2020.09.16 13:00 - Wearing Masks on a Flight to Nowhere

Attending this session were Riddle, Tura, Wol, Bleu, and Eliza
 

Eliza Madrigal: Hi Riddle :) gtsy
Riddle Sideways: Hey Eliza
Eliza Madrigal: Wandered through your garden a few days ago
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Riddle Sideways: great - welcome
Riddle Sideways: did you see the picture
Eliza Madrigal: amazing to me how I can still get so happy over things like that in SL
Eliza Madrigal: Which?
Eliza Madrigal: the sign?
Riddle Sideways: well those signs too, but the donald portrat
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Wol :)
Riddle Sideways: Hey Wol
Wol Euler: evening all <3
Eliza Madrigal: I did see "ByeDon" and thought that clever
Riddle Sideways: great har
Eliza Madrigal: I may edit images of him out of my mind
Riddle Sideways: have now seen those signs in RL
Eliza Madrigal: Oh, good!

Eliza Madrigal: Wol, you're wearing the perfect black tone :) Even in Sl sometimes hard to find
Riddle Sideways: RL starting to imitate SL
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Tura :)
Tura Brezoianu: hi all
Eliza Madrigal: It could stand to imitate some aspects of it more!
Riddle Sideways: Hi Tura
Wol Euler: indeed :)
Wol Euler: hello tura
Eliza Madrigal: Have been thinking about what is nice about SL that isn't nice about FB/other SMS quite a lot
Eliza Madrigal: [oops, brb forgot cookies]
Riddle Sideways: may have asked befor, but Eliza did you name your avi after an AI?
Eliza Madrigal: back
Eliza Madrigal: I didn't. I didn't hear about Eliza the AI until after I'd been in SL a few years
Eliza Madrigal: It was a more Eliza Doolittle kind of idea at first
Wol Euler smiles.

Riddle Sideways: Tura, did you visit the welcome center over yonder?
Tura Brezoianu: No, is there something new?
Riddle Sideways: not been there in years
Riddle Sideways: oh, That Eliza ㋡
Tura Brezoianu: Oh, you mean the welcome place just south of here? I sometimes wander through it. I rarely see many people there though
Eliza Madrigal: ^.^
Eliza Madrigal: I tried making a new avatar, to see how things are now, and went through the tutorial etc
Eliza Madrigal: It has improved so much
Wol Euler: good :)
Eliza Madrigal: But... you choose a name and then that's it... not like the scrolling to find matching first/last
Wol Euler: last names have been gone for a long time now, I thought I'd heard that they might be reintroduced
Riddle Sideways: that was way back ㋡
Eliza Madrigal: prob end up with dull name like that, if you don't know, like I did for this (that) avi
Riddle Sideways: then they dropped lastnames
Eliza Madrigal: :) I'm a way-backer I guess now
Wol Euler: aren't we all :)
Eliza Madrigal: :)

--BELL--

Tura Brezoianu: The Old Enough To Have Surnames Club
Eliza Madrigal: haha, like that
Eliza Madrigal: age of formalities
Wol Euler: the Old Enough To Know How To Fill Out Yer Profile Club
Riddle Sideways: wow yes
Tura Brezoianu: I haven't updated my Picks in years though. I don't even know if they still exist.
Riddle Sideways: can't image signing up for SL now and learning mesh the first thing
Eliza Madrigal: That's what I wondered too, so I went to see if Hikari was still here
Eliza Madrigal: hadn't visited in so long
Eliza Madrigal: Oh, you're right, Riddle
Eliza Madrigal: I needed to try to intro SL recently, but found out I'm quite outdated
Eliza Madrigal: suspected, but still
Eliza Madrigal: :)

