2012.05.17 07:00 - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The Guardian for this meeting was Storm Nordwind. The comments are by Storm Nordwind.

Op art.

Bleu Oleander: hi Storm :)
Storm Nordwind: Good morning Bleu!
Storm Nordwind: Looking very 60s this morning :)
Bleu Oleander: :)
Bleu Oleander: interesting concept ... 60s in sl
Storm Nordwind: haha! I guess so :)

Readying the Dome.

Bleu Oleander: are you working on your motion art?
Storm Nordwind: At the moment, no
Storm Nordwind: I've hardly been in-world at all
Storm Nordwind: Though I've had an idea about how to decorate the Dome in readiness for the exhibition :)
Bleu Oleander: oooo sounds intertesting
Storm Nordwind: That might end up being my entry!
Bleu Oleander: ah very cool
Storm Nordwind: Have to keep a light touch... don't want to dominate, only provide the space and perhaps a bit of inspiration
Bleu Oleander: as you do!
Storm Nordwind: You're very kind!

Theme.

Storm Nordwind: I've lost touch this week with any discussion themes, so don't know if there's any momentum there
Bleu Oleander: me also
Bleu Oleander: haven't been to any "judgement" themed sessions
Storm Nordwind: I went to one somewhere near the beginning. And probably didn't really fit into the expected mold!
Bleu Oleander: probably a good thing :)
Storm Nordwind: Xirana - nice to see you!
Bleu Oleander: the very nature of PaB is not to be an "expected mold" I would assume
Bleu Oleander: hi Xirana!
Xirana Oximoxi: hello Storm, Belu! nice to see you too:)
Storm Nordwind: if you like, you can come and sit with us! ;)
Storm Nordwind chuckles
Xirana Oximoxi: hehe yes:)) now :)
--BELL--

Visiting Catalonia.

Bleu Oleander: Xirana, friends of ours are in Barcelona and sent us some pics .... remembering what a beautiful part of the world you live in :)
Xirana Oximoxi: ohhh Bleu!!! if you want I can show them my village... do they have a car?
Bleu Oleander: oh lovely suggestion ... however they are on a cruise and have left there by now

Learning new languages; keeping old ones alive.

Xirana Oximoxi: I hope one day you can come too:)...I've heard that Storm is learning Spanish :)
Storm Nordwind: Haha... very slowly :)
Xirana Oximoxi: :)
Bleu Oleander: I have been to Spain several times ... never have mastered Spanish though
Xirana Oximoxi: well... her you can practice:)
Bleu Oleander: would definitely come in handy in Arizona!
Storm Nordwind: Increasingly here too
Bleu Oleander: yes
Xirana Oximoxi: yes, no need to speak Spanish or Catalan :)... everyday more people understand and speak English
Bleu Oleander: yes, that's what I found
Storm Nordwind: I hear that Italian universities are switching to English as their main teaching language
Bleu Oleander: really?
Xirana Oximoxi: oh!
Storm Nordwind: Maybe it's just one university... let me see if I can find the article
Storm Nordwind: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17958520
Bleu Oleander: so do you think eventually everyone will speak English?
Xirana Oximoxi: and in Catalonia we are fightuing alll day to keep our language alive :)
Storm Nordwind: And perhaps some form of Chinese
Bleu Oleander: yes :)
Xirana Oximoxi: I agree English is very important and necessary in the business world...but not sure if it is necessary to teach all in this language...
Storm Nordwind: The international language of the air has been English for decades
Bleu Oleander: actually speaking two languages is good for the brain i've read
Bleu Oleander: hi San
Storm Nordwind: yes
Storm Nordwind: Good morning San... and crow
Santoshima Resident: hello
Xirana Oximoxi: hi San
Santoshima Resident: mornin'
Xirana Oximoxi: yes.... some studies show that people able to speak two languages has more agility to leant even another one
Bleu Oleander: yes
Storm Nordwind: I have to say I seriously doubt my agility at my age! ;)
Bleu Oleander: first 7 years is critical for languages
Bleu Oleander: harder to learn after that
Storm Nordwind: My French used to be good, but it's useless in Canada apparently! :)
Bleu Oleander: similar to Spanish from Spain and Spanish from Mexico?
Xirana Oximoxi: you can come and practice it here with Zen and I :) .. SL is good for learning languages in a fun way
Storm Nordwind smiles
Bleu Oleander: Zen is learning Spanish also?
Bleu Oleander: in sl?
Xirana Oximoxi: I meant French :)
Bleu Oleander: ah ok
Storm Nordwind: Well in the case of French in Canada, I was told I have a strong Parisian accent... which apparently didn't go down too well! :)
Xirana Oximoxi: but probably he will learn Spanish soon after french too :)
Xirana Oximoxi: Parisian accent may sound 'chic' :)
Bleu Oleander: do they still have Spanish classes in sl?
--BELL--
Xirana Oximoxi: at Virtlandis they do... but I guess it's Saturd http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlif...gly/100/141/21
Xirana Oximoxi: Saturdays...when you are sleeping, maybe
Bleu Oleander: it was too early for me the last time I looked :)
Xirana Oximoxi: yes

Art as Being in Motion.

