House of Yiearus

Posted on: November 3, 2005

Cottonteil Muromachi's D&D alignment would probably be Chaotic Neutral. I sometimes verbally punch her in the hopes she will be just as nice to some others as she is to me. MUHAHAHA. And then, when that fails, I literally kick her. But more effective is just taking a tour of the crrrazy schtuff she comes up with. Like A FLOATING DESERT IN THE SKY over Weber (ayuh, fly up-up and up some more).

Crrrazy schtuff!

In that last picture, I asked Cotton to change her clothes. She obliged, and I think she is now in something more akin to Donald Duck's French Foreign Legion outfit… but without the flappy hat.

We are gonna need midnight camels, coconut balm, SPNKR rocket launcher, and more colors of sand.

You know those classic sci-fi covers? Or even think of sci-fi computer games of an alternate yesteryear, like the artwork in an imaginary adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles. Again, I reiterate?more colors of sand, since Martians have red sand and all.

Travel with me… moonlight shadow…

Cottonteil's floating desert is beyond a "proof of concept": it demonstrates exactly how much further fantastical environments could be visualized in Second Life. I hear of Residents commonly putting prims on their snow land textured with grass so they can feel more like they're living in a warmer place. This has a similar psychological climax of the climes, sort of like how you can be in a squeaky-clean corporate office but when Flava Flav drops in and says "WHAT TIME IS IT???" with that trademark clock dangling around his neck, you're instantly transported into the fundamental realm of the hip-hop pioneers.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: one of my fave raps is when Ol' Dirty (RIP) busts loose on "Triumph", a song which has a metronomic singsongey quality like?yes, a clock! Words as weapons:

What y'all thought y'all wasn't gon' see me?
I'm the Osiris of this shit
Wu-Tang is here forever, motherfucker

It sounds very blunt and brutal, but like Chinese poetry of the Tang dynasty, carries a beauty which is as graceful as riding a white tiger through the trees on the way to Venus.

(And why isn't there as sim called Rza yet?)

Note the word "Osiris", a symbolic reference to the mythological deity, and what do we find ourselves in? Egypt of course. There's a Stargate SG-1 link somewhere in here, but basically, in a Nut-shell, it would be kewl to film a hip-hop video here. Heads noddin', chariots with hydraulics pumpin' up and down, ParaPara dancing?keep it lavish. Pyramid hats included at no extra charge.