tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377197732024-03-27T02:15:00.147-07:00In Memory of Wirxli FlimFlam (2006-2010)Wirxli Flimflam committed suicide in the name of the famous avatar arts celebrity SAVEME OH on February 14, 2010 at the Diabolous Artspace, Second Life.
Wirxli was a co-founder of the performance art group, Second Front and a composer for the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse.
This memorial blog is maintained by Jeremy Owen Turner.Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.comBlogger142125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37719773.post-50475673021965977422010-05-05T21:08:00.001-07:002010-05-05T21:23:04.853-07:00The Wirxli Flimflam Memorial on Sugar Mountain...Dear Wirxli Mourners,<br /><br /><a href="http://qyxxql-merlin.livejournal.com">Qyxxql Merlin</a> has provided us with photo-documentation of the brand new funerary plaque that has been recently erected by <a href="http://www.lizsolo.com">Liz Solo</a> and <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Fauchard410">Fau Ferdinand</a> in Wirxli's memory.<br /><br />This memorial sits on the historic site of Wirxli's original PR office on Sugar Mountain (<a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com">Odyssey Island</a>, <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">Second Life</a>). <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2007/01/welcome-to-my-brand-new-pr-office.html">Wirxli's office as well as Sugar Mountain was designed by Sugar Seville in early 2007</a>.<br /><br />Here are some photos...<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S-JBLIsfJNI/AAAAAAAADfw/YsSxByYHTN0/s1600/WirxliMemorialwithQyxxqlzoomin.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 182px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S-JBLIsfJNI/AAAAAAAADfw/YsSxByYHTN0/s400/WirxliMemorialwithQyxxqlzoomin.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468004557149643986" /></a><br /><br />The inscription of the plaque reads:<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Wirxli Flimflam <br />(2006-2010)<br />This was the former site of the PR Office <br />of Wirxli Flimflam - the first resident of<br />Odyssey Island.<br /><br />The PR Office was designed by Sugar<br />Seville in early 2007. Seville also <br />terraformed the top of Sugar Mountain<br />to Wirxli's specifications.<br /><br />Wirxli Flimflam was co-founder of the<br /><a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com">Second Front</a> and a member of the<br /><a href="http://avatarorchestra.org">Avatar Orchestra Metaverse</a>.<br /></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S-JBGTBKynI/AAAAAAAADfo/uxNU_CYlM1g/s1600/wirxlimemorialwithQyxxql_closeup.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 234px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S-JBGTBKynI/AAAAAAAADfo/uxNU_CYlM1g/s400/wirxlimemorialwithQyxxql_closeup.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468004474021399154" /></a><br />Here is a portrait of Qyxxql Merlin with the memorial.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S-JA_JEfe8I/AAAAAAAADfg/BXHj_U07z_k/s1600/WirxliMemorialwithQyxxql.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 234px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S-JA_JEfe8I/AAAAAAAADfg/BXHj_U07z_k/s400/WirxliMemorialwithQyxxql.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468004351091899330" /></a><br />This picture shows the memorial in its entirety.Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com78tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37719773.post-89020561883377656222010-04-22T17:53:00.000-07:002010-04-22T17:54:54.227-07:00The moment of recognition is upon us...<object width="560" height="325"><param name="movie" value="http://en.tackfilm.se/loader.swf?shareID=1271982128598RA84&folder=12719"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://en.tackfilm.se/loader.swf?shareID=1271982128598RA84&folder=12719" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="325"></embed></object>Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37719773.post-27666092915319814452010-04-08T22:45:00.000-07:002010-04-08T22:47:30.688-07:00May you live in "interesting" times...<span style="font-style:italic;">"The rights of an avatar are not the same as the rights of the associated person. <br />(When people erase avatars of themselves is that suicide, homicide, or infocide?)"</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.terasemjournals.org/pc0302/wb3.html">William "Sims" Bainbridge</a> (2008)Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37719773.post-30912528221240156432010-02-24T20:53:00.000-08:002010-02-24T21:07:26.322-08:00"Death of an Avatar" - Suicide Machinima by Liz Solo...<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/f_hcFTFOseI&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/f_hcFTFOseI&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">"The Death of An Avatar" (<a href="http://machine-i-am.blogspot.com/2010/02/machine-i-am-at-mmif.html">Machinima</a> -<a href="http://www.lizsolo.com">Liz Solo</a>, 2010).</span><br />If you are unable to view the embedded video, click <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/f_hcFTFOseI">here</a>.</span><br /><br />Liz Solo was a co-founding member of <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2006/12/breaking-news-2nd-official-second-front.html">Second Front</a> with Wirxli way back in 2006.<br /><br />Wirxli's <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">real life</a> self can verify that the Liz's loss was not in vain...<br /><br />Please scroll down this blog for more information about Wirxli's suicide for <a href="http://savemeoh.wordpress.com">SaveMe Oh</a> that took place at the <a href="http://diabolus.ning.com">Diabolus Artspace</a> on Valentines Day, 2010.<br /><br />If anyone has additional video or photo-documentation of Wirxli's suicide, that content can be archived on this blog. <br /><br />Hopefully, someone recorded raw video of Wirxli committing suicide while the event's theme song "Second Death" by <a href="http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=3540262722&PHPSESSID=1de7054f5af1d2ad12f2d2d414d70d7b">Dementia</a> was playing in the background...Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37719773.post-40498331258554540982010-02-18T14:20:00.001-08:002010-02-18T15:02:34.231-08:00The Suicide Documentation Continues...<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4AZ_BCQheH8&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4AZ_BCQheH8&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Video-documentation by <a href="http://www.centromimir.it/">Centromimir</a> aka. <a href="http://www.koinup.com/Lapsus_Weinstein/work/226927/">Lapsus Weinstein</a> aka. Dr. <a href="http://commonwealthisland.ning.com/profile/LapsusWeinstein">Danilo Curci</a>...If you cannot view the embedded video, trying viewing it directly, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AZ_BCQheH8">here</a>.</span></span><br /><br />Greetings Wirxli Grievers (not to be confused with "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griefer">Griefers</a>")!<br /><br />More documentation of the suicide performance is being gradually posted online...<br /><br /><a href="http://savemeoh.wordpress.com">SaveMe Oh</a> has been <a href="http://savemeoh.yolasite.com/death-of-an-avatar.php">mirroring this documentation on her own site</a>.<br /><br />Here are some photos from the event that have also been posted by SaveMe Oh...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S33Bth5J6GI/AAAAAAAADfI/Keh_I2c1otw/s1600-h/Fau_wirxliaboutto.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S33Bth5J6GI/AAAAAAAADfI/Keh_I2c1otw/s400/Fau_wirxliaboutto.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439716912869795938" /></a><span style="font-weight:bold;">Photo by <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Fauchard410">Fau Ferdinand</a>.<br />This photo shows Wirxli getting ready to commit suicide.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S33BpQv8FEI/AAAAAAAADfA/Fg5_HbA7mEc/s1600-h/abouttohappen_savemedistant.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 237px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S33BpQv8FEI/AAAAAAAADfA/Fg5_HbA7mEc/s400/abouttohappen_savemedistant.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439716839548261442" /></a> <span style="font-weight:bold;">Photo by <a href="http://www.plurk.com/nestracareless">Nestra Careless</a>. <br />Here is another angle showing SaveMe Oh watching from a distance...<br /><span style="font-style:italic;"></span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S33BkePlIZI/AAAAAAAADe4/eJeRwr40ZOA/s1600-h/savemeclose.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 237px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S33BkePlIZI/AAAAAAAADe4/eJeRwr40ZOA/s400/savemeclose.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439716757271290258" /></a><span style="font-weight:bold;">Photo by <a href="http://www.plurk.com/nestracareless">Nestra Careless</a>.<br />This pic shows SaveMe gradually approaching Wirxli's chair to ensure that Wirxli honours the pact and commits suicide as promised. If not, SaveMe has vowed to stab Wirxli with her geisha sword(s).<span style="font-style:italic;"></span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S33BdHry58I/AAAAAAAADew/fNNom3lU-iM/s1600-h/wirxligroupie.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 237px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S33BdHry58I/AAAAAAAADew/fNNom3lU-iM/s400/wirxligroupie.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439716630956533698" /></a><span style="font-weight:bold;">Photo by <a href="http://www.plurk.com/nestracareless">Nestra Careless</a>.<br />This pic shows a couple of the Wirxli groupies that were in attendance to witness this virtually historical event. Wirxli's followers are just as surreal as Wirxli was during his/her lifetime and immortal deathtime.<span style="font-style:italic;"></span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S33BV_2ScJI/AAAAAAAADeo/UBL_m03WdIM/s1600-h/theexplosionwithSaveMewatching.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S33BV_2ScJI/AAAAAAAADeo/UBL_m03WdIM/s400/theexplosionwithSaveMewatching.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439716508593975442" /></a><span style="font-weight:bold;">Photo by <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Fauchard410">Fau Ferdinand</a>. <br />After many minutes of excruciating lag and pitiful chatter, Wirxli finally presses the button and triggers all of the bombs strapped to his/her body. This sends of a chain reaction to all of the surrounding landmines to ensure that Wirxli actually virtually dies. SaveMe does not have to use her sword(s) after all!<span style="font-style:italic;"></span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S33BRS3J5YI/AAAAAAAADeg/S1BjvTL1M4s/s1600-h/wirxlicorpse.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 237px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S33BRS3J5YI/AAAAAAAADeg/S1BjvTL1M4s/s400/wirxlicorpse.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439716427798537602" /></a><span style="font-weight:bold;">Photo by <a href="http://www.plurk.com/nestracareless">Nestra Careless</a>.<br />Here is what Wirxli's corpse would have looked like if the explosives were slightly weaker. In fact, the explosions (and the lagged sim) were so powerful, Wirxli de-rezzed from <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">Second Life</a> entirely. <span style="font-style:italic;"></span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S33BNVEiTaI/AAAAAAAADeY/cukdvIP0c3I/s1600-h/wirxlimemorialfullpreview.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 237px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S33BNVEiTaI/AAAAAAAADeY/cukdvIP0c3I/s400/wirxlimemorialfullpreview.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439716359672057250" /></a><span style="font-weight:bold;">Photo by <a href="http://www.plurk.com/nestracareless">Nestra Careless</a>.<br />Here is an early preview of the <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2010/02/wirxli-flimflam-memorial-sculpture.html">memorial sculpture that was eventually designed with a dedication plinth by Velazquez and Caravaggio Bonetto</a>.<br /><span style="font-style:italic;"></span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S33BI8hn75I/AAAAAAAADeQ/xxq29qeg3M4/s1600-h/wirxlimemorialpreview.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 237px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S33BI8hn75I/AAAAAAAADeQ/xxq29qeg3M4/s400/wirxlimemorialpreview.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439716284363698066" /></a><span style="font-weight:bold;">Photo by <a href="http://www.plurk.com/nestracareless">Nestra Careless</a>.<br />Here is a close-up of Wirxli's statue on this memorial sculpture.<span style="font-style:italic;"></span></span><br /><br />Stay tuned for additional suicide documentation as it arrives!Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37719773.post-10267339941112489592010-02-17T21:24:00.000-08:002010-02-17T21:37:43.038-08:00The Wirxli Flimflam Memorial Sculpture...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3zPjk-Od8I/AAAAAAAADeA/OmJ3mVuleWA/s1600-h/wirxli_memorial_001.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 215px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3zPjk-Od8I/AAAAAAAADeA/OmJ3mVuleWA/s400/wirxli_memorial_001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439450660083759042" /></a><span style="font-weight:bold;">Photo by <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/velazquez">Velazquez Bonetto</a>...<span style="font-style:italic;"></span></span><br /><br />Hello there Wirxli mourners...<br /><br /><a href="http://diabolus.ning.com">Diabolus</a> has unveiled a new memorial sculpture commemorating the historical suicide performance that Wirxli made for <a href="http://savemeoh.wordpress.com/2010/02/14/wirxli-flimflam-2006-2010/">SaveMe Oh</a>... No one knows yet whether or not this sculpture will be virtually "permanent"... This sculpture was created by the Father and Daughter team, <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/velazque">Velezquez Bonetto</a> and <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Caravaggio">Carravaggio Bonetto</a>. There seems to be a remixed reference to <a href="http://academic.shu.edu/honors/Marcus_Aurelius_equestrian_2d.jpg">Marcus Aurelius</a> with Wirxli riding the horse (i.e. <a href="http://savemeoh.wordpress.com">SaveMe Oh</a>) backwards.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3zPgyfGDGI/AAAAAAAADd4/YcFrtGP9r88/s1600-h/wirxli_memorial_004.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 215px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3zPgyfGDGI/AAAAAAAADd4/YcFrtGP9r88/s400/wirxli_memorial_004.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439450612171672674" /></a><span style="font-weight:bold;">Photo by <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/velazquez">Velazquez Bonetto</a>...<span style="font-style:italic;"></span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3zPd5SfsJI/AAAAAAAADdw/t0x9ikyiZws/s1600-h/wirxli_memorial_005.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 215px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3zPd5SfsJI/AAAAAAAADdw/t0x9ikyiZws/s400/wirxli_memorial_005.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439450562458267794" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Photo by <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/velazquez">Velazquez Bonetto</a>...<span style="font-style:italic;"></span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3zPaaOwXQI/AAAAAAAADdo/LmkiyFo5eNw/s1600-h/wirxli_memorial_006.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 215px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3zPaaOwXQI/AAAAAAAADdo/LmkiyFo5eNw/s400/wirxli_memorial_006.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439450502581476610" /></a><span style="font-weight:bold;">Photo by <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/velazquez">Velazquez Bonetto</a>...<span style="font-style:italic;"></span></span><br /><br />To see the rest of the pictures, <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/photo/albums/wirxli-flimfalm-memorial">click here</a>.Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37719773.post-67556719793506137582010-02-14T01:55:00.000-08:002010-02-14T15:12:00.210-08:00Wirxli Flimflam (2006-2010)...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3hPNBHPg0I/AAAAAAAADco/RYztU_EjWvk/s1600-h/wirxli_2006_2010.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3hPNBHPg0I/AAAAAAAADco/RYztU_EjWvk/s400/wirxli_2006_2010.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438183635105579842" /></a><br /><br />Wirxli Flimflam - co-founder of <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com">Second Front</a> and composer for the <a href="http://avatarorchestra.org">Avatar Orchestra Metaverse</a> - committed suicide to earn the love and respect of <a href="http://savemeoh.wordpress.com">SaveMe Oh</a> on Valentines Day, 2010 at The <a href="http://diabolus.ning.com">Diablous Artspace</a>. .....<br />His/Her time of death was 1:40 PM SLT<br /><br />Henceforth, this blog is now being used a memorial site to host Wirxli's archives.<br /><br />Wirxli's <a href="http://www.facebook.com">Facebook</a> account has also been deleted. If you were a friend of Wirxli, please re-friend Wirxli's "real life" self, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/jeremy.o.turner">Jeremy Owen Turner</a>.<br /><br />Wirxli's <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Wirxli">Ning profile</a> has also been transformed into a memorial site.<br /><br /><a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/photo/albums/death-of-an-avatar-wirxli">Fau Ferdinand has posted some photos of the suicide event</a>...<br /><br />Please stay tuned for video-documentation of Wirxli's tragic suicide.<br /><br />This blog is now exclusively maintained by Wirxli's "real life (RL)" self, <a href="http://classicblogs.blogspot.com">Jeremy</a>. For any correspondence or queries, please contact Jeremy at ideatron@gmail.com<br /><br /><br />Here is the evidence of Wirxli's account deletion...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3hxnrxHGKI/AAAAAAAADdA/RjFfdcF2DSI/s1600-h/wirxlicancel1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3hxnrxHGKI/AAAAAAAADdA/RjFfdcF2DSI/s400/wirxlicancel1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438221476627421346" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3hxgpzYG_I/AAAAAAAADc4/d3VOwFYYuyI/s1600-h/wirxlicancel3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3hxgpzYG_I/AAAAAAAADc4/d3VOwFYYuyI/s400/wirxlicancel3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438221355840969714" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3hxZUywufI/AAAAAAAADcw/GcSKD12-ucQ/s1600-h/wirxlicancelemail.