Hi everyone! I did a sort of part 2 final project thing and tried a hand at making machinima, I’m just sorry I never could figure out the technical aspect till it was too late 🙁
this is for the What Second Life Means to Me video project (http://bit.ly/1GJe3Pw) and a lot of the clips are from MU itself ft some of your works! here’s the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqdodqHJ-AA
have a great evening and hope you all enjoy
~Wendz
Prediction of MU
I am a major predictor of a clairvoyant (the prophet). MU go down in history. Because the people of the Second Life
1. The very unselfish
2 is a pioneer in the virtual world.
3. They live in another dimension.
4. Do not ordinary people.
And in the second Life leader in terms of history – MU
The MU leaders in terms of history – Izzy, Veyot, Elle
Hi Alex!
I agree that MU is a pioneer in the virtual world. Izzy had a wonderful idea and vision. It’s kind of you to include me. Love the glitchy image. 🙂
Bravo, Izzy and the team that rose up to help her make SL history with Medici University. What an amazing 6 months it’s been!
Hi everyone 🙂 This year went by quicker than quick oats on a cold sunday morning! and I don’t like oats :/
Although I wasn’t able to come to many of the social events at MU, I did come often to work on my blog, usually in the dead of night.
This year, I applied to showcase a resident exhibit at SLB12 and was approved! The exhibit is called The Rooms of My Heart, and is a culmination of experiences, thoughts, and dreams that have helped me on the journey to self discovery in both worlds.
This is experience also happens to be my final project (of a sort) for MU as I have compiled many past works (short stories, poetry) onto one central page on my blog, including visuals (the exhibit itself).
I’m more of a lurker than anything, but I have been paying attention 😉 Class of 2015, you rock!
Hope you all have a terrific summer and if you’re in the neighborhood I’d love to see you at the exhibit!
~Wendz
Hi Wendz,
Your project looks very interesting. Congratulations on your SL12B exhibit!
Would anyone like to go on an evening SLT field trip to this, tonight (Tuesday) or tomorrow (Wednesday)? I will be on at about 7pm SLT. I will post in group.
Spreading the Love and my Art (If you want it.).
I owe a lot to my MU experience. All the people I’ve met here and everything I’ve learned has made my time at MU personally transformational.
Sooo… I’d like to give something back to everyone. If anyone wants a work of my art, please contact me in-world, let me know which one you’d like, and I’ll put it on one of Emma’s canvases for you.
You can browse my work on my flickr feed. It’s all been done since I started at MU. I think some of it is nice. I’m clearly still learning, though.
This has been a truly amazing experience for me.
I love you all. Thank you.
Myra
Myra, thank you for your most generous offer! I’m taking you up on that, your work is lovely. If we’d had more time I would have loved to see a photography exhibit will all the many talented photogs we have here.
Like you, I feel I owe a lot to MU, I’ve grown in my skill & confidence, willingness to try new things and met so many wonderful people & gifted artists.
Thank you for all you do, in your art, DJ’ing, curating and wonderful MU attitude.
Love to you,
Elle.
Hi guys! I’ve heard some of you have been wondering about my LEA Round 9 “Art Farm Co-op” proposal. The LEA has not announced the recipients yet. They should be doing so very soon.
Here’s what I proposed:
Thanks, Edie. I was curious if you’d heard.
You got it, Edie. Gratz. 😀
http://lindenarts.blogspot.com/
Yay! I thought I recognized her name on the list!
Thanks Myra & Paypabak! I’ll be blogging about plans in the next few days!
Hello All! I’ll be off-campus Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon. I’ll be back on Tuesday. If you need help with anything you might try Oona, Myra, or Chaplain Beedit. They should be able to eject griefers, return stray prims dropped on your studio, or offer any advice or counseling you might need.
In the unlikely event that anything cataclysmic happens and you need higher powers, don’t hesitate to contact someone from the LEA Committee. 2 good choices would be Solo Mornington or Patricia Anne Daviau.
See you Tuesday!
Enjoy!
Enjoy your time, Izzy!
Cheers – if something does come up and you don’t find the backup folks listed online, you can always send requests to rmarie.beedit@gmail.com.
