2013.11.17 13:00 - Bridges between lives

The Guardian for this meeting was Aphrodite Macbain. The comments are by Aphrodite Macbain.

San, darren & druth

druth Vlodovic: hi leap
Darren Islar: hi there :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Darren, Thanks for IMing me
Darren Islar: hehe
druth Vlodovic: is the haircut new?
Aphrodite Macbain: sorry- I lost track of time
Darren Islar: no, actually quite old :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Nice to see you here
Darren Islar: np aph
Darren Islar: sometimes I visit :)
Aphrodite Macbain: I'm glad
Aphrodite Macbain: We had a guardian meeting today and came up with some new ideas
Darren Islar: oh?
Aphrodite Macbain: we thought we would try and find ways to link SL with RL
Darren Islar: in what way?
Aphrodite Macbain: bringing something from SL into RL - like making models of the pavilion and putting it onto our coffee table!
Aphrodite Macbain: or into a snow globe
Aphrodite Macbain: or recording some of our discoveries in RL into SL
Darren Islar: recording?
Aphrodite Macbain: From Eliza:  

 Hello Players as Being, Today at guardians session we talked about ways to celebrate PaB in RL, to create bridges between our SL and RL circles. Eos called it (paraphrasing) a kind of "SL Art of Being in RL." We've talked a little about things like this before, but maybe it is time to come together and begin a focused conversation, with the goal of creating a few tangible celebratory RL PaB objects.
            IF YOU ARE INTERESTED, please respond in the group or to just Eliza, and we will begin an email group to play with the many possibilities. This will not be an extra weekly meeting - we'll do our best to communicate via emails and with gatherings in SL when we are ready to 'show and tell.' Most of us cannot devote a lot of time, but there are already a few simple ideas to work with.

Aphrodite Macbain: I think this is happening because we all feel a sort of shift or lull of activities here in PAB
Darren Islar: what kind of shift?
Aphrodite Macbain: very very quiet
Darren Islar: I see
Aphrodite Macbain: fewer discussions
Aphrodite Macbain: lower attendance
Darren Islar: I'm sorry to hear
Darren Islar: it wouldn't work for me I think, but that's personal

Aphrodite Macbain: Hey Bruce
Darren Islar: hey Bruce

druth Vlodovic: hey Bruce

druth Vlodovic: the constant string for "renewal"
Aphrodite Macbain: all we need now is Cal, San and Zen! and we'd have OF! (Original Face group)
druth Vlodovic: er,"striving" not string
Darren Islar: grins
Darren Islar: shoot, didn't come here for OF
Aphrodite Macbain: a strong string of striving

Aphrodite Macbain: speak of the devil
Aphrodite Macbain: san's on line
Darren Islar: yep
Bruce Mowbray: Wow. An esteemed assembly here today!
Aphrodite Macbain: :)
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: I am trying to summarize the Guardian discussion from this morning Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: Good luck, Aph!
Bruce Mowbray: go for it!

Aphrodite Macbain: linking SL with RL in a creative manner
druth Vlodovic: "getting Real"
Bruce Mowbray: yes!
Aphrodite Macbain: I have already Bruce
Aphrodite Macbain: smiles
Aphrodite Macbain: yes
Aphrodite Macbain: nice title druth
Bruce Mowbray also smiles.
druth Vlodovic: it's already fairly real in some ways
Aphrodite Macbain: I must admit I rarely come to Bieup these days except for a meeting or 2
Aphrodite Macbain: There is nothing much happening
Bruce Mowbray: you have much company with that, Aph.
Bruce Mowbray: or maybe not so much.
Aphrodite Macbain: oh? So you don’t come as often either Bruce?
Darren Islar: hehe
Bruce Mowbray: or mush*
Bruce Mowbray: or much*
Aphrodite Macbain: mucho
Bruce Mowbray: mucho!
Darren Islar: munches
Aphrodite Macbain:  :D very chewy
Bruce Mowbray loves chewy!

Darren Islar: hey San :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Perhaps visiting other sims may trigger ideas
Santoshima Resident: hey LP
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, San!
Santoshima Resident: and everyone
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi San!

