From Japan to SL

  

There was an article of sunflower fields at my favorite page, The World of Yana. I love plentiful flowers, so I visited there to shoot some pictures.
The World of Yana: http://yana.slmame.com/e1658853.html　




Different from the real life, it cannot be a huge field as far as the eye can sweep, but it is possible to make some feeling by choosing camera angles. Counting the line of flowers toward the depth reveals that the space is not so huge. Buildings were erased by adjusting the camera distance and “derender” function.




These are not blight as those at my yard, they become dark at night. I turned them up by adjusting lighting.




There is a station next to the field, and seashore beyond the sunflowers. Please see the Yana’s page for the site.





  

The Totoro’s Forest, that has kept the nostalgic atmosphere since the era of Yakitori shop Kikyou, will be closed as of May 8. The beginning was the Cat-bus near the Kikyou. Bigtotoro Xue has kept the SIM landscape of each season presenting the heartwarming environment. Thank you Bigtotoro for a long period. I had put several articles about this SIM.

Good bye Totoro’s Forest: http://temisirbu.slmame.com/e1444051.html
Spring ski: http://temisirbu.slmame.com/e1428922.html
Snow at Totoro's forest: http://temisirbu.slmame.com/e1188613.html　
Road of petals: http://temisirbu.slmame.com/e1147689.html




Next to the wisteria trellis, there is an elementary school and a field of rape blossoms. Totoro’s Forest could be said as an illusionary landscape of the heart. At my childhood, a field of canola flower is a vast world. My younger brother and I were racing to catch hoverfly. There were honey bees alike hover fly. When we make a mistake, a honey bee stings. But a single shot was enough and we became fully possible to distinguish both of them with a pattern on the body or an angle of the wings, anyway at the first experience.




This is when I started SL, a yard of my friend. It was not so big but the white cosmos higher than me was impressive. This could be my landscape of the heart at SL, so my pictures of flower field are all alike.




A vast flower field at a Middle East SIM. These are not rolled papers at the early era but three dimensional particles. SL has made substantial progress but I have not changed at all…





  

I have seldom taken pictures of autumn leaves, so hunted for colors. This is Provence that was introduced at The Yana’s World. I expected a Peter Mayle’s world of vast country, but incidentally I took the same angle as Yana’s. It could mean that there were few good camera spots.
The World of Yana: http://yana.slmame.com/e1598949.html　　




This is another SIM. It is unique to see deciduous trees along the shore. The trees that can stay on the shore is called salt tolerant deciduous plants, but this may be a scape only seen in SL.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Slice%20of%20Heaven/203/201/21




A view through the trees. It will be normal if the water behind is a lake.




A gorgeous deer. It looks like the one who gave me a ride, but this one did not move.




Like a ranch. There were many kinds of animals.




There was a cool scooter. This may be suitable for riding casually on country road.




This reminds me of autumn leaves that I saw at New Jersey when I was a child. A shop street with a clock tower, and residential area with huge trees covering the street, the total town was changed into red and yellow. At that time I did not care but it should have been a gorgeous scenery. Big vacuum cars were sucking large piles of leaves in front of houses.






  

I did not wear a swim suit this year. Come to think of it, neither RL nor SL. This is one of Baja SIMs created by Lauren Benthan who did the beautiful SIM for Lakeland England and the Everwinter, Post-Apocalyptic Theme Park. This SIM was also meticulously built that brings realistic feeling.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Baja%20Bay/128/128/22




I wore a swimsuit but it is not interesting to swim in SL, so I flew to the buoy. I tried hard to stand at the tip but did not make it.




Along a bit wild shore, there are many cottages.




It is very restful expensive mood sitting with evening sun. It could be nice to have a second house like this. But almost all cottages were already occupied. This one is also someone’s property.




There are four Baja series SIMs made by Lauren. There are more than fifty cottages on them but few are available. This is a birds--eye view of three SIMs



The followings are previous articles introducing other SIMs by Lauren
Lakeland: http://temisirbu.slmame.com/e1578569.html　
Chelnobyl 30: http://temisirbu.slmame.com/e1579493.html



  

Visited Versailles that was introduced at The world of Yana which has been showing many beautiful SIMs.
Versalles：http://slurl.com/secondlife/Versailles/218/129/3003/　




The building and interior are also nice but the garden using 6 SIMs are great. Please visit Yana’s page for the total picture,
The world of Yana, Versailles：http://yana.slmame.com/e1581664.html




There are many fountains reproduced. This is Fountain of Neptune?




La bassin of Latone in front of the palace? The shape of stature is different but it could be so since there are many frogs around it.




Sat on the hand. This hand is holding an egg, not mine^-^




SL world does not always mean to duplicate real life, but it is fun to be able to come near or to climb on. It is not only child who would like to jump in a fountain.




Since there is nobody, it was possible to sit on like this.




Fountain of Apollo? Apart from the reality, I respect persons who can create 3-dimensional sculptures like this. There are many beautiful sculptures around the garden. It is strange that the shape does not come out when viewing from a distance, may be due to reading problem?




  

Today April 26 is the 30th anniversary of the tragedy of Chernobyl. This is Everwinter, a post-apocalyptic SIM created by Lauren Bentham. This SIM was inspired by the abandoned amusement park in the City of Pripyat Ukraine situated near the plant.
“Everwinter”, Post Apocalyptic Theme Park: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Elven%20Mist/236/117/25




Explanation in Wikipedia: The park was to be opened on May 1, 1986 in time for the May Day celebrations (decorations for this event are still in place in Pripyat today) but the plans were interrupted when on April 26 the Chernobyl disaster occurred a few kilometers away. Today, the park, and in particular the Ferris wheel are a symbol of the Chernobyl disaster.




