Veyot asked Seraphim if she wanted to come to a dance near theXaraz Gallery, where Veyot has recently become curator. While they were dancing with the others, there, Veyot asked Seraphim if she wanted to come for a dance in the gallery, to check it out. They both danced to the bottom level, then some more dancers arrived, upstairs, and Veyot rushed back up to greet them…
… leaving Seraphim to dance alone, amongst the RL landscapes…
Due to the need to lower her monthly SL costs, Seraphim has been steeling herself, over the last few months, to take New Placebo Gallery down, and sell/abandon the land. She’s been slowly taking stuff out of the gallery the last 6 weeks, or so, but decided to bite the bullet and go for it, this morning. She’d just started taking pictures down, when her friend Adelina, asked her what she was doing. Seraphim told her, and Adelina said she had a surprise for Seri, which turned out to be this space, on Adelina’s land, where Seri could set up a gallery…
… it’s not at all anything Seraphim would have thought of to show her work in, but she loved it the moment she saw it…
… probably for exactly that reason. The byzantine feel of the building will make a perfect backdrop for Seraphim’s eclectic work…
… she is looking forward to taking her time setting this unexpected space up…
Decades ago, before anyone had made a famous film based on a Philip K. Dick book, Seri’s human was an avid Philip K. Dick reader. If you’ve ever actually read one of his books, you’ll know the man was in a league of his own for ideas and character development. Although classed as scifi, his writing was more like surrealist writing, often quite dreamlike. There was often a dark humour, too…
… one such story was called ‘The Zap Gun’. In it, America is the most powerful nation on the planet, because it has the eponymous zap gun, a weapon so formidable, every other nation just gives up competing. Then, aliens invade Earth, and are unstoppably advanced with their weaponry… naturally, the rest of the world looks to America to save their bottoms…
… except… there IS no zap gun, it was all a hugely successful marketing job, fooling the world there was a super-weapon that didn’t actually exist. The Americans have to scramble to save face, as well as the planet. They come up with a handheld, physical game, that has a little guy stuck in a maze in it, a maze he cannot get out of. The little guy in the game somehow emits something that makes anyone, human or not, who plays the game, feel enormous empathy for him… they have to get him out of the maze. The humans beam the game into the alien space ship, and it’s game over for the aliens…
… Seraphim thinks that’s what’s at play with her new telly. The kitties in it aren’t even stuck, they look perfectly happy… but they aren’t actually doing anything, except looking really, really cute… Seri can’t stop adoring them.
Seraphim visited Walsh County, today. It is obviously a trendy destination, as it was crawling with people, and she couldn’t get much in the way of the kind of empty-landscape images the place so obviously lends itself to. Seraphim, whose human spent it’s childhood around top-dressers (crop dusters) and the culture of top-dressing pilots, found it amusing that the paddocks were being buzzed by a four-seater, family tourer-type plane, trailing fertiliser dust, the type of plane that would simply never be used as a top-dressing machine… except, of course, in SL (:
Yesterday, Seraphim acquired this super-cute ‘Mushroom Village’…
… she was visiting a store called ‘Ever Green‘, for the first time, and saw this straight after she arrived, and was instantly smitten with it…
… it’s a tiny, animated village…
… adorable little critters do adorable things… a dog chases a cat, a sheep goes for a blast on a skateboard, a frog rides a duck…
… when the windmill stops spinning, an owl flies out of a tree, and restarts it, by landing on the highest vane, and causing it to slowly rotate downwards… then the owl flies off to another tree…
… Seraphim thinks it’s one of the most delightful things she’s ever seen in SL.
Seraphim was on the third floor of her new home, decorating one of the rooms in a deliberately minimalist way. She decided to go downstairs. The third floor is the last place she’s really focused on, since she bought her new home, a few months back, now. It is all quite spartan, compared to the two floors beneath it…
… some rooms are almost empty…
… as you approach the stairs, more decoration becomes the norm…
… and as you descend the beautiful, red marble stairs, you descend into a world of art and decoration…
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