1 min
break
You: brb
Wirxli Flimflam: thanks SPinster for hosting AOM in London
today
Miulew Takahe: also hope all SL audience has as good stay as the
london peeps - - thank you for coming!
DannyDarko Raymaker: al right so 1 minute brake
Miulew Takahe: and it is not over yet...
Miulew Takahe: looking forward the performance(s) to come both
now soon and on saturday
Wirxli Flimflam: brb..getting coffee
marco Manray: great wirxli
Wirxli Flimflam: oh wait I have some already - I am totally out of
it ;-)
marco Manray: I liked a lot the last piece
Wirxli Flimflam: :-)
marco Manray: all people dancing with musician

You: OK WE ARE READY FOR FAU FERDINAND's
PERFORMANCE
Wirxli Flimflam: yaaaaaaaaaaay!
marco Manray: geat
You: All n00bs are Sailors
Fau Ferdinand: good evening everyone
You: just announcing in rl fau
Fau Ferdinand: please turn your videos on
Fau Ferdinand: any sailors around ?
Miulew Takahe: there is one sitting up at the fountain, fau
You: /get himfau!
Miulew Takahe: hopi - -i think is a sailor
Fau Ferdinand: you mean hopi
Miulew Takahe: yep
Fau Ferdinand: come here hopi
You: yeh cook hopi
Fau Ferdinand: we're making some soup
Hopi Jun: you speaking to me?
Fau Ferdinand: yes you sailor :)
Fau Ferdinand: nut meg
DeThomas Dibou: hi all....
Hopi Jun: aaarrg you're hurting me
Fau Ferdinand: oh sorry
You: hi dethomas
Fau Ferdinand: water too hot ?
You: u luv it hopi!!
Hopi Jun: aahh can stand it a little more - it is not so bad actually
Fau Ferdinand: ao on
Wirxli Flimflam: I think you need some salt - bes way to unnOOb
someone is to add some salt and spices
Wirxli Flimflam: *best
Fau Ferdinand: hey yeah
Fau Ferdinand: pass it over

Fau begins to cook Hopi, a n00b sailor

Wirxli Flimflam: hmmm.///let me see if I have any
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: /erh... whas a noob?
Fau Ferdinand: hopi is a n00b
Wirxli Flimflam: nOOb = newbie
Fau Ferdinand: fresh
Hopi Jun: hmm it is getting a bit hot..
You: it's an important soup ingredient gumno
Wirxli Flimflam: fresh meat for all to eat
Wirxli Flimflam: hot eats, nOOb treats
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: /:-)
Fau Ferdinand: gave him his first pants too
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: /get it...
Wirxli Flimflam: taste great, less filling
Wirxli Flimflam: *tastes
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: /but a little salt?
Hopi Jun: i dont think is so fun anymore...
Hopi Jun: this
Wirxli Flimflam: do not have any salt in my inventory
Wirxli Flimflam: how about a bit of absinthe for the soup?
Hopi Jun: can someone tp me?
Wirxli Flimflam: adds flavour
You: yeah wirx
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: /I am actually sitting here drinking my
absinthe
You: i always put it in mine
Fau Ferdinand: yeah that would do wirx
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: /just now
Wirxli Flimflam: excellent
Fau Ferdinand: you got it all
You: rl gumno?
Wirxli Flimflam: ok..let me find that and pass it to Fau
Hopi Jun: tp please someone
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: /the fairy goes green too
Fau Ferdinand: looks , talent ...
Hopi Jun: it is getting to hot
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: /yes, RL
Hopi Jun: TP, TP...
Fau Ferdinand: let's go for a walk
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: /always buy absinthe when I am in brittain
Hopi Jun: PHEW - WAS TOO HOT
Hopi Jun: you'e mean fau
Fau Ferdinand: heh
Wirxli Flimflam: nice...hot absynthe soup is the best
Wirxli Flimflam: Cream of French Artist is my favourite!



