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it’s true!
http://lindenarts.blogspot.ca/2015/08/lea28-art-farm-coop.html
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Edie
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AlexandreLois1
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veyot
Bravo. This music explores the relationship between consumerism and vegetarian ethics.
With influences as diverse as Kafka and Joni Mitchell, new melodies are manufactured from both mundane and transcendent textures.
Ever since I was a child I have been fascinated by the traditional understanding of music What starts out as atonal conflict soon becomes chained into a dialectic dance style, leaving only a sense of what could have been and the chance of a new reality. Measures thirteen through twenty two pierce arrows into my heart.
As wavering low notes become reconfigured through diligent and diverse octaves, the listener is left with a tribute to the intelligence of all avatars.
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AlexandreLois1
yeah, well, I liked it. Actually it is the most advanced technology in art.
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Neeva
Looking forward to hearing this when I get home from work! Thanks for posting.
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veyot
Alex and I have had many conversations about music. He is a writer of music, and I am a piano accompanist for a twelve member women’s chorus. His music speaks of the future, but my audience likes music that is familiar. I have learned a lot from Alex because of our friendship at Secondlife.
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Edie
Art Farm Flickr Group!
Yay! We have a Flickr group! Please join and add your stuff!!
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Edie
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rmarie
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Elle
Hooo-mans are soo Noisy!!
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Vanessa
No idea how you found it RM, but what an amazing video!
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Newton
Welcome to Low Fidelity
A Kowloon Cityscape
Dear Friends, You are invited to participate at Low Fidelity.
Read More
Go There
Communicate
About Edie’s FarmThe first formal project-focussed gathering will be on Sunday, August 9th. Please contact me or RMarie Beedit with questions. All the best, Newton
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Vanessa
Super exciting Newton! Good luck!!
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Vanessa
Ant Farm
Hahaha!
So far every person I’ve told about Art Farm replies, “Oh, Ant Farm sounds cool!” 😛
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Paypabak Writer
I’ve made that mistake, to myself, several times now.
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Edie
Art Farm Facilitators – Summer Session 2015
August 1 – September 13
- Low Fidelilty – Newton
- Ward 81 – Oona
- Babel Infocalypse – Neeva
- MUGA
- — Director of Education: Jade
- — Chief Curator: Myra
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Edie
Art Farm – Update 1.5
For anyone interested in planning on summer session, I’ve been talking to peeps on Slack:
https://vbco.slack.comI think you’re probably all signed up there already, but if anyone needs access, just LMK and I’ll invite you.
I’ve mostly been answering questions in Slack Direct Message… but I’ll set up Channels for our 4 Art Farm Summer “Lands”: Low Fidelity, Babel infocalypse, MUGA & Ward 81.
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Edie
Art Farm – Update #1
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Myra
A graduation gift for everyone
Hi, everyone.
Emma Maybe made a graduation gift for everyone. I sent it out to the group in-world. If you missed it, just im me and I’ll give you a copy.
Everyone who had a studio at MU and many who didn’t, contributed to the success and wonder that was Medici University. In that spirit, this is a graduation gift for you all.
It’s an awesome gift, Emma’s awesome for making it, and you’re all awesome for taking part in MU.
Hope you enjoy it. Thanks for everything.
Myra
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Pearl Grey
It’s gorgeous! Thanks for making it. I’m proud to have it on my mantle.
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rmarie
Thanks Emma and Myra. Congratulations all BAOCs! This is a lovely graduation present.
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Emma
🙂
i guess there’s one person who i felt had to have a slightly different one.. she has it now and promised she wont eat it-
Emma
sure and i forgot the pic
http://mediciuniversity.co.uk/talk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/EM_BBOCaward.png
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Edie
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Oona
How do i apply Edie? 🙂 🙂
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Izzy
What an amazing semester! Thank you all! Congratulations to everyone!!
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Paypabak Writer
Congratulations on one of the most unique LEAs to be funded. The execution was superb. By trusting your instincts, you allowed all of us to shine. What shone through was more than just an exhibit of virtual art but a 24/7 performance of how creation is done. Bravo! to you and everyone involved.
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Neeva
Thanks so much Izzy! What a great, fun experience it was. The Medici University Alumni Art & Party Association will be contacting everyone shortly. 🙂
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Elle
Thank you Izzy! Congrats to all.
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Newton
It was great to work with MU learners in this great environment, and to actualize an identity as a learner after all of these years wandering the grid just looking handsome. Thank you Izzy and gang.
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Myra
Medici University: A fond farewell
Medici University: A fond farewell
Art and I wrote a little farewell piece for MU over at Creativity. Not quite a commencement speech, but a very hopeful sendoff. There are some very nice pictures of the campus, too.
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Paypabak Writer
Great post. I get very exasperated by WP requiring a different login for every blog I have to register in, so it’s nice to be able to comment here! I am so honored to be a small part of this incredible project and experience.
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Myra
Thank you, Pay. It was such an amazing experience. I’m so happy to have been part of it.
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Jade Ravenheart
Gallery of Emotions
In honor of working with such great and inspiring artists, there is a gallery of their work that was created during the Expressing Emotion through Art course. I would like to thank them all for attending week after week, and offering their opinions and feelings openly. It was one of the most enjoyable courses I have ever taught on Second Life. Thank you so much!
Artists:
Elle Thorkveld
Muse Rose
Hayden Valeur
Much love for the creators/owners of MU. This has been such a great experience! I hope to see you all in the near future. Good luck to everyone!
SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA23/224/20/23
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Elle
Thank you Jade for your kind words and a wonderful class! Thank you to Muse and Hayden for the interesting discussions and great creative art. It was fun.
