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Dear cyberfriends,

some small improvements of Cyberbohemia:

We now have a new CNS (Cyberbohemia navigation system), that can be used to directly teleport to certain places on Cyberbohemia. Now it is a slowly rotating Obelisk, which is
pretty user-friendly, and its design fits much better in the ambience than the old green sign.

We have put up our own audio streamserver, so we are prepared for coming events which require a lifestream.

Our birthday party is scheduled for 25.09.10. Julius and I will get together in RL for the first time (!), and i'm really curious how a 2 years friendship in VR will be in RL... For the birthday event, we plan to make a life vernissage of Rolf Erhardt's exhibition "Tableau pictures" and an "underground" afterhour party with some nice trancy dancemusic in Cyberbohemia-The underworld with a life audiostream by DJ Galen

Love
Galen

Hello dear Cyberfriends,

with our new video production, I've entered a new, fascinating world. The possibilities of experimental machinimas are endless; the combination of video and virtual worlds ends just at the border of human imagination...

A very exciting outlook for me is the new connection to the Akasha project. This wonderful artist does very deep research in tunes, waves, harmony, all based on mathematics and harmonical theories. My english is not good enough to write an essence of his knowledge here in this blog, but you can read a lot about his project on his website www.akashaproject.de, and you can find some very good videos when you browse youtube for "Akasha Project".

Well, what he creates in audible wavelengths, we can do in visible wavelengths. Every tune can be transposed into a visible wavelength. Every tune equals a specific color, so basically music can be transposed into colors.
Akasha transposes different frequencies (tunes) into music; for example the frequency of the earths year, or the frequency of the hydrogen molecule. This complex method results in wonderful music, and much more, in music that can create physical and mental effects. Just because they are in tune with the molecules of your body.
The next step for us will be to make a video, where the colors fit to the music; where the colors of the video are the transposed tunes of the sound.

Our video -"a psychedelic dream" was made with the different environmet settings offered by the viewers windlight settings. I have used Akasha's track "blue mercury" as the underlying sound. In this first step, the sound was just added, but i didn't take care, if the colors are in tune with the music. Anyway, its a wonderful combination.

In one of the coming projects, i will take care of the correct fitting of sound/color. I'm really looking forward to it, I am myself very curious about the resulting effects. For sure, it will greatly enhance the experience for the viewing person.

On the other side, the preparations for Rolf Erhardt's pictures are at work. We finished the gallery for his "tableau pictures", we will now add his "ghost pictures". Then we have to add his "stone pictures", his portraits, his oil paintings and his aquarelle pictures.... soooo much work, but such an exciting work.

Enough for now, happy gridding,

love and light
Galen

Hello dear Cybertravellers,

yesterday, after a spontaneous photo shooting session, we decided to put up a small, but fine exhibition of three pictures in cyberbohemia's Observatory.
You can find the Observatory on the highest mountain in the northern part of Cyberbohemia.

The exhibition is called "Marbelous world" and contains photographs by Susanne Sindlinger.

A lot of work is going on all over Cyberbohemia. A new welcome area and many improvements (mainly in details) are done these days, so beware of falling rocks...and always wear a helmet

It also makes me pretty proud, that in the next OSGazette, there probably will be a small article about Cyberbohemia. It clearly shows me that we already have some attention in OSGrid, and that our concept of peace, beauty and art is accepted and welcome.

Actually, a few days ago, i decided to visit SL again, after a very long time. Two things I could instantly notice. The first thing (the positive thing) were the thousands of green dots on the map. Wow, really amazing how many people are in this world. Which brings me directly to the second observation...the major part of SL is ugly. Pure ugliness, lack of imagination, phantasy, and absolutely no space for beauty. This is no offence to the builders in SL, it only clearly tells me, that money leaves no space for beauty. Money is the death of beauty and creativity.
Its a deep concept question behind that. Cyberbohemia, for example, is done purely for beauty and creativity. Its my hobbie to maintain the servers and everything needed, and the costs are affordable, even for 14 sims. Second life is a different concept. The costs are high to run a sim, and people need to run a business to cover the costs and get an income. This results on most sims in basic structures, low prims, and many shops. Only few beautiful sims are left which are run by enthusiasts who can afford the high prices in SL.
So the virtual worlds are a good picture of our society. Compare the beauty of a modern shopping mall with the beauty of a nice garden; then you have the difference between SL and the open grids.

Good to have both alternatives. One for business, one for beauty. Well, I've made my choince, and I hope, one day people will discover OSGrid as a place of beauty and creativity, where they can spend some time far away from commerce. Hopefully, one day, OSGrid will have as many (or even more) green dots on the map, so people can easily socialize. Cyberbohemia will work hard to help increasing the number of visitors in OSGrid ...

Love and light
Galen

Hello dear cyberfriends,

after a few days of my forced brake of the internet, I'm back online. It's really amazing how lonely and cut-off from the world one can feel without internet access. Even the feeling of sitting in front of the PC is different. Without internet, the PC is just a lifeless machine; with internet, it has a certain feeling of connectedness. Hard to describe, but it makes definitely a difference.
Usually, I use the PC for eMail, webradio, surfing, and, of course, being inworld on Cyberbohemia. Offline, I use the PC for processing images or making music. The time for PC games is long gone; although I love the graphics and action of modern PC games (especially 3D games; Half-Life 2 is still my favourite).