Fau Ferdinand: and now
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: /should try it in the Chongqing hotpot
Wirxli Flimflam: Cream of Drunk French Artist, that is
Fau Ferdinand: I must ask you
Hopi Jun: i am only a newcomer you know -
Fau Ferdinand: to sit down
Fau Ferdinand: because I'm planning
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: /is it only me or is fau turning into a
green fairy?
Fau Ferdinand: on self distraction
Wirxli Flimflam: heheheh
You: absinthe i think
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: /mm...
Wirxli Flimflam: yes, I guess it is hard to pour absynthe into the
soup
Wirxli Flimflam: the really drunk ones are forced to "wear"
it..heheheh
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: /itll hurt my economy



Hopi Jun: it feel s safer among the other...damned fau -- you're
mean
Evo Szuyuan: aarrggghhhhh
You: eep!!
Fau Ferdinand: now
Fau Ferdinand: is everyone seated ?

we grow nervous as Fau piles barrels of flammable liquid around her cooking fire

suddenly, the place is in chaos, with flames and explosions all over the place ...

You:
aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrgghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Miulew Takahe: ouchh
Miulew Takahe: she is shooting
Evo Szuyuan: woooootttttttttttt
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: /is boiling over?
Evo Szuyuan: firefire
You: london wants to know is fau dead?
Evo Szuyuan: she's gonna be
Miulew Takahe: OOHHH SCHEISSE
Maximillian Nakamura: oooo..
Evo Szuyuan: my hair!!!!!!!!!!!!!1



You: OMG U KILLED WIRXLI!!
Wirxli Flimflam: am I the only one who is volunteering to be Martyr Sauce here?
Evo Szuyuan: BASTERDS
You: yep
Maximillian Nakamura: where?
Wirxli Flimflam: sigh
Fau Ferdinand: did I kill kenny ?
Evo Szuyuan: take wirxly!
You: no u missed but got wirx
DannyDarko Raymaker: noo wirx noo
Wirxli Flimflam: hopefully, my recent death will increase the
value of my art
DannyDarko Raymaker: :D
Fau Ferdinand: he's playing dead
Evo Szuyuan: hehehe
Fau Ferdinand: for the insurance
Wirxli Flimflam: shhhhh...
Miulew Takahe: AND THAT WAS FAU FERDINAND WITH "All
n00bs are Sailors"
Miulew Takahe: GIVE HER A BIG APPLAUSE
Maximillian Nakamura: WOW!
Fau Ferdinand: thanks :)
Maxxo Klaar: /clap
Mejo Kuu: :)
Miulew Takahe: PLEASE COME DOWN HERE FAU!
Maxxo Klaar: yeaH
Juria Yoshikawa: /ENCORE
You shout: and don't forget to switch your video on
Fau Ferdinand: ao off
You: and view the all n00bs are sailors film
Miulew Takahe: /clapS
Maxxo Klaar: more sailors for fau!!
You: by Fau Ferdinand and Gazira Babeli
Miulew Takahe: I GUESS THE POT IS HOT STILL
Fau Ferdinand: yess
Juria Yoshikawa: DESSERT?
Bingo Onomatopoeia: /!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Miulew Takahe: :))
You: thank you so much Fau
Fau Ferdinand: it's always brewing
Miulew Takahe: desert would be great
DannyDarko Raymaker: clap cklap clap
DannyDarko Raymaker: i got it
Fau Ferdinand: thank you spinster
Paco Mariani: great work, fau
Fau Ferdinand: thanks paco
Mejo Kuu: nice fau!
Miulew Takahe: the soundtrack to the vid- is fab
Miulew Takahe: and vid itself of course
You: vid is thunderous in gallery
Fau Ferdinand: that's gaz
Miulew Takahe: great
Fau Ferdinand: she's gold
Miulew Takahe: i hope all gallery in Deptford are dancing wildly
Wirxli Flimflam: I think I am going through that shamanic near-
death experience if the trance drumming is any indication
DannyDarko Raymaker: ehehe wirx
Jayke Writer: Ausgezeichnet!!!
You: k thank you so much folks, do stay to look at the video and
the installation by Douglas Story as well
Miulew Takahe: how can we get there spinster?
You: after a 5 minute break i will be showing the londoners around
douglas's installation
Fau Ferdinand: :-D
You: the yellow tp pod
Miulew Takahe: how do we go up to douglas installation?
Miulew Takahe: okay
Wirxli Flimflam: k..great..now that I am dead, I gotta go into RL
for the rest of the day
You: USE THE YELLOW POD
Wirxli Flimflam: please say hi to Douglas for me
You: cya wirxli
Evo Szuyuan: you can't talk
Fau Ferdinand: oh wirx
Miulew Takahe: wirxli - you look really bad
You: thx for coming
Maximillian Nakamura: CU wirsx
Paco Mariani: cya wirx
You: so glad u could make it
Fau Ferdinand: I'm so sorry
Wirxli Flimflam: do not worry..I will heal..once my insurance
agent and dealer leaves....heheheh
Miulew Takahe: ;))
Fau Ferdinand: if there was something I could do
Maxxo Klaar: l8r wirxx
Wirxli Flimflam: Fau, just tell the dealers I am worth something
now
Miulew Takahe: we could put the pieces of Wirxli in the pot later
Maximillian Nakamura: ehehehe
Fau Ferdinand: done
Wirxli Flimflam: artists are never worth anything until they die
Wirxli Flimflam: thanx
Maximillian Nakamura: I would pay 10000 $
DannyDarko Raymaker: my poor dear friend Wirx, so young!
Miulew Takahe: i guess you will taste good
Wirxli Flimflam: you can throw me in the soup for a few mins to
flavour it, if you want
Maximillian Nakamura: :-)
You: k back in 5 xx
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: /is wirxly better than absinthe?
Fau Ferdinand: and colour
Fau Ferdinand: like beet root
Wirxli Flimflam: yeah, 1 year is quite a tragic age to die
DannyDarko Raymaker: wirx soup
Paco Mariani: i AM hungry
Fau Ferdinand: well the pot
Evo Szuyuan: great movie gaz!
Wirxli Flimflam: yeah, it is a great performance Fau and Gaz!
Miulew Takahe: yeah - gaz - i luv that video
Wirxli Flimflam: I am willing to die for your art
Miulew Takahe: mezmerising
DannyDarko Raymaker: a shaman sacrify
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: /do they not usually sacrifice the goat?
Wirxli Flimflam: I am the goat..er...sheep ;-)
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: /the sacrifier sacrifying himself?
Fau Ferdinand: goats taste yuck
Wirxli Flimflam: er...lamb
Paco Mariani: the vid .. !!!!!!!!
Fau Ferdinand: n00bs are gourmet
marco Manray: great video
Wirxli Flimflam: The Lamb Lies Down in Haidplatz
DannyDarko Raymaker: wirky lamb
DannyDarko Raymaker: :D
Wirxli Flimflam: wow! The Spirits have revived me back to life!
Wirxli Flimflam: this video works!
DannyDarko Raymaker: uh i'm gonna selling the pix of your
sacrify
Wirxli Flimflam: heheh
DannyDarko Raymaker: wow!! He's back!
Wirxli Flimflam: bye everyone
DannyDarko Raymaker: cheers!
Wirxli Flimflam: I invoked the power of the Lindens
Miulew Takahe: c u wirxli
Miulew Takahe: c uFau
Ferdinand: bye wirx
Miulew Takahe: so good the restart of sims -not got here yet
Paco Mariani: ciao wirx
Wirxli Flimflam: bye Fau and Gaz and AOm and SPinster and all
of my friends
Wirxli Flimflam: chat l8r

