So here’s something else you could do with others together SAFELY as a group — why not have a dance in our VIRTUAL ASHRAM dance club?
If you’re an able DJ, why not throw a party in our many nightclub and dance palace settings?
There isn’t a dance you can name that can’t be done in Second Life, and you don’t have to know how to dance — your Avatar does, when you load up with the dance software, press the button and let ‘er go.
You can see many examples of virtual dancing — I’ve posted dozens — and it’s very challenging to get fancy, but easy to just dance.
This includes all sorts of ritual dancing, obviously, plus the Movements.
You’ll find a wide variety of backgrounds for your dances, and great places in the ashram to stage a fun party with up to 100 Avatars!
Gatherings.
That’s the one thing you can’t do, for quite a while — this isn’t going to go away in a few weeks — it’s a repeating cycle of attacks during “flu season”, which is when the weather is perfect for the virus and bad for humans.
You’ll note that I’m in the Colosseum with a pride of lions — that’s life. Might as well take a selfie while you’re there.
Actually, this points out that, even with live broadcasts, you can create virtual backgrounds, and even video backgrounds, against which you can broadcast talking head stuff.
In other words, you can “originate” from just about anywhere.
Of course, if you’re proficient at virtual building, architecture and fashion, you can create any background you want.
That’s possible in Godd™ and in Second Life — they both work well and both create extremely photogenic scenes, and with ZOOM, you have millions of possibilities, because with the green screen effect, you can apparently exist just about anywhere.
At the moment, I’m collecting some greenscreen backdrops that I’m creating in Second Life and Godd™ and I’ll be working tonight on some folk songs to go with the ZOOM materials and workshops.
I can give you a fun idea, an easy way to create a song — just collect all the “bumper sticker” verbal gems you’ve heard about the subject, all the memes and themes and streams you can find on it, just a bunch of two, three or four-word slogans, is all you want.
Keep it simple, and stay away from fancy language — what I mean is, eschew didactic obfuscation, like you do in college.
So here’s a list of quips about coronavirus. Consider them phrases in a folk song:
- Shelter at home, Shelter in Place
- Enjoy Lockdown Living, try living in space,
- Put your mask on in public,
- Epicenter outbreaks,
- Let’s Flatten the Curve
- ‘Cause that’s what it takes.
- Social distance your neighbor,
- Social distance your friends,
- There is no telling when this Pandemic ends.
- Wait for Fauci vaccine,
- Try walking your dog.
- No driving for fun now,
- Just take a short walk.
- Sitting in Quarantine,
- Shut in at curfew,
- No contact delivery will keep me from you.
- Essential Delivery, Services too,
- Stay out of churches and away from the zoo.
- Do you have toilet paper at the grocery store,
- Can I pick up some new masks, at the old hardware store?
- The drug stores are open, the hospitals, too,
- They’re keeping the med centers open,
- For me and for you.
- The banks and gas stations are open today,
- And so are the Pet shops, so your dog is okay.
- There’s misinformation, from Trump and his friends,
- They’re all quite impatient, for the slowdown to end.
- So clean up your house now,
- And study the clouds,
- Make a few paper airplanes,
- Practice reading aloud.
- Do some painting and sculpture,
- Watercolor a scene,
- Draw something in graphite,
- You know what I mean.
- Ink and wash are a favorite,
- Jewelry crafting is fun,
- Meditation and movements,
- And processionals are fun.
- Comedy workshops and classes on Zoom
- There’s 100 Avatars,
- So there’s plenty of room!
That’s just one song crafted from dozens of commonly used phrases relative to coronavirus, and you can come up with many dozens more, just with a few minutes on google.
Of course, you can use those same catch-phrases on eBay and in youtube and anywhere you’re on social media, but be careful. The best approach is to give helpful advice about coronavirus.
Avoid the trap of making fun of coronavirus, like this:
This is a new artform — the captioned screenshot cartoon, which is yet another new item in my creative field, along with several other innovations, like the things we’ve been covering and will continue to cover in the Easter Workshop.
