Ferrisquito

The Rabbicorn story in a book

The Rabbicorn ...

By Bryn Oh

Book Preview

Click on the book above to go to the site that prints it.

About a year ago I was told that a second life resident made a book about my Edward Gorey build in Second Life. I was led to a website called blurb and sure enough there was a book there and I proceeded to buy it. I was prepared for a crappy book to arrive, perhaps done on a restaurant napkin, but instead was very pleased to find it bookstore quality. I knew at that point I would one day use blurb for one of my stories. I think on some level I just want something physical to hold that contains the things I have made in second life. Things feel so temporary sometimes.

Anyway, as Christmas is coming I decided to try and warp my nieces mind with the "gift" of the Rabbicorn story. She is admittedly only 3 years old and wont really understand it, but I am hoping as years go by she will appreciate it on deeper levels. My greatest hope is for her to one day come up to me and say "I never realized how warped that story was... you are so weird" Then maybe she will start an all girl punk/bluegrass band called the Rabbicorns and play to sold out stadiums eventually creating world peace. But for now I am just going to give her this book and ignore the fact that its fairly inappropriate. I am creating this post because some of you have asked for it in book form and so here it is. I make a few dollars off of each sale but it is by no means a money making venture. The book can be previewed somehow by clicking on it.

http://www.writersinthevirtualsky.com/the-rabbicorn-another-way-second-life-enhances-the-storytellers-art/

Condos in Heaven

Condos in Heaven

     Nur Ophuls offered me a semi permanent location to exhibit one of my works and after a very short time I decided that I missed Condos in Heaven.  Condos originally was created for Burning Life in 2008 and contained one building.  Later the University of Kentucky hosted it and with more prims I was able to add a second building to further the story a bit more.  And now Nur Ophuls has stepped forward with even more prims and I have added a third building.  It is one of my favorite conceptual builds that I have done and if you have not seen it then please come here http://slurl.com/secondlife/San%20Clemente/250/139/3002

   

     The build has a special sky setting and you are able to plug it in at the landing point in the black room.  If you are an Emerald viewer user then you are in luck.  The creators have placed my sky setting in there already! all you need to do is go to world-environment settings-sky settings-Bryn Oh's Condos in Heaven sky or an even more foggy  Bryn Oh's Condos in Heaven sky#2

The build is based off the poem you see as you arrive.

An Astrobot with fame

sent the probes away

now the newspapers proclaim

"We found Heaven today!"

Hadraniel stood at the gates to Heaven

raining death for six days

upon all until day seven

when they brought out the heat rays

I watched it unfold on the Internet

beautiful Cassiel with golden hair

he was captured and sold as a pet 

to a wealthy billionaire

The war is done

the condo's rise

what resources are here to consume?

Sariel appears with tears in his eyes

at the window to my bedroom.

     I decided to redo this machinima as the older was has some things which bother me a bit.

     Condos in Heaven is about what might happen should the human race find a physical way to reach heaven.  What would we do?  The story takes place in the future where the human race accidentally discovers Heaven with a simple space probe.   With our advanced technology we no longer see Heaven as a sacred mystery.  We can achieve the miracles that once were the sole domain of God.  We see it as potentially lucrative real estate for both living and raw materials.  We mobilize and go to war.  Once the human race realizes that Heaven exists they then begin to look for Hell.  Satan is found and he is suspected of harboring and protecting God.  Two unlikely allies.

    In this build the adverts laying around are meant to slowly build up a background for what the human race is like in this future and of course the build is attached to the other narratives I am working on. Condos in an ongoing build and this is the latest installment.

I would again like to thank Nur Ophuls for supplying the space to expand on this build.


http://ukisland.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/condos-in-heaven/

http://andrewsempere.blogspot.com/2009/01/bryn-oh-and-destruction-of-heaven.html 

http://npirl.blogspot.com/2008/09/bryn-oh-chronicles-fall-of-angels-story.html

Virtual Build Archive

Blackspot - Historical Ships and Adventure from The VBA on Vimeo.

Virtual Build Archive

Virtual Build Archive

"The Virtual Build Archive is the joint project of Gala Charron (Tamara Russell) and Lainy Voom (Trace Sanderson).

