Burning Life... Inspiration Thread
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Jonquille Noir
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08-24-2005 16:41
I didn't win a Burning Life plot, but I'm still very excited to see what's going to go up this year. Last year was extremely inspiring and displayed some of the most creative and well executed SL builds I've seen to date. If anyone would like to share their ideas and inspiration, whether you won a plot or not, I thought this would be a good place to do it. --- My plan was to make a 3-D version of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem Ozymandias, because I'm artsy-fartsy like that, and because I think it's very appriopriate for the temporal nature of SL builds in general, and Burning Life inparticular. I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: 'Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, Whose frown, and wrinkled lip, And sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear - "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, Boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.' [left]Alas, no plot equals no BL build, though I may still do it someday down the road.[/left]
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Ardith Mifflin
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08-24-2005 17:22
I've loved that poem since British lit during my sophomore year of high school. The words are rich with imagery, and very memorable. It's definitely a poem which evokes a mental image of the shattered monument and the arid waste. It would definitely lend itself well to sculpture. Very cool idea!
I was thinking of doing some sort of sculpture with the theme of mechanical religion. A piston god and a greasy, rusty church of his clockwork parishoners. It's probably best that I didn't get a parcel, as I probably wouldn't have had the time to pull it off well anyways.
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pandastrong Fairplay
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08-24-2005 17:27
From: Jonquille Noir I didn't win a Burning Life plot, but I'm still very excited to see what's going to go up this year. Last year was extremely inspiring and displayed some of the most creative and well executed SL builds I've seen to date. If anyone would like to share their ideas and inspiration, whether you won a plot or not, I thought this would be a good place to do it. --- My plan was to make a 3-D version of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem Ozymandias, because I'm artsy-fartsy like that, and because I think it's very appriopriate for the temporal nature of SL builds in general, and Burning Life inparticular. I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: 'Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, Whose frown, and wrinkled lip, And sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear - "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, Boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.' [left]Alas, no plot equals no BL build, though I may still do it someday down the road.[/left] My plot is being transferred to you. Have fun! 
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Jonquille Noir
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08-24-2005 17:52
From: pandastrong Fairplay My plot is being transferred to you. Have fun! That was incredibly nice of you, panda. I'm floored. Thank you so much! 
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Ardith Mifflin
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08-24-2005 17:56
Three cheers for Panda and Jonquille! I hope that I'll be able to take a ton of snapshots beside the fallen despot!  |
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Jonquille Noir
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08-24-2005 18:11
From: Ardith Mifflin I've loved that poem since British lit during my sophomore year of high school. The words are rich with imagery, and very memorable. It's definitely a poem which evokes a mental image of the shattered monument and the arid waste. It would definitely lend itself well to sculpture. Very cool idea!
I was thinking of doing some sort of sculpture with the theme of mechanical religion. A piston god and a greasy, rusty church of his clockwork parishoners. It's probably best that I didn't get a parcel, as I probably wouldn't have had the time to pull it off well anyways. I like the mechanical religion idea. That's also very easy to imagine, though the work involved in doing it gives me a headache just thinking about. I hope you can get a plot if someone forfeits theirs or decides to share. I just went and checked them out and they're pretty large plots.
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Ardith Mifflin
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08-24-2005 18:15
From: Jonquille Noir I like the mechanical religion idea. That's also very easy to imagine, though the work involved in doing it gives me a headache just thinking about.
I hope you can get a plot if someone forfeits theirs or decides to share. I just went and checked them out and they're pretty large plots. I liked the idea, but I very much doubt that I'll have the time to do it once summer break ends. I'm just looking forward to seeing what everyone turns out. The last Burning Life was pretty dang cool. |
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Enabran Templar
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08-24-2005 18:38
Aww, that's such a nice thing, panda. Have a blast, Jonquille!
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Aliasi Stonebender
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08-24-2005 20:17
From: Jonquille Noir I like the mechanical religion idea. That's also very easy to imagine, though the work involved in doing it gives me a headache just thinking about.