This being the last few weeks of us all being together, I know people are pulling back a little doing their own thing. A post posted to MU Talk made recently, upset me more than a little. It felt stabby. I don’t think there’s a need for that. I’m sure the person was having an off day, as we all do.
That being said. I think that all of us as a family can agree, we need to lift each other up as artists, instead of maybe pulling each other down. We may not all get along or agree with each other but as Izzy has said before – treat others as you’d like to be treated.
Hugs to those that were hurt in this whole thing and healing pixie dust sprinkles and success to us all for the future.
xo Oona
Thank you, Oona. Beautifully worded.
Let’s try to spread love, first. We’re here to help each other, make art, together, and learn from each other.
Here’s a little love – <3. Hope it helps.
Agree! Well said, Oona and Myra.
I am sorry to the MU community for the flames. I wasn’t thinking clearly or I would have been able to drop the inappropriate post sooner. (I finally realized I needed to go to my WP dashboard.)
The post itself contained words of gratitude to the community at large and were lost because of the “stabbiness” of the front portion. The pixie dust sprinkles are appreciated.
Thank you Myra, Elle and Paypabak. 🙂
Thank you Paypabak.
Hi all! Thanks for sorting this out. Sorry, apologies, and sprinkles of love to all sides.
I don’t know everything that was said, but as best as I can understand it, I think what it really comes down to is MU being a large and diverse community.
We do have communication. But we don’t have any way to tell everybody everything. And given the number of people and activities, perhaps that’s impossible. When I have classes of 125 RL students, or even in classes of 25 RL students, it’s very hard to have everyone know everything.
So, yes, maybe if person A had come to Crit Class and learned about or discussed a given project, or if person B had discussed their vision on MU/Talk, or etc, etc.
In the end there are just really a lot of us with different projects, different temperaments, different ideologies, different aesthetics, and different goals. I honestly don’t know of a single person in the whole run of MU who has been a “bad actor.” Everyone I think has acted in good faith. Still, we’ve had our share of conflicts.
Before this event even started there was a months long sequence where person D drove person C away, and then later person E drove person D away, and then later person E just decided to leave. We’ve had many issues over intellectual property: Person F taking a picture of something on campus and blogging it, and then person G demanding that it be taken down, or person H posting a class transcript and then person I demanding that that be taken down.
One thing I have concluded is that in any future campus we’d have to have an IP policy that lets everyone be clear about what can and cannot be posted and what does and does not need permission.
As for the case at hand, I don’t see any party as “wrong” or “mean spirited”. I think it’s the diversity of our community and the fact that we can’t all spend 24/7 on campus knowing the details and depth of what everyone else is up to. A while back we had a vaguely similar situation where person J said that newcommer K was some kind of griefer and I should eject them, only to tell me days later that that was a mistake and K was actually a great artist.
More communication is a partial answer. We can’t always talk to everyone. We keep very different clocks. But as much as possible, maybe we should ask more questions when we see, hear, or read about someone’s project or opinion. In a way that’s is what happened here. So it’s almost all good. Except people were hurt along the way. Maybe we should try to ask more questions. Not judgmental questions, but inquisitive questions. Maybe I just don’t understand your vision. Maybe you just don’t realize there’s an easier and cheaper way to do it. Maybe I don’t understand that easy and cheap isn’t your vision. And so on.
My thanks to all for sorting it out. My apologies to all for the stress along the way. It’s been a long and wonderful semester. For sure there have been mistakes, stress, hurt feelings, and people have left campus. My hope is that while it’s been an imperfect semester, that in balance, we’ve done more good than harm. That we’ve lifted up more people than those who have been hurt.
Happy Solstice!
Happy Father’s Day!
Happy last week-and-a-half of Spring semester!
Thank you everyone for being a part of the MU community!
Love,
Izzy
I confess, MU grew so much and had so much going on that I could not cover everything as well as I had hoped when I took on the role of Blogger-in-Residence. So perhaps I missed an earlier presentation. I did not cite a source of information (it’s there on my Tumblr now) that may have made my skeptical perspective more understandable and less “stabby.” Hey, horsies! come back to the barn!
I’m still learning the trade and appreciate all the support I’ve received. I did not want to make everyone uncomfortable and so I apologize again for that.
