Lazy Blogger :-)

Hi,

Time to post again... Yes, yes, I know, I'm not a good Blogger. Heck, it is probably because I spent way too much time in SL! I don't camp, so my counter is quite accurate. Yesterday I hit the magic 1000 hours on it. That means 1000 hours since the 1st of November (roughly) spent in areas where scripts are allowed to work. So it's actually quite a bit more (I joined SL on the 24th of October).
I just noticed it this morning. It is a copy, so this one won't change. :-)
How is everything? Lately I am spending most my time with my SL friends, talking about all the different sunbjects there are. I also help out new people who pass through the gallery to find my Money Tree. We also made a little private club on the top floor of the gallery to have some fun amongst friends.
Here is a picture of us having spontaneous fun!From left to right: Eclair, me, Akei, Anniette and Rave.
Of course these are not all my close friends, there are still some missing, but it was quite a nice moment to have 4 at the same place at the same time.

That's all for now, I'll do my best to write a bit more often. I'm a bit ashamed to have let it go for so long...

Building a Church

While I'm writing this, I just realised that I'm here 3 months. By approximation I 'played' in SL over 375 hours.
Just like any other newbie I had to learn the tricks on how to do things. Some things are easy to accomplish, others harder.
After building a couple of houses and being unhappy with each one, I'd set myself a new task. I wanted to build one of the -for me- most interesting buildings. Not only the outside, but also on the inside.


So here it is, Agios Nikodemos, currently being build in SL (SLURL) . I work hard on it to and try to be ready before Easter. Below is a photo of the church I took as a base to work from:


Yes, the church in the photo is real, it's on Crete. No, it's not Agios Nikodemos, I don't know it's name. The photographer of the church couldn't tell me either, it's taken about 5 years ago. I decided to dedicate this church to Saint Nikodemos (Agios = Saint), because he was one of the remarkable persons in history to write deep religous books and scripts. (See google: philokalia) For me it's inspirational, for others maybe too deep, too complex or just too far from the current thinking. That's ok, everyone his/her own. I love reading, I love learning and I'm open-minded, so I did read more than one religous book and am still reading.

I am just building this church so you can see, and partially experience, what a Greek Orthodox Church is like. Inside the church you will see the icon of Agios Nikodemos, conform the tradition. It was very hard for me to find one, especially since I do not live in Greece and have limited resources to get imagery over the internet from there. (Any good pictures are appriciated! See at the end for contact information.)
Here is another detailed example of what I managed to do:


So I try to do what I can. Probably after Easter I have better pictures, since I might be going to Greece to have Easter there, as I do every year. (Greeks will understand, and no, I'm -surprisingly enough- not Greek.)

Enjoy my work, as it is a continuous process of improvement and enhancement.
Feel free to leave me a tip, so far I have spend quite a bit of money on SL and don't nearly make enough here to cover the monthly costs. (I also run Gallery Anniette, nearby here.) One thing, if you visit the Gallery and you're under 30 days old, look around for the Money Tree. That's one of my ways of helping new people too.

Thanks for reading so far. You can contact me through IM if I'm online, but I prefer that you drop a note card in my inventory, those always arrive fine. :-)

Please enjoy my work and feel free to give any comments!

Ruadh Langwarrin

Future ideas:
- To be able to light a candle
- Animations for kissing the icons
- ???