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 208px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3hxZUywufI/AAAAAAAADcw/GcSKD12-ucQ/s400/wirxlicancelemail.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438221229942159858" /></a><br /><br />..and here is the de-activation of Wirxli's Facebook account:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3h0CHwDrxI/AAAAAAAADdQ/BXNUfRSz4og/s1600-h/wirxliFBdeact.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3h0CHwDrxI/AAAAAAAADdQ/BXNUfRSz4og/s400/wirxliFBdeact.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438224129839050514" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3hz9AfYYqI/AAAAAAAADdI/wihhSKuwaFA/s1600-h/wirxlifbdeact2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3hz9AfYYqI/AAAAAAAADdI/wihhSKuwaFA/s400/wirxlifbdeact2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438224041990709922" /></a>Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37719773.post-18842373056704149712010-02-12T16:59:00.000-08:002010-02-12T17:30:19.262-08:00SAVEME NIGHT FEVER - Dancing like it is 2009...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3X53N2XrEI/AAAAAAAADa4/qFVeRLCjkEo/s1600-h/WirxliLoop2010_1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 249px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3X53N2XrEI/AAAAAAAADa4/qFVeRLCjkEo/s400/WirxliLoop2010_1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437526852125568066" /></a><br /><br />Hey there <a href="http://savemeoh.wordpress.com">SaveMe Oh</a> Fans!<br /><br />First, a reminder of Sunday's promo...<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Wirxli Flimflam's Final Performance...<br />A Tribute to SaveMe Oh...<br /><br />WHEN: Valentines Day - February 14 (Sunday), 2010 - 1 PM SLT<br /><br />WHERE: <a href="http://diabolus.ning.com/">DIABOLUS ARTSPACE</a> -<br /><a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Benvolio/151/134/3250">Benvolio 150, 135, 3249</a><br /><br />Contact person: <a href="http://diabolus.ning.com/profile/VelazquezBonetto">Velazquez Bonetto</a>.<br /><br /></span><br /><br />Just when I had finished posting about the glory days of hanging out with <a href="http://savemeoh.wordpress.com">SaveMe Oh</a> in 2009, I managed to spot her again at a tiny party hosted by <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Loopluo">Loop Luo</a> at the <a href="http://www.hardrock.com/locations/cafes3/cafe.aspx?LocationID=81&MIBEnumID=3">Hard Rock Cafe in Singapore</a>...I think it was called Loopland Radio or something like that....Sure enough, Loop said SaveMe might be dropping by and there she was! Wow!<br />Before I reveal her glorious appearance at this event, here are some pix of me dancing with Loop and one of her friends..<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3X59cBv-bI/AAAAAAAADbA/ZB5ulQ1vjMI/s1600-h/wirxliloop2010_2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 249px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3X59cBv-bI/AAAAAAAADbA/ZB5ulQ1vjMI/s400/wirxliloop2010_2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437526959010609586" /></a><br /><br />...and another pic...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3X6EP_RCcI/AAAAAAAADbI/zqQ4Gef8aX0/s1600-h/wirxliloop2010_3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 245px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3X6EP_RCcI/AAAAAAAADbI/zqQ4Gef8aX0/s400/wirxliloop2010_3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437527076038052290" /></a><br /><br />..and then....she arrives!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3X6RFS1VuI/AAAAAAAADbQ/_V6GXoG-fGQ/s1600-h/Wirxliloop2010_4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 249px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3X6RFS1VuI/AAAAAAAADbQ/_V6GXoG-fGQ/s400/Wirxliloop2010_4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437527296505632482" /></a><br /><br />...well, ok, maybe she pretended not to be too thrilled to see me there...I am sure she was just kidding around, right? At least I know for sure she knows I am someone persistent here...someone who is always around on call to do the most punky performance art in the whole metaverse! She will soon see what a partner-in-crime I can really be...I have read that women like this - especially in bars - LOVE it when the other individual (guy or girl) acts cocky and pretends to be tough and all that so I did my best to bring on the 'tude and focus her attention on me...I think it worked...she certainly gave me attention, even when she pretended to avoid me...and she was pretending, right? RIGHT????<br /><br />When she was not so responsive, I just went for the more direct approach...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3X6YKLgOcI/AAAAAAAADbY/zndncy7hxpY/s1600-h/wirxliloop2010_5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 243px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3X6YKLgOcI/AAAAAAAADbY/zndncy7hxpY/s400/wirxliloop2010_5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437527418076150210" /></a><br /><br />Although she did not seem interested in dancing with me, she was at least speaking with me...I betcha many of those other groupies would have begged just to even get her attention and for a few minutes, I got it from her..I GOT IT FROM HER! :-) :-) :-) :-)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3X6iggUc0I/AAAAAAAADbg/FSztz9cjlmI/s1600-h/wirxliloop2010_6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 245px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3X6iggUc0I/AAAAAAAADbg/FSztz9cjlmI/s400/wirxliloop2010_6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437527595867730754" /></a><br /><br />When directness did not work either, I returned to the illusion of appearing to be "cocky" and tough...good thing my in-world recreational drug use always makes me feel bolder than my <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a> self...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3X6o4mk3oI/AAAAAAAADbo/jJ43poy95V4/s1600-h/wirxliloop2010_7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 247px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3X6o4mk3oI/AAAAAAAADbo/jJ43poy95V4/s400/wirxliloop2010_7.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437527705415638658" /></a><br /><br />At one point, SaveMe gave me a lot of attention..she even managed to hit me repeatedly with her baseball bat...she MUST know that I LOVE getting beaten up by hot artist girls!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3X6w3fI9_I/AAAAAAAADbw/D1LKEO-tuAs/s1600-h/wirxliloop2010_8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 252px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3X6w3fI9_I/AAAAAAAADbw/D1LKEO-tuAs/s400/wirxliloop2010_8.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437527842554968050" /></a><br /><br />I love it even MORE, when I get shot at by hot artist gals...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3X64ZzTOCI/AAAAAAAADb4/xp0elHeix5E/s1600-h/wirxliloop2010_9.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 249px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3X64ZzTOCI/AAAAAAAADb4/xp0elHeix5E/s400/wirxliloop2010_9.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437527972025415714" /></a><br /><br />I am sure true artists like SAVEME go CRAZY for Po-Mo antics like referring to my <a href="http://www.secondfront.org/Performances/28Avatars_Later.html">previous performances</a> in an ironic way...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3X7Aofd_BI/AAAAAAAADcA/glIJULYrhJU/s1600-h/wirxliloop2010_10.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 244px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3X7Aofd_BI/AAAAAAAADcA/glIJULYrhJU/s400/wirxliloop2010_10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437528113407720466" /></a><br /><br />I even have a guilty pleasure for being smothered by conventional aesthetically pleasing objects...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3X7IvjpL2I/AAAAAAAADcI/0YMn00kNoV8/s1600-h/wirxliloop2010_11.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 245px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3X7IvjpL2I/AAAAAAAADcI/0YMn00kNoV8/s400/wirxliloop2010_11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437528252743233378" /></a><br /><br />The best was when she threatened to wipe my skinny purple ass with oh so soft rolls of toilet paper(!)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3X7gdPupJI/AAAAAAAADcY/M_luKeFflbk/s1600-h/wirxliloop2010_12.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 246px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3X7gdPupJI/AAAAAAAADcY/M_luKeFflbk/s400/wirxliloop2010_12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437528660144727186" /></a><br /><br />Even in the dark, I could find where SaveMe was thanks to her nametag :-)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3X7ovJY78I/AAAAAAAADcg/r8yfuQxGQbU/s1600-h/savemedark.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 236px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3X7ovJY78I/AAAAAAAADcg/r8yfuQxGQbU/s400/savemedark.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437528802388930498" /></a><br /><br />...after that, she said she was "leaving this place forever" and disappeared...sigh! It will take me ages to find her but I know she will be around to witness my final performance for her on Sunday...Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37719773.post-19304260285272256022010-02-11T17:36:00.000-08:002010-02-11T23:27:52.240-08:00Valentines Day Special - My Final Performance...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3SxLzqahMI/AAAAAAAADZY/fpY97JL_ebs/s1600-h/Wirxli_SaveMeExhibit03.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3SxLzqahMI/AAAAAAAADZY/fpY97JL_ebs/s400/Wirxli_SaveMeExhibit03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437165466547815618" /></a><br />Well, you have probably guessed it by now but I am soooo in love with <a href="http://savemeoh.wordpress.com">SaveMe Oh</a>... Ever since <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Caravaggio">Caravaggio Bonetto</a> posted a video about her, I have been totally smitten...At first, I almost saw her as competition but now I realize that she is going to places far beyond what I ever did...I wish I was her or at least with her..sigh! SaveMe Oh mezmerizes me...so much so, I am doing this final performance on Valentines Day to prove my immortal love and devotion to her and her art...Here are the event details...<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Wirxli Flimflam's Final Performance...<br />A Tribute to SaveMe Oh...<br /><br />WHEN: Valentines Day - February 14 (Sunday), 2010 - 1 PM SLT<br /><br />WHERE: <a href="http://diabolus.ning.com/">DIABOLUS ARTSPACE</a> -<br /><a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Benvolio/151/134/3250">Benvolio 150, 135, 3249</a> <br /><br />Contact person: <a href="http://diabolus.ning.com/profile/VelazquezBonetto">Velazquez Bonetto</a>.<br /></span><br /><br />Anyways, how did this obsession start, you might be saying to yourself?<br /><br />Well, it isn't a long story at all...I became smitten quite rapidly, as is normal in Second Life's time frame. In fact, as soon as I visited her space in late 2009, I began squatting in it...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3SxUpgx03I/AAAAAAAADZg/t-9Xdj7D090/s1600-h/SaveMeOhexhibit2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3SxUpgx03I/AAAAAAAADZg/t-9Xdj7D090/s400/SaveMeOhexhibit2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437165618441868146" /></a><br />..that pic was a brief example of me squatting at SaveMe's space....but wait, there is more!<br />...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3SxgkmjHOI/AAAAAAAADZo/xdn7hL5oQ6s/s1600-h/SaveMeOhWirxliguest2009.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3SxgkmjHOI/AAAAAAAADZo/xdn7hL5oQ6s/s400/SaveMeOhWirxliguest2009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437165823282322658" /></a><br />...I even found movies to watch while squatting at her solo exhibition...and as a bonus, they were movies that SHE MADE HERSELF :-) :-) :-) :-)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3SxnI6QqnI/AAAAAAAADZw/lBM8uZ5ZlKs/s1600-h/Wirxli_Savememovie.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 259px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3SxnI6QqnI/AAAAAAAADZw/lBM8uZ5ZlKs/s400/Wirxli_Savememovie.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437165936107891314" /></a><br />All of her movies were/are all GREAT! Absolutely ALL of them! :-) :-) :-) :-)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3SxwriqiPI/AAAAAAAADZ4/iC_jNFC5rr0/s1600-h/Wirxli_SavemeServant.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3SxwriqiPI/AAAAAAAADZ4/iC_jNFC5rr0/s400/Wirxli_SavemeServant.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437166100022986994" /></a><br />I had this crazy idea that wouldn't it be great if I could also be her...I mean..be her servant...I figured that this route would have been the easiest way to get SaveMe to like me and accept me for who I am which I am sure is as a kindred spirit! However, my path to total SLebrity enlightenment was going to embark on a totally different path once a very pleasant (yet neurosis inducing) surprise suddenly occurred before my very eyes....<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3Sx5aZJbJI/AAAAAAAADaA/28iqddmSw60/s1600-h/Wirxli_SaveMe_Flu2009.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 249px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3Sx5aZJbJI/AAAAAAAADaA/28iqddmSw60/s400/Wirxli_SaveMe_Flu2009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437166250038488210" /></a><br />...Uh oh! busted! SaveMe must have heard from others that I was squatting in her space and I guess the curiosity finally got to her..which was good news for me because deep down I wanted to be noticed and I figured that if I camped at her exhibition long enough she would eventually pop by to see what it is...or, she would show up anyways to check up on her work and I would magically be there waiting for her... Anyways, her IM to me in the screenshot suggests to me that I think she is getting the hint that I might be getting kinda immersed with her personality, kinkiness and artwork..just a little bit, sigh! At the very least, I wish she accepted my flu gift to her since it was a limited edition flu and I only transmitted it to artists that deserve only the best that I could offer them...<br />I thought that would impress her as she into sickness, blood, guts, puke and all that...just like meeeeeee! SaveMe! You are like me or like everything I want to be in me! Lets do things together! Lets cause mayhem together! Lets do EVERYTHING TOGETHER! SAVEMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE...<br /><br />Well, since she felt the need to entertain her admirers of her show, she at least gave me (well, me and a few other groupies) some attention when she showed off her UFO-OH...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3SyCBtH9aI/AAAAAAAADaI/seLAUBG2Mig/s1600-h/OhUF-Oh2009.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 247px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3SyCBtH9aI/AAAAAAAADaI/seLAUBG2Mig/s400/OhUF-Oh2009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437166398030214562" /></a><br /><br />It was sublime hanging out in the UFO-Oh with SAVEME and friends...those were the days..sigh!<br /><br />In the next pic, you can see my friends <a href="http://vimeo.com/6876069">Maeve Emerald</a> and <a href="http://olgawunderlich.blogspot.com/">Olga Wunderlich</a> with us by the UF-OH...Olga is so great, I totally understood what she meant now when she said that SaveMe Oh is doing now in performance art what <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com">I used to do with performance art</a> years ago before I washed up and became an empty navel-gazing antic-clown...sigh!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3SyLFS0tgI/AAAAAAAADaQ/nWKgEKGNVoU/s1600-h/UFOH2009.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 249px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3SyLFS0tgI/AAAAAAAADaQ/nWKgEKGNVoU/s400/UFOH2009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437166553612465666" /></a><br /><br />Below is a great pic of Olga and myself...I am pretty sure Olga totally understands my decision to be part of SaveMe Oh's life...Olga really understands me - almost as much as I understand SaveMe...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3SyTZkyL6I/AAAAAAAADaY/Gr2wCB_GscI/s1600-h/wirxli_Olga_OhSpace2009.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 249px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3SyTZkyL6I/AAAAAAAADaY/Gr2wCB_GscI/s400/wirxli_Olga_OhSpace2009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437166696495460258" /></a><br /><br />The next pic shows Olga and I doing some heroin...If you read the IMs, you can see that SaveMe is being very nice and cordial to somebody...I sure hope it was ME!<br />Olga was starting to get sleepy and nod off from all the infused liquid <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphamethylfentanyl">China White</a>...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3SydPHE9fI/AAAAAAAADag/4VKphz9KGYs/s1600-h/heroinwithOlga2009.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 248px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3SydPHE9fI/AAAAAAAADag/4VKphz9KGYs/s400/heroinwithOlga2009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437166865485198834" /></a><br /><br />So after all my friends had left, I managed to stick around in hopes of being able to hang out with SaveMe Oh by myself...she showed me around her various installations...sheesh! THOSE WERE THE DAYS! THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE! SIGH!<br /><br />SaveMe is so direct...I love her frankness! She showed me exactly what I could do to prove my love to her...I could click multiple times onto these voodoo dolls (see the pic below) that would automatically say that I Loved SaveMe Oh until I was done loving her...I clicked on mine zillions of times but I never seemed to get as many hits as her other suitors...arrgh! Being a competitive type, this activity was starting to feel like an infinite dead end..I had to find ANOTHER way to get to her...something more extreme than the clicker with the highest score was what I was focusing on...Since SaveMe is an extreme type of person, another has to do something very extreme as a performance action to hold her interest for more than a few seconds with a positive review...you will find out what I have in mind on Sunday....