clearing cache (1)

Following a discussion I had with my (best) friend (is a coder) today, I would like to highlight an important distinction that is to consider in between art and design.

Anyone that has studied some art history will be familiar with the Bauhaus movement. Bauhaus is a famous german school that highlighted and improved(?) the relation in between art and design. By doing so, Bauhaus inevitably took a major turn towards architecture, establising the bases of what contemporary architecture is today. In this school and per class, you would typically find two tutors, one that would be a “form master” an artist, and one that would be a “craft master” or “artisan” a designer. Student would then learn how to (try to) be able to mix art and design in a same work. Making a “practicable” object look better in spite of the obligations a practicable design implies for achieving everyday things such as taking a shower.

Bauhaus is one of the many movements that took place during the 20th century, “one of the many”. While I do enjoy Bauhaus I am much more attracted to other movements from dada to conceptual contemporary art.

Now coming to my main work in this virtual world, the Hangars Liquides simulators. Hangars liquides is not a design, it’s an art work of which practicability revolves around metaphysics.
What is art practicability? It’s the obscur path leading to your subconscious, a path that is way harder to walk on then a simple sidewalk.The path that I like to use in order to deliver the necessary messages I put into my art.

I don’t design walkways, I create metaphysical paths. I don’t design towers, I raise erections. I don’t design street lights, I bring hope. I don’t design telemetric cables, I give veins to a monster.

my best friend is a coder

When I was a 6 years old kid there was this                at home and it could do very fun things. But in order to play games or draw on the screen I had this book              filled with Basic programs to type into the computer. The screen was looking something like this

Basic programs

. And Lord yes Ive been a patient 6 years old! Going through the trauma of writing these lines everyday! Eventualy enter the RUN command and play my damn games. In the end I started to understand the lines better and discovered things like the variables fun…

And man man man…If I knew someone who could write this all instead of me, he/she would have been my best friend.

My “programing” adventures stopped when a new computer arrived at home. A PC1512 coming with a graphic application where I could draw silly things (mainly nude people) with the mouse and hit the “erase all” button as soon as I could hear someone was coming near by heheheheeee.

Now Im a computer graphic artist, good lord I never write programs anymore and anyways my best friend is a coder!!

Thinis work in progress – post 2

About to start day 23. Not much artifacts copy paste allowed, no texture repetition allowed, I don’t want the walls of the hotel rooms to look like the walls from the squats ..well it just makes sense but I wish I could be a magician and click to rez a new magic texture.Everything has to look un-regular so you just don’t rez another wall next to a previous wall and align it. Conclusion building a post apoc city really isn’t the same technical job as Anything else. Amazed by the prim count too Oo this is just unreal Ive been able to keep it LOOOOOW, Thinis is about “quality beats the **** out of quantity” too. well its the morning here and I now may start my day building.

thinis

Well, day 13 today, 15 days remaining to finish Thinis.
Building wise is about getting organized with a chaotic environment with the inhability to put an end to actual chaos. Moody wise listening to heavily dark music non stop.
It would be very hard to work with non sculpted prims in there, oh the joy of making everything from scratch = control = lag KickBan also = original content which is important to encourage.
carcass of a human made dinosaur//some parts of the metal could still be hot//ashes are covering the ground//
oh and we need a 2048x-y-z huge prim in the future thanx

Thinis is produced by Silua Mills

website, RP information, join the crew :
http://thinisthesim.com

The very eerie machinima by artist ColeMarie Soleil at Thinis :

cheers to everyone really big up! back to building

cigarette

it’s 4.18am and before I go to smoke this cigarette Id like to send something in there.
Something about crocodiles.
I have like, blogs everywhere and I don’t even use ‘em anymore.

web2.0 and its very organized things is BORING.

let anarchy be, blog wherever the fuck you want to blog, be it a comment here or a comment on the whitehouse website yeah blog on this one to write about the latest trends in whatyouwant, nonono…trends…nonono

I mean, fuck an adress, fuck a .com

be free

plog it? mlog, jlog, glog, flog

Flog could be pretty because it contains sexual terms in it, yeah the F stands for fuck of course.

would you fuck a log?

blog, bullshit yeah of course

Shadowrun soon on the grid

I’ve been commissioned to build the Shadowrun simulator. I have just finished the 10th day of work, the city is full size, takes about 9 sim with a new background I did with the picture of a previous city I did for HL before and…megaprims that I used like never before, considering they are outside sim limits..a never seen background really..4 days left to finish with details all over..sleep..

my dearest vision….

One day I decided to break a whole work that took more then a year to accomplish because I had a vision.
Then I started to build a new city. Always with this vision in my mind.
It’s been 22 months that I started the new city, Im running out of ressources to build but still have just enough…and then a miracle, one day I just saw this street drawing itself right in front of my eyes…exactly as I thought it would be.
I am stochastic. The way I work seems like it’s made out of trillion of little points going everywhere, it is….yet they all go in the same direction, my aim which was to create this vision.

long live technopunk

Ive always been kinda dubious about the term “cyberpunk” for  lot of different reasons.

