Real Life Sucks

2011-07-26T07:56:00.000-07:00

I thought this is a pretty nice photo, with a more creative camera angle.

Moni alone at home

2011-07-24T10:53:00.001-07:00

That's me in front of my bungalow in Shermerville.

The Bluebird

2011-07-24T10:43:00.000-07:00

The Bluebird, one of my builts in Shermerville, is a former movie theater from the age of art deco. Today it's a club. I also used to live in there.

The Charles-Darwin-Church

2011-07-24T10:30:00.000-07:00

I built this "Charles Darwin Church of Human Sense and Sensibility" in 2007 on Pangaea. When we had to leave the island in 2009 the church was moved tom Shermerville. The interior design resembles the ossuary in Sedlec, Kutna Hora (Kuttenberg), Czech Republic. The windows were designed by Moritz R® of Der Plan, originally meant to be stage designs for his band. The church isn't really a church today, but a place to meditate and to honor Charles Darwin, who changed the way we see the world.

2011-07-24T10:24:00.000-07:00

On May 20, 2010, the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris reported the overnight theft of five paintings from its collection. The paintings taken were "Le pigeon aux petits pois" by Pablo Picasso, "La Pastorale" by Henri Matisse, "L'Olivier Près de l'Estaque" by George Braque, "La Femme à l'éventail" by Amedeo Modigliani and "Nature Morte aux Chandeliers" by Fernand Léger and were valued at €100 million euros ($123 million).

And the SASC had them. Made available to the general public in Shermerville, 2010.

The finished SASC

2010-02-14T10:22:00.000-08:00

The finished Shermerville Arts and Science Club is currently hosting a permanent exhibition of threedimensional and animated Second Life artworks.

How to make your Mac play SL faster

2010-02-14T10:07:00.000-08:00

If you have one of those new Macs with a Nvidia 9400M onboard graphic chip, which is used f.i. in laptops and the Mac Mini, you need to check the hardware settings of your graphic preferences. Go Pref --> graphics --> custom --> hardware settings and deactivate the Vertex VBO, because this graphic card does not work with them. It has its own so called stream processors. If you had it checked before, you should experience a remarkable increase in speed and smoothness of your viewer!

That silly Linden operation "adult content"

2009-06-12T11:00:00.000-07:00

Linden is moving everything they consider "adult content" to seperate sims now. This is particulary silly, since you have to be an adult anyway to be in Second Life at all. It is a terrible conservative puritan move of Linden Lab and will have its negative effect on the SL experience. But not only do they ban locations, they also ban "adult" words from the inworld search engine. One of these words is "penis", a word that even my two year old son already knew what it means.

This is my artistic comment on the silliest and perhaps most devastating thing that ever happened to Second Life. I shamelessly ripped it off the copyright of René Magritte, the great surrealist painter, who would surely forgive me nonetheless, if he knew what I used it for: a call for freedom!

My latest construction site - the SASC

2009-03-13T12:20:00.000-07:00

I am currently building the new Shermerville Arts and Science Club. This old respectful institution originally built in 2006 urgently needed a face-lift. When finished I will curate exhibitions and celebrate openings there. I chose an open and transparent design to demonstrate its embeddment in the environment of Shermerville and its people. The floor construction inside is variable and can be changed for eventual needs of upcoming exhibitions and/or events. I made everything including the logo. I hope the building will be the new landmark of Shermerville, one of the oldest sims in Second Life! ;-)

Fuchsbau eröffnet

2009-03-09T05:14:00.001-07:00

I just opened my new bar called "Fuchsbau", located in Shermerville NW. It's right next to my house. Everybody is welcome to hang out and listen to good music, have a Red Fox beer, dance and even watch any YouTube videos. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Shermerville/%20NW/11/7/27

Photoshooting

2008-11-24T01:25:00.000-08:00

I thought I let a professional take some photos of me. In a real studio. Here is what came out of it.

New Marina on Pangaea

2008-10-22T04:10:00.000-07:00

We just built a new Marina on our island, basically to give a decent home to the super-expensive yacht we bought. Join us!

Second crisis? No way!

2008-10-10T00:29:00.000-07:00

Last night Nuschi, Luisa and I gathered for a photo shooting. Actually for Nuschi's blog, but since he didn't post it yet, I can as well do it. The idea was to show off. Linden Dollars galore! While RL economy is going kaputt, Second Life booms. Even our Linden Dollars rose in value! Due to the fall of the Euro vs. the US$ Lindens were the best money investment we did. Here you can see us surrounded by piles of banknotes, jewelry, a money pot and the horse we all soon will need again, when oil prices continue to rise. Yes, we lead a happy life here in SL!