<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3Syk3yvHZI/AAAAAAAADao/HkQ971CKhzI/s1600-h/SaveMe_Otherstalkers2009.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 251px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3Syk3yvHZI/AAAAAAAADao/HkQ971CKhzI/s400/SaveMe_Otherstalkers2009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437166996664819090" /></a><br /><br />So, I thought about it some more and figured I needed to do something that was a tribute to one of her ritualistic compositions..it had to be a ritual and what I did had to be REAL on some level and had to be all about HER and had to be extreme and punk enough to impress her...but, what kind of aesthetic structure should I use as the framework for my ultimate performance art action???<br /><br />The answer was in one of her own compositions (of course!) While sitting amongst one of her installations, I had an idea of what to do...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3SysrL_8sI/AAAAAAAADaw/5aKX1RzHbP8/s1600-h/Wirxli_SavemeChoir2009.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 260px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S3SysrL_8sI/AAAAAAAADaw/5aKX1RzHbP8/s400/Wirxli_SavemeChoir2009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437167130720072386" /></a><br /><br />...if you attend this performance on Valentines Day, you will see/feel exactly what I mean!<br /><br />See you on Sunday, most likely for the LAST TIME!<br /><br />And on that note,<br />I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME...etc etc etc...Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37719773.post-9008986665652118142010-02-03T22:31:00.000-08:002010-02-03T23:37:52.892-08:00transitional stuff...including a new panel and old friends...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S2ptVkjNJ4I/AAAAAAAADZI/brzssJsTbHs/s1600-h/savemewirxli.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 304px; height: 278px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S2ptVkjNJ4I/AAAAAAAADZI/brzssJsTbHs/s400/savemewirxli.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434276117731944322" /></a><br /><br />Hello there lesser-known fans of <a href="http://savemeoh.wordpress.com">SaveMe Oh</a>...<br /><br />The video documentation from the <a href="http://www.react2010.com">REACT2010</a> performance series (see the post directly below this one) will be online in time for the <a href="http://www.kriskrug.com/2010/01/14/best-media-art-installations-coming-to-vancouver-2010-code-live-festival/">Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics</a>.<br /><br />More importantly, I am getting back the energy needed to write more optimistically...this is because I have found a new sense of hope and purpose over these precious few days. <br /><br />I am tragically in love with SaveMe Oh and I find everything lacking in myself to be found in her...she has everything I wish I could have and more: looks, smarts, (real) guts, a loaded inventory and much more...She IS the ideal representative of the next-generation of avatar performance artists in <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">Second Life</a> and I am glad just to be near her. If I must prove my worth at all, it must be to her and her only.<br /><br />I know she has many admirers but I plan to be her #1 fan...in fact, I think it is my last worthwhile goal as a washed-up old-skool performance artist from the <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2006/11/wirxli-flimflams-1st-blog-posting.html">golden days of 2006</a>. <br /><br />I need to be worthwhile to someone again since I no longer am with <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com">Second Front</a> to back my antics up and all I seem to resort to is nostalgic naval-gazing - the kind of which can be found in some recent archival material below. I am in desperate need of a creative renewal as an ALT...I wish to be beyond postmodernism, beyond critique...I want to donate the entirety of my pink, blue and purple being to SaveMe Oh as the ultimate ritual sacrifice towards the greater good of performance art in virtual...er... <a href="http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2008/08/01/_a-warcry-for-birthing-synthetic-worlds_-part-1/">synthetic worlds</a>...<br /><br />Anyway, please come witness my special dedication ceremony to SaveMe Oh on Valentines Day...It will be my last performance as Wirxli...everything below are mere archives from my past self that do not mean anything as dear to me as my aspiring relationship with SaveMe Oh...having said that, all of these people below represent aspects I was proud of from my past...even if some of the past was from a few days ago...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S2pr3rSqTWI/AAAAAAAADZA/v41MSUTHsts/s1600-h/wirxliposing2010_002.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 210px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S2pr3rSqTWI/AAAAAAAADZA/v41MSUTHsts/s400/wirxliposing2010_002.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434274504633896290" /></a> <span style="font-style:italic;">I think you get the picture here...words say it all..and it is just the words that say it all, right? ;-)</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S2pra5UB2BI/AAAAAAAADYY/DThUG4pAnJ8/s1600-h/avpanel2010_5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 192px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S2pra5UB2BI/AAAAAAAADYY/DThUG4pAnJ8/s400/avpanel2010_5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434274010181523474" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Here is was the first presentation of a panel I was part of a few days ago. It was hosted by <a href="http://www.arsvirtua.com">Ars Virtua</a> and was for a Virtual Worlds course at the<a href="http://visarts.ucsd.edu/node/view/491/417"> University of California in San Diego</a> (UCSD). The first presenter was <a href="http://www.jayvanburen.com/">Jay Van Buren</a> from a series of events called <a href="http://brooklyniswatching.com/about/">Brooklyn is Watching</a>...</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S2prXNRvH9I/AAAAAAAADYQ/6nnrUUOEoy8/s1600-h/avpanel2010_6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 220px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S2prXNRvH9I/AAAAAAAADYQ/6nnrUUOEoy8/s400/avpanel2010_6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434273946821140434" /></a> <span style="font-style:italic;">Here is another slide by Jay.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S2prTgFIyXI/AAAAAAAADYI/zek2QAFyy-A/s1600-h/avpanel2010_7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 185px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S2prTgFIyXI/AAAAAAAADYI/zek2QAFyy-A/s400/avpanel2010_7.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434273883149093234" /></a> <span style="font-style:italic;">Did I mention that Jay had some great slides for his presentation? :-)</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S2preERqQSI/AAAAAAAADYg/C7ev2-CQnNg/s1600-h/avpanel2010_4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 249px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S2preERqQSI/AAAAAAAADYg/C7ev2-CQnNg/s400/avpanel2010_4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434274064663986466" /></a><span style="font-style:italic;"> For my presentation, I just showed archives from my avatar performance past as I seriously have nothing much new to offer in Second Life as Wirxli other than my unflinching devotion to SaveMe Oh... In this slide, you can see one of my earliest avatar performances. There was a time when I was a young female asian named Clara Tang. I performed with a bunch of <a href="http://and.nmartproject.net/?p=939">friends </a>in one of the earliest social networking sites targeted to a niche community. It was called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AsianAve">Asian Avenue</a> and we performed this series around 2001.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S2prnv4n3sI/AAAAAAAADYw/wpVw2xxgc3A/s1600-h/gates%2Bavpanel.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 198px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S2prnv4n3sI/AAAAAAAADYw/wpVw2xxgc3A/s400/gates%2Bavpanel.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434274230988955330" /></a> <span style="font-style:italic;">This slide shows my first performance art group (and band). I was in a duo called <a href="http://www.techworlds.org/thegates/">The Gates</a> with my good friend <a href="http://works.ag/">Alberto Guedea</a>. We "produced" the Gates, but were NOT the Gates, if you know what I mean ;-) ;-) For our first performance in 2002, we performed in a couple of washrooms in <a href="http://www.digitalspace.com/products/traveler.html">Digitalspace Traveler</a>. <a href="http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/following-piece/">Vito Acconci </a>comes to mind here...</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S2prlai1wHI/AAAAAAAADYo/EAJOBxdcVTs/s1600-h/gates%2Bavpanel_2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 185px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S2prlai1wHI/AAAAAAAADYo/EAJOBxdcVTs/s400/gates%2Bavpanel_2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434274190900707442" /></a> <span style="font-style:italic;">Here is another pic showing The Gates in virtual...er...*synthetic* action.<br /></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S2prLKbUw3I/AAAAAAAADYA/CiNaGX2hRcI/s1600-h/ManMichinagaSFpresentation2010.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 198px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S2prLKbUw3I/AAAAAAAADYA/CiNaGX2hRcI/s400/ManMichinagaSFpresentation2010.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434273739897619314" /></a> <span style="font-style:italic;">We then had my old friend and colleague <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Patlichty">Man Michinaga aka. Patrick Lichty</a> present about his own work in virtual worlds and his work with me and many others in Second Front...it was a great historical overview with tons of bases covered...yay!</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S2prGWdkpPI/AAAAAAAADX4/T_JRXfOjrGs/s1600-h/ManMichinagaSFPresentation2010_2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 198px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S2prGWdkpPI/AAAAAAAADX4/T_JRXfOjrGs/s400/ManMichinagaSFPresentation2010_2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434273657228928242" /></a> <span style="font-style:italic;">Here is another angle showing Michinaga's epic retrospective installation.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S2pq929rzfI/AAAAAAAADXw/uh07WG_gFUY/s1600-h/ManMichinagaSFPresentation2010_3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 193px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S2pq929rzfI/AAAAAAAADXw/uh07WG_gFUY/s400/ManMichinagaSFPresentation2010_3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434273511334727154" /></a> <span style="font-style:italic;">..and yet another glorious angle showing my once glorious past with Second Front...</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S2pqsWasLvI/AAAAAAAADXo/D5764cBw64g/s1600-h/Travreunion2009_001.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 210px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S2pqsWasLvI/AAAAAAAADXo/D5764cBw64g/s400/Travreunion2009_001.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434273210540240626" /></a> <span style="font-style:italic;">Here I am posing with 2 very old friends (Alan and Kabuki) from my Digitalspace Traveler days from 2001...They are now also in Second Life...this is a cross-worlds reunion of sorts.<br /></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S2pqijbTUhI/AAAAAAAADXg/moWzNn2Gm5Q/s1600-h/Travreunion2009_002.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 210px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S2pqijbTUhI/AAAAAAAADXg/moWzNn2Gm5Q/s400/Travreunion2009_002.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434273042233774610" /></a> <span style="font-style:italic;">Here is another picture of me posing with Alan and Kabuki from Ye Ole Traveler days.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S2pqZVATCkI/AAAAAAAADXY/k0oR9RLdoJo/s1600-h/wirxliposing2010_001.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 210px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S2pqZVATCkI/AAAAAAAADXY/k0oR9RLdoJo/s400/wirxliposing2010_001.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434272883743590978" /></a> <span style="font-style:italic;">Here I am posing with <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/josinaburgess">Josina Burgess</a>' fashion runway on <a href="http://diabolus.ning.com/">Diabolus</a>. I am now spending all my time on Diabolus since this is where SaveMe Oh is based and I want to be as close to her as legally possible!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME, I LOVE SAVEME...etc etc etc...<br /></span><br /><br />P.s. <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Caravaggio">Caravaggio Bonetto</a> gets first dibs on my free gender neutral purple ass(!)Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37719773.post-22612525284825982982010-01-04T21:20:00.000-08:002010-01-04T21:35:38.797-08:002010 - i cannot turn back the clock....<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S0LMztsv-JI/AAAAAAAADXI/CLJiuB7o6vE/s1600-h/wirxliwater2010_006.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S0LMztsv-JI/AAAAAAAADXI/CLJiuB7o6vE/s400/wirxliwater2010_006.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423122090120181906" /></a><br /><br />happy new year...<br /><br />i am not in the mood to write in caps and not really much in the mood to blog either...however, i just created a video-archived performance series for the <a href="http://www.react2010.com">React2010</a> exhibition called <span style="font-style:italic;">"i cannot turn back the clock..." (2010)</span>...the videos should be online at the premiere of its launch sometime towards the end of the month, i am not exactly sure when.<br /><br />these past few months, i am starting to realize that my time as wirxli is overdue...there are many other fantastic trickster avatar personalities out there - such as <a href="http://savemeoh.wordpress.com">SAVEME OH</a> - that are going beyond me in every way, shape and form...and i crave artistic renewal...<br /><br />i passed my creative zenith as this avatar probably as early as late 2007... i wish to be someone new...someone else...i cannot turn back the clock...in <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">rl</a>, my optimism for 2010 is quite high but as wirxli, i am running out of authentic ideas that sustain my attention and my preferred creative direction......i think it will be better to go out with a bang than silently de-rez into virtual obscurity so i am working on that...anyway, here are some more pictures of this performance...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S0LMui2qA0I/AAAAAAAADXA/1KMIgXp7QyY/s1600-h/wirxliwater2010_003.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S0LMui2qA0I/AAAAAAAADXA/1KMIgXp7QyY/s400/wirxliwater2010_003.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423122001309598530" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S0LMrKBumeI/AAAAAAAADW4/soTkSEzyRLQ/s1600-h/wirxliwater2010_004.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S0LMrKBumeI/AAAAAAAADW4/soTkSEzyRLQ/s400/wirxliwater2010_004.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423121943105542626" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S0LMl1Vqq5I/AAAAAAAADWw/3_o3R2MoYVs/s1600-h/wirxliwater2010_005.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S0LMl1Vqq5I/AAAAAAAADWw/3_o3R2MoYVs/s400/wirxliwater2010_005.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423121851652680594" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S0LMfaEGBSI/AAAAAAAADWo/9s-yV3EJrCg/s1600-h/wirxliwater2010_002.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S0LMfaEGBSI/AAAAAAAADWo/9s-yV3EJrCg/s400/wirxliwater2010_002.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423121741252003106" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S0LMaN20oqI/AAAAAAAADWg/avF6IsncC3c/s1600-h/wirxliwater2010_001.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/S0LMaN20oqI/AAAAAAAADWg/avF6IsncC3c/s400/wirxliwater2010_001.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423121652075766434" /></a>Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com54tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37719773.post-39910392906472557272009-10-02T21:51:00.000-07:002009-10-02T22:02:25.132-07:00Mental Gymnastics with a little help from my friends...<object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6876069&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6876069&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/6876069">"Mental Gymnastics" - Performance in Second Life (2009)</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user2392858">Jeremy Owen Turner</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p> <span style="font-weight:bold;">If you cannot see this embedded video, click on this link <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/6876069">here</a>.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">"Mental Gymnastics" (2009) is an avatar performance in <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">Second Life</a> by:<br /><br />Maeve Emerald (TORONTO)<br />Orlando Messmer (NEW YORK)<br />Wirxli Flimflam (VANCOUVER)<br /><br />This performance occured on September 30, 2009 in the Diabolus region run by the CARP Collective = <a href="http://diabolus.ning.com">diabolus.ning.com</a><br /><br />This is just an excerpt from the full performance which happened in real-time.</span><br /><br />Ok, I know that I first promised that I would blog more often but quite honestly, <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a> does not allow for that anymore. I cannot even pre-plan performances in <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">SL</a> anymore but to relieve creative tension from my tedious RL rituals, I enter SL as soon as I burn out in RL and see who is in-world. If anyone is around, I invite them to join me to do an impromptu performance intervention or whatever.<br /><br />The above video is the first result from this newfound "hobby".<br /><br />Do not expect regular blogs nor videos..they happen when they happen and that is my sad (sur)reality these days...better to blog 4 times a year than never at ell, eh? <br />I usually only blog now if I have a major press release to hype for you...<br />;-) SIGH!!!!!<br /><br />Well, I am going in-world tonight to see who is around..maybe something will happen and maybe not. The worst that will happen is that I will be hanging out with some friends in the only way I know how....