Fantastic Fare at the Fantasy Faire

Another cancer fund raiser in SL is the annual Fantasy Faire.  You can read about it at their website here.  Below are my first forays to look things over.  Sadly, I upgraded to the newest Firestorm, for Server Side Bake compatibility, and it doesn't seem too stable on my system.  So I keep crashing when I go to busy sims.

But even so, I've managed to take these lovely shots of gorgeous builds!

You should visit the faire during it's run, if nothing else to just enjoy the lovely sims they've put out.  But if you do buy something, you can be helping a good cause!

Balancing Chi, or something like that.

Just so you know I haven't quit changing outfits at least daily, here's me on the Junk docked currently at Pair A Dice doing a bit of Tai Chi after hitting the beach.  Hats I've been wearing are from Tesla, which sadly I think is gone.  I've had them for ages.  Cover up is from Grumble.

Rose Theater Yet Again

I am still having fun playing with winlight settings.  So, wearing nearly the same outfit as I had on the other day at Ladyboy Beach, I went back to one of my favorite pretty places.  Rose Theater.  With graphics settings on ultra and using Oriental Sunset & Magic Hour winglight settings I wandered about taking snapshots.  I found still more new rooms, and enjoyed the current exhibits in the changing art galleries.  Again, you really should visit this place.

An exterior view of the main building.

One of many entry halls.

A small club near the front entrance.

The main entry.  Notice the reflections in the floor!

Taking a break in one of the libraries.

Primevil? Pandora? I don't know, but it's pretty.

One of the places I often hang out in SL, called Ladyboy Beach has moved and changed up its look.  A lot.  Previous incarnations, of which there have been several, have always had a sort of beach and cabana thing going on.  A big dance floor always featured prominently. 

This time around, there is a still a dance floor, but the beach is now part of a sort of archipelago.  Volcanoes erupt "peacefully" in the distance.  Over head, vine encased floating mountains create shadows and shafts of light that lance down into the jungle gloom.

I've never played with the winlight settings myself much, but someone recommended using the Morning Glory setting while here and the effects were just absolutely lovely.  Here are few shots I took while looking around the new build.

While exploring I was wearing a blouse and vest from SF Design, jeans from Silent Sparrow, my W&Y hair and some sneakers from Grumble.

There is still a dance floor, the dance machine is still one of the best I've ever used in SL as far as variety and quality of the dances.  And the music on my two recent visits was still classic rock.

So, if you don't mind a clothing optional back to nature sort of setting, with a lot of femme avatars that may or may not have "something extra."  I really recommend this place for a visit!

I believe in potential.

A long while back I posted an entry about my appreciation of diversity in creation.  You can read it here.  I was watching a rerun of Contact, the movie based on the novel of the same name.  I read that novel a long time ago.  And I have very fond memories from my childhood of Carl Sagan, the author.  I always wonder if he would have liked the movie.  It seems to have a very pro-religion message, and I definitely did not remember getting that vibe from the book.  Perhaps I should go back and read it again...

Despite my parents interest in religion, they never discouraged my interest in science.  In fact, they encouraged it.  And by the time I was twelve, I could have been called an agnostic and not argued the matter.  In fact, I have remained an agnostic my whole life.

My atheist friends always treat me like I'm slightly retarded.  I agree with everything they say, right up to the point where they say, "God does not exist."

My religious friends always treat me like I'm suddenly going to sprout horns and vanish in a cloud of brimstone.  But till then they are going to keep hoping I "see the light."  Whichever "light" they subscribe too.  It always makes them very hopeful when I quote scripture, or demonstrate an understanding or knowledge of their beliefs.  But then, I suddenly dig in my heels when they want me to agree to all their beliefs, or say, there is a god.

You see, I have a problem.  I believe in something most people simply don't seem to grasp.  I believe in potential.  I believe that a person can be more than they expect.  I believe that the universe has more to teach us than we have as yet begun to dream about in our philosophies.  I believe that if we can keep from killing ourselves off before the universe does it for us, we might yet rise above our baser natures and become something far greater than we can yet imagine.

Potential, possibilities, these things are not sureties.  People want guarantees.  If I do X I get Y.  I exist because of this, or that.  My purpose is <insert here>.  This is possible, that is impossible.

I ask, why do I need to have a purpose?  Why I can't I simply exist to be whatever it is I choose to be?  Why is the idea of limitless possibilities so terrifying?  When that same sea of potential can be exhilarating.

A view of the new.

Finally got around to snapping some shots using the new PC.  I was wearing one of my Asian looks and bouncing around the Jomo main store, which is a gorgeous build.  Though perhaps not quite so awesome as it once was.  I miss the misty mountain backdrops they used to have.  Anyway, here are few shots showcasing the high rez look with shadows and other texture goodness.