Big Day As A Class For Second Life!

There was a lot on our agenda in ARTS 450 as we ventured into Second Life.  I entered Second Life to find my avatar starting to dance like Michael Jackson's "Thriller."  This happens automatically because someone in my group of friends triggered that action.  Once they trigger it, everyone in a certain radius will begin to do the dance.  In this case, it was the Thriller dance!

We then entered a site that was dedicated to the annual ritual of "Burning Man."  Once called "Burning Life," now is called "Burning 2."  There was a lot to look at and play on, such as swings and hot air ballon rides.  There wasn't a lot of people there really like the real Burning Man.  I wonder why?  Could it be because those people are so high on whatever that they can't seem to use a computer okay?  I shouldn't be one to judge I guess.

We then entered an area guided by Jamie called "(ROMA) - The Original Ancient Roman Themed Estate Since 2006."  This land had a lot of detail to everything that was roman.  There was even people that were even avatars going around that belonged to the area that were dressed in the roman theme clothes; even some with their clothes off!  We ran into people on chariots, to lions, and I even ran into a station where you could even tweet about the area.  That was social marketing I have seen at it's finest so far in this program.  I would love to visit again when I have more free time!  The people behind this place must have studied a lot of roman architecture.  I even was going around and found the three-eyed fish that is in the show, "The Simpsons."  Must be huge fans?

Next, we went to a fairy land named "MayLou Design" presented by Lizzy.  This place was very well detailed and it allowed flying to be fun and adventurous.  This was because there were floating islands that featured content that I would find out of a story book.  The island seemed to offer a lot of properties one can by.  As you can see in one of my pics, my avatar is lounging in a property someone can by.  

Then we took time to visit a simple art gallery that was made out of single prims that one may view the gallery in  It featured a bunch of different artworks made out of different mediums.  Quite an interesting and fun way to put a gallery together.





Terrance took us to an area that featured all sort of globes, called "Fortune Land - Secret Spheres" that you can walk through.  Connecting each sphere was a tube that seemed to be constantly moving (Since the sides were made of a moving gif or something of that matter that I'm not quite educated with yet).  Unfortunately there were no screenshots allowed to be taken in this area so I don't have any to present, sorry.  It is an interesting take of how to connect landscapes in Second Life that someone wouldn't easily think of right off the bat.

Lastly, Karen took us to a haunting place that dealt with purgatory and the levels of hell.  The land was called "Jackson Rhys Gallery."  We were in a sense of Limbo when we entered the land.  Based off the story or tellings of "Dante's Inferno," we traveled as a class through each stage.  It was all pretty creative since we saw haunting images and painful scenes that I would never want to probably walk around in real life.  I'll just let my avatar do the dirty traveling for me!  A very dark place for sure, so I'm glad we got to visit the area in a well let classroom!  After a while of searching around, we eventaully ran into the creator of the land.  We started to ask the creator some question but the creator ended up leaving after a few.  We got the idea that the creator didn't really want to spend time with us.  Whatever, we don't need them anyway.  Overall, today was a big trip since we visited so many places.  Can't wait to get back in Second Life again!