<br /><br />Oh about the above performance....ummmm...well, we had learned some moves for balancing on a beam and were too tired/lazy to find a gym...the rest is (art)history....<br /><br />Stay tuned until 2012 for the next blog posting...tee hee!Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37719773.post-83202874846558265082009-04-19T11:05:00.000-07:002009-10-02T22:04:36.348-07:00Wirxli is featured in Italy's NOVA100 Zine...<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/SetphjTpxyI/AAAAAAAADWE/Y9z2rbCZdSE/s1600-h/nova100Wirxli2009.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 251px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/SetphjTpxyI/AAAAAAAADWE/Y9z2rbCZdSE/s400/nova100Wirxli2009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326467009430013730" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong><em>I was just featured in a mainstream Italian news zine called <a href="http://fabioturel.nova100.ilsole24ore.com/">NOVA100 </a>about my performance art practice. <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/RoxeloBabenco">Roxelo Babenco</a> (<a href="http://spawnofthesurreal.blogspot.com/2008/10/why-there-is-no-virtual-reinassance.html">Rosanna Galvani</a>) wrote the article for <a href="http://marcominghetti.nova100.ilsole24ore.com/">Marco Minghetti</a> and features photos from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/arcorosca/sets/72157612370988408/">Arco Rosca</a>.</em></strong><br /><br /><a href="http://marcominghetti.nova100.ilsole24ore.com/2009/04/present_art-10-wirxli-flinflam.html">Please click on this link to read the original article in Italian.</a><br /><br /><br /><embed wmode="opaque" src="http://static.ning.com/socialnetworkmain/widgets/video/flvplayer/flvplayer.swf?v=4.0.10%3A20718" FlashVars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fuqbar-mediaartculture.ning.com%2Fvideo%2Fvideo%2FshowPlayerConfig%3Fid%3D2240518%253AVideo%253A12022%26ck%3D1990193028&video_smoothing=on&autoplay=off&isEmbedCode=1" width="456" height="344" bgColor="#E5E5E5" scale="noscale" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"> </embed> <br /><small><a href="http://uqbar-mediaartculture.ning.com/video/video">Find more videos like this on <em>uqbar. media art culture</em></a></small><br /><br /><em>Here is video-documentation from my <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2009/01/wirxli-is-back-and-on-cnn.html">WEARABLE NEWS NETWORKs </a>[WNN] performance from January...check it out!</em><strong></strong><br /><br />....I have not forgotten about blogging everything else that has happened around me in <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">Second Life</a> lately. Chances are, I will catch up with my back-(b)log of documented activities sometime after wednesday once <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a> has settled down a bit.Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37719773.post-61636113899540311342009-03-27T18:32:00.000-07:002009-03-27T18:47:04.333-07:00Inhuman Resources Exhibition<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Sc1-WvYU03I/AAAAAAAADV0/d2QAAxr8p60/s1600-h/inhumanresourcesposter1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 259px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Sc1-WvYU03I/AAAAAAAADV0/d2QAAxr8p60/s400/inhumanresourcesposter1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318045664135140210" /></a><br /><br />Hey everyone!<br /><br />Yes, I know you have not heard from me in ages and I always promise (esp. in the New Year of each year) that I will be back in <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">SL</a> but the truth is, <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a> is just way too busy for me these days...sigh!<br /><br />However, I (including my RL self) am <a href="http://www.alternatorgallery.com/currentaffairs/currentaffairs.htm">curating a new show at the Alternator Gallery in Kelowna </a> called "Inhuman Resources" on April 11th, 2009. <br /><br />This show includes <a href="http://www.lizsolo.com">Liz Solo</a> from <a href="http://secondfront.org">Second Front</a> and <a href="http://www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker/">Mez Breeze</a>.<br /><br />For Liz's show, <a href="http://secondfront.org">Second Front</a> and the <a href="http://avatarorchestra.org">Avatar Orchestra Metaverse </a>will be adding performance enhancements and Mez's collection of metaphysical avatar selves who will be communicating with each other in <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">Second Life</a>, <a href="http://www.twitter.com">Twitter</a> and <a href="http://www.worldofwarcraft.com">World of Warcraft </a>is going to be super cool!<br /><br />Well, here is the official hype below...maybe I will see you there in-world? The <a href="http://slurl.com">SLurls</a> will be announced at the last minute so stay tuned for more info as it happens!<br /><br /><strong>INHUMAN RESOURCES<br />Featuring artists Mez Breeze & Liz Solo<br />Curated by <a href="http://classicblogs.blogspot.com">Jeremy Owen Turner</a><br /><br />Opening Reception: Friday April 11 at 8 PM SLT (SLurls to be announced)<br />Admission by donation - Refreshments served<br />Artist Liz Solo and curator Jeremy Owen Turner in attendance.<br /><br />Panel discussion 7pm<br />Performances 8pm<br />Party until midnight<br /><br />Workshop Sunday April 12 @2pm<br />A Presentation on involvement in the music world: Featuring Liz Solo and more!<br />Admission by donation</strong><br />Two new media performance artists from Newfoundland and Australia express themselves through the most popular virtual chat-worlds, video games and social networking sites. Using Second Life, World of Warcraft and Twitter as their chosen mediums of expression, these performances are literally out of this world!<br /><br />Solo explains, “The gallery exhibit features a series of installed machinima (machine generated animation) pieces and a projected synthetic environment, all created inside of the virtual world of Second Life. Via an avatar the gallery visitor will be invited to explore the virtual space and interact with it. Visitors can wander in a field of giant eggs, play with virtual instruments, care for virtual infants, experience being virtually born from an egg.”<br /><br />Liz Solo aka Lizsolo Mathilde (St. John's) will perform Live Alien Home Birth during which she will call on her friends Second Front - and the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse for support and coaching. <br /><br />Mez Breeze aka Netwurker Twin (Australia) will use multiple manifestations of her core identity to coordinate a post-human and trans-dimensional literary ritual only possible (so far) in virtual worlds.Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37719773.post-79999344815787411362009-01-11T00:40:00.000-08:002009-01-13T18:16:30.250-08:00Wirxli is back and on CNN!<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/SWm1q3PDTeI/AAAAAAAADHc/ods_MKv2xCA/s1600-h/wirxli_ireporter.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 202px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/SWm1q3PDTeI/AAAAAAAADHc/ods_MKv2xCA/s400/wirxli_ireporter.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289958985309572578" /></a><br /><br />Hey there patient blog-readers... <br /><br />Happy New Year, 2009!<br /><br />Wirxli is back in <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">Second Life</a>!<br /><br />I have been on an academic hiatus for a little while now and...er... oh wait, I am still in academia in <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a>...sigh!<br /><br />Anyways, RL is still so time-consuming that I virtualy have no time to blog about all of my recent activities in SL lately but the rumours are true - I have resumed some level of in-world activity lately.<br /><br />A little over 24-hours ago, for example, I had a solo performance at the <a href="http://uqbararena.blogspot.com/">ARENA</a> Festival in Italy. <br /><br />This festival features 40 artists and is curated by <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/RoxeloBabenco">Roxelo Babenco</a> and <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/arcoRosca">Arco Rosca</a> (Uqbar). <br /><br />It is part of a bigger festival called "<a href="http://www.festivaldellacreativita.it/it/08/05/2008/rinascimento-virtuale">Rinascimento Virtuale</a>" ("Virtual Renaissance") that is being held at the real life <a href="http://www.msn.unifi.it/?newlang=eng">Museum of Natural History at the University of Florence</a> - Firenze. For this specific festival, <a href="http://mariogerosa.blogspot.com/">Mario Gerosa</a> is the curator.<br /><br />For this performance called "WEARABLE NEWS NETWORKs (WNN)", I had the avatar audience wear some video-clothes that displayed some breaking news feeds about <a href="http://search.cnn.com/search.jsp?query=gaza&type=video&sortBy=date&intl=false">Gaza</a> and then as <a href="http://secondlife.blogs.cnn.com/">CNN's iReporter</a>, I interviewed a few select avatars about what their impressions/opinions were about the news content that they were currenly wearing...<br /><br />Here was what the news-suit looked like...<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/SWm0pteVQaI/AAAAAAAADHU/29CUXKjDLb8/s1600-h/wirxlidress.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 378px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/SWm0pteVQaI/AAAAAAAADHU/29CUXKjDLb8/s400/wirxlidress.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289957865997812130" /></a><br /> <br />Anyways, I performed as an embedded iReporter for CNN and here is my <a href="http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-179021">official news report on CNN's website</a>...<br /><br /><object width="450" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.ireport.com/themes/custom/resources/swfplayer/mediaplayer.swf"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="menu" value="false"></param><param name="flashvars" value="height=340&width=448&autostart=false&autoscroll=false&showstop=false&showicons=false&showdigits=total&controlbar=0.1&backcolor=0xFFFFFF&screencolor=0x000000&frontcolor=0xDEDEDE&lightcolor=0x00A2FF&logo=http%3A//www.ireport.com/themes/custom/resources/swfplayer/data/images/ireport_wm.gif&file=data/media/silence.flv&image=http%3A//i.cdn.turner.com/ireport/sm/prod/2009/01/11/WE00183563/363007/Anon1231662337-AvatarsWearVideoClothingToCommentOn782192_lg.jpg"></param><embed src="http://www.ireport.com/themes/custom/resources/swfplayer/mediaplayer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="450" height="340" menu="false" flashvars="height=340&width=448&autostart=false&autoscroll=false&showstop=false&showicons=false&showdigits=total&controlbar=0.1&backcolor=0xFFFFFF&screencolor=0x000000&frontcolor=0xDEDEDE&lightcolor=0x00A2FF&logo=http%3A//www.ireport.com/themes/custom/resources/swfplayer/data/images/ireport_wm.gif&file=data/media/silence.flv&image=http%3A//i.cdn.turner.com/ireport/sm/prod/2009/01/11/WE00183563/363007/Anon1231662337-AvatarsWearVideoClothingToCommentOn782192_lg.jpg"></embed></object><br /><br />Here is the only pic available that I personally had the time to create:<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/SWm16SaIf2I/AAAAAAAADHk/xKgxeGj9sgU/s1600-h/wirxlicnnnews1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 175px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/SWm16SaIf2I/AAAAAAAADHk/xKgxeGj9sgU/s400/wirxlicnnnews1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289959250301845346" /></a><em>Wirxli interviews Ginevra Lancaster to see what her opinions were about the current real life conflict in Gaza City.</em><br /><br />Here are some more documentation samples from this event for you:<br /><br />1) <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/arcorosca/sets/72157612370988408/show/">Arco Rosca's Photos</a>.<br /><br />2) <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/roxelo/sets/72157612425208139/">Roxelo Babenco's Photos</a>.<br /><br />3) <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sl-2nddeath/page1/">HardwareHacker Hoch's Photos</a>.<br /><br />4) <a href="http://artspace-diabolus.com/CARP/arena_2008_2.pdf">The ARENA e-Catalogue produced by the CARP Collective in Romania and Hungary</a>.<br /><br />Well, I would love to chat with you on this blog but seriously, I have way too much real life work to contend with at the moment so once again - this blog might be seriously delayed for many more days to come...sigh!<br /><br />Hey, at least this post is better than no new posts at all...right? ;-)<br /><br />Stay tuned for more stories about my recent activities in Second Life...Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37719773.post-8301969053743513602008-06-02T00:00:00.000-07:002008-06-01T23:58:13.904-07:00I have left Second Front!<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/SEOUugutkwI/AAAAAAAACKU/6FuUAE7TywQ/s1600-h/Wirxli_WoW_2008.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/SEOUugutkwI/AAAAAAAACKU/6FuUAE7TywQ/s400/Wirxli_WoW_2008.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207169120951177986" /></a> <em>Here is a pic of myself hanging out in a property that is acting as an unofficial tribute to the popular multiplayer video-game, (the) <a href="http://www.worldofwarcraft.com">World of Warcraft</a> in <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">Second Life</a>.</em><br /><br />Hey there <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com">Second Front</a> fans!<br /><br />The news and rumours surrounding my recent disappearance are now official. I have decided to leave <a href="http://www.slfront.blogspot.com">Second Front</a> in order to focus on solo performances, smaller-scale collaborations, my <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a> family and academic research.<br /><br />These past 2 years have been a very wild ride. It seems like yesterday when I first proposed starting a performance art group based on the <a href="http://www.front.bc.ca">Western Front Society</a> in <a href="http://www.vancouvertoptours.com/uploadFiles/images/package/Vancouver_1.jpg">Vancouver</a>. <br /><br />I remember the exact day quite well.... November 21, 2006 happened to be my <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a> <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2007/03/wirxli-flimflam-and-tea-chenille-are.html">Wife's</a> birthday and I had edited my avatar's appearance to my trademark style probably 6 hours before we celebrated her birthday over dinner. Naturally, she was the first one I asked to join <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com">Second Front</a>. Basically, a few days after that, I asked everyone that I thought would be a good fit for the group via email solicitations and the core ensemble of 4 members had already been assembled. By about 2 weeks, we had grown to 6 and shortly after we had recruited even more high-profile Second Fronters such as <a href="http://www.gazirababeli.com">Gazira Babeli</a>. In fact, we had our <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2006/11/breaking-news-1st-second-front.html">first performance documented within a week of forming</a>.<br /><br />So now, change is in the air. In September, I am returning to Graduate Studies at <a href="http://www.siat.sfu.ca/">Simon Fraser University's School of Interactive Arts and Technology</a>. I am working towards a Masters of Interactive Arts there. This should give me the necessary excuse to further explore virtual worlds under the guise of "homework"... tee hee! ;-)<br /><br />Also, I have been spending every Sunday with the <a href="http://www.arsvirtua.com/guild">Ars Virtua Guild</a> (yes, the same group as the <a href="http://www.arsvirtua.com">Contemporary Art Museum</a> in <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">SL</a>) in the <a href="http://www.worldofwarcraft.com">World of Warcraft</a> as we have been <a href="http://sigilbringer.blogspot.com">developing my performance art series there</a>.<br /><br />So, lets just say that I have been extremely busy with all my other projects and upcoming research. You might not hear too much about <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Wirxli">Wirxli</a> in the near future since some of my <a href="http://classicblogs.blogspot.com">other projects involve my ALTs</a>. I will still leave the door open though to collaborating with individuals from <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com">Second Front</a> - I still love and respect them all and I am sure they will produce sublime (and realtime) work.<br /><br />As for the <a href="http://avatarorchestra.org">Avatar Orchestra Metaverse</a>, I am still unsure how often I can still commit to rehearsals since most of my free time has been on weekends and most of their rehearsals are on Tuesday afternoons. I will keep you posted with what happens there. Speaking of which, I promise to blog about my most recent AOM composition. I am still waiting for more archives to arrive before I am ready to blog that particular posting.<br /><br />Ok, stay tuned for more sporadic Wirxli postings in the near future :-)Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37719773.post-7162236861394289332008-06-01T23:14:00.000-07:002008-06-01T23:23:10.360-07:00Smart Mobbed - My Life as Howard Rheingold...<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/SBgBPPfrLSI/AAAAAAAACJ0/tpVsO83Orss/s1600-h/HEISTREHEARSE1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/SBgBPPfrLSI/AAAAAAAACJ0/tpVsO83Orss/s400/HEISTREHEARSE1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5194903531540917538" /></a><em>Here is a pic of <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Wirxli">Wirxli</a> (me) as <a href="http://www.rheingold.com">Howard Rheingold</a> the bank manager sitting at his desk in the <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hhjEsr-y4GQ/SBA45fsBnLI/AAAAAAAAAG8/VuPs-eWj4Nw/s1600-h/lynden_treasury_800.jpg">Lynden Labs</a> bank</em><br /><br />Hey there fellow academic Rheingoldiggers and <a href="http://www.smartmobs.com/book/book_summ.html">Smart Mobsters</a>!<br /><br />These past few weeks have been very intense and I have hardly any time to reflect on recent events. There has been a lot of change in my life lately and it might still be awhile before I come to terms with everything and post it gradually onto my blog here.<br /><br />For now, I thought I would reflect on my brief and controversial life as the pioneer of the <a href="http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/intro.html">Virtual Community</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Rheingold">Howard Rheingold</a>.