Learning is Fun in Raglan

Heading over to Raglan U. for the second part of the machinima class in preparation for the big Raglan Machinima Festival in February...
Daveypup Nirvpaw's goal today was to teach us about basic editing in Movie Maker (since it's free and most of us have it anyway)...
Looking at my fellow tinies in attendance was a lot of fun too. I noticed Bith's rings on her horns. Very chic! I had the pleasure of meeting Bith in RL at the Baltimore Comic Con recently. She was there with her husband, who is an artist, and both of them were very nice!
I noticed zoe Reymont's toilet paper roll and wondered what she had been up to...
And Teal, well...I am probably not going to post it as it was just a godawful test, but my practice machinima that I made was called "Bloodsucking Squirrel." Yup.

Raglan Gearing Up for the Machinima Festival

I was so busy groaning about prim feet that I totally forgot to talk about a recent class that I attended in Raglan recently. Tinies (and some biggies) came out to the Raglan U. platform to learn more about using Fraps and making machinima. Daveypup Nirvpaw was brave enough to get us new tiny machinimamakers started in preparation for the Raglan Machinima Festival in February that Chaffro announced. As you can see here, some of us (TEAL) came ready for our close up!

David Rumsey Maps & Inspiration

I got Lunar to brave the borky horror that was inworld late last night to visit the David Rumsey sim with its selections from his historical map collection presented in amazing ways such as this one of Yosemite...
My favorite was the 1792 "Globo Celeste" by Giovanni Maria Cassini, with its planetary orrery swirling below you as you glide by, surrounded by images of the heavens...
Here inworld, there is such potential for beauty and shared knowledge. For creators and thinkers and artists to inspire and share those inspirations with everyone...
Even when we feel at our smallest, we can bring something truly wonderful to this world.

Elle's First Year: SL Day 1

For the rest of this week elinsl will be about my year in here in retrospect. I'll be a year old...how the hell did that happen? Enjoy...

I actually have a photo of myself from my very first day in SL *gasps*:I was a cybergoth...innocent, gaudily blue haired and red/black attired and noobtastic. Everything was confusing and exciting all at the same time. Flying was mysterious, bling (something I was never into maybe because it was called bling?) was intriguing, and folks dancing in sync? Baffling. And how in the hell did people say stuff like "Eladrienne Laval raises an eyebrow at your outfit"? Back then it was like wtf and I was overwhelmed by it all and found this quiet peaceful place where meditating was the very first poseball I ever used...

I looked around and realized no one was a Cybergoth and changed to a more "normal" AV almost right away. Why? I figured, I didn't know the culture and felt that blending in at first was probably easier to avoid griefing and stuff as a noob. It's so funny to me since I look like just about whatever I damned well feel like now. I found myself wandering the quiet creative places of SL as a clueless redhead mostly. I thought, in my obliviousness, that I was cute...and to some extent, I was, dammit! *laughs* My oldest friend in here still remembers me as "wide-eyed, laughing, with great legs". I took as many classes as I could...building, basic SL intro, even a business promo class. I love you guys at NCI! *kisses* A year later, all those things I learned then have helped me now and I still learn and explore in SL. Try to be kind to the (non-jerk-y) noobs...I know how much I still appreciate all of the older players who took the time to try to school l'il ol' noobie me.