2009.07.05 19:00 - my Presention

The Guardian for this meeting was stevenaia Michinaga. The comments are by stevenaia Michinaga.

Pema joined me when I arrived...

Pema Pera: Hi Steve!

stevenaia Michinaga: hi

stevenaia Michinaga: I'm back from my travels but on phone at the moment

Pema Pera: np!

Pema Pera: take your time

stevenaia Michinaga: back...

Pema Pera: wb!

stevenaia Michinaga: sorry for the confused schedule, July is a strange month

Pema Pera: on the contrary, I deeply appreciate that you are willing to take on a second weekly slot again!

Pema Pera: I hope and expect that someone will soon take over one of the two slots

stevenaia Michinaga: it seems that Wednesdays are now covered?

Pema Pera: Well, that is not clear yet.

Pema Pera: The latest email was from Eliza

stevenaia Michinaga: yes, say that

stevenaia Michinaga: saw

Pema Pera: she suggested to take Wednesday evening *if* someone else would take her Thursday morning

Pema Pera: so let's see whether someone bites -- it's nice that we have two options now for guardians to take a new slot, either Wed eve or Thur morn

stevenaia Michinaga: see how many balls can be juggled by how many people

Pema Pera: yes, it's an interesting combinatorial problem!

Pema Pera: musical cushions :-)

stevenaia Michinaga: ...nods

Pema Pera: or: "onigokko cushions"

stevenaia Michinaga: Hi gina, log time

gina Broono joined us

gina Broono: hello all

stevenaia Michinaga: thanks for joining us

Pema Pera: Hi Gina, good to see you again!

gina Broono: it is good to be here again

stevenaia Michinaga: I has an interesting thought the other regarding presentation that, for me seated itself deeper with me

stevenaia Michinaga: had

stevenaia Michinaga: I do from time to time contemplate the thought of what and how we see

stevenaia Michinaga: the surface, the light the projection of the movie metaphors you use

gina Broono: and how we interpret that surface

stevenaia Michinaga: sorry, typical bad typing

gina Broono: as in SL for one

gina Broono: seems 3-D

gina Broono: the way we see has to do with your point of view too and the physiology of the eyes

stevenaia Michinaga: yes, and recently I have been using my computers camera and screen as a mirror of sorts in my back yard while I do my Tai Chi

stevenaia Michinaga: so I can see myself

stevenaia Michinaga: to practice my form

gina Broono: that is wonderful Steven

stevenaia Michinaga: and while doing that I began to think about the image on the screes being me, but not me, but the screen, I am the movie

Pema Pera: fascinating, Steve!

stevenaia Michinaga: but it's not even a reflection

gina Broono: and you are reversed too

stevenaia Michinaga: my mac's correct that

gina Broono: wow

stevenaia Michinaga: otherwise I would go crazy practicing, it's like a mirror

stevenaia Michinaga: so it was like the Patty Duke Show, for those is us who remember the twins doing the refection of each other in RL

Pema Pera: or the binars in Star Trek, the Next Generation :-)

gina Broono: has your form improved now that you do this?

stevenaia Michinaga: yes, in class we have a mirrored wall, this works great outside

stevenaia Michinaga: when alone

stevenaia Michinaga: so seeing the screen as different layers, in addition to the even stranger point that I ma broadcasting my exercise to someone else sometimes makes it a multi layered event

stevenaia Michinaga: gives surface a new dimension

gina Broono: < nods

Pema Pera: yes, multiple realities interwoven . . . . interesting challenge as to what to identify with and how!

stevenaia Michinaga: brings the movie screen on degree closer when you are the movie, the screen, the "actor" the entertainment, the audience,

stevenaia Michinaga: yes, and how the person on the other end, which is me and someone in another location, sees things in the same ways or differently

gina Broono: friends, I need to go , was nice seeing you

Pema Pera: by Gina!

Pema Pera: *bye

stevenaia Michinaga: let me know when you.... oop

stevenaia Michinaga: she said she was construction a Frank Lloyd Wright house in SL

Pema Pera: quick departure :-)

Pema Pera: do you feel oscillating sometimes between different identities, in that case, Steve, or are you aware of them simultaneously?

stevenaia Michinaga: but then inadvertently deleted them

Pema Pera: sounds like fun! Is she an architect too?

stevenaia Michinaga: for now it's more like a fan deck of successive impressions of each viewpoint

stevenaia Michinaga: yes

Pema Pera: more kaleidoscopic?

stevenaia Michinaga: yes, in a linear way, one perception leads to another

stevenaia Michinaga: but yes, as a kaleidoscopic, each is compose of the parts of the same thing

stevenaia Michinaga: just viewed differently

stevenaia Michinaga: and the screen is just electronics and light

stevenaia Michinaga: even if it is also me

stevenaia Michinaga: or the image of me

Pema Pera: I wasn't sure, from your description above, whether you mirror reversed the picture on your Mac screen, or whether you left it in the normal way -- if you left it, was it not confusing to deal with a non-mirror-reversed image, which must be very different from practicing with a mirror during class?

stevenaia Michinaga: no the preview image is a mirror image

stevenaia Michinaga: so it appears as a reflection, the viewer that I send the image to sees it as a corrected image (my right is my right to them)

Pema Pera: ah, that makes sense!

stevenaia Michinaga: each concept eventually needs to individually "seated" within the person

Pema Pera: yes

stevenaia Michinaga: this one was something I felt earlier from your words, eventually my mind made this of it, which brought it a bit closer to me

stevenaia Michinaga: and makes it applicable in a broader sense now

Pema Pera: yes, I'm glad you mentioned this, it's a much better analogy than just a passive movie!

stevenaia Michinaga: not "applicable", but conceptually applicable

stevenaia Michinaga: yes

stevenaia Michinaga: will need a bit of editing tonight

Pema Pera: hehehe

Pema Pera: still perfectly understandable, Steve!

Pema Pera: well, I'll be off to lunch here in Japan

stevenaia Michinaga: enjoy

Pema Pera: with the timing of the sessions here, I'm always off to some kind of meal, it seems :-)

Pema Pera: thank you!

stevenaia Michinaga: thanks for joining me , I thought sophia was going to me here

Pema Pera: see you soon again!

stevenaia Michinaga: yes