Ouverture des bureaux de la Real Tour Agency

La Real Tour Agency vient d'ouvrir ses bureaux à Paris 1900, un lieu idéal,  deux pas de Notre-Dame de Paris et à un saut de l'Arc de Triomphe.
Nous vous accueillons dans nos bureaux, http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Paris%201900/130/117/38 d'où l'on a une belle vue de Notre-Dame.

Merci aux responsables de la sim pour leur accueil.

le château de Sternberg

Retour avec le château de Sternberg, qui est d'ailleurs plutôt celui de Biebrich, qui fait maintenant partie de Wiesbaden. Ce château construit au début du XVIIIe siècle a été progressivement reconstruit sur Second life, comme le rapelle d'ailleurs l'exposition que l'on trouve dans le sous-sol du château.


Ce château est au coeur d'un espace à l'ambiance germanique affirmée intéressant à explorer, même si on n'y trouve que peu de bâtiments réels.

N'hésitez pas à me contacter pour vous guider en ces lieux http://slurl.com/secondlife/Morkeleb/176/101/22

for those who love Van Gogh

The 3d version of some of Van Gogh' paintings, dating from the Arles period (1888-1889) is an original work, worthy of attention. You can explore the sim to discover the world of one of the most famous painters of the 19th century.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Arles/77/86/22

Rencontre avec la créatrice de la Grand'Place de Bruxelle

J'ai rencontré la créatrice de la grand' place de Bruxelles, et je lui ai posé quelques questions.

Eumelos Pyrithea : Pouvez-vous vous présenter ?

Pascale Boucher : Bonjour, je suis belge, j'ai 47 ans, je m'appelle Pascale

E. P. : Pourquoi avoir choisi de reconstruire ces bâtiments RL sur SL ?

P. B. : J'adore Bruxelles

E. P. : Combien êtes-vous pour reconstruire la Grande place ?

P. B. : Juste moi :-)

E. P. : Quelle est votre propre oeuvre favorite ?

P. B. : La grand'place

E. P. : Que pensez-vous du tourisme sur SL ?

P. B. : Mmhh, j'aurai espéré voir plus de monde ici

E. P. : Quels sont vos projets sur SL ?

P. B. : Continuer à améliorer Bruxelles

J'espère que ces quelques mots vous donneront envie d'aller faire un tour à Bruxelles

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fifth%20Avenue/202/168/22

Je reviendrai bientôt sur d'autres lieux belges comme l'atomium ou Bruges

Real Tour agency

I have founded my group Real Tour Agency on Sl in order to develop tourist activities and informations about RL buildings on SL. It allows builders to send notices about their RL buildings on SL : party for inauguration, conferences, and so on...

People sinterestd in culture are welcomed in the group;
i hope to see you soon in the group.

Viva Espana !

Après un séjour nordique avec Doctor Asp, nous voici plein sud en Espagne pour visiter la ville de Gijon. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Second%20Gijon/180/108/25



Cette ville très ancienne nous offre une sélection de divers bâtiments depuis les thermes romains du Ier siècle jusqu'à l'Eloge de l'Horizon du sculpteur espagnol Eduardo Chillida de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle.

En parcourant la Sim, on peut voir les églises san Lorenzo et san Piedro, l'université des travailleurs, et pour finir avec un peu de détente une visite du jardin botanique et de l'aquarium s'impose.

http://secondgijon.blogspot.com/

Danish sim!

A little Tour in Denmark http://slurl.com/secondlife/Wonderful%20Denmark/128/128/2

Eumelos Pyrithea : Can you present yourself ?

Doctor Asp : I´m Doctor Asp, founder of Wonderful Denmark in SL. In RL I own the company called http://wonderfuldenmark.dk/and for the last three years I´ve been working in various virtual worlds like SL and OpenSim for several danish clients.

E. P. : Why have you choosen to reconstruct these RL buildings on SL ?

D. A. : The sim Wonderful Denmark in SL is my 3D business card to show the capabilities of both myself and my skilled colleagues. When we established the sim three years ago, we desided to build a typical cozy danish town. A part of the town was build as a replica of a very well known town from a danish TV-series called Matador and that was our first rl buildings in SL.

E. P. : How many are you in order to build these RL buildings ?

D. A. : We are two main builders in Wonderful Denmark.

E. P. : Which is your own favorite work ?

D. A. : I like the railroad station Svinninge which is a beautiful building. I also like the Højbygaard Sugarfactory which is a huge factory and I haven´t constructed all the buildings yet.

E. P. : What do you think about the tourism on SL ?

D. A. : SL is an excellent platform for virtual tourism. From your own living room you can travel all around the world and visit beautiful places and even meet the local population.

