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2020年08月30日

Shooting Aurora 2

I noticed that the Aurora has been at the SIM where I am playing the GO game often. This SIM is a kind of Oriental style, so the Aurora does not fit, but it is good to be able to watch it in a relaxed manner.




I did not see it since I was concentrated on the game. It could be cool to play GO with the Aurora as a backdrop. Please visit!
Go game:http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Satori/229/158/27




The Aurora tends to appear around the horizon here. Got a unique picture.




The creator of the Aurora is Antreas Alter, the same for that in the previous article. I searched other SIMs that are using the same one by Antreas. The Aurora might be a kind of wall paper with moving texture and the size can be adjusted to the area. This one is surrounding a small village. When I was a child in RL, I saw a rainbow appeared in front of a neighbor building. It was strange to watch a rainbow so close to me. This Aurora here is alike.




It does look realistic in the SIM made for it. This one seems to be covering the whole SIM.
Green Story : http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Green%20story/159/72/30





  

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2020年08月22日

Shooting Aurora

Visited Green Story to take pictures of Aurora. This is ever changing. It is a kind of challenge to express the dynamic figure within still pictures. I set the camera angle and framing, then kept waiting patiently. But often there were spectacles out of the camera, or when shooting it, the avatar posture was not suitable…
Green Story : http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Green%20story/159/72/30




There are many photos and movies of real Aurora in the net, so I tried to shoot realistic ones. The sun position is Midnight.




I have a misty memory to have seen real Aurora when I was very young. I think my father woke me up on an airplane to watch the Aurora. I remember that was a huge white curtain along the flying plane. This could be the closest one.




I wondered what kind of clothing is suitable for Aurora shooting, but it is not cold in SL and it is summer now, I stayed with the casual wear. This could be a typical SL photo though. Together with reindeer. The Aurora comes in at low close to the horizon, not over my head. The white dots are not star but falling snow. There was snowstorm at some place.




Since there is not enough sense of distance, it is sad that I cannot feel the spaciousness. It looks like bush fire depending on the angle. Standing in a bush I was afraid that the fire might come to me. I wish I could see the real one once more.




I have been searching and finally found a free mesh head that I can use, and changed my shape for the first time in twelve years. But nobody mentioned about it for two months. It is sad that there is no one who pays attention to my face… Last week, I went to the Baba dance area with a mask on my face that was set backward. Finally, someone noticed it.






  

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2020年08月15日

The Last Dance

I have reviewed facial expressions at going away. There are many body animations for that but most of them look like performances and not realistic. The body action could be simulated by making the all body parts physical and the joint free to make limp fall.




This is an animation for swoon and falling down. It is a bit sexy but looks different from real moves that can be seen in the net. Tne arms will not be raised like this. There were many free animations provided in earlier days. I counted my inventory, and found more than 4,000 animations. But most of them I cannot find the use. Why did they make so many animations? I understand the dancing though.




The popular last dance at the going moment is the one at hanging, which might be the same as the move when falling into unconscious due to lack of oxygen. It resembles the move at that moment with legs stretched and the back arched tightly. But there are few animations in SL to simulate the final spasm.




An animation for sleeper-hold, which leaves the unconscious body and does not include the comeback move. It causes no agony and someone said it feels great when going away. In elder times at Judo clubs, it was a custom that all newcomers should be choked out by seniors, which is now prohibited naturally.




In choke-out games in RL, the body simply goes limp abruptly. The funny involuntary movement of the body is when coming back after release. In the below, different from choking the carotid artery, the chest is pressed hard, that stops the heart directly, wrong way about the CPR. When the carotid is choked to cause unconscious due to lack of oxygen the heart keeps pulsing, so it provides the brain with blood as soon as the choke was removed, but if the heart was stopped, it should be re-started when the pressure was released. Although there is some possibility to cause damage due to lack of oxygen, the brain has many redundant cells and it might not be serious, but if there were some damage on the heart due to lack of oxygen, it may cause some malfunction. If the heart failed to re-start, it should be the end. Do these boys know that they are stopping her heart? It should be an attempted murder.




