32 posts tagged “amoration”
In Kenzo, Common Cure, Rhiannon Chatnoir and many Second Life luminaries are joining forces at the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC to launch the new Amoration.net and celebrate our partnership with the Vesuvius Group. We're having a great time sharing virtual worlds and the future of interactive media with the traditional web communities. While we meet quite a few people who are familiar with SL, there are very few people in the traditional web world who are thinking about the 3D web and the future of our integrated communications. This is a great time to be an avatar worldchanger!
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True, present, deeply engaged. Aware of everyone in collaboration, their roles....strengths.....weaknesses.
Circles of trust built around flexible systems that allow for people to grow and change over time.
Diversity, creativity, user-created worlds with room to build onto "the game" or whatever challenge is set out in a day.
These games are our lives: little interactive diversions are the way we have learned to interact and touch our world. For some of us this is full immersion in some digital form, while others dabble with cell phone photos and social networks. The result is similar....over time, new patterns emerge in the game players who have learned to type their thoughts most clearly, as if QWERTY was the universal language.
I still contend that love = energy in every brilliant game. There's endless ways to design a strategic playspace but no play feels like play without love. We need that passion in order to enjoy the playful experiences of our lives.
Tools are endless, available from anyone with enough creativity to build a better bridge.
In this world my flights are as long as I want them to be, not dictated by oil poured into a plastic and metal machine. My mobility is endless too and soaring never gets tiring.
"The Game" is vast, our board the streets and homes within homes. Perhaps you live on Baltic or St. Charles, or maybe Ventnor? Pacific? I've seen the boardwalk homes and they need work too. What do you most want to see there next?
Find what you love and do it. Happiness in life really seems to be a constant process loop on this basic love pursuit. The game then, at any stage, is really about where your heart is at.
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Your two minutes can help us impact thousands. This is an easy one to do, we just need the hackers and help that will come with your votes. So get out there, take a moment and share your vote and thoughts with the Transitions team!Dulzura was largely destroyed during the Harris Fire that took out hundreds of thousands of acres in Southern California this past fall. Firestorms like that are rarely so intense and the areas destroyed in California are larger than many cities; hundreds are still without homes.
Over the last four years I've made at least 6 trips up the mountain to spend time with the monks at Madre Grande Monastery. After visiting a dozen major spiritual communities across America I found one that felt most like home, a Theosophical space for esoterics who enjoy the arcane mysteries and wisdom traditions from around the world. Madre reaches out to their community, assisting other fire victims while they rebuild their lives.
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In December we took two trips to Dulzura to assist with fire cleanup efforts. The monks were overwhelmed with the amount of work to do after the fires and were very appreciative of community support, from frequent visitors as well as from those who may have never been there before. For the month prior to our arrival the monks had to shower in a nearby town, 30 minutes away by car, and had no running water or phone on site.
We took a small team from Amoration with Burners without Borders to take on basic plumbing, electrical and welding needs for the community. The Amoration team took on a few basics: electrical boxes, plumbing in the remaining bathroom on site, welding the gate to keep the land safe. Madre Grande is in a remote but somewhat precarious location, just a few miles from the border with Mexico there are often border patrol and other people driving the road through the property. In the months after the fires there were also issues with locals and lots of utility trucks around, along with the county support staff that hauled out 40 containers and truckloads of burnt ruins away from Dulzura.
The future is uncertain for Madre Grande; they have a long road ahead and many decisions to make for their best possible future. Moving and rebuilding would be a great challenge but they may no longer be able to fulfill their mission in their current state on this property. As they assess the cost of maintaining a spiritual retreat and monastery we look to what we can do as individuals to support these spaces with our time, talent and care. AMO friends have donated awesome gifts such as new hoses and faucets, showerheads and sprayers.
Words do not do this place justice.
What you see here now is gone.
Art, like the spirit, is a temporary collection of idea and expression in some public display of opportunity.
This place has given me so many opportunities, such a rich landscape to consider over the years. Many of my toughest struggles and greatest joys have been known in these fields, from my marriage to the handsomest husband to tears flowing in a hot sweat lodge as asthma and I work to have a parting of the ways. I am not yet detangled from this mess.