Eliza Madrigal: Pod tours? (I looked at your picks just now, Tura) :)
Tura Brezoianu: Do you know them?
Riddle Sideways: yes, peeked at Tura picks too
Eliza Madrigal: I don't, but sounds great
Riddle Sideways: think that BurneO still does shows
Eliza Madrigal: I've never taken a tour, except around certain sims
Riddle Sideways: like riding the NDR train
Eliza Madrigal: right! :)
Wol Euler smiles.
Wol Euler: happy days
Wol Euler: there was a pod ride at SL17B recently
Tura Brezoianu: They're a wonderful way to see the mainlands.
Riddle Sideways: right
Wol Euler: it was fun, slow and stately, and didn't crash at all
Riddle Sideways: Burn2 had art car rides
Eliza Madrigal: seems I've been missing out
Eliza Madrigal: Whenever I've tried to go to the Burn events I've gotten stuck a lot... but haven't tried in a while
Riddle Sideways: with the Stay At Home club, have been going to many many far places
Riddle Sideways: it starts out to get the free gifts at shops
Eliza Madrigal: You seem to be in the Please Let Me Stay at Home Club (fires)
Riddle Sideways: ends up walking about
Eliza Madrigal: Ah
Riddle Sideways: yes!
Wol Euler: may you stay safe
Eliza Madrigal: *
Riddle Sideways: the Excitement of picking what valuables get to fit in 2 cars

Riddle Sideways: have blue sky today :))
Wol Euler: good
Eliza Madrigal: YAY!
Riddle Sideways: but Ash piled on the cushions left out last night
Eliza Madrigal: goodness
Eliza Madrigal: Such a weird time, scary in so many ways, ridiculous in even more
Riddle Sideways: dat very true
Wol Euler nods.

Riddle Sideways: Tura, weren't you going to be in a vacine trial
Tura Brezoianu: Just a testing trial.
Tura Brezoianu: So I swabbed mouth and nose three times, came back negative each time.

--BELL--
 

Wol Euler: consistent is good :)
Riddle Sideways: good, because the vaccine trials in UK ummm did not go well
Eliza Madrigal: :/
Eliza Madrigal: We'll have to lean on herd mentality (lol)
Eliza Madrigal: (my humor is becoming very dark)
Wol Euler: not surprising
Riddle Sideways: Herd Mentality, like being in the cattle section of an airplane
Eliza Madrigal: :)

Bleu Oleander: hi all, sorry to be late
Riddle Sideways: Hey Bleu
Wol Euler: hello bleu
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Bleu :)
Eliza Madrigal: Like your new look. Are you making strides?
Riddle Sideways: new body, Bleu?
Bleu Oleander: sorta :)
Bleu Oleander: playing with mesh a little

Tura Brezoianu: I saw that some companies are advertising flights to nowhere. You get on a plane, it flies around for a few hours, then lands where you started.
Eliza Madrigal: @@
Wol Euler nods.
Riddle Sideways: oh Fun
Eliza Madrigal: haha
Wol Euler: people apparently love it
Bleu Oleander: who would want to do that!
Eliza Madrigal: "We're on the road to nowhere..."
Wol Euler: and Qantas is offering flyover tours of Antarctica
Riddle Sideways: love that song
Wol Euler: yeah :)
Tura Brezoianu: It sounds like the worst part of a holiday without the rest.
Eliza Madrigal: not quite what wu wei had in mind
Eliza Madrigal: "holiday without rest" captures much of the pandemic feeling

Riddle Sideways: somebody put a link to the flight passenger simulation game, so had to check that out
Eliza Madrigal listens
Wol Euler: that was meeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Wol Euler: :)
Eliza Madrigal: :))
Wol Euler: I'm really intrigued
Riddle Sideways: thanks Wol
Wol Euler: did you "play" it?
Riddle Sideways: no, think that it wanted money
Wol Euler: that kinda held me back too
Riddle Sideways: and there was no Cardboard version
Wol Euler: but ... the concept of an Artifical Boredom simulation is fascinating
Eliza Madrigal: it is
Riddle Sideways: buy an expensive Occultus Rif and sit in a virtual plane seat
Bleu Oleander: what is "artificial boredom"?
Riddle Sideways: :))
Bleu Oleander: is like fake news?
Wol Euler: oh! a game recently released, a kind of flight simulator
Wol Euler: where you are passenger instead of pilot
Wol Euler: in real time
Riddle Sideways: and many flights there is a random baby crying
Riddle Sideways: just like real
Wol Euler: eight hours of the seatback in front of you
Eliza Madrigal: oh no
Eliza Madrigal: feel so bad for parents with babies on planes
Bleu Oleander: that sounds more like frustration than boredom
Tura Brezoianu: A small child kicking the back of your seat
Eliza Madrigal: yeah, or not so small child
Riddle Sideways: that costs extra. buy a special chair
Eliza Madrigal laughs
Bleu Oleander: ha!

