The half-hour before Gene Ware's lecture at L2...

Here I am with about 30 minutes to spare before Gene Ware's lecture at the L2 complex on Stanford University's NEWare Island.

Man Michinaga was originally going to have me appear for this class that he teaches in his 1st Life in Chicago but I guess that never materialized so I had some virtual time to kill. At least I had a good view of some embedded rap videos just to my right. I also got to relax in this luxury shogunate(?) style chair...very kewl!


...and here is a close up of what one of the embedded rap videos looked like...I must say the resolution for embedded videos in Second Life can be quite decent!

Ok, this takes the cake! A cruci-fiction scene with virtual mannequins? Whoa! I tried to take a snapshot of the blood that was spraying jetstreams of red particles. I was at least trying to find a goblet in my inventory so I could collect some of the bloody squirts and sell the holy relic later for at least a few hundred L$ donation ;-) I still cannot get over the fact that these biblical mannequins were placed within a very close proximity of the rap videos(!) I guess only God can judge them now.

Hovering not too far above the cruci-fiction scene is a floating bill board of Steve Nicks juxtaposed with the more modestly budgeted display advertising Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong...Hmmm..my previous landlord in my 1st Life was named Mr. Lee and I must say that this Metaverse version has a very familiar ring to it....hmmmm... ;-) Oh wait a minute! Is that the Eye of Horus almost directly below me? I MUST check that out...

Sure enough, it is indeed the Eye of Horus! Here I am bathing next to Anubis the Jackal which seemed to be a sculptural object and not an avatar...sigh!


..and finally, here I am directly underneath the eye-stream which is rather fitting as I need to clean off all my virtual dirt and get my pixellated soul lightened up so I can pass the weighing test on those scales not shown in this pic ;-) Beside me is Horus himself (well, the decorative version of him anyways). You are probably noting that one is never too far away from the cruci-fiction scene...very surreal indeed!

Ok, those are my somewhat detailed and contemplative reflections on the half-hour before heading off to Gene Ware's lecture. Check out the posting above this one to read all about that event...in fact, if that posting exists now, you have already read it and are scrolling backwards through the scroll of linear time...how about that for virtuality?