We feel so lucky to still have my home, my handsome husband, my friends Marta and Rob who joined us for the first journey and who took these amazing photos of Madre Grande to share with you.
These places sometimes enter our hearts and do not let go.
I sometimes want to remember Madre and her fire the way it can be....sweet, fun and full of laughter, my wedding night, almond champagne by the case, hundreds of friends in full formalwear as our fire performer friends hit the stage. Madre Grande once hosted a regional Burning Man event known as Xara....please enjoy this video from our 2006 wedding to see the life that this place has known...and will hopefully know again soon.
As with anything in this world, take the time to explore for yourself.
All I can say is oops....I did it again. I'll continue to do it, and love it. This community, the greater community that Madre represents, means more to me than just about anything on this particular planet. The sickness I felt at its loss has been healed by helping clean and cook up a better future.
Most of my day is spent envisioning ideal environments.
Here's my life desires:
* Collaborative safe spaces for creativity, innovation and invention
* Surrounded by sweet people in vibrant communities supporting each other through interlaced networks
* A vibrant mix of flora and fauna respected and integrated with human life
* Low cost local energy production from existing materials and resources
* Easy to find resources without searching multiple websites and real world locations
* Immediate supply and material retrieval for projects
* Low cost exchanges and shipping of objects with little friction or time wasted
* Secure access to basic survival needs: water, air, food, shelter
* The right to cultivate and consume any food or medicine known to man that's still available and not extinct
* To be surrounded by beauty, filled with art, living in love
What do you want most? What do you need?
We are up against some epic challenges in these coming decades. We have each other and only this awareness that will chart our future. Where do you see us going?
Inspired by a look ahead ten years on Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120119369144313747.html
Start doing this NOW if we want to survive and thrive these next 50 years:
- Stimulate green industries and build local alt-energy solutions into daily life
- Challenge the US FDA, the WTO and World Health on issues regarding the Codex Alimentarius
- Local water purification systems available to all people (and animals, plants, ecosystem)
- Stop deadly practices like Mountaintop Removal and chemical dumping in our waterways in favor of clean mining
- Gut parts of the USPS and our local post offices (I'm a Postmasters' granddaughter -- this is heavy to say)
- Rethink our entire transportation system and reduce automobile use
- Work from home in virtual spaces, attend business gatherings without unnecessary travel
- Create a foundational framework for international transparency and governance that is decentralized and democratic for the vox populi
- Restore Habeas Corpus
- Provide universal internet access, public computers and basic training to all students at a young age
- Learn to see ourselves as infinitely abundant, free and capable of reshaping our experience
- Love without fail: no abandon, no boundaries.
Tell me your path, your desires, your challenges.
luna, intern of the month
For today's address before the UN Climate Change Conference the congressman from Massachusetts chose to appear in Second Life rather than fly to Bali and address the crowd directly. His talk on climate change and the metaverse of possibilities echoes the policy reflected at globalwarming.house.gov
Rep.
Markey, head of the House's committee on climate change, fielded questions on education, conservation and the "use" of Nature.....should we consider nature something to be used until those resources no longer exist? Do we have a role in preserving land, planting new forests, considering the greening of our cities?
This historic speech in Second Life wants to prove a point about energy use and climate change. For Rep. Markey to address the crowd for 20 minutes in Bali would take 5.6 tons of carbon emitted in flight from Washington. How many were used in Second Life?
"The technology is moving so fast that this really is just the beginning." Daniel Nelson from OneWorld UK noted. Daniel is also featured at the end of this In Kenzo machinima video attached from today's interactive town hall meeting with Rep. Markey at OneWorld Meetings Island in Second Life.
We've come a long way in a few months! The next major AMO event is happening this Sunday December 16th from 11-2PM at AMO Island in Second Life, a dance party to benefit Great Strides with DJ Nexeus Fatale. Bring out your horses and help us raise money for equine therapy. Every boogie counts.
GIVING CIRCLE
The ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD GIVE XO CHALLENGE ends soon. Do you have someone with small hands who would love the XO laptop's ease and portability? Give one get one, a great opportunity to share goodwill.
At AMO we've seen the potential for empowering young talent to do more with their digital skills. In the last two years our interns have gone on to great work with professional companies and nonprofit organizations...all for scripting or designing items in Second Life! Those who still wonder about the power of the virtual world for education should visit Holy Meatballs, New Media Consortium and the SLEDucators who are teaching and taking on exciting new research endeavors in the wild petri dish of the metaverse.
