Expanding Beyond Your Core Competency

Lillie Yifu is expanding beyond her 'core competency' of escorting to hold a 'working with huge prims' class this weekend. As long as I'm not tied up, literally, I plan to go. Well, if I can wrap my blond brain around remembering an event that far in the future, which is part of why I'm writing this post.

She is making good on her 2008 resolution to get out of the escorting business and is also making more of her kinetic art. I wish her the best of luck, escorting is, or was, an easy way to pick up some quick cash, but as a sustainable 'business', unless you provide photos or other saleable goods, you can never make more money than you can type (or vocalize). Using her creativity to make things she can continue to sell over and over will, I think, make her more money and more happy in the long run.

Perhaps I should expand out of my core competency of being a bimbo, but some people may remark that I've already done too much expanding and am already too experienced with huge prims.

Mega-Prim Sculptie Earth With Satellite Imagery

I *have* to see this the next time I'm in Second Life. This is incredible looking in the photos.

From the picture caption:

Sculptie Earth features a topographic Earth model with cloud layer that displays real time weather patterns streamed from satellite data. Stills are taken 3 hours apart and 2 days of data is visible in the animation.


The first photo shows how big it is relative to other things in Second Life.

The second shows it close enough to see the relief.

The pictures are from Zee Pixel's Flickr stream.

And thanks to the Huge Prim Blog for the pointer.

Places I Want To See

Natalia has posted a list of places to see in Second Life with descriptions, including Gardens, Real World immitations, Role Playing, and just interesting Things To See.