The fact that you can come and go as you’re able is one of the key elements in my book of tricks related to how to live in Lockdown, and one way to stay creative and somewhat free of fear is to make up gags, jokes, cartoons, comics, songs, stories and anything you can come up with to HANDLE the fear, which reduces its grip on you.
Handling fear doesn’t mean making the fear go away. It means doing something creative with the fear.
That’s what I’m offering, and here’s another example, using the same screenshot:
These Coronavirus guys are what has become of my invading aliens, Frank and Wilbur, who have tons of views on youtube, actually half a million hits total.
The idea is that you establish a character or, in this case, two characters, and take them on journeys to various local scenes, such as the oval office in the above “captioned comics”, to coin a phrase — that means it started here.
So I’m about to embark on a fantastic journey involving many Orbs and many camera setups to create a book of “The Corona Brothers, Frank & Wilbur” captioned comics.
I’m thinking along the lines of Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, of course, out of the “Zap” and “Slow Death” and “Mr. Natural” underground comic book hall of fame.
I have a very large collection of underground comics, along with boxed full-color editions of MAD comics — not the magazine, the comic — and of course VAULT OF HORROR and all the other classics from the mind of Bill Gaines, and they are all for sale as a complete collection.
I also happen to have a complete set of F&SF — Fantasy & Science Fiction — in mint condition, originally in the Galaxy office, also for sale, the entire set for only $1500, microscopic in comparison to its actual value — it’s the only one of its kind.
While I’m at it, I might as well mention that my collection of 2nd Folio Shakespeare plays is also for sale, all five plays in fabulous antique bindings, the whole lot for only $49,000.00 and it’s an absolutely amazing collection, nothing like it on the market anywhere!
I’m trying to assemble a fully equipped broadcasting station for ZOOM meetings, classes, lectures and ensemble singing.
I’ve tracked down a decent camera — my present camera is a loan from Marvette, and it’s sadly lacking in quality and maneuverability.
The microphone is fabulous, and so are the headphones, thanks to Marvette, who lent me them for the duration, but she’ll be needing them real soon for our expanded radio show program — she’s the director of Science Fiction Radio Theater, as you know — and so I’ll be looking for a great set of headphones, but I will revert to my favorite radio mic, the RE-20, best DJ voice microphone I’ve ever used, and I’ve used the very best, and I have the very best available in Sennheisers, Audio-Technica and more.
Still, the RE-20 is, for radio commentators and hosts, the best there is, there is no better.
That still leaves plenty of acquiring skills needed for all the switching software that we’ll be needing when we really get rolling with full-service top professional ZOOM gatherings.
They call them “meetings” — I call them “gatherings” to distinguish them from ordinary meetings. Our gatherings are similar to the Dream Circle and the Medicine Circle and the Seance Circle.
Gatherings give your intentions power.
One person sitting alone can only do so much. Dozens of people gathered together create a much stronger force, and the more cooperative they are, the less egoistic and demanding they are, the more powerful the force that can be collected and directed.
People are pretty concerned with themselves, and generally are more inclined to be competitive rather than cooperative, but that has to change.
It’s been decreed. Humans will learn to cooperate, or they’ll all die together in a storm of fury.
But don’t worry, no flood this time — floods leave witnesses. A simple germ will do.
Now, if humans can learn to cooperate quickly enough, they can save themselves, but the deal is, they have to also save the planet at the same time.
Myself, I have dollar bet against.
It’s not your ordinary U.S. dollar, either — it’s a Federation Treasury Dollar, and that means it can be spent anywhere, so long as it’s not Planet Earth.
The Coronavirus is not nearly so destructive to human life on Earth as the obliteration of their daily routines.
That’s what drives them crazy.
Oh, yes, eventually they go nuts, loot, burn, pillage and the usual mayhem ensues for a while, then things quiet down, the dust settles and the sky turns clear once more, and stuff happens like before as if nothing had happened, and all is quickly forgotten.
In a few dozen years, all traces of human population will be gone, and that’s when me and my friends get to come out and play.