Aphrodite Macbain: like your hoodie!
Santoshima Resident: oh, ty
Bruce Mowbray: loves your bouquet!
Santoshima Resident: oh, ty :)
Santoshima Resident: typist is less well attired
Aphrodite Macbain: I hope you are warm and cozy in your cabin San
Darren Islar: same here :)
Santoshima Resident: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: ditto
Aphrodite Macbain: now all we need are Cal and Zen...
Bruce Mowbray: My typist is a . . . well, I will withhold that judgment. Bruce adopts compassion for his typist.....
Darren Islar: it's easier to get nicely dressed in SL :)
Aphrodite Macbain: and more fun
Aphrodite Macbain: we were talking about how we can link L with RL more san
Bruce Mowbray listens carefully.
Aphrodite Macbain: as per our Guardian meeting this morning
Bruce Mowbray: yes, I was there.
Santoshima Resident: ok, listening
Bruce Mowbray also listening.
Aphrodite Macbain: you should have received an email from Eliza re this
druth Vlodovic: lol, L with RL
Santoshima Resident: yes, i did receive
Bruce Mowbray: yes, I got it.
Santoshima Resident: what's "L"?
Santoshima Resident: lesbians?
druth Vlodovic: sometimes desirable :)
Aphrodite Macbain: I'm not sure how I can make a snow globe or make a model of the pavilion in RL
Bruce Mowbray: "L"..... !!!!??????

Aphrodite Macbain: oops, I meant SL
Santoshima Resident: the L-word
druth Vlodovic: well, I meant "Life" but you can take it otherwise if you prefer
Darren Islar: ah
Santoshima Resident: same same
Bruce Mowbray: Is THAT the 'L' word? I Thought it was "liberal."
Bruce Mowbray: liberal*
Aphrodite Macbain: Listening....
Bruce Mowbray: also listening.

druth Vlodovic: I'm sort of on my second real life
Darren Islar: you haven't seen the show obviously Bruce :)
Bruce Mowbray: obviously!
Bruce Mowbray: only your 2nd?
Aphrodite Macbain: grins at druth
druth Vlodovic: well, recently
Aphrodite Macbain: a new beginning!
Bruce Mowbray: ahhhh!

Aphrodite Macbain: I have been told I have to be patient regarding the visit to the Japanese sim tea party
Bruce Mowbray loves new beginnings!
Darren Islar: Japanese sim tea party?

Aphrodite Macbain: 90 secs
Santoshima Resident: a LM please?
Santoshima Resident: or URL
Santoshima Resident: or name?
Aphrodite Macbain: shhh
Santoshima Resident: {oops }
Bruce Mowbray: shhhh!
Bruce Mowbray: ha ha!
Aphrodite Macbain: >;-O
Bruce Mowbray: yw.
druth Vlodovic: :)

Aphrodite Macbain: In last week's discussion of sims our group could visit, I mentioned a visit to 17^th century Edo Japan
Santoshima Resident: please continue with your conversation re: L-word and Sl connection: something about snow globes?
Santoshima Resident: oh
Aphrodite Macbain: I know a monk who is involved in the place and he said he would look into organizing a proper Japanese tea ceremony
Aphrodite Macbain: but I must be patient
Aphrodite Macbain: :(
Bruce Mowbray: Patience is good.
Bruce Mowbray: although sometimes difficult.
Aphrodite Macbain: I will list all the ideas for sim visits in an email
Aphrodite Macbain: They are already in the wiki
Bruce Mowbray: hmmmm.
Aphrodite Macbain: any ideas for cool sims to visit?
Bruce Mowbray: Oh my!~
Santoshima Resident: you can come to my tree house for tea, if you like
Santoshima Resident: that's as far afield as i go
Santoshima Resident: too much lag otherwise
Aphrodite Macbain: I love your tea treehouse
druth Vlodovic: might be interesting to have visits within the sim

Bruce Mowbray: My typist has a tornado warning right now. Must go, Thanks, everyone!
Aphrodite Macbain: yikes
Aphrodite Macbain: Hold tight Bruce
Santoshima Resident: bye bruce, take care
Darren Islar: see you |Bruce
druth Vlodovic: have fun Bruce’s' typist
druth Vlodovic: keep some red shoes handy
Aphrodite Macbain: lol

