OBLEE @ the Basement Club

That is correct!!! The one and only Oblee will be playing live for one hour some of his fantastic tunes.

I can hardly believe how lucky I am to have just have said hello to him and we chatted for a long time. What a cool guy with so much talent. 

I hope you will all stop by and enjoy this one of a kind artist.

Oblee is well known in the Second Life community for his appearance in the Drax Files World Makers and he plays at many venues in Second Life. He also has performed at many of the SL-Birthday celebrations including the recent SL17B and of course many real-life events as well.





Please check out some of the links I provide and listen in. I am absolutely over the moon and need to get some fresh air so I can believe this is happening to the Basement Club.

  

Tune in to some of his music here on his Youtube Channel and find out for yourself and you will easily be convinced how cool his music is. 

OBLEE YOUTUBE

OBLEE OFFICIAL WEBSITE

The Return to the Blake Sea

Today I took a little trip to the Blake Sea, a must-see if you own a boat or plane. Or just go and look on foot, after all, avatars can breathe underwater as well.

I took off in my little flower-powered plane from Hollywood Airport in Second Life (not to be confused with Hollywood, California) and I had to pedal really hard to get it up in the air. I finally did and made it above the 100ft level.
From there you have to fly south and then east in order to get to the famous Siren Isle.

Siren Isle used to be a hidden gem at the southern part of the Blake Sea and you could bring your boat there and just sit and enjoy the quiet ocean. Accept for the seagulls and the waves you could not hear much at all, other than an occasional plane flying overhead. 
Nowadays it is a different story and it is packed with hoodlums trying to make a quick linden on the side with advertisement and just plain stupidity of sitting there naked or harassing other avatars.

It is just bull when you can't find a spot to land here.

The region is totally owned by the Lindens and they would have control of what goes on there but do they even know? They do not make any lindens off all the visitors there and at the moment I was there today 24 avatars sat around in their boats on the isle or in the air. 

I seem to get recognized everywhere I go.

At one point that crazy chick was trying to knock me off the sky at the same time when I heard a voice call out " Princess Anj...." and then I realized that the chick was just an avatar trying to be Wonder Woman. ( Or was it a guy? You never really know anymore.

See you all later!

Well, time for me to take off and explore another fun place I used to go to. On a side note, most of the avatars here were long time residents, so you cannot blame the dumb games on them. Now the Lindens could make quite a penny here is they charge rent to the avatars that live here for free. 

Oh, one more thing...what is the missing letter here? I am so ADHD and OCD that I needed to squeeze this in here...please let me know your answers.

I might give a clue...ok then come Friday to the Basement Club at around 6PM SLT and you will figure out the answer.

Some timely questions for a Sunday.....

Be so busy loving your life that you have no time for hate, regret, or fear. ~Karen Salmansohn

That is such great advice and sounds so easy and simple, but is it? Now Albert Einstein would argue with this and say time is just an illusion and past, present and future are one. I can easily travel in time with my mind and I know you have done this yourself. Think about past memories from childhood. 

When we say “time flies when you are having fun” or feel that the boring meeting never seems to end, we use the prospective timing. In the prospective timing, we feel time moving faster when we have interesting experiences while it drags when the brain is not entertained. Time tracking all fits into the neurological time, which is all time that has to do with the brain. 

Did I lose you yet? Nope, you are still here...good! 

There is another dimension of time which is biological time. The days and nights that pass and things grow and die. We know that nothing lasts forever or does it? I really don't know. We could easily go into the physical time of counting the hours and days and weeks and here we are in 2020. We as humans have created a tool to measure time for our own sanities to keep track of the hours spend on anything. Work, play, and family time we track this by using the good old fashioned clock, whether it is digital nowadays do not matter, the concept has not changed and relatively speaking: Time stood still on that.

Pictures were taken at Brick Lane

Presentism is the opposite view. In presentism, there is only now — the present — and nothing else. The past is some previous configuration of the universe that does no longer exist and the future is some yet-to-be-determined configuration. Is the flow of time than merely an illusion?

Tick tock...tick tock...
Life is counting down on your internal clock.
Memories that feel as if they occurred yesterday
turn to flashes of moments that seem to fade away.
People you once knew
walk by without a clue.

Remember Santa Claus was once real to you and you cannot deny that, think back in time when you suddenly realized that all this time you believed in an illusion?

The Naked Sun

The Naked Sun 2020, Installation by Wizardoz Chrome (aka Alba Rocca)

"In this Installation, you can see a few machinima of mine, linked
to the same feelings that the book of Asimov has created in me.
These machinima contain video clips mainly focused on Art in Virtual worlds.
 Art is one of the major means to transmit feelings,
and often in machinima, it does so without using words...

These machinima contain collective installations or artistic works 
of individual artists, linked by a soundtrack,
which is also the background “leitmotiv” in evoking emotions.
The title of the machinima is generated by the name of the collective Exhibition
in which the artists have shown their works or, in the case of a single artist's work,
by the name of the Installation and/or by what the artist wanted to express. 

The machinima is displayed on the walls of a citadel, I created by Photoshop.
It is inspired by the colored village of Manarola, located in the coastal area of 
"Cinqueterre", UNESCO World Heritage Site within Liguria (Italy).

On the walls of this City, you will find the Shadows of "Inhabitants" and "Things".
It is an "Empty" City on the outside, but “Alive” inside the Houses.
It recalls the current situation of isolation caused by the Covid19 Pandemic."

