voices for freedom: documentary on tibet and native american people

Today, February 22nd, and tomorrow, February 23rd, at 12 noon PST/SLT (1PM MST/3PM EST), Mystical Mastery will host an internet forum on Voices of Freedom, a documentary mini-series at Half Moon Cove. Director/Producer Mary Teal Coleman/Ven. Tenzin Yeshe will be present during the hour where she will stream short clips and a 20-minute trailer about her documentary, Voices of Freedom. Before and after each video stream, Ven. Tenzin Yeshe, a Tibetan Buddhist monastic (monk), will speak a bit about this ground-breaking production in which she was given rare access to interview Nobel Prize recipient, His Holiness, the XIVth Dalai Lama of Tibet.

“VOICES FOR FREEDOM is a documentary mini-series for multimedia distribution. Director/Producer Mary Teal Coleman/Ven. Bhikshuni Tenzin Yeshe. 

The main purpose of this documentary project is to help preserve the spiritual and cultural traditions of the Tibetan and Native American people. Both have been attacked to near-extinction and struggle today to continue their traditions.

The Director is a Tibetan Buddhist monastic (monk) who has unique insight into the content included in this show. In it, you will see Nobel Peace Prize recipient His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama of Tibet speak at length about what has happened to him and his people since 1949; you will also hear Tibetans who have been imprisoned and tortured give heart-rending accounts of their experiences. 

You will also see spiritual and cultural leaders from various Native American nations speak eloquently about issues most important to them as they face the future. Many Grammy-winning musicians (such as Joanne Shenandoah and Bill Miller who received 2006 Grammys for Best Album of Native American Music; Mary Youngblood who performs her Grammy-winning song “Beneath The Raven Moon;” Nashville-based musician Danny Flowers who has written for Eric Clapton and others, and who is backed up by music legend Emmylou Harris, along with Bill Miller; Grammy-winner Gary Morris, and many other great musicians) kindly performed in this production, appearing both live and in produced music videos throughout this work. 

Voices For Freedom: The Tibetans (Part I) focuses mainly on the Tibetans, and Voices For Freedom: The Native Americans (Part II)–sold as a separate product–mainly includes Native American leaders and their eloquent statements about crucial issues facing them (and all of us) today.

Running Time /DVD version:  Part I is @ 90 minutes; Part  II is @ 167 minutes.“

More information is available on the Contact Voices website.

~elfa and namaste

eternal flame: cypress rosewood and changhigh trinity sisters perform in sl

Second Lifers were treated to a pyrotechnic feast served up with the enveloping music of Cypress Rosewood beautifully underscoring the fireshow of the ChangHigh Trinity Sisters in the sim of Haiku. The slideshow really says it all visually. The only elements you’re missing here is the wonderful music and the unfolding of the performance pieces which were very nicely choreographed. Toward the end, I unfortunately crashed, and then found out the sim was restarting upon my dashed return. Fortunately, there is another performance tomorrow, Friday, at 6 PM SLT.

This is a “not-to-be-missed” event if you can make it.

~elfa and namaste

a place for faeries to light upon: mushroom furniture

I will be making faerie wings and clothing for the faeries who sit on my mushroom chairs. This is another pose i made. Although they are static, I always try to leave the head and neck free so the avvie will have some movement.

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Continuing work on my Faerie Queen’s Chair…added a pillow and a sit target for the pose I made. I will add more pillows and other embellishments. Now on to the fun of texturing them.

~elfa and namaste

on the back of the turtle: cypress rosewood in concert at red rock in sl

Home to Red Rock in the the Native Lands Sim, Cypress makes his magic at Turtle Island at a well-attended concert. There are a few concerts with Cypress this week including the eagerly awaited performances with the Chang High Fire Dance Troupe on Thursday and Friday on Landmark Island. I will be doing a slideshow of one of those particle-filled shows if all goes well.