when I return, we travel up in the yellow pod teleporter to Douglas Story's Chambers and Landscapes. We have only been here a couple of minutes when the dreaded "rolling restart" hits Odyssey and we are forced to scatter to avoid being logged out.
I briefly teleport home to NCI Plaza and spend a few minutes answering questions from the RL audience on the nuts and bolts of Second Life until Odyssey reopens...

You: can i put my tentacles on now performances r over?
Maximillian Nakamura: :-)
Bingo Onomatopoeia: oooo, spinster, you share this fetish?
You: giggle
Maximillian Nakamura shouts: aaaaaaaahhhhhhh....
Miulew Takahe: spin - are there people still in the gallery in
London?
You: yes
Miulew Takahe: great
Fau Ferdinand: :-D
You: they want fau to wiggle her toes again
Miulew Takahe: are you having a good time?
singuart Ballinger: spinster nice look
Bingo Onomatopoeia: so, this means there is wine left?
You: ty sing
Miulew Takahe: toe wiggling is great
Fau Ferdinand: but I am
You: like a fish fau
You: they like it
Fau Ferdinand: ao on
Maximillian Nakamura: ooo spinster
Maximillian Nakamura: :-)
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: didnt i know it... all curators are like this
after shows spinster
You: yeah u should see the rl lot gumno!!
Bingo Onomatopoeia: :-)
Fau Ferdinand: evooooo
Gumnosophistai Nurmi: turning my back on them, i always feel...
something like this
Evo Szuyuan: wow spinster!!!
Evo Szuyuan: we had to take the sim down for your new outfit??
You: yep