MU has been an incredible experience. You really can’t expect there to be no misunderstandings and some hurt feelings with so many people involved. We are all passionate about what we do with the precious time we spend away from our primary lives. I salute those who made this possible and thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Pix of today’s Visiting Artist talk by Micol Hebron:
MU Machinima on youtube?
I’ve found a way to get videos to play from youtube without them kicking over to some random next video.
http://machinimasl.blogspot.com/2014/11/making-your-own-theater.html
Using this method, we could start a MU youtube channel, upload our videos to it, and have them cycle through a stand sl media player.
Have we considered this? Is there a MU youtube channel out there, already?
I can still play videos from other urls, such as vimeo, if you don’t want to upload to youtube. It just occurred to me a youtube channel might be worthwhile.
I’ve added Alex’s video in Veyot’s post, below, to the media player in MUGA.
Hi Myra,
No idea if there is an MU channel. Thank you for posting what you found out about the youtube playlists, I’m going to try it out! Maybe it would be easier to just set up an MU playlist? I believe you can add other people’s videos to one.
Yesterday its was tuesday.. In the end nobody brought icecream but some did show up n swimwear. I forgot to take pictures but i had a lot of fun. For if you like music and weren’t around.. here’s what you missed:
The story created by artificial intellect Baby (The Megatron series). ‘We need to hire a barrister (a lawyer in England. – Editor’s note). This will be repaid. And it’s necessary to hem sepulchral urn with a rim. The man to be buried was a prisoner of war.’ – A man in a fez took a roll and was silent for a while. Then a man came in and said ‘Ave’ (A greeting in Latin. – Editor’s note). He was devoted to a knighthood. ‘Hurry up to convert a sen (a small coin an Japan, Indonesia, Cambodia) into a pound’. Just then a saw was launched and everything was deafened with a sibilant sound. ‘Is this field yours, python?’ – he offended, enjoyed a price, that would be offered to him. ‘I offer my price for all quantity’ ‘Hush!!!’ – A man with a high forehead began to brake everything. ‘I offer ECU’. Formerly this high-foreheaded man was a salesman of eyeshadows, lime, saxophones, cinchona. And one need to compete with him. That was a cushy job, just a piece of cake. The ides (the middle of a month in the ancient Roman’s calendar: the 15th day of a March, May, July and Oktober, the 13th day of other months) – (As the editor understood – the story’s date, placed by Baby).
I’ve been posing naked!
Hmm.. so it’s friday.. right? Last friday i came back from my stay elsewhere and went for a ‘just quick look for a little while’ Those quick little while’s never happen tho but that aside. Felt very warmly welcomed by a lot of mu people. Its amazing how MU keeps changing and developing, like a living creature. If you look around after 7 weeks not seeing with your own eyes it’s very notable.
Just when i was going to sleep Izzy put on a song on her screen from an artist who will remain nameless for now , and of course i had had had to go look 9___9.. after some dancing she rendered me speechless by saying BAOC and trowing the classical primcube trophy on the floor for me to take.
While i’m honored and kinda proud in this weird way i actually thought for a sec about not taking it. Since the start of MU there have been some many thing going on, so many people doing all these cool and mindtickling things.. its almost unfair to pick one out. But at the same time the only reason i took it is because the privilege of receiving this BOAC thing is you get to choose someone to give it to.. well and leaving your mark on that primcube, less important but also fun do.. Kinda checked immediately if the person that i thought of didn’t already got it.. and no yet, so my luck 🙂
In rl i enjoy quotes from people.. it’s full of things for me to think about. In SL i like mesh, light, details, machine things, power chords, whatevers.. Combined made me make a neon lettered quote on the trophy which i’m fond of and in a way applies to a lot what is happening on MU.
Art is anything you can get away with.
~Marshall McLuhan
I will pass it on to someone who started a while in after MU’s start, her studio being across the street of mine. At the beginning a lot of the time when i was at my place, i saw her standing being busy or muttering around a bit. Also waving back for a friendly chitchat when i or people wandered by. After some time i began to see her at almost every class i went, diligently participating and seeing more and more of things she seemed to have taken in back in her work. When returning after my 7 weeks staring at MU’s site and flickr, where she adds quite an amount of pictures, i suddenly saw this huge leap, even in appearance.
