It is definitely a friendly spat on this end. No worries. :) Actually, what is funny, is having you ding me inspired me to do a new avatar on Second Life! Talk about contrary!
Anyway, I was remembering that my FIRST Star Wars character who lived in my head was when I was a pre-teen. I always knew what he looked like--knew his history, wrote stories about him, etc. But the best I could do in the early 80s was try to find pictures of someone who looked kind of like him. And later I tried drawing him, but at the time my mad drawing skillz were not so mad and it was a terrible failure.
I was thinking suddenly how incredibly spiffy it would be to make him "come to life." With the wide-open nature of SL, I know I could create him with my own memory of his visualized face and body type and hair and eyes, etc. What a fun thing to do! Childhood memory, walking around the virtual universe.
I think my preteen self would smile at the thought. :)
When it comes down to it, for me (and maybe for you?) I do my "art" - writing, drawing, and SL futzing - for the joy of it. I made a stab at being a professional artist... got the Science Illustration degree, had (extremely EXTREMELY brief by my choice - story to come, most likely, on LJ) employment at a major magazine in NY... and also tried freelance.
It turned one of my joys into a job and I hated it. I worry that the same would happen if I turned my hand to writing fiction professionally. So, I draw (when I do) and design people on SL and write stories with and for friends... and I feel great joy of it. That suits me just fine.
Your photos are so beautiful, I suspect you might be able to parlay them into gallery showings, etc. Your writing likewise (well, not a gallery showing, but you get my drift). I presume that you, also, do these things for the joy of it without wanting to make it a career. So perhaps we're not too unalike in that way. :)
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Date: 2009-02-11 05:59 pm (UTC)It is definitely a friendly spat on this end. No worries. :) Actually, what is funny, is having you ding me inspired me to do a new avatar on Second Life! Talk about contrary!
Anyway, I was remembering that my FIRST Star Wars character who lived in my head was when I was a pre-teen. I always knew what he looked like--knew his history, wrote stories about him, etc. But the best I could do in the early 80s was try to find pictures of someone who looked kind of like him. And later I tried drawing him, but at the time my mad drawing skillz were not so mad and it was a terrible failure.
I was thinking suddenly how incredibly spiffy it would be to make him "come to life." With the wide-open nature of SL, I know I could create him with my own memory of his visualized face and body type and hair and eyes, etc. What a fun thing to do! Childhood memory, walking around the virtual universe.
I think my preteen self would smile at the thought. :)
When it comes down to it, for me (and maybe for you?) I do my "art" - writing, drawing, and SL futzing - for the joy of it. I made a stab at being a professional artist... got the Science Illustration degree, had (extremely EXTREMELY brief by my choice - story to come, most likely, on LJ) employment at a major magazine in NY... and also tried freelance.
It turned one of my joys into a job and I hated it. I worry that the same would happen if I turned my hand to writing fiction professionally. So, I draw (when I do) and design people on SL and write stories with and for friends... and I feel great joy of it. That suits me just fine.
Your photos are so beautiful, I suspect you might be able to parlay them into gallery showings, etc. Your writing likewise (well, not a gallery showing, but you get my drift). I presume that you, also, do these things for the joy of it without wanting to make it a career. So perhaps we're not too unalike in that way. :)