Flirt of the night#3
Maximillian Nakamura: bingo nice outfit bytheway
Maximillian Nakamura: :-)
You: yes bingo all the london girls they say ...
You: whoooaaarrr!!!!
Fau Ferdinand: hehe
Bingo Onomatopoeia: /blush...
Maximillian Nakamura: oooo.. english girls :-)
Maximillian Nakamura: they are lovely
Maximillian Nakamura: :-)

You: k we have 10 mins
You: i'm going round dougs thingy again
Miulew Takahe: are you from NYC jayke?
Jayke Writer: from KansasCity, but a Bostonian in my heart
You: we not in kansas any more, jayke
Jayke Writer: hey, we're only one twister from Oz

after a few glasses of wine, Lizzie interacts with Douglas Story's Chambers and Landscapes

Miulew Takahe: this room - sounds so nice
You: hey you two
Miulew Takahe: hello spin! ;)
You: we are now officially closed!
Miulew Takahe: it was here i crashed before
You: that was great!
You: thx so much
Miulew Takahe: great spin
Miulew Takahe: enjoyed it sooo much
You: went v well

I really like this room as a backdrop for my tentacles

Miulew Takahe: i love this turning flower room
Evo Szuyuan: yes!!
emika Insoo: yes cool!
You: projector is now off
You: phew
spinster Voom relaxes
Miulew Takahe: i cant stop taking pictures - - looks so great

we say goodbye and I log out in time to make last orders at the Deptford Arms. Leaving the gallery, I look up at the smart vinyl lettering in the window and smile ...



can't wait for Saturday!

PgUp Artist: Douglas Story aka Dennis Schaefer

For Pages Exhibition, each of our artists is answering a set of three questions, and providing us with a self-portrait and an image of the place they work, or sit and dream ...today, Douglas Story...

self-portrait: "Mr Cool"

Douglas Story, aka Dennis Schaefer, is a photographer from California who has recently extended his practice into Second Life. This has enabled him to present his large scale images in novel ways. He shows me round his exhibition - Chambers and Landscapes - at Angel Dorei gallery on Solaris ...

Douglas Story: good afternoon. Evening. Whatever.
spinster Voom: early evening here
Douglas Story: nice LBD!
spinster Voom: good ... morning?
Douglas Story: yes, 10:30 am here in California
spinster Voom: thx, ur clothes have only just rezzed let me take a look ...
spinster Voom: fanTAStic coat! :-)
Douglas Story: /bow
Douglas Story: thanks.... their whole line is amazing and funny.....based on a mid-century Soviet crumbling infrastructure structure motif
spinster Voom: u have a landmark?
Douglas Story: fooey, I don't. but if you search on d3volution you'll find it.
Douglas Story: let's go up.
Douglas Story: set your light to midnight, please
spinster Voom: ok
Douglas Story: music off, sound effects up
spinster Voom: we should be in mouselook too shouldn't we
spinster Voom: but then i lose the Instant Message window
Douglas Story: mouselook only for the tunnels, really
spinster Voom: ok
Douglas Story: I use the mouse wheel to go in and out of mouselook all the time.
Douglas Story: but many folks don't
spinster Voom: how u do that?
spinster Voom: i can go into mouselook like that
spinster Voom: but then get stuck
Douglas Story: just roll back on the wheel
spinster Voom: k, will try it
spinster Voom: oh yeh!
spinster Voom: that works
Douglas Story: ta da!
spinster Voom: :-)
Douglas Story: I use it constantly.
Douglas Story: go ahead and step thru
spinster Voom: ok...