<br /><br />For my final performance with <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com">Second Front</a>, I decided to hijack Howard's avatar identity as he was one of the <a href="http://www.sfai.edu/Event/Event.aspx?eventID=1754&navID=328§ionID=7">panelists being presented in San Francisco</a>. Of course, I had to become "Howard" for a couple of days so I could get comfortable in my new role as Howard's evil doppelganger. To read about this performance and panel session, please go to <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2008/04/grand-theft-avatar.html">Second Front's official blog posting about it here</a>.<br /><br />I just want to be extremely clear with you here that by no means did I intend to be the real <a href="http://www.rheingold.com/howard/">Howard Rheingold</a>. The whole performance was about identity theft and how one's avatar persona and trademarked personality - even if it is based on one's Real Life (<a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a>) self - is completely at the mercy of Lynden Lab's <a href="http://secondlife.com/corporate/tos.php">Terms of Service</a>.<br /><br />Did you know they own the rights to use your avatar in any context that they see fit?<br /><br />They can make you advertise for <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">Second Life's</a> corporate side or (gasp!) perhaps even force your avatar clone to appear in a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp4YG_dIPxY">Pepsi ad</a> or something, with only your tacit consent... By tacit consent, I mean that you had briefly read the "Terms of Service Agreement" and had signed it perhaps without thinking of the consequences.<br /><br />Anyway, Second Front wanted to dramatize the possible consequences of this Terms of Service and so we took many liberties with the original panelists that had their avatars willingly copied into the virtual world. Most of the panelists became thieves trying to steal more identities. In my case, I made the new co-opted Howard a shrewd bank manager who has been charged with the service of protecting Lynden-owned avatar identities. This of course, runs intentionally counter to the <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a> Howard's more open and friendly hopes for the potential(s) inherant in a "Virtual Community". I have twisted Howard's whole personality into that of a Lynden Labs crony who locks all avatar identities into a vault to be used and re-purposed by Lynden Labs in any manner that they wish.<br /><br />Howard himself (the <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a> one) has a regular avatar in <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">SL</a> with his own office and an embedded virtual research practice. In fact, his usual avvie happened to wander into the Lynden Labs bank to find to his horror, that a stolen clone of his avvie had been virally possesed by Lynden Labs and this mutated and Wirxlified doppelganger was gradually being seduced by the <a href="http://simulex.com/about/">Bank Secretary</a>, of all people!(!)<br /><br />It is my hope that Howard and the other panelists understand why we (Second Front) did this piece and twisted their core personalities into something much darker and shallow than who they really are in RL (and via their official SL interactions).<br /><br />Here are some more pix for you...<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/SBgA-ffrLRI/AAAAAAAACJs/bagiKRi6hE4/s1600-h/HEISTREHEARSE6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/SBgA-ffrLRI/AAAAAAAACJs/bagiKRi6hE4/s400/HEISTREHEARSE6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5194903243778108690" /></a><em>Here is another pic of<br />"Howard" posing in front of the Lynden Treasury.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/SBgAv_frLQI/AAAAAAAACJk/iVuDqe7V9Ho/s1600-h/Wirx_Alise.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/SBgAv_frLQI/AAAAAAAACJk/iVuDqe7V9Ho/s400/Wirx_Alise.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5194902994670005506" /></a> <em>Things got steamy between Howard and his secretary...was this in the script? Of course, the secretary was only using "Howard" to get ahold of the key to the vault. I think this scene has been adopted by many James Bond style films in the past ;-)</em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/SBgAeffrLPI/AAAAAAAACJc/ztW_gLr0eIY/s1600-h/Wirx_Christiane.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/SBgAeffrLPI/AAAAAAAACJc/ztW_gLr0eIY/s400/Wirx_Christiane.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5194902694022294770" /></a><em>Here is a close up of Wirxli/Howard and "<a href="http://transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu/post/conference-2005/participants/christiane-paul">Christiane Paul</a>"...</em><br /><br />So, those are some pix from that Second Front performance called "<a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2008/04/grand-theft-avatar.html">Grand Theft Avatar III - Heist City</a>".<br /><br />To get into the role of "Howard", I had to spend some time in <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/Rbt30XB8QjI/AAAAAAAAACc/fu8wYa9BqSw/s1600-h/Hazmat-Rheingold.jpg">close covert proximity to him</a>. In addition, I understood the necessity of making at least one pilgrimage to his personal headquarters...<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/SBf_1ffrLNI/AAAAAAAACJM/3n9XEoGCzWU/s1600-h/howie1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/SBf_1ffrLNI/AAAAAAAACJM/3n9XEoGCzWU/s400/howie1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5194901989647658194" /></a><em>Here is another pic of "Howard" in his official office...</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/SBf_m_frLMI/AAAAAAAACJE/mSrinURlpE8/s1600-h/howie2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/SBf_m_frLMI/AAAAAAAACJE/mSrinURlpE8/s400/howie2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5194901740539555010" /></a><em>Here is yet another angle of Howard's office...For the purpose of my blog, I had decided to show you Howard's social networking maps and some portraits of the Real McCoy. I thought it was best that I also corrupt Howard's social networking processes to ensure that my approach to the new Lyndensque Virtual Community would be kept under devious lock and key.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/SBf_bPfrLLI/AAAAAAAACI8/t9pWTviPi20/s1600-h/Paris%2520Paisley%2520P0601144.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/SBf_bPfrLLI/AAAAAAAACI8/t9pWTviPi20/s400/Paris%2520Paisley%2520P0601144.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5194901538676092082" /></a><em>Here was the official Purple paisley texture used for Howard's t-shirt for Second Front's GTA III performance..</em>Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37719773.post-1491696109866377282008-04-05T00:09:00.000-07:002008-04-05T22:04:31.820-07:00Haledol Minotaure Daydreaming...<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R_cbFEgPeVI/AAAAAAAACEs/DastQYmtgls/s1600-h/Wirxli_entrance.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R_cbFEgPeVI/AAAAAAAACEs/DastQYmtgls/s400/Wirxli_entrance.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185643269862685010" /></a><em>When my <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2008/03/minotaure-haledol-dreamsbehind-scenes.html">performance with Second Front</a> first started up, I had some minor problems locating the venue...sigh! Maybe I should return to <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2007/12/my-second-second-snow-crash-with-second.html">rehab</a>? Or, maybe I should pawn off my pink halo for some.....???? ;-)</em><br /><br />Hey there <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=TX_xrIblAys">Haledoled-up Minotaurists</a>!<br /><br />Finally, I have had a chance to reflect on <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2008/03/minotaure-haledol-dreamsbehind-scenes.html">my most recent performance with Second Front</a> which took place quite some time ago...well, everything in <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">Second Life</a> seems like the distant past, but I digress..... Ummmm...geez, my <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a> self is really tired as I type this...I had better quickly summarize the photos before I fall aSLeep. If you want to know any details about this performance just go to <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com">Second Front's official blog</a> and read all the related posts <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2008/03/minotaure-haledol-dreamsbehind-scenes.html">here</a>, <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2008/03/we-minotaur-dreams.html">here</a> and <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2008/03/haledol-dreams-of-minotaure.html">here</a>...<br /><br />Ok, here are some "exclusive" (in other words "leftover") photos from that performance session...<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R_ca1UgPeUI/AAAAAAAACEk/ZQ6v4WmwFRY/s1600-h/mino4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R_ca1UgPeUI/AAAAAAAACEk/ZQ6v4WmwFRY/s400/mino4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185642999279745346" /></a> <em>Here I am next to <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Fauchard410">Fau Ferdinand</a> <a href="http://rhizomatic.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/minotaur-avi_001.jpg">The Minotaure</a> during our rehearsal's rehearsal... Does this make sense? My good pal and fellow <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com">Second Fronter</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bibbeoh">Bibbe</a> is also in this pic.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R_caf0gPeTI/AAAAAAAACEc/v1Zlh0LGc6U/s1600-h/Mino1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R_caf0gPeTI/AAAAAAAACEc/v1Zlh0LGc6U/s400/Mino1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185642629912557874" /></a><em>Here I am posing with an easter bunny in the padded cell with some <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com">Second Fronters</a> <a href="http://www.transpiresl.blogspot.com/">Tran</a> and <a href="http://www.bibbe.com/bibbe3.htm">Bibbe</a>. Yes, this performance was seen as a kind of <a href="http://sigilbringer.blogspot.com/2008/03/eostre-sundays-quest.html">Easter celebration</a>. </em><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R_caPEgPeSI/AAAAAAAACEU/4OcCDKYBH9I/s1600-h/mino20.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R_caPEgPeSI/AAAAAAAACEU/4OcCDKYBH9I/s400/mino20.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185642342149749026" /></a><em>Here I am with my re-configurable holy cross next to some audience members.... Some of the audience members were trying to out-do our act with some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_culture">gamey references</a> and a token <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones">skull</a>...</em><br /><br />Now, I will show you some images that I was using to mass-spam the padded cell with. A swarm of unexpected replicated images are collectively called "<a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/09/grey-goo-melting-onl.html">goo</a>". I could say magic words and conjure each "goo" image to appear. So for example, if I said "Iraq", my customized Iraqi flags would appear all over the room. Anyway, enough about the dull technicalities... Here are some close-ups of my chosen goo-images for this particular performance...<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R_cZ2UgPeRI/AAAAAAAACEM/gblZASW0uVs/s1600-h/Symbol_of_Lucifer_Wallpaper.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R_cZ2UgPeRI/AAAAAAAACEM/gblZASW0uVs/s400/Symbol_of_Lucifer_Wallpaper.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185641916947986706" /></a><em>I used this image of Lucifer's symbol mainly for my performance-suit's pattern but it was also available as a potential "goo" image. </em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R_hZlEgPeWI/AAAAAAAACE0/0bCVBEwtqsI/s1600-h/pisces.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R_hZlEgPeWI/AAAAAAAACE0/0bCVBEwtqsI/s400/pisces.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185993464316131682" /></a><em>This was the closest I would come to referencing the iconography of Jesus.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R_cZo0gPeQI/AAAAAAAACEE/tmxO_izLNAs/s1600-h/800px-Flag_of_Iraq+copy.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R_cZo0gPeQI/AAAAAAAACEE/tmxO_izLNAs/s400/800px-Flag_of_Iraq+copy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185641685019752706" /></a><em>This Iraqi flag was modified to suit my particular purple aesthetic. I have been inspired by Iraq lately since meeting the Iraqi <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">SL</a> Philosopher <a href="http://alsarmady.blogspot.com/">Sarmad Alsarmady</a> on <a href="http://www.facebook.com">Facebook</a>. This guy really wants to find a way to expose the entire Iraqi population to the wonders of <a href="www.secondlife.com">Second Life</a>...and more power to him! You could say that this flag is my personal tribute to <a href="http://www.alsarmady13.jeeran.com/">Sarmad</a>.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R_cZfkgPePI/AAAAAAAACD8/yVpYmCwTEUI/s1600-h/spain_flag+copy.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R_cZfkgPePI/AAAAAAAACD8/yVpYmCwTEUI/s400/spain_flag+copy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185641526105962738" /></a><em>Since the Minotaure was our main theme, I just HAD to also have a customized Spanish flag at my disposal.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R_cZTEgPeOI/AAAAAAAACD0/59az7xabIdQ/s1600-h/Wirxli_labyrinth.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R_cZTEgPeOI/AAAAAAAACD0/59az7xabIdQ/s400/Wirxli_labyrinth.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185641311357597922" /></a><em>I actually forgot to goo this image during the performance but it was on stand-by. Yes, this is also a Wirxlified modification of an emblematic image. Does anyone remember the <a href="http://www.kmoser.com/commodore/?id=labyrinth">Labyrinth</a> game for the <a href="http://www.chipretro.com/data/c64/demos/8434/Labyrinth_V1">C-64</a>?</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R_cY30gPeNI/AAAAAAAACDs/E1ZMU2kOHNQ/s1600-h/Wirxli_Josh2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R_cY30gPeNI/AAAAAAAACDs/E1ZMU2kOHNQ/s400/Wirxli_Josh2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185640843206162642" /></a> After the performance, I was able to relax for a bit by allowing myself to be interviewed on the front patio of my <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2007/01/welcome-to-my-brand-new-pr-office.html">PR Office</a> by Joshua Khorana (<a href="http://www.dreamstime.com/joshkho_info">Josh Kho</a> in <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a>) of the <a href="http://www.ubc.ca/">University of British Columbia</a> (UBC)...<br /><br />Stay tuned for this interview to be released in a print format sometime soon...<br />Also please stay tuned for April 14th, where <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com">Second Front</a> performs our next opus, "Grand Theft Avatar 3: Heist City".Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37719773.post-63573160473312859102008-03-22T21:36:00.001-07:002008-03-22T23:43:13.267-07:00XANADRuuL Dome still in development...<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-XfI0gPcuI/AAAAAAAAB30/iGByKsRppJo/s1600-h/newdomepic1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-XfI0gPcuI/AAAAAAAAB30/iGByKsRppJo/s400/newdomepic1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180792288985445090" /></a><em>Here is a pic of the <a href="http://avatarorchestra.org">Orchestra's</a> Architect <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/dethomas">Dethomas Dibou</a> and instrument builder, <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/BingoOnomatopoeia">Bingo Onomatopoeia</a> <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2008/03/more-developments-for-xanadruul.html">overseeing the development from inside of the dome for my new composition</a>, <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2008/03/xanadruuls-first-rehearsals.html">XANADRuuL</a>.</em><br /><br />Hey there Cutting-Edge Chrome-Domes!<br /><br />For those who are regular readers of my blog, you were probably expecting me to post about <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com">Second Front's</a> most recent performance already but I must say that I have like 20+ pix from that event so blogging it will take quite awhile since I spend time doing individual photo-captions and fine-tuned hyperlinks etc. etc. <br /><br />For those who missed it, <a href="http://www.orange-island.com/?p=331">Second Front played a few days ago on Orange Island as part of the Dorkbot Paris event in Montmartre</a>.<br /><br />You will see the documentation on both this blog and the <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com">official Second Front blog </a>very soon, I promise!<br /><br />For now, I thought I would blog about something else that only needed a few pictures and text pre-made to post...<br /><br />So, here are some more pictures about <a href="http://people.tribe.net/detlef_thomas_bauart">Dethomas Dibou's</a> fabulous work on the dome that is being custom built for my upcoming composition with the <a href="http://avatarorchestra.org">Avatar Orchestra Metaverse</a> called "<a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2008/03/xanadruuls-first-rehearsals.html">XANADRuuL</a>"....<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-XfEkgPctI/AAAAAAAAB3s/g9US8k1Yr8E/s1600-h/newdomepic2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-XfEkgPctI/AAAAAAAAB3s/g9US8k1Yr8E/s400/newdomepic2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180792215971001042" /></a><em>Here is a closeup of <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2007/04/bingos-hud-help-in-his-hometown.html">Bingo</a> inside of the dome checking out all the <a href="http://www.primperfect.net/howto/issue002.htm">poseballs</a> to make sure they are all in order.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-Xe30gPcsI/AAAAAAAAB3k/-pSVi8P2994/s1600-h/newdomepic3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-Xe30gPcsI/AAAAAAAAB3k/-pSVi8P2994/s400/newdomepic3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180791996927668930" /></a><em>Here is <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=BingoOnomatopoeia">Bingo</a> inside the dome again...I really like the architecture on the same property next door to the dome...Is this one of <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=dethomas">Dethomas'</a> buildings? It looks like the major commission he made for <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=685033%3ABlogPost%3A2602">Il Giornale</a>.