The aim of this site is to document through film and narrative some of the most beautiful builds within the virtual world of Second Life. We hope over time to build the site from a small acorn into quite an extensive catalogue of in-world created content. Both Gala and Lainy will take it in turns to create a video of an inspiring build and present it on the archive site."


Above is what is written on the Virtual Build Archive website. I really like the way they are creating this portal to remember those builds which are here now, yet may well cease to exist as is the transient nature of second life art. But beyond that I really like the professional manner in which they are done. Over the next little while I will show those machinima they have already done. I think its a really worthwhile project that Lainey and Gala are doing and if you like what you see then go visit the site.

http://www.voom-machine.com/vba/

Alexander Beach - Inspired Architecture from The VBA on Vimeo.

Irrevocably

  

     One day Colemarie Soleil sent me a wonderful present.  She created a song for my poem called Irrevocably.  I am not musically inclined, despite my best attempts, and so to hear my poem put to music was both flattering and mystifying.   The sculpture which contains this poem was the initial idea for the Daughter of Gears story.  From this poem and scene grew a deeper understanding for each character, and with each new build I attempt to fill in the web which connects all the characters that I create.  For example, the most recent build at Burning Life called Vessel's Dream takes place before the Rabbicorn story in the timeline.  While The Daughter of Gears takes place 100 years before the Rabbicorn flees to the tower.  The story follows a theme similar to many of my narratives.  Two robots hiding from those who would salvage parts from them.  They are discarded and not seen as something human.  But even in their fear as they hide one will sing to the other in an attempt to forget what is out there hunting them.  The ingenuity of man gave them the ability to love but no form of status in society.  They hide from the salvage bots and one records the other into her memory so that should she be caught her last vision will be of her companion.

Sing me a song

sing it under your breath

if the salvage bots hear it

then it will mean our death

My love is a program

installed onto me

I gave it to you

Irrevocably

If the robots do find us

then run quick from me

I will record your face

so it's the last thing I see

Vessel's Dream at Burning Life

If you enjoy exploring and discovering my builds without any help then don't watch this machinima nor read the post!




     Burning Life has arrived again with art curated by the wonderful White Lebed.  She has taken up a difficult job which was done last year by Poid Mahovlich.  I always admire people such as White and Poid who take up these thankless jobs where if it is laggy.. well then its their fault.  However, if all goes smoothly with great art.. then the artists get the credit.  If anyone has a gesture where you shake your fist at the sky then now is the time to send it to White.

     My work this year is fairly personal.  It is about how things can drive one to the solitude of virtual worlds.  In the machinima music by Godspeed you Black Emperor, you will hear a man who gets very angry relating a story about his speeding ticket.  Myself, it is not what he is saying, but rather all the rage coming off him in waves which affect me.  He is a symbol of all those things which drive one away to a quieter place.  Vessel's Dream combines characters from Immersiva with a new story which interprets a poem I wrote called Lilac.  In the build Bryn Oh has placed her horns in the night table and her wings against the wall.  The Rabbicorn is on the bed and she dreams of happier times.  She flees first life to Second Life and from there goes to her third life which is Lilac.

This is a cam build, which means your avatar will get to a point where you can only continue by using you camera.  Very few people will ever get past the first two rooms because of this.  But there are plenty of artists who build things that are accessible to everyone, so I refuse to feel guilty.  Some people like my work for the challenge and discovery, the hidden parts and the need to click on things, I built this for those people.  If you are unaware of how to use your cam then here is a quick run down.  Sorry I only know how to do this on a PC.

Hold down your Ctrl and Alt at once, and keep them held down.  Now move your mouse over something.. your friends face or a sculpture... when it is over an object hold down the left mouse button.  Now with all three held down move your mouse.  You will notice that you rotate around whatever your mouse locked onto.  You use this to maneuver your cam so that you can see into cracks you normally cant see into.  If you release the left mouse button and use the scroll wheel you will zoom forward to what you were looking at.  Next you would move the mouse onto another object further into the build and then again hold down the left mouse.  But always keep the Ctrl and Alt held down.  It is very much like being spiderman.  Anyway, I hope some of you can make it to my build and below is the SLURL.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Burning%20Life-Bordello/22/150/24