spinster Voom: wow!
Douglas Story: you've seen this before, right?
spinster Voom: yes, had a brief look round, but still ... wow!
Douglas Story: (big smile) thanks...well, it ain't subtle.
spinster Voom: the textures are all your photos?
Douglas Story: yes they are.
Douglas Story: photos all natural light
Douglas Story: no Photoshop enhancement
spinster Voom: fantastic colours
Douglas Story: this pink is a cactus flower
Douglas Story: at Huntington Gardens -
Douglas Story: the sun was setting, and illuminating it from the side
Douglas Story: I stuck the lens into the trumpet of the flower
spinster Voom: native to where you live?
Douglas Story: No, at Huntington Gardens
Douglas Story: but they have lots of exotic species of plants there
Douglas Story: including a very English landscape
spinster Voom: what about the other flowers here ... we are standing on ... daffodils?
Douglas Story: Sunflower
spinster Voom: no, they're not are they?
spinster Voom: sunflowers?
spinster Voom: oh yes, i see it now
spinster Voom: the things i thought were daffs are the little flowerlets in the middle
Douglas Story: I like the moment when folks reorient to what they're seeing
spinster Voom: you really get in close
spinster Voom: :-)
Douglas Story: the camera will focus about 3/4 inch away
Douglas Story: 1.5 cm to you!
spinster Voom: nope! English are much comfier with imperial measurements
Douglas Story: (laughing)
spinster Voom: we invented them u know! lol
Douglas Story nods
Douglas Story: I'm a big fan of your language too.
Douglas Story: Very expressive.
spinster Voom: is it not your language too?
Douglas Story: It is.
Douglas Story: I'm being a smart-ass.
spinster Voom: oooooooookaaaaaaaaaay!
spinster Voom: hehe
Douglas Story: continue through, Miss Voom.
spinster Voom: k, will look for the arrow
Douglas Story: I will not watch your bum as you go up the tunnel

spinster Voom: don't mind, spent aaaaages on my bum!
Douglas Story: (laughing)
spinster Voom: what are the sounds we are hearing?
Douglas Story: They're from a library of stock music I use in my professional work.
Douglas Story: I got permission from the company to use 'em and edited them down to under 10 seconds
Douglas Story: so they could be used here in SL
spinster Voom: orchids?
Douglas Story: (smile)
Douglas Story: I LOVE when people can't tell what something is.
spinster Voom: *sigh*
Douglas Story: this is the back side of a sunflower
Douglas Story: all the hairy weird bits
Douglas Story: bought at the supermarket, photographed on my front porch in the sun
spinster Voom: the colours are unexpected for the back of a sunflower
Douglas Story nods

photo by Douglas Story

Douglas Story: A lot of things very, very close up suggest something else
Douglas Story: btw, these glasses don't work any better here than in RL
spinster Voom: hehe
spinster Voom: so, i understand the attraction of very close up photography ... the way it gives you a completely new perspective on things ...
spinster Voom: but why flowers in particular?
spinster Voom: feel like i am tripping!
Douglas Story: hehe.... I get that a lot.
spinster Voom: ah yes, i remember that feather too, i like the feather
Douglas Story: from a Great Horned Owl
Douglas Story: btw...your work is very, very interesting.
spinster Voom: you have seen my work?
Douglas Story: I've been on your web site, at least.
Douglas Story: I was fascinated by the ancient computer program Life
Douglas Story: way back.
spinster Voom: ah! haven't updated it in about a year lol
Douglas Story: the ambient light thing didn't work for me. :(
spinster Voom: no? wouldn't work, or u didn't like it?
Douglas Story: it didn't operate.
spinster Voom: oh dear
spinster Voom: it's a bit temperamental
spinster Voom: could try sending it to you as a java applet if you are interested
Douglas Story: please do.
spinster Voom: k
spinster Voom: :-)
Douglas Story: I have yet to visit the AI fish here in SL
Douglas Story: been meaning to do that.
spinster Voom: yes, i haven't seen them yet
Douglas Story: and only went by Svarga briefly. So much to explore!
spinster Voom: have you been to Svarga?
spinster Voom: ah! lol
spinster Voom: one of my fav hangouts
spinster Voom: peaceful :-)
spinster Voom: the image you are standing next to ... tree bark?