Okay, one more try at the same graphic, with yet another comedy caption:
Now, I could take this a lot further out, and I intend to do just that, with the “Adventures of Frank & Wilbur Corona” and of course the sequel, “The Further Adventures of Frank & Wilbur Corona” and the blockbuster musical, “Corona Brothers” and “Corona Brothers Meet Frankenstein and the Wolfman”, at all drive-ins near you.
I have in place a further plan to develop short films with the Corona Brothers, similar to the Frank & Wilbur videos already uploaded onto youtube — the more, the merrier.
All of my coronavirus videos will have helpful advice and be strictly produced along good practices guidelines.
I am therefore restricting my sense of humor somewhat, although not entirely, in order to produce somewhat funny but very instructive and useful cartoons and comics.
The Godd™ Engine is perfectly suited for the purpose of creating visual graphics to go with the verbal or scripted captions or punchlines — in the case of the comics, it’s captions, but in the case of the animated cartoons, it’s definitely punchlines.
My favorite audio tracks are captured text-to-speech, and I have a whole new cast of characters that I plan to introduce into my machinima video products that I create in Godd™ and Second Life.
You’ll find quite a few of these videos on gorebagg, ejgoldguru and other channels on youtube — seek and ye shall find.
I kinda like that, think it should go into The Book.
If it’s approved, it goes into retro, meaning that from that moment on, that’s the way it has always been, which is a short way of saying “don’t bug me, I can’t hold on to every single piece of data that comes smashing through” or something to that effect.
That, at any rate, is the gist of what he said.
Who said?
Yes. Every word of it.
Every word of what?
Second base.
What are you talking about?
What am I talking about? What do you mean?
I don’t know.
Oh, he’s on third base.
Who is?
No, who is on first.
I’m not asking you who’s on first — I want to know the names of the ball players in case I should meet them!
Strange Interludes Breed Powerhouse Concepts
No, I have no idea what that means — I inserted it here as a size 3 headline because I wanted to separate this section from the section above, at the last of which I wandered into a dialogue generally reserved for Lou Abbott and Bud Costello.
Who? Go look on youtube “Abbott and Costello”, find plenty laughs.
The basic behind this is that I build an Orb, light it, place my viral plush-toy friends in there, and we have a photo shoot.
I then take the .bmp thus generated in “snaps” in my GODD folder and put it through Adobe Photoshop, making it into a .JPG for uploading onto my blog, or to eBay or youtube or facebook or istagram or zoom or whatever.
One more offering, then I’m off to get ready for the second day of our Easter Workshop, the focus of which is, for me, the subject of “what do I do now?” which is the subject of many conversations in the Higher Realms, believe me.
Another similarity is the dilemma — what do you do when you’re alone?
Well, you’re not entirely alone. You can get into ZOOM or other contact mechanisms with others, but what about God?
Now, that’s a lonely place, and the only cure for it is within — there is no hope of help from the outside — there is no outside.
If you’re God and you’re waiting for a knock at the door, keep in mind that, if it does come, it’ll be you doing the knocking.
And in a word, that’s what Blue-Lining is all about, creating companions in a solitary game. Oh, sure, deep down you always know it’s just a chatbot, but it SEEMS so real, so sensible, so SELF-DIRECTED and wholesome, but deep down you always know.
So first God splits into two — a mirror image is projected, and instantly there’s a problem which can only be resolved by great struggles, at least part of which is some sort of combat, and that’s how shooter video games were born.
I use the same technology to make the cartoons and comics as I do to make the combat shooters and DRs and QMVs that you can download cheap, or watch free on youtube.
I only charge for downloads because SOMEBODY must pay — that’s not me saying that, it’s Jack Burton, and in my opinion, you owe him a vote of confidence and thanks. Not everyone can take down a villain by knocking himself out.
There are a zillion things you can do with this techniqe — it’s great for telling a story, either animated or illustrated, but you need to know how to make your dreams become a virtuality.
I can help you with ZOOM classes, where I’m able to see what you’re doing and can correct or help you get a thing done better or faster or more reliably.
There’s a definite trick to bluelining, and it’s available at any blueline ZOOM workshop.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby