sophrosyne_sl: Home and career

Sophrosyne Stenvaag (

sophrosyne_sl) wrote,
@ 2007-04-29 22:55:00

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Home and career
I want a home NOW! I'm spending the nights in a little dell somewhere. It's pretty, but it's still homelessness.

So I want to buy land and build as soon as I can - which might be a week or more, with time and money being what they are. But at least I can plan!

Here's what I want:

My style is "Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan:" spare and open, rough materials, lots of light.
I want a living room big enough for parties, and a kitchen to match. Not that I cook! But the caterers need room to set up in. :P
A bedroom. And isn't it a good thing my closet won't actually have to *contain* my wardrobe!
A study, with a glass-and steel desk for my tower computer and big widescreen monitor. A couch and a comfy chair, for thinking naps. *g* And a drafting table with a white board and corkboard.
Outside, zen-garden style. A sandy area big enough to do my katas in, that I can rake into interesting patterns afterwards. And a hot tub big enough for 4-6. And some patio furniture, for days when it's nice enough to work outside.

And I do mean work. I'm serious about being self-supporting. It'll probably take a year or more to get there, but I think I can make it as a designer or an architect.

I've got an emerging style I can only find bits and pieces of: it's sort of traditional Chinese/exercise wear/goth - like what an emo 22nd Century ninja would wear. :-) There's *got* to be a market for that, right? *g* And I can get to the point where I'm blending the same influences in architecture and interior design.

So I'm going to be spending a lot of time at that drafting table, learning and practicing! Then open up a shop and consultancy...

Soph's got big plans!

First step? Sleeping *indoors*!

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centrasian_wise
2007-09-08 08:44 am UTC (link)

I remember I was surprised (a bit *shocked* even) when reading this post some time ago (and I was doing it already knowing 'mature', somehow 'grown-up' soph). I was not so much surprised with the fact that virtual people need bedrooms too - at the end we all know that the room you can see through the glass is just the same as our room, only the things go the other way

But I remember missing somehow the higher degree of the 'other-way-ness'. Let me explain.

Imaging soph-isticated Ancient Greeks; when (and if) they would start imagining the future lives of their ancestors, they would most likely created a vision of a house with 'bedrooms' and 'kitchens' - most likely, more or less similar to their own, but still trying to imagine them *different*. But they would unlikely imaging, say, an electric plug, or a light switch on a wall of this future house - and we know why; poor Ancient Greeks didn't know anything about electricity, and its role for the 'future people'.

Now, my question for myself (and to you too, if you will be in the mood to spend few moments thinking about it) is about the 'things' we can't event imagine as *necessary* for the future people (e.g., digital ones) but which they would see as irreplaceable.

In one your most recent postings you put the picture of you being 'charged' (slightly pun-intentional Low Bat). Oh, that's interesting, thought I. Surely Digital People have to have some sort if interesting relations with *energy* - whether it is plain vanilla electricity, or *something else*. And sure there should be some sort of thinking about 'interfaces' in that direction...

Such traces of yet unimaginable futures is what I am very eager to find, to sense in SL.

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	centrasian_wise 2007-09-08 12:02 pm UTC (link)
	Just as a matter of bringing a more visual layer into the conversation - how much do we understand the ways of living in a house of that kind? or see the point of interior of that sort? (I have to add that in this 'world' all the parts are also moving, and glowing) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sophrosyne_sl 2007-09-08 06:32 pm UTC (link)
	@_@ ! has new things to think about..... (Reply to this)(Parent)

sophrosyne_sl
2007-09-08 06:13 pm UTC (link)

Gotcha, definitely. It's something I started thinking about in earnest once I got that house built, and beyond. The Frankenhouse was *very* much an atomic analog, "the room in the glass," in your marvelous phrase. It had patio furniture, a drafting table, a ceiling fan -

In retrospect, it manifested the same impulses as that "architectural griefing" monstrosity did. The owner of that thing was part of the in-world presence of an atomic media corporation, and chose a scaled-up media executive mansion. I built a scaled-up young designer's atelier.

It was the technological metaphor in its most literal interpretation, the "horseless carriage" rather than the "automobile."

What do we manifest in the digital realm? You and I might be identifying some stages:

1. Literal 1-1 correspondence.
2. Sloughing off the extraneous. What's extraneous is a personal choice. My kitchen went first, and the drafting tables and desks soon after. One of the people on my friends list, Karl Herber, however, is a furniture maker who specializes in kitchens. The sensuality of food and food preparation is central to him, as watching the waves from my teahouse is to me, or displaying the large-scale artworks of my friends.
3. Realizing the potentials, and learning the conventions, of SL design. The Frankenhouse had a staircase. The Loft? My bed was on a floating platform that you had to fly up to.
4. Abandoning preconceptions, and playing with function and form as raw elements.

I'm not at 4 yet, but *somebody* I know is pushing me out there! :)

It's interesting to read the spaces we design: the Aerie is a nest of small-group welcoming social spaces, and nothing else. Galatea's Home 3.1 reads as a dance club owned by an aviatrix. Faerie and Dunan's home is a private sanctuary.

Energy... very interesting. The Borg concept of recharge stations (I can't find the proper term) seems to be a popular one with DPs. I have one in inventory that a friend made me - I really should do something with it (subculture fetish note - it shows a similar impulse to dolly-culture posing stands....). Galatea uses energy metaphors a lot - LOW BAT is an old joke of hers.

There's definitely a lot there to play with....

Gods, Centrasian, you and I need to just sit down and *talk* sometime *soon*! So much creative flow!

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