From Japan to SL

  

As common features of spaceships and space stations in SL, there are many passages that l feel there are more than necessary, but it looks good.




At the photo gallery of a photographer OiMax, there was an exhibition featuring cityscapes. His arts are wonderful using mostly symmetrical and perspective composition.




I tried to follow the OiMax’s way, the radiating composition.




The photograph lesson I took said the important things should be, 1st Object, 2nd lighting, and 3rd trimming. The art of OiMax is wonderful in the lighting and layout. The gallery will be renewed often, so please do not miss them.
Flash Back: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sociaria/190/195/2502




There is a sculpture imaging a human body. The shape is similar to me but the color is strange and first of all there is no tail. But from the human standpoint, the Navi is an alien like a lizard, which will be out of place other than the planet Pandora. When I was walking in the spaceship, the SIM manager called me and politely recommended to get out. It should be natural since such a strange avatar was strolling around. Sorry for that.




The last of this future series is the early light at the Neo Shoda that is not anymore. There were a botanic garden and a park, with soulful feeling. Besides the beautiful sceneries like three dimensional paintings, I would like to see some affluent future world expressed in SL My friend Sanokawa told me a comment by the ex-presidend of SL, “I would like to see a world that cannot be seen in real life, but everyone is making southern islands only.” I fully agree with that!





  

Since anything will be possible in SL, a space ship will be a white canvas for new ideas. This is a huge facility that could be considered as a space colony.




I cannot see the function but the dome with running light is cool.




A blight towers with starry background, like a space ship in the movie　“Close Encounters of the Third Kind”.




Unexpectedly the structure is rather classic. This kind of flat surface might not be efficient to hold the air pressure. The material could be a new material that we do not know, or this station might be made in the atmosphere of some planet.




I do not know the usage but a beautiful tower. I will visit inside next time.







  

Another futuristic image I like is the one with a lot of digital instruments. A rot of numbers displayed itself looks full of technology, or just cool.




Multi-screen showing many diagrams or data. In the real future, those would be compiled by AI and only important ones with immediate need would be shown, but I like anything that are many.




I do not see the meaning of the instruments, but they look nice. Someone may say a lot does not mean a good.




At the first time I stood next to Navi and found that the Navi is large and scary beyond expectation. I was knocked out by a simple push.




Navi in a tube like a teleporter. It is larger than human and did not fit in the space.




Although I do not see the purpose but there are many cylinders like this in futuristic SIMs. Could it be an incubator or a specimen? It was possible to get in since this could be made not for human. The right is an alien shown at some planet in the movie Star Wars.




The blue skin makes good contrast with the red background. Instead of Rei who has gone away, Navi will be the main character in the following articles.






  

In the SL, it is nice to visit beautiful SIMs that reproduce real nature or old town, but what I have been expecting is a future city that cannot be seen in RL. This is a futuristic city that was before.




The cityscape with flooding light were made elegantly together with shopping and residential area.




This is a very old futuristic (^-^) town that is still now. The creator Dejuan said this was imaged with a Chinese town.




Maybe because the future city in the movie “Blade Runner” had a big impact, there are many future towns with dark image. I wish the future city be as blight as the one in the first picture.




Other common features of the future city than darkness will be fewer people and empty buildings. There is no way to get many people, but there are so many stairs and structures that I cannot find the purpose.




This is also a futuristic city that disappeared, Neo Shoad floating above the town Insilco. Surprisingly the whole buildings were made meticulously including inside.




The central area of the Neo Shoad. The almost all cityscape including inside was made by the creator Stark alone. The complicated city with less repetition could be considered as a full-SIM art.




The Times Square I took in the winter. This consists of a lot of works and presence of many people, that no way cannot be achieved in SL.






  

While strolling around with the Rei costume, I remembered the Pandora SIM and visited again. Besides the Planet Pandora, there are many other SIMs found with the search by the word Pandora. I visited many of them and can neither identify which is which nor visit there again.




This is Great Navi Forest, whitch is not so big but good for photo shooting.A soul tree with flying spirits. At the early stage, there were many Navis in meditation around the tree.




Not only making real trees bright, there are many interesting shapes.




The shrinking flower that was impressive at the beginning of the movie. This shrinks only by touching it as the movie, so it was easy to take pictures.




Took a picture together with my sister. Someone who I met at the site said it is so good like the one in the movie and asked me where to buy. I bought only the skin and clothing and made the shape myself. There should be better one available with mesh now.



The below are some of the places where I took pictures.
Great Navi Forest: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/nAvitar/129/128/753
A Touch of Fantasy: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Gauguin/191/11/2976　
Pandora Planet: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Pegase/34/144/25
Midalon Magic Fantasy: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Kyeryong/126/210/301