All of us have different reasons for being here, and while I’ve never sought out love or feelings similar I’ve had my share of partners here in this world. I’ve had people ask me to meet them. I’ve had people say they “love” me. And as odd as it sounds, people have actually asked me to marry them… yes I know, it seems all a bit bizarre doesn’t it. Yet I always wonder… is there such a thing as love in Second Life? Real love? And does it burn so bright and strong that it transforms us in real life?

I’m thinking about love in Second Life as I happened across an exhibit entitled “Loved” by Ravenelle Zugzwang at Gallerie Octavian on the Chagmi sim. The colors and words surrounded me, making me feel a bit soft and sad, but it is more than that, much more…

More snapshots from Loved or Visit for yourself

The past two weeks have been such a mix of emotions and blurs. People from my past have been making appearances again in my Second Life. I’ve also lost someone very close and while the reasons were all the right ones I still feel that sting of pain, that somehow I’ve become trapped in this circle that I never sought out in the first place.

I came to Second Life to meet other artists and perhaps make a few friends, but I’ve learned like so many others that sometimes there are these connections that one cannot deny nor ignore. Life is short, Second Life is even shorter and I’ve always been one to act on my emotions instead of my reasoning. So I take chances. I am always taking chances. Yet these chances often involves risk and these risks can be great.

Now I’m just left wondering what I should do. How does one start over? How does one try again? Does one create a new character or just move on in the old?

Maybe the one good thing about Second Life is we can walk away. We can turn the game off and in one single instant everyone we know, everything we’ve created and everything we’ve seen disappears. All these connections, words and images are gone.

So once everything is gone, what are we left with? It has to be much more than that any of us ever expected, because so many of us can’t walk away even when we want and know better.

While I may not be looking for love but I’ve grown tired of being left behind, I’ve grow tired of being alone, that this constant loner is not much of a loner after all… even here in Second Life.

At any rate I’ve lost my original point.

For the time being I’ve gone black, or hidden as they say, as I’m not really sure what else to do. If you don’t see me online on your friend’s list, don’t take it personal I’m just reverting to “classic cloudy” as some of my older friends here on Second Life say.

Later,

Cloudy

Still here. Real life has kinds stopped me from my SL blogging for a bit (working on my portfolio, my RL blog, working and whatnot) but I’ll be back with plenty of updates shortly. Stay tuned or zone out… I’m here either way.

Squeek,
Cloudy

Mythian and I went to practice with our swords then took some time to explore Samurai Edo. We met some rather interesting people there and one person even addressed me as “girl,” got to love that.

See more snapshots of our adventures in the Samurai Edo.

Mythian found this museum the other day and we went for a walk around. Metal, oil, art and donuts… life can’t get any better.

See more snapshots of our adventures in the Robot Museum.

Visit the Robot Museum for yourself.

Mythian and I caught the tail end of Poetik Party 10 hosted by Nur Moo. I would like to go back and take some snaps of the display as I did really get a chance to walk around… but as always the event was entertaining.

See more snapshots of our time at Poetik Party 10.

You don’t need to have fins to explore the wonders of the deep blue sea. Mythian took me to Cave Cult at Cave Rau the other day for a little bit of relaxation.

See more snapshots of our adventures in Cave Cult at Cave Rau.

Explore Cave Cult at Cave Rua for yourself.

Was wondering what to do and decided to check out some art exhibits in Second Life. I came across the AngelGate sim and took a quick look at some of the displays: Sugarbowl, Particle Exhibit Camera Tour and The Chakra Symphony. I plan to go back with Mythian one of these days.

See more snapshots of my adventures in AngelGate.

Explore AngelGate for yourself.

Mythian and I ended another great day at Inspire Space Park. While we were there I received a compliment from one of the creators of the sim. They liked my snapshots of Inspire and want to link them… such simple words, but they totally made a great day even better.

Check out more Snapshots from Inspire Space Park.

Sitting on the lone couch in Primtings.

Wow.

