Perfectly Strange (reposted)

A venture into 'multi-media' Using screen shots from a 3D chat space, some of my favorite music, and a terrific little slideshow editing software bundle that was so good I actually paid money for it! Quali and I were engaged in a discussion on her blog as to whether RLC was a 'game' or a 'community'. There are frequently arguments and discussions, and even dramas about the ethics of 'roleplaying' and interpersonal relations in cyberspace. So I suppose this is what was at the back of my mind when I spent a couple of hours putting it together. It constitutes a kind of response to those kinds of discussion.

PS: I was inspired by the poetry of the characters and avatars I met on RLC. The construction of this piece is entirely synthetic, but the characters and identities are real. And only two of those identities are mine. And only one of them is female.

Enjoy

"strangely Perfect"

Many thanx to Quali, Kently and Thai for helping me test out my new slide show software. Also of course, Tom Waits, and Bette Midler. And the bartender. :-)

Note: RLC (Red Light Centre) is supposed to be a 'porn' site. But I have found more intelligent, interesting, and creative characters and people here than I ever did on the commercially oriented "Second Life" CPU-guzzling version of a 3D version of a web replicate. Which is what Second Life is, in my opinion. Just an up market version of the Web.