isis eagle

…the virtual installation of brian eno’s 77 million paintings is quite beautiful. only one picture of me there, because i want you to experience it yourself, pictures don’t do it justice really.

the island that i lived on for so long is gone forever. my little SL family was renting a quarter of an island, and the owner of the island decided to sell it. we’d known for a while and were just waiting for the time when a buyer bit and it would finally be time to pack.

i got a message from zuzu yesterday that the deal was going through, so we logged in to pack up. it was really sad, especially after i took my shanty into inventory and saw the bunnies zuzu left me sitting forlorn where it had been.

i took some pictures of the island before zuzu took everything back into inventory. even my online homes are transitory.

last sunset on an emptying lepidoptera:

we have a new home on weisshorn, on the new mainland, but it’s just not as nice as the island it’s surrounded by horrible land for sale signs and ads. and it’s laggy if we (me, really, vatic has been quite industrious) could get it together to open the urban decay store there, maybe one day we could break even enough to have an island again.

though, SL has been a little sad with all the recent paranoia about porn and gambling from linden labs. the new verification system is insulting, and the fringe users that made SL so interesting (furries, goreans, perverts, freaks) have gone truly underground or maybe gone away altogether. SL is turning into a huge ad platform.

i dream of a time when they might open source the server and we could run our own island entirely, with our own anarchistic or communal law.