Santoshima Resident: ok, i will name a favorite sim and invite you all to do so as well
Santoshima Resident: a sec ...
Aphrodite Macbain: ok
Aphrodite Macbain: Darren. do you have one you could suggest? or druth?
Darren Islar: you have two Buddhist sims where they do meditations as well
druth Vlodovic: do we want PaB themed or just favourites?
Aphrodite Macbain: places that engage people
Aphrodite Macbain: places that have sort of PaB's values
Santoshima Resident: i recommend, Alpha Tribe. go downstairs to see the temple-thing of 100 poses

Aphrodite Macbain: cool
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Zon
Darren Islar: hey Zon :)
Santoshima Resident: hi Zon

Zon Kwan: heya

Santoshima Resident: you'll have to take your "pab values" with you :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Can we try each pose?
Santoshima Resident: sure, time permitting. i believe one can book it
Santoshima Resident: for photography
Santoshima Resident: time limit
Santoshima Resident: but just drop by.

Aphrodite Macbain: I thought I'd invite Pabbers to one of the many events in Sorrentina- my other home in SL
 

Darren Islar: perfect paradise
Aphrodite Macbain: yes but do they have anything going on at PP?
Darren Islar: I have no idea

Aphrodite Macbain: druth, do you know?
druth Vlodovic: I hear it's gotten fairly active
druth Vlodovic: just from reports and notices
Aphrodite Macbain: who should we ask? Girish?
druth Vlodovic: Girish
Santoshima Resident: ask Zen
Santoshima Resident: or Sun
Santoshima Resident: who DJs
Santoshima Resident: there
Aphrodite Macbain: oh ok
Aphrodite Macbain: maybe we can go to one of their music events
Aphrodite Macbain: I need an excuse to bring out my dancing clothes

Aphrodite Macbain: do you have the lm san?
Santoshima Resident: for alpha tribe?
Aphrodite Macbain: yes
Aphrodite Macbain: or we can look it up
Santoshima Resident: Shop SLURL: alphatribe (100,88,1)
Aphrodite Macbain: kk
Santoshima Resident: did that come through properly?
Aphrodite Macbain: I think so!

Zon Kwan: waves
Aphrodite Macbain: !
Santoshima Resident: so long zon
Aphrodite Macbain: whispers ‘bye Zon’
Santoshima Resident: good to see you
Santoshima Resident: {oops)

Darren Islar: I have found Kannonji Zendo
Darren Islar: New Tara Ling
Darren Islar: Buddha Center
Santoshima Resident: great!
Aphrodite Macbain: It would be good to find a place that has events and arrange for something
Aphrodite Macbain: Do you know anyone there Darren?
Darren Islar: Buddha Center is very active

Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Wol
Aphrodite Macbain: Happy Sunday
Wol Euler: evening all!
Santoshima Resident: evening to you, Wol :)
Darren Islar: hey Wol :)

Darren Islar: Kannonji less, but does have activities
Darren Islar: if they still exist :)
Santoshima Resident: alpha.tribe, alphatribe (88, 70, 27) < this is the LM that i have for this
Aphrodite Macbain: I thought it would be nice to go and attend activities so we can meet people as well
Aphrodite Macbain: thanks san
Aphrodite Macbain: Wol, we are talking about sims to visit
Aphrodite Macbain: among other things
Wol Euler nods.
Darren Islar: Kannonji still exists :)
Aphrodite Macbain: :)
Wol Euler: this is laggy as hell, sorry to say, if I'm slow to respond that is why
Aphrodite Macbain: would anyone be interested in coming to a performance of classical music or to a discussion of 18th c writers?
Santoshima Resident: it is laggy,
Santoshima Resident: yes, aph, iunterested
Santoshima Resident: * and interested
Aphrodite Macbain: iun?
Darren Islar: sorry, I'm short in time
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
Santoshima Resident: typo
Darren Islar: c writers?