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~elfa and namaste

starry, starry night: stellaa interviewed on when worlds collide

Cypress Rosewood interviews Stellaa Francis, who is a Brazilian singer of Japanese descent, speaking of the songs by Kitaro that she sings on her new album which she is debuting in Second Life on March 6th on Stella Island. There will be two shows; one at 5 PM SLT and the other at 7 PM SLT. Her music also debuts on iTunes and other music venues on the web that same day. She has a lovely voice and her avatar pales to her Audrey Hepburnish looks.

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I have a bunch of new things I am working on. I saw a pic of a mushroom that curved similar to this and I thought, “that could be a seat”, so set about doing one in Modo. I happen to love mushrooms, whether eating them or making them. Such wonderful things, fungi….shapes, colors, textures…I love it all.

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~elfa and namaste

eyes of the world: inaugural events at the arts center at the shaolin temple in sl

PREMIERE EVENT:  EYES OF THE WORLD: A GLOBAL VISION 

Tonight were the inaugural events that kicked off our series to bring attentive eyes to the beautiful wonders and, oft times, areas of concern, in the world.  We start with the nature photography of Shadow Marlin. Shadow has lovingly captured some delightful images of the natural world through the lens of her camera and we present them for your viewing pleasure for now until the 29th of February, 2008.

The temple was pleased and honored to have Cypress Rosewood give a concert to commemorate the opening of the Arts Center.

The Shaolin Temple, and its Arts Center, is open at all times and welcomes everyone.

~elfa and namaste 

in the pink: a valentine’s day in sl

Seemed like a good picture of a rosy hewn sunrise for a great Valentine’s Day picture.

I had received a wonderful pair of presents from my sweetie upon coming inworld. I was still working on his in my modeling program. Everything had been going well when the Modo gods laughed at me with great relish (went well with the hamburger meat I was beginning to feel like). It took a while because it wasn’t evident that what had happened was that the file was corrupt. Finally, everything started to come together (I had banned Fox from the workroom so he wouldn’t see what I was doing) and he was, happily, delighted with the gift: a little sculpted fox bearing a heart to sit on his shoulder.

 

~elfa and namaste

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jupiter: a rhapsodic ode to the great planet by cypress rosewood

O that Jupiter would but bring back to me the years that have passed. ~Virgil

The stage was set for the next installation of Cypress Rosewood’s Planetary Sequence tonight at Spindrift Island. Mist covered the stage as the eloquent notes rose from his instruments. Synthesizer and Native American flute melding for the beautiful Space Music that we have all grown to love.

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 ~elfa and namaste 

i’m flying!: testing my new butterfly rider

This is so much fun!

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Test flying my new butterfly rider over the sim at sunrise (probably one of my favorite times of day for the colors). This ones made for a tiny to fly on it’s back, but there will be a human adult and child sized one, too. The wing textures are hand painted in Painter and Photoshop; I’m really pleased how they came out as well as the body textures.

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There was a major problem with tinies poses recently in Second Life which was bringing some of my work to a halt. Poses for tinies are problematic as it is, but this was reverting everything to a default sit pose. Thanks to the efforts of good scripters such as Bloodsong Termagant, Talia Tokugawa, and finally, Pandora Wrigglesworth, it looks like the problem was finally licked. My heartfelt thanks to these people for offering such gracious help.

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The flyers are almost ready to go into the store, though, Pandora just came out with a possible way for me to approach the wings differently on the hummingbird.

~elfa and namaste

why that is jus’ divan: a reading lounger for tinies

Six sculpted prims including the book which rezzes for you to read. You get a second divan without the pose and book in case you want to add your own poseball.  This divan is sold by itself and, as a set, with the Dewdrop Lamp.

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Lying on my divan while reading my book by the light of my Dewrop Lamp which is fully sculpted. The book in the divan contains illustrations I did, which includes this cover, Faerie Hippo Dreams BIG.

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Sculpted drops add magical detail to this little lamp which features a light in the large dewdrop hanging from the sculpted leaf which, in turn, contains a custom designed star alpha.

Look for the version for tines tomorrow in my stores, The Oh! Factor and Just a Jot followed later this week by an adult and child’s sized versions.

~elfa and namast

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