E. P. : What are your projects on SL ?

D. A. : At the moment I work on a copy of the danish Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde. Next up is five 1.000 year old viking ships.

theatron

An impressionnin history of the theater through the age.
The temple of Venus in the Pompey theater in Roma

The Globe, Shakespeare theater in London

Pompey thatre in Roma, the Globe, Epidaurus, Bayreuth are some of these 25 theaters reconstructed. There is an interesting guide system. You have to rez the theater you want to visit, which can takes somes minutes, but the result is astonishing !

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Theatron/5/12/52

Mont Saint Michel

Un classique du tourisme français : le Mont saint Michel. On peut explorer tous ces secrets, se promener dans la ruelle étroite qui mène de la plage à l'abbaye bééndictine du Xe siècle, faire du shopping auprès des quelques marchands...
Une belle photo d'un photographe français
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirko_ember/3313072419/



http://slurl.com/secondlife/Edelweiss/124/245/311

The builder of Shuri Castle speaks to us !

I have met few days ago InuYasha Meiji,the builder of Shuri castle, for few questions.

Eumelos : Can you present yourself ?

InuYasha Meiji : Konnichiwa, I am InuYasha Meiji, Builder, and medium range scripter in Second life. I joined Secondlife. just about the time my many years of Insulin dependant Diabetes started to cause other related medical problems. I really needed a way to let out my artistic side, and do some of the things I could no longer do in real life, as well as, show that I still had some usefulness. I joined Secondlife and started to learn to build. As the same time, I began to watch Japanese Anime and my favorites always seemed set during the Sengoku to early Edo periods. InuYasha, Rurouni Kenshin and Samurai Champloo, just to name a few.
My favorite storyline was in InuYasha. The Half Dog demon considerrd diluted by his mother being human. There was so many characters, that the others met along the story line, based on ancient Japanese and Chinese mythology, it sparked my interest in finding out even more about the Asian Culture.

E : why have you choosen to reconstruct Shuri Castle on SL ?

I M : Back in 2005 I joined SL and after doing research to figure out what I will be creating first, I joined an event in an Asian building contest. On the off chance I might win some lindens. I took a chance and tried to build a small Japanese home. My computer wasn't as good as it is now, and I didn't see the crack in my floor. I did not quite get it lined up. Between my graphics card and a recent eye surgery, the crack got me disqualified.
Lucky for me I met a wonderful woman who wanted to encourage more Asian builders in Secondlife. She also thought I had a lot of promise. Her name is Snakekiss Noir. She has been in Secondlife since it started. Snakekiss joined in 2003, back when Linden Labs still offered lifetime membership. She gave me a deal I could not refuse. She would buy me 9000+ square meters of land and pay the tier if I would build her a Japanese Castle. I chose Shuri Castle because it fit the criteria as well as gave me room to not be limited to purely Japanese.
I am triing to keep the story short, but Shuri Castle was built in real life in Naha. Shuri-jo was the seat of power of the Kingdom of Ryukyu. Before the year 1609, it was the kingdom's golden era. Naha port was the center of Asian trade for many centuries before. Tokogawa, who controlled mainland Japan, sent the Setsune samurai clan, to take control of the Ryukyus, in 1609. So, Ryukyu was trading with China, Taiwan, Korea, India and others all that time. Leaving me open to try my hand at building items from all over Asia. As time has gone on, I have learned much more about Ryukyu, its religions, and culture. I have a lot more detail work to go. On another note; This is only the Seiden. The most important building of the Castle. But, it is not the entire castle. I would need at least two fairly flat sims for that. The real castle is at an angle facing almost Southwest. To get it all correct it would take more then two sims because of the angle. The full size, including sotne walls is around 250m x 450m at that Southwest angle. Snakekiss and I choose a beautiful spot overlooking a bay in Butler sim, and I started my constuction.

E : How many are you in order to build Shuri Castle ?

I M : I built the Castle Structure of the Seiden myself. Before I got the Dragons on the roof, I met a woman who I became great friends with. She had been building a line of litle avatars and objects that go with her own internet comics, called Furfire. She had been drawing for years. They were called Yappitys. She does really nice animal faces including dragons. She also has a talent for drawing textures like Asian dragons and symbols by hand on a tablet. She is the creator of the golden dragons on my Seiden's roof. You have told me you want me to stick to the castle, so I won't get into the other things, in the area, that she has helped with. She does do other textures and will be doing some amazine stuff. She has given me full permision to use on my products. She has been paying for the rest of the sim tier, I can not pay for, out of my disability check.

E : Which is your own favorite work ?

