I really am floored when i look back over this amazing archive, part on and part two, assembled by anaamakatva Schor in the past couple months. Since he found the project he’s been taking pictures, many of them very beautiful, or funny, of pretty much everything that has happened at BiW. Looking back I can remember all the things that people were saying and thinking in the gallery when these various objects were around.

Artists of BIW, i just want to say thank you for everything so far and I can’t wait to see what is next. I remember Don saying to me when we got the screen installed “what if no body does anything at all?” and I told him “don’t worry”– basically– i was telling him “if we build it, they will come” and damn have y’all come… and seen and conquered! Its totally amazing.

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thanks newt. i’m working on the third set today. also, shirley and i went off to make some dancing and making out snapshots; not all at BiW but still fun.

those are up on the links page of joelgarnier.com

one thing that people might want to know is that these snapshots are made using the latest release candidate on an Ubuntu Linux beta testing machine with only integrated intel graphics. i try to take advantage of the rezzing flaws and so on to get unusual images.

also, the images are all about 1.9Mb, and can be copied easily. i will limit the sets to about 50 images in the future to reduce the load time of the google docs presentation.

there is a 2Mb limit for google docs images, set recently, so anyone wanting to make a collection should set screen resolution so that the bitmaps come in under the google limit… save yourself some hell…

ahh, yep that’s all.

http://www.joelgarnier.com/links-group-211.html

there’s the set #3 link

so far i’ve simply organized snapshots with each linux release candidate. limiting each set to 50 or so images complicates that some. i’m happy to be a tourist and make these collections.

i might be able to start a fun SL project next year, for open design. sort of like BiW but instead of featuring art, i’d like to have a place to show technology published as creative commons and and open source. i like machines, especially the ones that work correctly…

thanks much for all the beauty. it’s excellent fun to document.

j

here’s set 9. it’s short and since shirley was around, it turned into a kissing poseball by the tower session:

http://www.joelgarnier.com/links-group-232.html

also, i had some fun with Selavay Oh’s nested cubes, so i collected a few shots of her stuff into this slide show:

http://www.joelgarnier.com/links-group-233.html

the title page has this URL, for her flickr page:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/selavyoh/

now, here’s to the Oh.

ten peanut butter and jelly sandwiches:

http://www.joelgarnier.com/links-group-238.html

looks like it took about a month to get another one of these sets together.

http://www.joelgarnier.com/links-group-241.html

i figure it’s shirley’s job to get proper images and mine to get interesting views. i still look at the sets for fun.

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