Voodoo Shilton melts clocks in a 3D world

I just bet that more than a few of you have stopped to think how much Salvador Dali would have enjoyed Second Life®...

There's Gary Kohime and Izikael Novi who were inspired by his Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) to create their own Unconsious Crucifixion - Dark Night of the Soul for the Garden of NPIRL Delights last spring.

Now Voodoo Shilton's rendition of Dali's "La Persistencia de Memoria" [1931] (The Persistence of Memory) is visitable by teleporting directly from here.



Says Voodoo, "I've long been a fan of surrealist artists (M. C. Escher and Salvador Dali in particular) and thought a Second Life interpretation of Dali's classic was long overdue. For me the melting watches are a metaphor for the relativity of time and space, a relatively new concept at the time of Dali's work. The artwork as a dream allegory combines new understandings of the universe with the mystical personal experience of the individual. It was a landmark, mind-broadening artwork for its time that asks us to reconsider assumptions about reality and existence."

Oh! Thanks to Voodoo, I realized last night that Dali placed a poseball in his painting. It's right there, I swear!

A house and a home Escher would have been proud of

Furia Freeloader (rez: 12/8/2005) built the Escher Relativity House in Second Life one year ago, and I am only just hearing about it, thanks to a wonderful notecard from Voodoo Shilton. Voodoo, thank you!


An in-world recreation of M.C. Escher's Relativity House, but instead of figures, you will find poseballs so that you, too, can become part of each specific gravity well

When you visit it, you can pick up a free copy of Furia's book (teleport directly from here).

As Furia explains it, "This house was created as a statement of what is possible when you free your mind from real life constraints. Aside from being a three-dimensional rendition of Escher's famed work, 'Relativity,' this house is a fully functional, livable, interactive home."


The original Relativity House, where the normal laws of gravity do not apply

In her book, she goes on to say,"The work by Escher shows figures oriented with three different directions of gravity. Rather than changing the direction of gravity in the house, however, I chose to let the house itself rotate. The result is a house that is, in essence really, three houses in one."

"Each of the poses in the work by Escher was recreated with color coded poseballs, corresponding to the different directions of gravity. The rotation of the house is achieved using a single control prim, a cube with color coded sides. Every aspect of the house is controlled by this cute, from rotation, to home security/privacy, to even storing and rezzing the home. Furnishings are also scripted and will rotate with the orientation of the house."



Nowadays, Furia works full time in Second Life as a builder. She scripts, animates, builds, textures and sculpts "just about anything anyone wants," including skins. Her biggest store is on the Planet of Taris: Furious Star Wars Avatars (teleport directly from here.)

All photographs taken in Second Life by Furia Freeloader