Aphrodite Macbain” c=century
Aphrodite Macbain: yes- Robinson Crusoe etc
Aphrodite Macbain: for the literary minded
Darren Islar: ah
Aphrodite Macbain: I'm thinking of the events Sorrentina has
Santoshima Resident: music preferred
Aphrodite Macbain: We had a great balloon riding duel a few weeks ago
Aphrodite Macbain: right druth?
Santoshima Resident: am interested in designers working within SL ... before all the graphic artists clear out of here. I’d like to see more
Aphrodite Macbain: great idea san...
Santoshima Resident: {maybe via balloon ...}
Aphrodite Macbain: grins
Aphrodite Macbain: maybe some sort of art event here that invites designers from other sims to participate?
Aphrodite Macbain: There are some really good ones
Santoshima Resident: a series in the theatre
Aphrodite Macbain: yes
Aphrodite Macbain: a series of demos?
Santoshima Resident: the beloved theatre that is fallow at present

Aphrodite Macbain: smiles yes. So sad
Santoshima Resident: not demos
Santoshima Resident:profiles
 

Darren Islar: I think that PaB might like to look at what they feel is their base and start to act from there
Aphrodite Macbain: nods at Darren

Santoshima Resident: of artist’s talking about their work within virtual worlds
Aphrodite Macbain: wonderful idea
Aphrodite Macbain: I wonder how we would find them
Aphrodite Macbain: does everyone know at least one designer in SL?

Darren Islar: maybe a change is needed, but what change might that be?

Aphrodite Macbain: yes.

Wol Euler: know personally? or know of?

Aphrodite Macbain: know of

Aphrodite Macbain: have a look at the Guardian discussion this morning Darren:
Aphrodite Macbain: https://wiki.playasbeing.org/Chat_Logs/2013/11/2013.11.17_08:00_-_Guardians_Session:_Artistic_Gestures_of_Communication_and_Celebration_of_Playing_as_Being

Aphrodite Macbain: Time for Berti?
Wol Euler: oh yes
Wol Euler: excellent!
Wol Euler: bye
Aphrodite Macbain: bye
Santoshima Resident: bye Wol
Santoshima Resident: take good care
Wol Euler: or see you there :)
Wol Euler: I would have forgotten thanks :)
Aphrodite Macbain: yw

Darren Islar: I read a different concept there :)
Aphrodite Macbain: yes
Aphrodite Macbain: we were discussing many ideas
Aphrodite Macbain: the RL SL bridge was just one of them

Santoshima Resident: my suggestion has not a lot to do with the meeting this morning
Santoshima Resident: but can tie in
Aphrodite Macbain: no but it's a good one

Darren Islar: yeah, but it is about foundation, not just ideas
Santoshima Resident: yes
Aphrodite Macbain: nods
Aphrodite Macbain: It was a way of coming back to first principles
druth Vlodovic: foundation?
Aphrodite Macbain: to build from
Aphrodite Macbain: 90 seconds, dropping etc
Darren Islar: yeah, why does PaB exist?
Aphrodite Macbain: for a wide variety of reasons I guess.
Darren Islar: what do you want to achieve?
Aphrodite Macbain: as many reasons as there are members
Aphrodite Macbain: I think people want to restore the energy that is missing
Darren Islar: maybe that is the problem of PaB
Darren Islar: anyways, it's not my discussion :)
Aphrodite Macbain: it isn't?
Darren Islar: I guarantee you, you don’t' want me to mingle in it ... and I've grown out of that :)
Santoshima Resident: seems you are initiating a discussion, Darren :)
Darren Islar: just asking some questions

druth Vlodovic: lol, I remember talking about off-topicness and being told that it was no less prevalent back in the "good old days"
Aphrodite Macbain: :)
druth Vlodovic: maybe creating energy instead of restoring it is a better investment
Aphrodite Macbain: sometimes off-topicness can generate new ideas
Aphrodite Macbain: nods
Aphrodite Macbain: I really like the idea of bringing in designers
Darren Islar: well, that's for the discussion

Aphrodite Macbain: the creative side to PaB
druth Vlodovic: what would you design?
Darren Islar: I need to go ladies ... more a time-issue than anything
Darren Islar: see you Wednesday :)
Aphrodite Macbain: the designers could show what they have designed
Aphrodite Macbain: bye Darren
druth Vlodovic: I guess it's time
druth Vlodovic: have fun guys
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye all
Aphrodite Macbain: thanks for your input. I hope we can take this further
Aphrodite Macbain: bye san, druth
Santoshima Resident: bye