Xirana Oximoxi: I am thinking of some piece to show Motion... not inspired yet:)
Bleu Oleander: there are many ways to think of "motion"
Storm Nordwind: This Saturday I am clearing the Dome, so you will have a blank canvas :)
Bleu Oleander: in many ways that helps!
Bleu Oleander: sometimes I can't come up with a new idea for a painting until I clear out the old ones
Storm Nordwind: right!
Xirana Oximoxi: yes... first I wanted to show something very simple, but I've been aware that it was like limiting it to a phisycal movement... and it can be undesrtood in a more wide way
Storm Nordwind: yes
Bleu Oleander: exactly
Storm Nordwind: sometimes we are challenged by the limitation. Sometimes by the flexibility
Bleu Oleander: constraint is an interesting concept
Storm Nordwind: having to "make do" can bring such creativity
Bleu Oleander: yes
Xirana Oximoxi: everything is constatntly moving...changing... and most of the times we are not aware of it,
Bleu Oleander: even "thinking" is motion
Xirana Oximoxi: well... 'we' = "I".... I am sure more scientific minds do be absolutly aware of it
Bleu Oleander: take motion for granted ... forget we live on a planet that is moving very fast!

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

Santoshima Resident:

I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

Bleu Oleander: nice San ... did you write that?
Santoshima Resident: nope
Xirana Oximoxi: yes... nice poem San :)
Santoshima Resident: ts eliot
Bleu Oleander: :)
Xirana Oximoxi: hello Matjaz
Matjaz Rives: hello
Bleu Oleander: hi Matjaz
Santoshima Resident: greetings matjaz
Matjaz Rives: greetings
Storm Nordwind: Reminds me of a short poem I wrote a couple of years ago in a contest
Santoshima Resident: :)
Bleu Oleander: yes?
Storm Nordwind: I'll try and find it...
Bleu Oleander: :)
--BELL--
Storm Nordwind: [A gogyohka]

when summer comes
I will wear white
take tea on the lawn
watch cricket
and be ridiculous

Matjaz Rives: lol nice
Bleu Oleander: lovely!
Santoshima Resident: really nice
Xirana Oximoxi: :))... why ridiculous?
Storm Nordwind: It's a very English thing to be... eccentric
Santoshima Resident: :)) national treasure
Xirana Oximoxi: ahh yes...ok:)
Santoshima Resident: for later: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLNsPhKlucY
Storm Nordwind: Oh Prufrock!
Santoshima Resident: yep
Xirana Oximoxi: quick for me :(
Storm Nordwind: For Xirana: http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html
Xirana Oximoxi: ahh ...ty :)
Xirana Oximoxi: yes! I've thought about looking for the text... when reading I can follow it:)
Bleu Oleander: ty for that link San!
Santoshima Resident: yw
Storm Nordwind: Very well read

Partings.

Bleu Oleander: I must be going ... nice to see you all
Bleu Oleander: have a lovely day :)
Storm Nordwind: Bye!
Santoshima Resident: bye Bleu ~ enjoy the day!
Xirana Oximoxi: bye bye Bleu...have a nice day! :)
Xirana Oximoxi: have you been working on the piece of Motion San and Storm?
Santoshima Resident: i've been away ... only just thinking about it now
Xirana Oximoxi: Matjaz...that's the subject for a piece of Art to an exhibit we will do soon )
Storm Nordwind: Ah... no not yet. First it is my job to provide the space for others!
Xirana Oximoxi: ok..yes... that's very important too
Storm Nordwind: Though I have an idea to decorate it this time... perhaps it will inspire... ;-)
Santoshima Resident: great!
Santoshima Resident: have been facing down inertia
Xirana Oximoxi: yes.... I'll go to visit before to see if I get inspiration:)
Santoshima Resident: the flip side of motion
Santoshima Resident: me too ~
Matjaz Rives: I'm in bad shape
Matjaz Rives: without a job for like 8 months now
--BELL--
Xirana Oximoxi: oops...difficult situation
Santoshima Resident: Matjaz have you come here before today?
Matjaz Rives: I don't think so
Santoshima Resident: we record our chat in a public on-line wiki
Santoshima Resident: are you ok about having your name and words recorded there?
Storm Nordwind: The wiki shows your past contributions :)
Matjaz Rives: yeah I know
Santoshima Resident: ok, :)
Matjaz Rives: Everything I say is monitored
Matjaz Rives: But like, in the grand sceme of things
Matjaz Rives: everything you think may be recorded anyway
Santoshima Resident: i should go clean house ... my mother visiting ~ she will record the dust bunnies
Storm Nordwind: haha!
Santoshima Resident: see you all soon
Xirana Oximoxi: bye bye San :)
Santoshima Resident: bye
Storm Nordwind: Get your crow to pick them up San!
Santoshima Resident: ha!
Santoshima Resident: raven ... btw
Xirana Oximoxi: have a nice day all... I also must go now:)..see you soon!
Matjaz Rives: Bye
Storm Nordwind: We are all departing it seems...
Matjaz Rives: yah
Storm Nordwind: A good day to you. :)