Douglas Story: yes. Eucalyptus
Douglas Story: I often rotate an image by 90 degrees
Douglas Story: the unexpected change in perspective
Douglas Story: throws off the viewer's awareness.
spinster Voom: gives it a landscapey feel
Douglas Story: exactly!
Douglas Story: it suggests an aerial view of a mesa
Douglas Story: in the American Southwest
spinster Voom: what's a mesa?
Douglas Story: a Spanish word for "table" but also a geographical term
Douglas Story: for...well...a flat-topped raised mountain.
Douglas Story: (bad definition, but you get the idea)
spinster Voom: oh yes i think i know
Douglas Story: Anyway....do continue.
spinster Voom: ok, yes, where were we...
spinster Voom: i was wondering whether you always choose natural subjects for your images
Douglas Story: Yes.
Douglas Story: well, that's not entirely accurate.
Douglas Story: but for this closeup series, yes.
spinster Voom: what is the attraction for you?
Douglas Story: Oh...are you going to make me wax philosophical?
spinster Voom: yes! lol
spinster Voom: they do remind me of Georgia O'Keefe
Douglas Story: thank you!
spinster Voom: you mention her in your statement i think
Douglas Story: yep yep
Douglas Story: At first, I was thinking that flowers were too obviously beautiful a subject for Art.
spinster Voom: *sigh* isn't it a shame you have to worry about art being too beautiful?
Douglas Story: I tend to think too much....and am always on the lookout for pretension
Douglas Story: even (or especially) in myself
spinster Voom: that makes you quite unusual for an artist
spinster Voom: i like your outlook
spinster Voom: it's refreshing
Douglas Story: Many artist's statements are SO ripe for satire.
Douglas Story: this is what I wrote in my first draft of my artist's statement:
Douglas Story: "My work takes a heuristic approach to the challenges of the contemporary zeitgeist, and seeks to push aside the enfeebled hegemony of the patriarchy to make way for a new Post-Post Modernist paradigm. Either that, or I'm trying to make pretty pictures. Hey, if flowers were good enough for Georgia O'Keefe, they're good enough for me." But a friend of mine in the art world persuaded me not to use it.
spinster Voom: oh.... stop it! lol
spinster Voom: have you come across the postmodernist text generator?
Douglas Story: No! but would love to see it.
spinster Voom: google it later
spinster Voom: it's a program that churns out postmodernist critical theory bollox
spinster Voom: u'll love it
Douglas Story: yes! I've seen ones that do that for movie trailers
Douglas Story: "In a world where nothing is real, one man must...."
spinster Voom: hahahahaha
Douglas Story: I write that kind of copy for a living....
Douglas Story: but back to business...
Douglas Story: Nature is the expression of god to me....it's how I get in touch.
spinster Voom: :-)
Douglas Story: the sense of wonder - of joy....
Douglas Story: this through science, too
Douglas Story: why the Christian Right has such a problem with science, I don't know.
spinster Voom: no, i always find things more beautiful with a bit of scientific understanding
Douglas Story: it's all this wonderful mystery....all these rules we don't yet understand.
Douglas Story: (I'm just babbling here)
spinster Voom: do go on ...
Douglas Story: If I go on, I'll end up with Something Pretentious.
Douglas Story: hehe
spinster Voom: hehe
spinster Voom: so for pages, we need succinct answers to three specific questions ...
spinster Voom: 1) how would you describe your work?
Douglas Story: my first response is "pretty"
Douglas Story:
spinster Voom: pretty, and ...
Douglas Story: ummmmm......
Douglas Story: unexpected
Douglas Story: surprising
spinster Voom: :-)
Douglas Story: colorful
Douglas Story: and pretty!
spinster Voom: lol ok ...
Douglas Story: what's the point of the Pages project, anyhoo?
spinster Voom: ok, pages ....
spinster Voom: we are all recent graduates or final year students, who have been sent on a mission ...
Douglas Story: A dangerous mission?
spinster Voom: lol could be!
spinster Voom: to find artists whose work inspires us in some way ...
spinster Voom: and ask them about their creative process, their own inspirations etc. ...
Douglas Story: well, color me honored, Miss Voom
spinster Voom: :-)
