Well I haven't posted anything in a while... that's because I'm editing at the moment... Staying away from Second life for a little while...
Right now I'm trying to analyze my journey... find out where I got sucked in... into the illusion, and trying to figure out how and why I did.
Some people think I crossed over to the 'other' side... I don't think I have.
And someone asked me if i'd stick around in SL after this project... my answer to that...
real life to me is far far more enticing. Why? Because you can't have everything you want.
BUT I don't know for sure yet. I think I might stick around. 20 % for Entertainment and 80% to study it I think.
For now, although I have a lot to say, I don't want to just yet...
I'll leave this with an account of two recent incidents however...
I happened to teleport to a random location I typed in my search engine... it was a beachy place... (Sandbox they call it... a place where people come to build things that they can eventually sell in SL)... anyway I was there and (didn't realize it was a building zone) took out my car (by the way I have many now) and thought I'd run people over.
I just wanted to see what would happen, how people would react etc... I drove around like a maniac trying to hit as many as I could and people actually started running away from me... one girl ran into the water to save herself.
Now the funniest thing is that you CANNOT get hurt... not a scratch, forget feeling pain. But people run and you know what else... they get very pissed off.
I got reported for abuse. ;)
After that I was flying around trying to look for the guy (I knew his name but didn't know what he looked like...) that reported me to see if he was anywhere in the vicinty... I was randomly clicking on people to see if I could find him. While I was doing that the most incredible thing happened... I clicked on this one guy... and it turned out to be Daffton Collins... the guy from the, 'Chance Meeting,' video... the one I followed randomly earlier and befriended!!!
It's crazy because the chances of bumping into someone again in Second Life is like one in a million, and that too is putting it mildly.
INSANE!
Heh heh ok signing off now ... the edit table is braying... (it hasn't yet begun to sing.)
Right now I'm trying to analyze my journey... find out where I got sucked in... into the illusion, and trying to figure out how and why I did.
Some people think I crossed over to the 'other' side... I don't think I have.
And someone asked me if i'd stick around in SL after this project... my answer to that...
real life to me is far far more enticing. Why? Because you can't have everything you want.
BUT I don't know for sure yet. I think I might stick around. 20 % for Entertainment and 80% to study it I think.
For now, although I have a lot to say, I don't want to just yet...
I'll leave this with an account of two recent incidents however...
I happened to teleport to a random location I typed in my search engine... it was a beachy place... (Sandbox they call it... a place where people come to build things that they can eventually sell in SL)... anyway I was there and (didn't realize it was a building zone) took out my car (by the way I have many now) and thought I'd run people over.
I just wanted to see what would happen, how people would react etc... I drove around like a maniac trying to hit as many as I could and people actually started running away from me... one girl ran into the water to save herself.
Now the funniest thing is that you CANNOT get hurt... not a scratch, forget feeling pain. But people run and you know what else... they get very pissed off.
I got reported for abuse. ;)
After that I was flying around trying to look for the guy (I knew his name but didn't know what he looked like...) that reported me to see if he was anywhere in the vicinty... I was randomly clicking on people to see if I could find him. While I was doing that the most incredible thing happened... I clicked on this one guy... and it turned out to be Daffton Collins... the guy from the, 'Chance Meeting,' video... the one I followed randomly earlier and befriended!!!
It's crazy because the chances of bumping into someone again in Second Life is like one in a million, and that too is putting it mildly.
INSANE!
Heh heh ok signing off now ... the edit table is braying... (it hasn't yet begun to sing.)
1 comment:
On a different note, now that you've answered my first question, I can't help but draw a third parallel between real life, SL, and your documentation of your SL experiences on Blogger (which, for many, is yet another form of escape, a place to lead a fantasy life in).
Then again, there's also your film, which is the final frame in your list of intensely subjective realities. It's sort of like externalizing the age old paradox of each person viewing him/herself as the central character of his or her own story.
Can't wait to see the final film!
- vinayak.
p.s. you should watch michael winterbottom's take on lawrence sterne's "the life and opinions of tristram shandy, gentleman". it's called "tristram shandy: a cock and bull story". the film has a very interesting (and often hilarious) take on meta-narratives...
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