Eliza Madrigal: I'd do it if it could be all friends... arrive for retreat somewhere
Riddle Sideways: hmmm, nice
Wol Euler: oh oh oh oh
Wol Euler: if that game were MMO.ized
Wol Euler: O.O
Wol Euler: that would be so great
Eliza Madrigal: yes :D
Wol Euler: now *that* I would buy :D
Eliza Madrigal: Actually that sounds pretty terrific, if advanced enough to 'take you up' into the shared experience
Eliza Madrigal: I suppose that's the feeling of immersion in SL when imaginative
Riddle Sideways: we could all wait in the terminal for the late arrivals
Tura Brezoianu: There are people who run passenger flights in SL. I haven't been on one though.
Eliza Madrigal: hah
Eliza Madrigal: would be fun!
Eliza Madrigal: Storm used to make all kinds of flying things... the more we could get on the better
Bleu Oleander: :)
Eliza Madrigal: the toast...
Bleu Oleander: yes!
Riddle Sideways: really liked the flying carpet
Wol Euler: I might know a pilot of one of them. Though to be honest I thought it was just a Mile High Club thing in his case
Eliza Madrigal: maybe not our genre, haha
Riddle Sideways: hahahaha
Wol Euler: I'll ask him next time we meet
Wol Euler: and if it's legit, I will report here
Eliza Madrigal: thank you!
Riddle Sideways: ok

Eliza Madrigal: I wish tech had gone the 'more SL like' way instead of FB
Riddle Sideways: yes
Wol Euler nods.
Bleu Oleander: all versions of "masks" :)
Riddle Sideways: nice segway
Eliza Madrigal: it still eats up a lot of resources for people who want to join, which seems so strange in our time
Bleu Oleander: speaking of masks ...
Eliza Madrigal grins
Wol Euler: hehehehe
Riddle Sideways: been re-re-re-reading the project email

--BELL--
 

Bleu Oleander: I hope you all will participate
Eliza Madrigal: Would like to
Bleu Oleander: great!
Wol Euler: I think so
Eliza Madrigal: I'm having some time dilemmas though
Riddle Sideways: trying to invision Being in a Mask
Bleu Oleander: would you like a workshop?
Eliza Madrigal: actually it is deeper than time dilemmas... the store job is just taking so much from me
Riddle Sideways: no, need ideas
Eliza Madrigal listens

Bleu Oleander: well you ask yourself the question what masks do I use?
Riddle Sideways: (is too bad Eliza has work)
Riddle Sideways: oh!
Riddle Sideways: and limit them to 9
Eliza Madrigal: yes..?
Bleu Oleander: sl is a mask, fb is a mask
Bleu Oleander: you don't need 9 layers
Bleu Oleander: its just there if you want to use it
Bleu Oleander: basically a photograph
Bleu Oleander: can be layered if you want
Eliza Madrigal: connecdome (sp?) ?
Bleu Oleander: we came up with this idea last week on 9/9 so along with PaB 9's .... works
Wol Euler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectome ?
Bleu Oleander: connectome as in neurons?
Eliza Madrigal: yes... that's what I was thinking of, visualizing the concept
Bleu Oleander: they have already done a small worm and are working on a mouse I think
Eliza Madrigal: getting beyond the project at hand, sorry, lol
Bleu Oleander: np :)

Eliza Madrigal: When might you do a workshop, if so?
Eliza Madrigal: During a Wed session?
Bleu Oleander: I was thinking we could do a wed session
Wol Euler: snap :)
Eliza Madrigal: snap! :)
Bleu Oleander: or any other time that works best
Wol Euler: meta-snap :D
Eliza Madrigal: (snap again)
Eliza Madrigal laughs
Bleu Oleander: hehe
Eliza Madrigal: Okay, I have a good chance of making a Wed actually
Bleu Oleander: that's what I was thinking :)

[small edit]

Eliza Madrigal: Are you sure you can limit to 9 Bleu?
Bleu Oleander: 9 prims ... yes
Eliza Madrigal: each 9 will have 9....
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Bleu Oleander: of course you can do some post processing and flatten your layers

Eliza Madrigal: Did anyone visit San's new exhibit yet?
Riddle Sideways: yes
Bleu Oleander: yes ... very nice
Wol Euler: not yet
Tura Brezoianu: I did
Riddle Sideways: saw Bruce there ㋡
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Bleu Oleander: I've seen Bamboo's work a lot, but I love how San has installed it and created her gallery space
Riddle Sideways: the sky is getting very busy here