I M : I am not sure if you mean what kind of work in SL is my favorite, or what finished product is my favorite? I really enjoy doing research and trying my best to get the details right, on real life objects from Asian history. If you ment what product, I have to say my boats. I have been getting lots of feedback on them and will eventually get a whole new boat out adding many of the request to the boat, including using SL wind, more riders, movable seating positions and so on. Especially being able to anchor them, for fishing tournaments and such.

E : What do you think about the tourism on SL ?

I M : Funny Question, I really did build the Castle for the people who wanted to see a place like it. And made it relaxing and away from the noise of clubs and malls for that reason. I also included a few things to make it a great place to bring a date. A little roamntic place to go horse back riding, see animals and watch the second life nightly fireworks. I never really knew about SL tourism that much. I didn't know there was a market until I tried it. Unlike a club or mall, there don't seem to be loads of people here, 24 hours a day. People tend to trickle in and out. We get lots of compliments on the place and return visitors. The main rules of the sim are simple; be respectful of others. If you intend to roleplay, it is allowed, but try not to bother others who are not involved in the roleplay, you and your friends are into. You or they can ask to join. Meaning if you see a couple on a date watching fireworks, don't run up to them and go hitting them with a weapon or something. I do have a dance ball system with 34 danses in the throne room. The rest of the land plays Classical Chinese and Japanese music to relax and even meditate to. If someone wants to come see the Castle as part of a listed tourist site, that is a great idea. Everyone is welcome to see it and come back anytime. Butler sim is a living sim in a way. It will never be completed, there is always changes coming. We have more plans for it and changes coming.

E : What are your projects on SL ?

I M :Really my only project is Butler sim. It takes up much of my wakeing hours. Because in this one sim I have the Seiden, the dock with boats, the forest, Ryukyu style homes, and as time goes on I learn more about the late Sengoku and early Edo periods of Ryukyu. As I learn more, I will replace items that don't belong with more items that did. Plus I want to replace items I have bought from others with those of my own. Making more detailed and correct versions for my time period. This covers everything from simple rice paper lanterns totrees and animals. This is why I said I have a long way to go. All this and I will be using opensim software to work on my own home grid so I can build the entire Castle and let those interested come see it when it is complete. But as far as having other projects in SL goes, I have no extra time for them. I have to much to build and replace only in Butler sim. Plans are to create a simple village, full Shinto Shrine, Castle Seiden update, SL wind sailing boats as well as full sized junk ships and trade vessles of the early Edo periods in Ryukyu, I have one person in the one rental we have here, plans are to include three more.

E : Thanks for your time

Al-Andalus on Second life

Al-Andalus is the rebuilding of some of the more famous building of the Arabo-islamic Spain : the Cordoba Mosque and the Alhambra of Granada. It was the testimony of a rich culture.

You can make a tour with a flying carpet or walking in the streets to discover the masterpiece of the arabo-islamic culture in Spain. or call me...;-)

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Al%20Andalus%20Alhambra/73/136/47

Japan tour

I have discovering some sims about Japan. We can make a 2 hours tour in Japan history through castles, temples and ships. We can see Kumamoto, Edo, Himeji, Shuri castles, the most importants castles for Japan history...
1000 ls for the tour.
send me a notecard.

Japan trip

Japan is a unusual world for me. SL is the best way without flying to discover in 3D some of the most important Japan monuments.

Here is the Kumamoto castle build during the begining of the XVIIth century.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/KUMAMOTO%20JAPAN/217/137/28

Incontro col creatore di Siena, Lupo Hian!

Oggi vi presento un'intervista di Lupo Hian, il creatore di Siena, chi ha accettato di rispondere a qualche domanda.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Siena/18/239/28





La bella Siena è una precisa e puntuale ricostruzione della Siena del '500. Siena è il posto ideale per scambiare quattro chiacchere in allegria e serenità fra bellezze artistiche e costumi rinascimentali. Oltre alle opere che potete trovarvi, avrete anche la possibilità di vedere e partecipare al role play che si svolge nella parte del palazzo pubblico, oppure quello più battagliero che c'e' tra i gruppi residenti in Siena. E' una Sim in movimento ogni giorno c'e' una novità.


Perche hai deciso di ricostruire Siena su SL ?
Sono un amante del medioevo italiano, e Siena a parer mio rappresenta una delle massime espressioni di quel periodo in Italia. Inoltre vissi in quesata città un breve periodo durante gli anni dell'università, da allora ce l'ho nel cuore!!