Every design has a reason and I love to explore in Second Life… from sitting on objects, clicking on everything, testing how far I can cam around, building boxes to sit on to get into rooms that have no doors and even shrinking my avatar down to get into tight spaces. I found this little gem through a hole in the Skin City sim.

I had no idea where I was going, but was a nice (actually more than nice) find. I could have spent my whole day at Primtings and when the song came on about the black clouds it seemed just right… there I was dancing in the crystals and enjoying this whole sim to myself. Mythian was with me in the start, but their connection has just been crap the last few days. (Don’t worry luffs we can go back… kus kus.)

Checkout more snapshots from our visit to Primtings.

I’d give you the SLurl for Primtings, but you should explore Skin City and find your way there. Both sims are worth a look.

I rarely edit my snapshots in Photoshop, well minus a simple border and adding my name. I always take my snapshots with the basic camera view and the standard setting. This snapshot just seemed great to enter the contest… and it the first one I’ve ever entered.

Now while I’m not sure what it tastes like, I think it could be a really nice flavor if I happened to win the Sones Skin City Soda Contest. (Even if by default)

Crystals on top of a building in Skin City.

Mythian and I went to Explore Skin City and even though it is still under construction we both like what we see. The sim is said to take after the style of “Noir and grayscale like Frank Miller ’s Sin City,” and I would agree. The sky is just simply amazing… everyone that knows me in Second Life knows I have a thing for a clouds and I just love what they did with the sky.

One of the funny things about the sim, is no matter what door you open a doorbell rings. This was quite comical when we entered the public restrooms in the subway. I also sat in a chair that took me outside of the sim and I was able to cam around and look in from the outside… though I didn’t do that for to long. My favorite building had crystals on top of it, the inside was just like a work of art and I loved the chairs that were there… simply perfect.

I know we plan to go back every few weeks to track the progress.

Checkout more snapshots from our visit to Skin City.

Explore Skin City in Second Life for yourself take this SLurl.

A sign that it is Friday in Second Life.

And then she went red… hold onto something quick!

Familiar sights here in Second Life on Friday. Why is it that the majority of the problems seem to happen on the weekends when most people have free time to spend inworld? I thought that is why we have Mondays. >.<

The zombified robotic mouse - yeah that’s me - and no mask… I’m just as shocked.

To this day Inspire Space Park is one of my favorite spots in all of Second Life and tonight I had a chance to take Mythian there with me. My friend Ribe Oh introduced me to Inspire and it has three wonderful levels: the beach, the park and a club… each with a distinct look, feel and same wonderful chills.

And I know I’ve said this before, but I used to end each night in Second Life at Inspire… it looks as if I’ll be doing that again with company this time. Mythian, you are the best ever!

Check our more photos from Inspire Space Park here.

Riding my Spitfire.

Mythian and I were looking for a vehicle of some sort that would carry two people, was small, not a lot of prims and still looked sleek. We came across the Spitfire, I bought one yesterday and it is one nice little hoverbike featuring:

Aerodynamics
Real Weapons
Cloaking
Customization
Menus and Chat Commands
Guest Pilot
Responsible Scripting
vHUD-ready

And a very nice price of 599L.

One of the best things I like about this hoverbike is you can resize it. My avatar is smaller than most and never really fits on a lot of things… but this little feature here is amazing. I mean my hands can actually touch the handles instead of being a mile away. Bonus points for aubreTEC just on that alone.

Now it was my first time flying in Mouselook, so I was laughing a lot. I also forgot to unlock the bike, so Mythian kept getting ejected. And I ended up firing the weapons off more than once. I mean who needs to read instructions, right? Just fire her up and go! Today I was testing her out on the sim, trying to learn the controls and not worry so much about speed. I’m getting a better and developing an unhealthy love affair with it… good thing it seats two.

This is the original model and I will soon be customizing it, so who knows what it will look like in the end. One thing I do know is that I am glad I got the Spitfire, it was just what we wanted and I believe Mythian will be buying one shortly as well. Look out below! LOL

Note to self: Edited position on bike is (position <.2,.02,.125>).