But the forced break had one big advantage, I was able to coordinate our Dreamrezzer work on Cyberbohemia. We now have a great concept for the future, and although most of the Dreamrezzers know each other only virtually, we now got "closer together".
So the goal for the Dreamrezzers in 2010 is to make Cyberbohemia one of the nicest places and the best gallery in the cyberspace. That might sound a bit enthusiastic, but the Dreamrezzers are a community with extraordinary people. If each adds his/her skills to the project, the whole project can become something really big.

I'm sure, for you, dear visitors, it will be an amazing development, and my personal goal is, to give each visitor his/her personal eye-opener. Therefore, we will combine our building and multimedia skills with Neo-surrealistic art to create new, holistic artwork. Paintings, videos, sound, sculpties, everything can and will be combined to create new artwork and places of peace and harmony.

The whole process will be slow, good things need time. But you can take part of the development, I will inform you here in the blog about all new important steps. And the Dreamrezzers are not a closed community, so you are always welcome to get in contact with us, if you like to add your skills and heart to the project.

I wish you a wonderful day,

love and light
Galen

We started to prepare our first art exhibition in the OSGrid now. The exhibition will take place in our flying castle of "Laputa", which has enough great space and ambience for an art exhibition. We will exhibit the paintings of Rainer Huebner, a german artist. His pictures fit wonderful in our virtual world. Actually, many elements of his pictures are quite popular design elements in virtual worlds, for example the flying islands. In our gallery, you can have a quick look at the peparations.

We will announce the exhibition on the events page as soon as we see the end of our preparation. This might take a while, because the space is huge, and we will make it as beautiful as possible. Of course, everybody is welcome on Cyberbohemia central to have a look at the coming exhibition or to help us with our preparations Every help is very welcome.

Love, Galen

"Dedicated to nature, art, philosophy, spiritualism, love and culture",

the Dreamrezzer project is located on a beautiful landscape, coming from the real island of Semisopochnoi (Semisopochnoi in Wikipedia)

Cyberbohemia is about to be a living community, a meeting place, an art exhibition sim, a place for philosophical and spiritual discussions, and above all, a beautiful spot of nature and secrets.

The project is running by cyberbohemian and rainbow warrior Galen Technoshaman as architect, admin, scripter, terrains creator, and Julius Balogh as the main builder, texturer, landscaper and gardener.

Dreamrezzer's first art exhibition was located on the Openlife grid, where we've already done a brilliant vernissage with live streaming of the artist on a japanese garden sim.

You can find pictures of the exhibition here: http://olxchange.ning.com/photo/albums/dreamrezzer-exhibition
You can find some text about the exhibition here: http://olxchange.ning.com/profiles/blogs/exhibition-eschatological


We started our project in the Openlifegrid, but decided to move to a more "open" grid. The project is still on a kind of "alpha stage". You will (at least) find the Castle in the Sky, based on Miyazaki's Laputa (Laputa picture) , several small meeting places, a welcome area with Teleports, a slideshow, a notecard giver , and some fine tobacco.

You will also find a managed sandbox and some cool freebies on "Cyberbohemia sandbox", and we plan to make a homestead community sim for interested homeless artists and builders in the future, if there is some demand.

The central hub of Cyberbohemia is the region called "Cyberbohemia", thats where you should teleport.

As we are far away from the rest of the world, sometimes teleports get confused, and you end up on Cyberbohemia somewhere high in the sky in some kind of mouselook. To avoid this nasty bug, (re)start your viewer and enter "Cyberbohemia" in the "starting location" field of your viewer.


This place is a garden of delight but it's pretty empty for now, so let us know if you are interested in joining the project as a builder, scripter, artist, educator or just curious. For events, we have our own streaming server with at least 50+ slots (audio already exists, video under construction), and once we get voicechat running, we have a good method for conversation.

There's already a group dedicated for all the Dreamrezzers, so let's rock!

No matter, if you are interested to join the project, to help us with your inspiration or with your presence, or if you want to spend some time on Cyberbohemia ..... everybody is welcome at every time.

"Mi casa es su casa" ... or "Welcome home"

The Dreamrezzer project on the virtual island of Cyberbohemia in the OSGrid http://www.osgrid.org

We call ourselves "Dreamrezzers", meaning, that we create (rez) our dreams in virtual worlds. The word Dreamrezzer was invented by the mexican artist Enrique Ros, who used it as a brand in the virtual world Second life. We are proud to keep this name alife, since this word contains much of what its all about for us in virtual worlds.
The "new" Dreamrezzers were formed in the year 2008 in the Openlifegrid for an art exhibition of the german artist H.J. Kaeppeler. Julius Volken (now Julius Balogh) and Galen TechnoShaman created the ambience and the technical background for the exhibition, and formed this way the new Dreamrezzers. The exhibition was held on one sim, which was created as an entire japanese garden.

After the exhibition, Julius and Galen decided to move together to an open grid. The possibilities of an open grid are exciting for a builders community, although the management and the maintaining of the needed hardware is much more complicated than in a managed grid. The decision was made to move to the OSGrid. There we created our new home and called it Cyberbohemia. This name is based on the bohemian lifestyle, which is a sweet, artistic but simple life. Simple in means of consume and wealth, not in mental aspects...

Cyberbohemia now consists of 11 regions. 9 regions are the core island of Cyberbohemia plus one sandbox (hey, you are all invited to come and build on Cyberbohemia sandbox ... scripts are enabled for the moment, until it gets abused!!!) plus one showroom, which will be used in the future for commercial projects.

So we layed the seed for a living community in the OSGrid .... now its up to you to give it some life. You are always welcome to enjoy the beauty of Cyberbohemia, or if you are interested, to join the Dreamrezzers community.

Love, Galen