Quanti siete per questo scopo ?
Inizialmente progettai e realizzai Siena da solo per il building con l'aiuto di una cara amica che si occupava della parte logistica (Alejandra Balhaus). Come tutti sappiamo la parte costruttiva di una sim necessita manutenzione, Kuk Dudek è l'altra persona che si occupa del maquillage e delle costruzioni di Siena. Essa cresce di giorno in giorno ed in due è molto meno faticoso. Per quanto riguarda invece la parte logistica il gdr l'accoglienza etc. , abbiamo a Siena un gruppo compatto di persone che amano la Sim e che lavorano per darle lustro e funzionalità, nonche' organizzare Gdr per divertire i nostri amici che vivono la Sim, dovrei citarti una quantità enorme di persone che prestano la loro opera dimanticando sicuramente qualcuno.quindi ti citero' solo i capi di ogni settore organizzativo di Siena:Ablasor Splitter , Alejandra Balhaus, Aquila666 Allen, Elena Braham, Eliah Tenk, Gianfranco Lupindo e Lady Lupindo, Kuk Dudek, Lalida Glass, MandyRoo Shan, Neo Komparu; senza di essi Siena non potrebbe essere com'e'.


Qual'è la tua opera che preferisci ? perché ?
L'opera che piu' amo in Siena? il Duomo, (La Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta) è un'opera maestosa molto difficile da realizzare e che mi ha richiesto un lavoro enorme di ricerca e di studio per la sua realizzazione. Oggi è molto visitato, i senesi lo usano per unirsi in matrimonio, trovo persone che entrano all'interno anche solo per curiosare .Una bella soddisfazione :-)


Che cosa pensi del turismo su Sl ?
Credo che la tua mission sia molto interessante e costruttiva, Siena è Organizzata da parecchio tempo con un'accoglienza che si occupa delle visitse turistiche in Siena, noi pensiamo sia uno degli sbocchi futuri per SL. sono al 100% a favore di uno sviluppo di questo settore in SL.


Quali sono i tuoi progetti di creazione ?
Per ora Siena non mi lascia molto tempo a disposizione in sl per occuparmi di altre opere, cmq a parte le varie Opere che esistono in Siena, voglio citarne una che mi sta a cuore, FallingWater di Frank Lloyd Wright (conosciuta col nome: La casa sulla cascata) è la mia ultima opera, tra non molto la inscatolero' e la renderò fruibile a tutti coloro che la vorranno ad un prezzo simbolico (pro siena).


Grazie a Lupo!

Brandenburg Gate and Berlin

This is a big sim who reconstruct some of the main monuments or quarter of Berlin, especially Eats-Berlin areas.


We can see the Brandenburg Tor which was during 40 years a symbol of the Cold War, and of the seperation between the Germany.

There is also the Olympic Stadion, Alexander Platz, Fersehturm....

You can also do skyjumpping and shopping in these sims !

A so long history need a guide !
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berlin%20newBERLIN%203/128/128/2

A real fairy Castle !

The Castle of Neuschwnastein was built by Ludwig II of Bavaria during the XIXth century. it 'ilike a fairy one with labyrinth, towers...., but it's a real one !!!

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Verloren/200/124/43

In the sunset of San Diego

San Diego is an old town for the USA, build in the end of the XVIIIth century. It was really influenced by the Spanish culture until the XXth century as we can see in the Sim.

There are remains of the Panama California Exposition during from 1915 to 1917, celebrating the achievement of the Panama canal.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/San%20Diego%20City/219/83/26 to visit with a guide, send me a message

A trip to Milan

In Milano Vera you can see the main building of the real Milan : the cathedral, the Victor -Emmanuel II Galery, the Scala, the Sforza Castle....

To discover the rich history of Milan , you need a competent guide, like me ;-)

Un picolo giro a Bruxelles

All'occazione del scelto del nuovo presidente del Consiglio Europeo, un Belgo, facciamo una piccola visita nel capoluogo belgo : Bruxelles.


La Grande place è ricostruita con minuzia con le sue facciate dal quattrocento in un stilo particolare.

C'è anche un museo sull Manneken Pis, il ragazzo in Bronzo che urina...

Bruxelles merita una visita con un guida per approfitarne pienamente

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fifth%20Avenue/198/167/22

the antic treasures of Jordan

Exploring a sim, I suddenly saw a roman theater.

I contacted the owner, who presents me the sim. This building is a reproduction of one of the two Gerasa (Jerash) theater, build in II century. We can also see the most famous building of Petra, the Nabateean Town.

The sim represents the Jordania with his mots famous place : the landscape of Nothern and southern parts of Jordan has been reproduced : desert, garden, falls...

And after a tour, you have to shake your body on the dance floor, inspired by the Roman forum of Geresa....

To know more, visit with me

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Arabian/126/39/27