I hope you can get a plot if someone forfeits theirs or decides to share. I just went and checked them out and they're pretty large plots. Heh, ironically, there's a roleplaying game... well, supplement to a roleplaying game... with something that's like that. And it happens to be a favorite game of mine. The Ozymandas theme is very fitting for the pseudo-desert of Burning Life!
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Jonquille Noir
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08-24-2005 20:36
From: Aliasi Stonebender Heh, ironically, there's a roleplaying game... well, supplement to a roleplaying game... with something that's like that. And it happens to be a favorite game of mine.
The Ozymandas theme is very fitting for the pseudo-desert of Burning Life! Which supplement are you refering to? The first thing to came to my mind when I read Ardith's idea was a catch-phrase from one of our old Shadowrun games... "Have you heard of Chrome Religion?" (Oops, my geek is showing!)
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Ardith Mifflin
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08-24-2005 21:20
I can think of a couple of different takes on mechanical religion, as science fiction and fantasy authors seem to love the synthesis of irrational faith and the cold logic of machines. However, I don't know of any direct visual inspiration for the tableau. I was thinking Giger-esque steampunk. Something with a grim, gritty, gothic feel.
I'd love to hear about the other RPG which you were reminded of, Aliasi. I'm always looking for more RPGs which I might find interesting.
As for Shadowrun: I love the setting, though I've never been a huge fan of the system. Shadowrun has a great mix of mysticism and mechanism, but I was thinking of a more primitive feel. Definitely more steampunk than cyberpunk.
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Aliasi Stonebender
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08-24-2005 23:26
From: Jonquille Noir Which supplement are you refering to? The first thing to came to my mind when I read Ardith's idea was a catch-phrase from one of our old Shadowrun games... "Have you heard of Chrome Religion?" (Oops, my geek is showing!) Exalted: the Autocthonians. Basically, Exalted takes place in a fantasy world called Creation. Part of the backstory is a very Greek-myth-esque "first the Primordials created the world, then the gods to run it, and the gods got tired of this and ganked the Primordials". One of the Primordials who sided with the gods, being the nerdy outcast, was the Machine God, Autocthon. Afterwards, he begins to wonder if the gods might get any bright ideas what with him being a constant reminder of their betrayal and all, so he scoops up some people and seals himself away, forming a new world, Autocthonia. (E:tA is kind of a "seperate but related setting", to the main line, thusly.) Fast-forward a few thousand years, and you have a thriving society inside this great world of machines which worships the Great Maker Autocthon (who has slipped into hibernation in order to conserve power). It's heavily technological, but it's magical technology powered by the divine will of a god, and with a cool aesthetic overall. I occasionally make avatars and items for possible use in any in-world RPGing I might do someday, and I've done a few Exalted avvies but have yet to do any Autocthonian stuff; you can adapt the existing plethora of tech-stuff to an extent but it doesn't necessarily work.
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Ingrid Ingersoll
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08-25-2005 06:42
I didn't win one either but I'm going to slip Jauani a few pictures of my mom and I think his plot will be mine.
REALLY looking forward to this. It's my favourite SL event. Go Burning Lifers!
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Khamon Fate
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08-25-2005 07:10
I was going to build my vision of a telehub. It's just as well I didn't win. It would've made too many people cry.
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Forseti Svarog
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08-25-2005 09:20
i was lucky enough to win a plot, but work just jammed in on me for the next few weeks so I had to VERY reluctantly hand it back to jeska to redistribute. BUMMER!
i was going to do a surreal da vinci theme ... make a "vitruvian man" sculpture and more
ah well, maybe next year... Hopefully i'll have time to log in and see what everyone has done!
