As the final week of my LEA arts grant approaches I thought it a good time to look back at what the last six months have brought. There is probably more bad than good, though isn't this true for most things in life? However even the bad holds some humour for me. Let me see....
I think the first disaster came when I had just found out I was receiving a sim. It may have been the shock of the news as I was not expecting to get this opportunity. The idea was to clean my system so I could work faster... I cleaned it alright. I actually wiped my HD clean off my PC. Yup I lost everything in one single mouse click. So out came the old laptop with the performance capabilities of a half dead dog. I soldiered on though and things slowly, very slowly lol began to take shape.
The second disaster struck a while later when I had regained use of my better machine again. Well I say better, the experience had left it not quite the same, and whilst not quite a dead dog it had developed a limp. I was sat thinking about what I had made so far and decided I needed something that contrasted with all the darkness. Thus the dream room was born, and died shortly after. It was a stunningly beautiful space, glassy pillars stretched high into the sky, every surface reflected light with an etheral glow. It was witnessed by myself and one other person, Gemini Carver (< there's your blog credit right there)
I went to make a copy and move it and managed to break it spectacularly, in fact pieces of the doomed dream room can still be found floating in the skies above the void. The murder of the dream room caused an exchange of words that left myself and Gemini not speaking... it was just that good. So yes what had been described as heaven was now blown apart in a billion prims , I was so angry it was abandoned forever. However the plus side was in my anger I made the underwater portion of the sim, which thankfully did survive any mishaps.It ended up being my favorite place in the void. As for Gemini and I , well we got over it and I'm pleased to say did start talking again.
The last disaster came not so long back and whilst not directly Void related it was a big thing to happen in my life. The short version is I got pretty sick which ended in surgery, so for a while my focus was off SL and on trying to get myself back on track. Even in hospital the void was never far away. I woke to an message in my email with a link. I opened that link and for the first time in over a week I smiled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni6fERo3Uh8
It took a while after the surgery to feel up to seeing anyone or doing anything. This sucked as there were things I wanted to do before I had to say goodbye to the void, alas with the timing there was little I could do.
So that's the lesser known life of the void. Again I will say there was so much more I wanted to do with it, but maybe its a good thing disasters stopped me. I am well known for changing things at the drop of a hat. I will miss it when its gone, it has been a dark retreat for many over the past months, and also my final project with Storm for the forseeable future. You know I can't think of a better one to end on. It was a project that had meaning and substance behind it and it was built with love and care. So is this the end for Storm? Who knows, never say never.
The end of the world? Well its the end of the void and my maybe an artist maybe not career. However we will say goodbye the best way we know how, with good friends, good music and probably a good few drinks... and that aint a bad way to go out ;)
Stormy.
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