Burning LIfe festival (ended 1st October)

In the Real World really crazy folk have themselves a crazy
time dressing (or undressing) in whatever they please out in
a desert spot for the annual Burning Man" fesival, as in the photos here
Well, that looks fun. But even though I've never been for real,
maybe never will I can at least pretend that the second life version
"Burning LIfe" was just as much fun! (maybe it was in a way, but I
didn't have too much time to spend there..)

I grew some wings for the event, and then had a look down on the world...


Went to visit a gorilla....is that YOU King Kong??
n.b. "It was Beauty that killed the Beast" lol



What killed this big rabbit, though, I do not know.
Now its just food for huge ants! EEK!!



There was lots of otherfunny creations I didn't have time to see,
But I did "hang around" for the final event, when they burn
down the giant Man sculpture

Awaiting the moment....



Yay!!!!!!!
I tried not to get my feathers burnt, but the warmth
from the fire was very welcome in the cool of the desert night sky.



And that's it for another year......the whole desert and
everything on it was wiped out 'til the next festival.
*sigh*

Meanwhile read all about it on another blogger's blog!
right here! or take a look at another flickr slideshow

Jude the explorer presents: a traditional dancer from Borneo

I just love this!!!
A slow, graceful dance from Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo.
Viva traditional arts of the world!

Another test......

I read recently about how the COGIATI test is not generally much regarded.
So I thought I'd read around in some academic looking sites, like this http://www.drbanks.com/thesis/introduction.html#Hypo%204 and skimming through
came across the Bem Sex Role Inventry Test (1975). I looked around and found
an on-line (slighty) slimmed down version.
I took the test and....

My Score: Androgynous

I scored 50 masculinity and 80 femininity!

I scored high on both masculinity and femininity and so "have a strong personality exhibiting characteristics of both traditional sex roles."

Link: The Bem Sex Role Inventory Test written by weirdscience on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

So I guess that's ok then. :-)

Jude the obscure: explorer!

I love exploring in Second Life, and this spot is a particular
treasure: A Mayan temple, with wall paintings and carvings..


a statue...


and this amusing little stone tablet. It has a Second Life
Mayan creation story, I particularly like the bit about
the "doll people with faces made of pixels!"lol.

A little naked moment

I found a great mountain to climb up, it was dawn, no-one around.
A perfect moment to celebrate my feminine body!!!

Jude is no prude! Celebrate your body!!

I recently found a beautiful website of a naturist couple
in Scotland who are climbing the "Munros" and doing
just as I did here...but in the real world! I'm jealous!
Skinny-dipping too!

An evening meal with another new freind....

So here I am in Amsterdam. This was a more recent revisit,
but on my first venture into this SIM I met up with
Goodwin Bamattter a pleasant guy from the US I think,
with whom I had fun flying around Dam square.
On this visit shown above I had a bicycle, which I thought
to be more in keeping.
Amsterdam is a "mature" SIM and of course has its
adult entertainment......
on the whole though Jude is a good girl, really I am!

Dancing at "the Edge" I briefly met a pink haired girl who gave me
an invite to her group. Joining this gave me a nice little label to
go with my name on screen Jude of "the Beautiful Ones".
I liked that!!
Now I felt I ought to live up to such a label and get myself
some new tailor made clothes.....even a new skin.
The first hurdle was knowing just where to go for decent
clothes etc. So I dropped into a public square and got chatting
to "Tweetie Birdbrain" (!) who tp'd me off to "da shopping!"
This was a slighty worrying moment for me as I wondered
whether my chat, or apparent lack of knowledge about
female clothing styles would make her suspicious of me...
If she was, she said nothing. Then again, she didn't stay in
touch after this shopping trip....

The name "Jude" is of course androgenous, and suits me nicely.

I thought when I came into the world I would switch backwards

and forwards between male and female bodies.

But then again, why bother?

So all my friends befriend me as female Jude (that's short for

Judith, of course!) and no-one ever seems to question that the real life

me is the same.

Well real life me took the COGIATI test and guess what?...

Hello.

This blog is about me and my explorations in life

and (s)life.

This is me back in the early days....July '06 when I was still

a young girl in the extraordinary, compelling Second Life world.

My first friend was a guy from Argentina, Max. He was sweet, and

appeared here at the fountain soon after this picture,

bringing a single red rose. What a charmer!

Then off we went to "the Edge" where I had been dancing alot

in those days..... He's dancing on the pad as he couldn't figure out

where the dance machine was, and I failed to explain it clearly

enough. That was a bit frustrating, for both of us.

Anyhow, soon after this picture I "crashed" and by the time I

logged back in after a week or so away in rl Max seemed to have

disappeared. I sent him an IM but heard nothing back...

Ah well C'est la (second) vie!!