The terrible situation was that the Park was opened for a couple of hours on April 27 to keep the city people entertained before the announcement to evacuate the city was made. What did they see and sensate on the Ferris wheel on the next day of the disaster? At that time the danger of radioactivity had not been widely recognized and persons at work or fire control did not wear any protective clothing. At that time protective gear for radioactivity itself might not exist in the world.




This is a real picture of Pripyat on Wikipedia. It is said that more than a few hundred years should pass until it becomes possible to reside there. They say several hundred thousand people died due to the accident. But should it be concluded that no more nuclear plant because of this? There is a certain probability to have airplane accident causing tragedy but airplanes have not been prohibited. To what extent should the accident probability and projected damage be lowered until we can start to use nuclear plant? Above all, Fukushima was “unexpected circumstances” and Kumamoto was “the first one in record history”. So how can we calculate the accident probability? It is theoretically impossible to say absolutely safe. I think nuclear power plants should be stopped immediately until everybody accept the actual damage probability that should not be zero.





  

“There are many beautiful spots in SL.” This is an introduction of “The world of Yana”, nice page that I have been watching. This is also one of the cool worlds introduced in the page, Netherwood made by Lauren Behtham. She said this SIM was made imaging Lakeland in England where she lives
Netherwood: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Netherfeild/32/115/23　




There are more than 50 creators of the objects used here, but various elements are very well matched. She said that this project was not a corporative work but was done alone by herself gathering many objects that were searched spending long time. She said this SIM is new and will be up-dated if better items come out. She has made other six SIMs already.




The Lake District is in the northwest of UK and the most popular national park, and every year some 15 million people are visiting there. Beatrix Potter, author of Peter Rabbit lived there, and many authors and poets found inspiration here.
Happy little time, finishing preparation for a dinner, just leisurely waiting for my partner coming back. This place provides such a realistic blissful moment… Sure there might be this kind of life.



The next door neighbor is on the other side of a brook. They seem to be a bit wealthier than us, but the amount of happiness is the same. Next I will visit another Lauren’s SIM.



Lauren has been engaged in object-creation since the start of SL, so I asked her how the future of SL might be.
“I think second life still has a good future, so many people have invested so much time and money into this world it would be hard just to walk away and start a fresh, although linden lab are currently working on a new virtual world at the moment named Project Sansar…”
The SL2, Sansar under development seems not to be connected to current SL. It seems that substantial expense will be required for startup. Different from the initial SL world that is a virtual world with “SL-like characters”, now realistic and beautiful 3D world is available. Is it necessary or possible to deveop further technology although to stand still might be to die in slow. The game Final Fantasy XV is advertised as “Enjoyable even for a newcomer to FF series”. I think it may be important to attract new players who will start SL from now to this beautiful world.

  

Machupicchu was introduced at “The world of Yana”. So I visited immediately. This is one of the places that I want to go in RL. This is an effort of University of San Martin de Porres of Peru, to promote cultural and natural heritage of Peru in the virtual environment. Along the pass, there are tourist information and actual photographs from the spot. But this was a bid disappointing as a SL installation, partly because of the information written only in Spanish. The inside was introduced nicely in the Yana’s blog.
The world of Yana, Machu Picchu：http://yana.slmame.com/e1563028.html　




This is the actual Machupicchu. It could be better if at least the plan view drawings were applied. I overlooked USMP when I visited many universities in SL many years ago. There was a special commemorative events for the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Machupicchu, ant there were some activities in 2014. Since the University of West Australia slowed down their activities last year, I would like to see more activities in USMP, but the pages were closed now.




Next to the Machupicchu, there are SIM groups of the university and nostalgic floating rocks that were seen at Pandora.




This is floating rocks at Pandora SIM. It was a great sensation to be able to walk around in the movie world. Could there be any more SIMs that provide us with such an excitement that can be felt only in SL? Please drop in my gallery and my archives for the Pandora in good old days.
My gallery will be closed since the landlord will pull out at the end of February.
Temi’s Gallery: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Gallinas/23/84/51
Archives: http://temitemi.slmame.com/e1310805.html




  

The Trenza SIM group was closed as of March 31. Thank you Daikin for keeping them for a long period! There were cool café such as Magellan, Pleiades, and Orion, and above all for me, Trenza Yacht Club was maintained with a full-SIM yacht course around a beautiful island. A memorial photo shooting event was held at Orion on March 31. Please visit Mizuki’s page for the nice picture.
Oui oui: http://mizukichan.slmame.com/e1513571.html




The name of attendants. There were several old friends whom I have not seen for years. Sorry for without greetings. There were some in and out (or drop), so forgive me if anyone missing.

  

Looking at the SL world map, I found strange continents. A, B, and C are made of several hundred SIMs but everyone has the same shape as others. The lower half of the picture below shows the southwest corner of the continent. Each SIM has independent name respectively.




They are situated at this area. Why did Linden make three same continents? Do the residents know that there are other worlds with the same shape?




The commonality is not only the shape of the continent. The buildings are the same. From this picture, you cannot tell the continent. They are absolute residential area with no shop or advertisement. It is so SL that there is no driveway.




The southwest corner is for Japanese-style housing. There are cherry blossom and autumn leaves together. This structure is also common to all three continents.




The names of SIMs in the Japanese area are Japanese style, such as Kiyoraka (purity), Yasuragi (peace), Ikemen (cool guy) or Kazuhisa (personal name). They are interesting and I tried to translate some of them. There are difficult words that I did not know, such as Shobin, Nojiko, or Atori, which are all birds. Hirundo (swallow), Drongo (small crow-like bird) and Ahi (yellowfin tuna) are not Japanese.