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-XezUgPcrI/AAAAAAAAB3c/ZNbs0qs9SdM/s1600-h/newdomepic4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-XezUgPcrI/AAAAAAAAB3c/ZNbs0qs9SdM/s400/newdomepic4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180791919618257586" /></a><em>Here is <a href="http://transponderfish.podomatic.com">Bingo</a> standing on one of the detailed beams. The patterns almost have an <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Selimiye_Mosque,_Dome.jpg/800px-Selimiye_Mosque,_Dome.jpg">Islamic</a> feel to them. AWESOME!</em><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-XenkgPcqI/AAAAAAAAB3U/UIyCqaF-WnA/s1600-h/newdomepic5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-XenkgPcqI/AAAAAAAAB3U/UIyCqaF-WnA/s400/newdomepic5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180791717754794658" /></a><em>Once again, we have <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/dethomas">Dethomas</a> working hard on the dome.... On closer inspection, I am thinking that maybe the dome is now <a href="http://home.kanto-gakuin.ac.jp/~hide/Papers/Image/p5.gif">hexagonal</a> and not <a href="http://www.physicscentral.com/resources/images/buckyball.gif">pentagonal</a> as originally planned? Hmmm...I hope it is not too late..maybe I am hallucinating the number of sides...hmmmm...</em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-XegEgPcpI/AAAAAAAAB3M/SL7P9_1QFJ8/s1600-h/newdomepic6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-XegEgPcpI/AAAAAAAAB3M/SL7P9_1QFJ8/s400/newdomepic6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180791588905775762" /></a><em>Here is an extreme detail of one of the ornamented beams.</em>Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37719773.post-24755716422119352362008-03-19T00:25:00.000-07:002008-04-04T22:31:16.568-07:00Gazira Babeli's 2nd Solo Show - 1st in RL!<embed src="http://static.ning.com/museodelmetaverso/widgets/video/flvplayer/flvplayer.swf?v=2.3.3%3A3620" flashvars="config_url=http%3A%2F%2Fmuseodelmetaverso.ning.com%2Fvideo%2Fvideo%2FshowPlayerConfig%3Fid%3D2001614%253AVideo%253A2745%26x%3DG4ZjGUyahSLgeKrV6y9XWdBm5AYFaeRV&video_smoothing=on&autoplay=off&layout=external_site" width="448" height="364" scale="noscale" wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="never" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed> <br/><small><a href="http://museodelmetaverso.ning.com/video/video">Find more videos like this on <em>Museo del Metaverso</em></a></small><br/><br /><em>This opening night video footage is by the Curator of the <a href="http://museodelmetaverso.ning.com/">Museo del Metaverso</a>, <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/RoxeloBabenco">Roxelo Babenco</a>. This opening was so fabulous, I wish all <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a> opening nights could be as surreally sublime and aesthetically pleasing as this!<br />Seriously, you just HAVE to check this video out! I can watch this over and over and over! This is one of the most fantastic documents I have EVER witnessed!</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R92m0NHU1dI/AAAAAAAABzA/jYMx02FCI9U/s1600-h/SecondLifeScreenSnapz001.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R92m0NHU1dI/AAAAAAAABzA/jYMx02FCI9U/s400/SecondLifeScreenSnapz001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178478562349733330" /></a><em>Here is the official exhibition poster. As you can see, it is <a href="http://www.gazirababeli.com">Gazira's </a>first show in <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a>. It looks like the curator <a href="http://www.domenicoquaranta.net/">Domenico Quaranta</a> is making an official catalogue for this exhibition and I think that my <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com">Second Front</a> colleague <a href="http://post.thing.net/node/1207">Man Michinaga</a> (<a href="http://www.voyd.com/voyd">Patrick Lichty</a> in <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a>) as well as performance art legend <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/sondheim">Alan Dojoji</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Sondheim">Alan Sondheim</a> in RL) . I hope I can read a copy in <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a> :-)</em><br /><br />Hey there <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2007/04/blog-post.html">Gazophiles</a> and <a href="http://www.slprofiles.com/picturedetail.asp?id=71451&t=2">Generation-Idol Idolaters</a>!<br /><br />My <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com">Second Front</a> <a href="http://transition.turbulence.org/blog/2008/03/13/live-stage-gazira-babeli-brescia/"> colleague-in-crime <a href="http://www.gazirababeli.com">Gazira Babeli</a> just had a legendary retrospective show </a>in both <a href="http://odysseykunst.com">Odyssey Island</a> and in <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a> at the <a href="http://www.fabioparisartgallery.com/">Fabio Paris Gallery in Italy</a>.<br /><br />Here is the official press release for this show:<br /><br /><em>OPENING<br />Saturday, March 15th 2008<br /><br />'Real Life'<br />fabioparis artgallery, 6 PM<br />Catalog curated by Domenico Quaranta<br /><br />'Second Life' - Locusolus 9 AM SLT<br /><br />Gazira Babeli is an artist who lives and works in the virtual world of Second Life, where she was born on 31 March 2006. Like all inhabitants of virtual worlds she is an identity construction known as an avatar, but unlike them, she does not acknowledge the presence of a “human” controlling her. In this short space of time she has earned attention and respect with her provocative performances which explore the issues of the body, space and identity in virtual worlds. Babeli acts like a virus, unleashing earthquakes and showers of icons extrapolated from pop culture, or spreading epidemics which deform the bodies of other residents of Second Life. “Gaz” has become a multivalent term, and a household name in her virtual world. The aura of mystery that surrounds her has engendered a kind of legend, which quickly moved beyond the confines of Second Life.<br /><br />Gazira Babeli is a “virtual” artist, but her work is “real”. She explores the body, space, identity. She compares her oeuvre with art history. She talks about us. She is closer than we think, with our multiple identities, our way of representing ourselves, our lives in front of the screen. To those who ask her if there is a point in living in a virtual world, she mockingly responds: “What about you? How’s life in Microsoft Office?”. Seen in this light her work acquires meaning and efficacy even outside the world which generated it, as her numerous appearances in shows and festivals demonstrates. Now, in this solo exhibition at the Fabio Paris Art Gallery, the artist presents a selection of works that reflect the two fundamental poles of her oeuvre: her world and her identity as a virtual artist. Babeli lives in a simulated world, a realistic, 3D universe generated by castles of computing code, yet “inhabited” and experienced on a daily basis by millions of people. Her work explores the conventions and contradictions of this world, addressing concepts like time, space and the body by simply manipulating language. Her work is ‘performance’ in the purest sense of the term: language which generates action. Bodies change shape and come alive; giant towers collapse and then rise from their ashes once more; mysterious forces and objects take possession of us. But Babeli’s main work is Gazira herself, and the knowing manipulation of her legend, as shown in the video triptych Saint Gaz' Stylite and the movie Gaz' of the Desert (March 2007), the first high definition film entirely shot in a virtual world. Babeli mixes hagiography and slapstick, surrealism and country music, to tell the story of her life behind the screen, midway between isolation and sociality, asceticism and temptation.<br /><br />Gazira Babeli has taken part in festivals and exhibitions in Italy (Peam 2006 - The Diamond, Pescara 2006; V07, Venice) and abroad (Deaf 2007, Rotterdam 2007); and with the collective Second Front she took part in Performa 07 (New York). A year from her birth, the retrospective Gazira Babeli: [Collateral Damage] (10 April - 31 May 2007), put on in Second Life in a museum-sized venue, represented a definitive confirmation. In the space of two months the show attracted more than one thousand visitors. Her work has also elicited the attention of publications like El Pais, La Stampa, Liberazione, Exibart, Der Spiegel and Kunstzeitung. Gazira Babeli is her first solo exhibition in the “real” world.<br />http://gazirababeli.com<br /><br />The exhibition will also see the publication of a book, Gazira Babeli (edited by Domenico Quaranta, with essays by Mario Gerosa, Patrick Lichty and Alan Sondheim).</em><br /><br />And.... Here is the other press release for the show...<br /><br /><em>*GAZIRA BABELI*<br /><br />Saturday, march 15, 18.00 pm<br /><br />Fabio Paris Art Gallery<br />via Alessandro Monti 13 - 25121 Brescia<br />tel. 030 3756139 - Skype: fabioparisbs<br />www.fabioparisartgallery.com<br /> From march 15, to april 30<br />15.00-19.00 pm everyday except holidays<br /><br />Second Life, Locusolus simulator 9 AM SLT<br />Party<->Crasher<->Party<br />Second (Real) Audience vs. Real (Second) Audience<br /> Anti-Invitation (No Invitation Needed)<br /> Crash the party! Crash your car! Crash the Sim!<br /> All Live!<br /> Eat! Drink! Barf! Love! Hate! Sleep! Dance!<br /> Do Art! Think! Fight!</em><br /><br />Ok, I know you really only wanted to check out this blog to look at the photos from the opening day/night to see if your avatar appeared in one of the pix...it is all about "see and be seen" anyways so....here you go...lets hope/pray, you were visible enough to blogged about at <a href="http://www.random-magazine.net/modules/news/print.php?storyid=1207">Gaz's</a> show...<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R92mp9HU1cI/AAAAAAAABy4/e5BV3jD149w/s1600-h/newgaz5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R92mp9HU1cI/AAAAAAAABy4/e5BV3jD149w/s400/newgaz5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178478386256074178" /></a><em>Worship the Golden <a href="http://www.gazirababeli.com">Gaz</a>! Here I am with <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/nettime-l@bbs.thing.net/msg04132.html">Gaz</a> impersonator, Violette LeShelle. I must say though that she was not the only impersonator that evening. Not to be outdone at the opening, I realized that I also had to fit in to some degree and at least wear an official <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2006/12/breaking-news-gazira-babeli-joins.html">Gaz</a> hat for solidarity ;-) I think the official <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_calf#The_Sin_of_Idolatry">golden Gaz</a> bust set the tone for the whole evening and for her place in virtual history. Overall, I would say that <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Gazira">Gaz</a> has reached the point of absolute deification which is perfectly fine in my books since <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com">Second Front</a> is also along for the ride ;-)</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R92meNHU1bI/AAAAAAAAByw/MvNZnwJlQPc/s1600-h/newgaz1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R92meNHU1bI/AAAAAAAAByw/MvNZnwJlQPc/s400/newgaz1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178478184392611250" /></a><em>This is the closest I was able to get with showing the entire audience that managed to attend <a href="http://fwwixliwirxli.blogspot.com/2007/04/fwwixlis-reunion-at-gazira-babelis-one.html">Gaz's</a> show at its peak. <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2006/12/gazira-babeli-joins-second-front.html">Gaz</a> herself guestimated that about 65 people were stuffed into this <a href="http://api.ning.com/files/ifklTi-LwSRPjEtmzv9huWdHxHL93yh1lE8SXJhRO8e*gGA1LVRIPyubUS6u*b-9ixREKq0socgFuDr8xt817*4VYzyeLMc9/GaziraARCHIVE2_013.jpg">Black Cube Aquarium</a>. Well, at least it was white inside enough for all the conversative art critics...heheheheheheh ;-) I am glad that <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Olga99">Olga</a> took pictures of the gallery cube itself because I had no idea what kind of space I was hanging out in...I was so strung out from the art strung onto the walls to notice...WHOA!</em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R92mQtHU1aI/AAAAAAAAByo/4_kdJNc1Woc/s1600-h/newgaz2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R92mQtHU1aI/AAAAAAAAByo/4_kdJNc1Woc/s400/newgaz2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178477952464377250" /></a><em>This pic shows the a special camera angle that I took that illustates the intermediary space between gallery-space and ummmmmm.... "art"-space....I mean, life is art and art is life especially in <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">Second Life</a>, right? SIGH! Well, on <a href="http://visit.bloghud.com/Locusolus/">Locusolus</a> the whole area is self-consciously arts-infested and that is a good thing, right? On another note, I hope you like the coloured orbs that people were playing with inside the gallery. All I had to bring to this event was my token <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2007/04/protocols-of-elders-of-scion-text-and.html">Toyota Scion</a>...ooops! I did not mean to make a product placement...if only I could invoice <a href="http://www.armyrecognition.com/moyen_orient/Jordan/Exhibition/Sofex_2004/pictures/Toyota_78_Jordan_Sofex_2004_01.jpg">Toyota</a> for this...SIGH! Yes it is true that my avatar was nodding off throughout the exhibition. This had nothing to do with my interest in the show, for the record. In fact, it even had nothing whatsoever to do with <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R19z-v0LgJI/AAAAAAAABic/o0JyZjpKbTc/s1600-h/miami11.jpg">drug use</a> (honest)!!! Rather, my <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a> duties happened to siphon off my attention span at the same time the peak of this opening occurred... TRIPLE SIGH!<br />Oh, I should also mention that another <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com">Second Front</a> colleague was in attendance and this was none other than <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bibbeoh">Bibbe Oh</a>...Yaaay!</em> <br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R92mD9HU1ZI/AAAAAAAAByg/VOd4jzoa7R8/s1600-h/newgaz3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R92mD9HU1ZI/AAAAAAAAByg/VOd4jzoa7R8/s400/newgaz3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178477733421045138" /></a><em>Here is a side view of the gallery crowd and (yes, of course) my Scion. Also featured in this gratuitious group photo is the curator <a href="http://www.domenicoquaranta.net/">Domenico Quaranta's</a> new look and <a href="http://olgawunderlich.blogspot.com">Olga's</a> own <a href="http://www.gazirababeli.com/Press/EN/07%20%5BSLATENIGHT%5D%20interview/SLATENIGHT_january.htm">Gaz</a> impersonation.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R92lxtHU1YI/AAAAAAAAByY/o7E7G8A8GOA/s1600-h/newgaz4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R92lxtHU1YI/AAAAAAAAByY/o7E7G8A8GOA/s400/newgaz4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178477419888432514" /></a><em>Here are some great examples of Gaz's trademark deformed avatars that <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/04/spawn-of-surreal-video.html">Second Front used for the Spawn of the Surreal Performance a year ago</a>. I loved the highly detailed pictures that <a href="http://virtualartistsalliance.blogspot.com/2007/04/gaziras-one-female-avatar-exhibition-is.html">Gaz</a> had produced. The detail was so high, we could just about see our own reflections and Great Art, of course is entirely based on the degree to which we can gaze at our own glamourous reflections, right? I also loved the gold SLeaf detailing on <a href="http://www.myfirstsecondlife.com/gaz/gazira-babeli.jpg">Gaz's</a> bust statue... I guess <a href="http://www.wuz.it/mm/1018/00072119_b.jpg">Gaz</a> has truly entered the lapdance of luxury this time and has rezzed at least one brass ring...woo hooo! I am truly happy for her as everyone knows in <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">SL</a>, wealth = total happiness :-)</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R92lkNHU1XI/AAAAAAAAByQ/q319xT-3AmI/s1600-h/newgaz6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R92lkNHU1XI/AAAAAAAAByQ/q319xT-3AmI/s400/newgaz6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178477187960198514" /></a><em>Here is a picture of myself with <a href="http://post.thing.net/node/1207">Man Michinaga</a> who is also a colleague with me in <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com">Second Front</a>. <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/05/intermezzo-di-pazzo.html">Man is in his/her trademark incarnation of Ciccolina</a>. Behind us, you can see more reflective paintings that <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/23875449@N02/2339273290/">Gaz</a> had made. I love the <a href="http://www.imvu.com/shop/product.php?products_id=1102471">Goth poses</a>! The whole show was truly amazing...I was in awe of all of the images and this is coming from someone who usually only cares about Performance Art.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R92lVtHU1WI/AAAAAAAAByI/j2DzYz5yKT4/s1600-h/newgaz7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R92lVtHU1WI/AAAAAAAAByI/j2DzYz5yKT4/s400/newgaz7.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178476938852095330" /></a><em>Here I am with a deformed incarnation of <a href="http://odysseykunst.com">Odyssey's</a> curator, <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/SLContemporaryArt">Sugar Seville</a> as well as another <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/10/fau-ferdinand-has-joined-second-front.html">Second Front colleague Fau Ferdinand</a> who sported her own golden avvie. Also included in this scene is a piece of holographic sirloin steak...well, it is a hologram of some kind of meat offering...hmmmm.... Maybe it was the meat-confusion or perhaps the proliferation of biohazard signs but <a href="http://rhizome.org/profile.php?1053746">Sugar Seville</a> seemed to remark, "I cant see anything with this mega prim twirling around".</em><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R92h2dHU1VI/AAAAAAAAByA/Gxgn0Du9jCY/s1600-h/newgazwithportrait.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R92h2dHU1VI/AAAAAAAAByA/Gxgn0Du9jCY/s400/newgazwithportrait.