So dear muse. i’m giving this week’s BAOC to you. Its because i think you took the opportunity that MU gives.. or maybe even grabbed with both hands and try to learn everything what you found to be interesting. I heard you saying sometimes you weren’t always happy with the results but i noticed that didn’t got you down, kept going on trying to improve yourself for the better. Yesterday even.. when i half uninspired lazy asked if you were going to critics class, you cheerfully said ‘of course.. i go every week’ which did made me decide to come too. You had to show something too. A painting you made after a class assignment that you felt had some restrictions so you made another just because.. you really seem to enjoy yourself and do things out of your own for yourself. You are open about what you’re doing, what you are learning or have learned, sometimes even vulnerable, which i admire immensely. You inspire me to keep enjoying learning, school myself and ‘keep doing’ as you said yourself so very strikingly.
I think you can be very proud of yourself for the sweet and earnest MU student you are, i am and very happy to congratulate you for being this week’s BAOC.
Great article Emma. Congratulations Muse!
And i love this: Art is anything you can get away with.
~Marshall McLuhan
Congratulations Muse. 🙂
i am honored and humbled . i cant say much else im a lil teary thank you emma for giving this to me . the one thing ive learned is just keep doing . i try to post a photo or two a day it helps to make me better find what tools work best . i just wow ty again.
Congratulations, Muse! I love your “just keep doing” attitude.
Gratz, Muse. You so deserve it.
Oh, wow, this is great! congratulations muse! I have loved seeing you grow as an artist. You have inspired and delighted me with your art and your warm and friendly personality.
Ziki Questi and the Turing Test
A new, hopefully interesting article in MU/Creativity about MU’s own photographer, Ziki Questi and how she challenges our ideas of what is real. As a bonus, there’s even a link to Alan Turing’s original paper proposing his famous test.
AlexLois gave a concert at Medici on Sunday. Apmel wrote about it and made a video,
http://apmel.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-electro-evocative-glitch-music-of.html
And I made a video too. Neither of us was ready with our camera fast enough. We missed the first two spectacular effects, a flying pegasus, and blue letters falling from the sky.
Awesome Veyot! TY!!!
BTW, Apmel’s done a number of posts on activities at MU:
http://apmel.blogspot.com/search/label/Medici%20University
I’ve added this video to the media player in MUGA.
Happy June everyone! We’ve got 1 month left at LEA23 and I’m happy to report that we’re in great shape with prims.
When we started the per studio prim limit was 150-ish. About a month ago I raised it to 200-ish. The new prim limit for our final month at LEA23 is that there is no prim limit!
Seriously!
• Try a crazy new sculpture!
• Rez another fancy chair!
• Put out the jacuzzi and hang out w classmates!
USE THOSE PRIMS!
Care for some RL Cash & a trip to RL Australia?
http://uwainsl.blogspot.com/2015/06/opportunity-knocks-win-fellowship-to.html
They need Izzy to fix their website.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/successes/the-last-hours-of-laura-k
Something happened. But isnt that life? Things happen. Life happens.
My therapist says I compartmentalize too much. Lock my true feelings away in little compartments….boxes. I box myself in. I say therapy…..shmareapy. You can visit my studio area and pick a door. Behind every door is me. Holed in a box. But you can only see what I want you to see. Im not that closed off. I dont think I am at least.
I thought I was the only one who wrote on the internet about visits to my therapist… Hope all is well xx
Hi, Glad. I love it. I went to see this at the school after your post. To me, It feels sterile and slightly disturbing. I hope your mind isn’t like that. Maybe that’s my mind projecting (<– therapy term). 😀
Love the work. Thanks : )
Late to view this, but I really love it. Great images in the boxes.
Hi guys, I’ve submitted an LEA proposal for Round 9:
Wish me luck!
Nice! Good luck, Edie!
I love this proposal! Good luck!
gl, edie. I think the announcement is soon.
Jason Silva / Shots of Awe
Nice post, Izzy! You write delicious prose.
aww, thankies Neeva! You stack delicious prims.
It’s not a mesh vs prims issue. Secondlife needs to update its building tools so you can create mesh in-world.
I had a nice chat with Elle today about how our campus policies make it difficult for learners with different needs to get around.
I explained that No Fly, No Skyboxes, No Point-2-Point TP were all intended to make us walk around more and see what different learners on campus are working on. To help create community.
