The Touch from Afar

My experiences on second life

The fun began when I had to decide my name. If I had a choice to name myself in my first life, I would have named myself Tina. Tina Tanna sounds musical!  For my second life I chose to call myself ‘Freebie’, because my character was a freedom lover as per my first essay.  Little did I know ‘Freebie’ is a VERY common word in Second Life. Anyways, I am happy with my choice. Freebies are highly sought in Second Life. Blush Blush…! And my last name is ‘Adored.’ I officially have the best name on second life!

I really enjoyed second life. I can look sexy without dieting and I can try innumerable free dresses and hairstyles! Yeah, the girl in me squeaks. But more than anything I enjoyed the fantasy and imagination out there in second life. It’s like living a dream! I really love finding interesting places to visit and enjoy the originality of places. I also love watching unique avatars. I am sure someday I will find a posthuman prince charming for myself.

Working on the video on second life for the final assignment was a little frustrating. Some locations had changed since I had created my story board. And I simply lost some other landmarks. I really spent way longer than I would normally have to keep continuity in the video. Camera movements were really tough too. And working with Camtasia was a painful task as well. Now I better stop digging my ‘F’ grave, and tell you I am really pleased with my video. I wanted to take a shot of the earth from the moon or my video, and it was the last scene I had to shoot. And where my character faced the globe, she could see India! How sentimental that made me, and the final video! Watch it, I am sure you will like it!

Extraordinary Touch in Second Life

I once had a gown, it was almost new,
Oh, the daintiest thing, it was white and blue,
With little stars placed here and there,
When I had it on, oh, I walked on the air!

That’s my my trans human life theme song, a touch different from the beautiful original waltz song,  My Alice Blue Gown

A girl’s dreaming in her sleep, and her spirit floats to another world, where she’s queening the beautiful night sky in her fantasy gown! It has a bodice of stars, and a skirt of a beautiful puffy cloud. The stars glitter in the dark blue night and make her shine like a star, and the cloud makes her fly! The aloof,cold and still silence of the night in the faraway universe is caressed and teased into submission by gentle, urgent, sexual, stimulating strains of music. The girl’s dancing effortlessly to the music, in the spotlight of the moon.
Its an extraordinary dream, a touch away from reality.

How extraordinary would it be to lose touch of some senses, and get in touch with others! To break loose of earthly strings to a place where no one can reach to tie you down and try to control you. To escape the clutches of gravity into a world where there is no force to drag you down. Away from the squabbles and clashes of earth where the only friction you may feel is of wind blowing through your hair and caressing your skin as you swirl and dance and glide in space. You are having the time of your life, in touch with extraordinary freedom, lightness, joy and beauty.

I believe in star sign characteresics. Being a Libran, I am influenced by the element of air. Like air I always wanted to escape from restraining confinements and get my own space. I have always longed, yearned freedom. I don’t like being told what to do, I love finding my own direction. I cannot help feeling resentment towards people who think they own me and can tell me how to live my life, even if I know they love me. In situations like that I always feel like ‘getting away’, to lose touch with the real world and get in touch with my true self. But my true self does have apprehensions of being ‘alone’ when I tell others to ‘Leave me alone’. I do realize in my dreamland I would be often haunted by a wrenching touch of longing. A longing to see, hear, touch, feel, hug and kiss the people and things I loved and left behind. There ought to be a perfect space, a perfect relationship, where people understand each others’ need of freedom and choice of life. I do believe it is possible to find that perfect balance. Its out there in he world, and you just need to search for it.. Like a cloud kissing mountain tops!

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Romantic Moods, Foreck

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This is a beautiful place on second life, with a very wide range of spaces that are cosy, private and calming. The mood of the island is most beautiful in the night. There is dancing, amazing animations, most gorgeous animals loitering around, beautiful plants, and soothing sound effects. There is a scenic underwater viewing tube with fantastic sea life . There is a lighthouse from where you can catch a glorious glimpse of the sunset. There is a rocket ride to the moon. Once on the  moon you can visit the interior of the moon, and say hello to a friendly astronaut there! I enjoy the peacocks, the crawling mongooses on the ground, the beach the hammocks. If there is just one island to remain on second life, this would be my choice.

A fantasy land I would love to design on second life

I have always been  fascinated by the novel Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. If I were to create a world in second life I would create a world where you would feel you are in 18th century old south. there will be characters that live there, everyone you know from the novel. Scarlett, Rhett, Ashley, there will be Tara, Peachtree Street..etal. There will be events where the members could participate, like ballroom dances, barbeque’s, picnics in the forest. The mode of transportation would be horse rides. The clothing will resemble that period. There will be bids for dances with the ladies, where the highest linden player will get to waltz with the woman of his choice.  And there will be farming, and you could buy your patch of land, and like the Facebook game Farmville, your status in the southern society will depend on how well you have maintained your plantation. There will be the hugebells, the magnolia trees, the jaybirgds and the junebugs, just everything that is the essence of Gone with the Wind.

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~ by Hemali Tanna on 2009/09/28.