Primarely because the adjective belongs to a litterature movement initiated by people like Bruce Bethke and William Gibson for their science fiction novels that were taking place in some dark urban environments and depicting dystopian societies in a near future.

Gibson, and more recently, Stephenson, gave some kind of sterile comments concerning the link between virtual worlds such as second life and their works respectively branded “cyberpunk”. The only comment I remember from Gibson is that he thought the grid was not much more then a pile of empty architectural places. Im not analysing what Gibson had to say about the metaverse Im just sharing the final impression it gave me, since it’s coming from someone who masters the way to express himself with very precise words in a specific order with hidden underlying meanings that can only be interpreted by imagination, intuition, etc.

I think these people are tired of seeing the litterature movement they created being manipulated by people who think they actualy created all of it in the last ten years or so. It’s been about 30 years now that it was first coined and made famous. It’s about a bunch of some of the coolest and talented scifi writters who were dreaming about something happening in cyberspace, we’re not already there I think, but I think we should let their very hard and brilliant work finaly rest in peace in the history of the late 20th century.

We were born with computers all around us, the youngest of us were even born with the internet, we end up literaly living in cyberspace. Using all kind of software and hardware to create animated audio and/or visual 3D experiences, concepts, a completely new world, we are technopunks.

a dying culture.

THIS IS THE LAW!
You thought there was nothing with more power then the law?
In fact there is something, which is known by every good law expert, this thing is called a principle of law.
The easiest example to define what is a principle of law is about starvation.
One has the right to not let him/herself die. If you find yourself out of food and about to die, by principle of law, you can steal food and a court should consider that you did this to avoid your own death and you should not be punished.
I came to think about principle of laws because I think a lot about the notion of a “private copy”, that anyone should be able to get a private copy of any cultural item, considering the social circumstances surrounding culture nowadays.

-An oligarchist culture-

The music industry for instance. You can bring together all the majors , take their productions all together, the independant music labels are in fact the biggest music production platform worldwide. Still, people don’t get to hear about it, because the independant scene doesn’t have enough marketing budgets behind.
With a marketing budget you will advertise on youtube, on yahoo – I just came to think about google, it’s funny because they don’t advertise for anything on their homepage, and it’s Google, period – . So with a marketing budget you are going to buy ads on yahoo and then because you give them money they will find a reporter to write about you and say enthusiast things, this is an exchange, this is fake journalism. This also happens in your magazines that you think are so underground, independant record labels know about this, you got to pay your ad to get an article. FAKE JOURNALISM FAKE INFORMATION, on your TV, on your webpages, on your newspapers.

So yes, apparently if you follow all these links that are all making you end up on only 3 different artists, yes this gives the impression of a dying culture, really. Focusing on only a few cultural items will make people automaticaly starve for fresh and new things. Focus on diversity, think about biodiversity, our culture is like all other cultures, it is diverse. Don’t lie about this only because you fear people might not like this or that, people are open and want to access a very broad culture. Majors are not intelligent enough anymore but rich enough only to brainwash people with advertising, making them sick and starving for new things.

CULTURAL STARVATION

Fake journalism/information, brainwashing sessions on all media touching everyone with the same content all over the planet. You got people to be disgusted at first then you got them to starve.
It got to the point where they just needeed to grab culture without paying for it, because all of a sudden they realised they were surrounded by it, why would they let their brain die, why would they let themselves be brainwhashed to death?
Our system has created a way to make people suffer from cultural starvation, hence people developped the reflex to intellectualy survive.

I understand the notion of a private copy (I don’t get the whole concept yet, Id need to think about moral rights at first and believe me this is a tricky subject). People don’t want to be thieves, most of them would like to be considered as respectable persons. They just need to survive, with food at first, but humans need culture, this is one of the things that differenciates us from most other species, we need to survive intellectualy too, by principle, and it is a right to get to educate yourself, education is culture. Don’t let the culture die.

NB: I actualy create all of my work that is available  on the web or the grid from scratch. But it’s been a while that I think about this, coming from an independant music label..I had to face moral right issues long even before you started to know what rezzing a prim was lol but I will make other posts on this subject. cheers

alpha channels…

https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-6713?

Everyone knows about this, even noobs, since everyone is a collateral victim of this bug that is the MOST OBVIOUS bug ever to happen on the grid since it’s the most visual and CONSTANT one and touches everyone be it someone who just brought his/her first hair – and me too. Unfortunately, when I build, this horrible piece of shit effect is getting in the way of everysingle perspective I could ever imagine. There’s not one single day without noticing it to the point when things can get ugly just because of that.
This MUST be solved, it’s been years, SL is about to hit the web, so it’s about time to erase this tiny bug which makes everything go wrong, everyday, everywhere, on everything.
vote for this JIRA. but seriously, this ruins a lot of SL experience, and can directly make someone never come back. How much people got turned off by this ? want more? lol
this must be on top of some todos list seriously.
I need a coffee.