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Chip Midnight
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08-25-2005 10:35
I missed out on a plot also, but congrats to all the winners! I can't wait to see what you all come up with. No other event is more representative of the unbridled creativity at the heart of SL. Good luck everyone. Make me go "oooohhhh" hehe
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Gary Bukowski
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08-25-2005 13:00
Alright here's what this is about, in my humble opinion. Back in a past not so distant, the 'forum' for an artist was a canvas, or granite block or pottery tile, et cetera. In some cases it was the air itself (by generating sound). In recent years this universe of artistic expression has expanded to include light-sensitive materials (photography) and even matrices of digital data (computer graphics). The compelling element of each of these "new" arenas, as they arise, has not been the specific technology they brought. It's not the chemistry of photography, for example, that makes it an art. It is an artist, approaching it purely from the perspective of expression - even ignorant of the technology - that gives these new media life. In other words - as usual - it's not what you do but rather how you do it.  One of the great strengths of SL -- it's immersiveness -- can be a burden to an artist trying to approach it afresh as a 'canvas'. I'm thinking about that right now...it's my mantra for Burning Life: SecondLife is the canvas. So . . . what can we do with it? o.O |
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Snark Serpentine
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08-25-2005 13:18
I didn't get in, and purposefully didn't have any particular inspiration or ideas in mind. I think of Burning Life as an organic process, albeit evolving over days, unlike my continuously but slowly changing builds and avatars. Anyone interested in a "machine church" is welcome to visit the still developing Church of the Divine Engineer in Gibson (north central, inside the Nexus Prime city wall), a cooperative effort to which I'm a giddy contributor. I can produce that thought process, or at least my "mad architect" redevelopment ramblings in sketch form. http://img281.imageshack.us/my.php?image=code19eq.jpghttp://img95.imageshack.us/my.php?image=code27lo.jpgScreenshots of the external structure in place: http://img95.imageshack.us/my.php?image=codeinsitu11yw.jpghttp://img95.imageshack.us/my.php?image=codeinsitu21kp.jpg |
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Ardith Mifflin
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08-25-2005 16:37
From: Aliasi Stonebender Exalted: the Autocthonians.
Basically, Exalted takes place in a fantasy world called Creation. Part of the backstory is a very Greek-myth-esque "first the Primordials created the world, then the gods to run it, and the gods got tired of this and ganked the Primordials". One of the Primordials who sided with the gods, being the nerdy outcast, was the Machine God, Autocthon. Afterwards, he begins to wonder if the gods might get any bright ideas what with him being a constant reminder of their betrayal and all, so he scoops up some people and seals himself away, forming a new world, Autocthonia. (E:tA is kind of a "seperate but related setting", to the main line, thusly.)
Fast-forward a few thousand years, and you have a thriving society inside this great world of machines which worships the Great Maker Autocthon (who has slipped into hibernation in order to conserve power). It's heavily technological, but it's magical technology powered by the divine will of a god, and with a cool aesthetic overall. I occasionally make avatars and items for possible use in any in-world RPGing I might do someday, and I've done a few Exalted avvies but have yet to do any Autocthonian stuff; you can adapt the existing plethora of tech-stuff to an extent but it doesn't necessarily work. Wow! That sounds like an interesting setting. I'm familiar with Exalted, but I'd not heard of this sub-setting yet. I shall have to pick up the book and check it out. |
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Ardith Mifflin
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08-25-2005 16:51
I love looking at people's sketchbooks. There's always so much raw creativity. It's like a window into the artist's genius. The design is damn cool, though I'd personally prefer more of a Sagrada Familia style cathedral, as opposed to the more cubical design you're going for. A Gaudi/Giger inspired church of sinister mien, encrusted with twisted spires and ostentatious mechanical details. Looks cool in my mind's eye, though I don't know if it would survive the translation to prims. |
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David Valentino
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08-25-2005 16:55
I didn't win a plot *sobs*, but am eager to see what others come up with!
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Lasivian Leandros
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08-25-2005 19:31
I have a plot, but unfortunately no idea yet  Feel free to IM me ideas in-world.
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Maxx Monde
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08-26-2005 06:27
I'm split between a single chrome cube, and a highly detailed chrome shanty.
Decisions. Only 937 prims though....thats like, a door...
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Seldon Metropolitan
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08-26-2005 06:34
if anyone gets builders block, I didnt get a plot and have some ideas.
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08-26-2005 06:39
Unfortunately my ideas would have involved scripting, which they wanted to minimize. Maybe in the future they can try to have a scripting section somehow, or have a seperate Burning Code event.
Snark - Cool stuff.
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