Third World

From About Land:
"There should be somewhere upon earth a place no nation could claim as its property, a place where all human beings of goodwill, sincere in their aspiration, could live freely as citizens of the world."

Group Owned by Third World Asylum

Enter a beautiful world within a cave and explore every corner.

Serenite

This is the MC Escher hosue at Serenite at sunrise.

There is a lot to see at Serenite. It's always been one of my favorite sims. There is the sweetest little outdoor dance floor there. An underwater cave is hidden away and full of treasure. There are some shops that sell interesting trinkets and a skybox with larger items for sale. While walking on moss covered stone paths you come across an abandoned gypsy encampment, picnic blankets, an old shipwreck, and stables.

Eavesdown Docks

This is called Crucible in Exploration Central. I'm not sure why. It's a dilapidated space station. I don't get it. This is a "boy sim" I think. Obvoiusly a lot of work went into it and there is a lot to see. There just isn't anything I want to see. I did get to ride a merry-go-round. Maybe the issue was that there was no one to explore with.

 

Here is a view from a distance. Sigh. Not my cup of tea. Maybe someone can tell me how this is interesting. By the way, I know I'm missing landmarks for these sim reviews. Just go to Timbucks and find Exploration Central where all the landmarks live.

Retropolis

I have started being "helpful" to Cyrus' Expedition Central project. This morning I visited Retropolis. I discovered that Cyrus already has landmarks (LM) in all the prims with graphics. They are just missing the script that gives them. I'm adding the script and a notecard about the build the LM takes you to.

Isn't this beautiful!? It's not where you land when you visit Retropolis but it's one of the places you see if you pursue the path through doorways to other areas. You start in a ship in the clutches of a sea monster on huge ocean swells in the middle of a storm. If you persist to what I think is the end you come to a room from which there is no exit! There is a puzzle to solve to escape. Of course I gave up and teleported home.

The friend with me in the photo is Dodge. He kindly explored with me and helped me try to solve the puzzle until he had to go back to real life.

Expedition Central Clubhouse 2

Cyrus has long been concerned that his clubhouse was too heavy on prims. He has finally settled on making his own and it IS  very low prim. It's basically a hallow oval column 50 meters tall with a central circular stairway. Now, instead of 100 Landmark prims to interesting and educational SL places, Cyrus has room for hundreds of them. I counted 17 in one trip around the perimeter and they were 9 deep from the bottom to the first floor. He's in lowprim, map and landmark heaven!

When he created this group Cyrus made me his second in command. Now I'm co-owner, but so far I have had little to do with it. I sit and watch him work. Here he notices and sits with me for a minute before he leaves SL for the evening.  It's nice to have a friend who wants to include you in his projects but I don't know how to help.  He once gave me a list of things I could do, but the only thing I have done successfully is check the LMs for errors. If I take initiative to do anything else I feel I'm in the way. 

Virtual Pioneers Walk Through History

VP had a fashion show last night in which I got to participate. Xavier did a wonderful job of taking our notes on our periods of history, outfits, and what we like to do in SL and created professional descriptions with humor.

I portrayed the Pilgrim women of Massachusetts, specifically Priscilla Mullins Alden, my ancestor. 


Participating in a fashion show in which I was not an organizer was fun. I got to take a lot of photos. http://www.flickr.com/photos/29329438@N06/4806795123/in/photostream About 30 minutes into the event my computer became unable to continue rezzing everything I wanted to photograph. Second Life is very demanding on a graphics card. I'm hoping the 4 gigs of RAM I have coming today will help but I'm not sure it will have any affect on graphics. 


Enjoy some of my favorite photos.