Merit Coba

So I haven’t been posting much to this blog of late because we were busy with SL11B.

So what is SL11B?

SL11B is the name given for the celebrations organized around the 11th  birthday of Second Life and it  runs from the 22nd of June till the 5th of July of this year.  The celebrations are held at a group of connected places(called sims from simulators) where people of different backgrounds  exhibit their enthusiasms.  As such one can find art exhibits next to stands promoting books, people reciting poetry or showing off the latest of fashions or promoting understanding for things like gender dysforia and disability, so basically everything that  you can do or make in Second Life. Except for the things we don’t want to know about, such as porn. No worries there mate, for there are festivals for that to.

As is usual we always got in a bit late so we had to make up for lost time by working extra hard. It wasn’t different during SL8B, SL9B or SL10B.  In addition I was actually not counting on Emphatic Eccentricia(EE) doing something this year, so I organized my own exhibit, which is called The Box and inspired by Schroedinger’s cat.  But EE did something this year, so I joined in that one as well. So this post is about the Emphatic Eccentricia exhibit which is called Monkey Mind.

Now let’s look at some pictures.

This was the first design which was mostly made by Almut Brunswick who took care of the infrastructure. We put my Monkey Head on it, for reason I do not quite know. It was an moment of inspiration, but I can’t actually recall who came up with it.
The idea behind the built is that it was inspired by the SL11B theme: the empires of the future are empires of the mind. The general idea is that the building represents a computer.

This one is a later design in which Veleda Lorakeet add these pipelines which represents data transfer.

The initial build on the SL11B ground. It was considered to be too tall so….

This is the almost final built.  Note the rerouting of the vel’s pipelines. Ohmy Shalala changed the monkey head by replacing the head with brains  and Almut replaced most of the primary objects (called prims) of the infrastructure with mesh. Mesh items are far better looking and take up less space than prims. The ground floor was replaced by and now has a hole with digital texture in it.

This is the final design. Veleda added a core to the system and various other items have been added. In the next post some more details.

Monkey Mind can be found here:  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL11B%20Enchant/140/31/22

Added one more because Almut said she like to see it with the surrounding buildings.

Another one. with a more normal light setting.