It is a "City" that expresses the desire
TO GO OUT INTO SUN
leaving behind 
DOUBTS, FEARS, LONELINESS, and SHADOWS 

If you have not gone and seen this installation then it is time you should. The city gives you the feeling of life but in a quiet way from the inside. We all have been experiencing this in our own cities, so this is easy to put yourself right in the middle of this.  A sharp increase in cases among the under-40 age group in comparison with early phases of the pandemic blamed by experts on so-called “second wave behavior” as younger age groups – who see themselves as less likely to contract a severe case of the disease – have let down their guard. Don't let that warm sun fool you. 

A second wave of the virus was expected to come in the fall or winter, as with most influenza-like viruses, but that doesn’t mean another wave can’t hit before then. It is up to everybody to do their part and follow the guidelines to flatten the curve. We are all in this together.

Our Names do not appear...

I am here, the mermaid whose dark hair streams black, the merman in his armored body. We circle silently about the wreck we dive into the hold. We are, I am, you are by cowardice or courage the one who finds our way back to the scene carrying a knife, a camera a book of myths in which our names do not appear. ~Adrienne Cecile Rich

We can love, love, love, but sometimes, that love isn’t returned. That’s not our fault. We chose to love. They chose not to. This does not mean we are unlovable or unworthy of love. We’re not idiots, fools, or weak for loving.

Rather, we have courage. Because we chose to be vulnerable and self-sacrificing; a requirement for love. And when it was over, though the echoes of the painful experiences reverberate in the depths of our being, we picked ourselves up, dusted ourselves off and we keep pressing onward.

A goal made in many hours of PTSD therapy was to never apologize for loving people, even if that love is never returned. To be unloving is the other person’s problem, not mine.

Celebrate the fact that you are able to love. There are many people in the world too scared to take a chance on love in the first place. It doesn’t matter who you love or if they love you back. The fact that you can love is what’s important.

On the other side of this, you should never say that you are sorry for letting go of someone who hurts you. Understanding an unhealthy relationship holds you back from reaching your full potential is a huge step forward. Be proud and surround yourself with people who celebrate your courage. Imperfections are what makes you beautiful and unique. They should be embraced. Never say you’re sorry for a quality that makes you imperfectly perfect.

pictures were taken at JAMBO! - A Voyage To Africa 

If the truth hurts, the benefits of honesty far outweigh the initial sting of the truth. Once you have apologized for that then you are NOT obligated to do this over and over again for the same thing. Over apologizing or saying I’m sorry when it’s not necessary reduces self-esteem over time. It’s important to keep in mind that the trauma you suffered was not your fault and it will take time to heal. 

Shame is part of being human, shame is often part of PTSD recovery. At its base, shame drives the fear of not being good enough, plus a sense of humiliation, both of which are very powerful messages that affect all aspects of life. Shame can feel enormous and incredibly catastrophic, but that's just it: Shame is only a feeling, which is tied to a thought.

Do I feel shame? Yes, daily I feel shame for all actions I do and even telling the truth of admitting that I love and that I let that love go because it was not returned. Will I apologize for it? Hell NO!!!

"I Had A Dream And You Were There"

“I had a dream about you last night... you were a giant slinky and I watched you fall down the stairs.”

"This is an installation about losing someone and missing them. It is a creative manifestation of thinking about someone and wishing that they were here. It dwells on a moment in our dreams and wanderings when we feel like someone we lost is with us again.

The artwork is not about any specific person, nor is there a person in a physical form depicted in the installation. Instead, personal items are left to be discovered around the exhibit, such as a book or a piece of clothing. After all, we do not always have to see someone to feel them." Exhibit Name:  "I Had A Dream And You Were There"

“I had a dream about you. I was sitting on your couch, relating my succession of ideas on subconscious influence. I asked you what they meant, and you told me that free associations were a bad way to advance my artistic career.”

“I had a dream about you last night... you kept meowing at people and licking yourself it was not unlike you normally.”

“I had a dream about you last night... You turned red, then green, and then blue. You told me you were trying to fit in with the m&m's.”

Fiona Fei is a Chinese American artist, classically trained in oil painting and electronic media.  Much of her early years were spent painting landscapes and portraits using oil paint on canvas.  However, she developed a love for non-photorealism over the years. 

In continuation of her love of non-photorealism, she now produces Chinese ink-brush art in Second Life and exhibits my work around the grid.  Please go and visit this exhibit in Second Life, part of the Hannington Endowment for The ARTS.

“I had a dream about you last night... You replaced all the people in your life with kittens. It felt more like a prediction of the future.”

Hard-working girls?

Hard-working girls? Of course, we are, well not in the sense that you may be thinking of. The urban dictionary describes them as:  "A woman who’s always working hard and doesn’t need a man or have no one to depend on to help her. She accomplished all her with no handouts."

The world has changed in the part that women need to stay at home and take care of the kids and cook and clean, well no. There are still countries where women have no rights at all. I won't mention any here because it is a search you must do alone if you are interested in this. And the idea that we don't need a handout I have to disagree. As people, we all need a handout in the department of encouragement. There is nothing wrong with that telling someone you have done a great job whether they are female or male.

As women, we are still looked upon as a weaker part of society. Ladies, listen there are some things we as women cannot do but woot there are things some men cannot do. Are we not equal after all? As women, we do not have to prove to anyone that we are strong, because we already are. For me, I do not believe in all the women's movements because they sound like a bunch of loud yelling PMS females that have nothing else to do. What are our rights? We do have rights that promote a position of legal and social equality of women with men. So what is all the fuss about? 

As a woman just like any man, you must work hard for what you want, that is a human condition. Nothing is given for free. Educate yourself, work and most of all live happy without regrets.
At least we have boobs that men love :) 😜