Bleu Oleander: the works is an example of layered photographs and post processing
Eliza Madrigal: Ah, so would be good to wander through with that in mind
Bleu Oleander: yes :)
Riddle Sideways: was thinking that Bleu
Wol Euler nods.
Bleu Oleander: she uses a lot of filters also
Riddle Sideways: how to do it sounds much simpler than getting the content idea
Bleu Oleander: yes well that is the main concern

--BELL--
 

Bleu Oleander: you can do anything from a simple photo taken in sl to one that is layered
Bleu Oleander: you could also use your 9 prims to make your photo more dimensional
Riddle Sideways: but it does not need to be in the Box this time
Bleu Oleander: the theme has many possible interpretation
Riddle Sideways: sorry beel
Bleu Oleander: could be another shape
Bleu Oleander: but not really a sculpture in that sense
Eliza Madrigal: Am excited, even if I'm not sure of my own participation yet, I really love the art projects and getting together
Bleu Oleander: needs to fit in a 6m x 9m space
Bleu Oleander: put a poem with it in the notecard
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Bleu Oleander: could be just a pic of your avi with a short poem about "avatar as mask" kinda thing
Riddle Sideways: why is it just as you are typing "not really a sculpture", all thoughts are doing a scupture
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Bleu Oleander: ha!
Eliza Madrigal: poetry is sculpture, too
Bleu Oleander: the group chose photography last week
Bleu Oleander: shoulda been there :)
Eliza Madrigal laughs
Wol Euler: heheheh
Bleu Oleander: :)
Riddle Sideways: how about photos arranged the way Old SL trees and brushes were made (of 3 photos)?

Bleu Oleander: I do think its important to keep our creative minds going during this time
Eliza Madrigal nods, that's true
Bleu Oleander: interesting Riddle
Eliza Madrigal: keep the mind bubbles bouncy
Bleu Oleander: yes
Bleu Oleander: too much to get stressed out about ... need some "play"
Eliza Madrigal: maybe getting out and about as avatars is a good idea too
Eliza Madrigal: flying or not
Eliza Madrigal: Can we meet somewhere else for the workshop?
Bleu Oleander: sure
Riddle Sideways: you use to do workshops at that sandbox
Bleu Oleander: yes we could meet there
Eliza Madrigal: okay :)
Eliza Madrigal: thanks
Bleu Oleander: what day/time works best?
Eliza Madrigal: have to go... groceries have arrived and dog is going wild ^.^ -- for me around this time is usually good
Bleu Oleander: ok nice to see you
Wol Euler: take care, stay healthy
Riddle Sideways: by Eliza. let George have fun with groceries
Eliza Madrigal: Lovely to see you all. Stay healthy too
Eliza Madrigal: xoxo
Eliza Madrigal: :) bye for now
Bleu Oleander: xoxo

Bleu Oleander: shall I put out an email for next wed at the sandbox?
Bleu Oleander: 1pm
Wol Euler nods.
Wol Euler: please, and thank you :)
Bleu Oleander: ok yw!
Riddle Sideways: ok
Tura Brezoianu: Include an LM please!
Bleu Oleander: ok will do
Wol Euler: right :)
Riddle Sideways: pressure to create thought bubbles and get them bouncing
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Bleu Oleander: ok see you all soon ... take care and stay healthy!
Wol Euler: you too!
Bleu Oleander: bye bye
Tura Brezoianu: goodnight Bleu
Riddle Sideways: by

Wol Euler: I'm going to go look at a landmark that Bryn Oh sent around
Wol Euler: well, the place that the LM points at
Wol Euler: not the LM itself, obviously
Riddle Sideways: fun
Wol Euler: hopefully :)
Wol Euler: interested?=
Tura Brezoianu: I have that LM too :)
Wol Euler: ok
Riddle Sideways: love falling 5,000 feet from bad LMs

--BELL--

Wol Euler: heheheh
Wol Euler: take care, stay safe <3
Riddle Sideways: might go to all of Tura's picks :))
Wol Euler: perhaps meet you again later, then :)
Tura Brezoianu: The first two have gone, but the rest are still there
Wol Euler: bfn
Riddle Sideways: bfn
Tura Brezoianu: =ye for now