Taking Time to Open Your Eyes

(Photo credit: Marlene Collas)

At the Brooklyn is Watching event the other night, Eureka and I got to be part of a performance art of sorts, in which we were cast in fantastic poses and then photographed. One of the people who participated and snapped images was, SL's Marlene Collas. In a twist, she added different background images to them. In one of the images, we look like we were falling over green space. In hers, over water! We asked her if she'd write a bit for Dispatches about her take on things.

Marlene Collas sent us this dispatch:

I want to show you my little view of the world. The last few days I was walking around in Second Life on different places but always saw an interesting phenomenon: Most of the people in SL -- a world where you can change everything you have how ever you want -- are not able to see. That sounds wrong but I saw so many mistakes on the most of the Avatars and even in the world itself.

They wear clothes that don't fit and maybe they don't care or are too lazy to modify them. They wear rings and don't care that they are rotated into the finger and so on. That is not the problem. But, if they don't see such things on their own avatar, how could they see the beautiful things in this world? I mean it's kind of funny, but why is it so?

In my opinion, people don't see all the details they could see if they want and I thought about this. I think we have the same problem in Real Life too. Maybe it's because we don't have time or we think we don't have. Everything goes faster and bigger and "better"?

Well, this is why I love photos. They freeze time and give us time to see all details. Now combine this with the possibility to change the world how you want. For example Kat2 – the cute little panda you often can see on popcha (ed: The Brooklyn is Watching Sim) – showed me how easily you can change even the sky in SL to get a wonderful scene.

I built a small sphere with 40 of my favorite photos in SL and put it on a black pedestal. The sphere is very small and if you are too fast and too far away you will only see the pedestal.

What I want to say is: "Take time and view the world with open eyes."

(Thanks Marlene! We agree!)