spinster Voom: you make me want to pick up a camera
spinster Voom: 2) who (or what) is your greatest influence?
Douglas Story: I'd have to say Edward Weston
Douglas Story: that pepper!
Douglas Story: big, big influence on everything I do.
spinster Voom: not familiar ...
Douglas Story: Oh yes! A giant in photography
spinster Voom: k, will have to look him up
Douglas Story: you'll see the pepper, I'm sure.
Douglas Story: the sexiest vegetable every photographed
spinster Voom: ooooeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrr!!!!!!!!
spinster Voom: anyone else u want to mention for that q?
Douglas Story: for inspiration for THIS project, I'll take you to a place next that you'll like.
spinster Voom: yes please
Douglas Story: I work in show business, and I wanted to create a bit of theater
Douglas Story: for an entrance to this gallery
Douglas Story: this is the only thing I've ever built in SL,
Douglas Story: and my skills are not great.
spinster Voom: yes, i love the walk through thingy
spinster Voom: am impressed
spinster Voom: all I've built is a frock lol
Douglas Story: this one?
spinster Voom: no
spinster Voom: can show u if u want
Douglas Story: please!
spinster Voom: k, avert your eyes...
spinster Voom: tada!
spinster Voom: hehe
Douglas Story: great!
spinster Voom: made the skirt, hat and cane
spinster Voom: oh, and shoes
spinster Voom: rest was freebies
Douglas Story: very cute!!!
spinster Voom: ty
Douglas Story: I love that big-petticoat look
spinster Voom: u should see it when i fly!
Douglas Story: (my wife was a clothing designer for many years)
spinster Voom: really?
spinster Voom: in rl, right?
Douglas Story: yes
Douglas Story: she's utterly unimpressed with anything about SL
spinster Voom: so's my bloke =-(
spinster Voom: specially with the amount of time i spend here
Douglas Story: I'll be raving about a Frank Lloyd Wright house here in SL,
Douglas Story: and she'll say, "But...it's not --real--!"
spinster Voom: of course it's real!
Douglas Story: I'll tell her you said so!
spinster Voom: i got told off yesterday for calling it a game
Douglas Story: (rolling eyes)
Douglas Story: people taking things way too seriously.
spinster Voom: "it's not a game it's a place!"
spinster Voom: hehe
Douglas Story: so....more questions?
spinster Voom: yes, one more ...
spinster Voom: 3) with whom would you most like to collaborate?
Douglas Story: Oh!
spinster Voom: sl or rl
Douglas Story: gosh......well, I did talk with AldoManutio Abruzzo briefly about
Douglas Story: using his music for sound design for a future project.
Douglas Story: and this project changed as I went along, based on suggestions from people.
spinster Voom: is that a sl or rl person?
Douglas Story: SL musician - very interesting,
Douglas Story: evocative, ambient stuff.
Douglas Story: reminds me of some of the things Robert Fripp has done
spinster Voom: makes music in-world?
Douglas Story: yes, yes.
spinster Voom: will have to look him up too
Douglas Story: join his list and go to one of his concerts
spinster Voom: that's what i really like about this project ...
spinster Voom: you contact one artist, then follow up their influences ...
Douglas Story: (smile)
spinster Voom: before you know it you have these big long chains of influence
spinster Voom: which sometimes cross and join up
Douglas Story: I loved Nebulosus' subversive installation about television, too
Douglas Story: it was ironic that I was in the same show as her at the Aho
spinster Voom: haven't seen that ...
spinster Voom: is it still there?
Douglas Story: no, but Stella Costelllo's amazing sculptures are in the neighborhood, too
Douglas Story: fun, playful, beautiful work, Ms. Costello does.
spinster Voom: the Aho?
Douglas Story: the Aho Gallery at NMC
Douglas Story: GREAT shows there all the time.
spinster Voom: lots of stuff to check out
Douglas Story: Autopilotpatty Poppy does wonderful macro flower photography, WAY too much like mine
Douglas Story: with the additional wrinkle of adding reflective mylar around the flowers
Douglas Story: amazing stuff
spinster Voom: reflective mylar?
Douglas Story: I'll show you.
spinster Voom: k
we teleport to the Aho Gallery, NMC to see Autopilotpatty Poppy's work ...
Douglas Story: I call her my Evil Nemesis
spinster Voom: just rezzing now ...