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178473103446299986" /></a><em>Once again, we have a richly detailed (but necessarily gilded) group portrait with the understated and unrezzed <a href="http://www.myfirstsecondlife.com/gaz/index.htm">Gazira Babeli</a> herself with our favourite videographer nearby - <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/evolutie">Evo Szuyuan</a>.</em><br /><br />Congrats to <a href="http://www.exibart.com/profilo/eventiV2.asp?idelemento=51737">Gaz</a> on yet another mindblowing and overflowing retrospective show!<br /><br />Please stay tuned for <a href="http://rhizomatic.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/dorkbot-session-announcement-3/">Second Front's next performance at Dorkbot Paris</a> this friday at 12:30 PM <a href="http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/11/01/reminder-daylight-savings-time-ends-this-sunday-am/">SLT</a>....Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37719773.post-13162229633268562002008-03-17T20:25:00.000-07:002008-03-17T21:40:50.837-07:00More developments for XANADRuuL...<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R92hVdHU1UI/AAAAAAAABx4/ojyAN8ObFNY/s1600-h/aomhalotest.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R92hVdHU1UI/AAAAAAAABx4/ojyAN8ObFNY/s400/aomhalotest.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178472536510616898" /></a><em><strong>From Left-Right: <a href="http://www.lizsolo.com">Liz Solo</a>, <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Wirxli">Wirxli Flimflam</a> (me), <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R9Nr59HU05I/AAAAAAAABug/X7l16s6d3aE/s1600-h/WirxliWeaveHummingAurelFernVoxtest2008.jpg">Fernsing Llewellyn</a> and <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=BingoOnomatopoeia">Bingo Onomatopoeia</a>. </strong> This pic shows you Saturday's Choir sessional and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-Up_Display">receiver HUD</a> test for the <a href="http://avatarorchestra.blogspot.com">Avatar Orchestra Metaverse</a>. All these tests and building sessions will be part of the Premiere on May 10th of my 3rd <a href="http://avatarorchestra.blogspot.com">Orchestral</a> Opus, <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2008/03/xanadruuls-first-rehearsals.html">XANADRuuL</a>... In this pic, you can see a halo over my head. This halo is part of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HUD_%28computer_gaming%29">Reciever HUD</a> interface designed by the <a href="http://avatarorchestra.org">Orchestra's</a> in-house instrument builder, <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2007/04/bingos-hud-help-in-his-hometown.html">Bingo Onomatopoeia</a>. Since this session, <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/BingoOnomatopoeia">Bingo</a> has also developed a similar halo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HUD_(computer_gaming)">HUD</a> for the angelic choir...Woooo Hooo! I cannot wait to see this! On another note, I took this pic right after the Curator, <a href="http://hummingpera.blogspot.com">Humming Pera</a> left....ooops! Sigh!</em><br /><br />Greetings <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2008/03/xanadruuls-first-rehearsals.html">XANADRuuLERS</a>!<br /><br />Many of you probably thought tonight's blog posting was going to be about <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=685033%3ABlogPost%3A15263">Gazira Babeli's newest Solo Show</a> on <a href="http://odysseykunst.com">Odyssey Island</a> but that posting is still under development as I have a few pictures to prepare before posting. So, I thought I would post a "quickie" update for you first...<br /><br />In addition to the above pic where you can see that <a href="http://api.ning.com/files/IPVQKGsnH8olUHM7OiuGWfkTh2ygHp8bpCxe23wDaYw_/8623577.bin?width=206&height=206&crop=1%3A1">Bingo</a> has been working hard on developing the <a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20060203/wilson_01.shtml">Orchestral performance HUDs</a>, our Architect <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=685033%3ABlogPost%3A2602">Dethomas Dibou</a> has been working equally as hard building the dome where the <a href="http://avatarorchestra.org">Orchestra</a> will premiere my newest <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnum_opus">Magnum Opus</a>, XANADRuuL....<br /><br />Check out and see how the dome looks so far....<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R99BfdHU1-I/AAAAAAAAB3E/lzCGaT6b_GY/s1600-h/Dethomas_Dome_assembled.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R99BfdHU1-I/AAAAAAAAB3E/lzCGaT6b_GY/s400/Dethomas_Dome_assembled.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178930105146464226" /></a><em>Here is the most recent assembly of the dome that the <a href="http://avatarorchestra.org">Avatar Orchestra Metaverse's</a> Architect <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/dethomas">Dethomas Dibou</a> is building for my newest composition, <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2008/03/xanadruuls-first-rehearsals.html">XANADRuuL</a> If you look carefully, you can see Dethomas working inside the dome.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R989_dHU19I/AAAAAAAAB28/SlvlhGg7j-Y/s1600-h/Dethomas_Dome_poseball_buttresses.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R989_dHU19I/AAAAAAAAB28/SlvlhGg7j-Y/s400/Dethomas_Dome_poseball_buttresses.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178926256855766994" /></a><em>This picture shows the underlying purple poseball "flying" buttress structure underneath the pentagonal (and occasionally hexagonal) walls that will eventually wrap around this dynamic exoskeleton when it is time for the <a href="http://avatarorchestra.org">Orchestra's</a> Dress Rehearsals. Once again, you can see <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/dethomas">Dethomas</a> hovering inside the dome. Unlike Architects <a href="www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XGXHDMIJw4">working around the clock</a> in <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a>, <a href="http://people.tribe.net/detlef_thomas_bauart">Dethomas</a> can assemble the entire Modernist structure by himself in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computer_graphics">realtime</a>.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R989z9HU17I/AAAAAAAAB2w/mlg4sq9f_JU/s1600-h/Dethomas_Dome_first_assembly.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R989z9HU17I/AAAAAAAAB2w/mlg4sq9f_JU/s400/Dethomas_Dome_first_assembly.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178926059287271346" /></a><em>This pic shows Dethomas' first attempts at building the dome. Here was what he emailed me when sent me this very first pic...</em><br /><br /><br /><em>hi jeremy<br />i started building your dome<br />its very difficult<br />but i will do my best<br />:-)<br />colors and more we can made later<br />first i need the shape<br />nice day<br /><br />detlef</em><br /><br />It reads kinda like a <a href="http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/">Haiku</a>, doesn't it? :-DJeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37719773.post-81165022121235651652008-03-08T20:42:00.000-08:002008-03-08T22:58:55.547-08:00XANADRuuL's First Rehearsals...<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R9NtaNHU09I/AAAAAAAABvA/9JK2w_wV0ow/s1600-h/Wirxli_Promo_Composition_2008.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R9NtaNHU09I/AAAAAAAABvA/9JK2w_wV0ow/s400/Wirxli_Promo_Composition_2008.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175600693743244242" /></a><em>Here is my official promo-photo for that May 10th Voice++ concert at <a href="http://openspace.ca/web/">Open Space gallery in Victoria</a>. I will not actually be using these speakers but I thought I would look good next to them in the promo photo since I want to at least portray the same glamourous aura of Modern Genius that <a href="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/blog/blog-stockhausen.jpg">Karlheinz Stockhausen </a> himself possessed....</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R9N5NtHU0-I/AAAAAAAABvI/ma2pV-DeEks/s1600-h/dg2530582b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R9N5NtHU0-I/AAAAAAAABvI/ma2pV-DeEks/s400/dg2530582b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175613673134412770" /></a><br /><br /><em>...I am composing an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegy">elegy</a> for him, since he <a href="http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5idBKki5GZhppC5ce8we20_x3IJpg">died just last year</a>... </em><br /><br />Hey there <a href="http://www.heinz.com/images/adredmagic.jpg">Karlheinz 57s</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialism">Serial(ist)</a> Killers, Iron <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCrten">Kürtens</a> and choir-caseloads of angelic audiophiles!<br /><br />I may as well post all the early archives of my first reheasals for my new <a href="http://www.stockhausen.org/">Stockhausen</a> tribute composition now since it is starting to roll into full swing dress-rehearsal mode very soon and this primitive process will soon be forgotten lest I archive it straight away!<br /><br />For this Voice ++ concert on May 10th (a Saturday), I will be premiering my 3rd major opus called "XANADRuuL" and is dedicated entirely to the immortal memory of our favourite <a href="http://home.swipnet.se/sonoloco7/stockhausen/sirius1ir.jpg">alien ambassador</a>, <a href="http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/2665059.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=6E41E83E90A345BD8F20E73C25BC8C58A55A1E4F32AD3138">Karlheinz Stockhausen</a> (yes, I like to namedrop him as much as possible). For all those who are not yet in the know about <a href="http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/2665831.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=6E41E83E90A345BD081067DB14221C0AA55A1E4F32AD3138">Stockhausen and his work</a>, my advice is to not bother trying to understand what he was all about <a href="http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1590848,00.html">since he was from another star-system anyway</a>... Lets just say that mere Earthly humanoids with <a href="http://home.swipnet.se/sonoloco6/Bjork/bjork.html">some minor exceptions</a> never quite understood him nor his musical output. Since I am also an alien (and a SLemale), I fully understand where he is coming from and I actually like some of his compositions (especially <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kontakte_(Stockhausen)">Kontakte</a>, for example). <br /><br />Anyways, I am not sure what <a href="http://sniv.blogspot.com/2007/12/karlheinz-stockhausen-1928-2007.html">Stockhausen's ghost</a> will think about my tribute from beyond the grave but regardless of his opinion, I am very excited about this gig because I am being double billed with an eqaully important Modernist Genius Composer (MGC is the acronym if you are ever in an office administration job) named <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Oliveros">Pauline Oliveros</a> (<a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2007/09/pauline-oliveros-in-second-life.html">Free Noyes in SL</a>). This is her very first <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">SL</a> composition for the <a href="http://avatarorchestra.org">Avatar Orchestra Metaverse</a>, and is an adaptation of a composition she wrote for Trombones and Oscillator in 1999 called "<a href="http://hummingpera.blogspot.com/2007/12/avatar-orchestra-and-heart-of-tones.html">The Heart of Tones </a>(THoT)". Well, you will hear more about <a href="http://www.pofba.org/Retrospective/notes3.html">Oliveros' composition</a> very shortly since I will also be hyping that one to death but in the meantime, I already have prepared some hype for you about my newest large-scale music composition to date:<br /><br /><em>XANADRuuL = <a href="http://www.antonraubenweiss.com/expo/webimages/osaka_70_1.jpg">Stockhausen's Pleasuredome</a> 4 Sirius Business" (2007/2008)<br />Composed by <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Wirxli">Wirxli Flimflam</a> aka. <a href="http://classicblogs.blogspot.com">Jeremy Owen Turner</a>.<br /> <br />XANADRuuL is a <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">Second Life</a> composition in 3 sections created for the <a href="http://www.avatarorchestra.org">Avatar Orchestra Metaverse</a>. One can see this composition as an official elegy/tribute to the Modernist music pioneer, <a href="http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/Pictures/2007/12/07/stockhausen460.jpg">Karlheinz Stockhausen</a>. XANADRuuL was created from samples that were solely derived from the <a href="http://classicblogs.blogspot.com">Composer's</a> (<a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/video/video/show?id=685033%3AVideo%3A6943">Wirxli's</a>) own digitally manipulated voice. This composition was inspired by <a href="http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1590848,00.html">Stockhausen's claim of being an alien from Sirius</a> and so the 3 sections of this composition correspond to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius#Sirius_A">Sirius A</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius#Sirius_B">B</a> and <a href="http://www.geocities.com/martinclutt/testcmac.htm">C</a> stars. In addition, there are also many references to <a href="http://etext.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Kubla_Khan.html">Xanadu</a> (including the <a href="http://www.jeffpidgeon.com/uploaded_images/Olivia-Newton-John-Xanadu-38919-733490.jpg">movie with Olivia Newton John</a>). The Opening Ceremonies take place on <a href="http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/S/Sirius.html">Sirius A</a> where angels sing along with the selected voice samples from heavenly heights on the ceiling of a pentagonal geodesic dome and also on <a href="http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/siriusb.htm">Sirius B</a> where meandering avatars vainly attempt to communicate with these alien angelic muses using only pre-recorded samples. <a href="http://www.geocities.com/martinclutt/index.html">Sirius C</a> is a "meta-composition" and is perfomed by the public throughout <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">Second Life</a>.</em><br /><br />Anyways, I hope this hype will make the program notes for this <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a> Voice Festival.<br /><br />In the meantime, check out these photos from some of the earliest days of performing XANADRuuL (including earlier today)...<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R9NtENHU08I/AAAAAAAABu4/oaAKxdJ9p-I/s1600-h/xanafirstrehearsal.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R9NtENHU08I/AAAAAAAABu4/oaAKxdJ9p-I/s400/xanafirstrehearsal.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175600315786122178" /></a><em>This is the only pic I have that was taken earlier this morning and was the <a href="http://avatarorchestra.blogspot.com">Orchestra's</a> very first "full ensemble" rehearsal...This is also the first rehearsal to take place on a Saturday in order to accomodate the North American members of the <a href="http://www.avatarorchestra.org">Orchestra</a>. I hope there will at least be a couple more of these saturday rehearsals before the big day on May 10th. For this cross-continental breakfast, you will see that I had to use a temporary rehearsal dome while waiting for the official one to be built by the <a href="http://avatarorchestra.org">Orchestra's</a> Architect, <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/dethomas">Dethomas Dibou</a>. Considering I have full <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Important_Person">VIP</a> access as a <a href="http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Slebrity">SLebrity</a>, I managed to score the <a href="http://www.the-avastar.com">Avastar's</a> <a href="http://www.digitalnext.de/slideshow-the-avastar-in-second-life/">Star Lounge </a>Dome which was good enough since it came with a swimming pool and some couches. Since the swimming pool was about the same size as the performance area I had in mind for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HUD_(computer_gaming)">HUD</a> performers, I had them walk around waist deep in that pool while the angelic choir had to compromise a little bit by singing beside the pool rather than being suspended from the dome's ceiling. Once the official dome has been built, the angelic choir should be able to hover from the dome's celing without any hassle or throbbing back pain. I am glad this was not a dress rehearsal, because everyone forgot to wear white (including me) and one of the choir members named <a href="http://www.openspace.ca/web/item/59">Fernsing Llewellyn</a> seemed more comfortable singing in the pool than keeping her critical (and divine) distance... sigh! Oh, before I forget, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-up_display">HUD</a> was <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2007/04/bingos-hud-help-in-his-hometown.html">designed once again by Bingo Onomatopoeia</a>. You can see the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HUD_(computer_gaming)">HUD</a> interface on the screen. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HUD_(computer_gaming)">HUD</a> has <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_(numerology)">23</a> differently coloured <a href="http://pentagon.afis.osd.mil/">pentagonal</a> buttons which makes perfect sense since the <a href="http://www.alt-eng.com/DomePage/DomePortfolio/DomePVC/DomeDiagramPVC2f.JPG">official dome will also be pentagonal</a>. <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/BingoOnomatopoeia">Bingo</a> is also working on the halos for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HUD_(computer_gaming)">HUD</a> performers but I will blog about that feature when the performers have tested it out during the next rehearsal...</em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R9NspdHU07I/AAAAAAAABuw/bv0xbXB3Zaw/s1600-h/earliestdometest2008.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R9NspdHU07I/AAAAAAAABuw/bv0xbXB3Zaw/s400/earliestdometest2008.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175599856224621490" /></a><em>This slightly earlier picture shows the very first time that I managed to score the <a href="http://www.the-avastar.com">Avastar's</a> Star Lounge dome. In this case, just the two of us were able to rehearse. <a href="http://hummingpera.blogspot.com">Humming</a> (the curator) is playing the part of the singing angel whereas I was playing the Devil...er...I mean the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HUD_(computer_gaming)">HUD</a> performer ;-) <a href="http://hummingpera.blogspot.com">Humming</a> tried to approximate the angelic suspension by hovering near the ceiling. I recommended that until we get proper places for the angelic choirmembers to be suspended from, they might have to resort to sitting on the couches during our rehearsals.... OH, THE HARDSHIP OF A STRUGGLING SLEBRITY MUSICIAN!!!! ;-)</em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R9NsNNHU06I/AAAAAAAABuo/oX7erzXASTw/s1600-h/WirxliBibbe2008.