follow these bridges

and find your reward

click image to see the whole group at flckr, 26 images

click more to hear interview with the artist!
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Your favorite podcast needs your help. Are you a big corporation with a desire to join the ranks of such industry innovators as Popcha and Tekserve? Or a helpful individual with time and/or money on your hands? If so, read on.

Audio. In case you haven’t noticed, Brooklyn is Watching needs help recording our podcast. I’m not sure what exactly to ask for because I don’t know exactly what we need, but our jerry-rigged version of capturing sound over Second Life doesn’t work on a predictable basis. Can you help? We all got a glimpse of what a decent-sounding podcast sounds like in our last recording, and now it will be so much harder to go back to our deep-breathing, noisy typing days. Can anyone out there help us, either with corporate sponsorship (we will shill for you! all the time!!) that will give us the equipment we need, or with expertise and advice to help us through? Get in touch!!

Meanwhile, remember that hilarious episode of WKRP where Johnny kept getting more and more drunk and, in the process, more and more lucid and together?

Little known fact: your hosts on BiW have the exact same thing happen to them when they drink. Plus they’re funnier and they fight more. So:

Liquor sponsorship. The key to a good podcast is overconsumption of alcohol. We’re all so much more hilarious when we’ve been drinking and you want this to happen. Please note that Amy Freelunch doesn’t drink beer, but will accept just about anything else. Again, we’re talking about RL alcohol, not SL stuff. Have you brewed something especially delicious in your bathtub? Pop it in a bottle, label it, and send it on over. We’re not picky, except for the no beer thing.

Also, spa treatments. Kiehls, Lush, and Bliss really need to step up. Soon we will all be sharing a very small space for an extra-special episode of BiW, and it would be nice if we all smelled yummy. Or really, whatever. I just really need some new shampoo and whatnot and thought this might be a good place to ask for it.

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Dear Brooklyn is Watching,

I call dibs on talking about the two following pieces during our next podcast:

1. Nebulosus Severine’s “Look what you made me do” (and sure, you think I’m going to say something really awkward about how I just want to feel Nebulosus’ pain and I just don’t and blah blah blah… but no!! I actually have something kinda interesting to say about the piece that I think is worth bringing up and is constructive and will give us all stuff to talk about. And I promise I will only talk about my own psychological issues, therapy, SSRIs, and how much I hate my mother, oh, like a few times. But that’s it. Hear me out - I have good things to say).

And on the opposite end of the spectrum…

2. Tsui Yamabushi’s scenes with penis characters in them. Come on!!! You know you want to talk about them in your super-serious art school voice!!!

The Yoda sculpture I leave to you guys.

love always,
Amy Freelunch

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I had some time before we recorded our podcast to zoom around the sim snapping pics of everything i could see that was new since the last podcast– I put them all in a list on delicious here, check it out.

Here are a few of the pics — many of these works missed out on getting discussed on the podcast- dear blog readers, what do you think of them?

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Ok! its ready–you can download it directly here

Or get it on blip ….

Or get it from iTunes

and also there is Feedburner

For once, our sound quality is good throughout this our seventh episode. Hooray! We are joined by two special-guest SL artists, Strawbery Holiday and Sabine Stonebender and Kat2 Kit chimes in via IM. Don was out sick this week but Amy, Boris and Jay try to make up for it by being extra opinionated. We also announce and exciting new sponsorship that is going to make the physical installation in the gallery even better. We love you Tekserve! Also there’s a party at Jack the Pelican on friday on friday april 25 4-6pm SLT come show up on our screen and blow some noob-minds! Participants: Strawberry Holiday, Sabine Stonebender, Kat2 Kit, Boris Kizelshteyn, Jay Van Buren, Amy Wilson. Artists discussed: Strawberry Holiday, Ichibot Nishi, Juria Yoshikawa, RacerX Gullwing, Nebulosus Severine, Kat2 Kit

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One work that didn’t get the attention I wish it had last week was this one by Cheen Pitney:

Cheen is having a show right now in SL which you can read about here.

Cheen, are those tear drops coming from the eye? are they phalli representing the The Gaze of the art-fans of brooklyn?

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Last week I Juria Yoshikawa invited me to his sim to view his artwork called Kaleidoscope Flowerchild Glowball. We talked for a while and I reprint here the chat log, with his permission, of our conversation:

You: howdy!

[2008/04/14 8:59] Juria Yoshikawa: need to have your sound on too

[2008/04/14 8:59] You: my girlfriend thinks i should get a viking hat in real life

[2008/04/14 8:59] Juria Yoshikawa: yeah nice look

[2008/04/14 8:59] You:

[2008/04/14 8:59] Juria Yoshikawa: is the glow working now?

[2008/04/14 8:59] You: ok, i’m in a coffee shop in brooklyn- i’m going to see if i have my headphones so i can hear the sound

[2008/04/14 9:00] Juria Yoshikawa: yes good idea

[2008/04/14 9:00] Juria Yoshikawa: i love those wireless coffee shops

[2008/04/14 9:00] Juria Yoshikawa: crank up the sound

[2008/04/14 9:00] Juria Yoshikawa: about 60% will do

[2008/04/14 9:01] Juria Yoshikawa: i think you have the same laptop as me

[2008/04/14 9:01] Juria Yoshikawa: is it 17in?

[2008/04/14 9:01] You: ok, hang on- i need to get SL to talk to my headset

[2008/04/14 9:01] Juria Yoshikawa: this is my sim

[2008/04/14 9:01] Juria Yoshikawa: it’s always night

[2008/04/14 9:02] Juria Yoshikawa: since most of my work is made for the dark
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