LAND TO LEASE/OWN!
We have mainland for sale along with office/research area plots both land and sky on AMO. Talk to me directly if you are looking for space in the coming weeks. Short term and long term opportunities available.
AMO is all about experimentation. This month we collaborated with the Car Lovers to host The Ridebuilders Challenge on KULA last Friday. I get the privilege of announcing the winners for the sweetest rides in Second Life! We awarded over L$50,000 to the following artists for their extraordinary work
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RamessesIII Pharoah F1 Color Changing Sculpted |
Ahkenatan Grommet 1938 X-07 |
Natascha Rives NATAMO |
Abacus Mimistrobell AMPro GT 500 |
Ray Monnett 427 Stingray |
Audience Award Winners (L$1000 bonus award)
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Darren Oyen, dtht8er Aaybe Scion XB, Green |
Natascha Rives NATAMO |
Special thanks to the Car Lovers community for making this challenge possible and to Creative Commons for the use of the KULA Amphitheatre for this contest. Congratulations to all of our participants for great design work!
To make a gift for AMO visit our giving circle page at Amoration/International Humanities Center. Your donations support our virtual internship programs along with providing the AMO Island space for groups to develop new works in the metaverse. Thank you for supporting new media bridgebuilding experiments!
Bridgebuilding and Rebuilding
For the last few weeks we have been coordinating with friends at Madre Grande, a monastery and retreat farm near San Diego and the Mexican border town of Tecate. During the Harris fire around Halloween they lost most of their residences, archives and gathering spaces; seven monks are now living in one building together as they work out a long term rebuilding plan in the midst of codes, permits and inspections, cleanup and fire debris removal. One of the monks was an interactive designer for the Cartoon Network, another a financial officer in London; this bright young ecumenical group of leaders has appreciated the support of the AMO community along with your gifts dedicated to this rebuilding effort. We were glad to go to Madre Grande with Burners without Borders last week and we will blog in more detail with photos soon. Thanks to Marta Collier, Brent Heyning and Rob Darman for their wizardry with pipes and electrical tech!
The leaders in AMO never cease to amaze me. Thank you all for getting out there and doing what you love to do most. Come visit us soon in meatspace, metaspace or any space!
In AMO,
In Kenzo
The AMO are at it again, sharing good will and tools for change around the world. This time you can get involved very easily and get a laptop for a child at the same time!
Starting on November 12th at www.xogiving.org you can sign onto the One Laptop Per Child giving challenge and receive a laptop for yourself or a child you love while also giving a laptop to a child in another part of the world. Right now you can also choose to donate $200 to send a laptop to a child.
I'm glad to see xogiving.org featuring the Cambodian youth on their main page, as Beth Kanter and friends have been doing a ton to bring digital media tools to that country.
On the TED blog, Engadget and others they're reporting that production looks to be solid now that Intel has signed on to support the project. Their Give1Get1 campaign will be short lived (a few weeks) and machines will hopefully ship by Christmas. $400 will buy two laptops: one for you and one for a child in another part of the world.
After using one this summer I'm eager to get a few available for our AMO team so that we can begin to develop digital media curricula and projects with the XO. I was lucky to visit their office in Boston on a day when Negroponte and Intel were meeting this summer, a good sign of collaborations to come as hundreds of little green froglike machines dangled from the ceiling while they undertook advanced mesh network tests. When playing with it, the keys on the XO feel child-sized but the applications are fairly robust, especially so with the mesh they've developed that allows a classroom of kids to effectively share information far more easily than most classrooms currently can in America.
So here's the AMO Challenge for you: we're looking for 10 people who will commit to GiveXO this holiday season. It's easy to do, a few clicks and you've bought a very cool little green machine for someone you love and have given a big gift to a child around the world. Amazingly simple.
This is leapfrogging technology at its finest and we want to see more projects like the XO grow in popularity around the world. Thanks to ALL OF YOU for helping to make sure that these tools end up in the hands of kids who are eager to join the digital media revolution. Think how much better our music will be when the kids in Africa, Asia and South America have access to music production tools!
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