Saturday, September 30, 2017

W9-yunong photo blog

This week I continued to search some Chinese sim in Second Life. I found two places and one of them is pretty small. It seems like someone's Chinese house. There are many bamboos on both left and right side of the house. The surround environment is just like Chinese ink and wash paintings. Inside the house, furnitures also are made of wood. Traditional Chinese style decorations: paintings, porcelain, and a "guzheng"-Chinese instrument.





The other place is bigger than the first one. It is called "long men." "Long" means dragon and "Men"is door.
This place is not like the Chinese garden one which is very graceful. The buildings and decorations here are more relate to our common people's lives. There are Chinese traditional hotel"Ke zhan," Chinese snacks, Chinese traditional "store" that sell cloth, fortune teller, Chinese wine  on the side of road.




Also, I found taichi and sculpture of Budda here as well.



Thursday, September 28, 2017

W9-Amanda photoblog



This week I wanna explore some places where I could Learn Chinese, but unfortunately, I didn't find any, apart from language, culture is important to understand a City or country. So I decided to explore a place where could look closer into Chinese culture. This place was suggested by Andy from last semester.


Here is the beginning of the market, this food was called Tanghulu, click on it and I can keep it in my inventory and hold it in my hand, as snow in this snapshot. This is a typical Northern-China dessert which you can see sell on the street in winter in Beijing.


Here is an another place where sell food, have a bite with drinks.



This main building is called "Long Men hotel", which is become famous because of the film of the same name. Even for a Chinese, still attractive. I strongly suggest foreigner who is really interested in Chinese culture or architecture come to visit. This Chinese umbrella I got from the market.



It is really interesting that the developer built campfire here because this place was named "Long Men" which is a city in south China, and the campfire is northwest Chinese style. What I really like here is the avatar's pose when I sit down, very detail focused.



Up to the mountain, a big Buddha sits here and click on sit, the avatar could actually pray. Shows another detail.


 There are two Eight-Diagram tactics on the side of Buddha, go to the big one and click sit, my avatar starts to play Taiji, I'm surprised by this design, could not imagine how many works had been done on this small "ball".


And come to the small Eight-Diagram tactic, click sit, meditation with a floating position just as same as what Taoist do in Chinese myth.

This is a worth place to explore Chinese culture, although it isn't the whole thing, for people who are interested in Chinese religion or myth, cannot miss here. This place also can collaborate with Chinese school in SL where set up a homework of Chinese Culture observation.

Sunday, September 24, 2017

Habib W8 photo blog



This picture was taken in the ESL drive through and the picture presents a tutorial that outlines the main work’s principles of it.





This picture has two signboards in it. The first one shows us the calendar for the classes. By clicking at the bottom, one can find out the schedule. The second one is all about technical help and support about various things. If you click either of the signs, the program takes you back to your browser for the rest of the details.







This picture displays the form which the visitors can fill it to have a free class. They just need to add their SL accounts and some basic details. Then the land-owner will send a message when he finds the suitable classes for them.




This one has four signboards in it. The first one shows the visitors how to use the SL viewer, voice, hear and listen to music. The second board shows how to use the camera controls of the SL viewer. While the third board shows how to use the SL viewer’s walk, sit and Stand. The last board shows how to use the SL viewer’s Notecards (Accept, read, create and send).





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