A Week of Movies! (Day One)

Well, as I mentioned in a prior post, I’m in this FLICKR group called “A Week of Pictures“.  Each month, a theme is decided upon and the members all post photos for either a week or a weekend.  The theme for May is MOVIES and the group is posting their entries starting today.  Now, movies are not really my thing as I rarely see one, but I’d expect that the rest of the group will post amazing photos.  They are all very creative and capable so it is a joy to see what any one of them comes up with.

I thought I’d share my submissions here with you starting today.  My Day One photo was fun to put together.  I have had an EVE avatar from the movie “Wall.E” for ages and pull her out now and then for a zip around.  I thought … oh I can do a photo about that movie, but…I need a Wall.E too!  So off I went to search and found one that my alt, Soleil, could use.  My original intent was to do photos of the two characters in world, but I realized that the scale of the avatars was off, so I had to separate them.  So off Eve went to find a crumbling, destroyed city… yeah, that wasn’t easy but I found a backdrop on a role-play sim and then added some effects.  Then for Wall.E, it was off to New York for a city scene for him as well.  Both of these are my takes on scenes from the movie.  Then I put the two of them together for my simple version of another scene… It was definitely fun, and challenged me at the same time!

Now… what will be my next movie to re-create in some way?!?

~Sunshine

A Week of Motion!

If you have visited my blog before or taken the time to scroll through my Flickr photostream, you’ll be aware that Second Life photography is a fun hobby for me.  I enjoy capturing scenes, themes, creations, etc.  I am a member of this really cool Flickr group that picks a theme a month, and for one week… the members publish photos illustrating the theme.  The first month I joined on the late side and really didn’t know what to expect.  The theme was weather and in SL, that could be anything.  I was lucky to be able to come up with four photos, but I got the hang of it.  For this month, the theme has been Motion and all the members have posted some amazing photos!!  What I’ve also found in being part of this group… some of the most kind, interested, fun and complimentary people who I’ve encountered in a long time.  It has been a fun week getting to know a few better through their photos and comments.  I look forward to the months to follow for sure!

In the meantime… I decided that I’d also share my Week of Motion with you here:

Week of Motion Day One

Week of Motion Day Two

Week of Motion Day Three

Week of Motion Day Four (photo 1)

Week of Motion Day Four (photo 2)

Week of Motion Day Five

Week of Motion Day Six (part one)

Week of Motion Day Six (part two)

Week of Motion Day Seven

Week of Motion Bonus Day 🙂

Thank you to the “One Week of Pictures” Group in Flickr for accepting my request to become a member, and for all the kind, thoughtful, fun comments and faves you bestowed upon me… but mostly, thank you for sharing such inspiring photos this week.  I look forward to many more beautiful, crazy, fun, creative, amazing photos in the future months…

‘tnt (’til next time)

Sunshine

Exploring – U.S. Department of Energy Island


So, I was searching in Second Life today for Alaska…and found a sim that has an Alaskan Crab Fishing game, but it wasn’t working…so I decided to look around the connecting sims.  I happened upon the U.S. Department of Energy Island sim.  This island is chock full of information about the Department – their mission, innovative efforts and job opportunities.  There are office hours a couple of times a week and links to visit various US Government websites.  One of the cool things that I did while there was ride the D.O.E.’s model of a Linear Accelerator both in a cart and as a proton particle.  The cart tour provides some interesting info on the system but the proton particle trip was, well, trippy!

When you have some time to kill in Second Life, head over to the U.S. Department of Energy Island and have some educational fun…and the nearby sims have some interesting educational and information sources too… explore the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations sims with tours of a hurricane, weather stations, global travels, etc.

’til another day…

~Sunshine