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wendz tempest
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
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Neeva
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.
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Paypabak Writer
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.
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Elle
Enjoyable machinima, Wendz. I really liked the MU shots, especially at Trilby’s mill. I agree on the creativity.
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Pearl Grey
Tai Chi Mastery
Thanks to everyone who participated in practicing silent (and not so silent) tai chi at the Vashti 2 dojo. I know that some of you practiced at other times that were more convenient for you. The scheduled practice is well documented on the Flickr MU Documentation group. A special thanks to Izzy who made it possible for us to create this calm retreat.
MU was about collaboration, not competition, and every contribution was valuable. That being said, I’d like to acknowledge Elle Thorkveld for her recognition that taking care of our bodies, spirits and minds with various practices is important. Even though she was prolific in her expressions of creativity and participation, she also made time to diligently practice the art of tai chi at MU.
And that is why this fun little certificate of tai chi mastery.
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Paypabak Writer
Bravo, Elle! Thanks for recognizing Elle, Pearl!
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Neeva
I thought that quiet space added so much to the campus. Thanks so much Elle and Pearl. ❤️
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Elle
Thanks Paypabak and Neeva for your kind words. Thank you so much Pearl, for the lovely certificate and for being the dojo master and participating diligently yourself! I’m going to miss the tai chi dojo.
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Paypabak Writer
I have a spot of land, very austere and quiet that I could set up for a Tai Chi Dojo once MU is gone. For MU alumni. What do you think?
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Elle
Paypabak, that’s a really nice offer! I’d be interested, let’s see if anyone else would be.
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Newton
Women made most of the oldest…
“Women made most of the oldest-known cave art paintings, suggests a new analysis of ancient handprints. Most scholars had assumed these ancient artists were predominantly men, so the finding overturns decades of archaeological dogma.”
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Paypabak Writer
Fascinating! Thanks for the post!
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Elle
Thanks for sharing that, Newton. Very interesting.
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AlexandreLois1
Prediction of MU
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
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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. 🙂
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Paypabak Writer
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!
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wendz tempest
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
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Elle
Hi Wendz,
Your project looks very interesting. Congratulations on your SL12B exhibit!
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rmarie
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.
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Myra
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
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Elle
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.
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Edie
Non-Update Update
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:
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Myra
Thanks, Edie. I was curious if you’d heard.
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Myra
You got it, Edie. Gratz. 😀
http://lindenarts.blogspot.com/-
Paypabak Writer
Yay! I thought I recognized her name on the list!
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Edie
Thanks Myra & Paypabak! I’ll be blogging about plans in the next few days!
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Izzy
Weekend Off
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!
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Paypabak Writer
Enjoy!
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Elle
Enjoy your time, Izzy!
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rmarie
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.
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Oona
Its Getting Hot In Here
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
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Myra
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.
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Elle
Agree! Well said, Oona and Myra.
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Paypabak Writer
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.
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Oona
Thank you Myra, Elle and Paypabak. 🙂
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Elle
Thank you Paypabak.
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Izzy
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
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Paypabak Writer
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.
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Vanessa
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Newton
This was really good, thank you Vanessa. Just listening to Micol speaking about all of the things she has done and is thinking about was transporting. She has great energy and the film festival series followed by her talk was a really solid learning experience. Moments like this really make MU what it is. Looking forward to seeing what Micol does in SL too. All the best, Newton
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Vanessa
Hey Newton, thanks so much! It was great to have her visit campus! And your own contributions to MU were also transporting! Cafe Sophistry was a visionary and beautifully executed series of investigations and collaborations!
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Vanessa
Pix of today’s Visiting Artist talk by Micol Hebron:
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Myra
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.
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Myra
I’ve added Alex’s video in Veyot’s post, below, to the media player in MUGA.
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Elle
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.
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Emma
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:
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Myra
Generatives, glitch, and gifs MUGA opening
The Generatives, glitch, and gifs opening was held on Friday, June 5th. It was a nice event and there was a good turnout. The artists talked about their work and it was an opportunity for others on the campus and off to meet them.
Thank you everyone who helped with this event, loaned their work to the aspiring gallery, and attended this event. A special thanks to the artists – Pearl Grey, FeelsEmpty, Elle Thorkveld, and Michael Green – and to Oona for building the gallery.
The show will run through June 15. Please stop by if you haven’t had a chance to see the show. After that, I’ll try to do one last show, probably machinima.
Here are some pics from the event:
Artists and attendees at the opening.
Stepping on Feels’ art. It glitches!
Trilby at the opening
FeelsEmpty at the opening
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Oona
Great article Myra 🙂 The show was a great success I think. I’ll be sad when June ends, I love MUGA a lot.
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Elle
Great write up & love the pics, Myra. It was a fun opening, thanks to my fellow artists and all who attended for making it that way! And thank you to Myra for curating & facilitating this exhibit and to Oona for all her gallery building. Excellent work.
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Paypabak Writer
I recall participating on one of Feels Empty’s Step Art creations. Fun! Great exhibit.
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Myra
thanks so much, everyone. It’s official, now. I want your movies. We’ll figure out how to upload and host them.
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rmarie beedit
Great work Myra – congratulations on a strong gallery show. And congrats to all participants! Making MU vibrant…
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Myra
Thank you so much, Marie. So many people made this happen – Elle, Feels, Oona, Michael, Pearl. I was thrilled it turned out as well as it did.
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AlexandreLois1
The story created by artificial intellect Baby (The Megatron series).
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).
Neeva, and 
AlexandreLois1 are discussing. 
Elle are discussing. 
rmarie, and 
Oona is discussing. 
Newton, 
Myra and 
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
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