Douglas Story: some of hers looks very much like mine.
spinster Voom: no, these have a very different feel to your stuff
Douglas Story: but isn't it mysterious? I love her work
spinster Voom: well, that must be cos u hav captured the floral zeitgeist
Douglas Story: I do want to show you the caves
Douglas Story: on to the caves?

We teleport to the Bizarre Berry's Caves of Lascaux, on Modesta...

spinster Voom: k, so ... these are the caves...
Douglas Story: you know, ever since you proposed this interview,
Douglas Story: I've been thinking about my creative process,
Douglas Story: and how hard it is
spinster Voom: :-)
Douglas Story: you know these artist types you read about who are constantly on fire with creative energy,
Douglas Story: things just pouring out of them?
spinster Voom: yes... my river has been running dry for months now
Douglas Story nods
Douglas Story: for me...the art comes out kicking and screaming.
spinster Voom: yes, in spurts
Douglas Story: it takes a great deal of discipline to make myself do things.
Douglas Story: also, I tend to be very methodical
spinster Voom: yes ...
Douglas Story: I figure out what I have to learn, then go take lessons
Douglas Story: I admire people like a RL friend of mine who I introduced to SL just this week,
Douglas Story: he's already started building an aircraft carrier!
spinster Voom: wow!
Douglas Story: just jumps in and starts doing.
Douglas Story: I'm so cautious, sometimes.
spinster Voom: is he young by any chance?
Douglas Story: nope!
spinster Voom: oh!
spinster Voom: it's usually the youngsters who jump straight in
Douglas Story: it took me about 4 months to build that thing you saw.
Douglas Story: anyway...that's my true confession, Spinster
spinster Voom: i really liked it
Douglas Story: me too! I'm very proud of the build.
Douglas Story: it's a dream exhibition for me - I love art that's BIG....
Douglas Story: so to display my photos at that size - dream come true
spinster Voom: is it the first 3d modeling you've done?
Douglas Story: No, I've done some 3-d modeling in other programs,
Douglas Story: but it's so diff than working with prims
spinster Voom: now that you've built that, it would prolly be easier to build a bigger one
spinster Voom: or something different
Douglas Story: yes..I have to cogitate about what to do next
Douglas Story: but let me show you the caves.
spinster Voom: yes please
Douglas Story: I found this place early on....and you'll see the influence on my build.
Douglas Story: midnight light
Douglas Story: and mouselook!
Douglas Story: GOT to get you a decent walk!
spinster Voom: all the decent ones cost!
Douglas Story: and you can get freebie walks, you know.....!
spinster Voom: yes, i can choose from walking like a prostitute or a zombie! lol
Douglas Story: (laughing)
Douglas Story: watch your step
Douglas Story: oops
spinster Voom: thought the idea was to jump in! you did
Douglas Story: i tripped! hehe

Douglas Story: isn't this nice?
spinster Voom: yes, this is fantastic!
spinster Voom: these are the original Lascaux cave paintings?
Douglas Story: only some are
Douglas Story: the creator's a fascinating fellow
Douglas Story: I interviewed him for an article
spinster Voom: the influence on your work ... the way you move through it?
Douglas Story: exactly
Douglas Story: I love the theater of the cramped tunnel,
Douglas Story: opening up to this space
spinster Voom: yes, quite claustrophobic
Douglas Story: a technique that Frank Lloyd Wright used a lot, too....
Douglas Story: low ceilinged rooms, opening up to bigger spaces...
spinster Voom: i think this and your installations are the most cramped spaces I've moved through in SL
Douglas Story: he used to have a didgeridoo playing in here...I miss it.
spinster Voom: that must've been good
Douglas Story: Well, I'm cringing at the prospect of your publishing this interview
Douglas Story: people will find out I'm not a Real Artist.
Douglas Story:
spinster Voom: but i think it's a great interview
spinster Voom: honest and unpretentious
Douglas Story: thank you, dear!
Douglas Story: (and when I say "dear" it's with all the respect in the world)
spinster Voom: :-))))))))))
Douglas Story: btw....I've been to London many times
Douglas Story: my wife favors vacation spots that are green, damp and cold
spinster Voom: lol
spinster Voom: try Wales
Douglas Story: so we end up in the British Isles
spinster Voom: bloomin gorgeous here right now!
Douglas Story: I'll bet it is!
spinster Voom: hot
spinster Voom: for England lol
Douglas Story: been as far north as the Isle of Skye
Douglas Story: as far west as the Dingle Peninsula
spinster Voom: Dingle in Ireland?
Douglas Story: yes
spinster Voom: used to live in Donegal
Douglas Story: nice!
spinster Voom: miss that place a lot
Douglas Story: ever been to Sir John Soane's museum in London?
Douglas Story: (think that the name)
spinster Voom: yes!! what a place!!
Douglas Story: (big smile)
spinster Voom: cabinet of curiosities
Douglas Story: okay you....I think it's RL time for me.
Douglas Story: btw...if you want to see the crass commercial work I do...
Douglas Story: www.bigfatlies.net
spinster Voom: ok, would love to see ur crass commercial work lol
Douglas Story: honey, if sumpin on my reel doesn't make you laugh, there's something wrong
Douglas Story: with you or with me!
spinster Voom: hehe
spinster Voom: will look forward to seeing that then!
Douglas Story: adios, compadre
spinster Voom: bye xxx

Douglas's thinking space (photo by Douglas Story)

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