The right girl in the above picture seems to be gone actually, but her heart started pulse as soon as it was released and she came back without falling down. The girl on the left with beautiful legs seems to be doing performance. Sliding down along the wall, getting up with spasm, and falling down the face on, the flexibility of the upper body and ankle is surprising! That cannot be simulated with an avatar. By all means, a choke-out game is very dangerous and I would never do it again. When I am choked by him, I will become limp immediately waiting for his MTM CPR.
One of my friends asked me why there are drowning scenes and embarrassed me a bit. It is only that I am interested in death in SL. By the way, at that moment we Japanese say to die or to go, but in English it is to come. La petit mort in French? May be no relation though.




Aside: I am now playing the Final Fantasy VII Remake. The shock was the death of Jessie that is the character I started to like. So cute, elfish, and cool, but she suddenly died under relatively small rubble with no special reason.
Jessie’s death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2CQ-UCbmHw




“So, you are the guy who hear my last words… Hh… Lucky me…” The last conversation, as the strong-minded girl, and then, “Don’t you guys… have somewhere to be? … It is not polite … to stare… you know…” … Her eyes moved away and she went. I would never be able to make such cool words. I might say, “Ah… I am going… hold me tight…” as a spoilt girl to the last breath…



To my regret, the member left with Jessies body behind as is. Considering that it was on the way, the battle was settled for a while, so at least they should carry her body to some shaded area, lay out her body and cover her face with something. Or she was not dead and just lost conscious? But it will be impossible to save the body in the following big breakdown. Anyway, it was not kind way. The stage of FFVII is the city Midgal that was set in SL in early days. It was joy to walk around the reproduced city in SL, but now the game provides more realistic world than SL.



  

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2020年08月12日

Nose & Mask

At the Dance Island, found a beauty with a cool nose. Mesh heads provide detailed nostrils with clean shape that can be beautiful at a close look. My free head and skin cannot make this kind of shape.




For the oriental dance, classic avatars are OK since the face is covered. The left person might be mesh since the fingers were moving. The right is me. The belly could be a little slimmer…




In the RL, I am using the Super-three-dimensional mask by Unicharm, which fits my face nicely and covers a bit large nose that I do not like. The mask is taken off only in the tennis court, but has to be worn in the club house. I am wearing sun glasses for tennis, so nobody has seen my bare face for more than six months. I am worrying about the time when Covid19 was over and my face should be exposed… There is a mask on which the real face of the wearer is printed on it, but I never use that!




With a mask and sunglasses, you cannot tell who she is. The left is my back. The right is the front face with hairs worn backward. Do not mention that it is hard to tell due to the flat chest…





  

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2020年08月06日

Dance Island 13B

The SIM mainly for dancing, Dance Island is celebrating the 13th anniversary. There might be several events but I did not see them due to the time difference. The glass pyramid is the permanent dance hall and the area surrounded by palm trees is the special event zone.
Dance Island:http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Dance%20Island/61/35/25 




The theme might be Arabian Nights. In frond of the hall, there are several camels, and nice flying carpets are parked. Sad to say that it is impossible to fly it or to sit on it. I am just floating above it with adjusting the position.




I had been visiting this place whenever I felt lonesome. There were always many people dancing and made me happy in the cloud. There were always some acquaintances and sometime we enjoyed formation dance with my friend and her friends. Once I invited my date here.




In the afternoon Japan time, there is no body, so I danced alone. Wore some clothing that goes with the Oriental settings.




Found a rare dancing named Moon Dance, which might be a dance in a base on the moon where the gravity is low.




Tossed up high, feeling like zero gravity for a moment. Relaxing whole body and falling down while believing him to catch me, I felt a kind of pleasurable sensation.




When writing up to here, I wondered what happens if he did not receive my body, so I visited there to shoot more pictures. When he quit dancing at this moment, I also stopped at the same time and stood up with dry eyes.




When doing this dance in RL, I would prefer a person who I can trust that he does not fail to receive me, and I do not mind being touched my bare body. ^-^








  

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