We reached a sort of compromise that maybe No-Fly and No-Skyboxes aren’t really so problematic, but that if people who had different hand or vision circumstances could direct TP to places, it’d make campus navigation a lot easier.
Direct Point-2-Point TP is now enabled in all 4 parcels of MU. LMK if you have any trouble with it. And I’d still encourage you to walk around and see the work!
This is a good move. I think many of us who are used to walking about will continue to do so, although it will be nice if there’s a class and people are late to have that ability to tp to the spot.
I agree. Some times I have gotten lost or my computer got slow as mud for a bit. Being able to have point to point at those times will be nice walking about also is good I love that. This allows for all of it.
Thank you, Izzy! 🙂
direct Tp – what a great idea. Thank you.
I first saw this article in Art News and now the New Yorker has picked it up.
I think there is an interesting thru-line here with the whole notion of getting a free art education at M.U. and collaborative teaching and learning.
“On Friday, the first-year students in the Roski School of Art and Design M.F.A. program announced that they were all dropping out. “All,” in this case, meant seven students: a small number, but, given the difficulty of getting students or artists to do anything together, the action was a feat of organization and solidarity. It was also a brave gesture—not heroic, maybe, but one made at a personal cost and resonant with the larger situation in art right now.”
Interesting article, rmarie. Brave of the students. They could always join MU!
We had a good trip to visit Mistero Hifeng’s beautiful sims. Elle, Pearl, Art, and Alex were there. I made a quick video with some snapshots. If I can get this link right, maybe you can see it.
Thanks Veyot – lovely documentary! I hope you can share it with MH too. This is a neat format for viewing and getting inspired by all artwork on the grid.
Thanks for organizing the tour Veyot, and for the machinima tips. I enjoy watching this video.
And how great that Mistero Hifeng wonderfully answered the questions we had for him.
Lovely video, Veyot! Thanks so much for the fun tour and thanks to Mistero for the amazing sim and taking the time to answer our questions.
Small concert
On Sunday, May 31 at 1 pm SLT, I’ll give a small concert. Come Tullia 3.
Fantastic Alex! Can’t wait!! 🙂
Pssst! Hope you all can come with us to visit Mistero Hifeng’s beautiful sims. At 11 AM SL time today.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA29/175/115/22
performance art
I’ve been doing performance art and found a lot of amazing things. People are also interested in this kind of art?
Aero Bigboots
AlexandreLois1
Ananda Crystal
Andrea Foenander
astrid
Aunt Renie
Aurelia Scheppers
Christa Forster
Ciara Finnegan
Bird on a Cyber Twig
Diptheria
Donnie Archer
Edie
Elle
Emma
Elizabeth Taylor Swift
Fanny
FeelsEmpty
Glad Kidd
Izzy
Jade Ravenheart
Kate Nova
Ken Doll
Mary Anning
Meg O'Ryan
Michael Masucci
Mireille
Molly Ross
Monerda Skute
Myra
Neeva
Newton
Michel Nostradamus
Oona
Oscar
Owen
Patrick J. Sweetman
Paypabak Writer
Pearl Grey
Rebecca Narum
rmarie
Ryan
Scarlett Luv
Sello Tape
Serra Qendra
Teresa of Avila
The Knight
Tiffany Mosienko
TrilbyM
Tullia Aragona
Vanessa
veyot
wendz tempest
Xue
Yellow Fever
Ysidora Pico
Yves
Zsophia
Elle, 
Neeva are discussing. 
rmarie and 
Myra are discussing. 
Vanessa are discussing. 
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Neeva 06:30 on 25/06/2015 Permalink |
Hey Wendy! Thanks for the link. I loved seeing your video. Especially the scenes from MU like laserskater’s planets, and the tentacles coming out of the sea. Your voiceover was charming. im still amazed at how creative and industrious everyone at MU has been. What a great experience.
Paypabak Writer 15:32 on 25/06/2015 Permalink |
Bravo! I love it. Every single resident is a creator as you say: we write a story with our avatars! MU has been such a perfect project because it included avatars as part of creativity, not just the finished products but the people who are processes in a journey of creativity.
Elle 18:34 on 27/06/2015 Permalink |
Enjoyable machinima, Wendz. I really liked the MU shots, especially at Trilby’s mill. I agree on the creativity.