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R9NsNNHU06I/AAAAAAAABuo/oX7erzXASTw/s400/WirxliBibbe2008.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175599370893317026" /></a><em>A little later that evening, my colleague in <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com">Second Front</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bibbeoh">Bibbe Oh</a> popped by the Star Lounge to hang out for a bit. I really like her Terrorist T-Shirt...She told me it is part of an art-series she is working on...VERY <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=kewl">KEWL</a>! I forgot to mention that in that large-scale rehearsal shown above, other co-performers in <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com">Second Front</a> are also moonlighting as <a href="http://www.avatarorchestra.org">Orchestra</a> performers. <a href="http://www.lizsolo.com">Liz Solo</a> is going to be singer, <a href="http://transpiresl.blogspot.com">Tran Spire</a> offered to be the camera-avatar and <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Fauchard410">Fau Ferdinand</a> was also there for (im)moral support :-D</em><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R9Nr59HU05I/AAAAAAAABug/X7l16s6d3aE/s1600-h/WirxliWeaveHummingAurelFernVoxtest2008.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R9Nr59HU05I/AAAAAAAABug/X7l16s6d3aE/s400/WirxliWeaveHummingAurelFernVoxtest2008.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175599040180835218" /></a><em>This pic was taken quite some time ago...Like, maybe a month ago (gasp!). <a href="http://www.davelester.org/page/5/">SL Historians</a>, please take note that one month ago does not qualify as being Pre-History, ok?? Anyways, we were on top of a gallery on <a href="http://www.odysseykunst.com">Odyssey Island</a>. The whole gang included <a href="http://weavesoundpainting.org/">Weave Noyes </a>and Fernsing Llewellyn. As you can see from the text, we were talking about <a href="http://www.deeplistening.org/site/">Pauline's</a> piece but we also had a choir pre-sectional rehearsal meet'n'greet for XANADRuuL. For example, this was the first time, I had actually met Fernsing and Weave for the first time in the <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">SLesh</a>.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R9NrYtHU04I/AAAAAAAABuY/-hw_02XwOlU/s1600-h/Wirxli_Hum_Aurel_Yvette_voxtest2008.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R9NrYtHU04I/AAAAAAAABuY/-hw_02XwOlU/s400/Wirxli_Hum_Aurel_Yvette_voxtest2008.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175598468950184834" /></a><em>Ok, this is probably the very first pic relating directly to XANADRuuL in any way. This pic is so old, it was taken sometime in the Winter (it is Spring now, right? So, it is old now, right?). This pic was also taken on <a href="http://www.odysseykunst.com">Odyssey Island</a> and illustrated the very first choir tests for XANADRuuL. Humming was even dressed up for the occasion but I think she forgot that it was no longer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day">Remembrance Day</a> as her <a href="http://hummingpera.blogspot.com/2008/02/poppies-everywhere.html">Poppy Dress</a> looked slightly out of context...heheheheh... Just kidding, <a href="http://hummingpera.blogspot.com">Humming</a>! <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2007/11/blog-that-time-forgot.html">Anyways, Aurel Miles was testing her voice with us and her GF Yvette Tzara</a> was akso hanging out...it was a very nice time!</em><br /><br />Anyways, the piece is coming along just...er... Swimmingly...and unless I get some <a href="http://www.stockhausen.org/ksadvice.html">ghostly advice from Stockhausen</a> before the next Saturday rehearsal (might be next week), things should go along the same linear path that I had originally put into place...phew! Please scroll down for some more blogging (including more composer gossip)...Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37719773.post-63983910370306421912008-02-16T23:01:00.000-08:002008-02-16T23:16:44.145-08:00En Route to Upgrade Paris...<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7fcQ-5aKcI/AAAAAAAABmE/OOuYjBqGDnw/s1600-h/UpgradeParis01.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7fcQ-5aKcI/AAAAAAAABmE/OOuYjBqGDnw/s400/UpgradeParis01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5167841281750739394" /></a> <em>It did not take me long to get dressed for the occasion: <a href="http://www.stripes.com/01/mar01/read17.jpg">Dr. Seuss hat</a>, <a href="http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/countryfacts/senegal_flag.html">Senegalese flag-abstraction</a> jacket and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_France">French flag-abstraction</a> pants....I was good to go and was looking forward to meeting up with some other <a href="http://www.slfront.blogspot.com">Second Front-ers</a>, the <a href="http://rhizomatic.wordpress.com/2007/02/05/gourgous-encounters-defining-dorkbot/">curators</a> and <a href="http://www.gawlab.net/">Gawlab from Dakar</a> (Senegal) who were giving an artist talk before us.</em><br /><br />MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...that Banana Dacquiri was yummy! I felt like drinking one at my <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2007/01/welcome-to-my-brand-new-pr-office.html">PR Office</a> a few minutes before meeting the rest of the <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2007/01/welcome-to-my-brand-new-pr-office.html">Second Front </a>crew for our artist talk at <a href="http://incident.net/theupgrade/economie0/">Upgrade Paris</a>. I needed a stiff drink as I wanted to feel more relaxed and tropical - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal">Senegal is a pleasant and well-weathered French colony</a>, right? ;-)<br /><br />But, all was not as it seemed as I found out a little bit later...<br /><br />To read more about today's artist talk, please go to the <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2008/02/economie-0-upgrade-paris.html">Second Front blog posting about it here</a>....Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37719773.post-48645570955438196822008-02-16T01:34:00.000-08:002008-02-16T01:34:14.978-08:00Second Wall-ker and the AOM on ZKM Island...<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7PoU-5aKGI/AAAAAAAABjU/dU4MeAl7t88/s1600-h/wally17.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7PoU-5aKGI/AAAAAAAABjU/dU4MeAl7t88/s400/wally17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166728644702906466" /></a> <em>Here I am wearing my wall in front of my <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2007/07/repairing-pr-office-just-another.html">PR office</a>. Yes, that is a portrait of <a href="http://www.beatles-unlimited.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/spector.jpg">Phil Spector</a> that I have decided to hang on my wall...<a href="http://obscuresound.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/spector_hair.jpg">Separated at birth</a>, you ask? Yes, quite possibly so :-)</em><br /><br />Hey there <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Wirxli">Wirxli</a> loving Wallflowers, <a href="http://img321.imageshack.us/img321/1749/berliner28mt.jpg">Bloated Berliners</a> and <a href="http://youniverse.zkm.de/">ZKM-o-philes</a>!<br /><br />Phew! What a week! Well, what a LAST week, that is! Last week, I had 2 gigs on one day. The pic above gives you a sneak peek into my new performance with <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com">Second Front</a> called "Second Wall-ker Center - Dancing About Architecture"....Please check out our <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com">official blog</a> and <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2008/02/second-wall-ker-art-center.html">read all about it here</a>. Basically, it was hosted by the <a href="http://www.directorslounge.net/DL2008/10.html">Director's Lounge in Berlin</a> and the <a href="http://www.zkm.de/">ZKM</a> as part of the <a href="http://www.berlinale.de/en/HomePage.html">Berlinale</a> festival.<br /><br />Normally, I would summarize what happened on this blog too but I am just too SLeepy to do any more writing...I have literally just posted the <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2008/02/second-wall-ker-art-center.html">Second Front blog posting</a> a few minutes ago... I now have a <a href="http://www.glocal.ca">full time office job</a> in <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a> and so I only have weekends to practice art in <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">SL</a> these days. Geez, I only have like 16 hours from now before I have to appear again for <a href="http://incident.net/theupgrade/economie0/">Upgrade Paris</a>....yikes!<br /><br />I have barely recovered from my <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2007/03/wirxli-flimflam-and-tea-chenille-are.html">Valentine's Day festivities</a> and already it is back to virtual work....sigh!<br /><br />Ok, so before <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/">Second Front's </a>performance, I also performed yet again with the <a href="http://avatarorchestra.org">Avatar Orchestra Metaverse</a> and yes, we performed the classics as usual but this time we performed on the exciting and high-profile <a href="http://youniverse.zkm.de/">ZKM Island</a>...here are a couple of pix from this event...<br /><br /><a href="http://avatarorchestra.org">AVATAR ORCHESTRA METAVERSE</a> ON <a href="http://youniverse.zkm.de/node/31">ZKM ISLAND</a>...<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7Pn2O5aKFI/AAAAAAAABjM/zPMkfm-4cIg/s1600-h/AOMOlga1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7Pn2O5aKFI/AAAAAAAABjM/zPMkfm-4cIg/s400/AOMOlga1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166728116421929042" /></a> Here we all are on a packed oil rig playing <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/MiulewTakahe">Miulew Takahe's</a> classic composition, <a href="www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRXQFjZlML8">Rue Blanche</a>.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7Pnqu5aKEI/AAAAAAAABjE/wD3U6WKdoX0/s1600-h/AOM_ZKM.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7Pnqu5aKEI/AAAAAAAABjE/wD3U6WKdoX0/s400/AOM_ZKM.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166727918853433410" /></a> Here is a close-up of me playing <a href="http://miulewtakahe.blogspot.com/">Takahe's</a> other classic called <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8072351539728770389">Fragula</a> inside a special <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3ODe9mqoDE">Tron</a>-inspired mountain located on <a href="http://youniverse.zkm.de/">ZKM Island</a>. We would play <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGknnaeAPP0">Fragula</a> inside the mountain and we would suddently leap outside the box...er...mountain...er...grid...er...whatever...ummm...I think I need to SLeep in <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a> now....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz<br /><br />p.s. I did not take a pic of <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/BingoOnomatopoeia">Bingo Onomatopoeia's</a> <a href="www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_usQMNXzKY">WNK</a> performance because the space was so laggy at the time, I could barely even hear my own sounds in realtime let alone take any photos without crashing the world...sigh!Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37719773.post-56953418522760062912008-02-01T18:23:00.000-08:002008-02-01T22:28:14.125-08:00Happy Belated New Year!<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R6PVq9aiWMI/AAAAAAAABi8/p9uKwj1mxeg/s1600-h/Goodwindshow02.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R6PVq9aiWMI/AAAAAAAABi8/p9uKwj1mxeg/s400/Goodwindshow02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162204531913808066" /></a><em>As I am still technically in rehab, I am not really allowed to indulge in the real "<a href="http://www.estatevaults.com/lm/%20%20bubbly-1.jpg">bubbly</a>". To celebrate Belated New Years Day, I have decided to spend some time inside a bubble instead...In this case, it is the sonically enhanced bubble vehicle belonging to my <a href="http://www.avatarorchestra.org/">Orchestral</a> colleague, <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/sachikosky">Goodwind Seiling</a>.</em><br /><br />Hey there Post-Party Poopers, Belated Bubbles and Rehab Addicts!<br /><br />HAPPY BELATED NEW YEAR! <br /><br />Yaaay! It is Feb 1st and I am exactly one month behind schedule! I guess this would officially make it a Belated New Year worth celebrating, eh?<br /><br />Sadly, the last time I posted on my blog was technically last year...Is anyone counting? SIGH!<br /><br />The end of 2007 was a major burn-out for me because of all the <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2007/12/my-first-second-snowcrash.html">SL Coke I was doing</a>...it kinda got to my head and I am sure the entire <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/12/art-basel-miami-vice.html">Second Front group also went a little snowblind since our most recent debaucherous fiasco in Miami</a> was a dayglo green blizzard out of nowhere!<br /><br />Anyway, I have been spending the first part of this year in Rehab which is probably a good thing since I have an upcoming full time job in <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a>. This <a href="http://www.glocal.ca">job</a> will be 9-5 PM from Monday-Friday so I probably will not be active in <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">SL</a> nor on my blog until the weekends....<br /><br />However, I have not totally faded from the scene. I consider 2008 to be the year of being "Born Again" although in <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/SabbathBorn.jpg">my case</a>, that does not really mean all that much...heheheheh.... <br /><br />I still have some life left in me in the form of:<br /><br />1) A top-secret performance with <a href="http://www.slinfo.de/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=16343">Blued Food</a> at an undisclosed location (I cannot show you the rehearsal documentation until later).<br /><br />2) Feb 10th - Upcoming <a href="http://sfront.blogspot.com">Second Front</a> and <a href="http://avatarorchestra.org">Avatar Orchestra Metaverse</a> performances curated by <a href="http://olgawunderlich.blogspot.com/">Olga Wunderlich</a> will be taking place on the <a href="http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/e/">ZKM Island</a> that is part of the <a href="http://directorslounge.net/DL2008highlights.html">Director's Lounge in Berlin</a>. <br /><br />3) Feb 16th - A talk with <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com">Second Front</a> following a bunch of <a href="http://www.gawlab.net/">Senegalese artists</a> and theorists as part of <a href="http://incident.net/theupgrade/2008/01">Upgrade Paris</a>. This event will be organized by <a href="http://rhizomatic.wordpress.com/2007/02/05/gourgous-encounters-defining-dorkbot/">Toto Donat</a>.<br /><br />4) May 10th - My new composition called <em>"XANADRuuL: Stockhausen's Pleasuredome 4 Sirius Business"</em> (2008) will be premiered at the <a href="http://www.openspace.ca">Open Space's</a> Voice festival. This 3rd musical opus of mine will be performed by the <a href="http://avatarorchestra.org">Avatar Orchestra Metaverse</a> accompanied by additional choir members and will be curated by <a href="http://hummingpera.blogspot.com/">Humming Pera</a> (<a href="http://www.livevictoria.com/index.php?bandid=24313&band_action=info&from_show=1&PHPSESSID=58">Tina Pearson</a>).<br /><br />5) A whole slew of top-secret collaborations in <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">SL</a> and the <a href="http://www.worldofwarcraft.com">World of Warcraft</a> which I am not at liberty to disclose yet.<br /><br />Well, enough about the future...here are some more photos from the blast from the slightly earlier past...well, earlier today anyway... All these photos were taken from my <a href="http://avatarorchestra.org">Orchestral</a> colleague <a href="http://www.taggingart.org/archives/author/sachiko">Goodwind Seiling's</a> (<a href="http://www.e-garde.net/bio.html">Sachiko Hayashi's</a>) installation at the <a href="http://xrl.us/HUMlabSL">HUMlab in Sweden</a>... Basically, you enter a floating bubble vehicle and ram into the various spokes inside the <a href="http://www.oregonvos.net/~jgarlitz/domefrm.gif">geodesic dome</a>...the experience is kinda like musical <a href="http://www.irvinleisure.co.uk/i/rides/8.jpg">bumper cars</a> except one might guess that <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2007/06/enos-77-million-paintings-in-second.html">Eno</a> was the engineering guide rather than some demented fair-ride operator.<br /><br />Ok..here they are...<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R6PVANaiWLI/AAAAAAAABi0/rWwxVBaB0Tk/s1600-h/Goodwindshow03.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R6PVANaiWLI/AAAAAAAABi0/rWwxVBaB0Tk/s400/Goodwindshow03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162203797474400434" /></a><em>Here is a zoomed-out pic showing the entire geodesic dome... If you look closer, you can see me inside the dome (and inside a bubble as well)...It seems that the "dome" is a common architectural theme for <a href="http://avatarorchestra.org">Orchestra</a> members these days since I will also be using a custom geodesic dome for my upcoming <a href="http://www.stockhausen.org/">Stockhausen</a> tribute piece for mixed Orchestra and Choir called "XANADRuuL: Stockhausen's Pleasuredome 4 <a href="http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1590848,00.html">Sirius</a> Business".</em><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R6PUkdaiWKI/AAAAAAAABis/P6dqCu0V3Xo/s1600-h/Goodwindshow01.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R6PUkdaiWKI/AAAAAAAABis/P6dqCu0V3Xo/s400/Goodwindshow01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162203320733030562" /></a><em>Here is proof that I actually attended <a href="http://www.taggingart.org/archives/95">Goodwind Seiling's show</a> at the <a href="http://www.humlab.umu.se/humlabinenglish">HUMlab</a>. Although this was the first image I documented, I am posting it as if it was a closing image as I am treating it like end-credits....hee hee!</em>Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com15