Eureka Dejavu and Schmilsson Nilsson (shown here at the Dancing Ink Productions sim, which is still under construction in Second Life) will be at the SLCC...will you? If so, please take the time to tell us here in a comment about your AHA moment in SL (you know the one we mean)...Even if you won't be at SLCC (we will miss you!) please share your AHA moment.
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Just one ah-ha moment Eureka? But there have been so many!
Among the most memorable:
Rezzing 50 roses in my skybox at Avilion, nearly causing the sim to crash. Fortunately the landlord realized what was happening and the flowers were de-rezzed, sadly before my girlfriend could see them arranged for her.
- Objects numbers do not equal a prim count! AHA!
Realizing that the girl I'd been seeing had lied about everything just to break me and my girlfriend up.
- Learn to trust people from their actions, not their words... AHA!
Discovering that my SL love could indeed become my RL love and that we could be together in RL... finding out that that was what I really wanted in both lives... AHA!
I remember my AHA moment in SL very well. I remember the response of my middle school campus administration in more crisp detail. I had found SL like a kid who's discovered the ice cream man's route map. I was giddy. The retort was one of cosmetic tolerance. I was lead down the primrose path, a jackass after his virtual carrot. After two years, I was full of dreams for potential apps for k12 kids and a belly full of frustration. I had been brushed off, avoided, patronized, villified, down trodden, then eventually resigned. Visionaries and teaching don't go hand in hand very well, at least it didn't work out for me. God bless those kids. They're strong, creative, powerful and more resourceful than the system can contain. I gave out my gamer tag and have a host of fps backup at my fingertips.
So, that is it. A little cynical and I know it's not indicative of every campus. Stories told around virtual water coolers suggest that this tide is changing. But who really knows? I do know this.....
Visionaries and teaching don't go hand in hand very well, especially when "what was once educationally significant, but difficult to measure, has been replaced by what is insignificant and easy to measure. So now we test how well we have taught what we do not value (Art Costa)." [thx to Clare Lane for the ripped quote]
braverfox, out!
Hello from Cathereine Night :) I have been in Second Life since 2005 and I think I had my Aha moment about 1 week into playing around with SL. I was playing the Sims Online at the time, and I was making clothes for it and then I saw you could do that in SL and make money. A ha! So I started up my own store, AlleyCat Studios, and the rest is history. :)
I am Delena Paine and I have been in SL quite sometime now but this alt has became my main character now. Been around since 05.
My aha moment is when I realized that you are able to unpack items from an object, after placing the box upon your head and making you feel like you got ripped off by the creator. Somethings are just so simple it is unreal what you can learn from Second Life.
I had been in SL for right at 4 months and I was hopelessly inept at everything. I was wanting some Koi pond fish to go in my pond and looked all over SL trying to find some and couldn't. I thought "Ok, How hard can it be to make a fish?" and asked my friend "Ok where do you get those prim thingys to build stuff with". About 15 minutes later when he had stoped typing in "OMG are you serious" and "LOL" and "ROFLMAO" he showed me how. I understood why he thought it was funny then , lol right click on the ground ! He gave me a 15 minute lesson on adding textures and shaping and linking. I was " THIS IS SOO COOL !". He sugguested Gimp as a way to make textures. I was HOOKED. It took me a week to figure out Gimp and get my first Koi texture made and before I knew it I had 10 different koi. The friend , Rem Koolhouse, saw them and said WOW , those look good , why don't you put them for sale in my store. I did and they sold like crazy and I have been creating crazy ever since.
I love these stories! Thank you all so much for taking the time to write in. Please send the link out to your friends in SL. We would like to collect as many stories as possible.
I remember my first building project - a door for a house. I popped a black prim into the side of a white one and attempted to walk in. It wasn't until several weeks later that I learned to cut and hollow my way into my new home. AHA!
My AHA moment arrived just last week. Normally inworld, I AM my character Echo...she is me (an improved look-a-like) I did not role play and really did not understand role playing. I worked diligently on finding the right traits represented of my true DNA!I was staying ture to myslef..so I thought.
Then RL and SL events were not going well. I felt a deep compulsion to changed ECHO into something that looked and acted totally different! I needed a virtual makeover. My spirit felt like it was soaring. I became bold with a change of hair and sexy with transparent blue eyes. The clothes spoke for themselves… “you are strong and secure.” I had found the gift of SL. The AHA MOMENT was I CAN BE LIBERATED! I had freed my spirit. I could be anything I wanted to be. A middle age mom/teacher had not indulged in that thought in a decade or two. Walking in the shoes of my own self-created Diva was just the medicine I needed. And now I wonder what it is like to live as Neko or a vampire for a week?
Thanks echo and downtown!
My first aha moment was discovering how many languages, cultures, values, beliefs, people and perspectives were co-existing, learning and meeting in this space. A truly revolutionary environment for safe cultural dialogue.
With almost three years inworld, there have been many aha moments. The "Aha" that led to my current preoccupation in hosting classical music concerts in Second Life came when I realized how many people were attending classical events in SL that weren't attending them in RL, how immediate and vital their response was, and how well-suited the environment was to interactive teaching in the Arts.
That's a fascinating point, Linda! The transformative nature of music has always been of interest to me. An added fascination has been how compelling music is as both a community and personal motif in virtual worlds. I'd love to learn more about your work.
My aha! moment was sitting at the edge of the ocean and enjoying a virtual bottle of wine, listening to the seagulls and watching the gaily colored boats bobbing up and down, and talking with a very very good friend ... 5,500 miles apart in real life, but soooo close in second life.
Thanks Poppy! That's a beautiful image. And one that I feel lucky to have experienced myself in SL.
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