Five returns to the Sandbox (in search for art)

Where are the times when Five hadn’t enough land, or friends with land to experiment with building. Five’s first experiments, on lights for a dj, where done in the garden of a travelling agency. Sitting in a chair to earn the first Linden dollars Five even made the five sided table and chairs you can still see in Contrechoc. Suddenly the owner appeared, and everything was gone!

Some evening we tested the dj devices in a sandbox and a French dj called Anamkhai Sodwind came along. It was in a sandbox, where you can experiment, because you don’t disturb other people and enough prims are available. The only problem is that these places clean up regularly, so beware, you might loose hours of work, just like that. Second Life is unstable compared to Real Life, but Second Life is stable relative to Sandboxes! This French dj, which could easily be identified by his very funny portable dj set, looked at our work and got out of his inventory an enormous dj-disco set. After a few somersaults, he was able to talk to us…. Really amazing! Later on he put down a sort of enormous building.

This is the fun of the sandbox, you can see people experiment on the most simple level, see for instance the couple working on their first bed…well even with their bed they have a bit to learn, never even arriving at using it properly....but also watch real specialists at work.

They conjure up their most exquisite work like that, and put it back in their pocket! Some sandboxes are in connection with a sim with a theme. For instance the sandbox of Elvenmoor. Here you can meet people working in the theme of the Elven, which is quite fun. Palaces, castles, enormous decorated swords, but also enchanted woods in a box can be seen there, if you are lucky.

A special place for me is Serenity Woods. Here Five presented for the first time, projecting the image of SL in RL ! Also the surroundings of Serenity Woods are worth taking a look at. Trees! Living in trees, working in trees, hm, Five likes very much to “think” in trees... Tree houses are seen a lot around here, some are very inventive! The sandbox typically is surrounded by wood logs. With a sort of Startreck teleporter you can also try out the floating platform.

Polkadot is more of the next age: you must get there using funny rockets. You can choose different platforms, floating in the air. Since this is connected to an airport, you must not be surprised to encounter enormous airplanes over here. Very funny to explore are the levels between the platforms, but you must have a ninja feather or something like it, because on this height normal flying is not possible.

In the last blogg about art we were left with the problem of looking for art in SL. The Sandboxes are really the greenhouses of Second Life building and creating. But you must be lucky! Not always interesting things are around and you only meet guys from the jumble sale, trying to sell you things you can get free in the places offering freebies….