Tag: dance

the best dance video i’ve done so far

This is my crucifixion.

It got taken down from youtube and it breaks my heart so much. There is nothing i know i can do about it. i honestly don’t know who or how to contact anyone from youtube and it hurts so much because youtube was its best outlet. It was highlighted on my youtube channel and i can’t even do anything with a highlighted video now. It’s greyed out. I don’t know if they saw it as inappropriate. i don’t know anything. i may have even simply been hacked. i have no idea. This address you are looking at right now said someone hacked into here by some form of email address code tool, so who knows what is happening.

It was actually the first dance video i ever did and it worked!

i did this dance video in 2018 after having worked as a dance master and DJ at Club Elfin in the virtual world of Second Life. Credit goes to Aki who is or was another dance master and DJ at Club Elfin, because she built the HUD you will see at the bottom of the video. We use this HUD to select the dance animations. Many dance masters do amazing programed set-ups with this HUD as it can do a lot more than i choose to do with it. i use it in real time. Each animation has been done by a professional dancer being recorded and then perhaps a little tidy up edit in the computer program to make roughly a 40 second animation. Please don’t get distracted from the dance as you may lose the feeling this video can give you, but if you watch it a few times, you can see my cursor hovering over the Hud ready to hit the next dance animation right on the beat specifically for that 8 bars or so of an individual part of the track of music. i rehearsed this dance choreography for about a moon’s month and these dancers, meaning the real life dancers who actually made the animations, are still two of my most favorite and most honored dancers.

i’ve been working towards doing my own dance in my real life body in my lounge room and having the ability to animate my avatar as i do it. i am a trained ballet dancer and also have done extensive training in ballroom dance. I’ve been studying computer animation for fifteen years now and i will keep training in computer to get there, to the place where i can truly express from ground up, like i am able to with my guitar now. i have been training with my guitar and music seriously since Nineteen Ninety-one and the next step with my guitar, which i’m working on this moon month is recording.

The music on this video is done by an especially talented professional musician by the name of Osman Grey. If you like his work you can find it at; https://osmangrey.bandcamp.com/album/get-it-out-2

The dancers who performed and recorded the actual dance to make the animations are; Bran and Hung from Okeyo and I do not know the dancer’s name from 4DStudio, but they have named the dance “Rush”. The first half of the music, is Bran’s and Hung’s moves and the second half is Rush. You will know when it shifts into Rush. It’s well worth getting to see it all.

i Elf, choreographed exactly where to place each individual animation according to the music, as i and Rhoda danced them in this video. There is no editing. We dance start to finish live. It is deep meditation for me to perform. i am the music. i am the dance.

Get It Out Music by Osman Grey dance choreography by Elf wingtips Dance animations from Okeyo and 4DStudio

Music by Osman Grey.

Music track; Get it Out.

Dance choreography; Elf Wingtips

Dancers; Elf Wingtips and Rhoda.(these two avatars are both me).

Dance Animations are from two stores in Second Life; Okeyo with dancers, “Bran and Hung”, and 4DStudio with the dance called “Rush”.

i was allowed the use of the little set by a friend inworld called, Trisha Rose, but sadly i don’t know who made this little set.

i didn’t put it back up on youtube because i don’t know if i’m allowed to or not. i just want you to be with me in this dance. So much of me is in this in the Dance Master and DJ side of things, but also being a ballet dancer i always choose dance animations that depict my dance as i AM in my avatar.

Many thanks for viewing. A big hug from me to you.

i made a virtual world dance video

i made a dance video and i really want to share it with you because you are the one who knows inside me.

i haven’t made one of these since 2017 and i’m so excited because the way it went was truly like a gift.

i made the music on a program called Mixcraft8 which i used to use when i used windows. i used sampled sound loops that i would edit to the point of refining some of them down to individual notes and placing them exactly where i wanted them. i now use linux and have finally begun self tutoring myself on an open source music manipulation program. So far i love it as it has been not loops but from scratch and i am teaching myself how to make my own loops.

The dance is done in the virtual world and there are five of me dancing as a dance troupe. We all have a dance HUD which means we all contribute with our individual dance styles to make up the choreography.

The way it is done is, the actual dance animations are professionally made by a real dancer wearing body sensors and they capture the movement on computer and process this. This is called Motion Capture and is coined “Mocap” for short. These mocap animations usually are about 45 seconds long and this does vary quite a lot.

In the virtual world i buy these mocap dance animations, and i put them into a HUD (heads up display). This allows me to select the animation i desire at the precise beat in the music. I often hit a dance animation at every eight bars of music so in this way i am doing live choreography and recording the video there and then. I rehearse considerably before i go to record as i carefully work with the animations and the music to produce choreography just like i do in the real world with my own ability to dance. (i trained in ballet and ballroom extensively when i was younger).

The music track is called “Along the way” and it is done by “Elf Wingtips”

All the accreditation is on youtube in the description to honor the dancers and the people who brought them to the virtual world of second life.

i really hope you find joy in it as i do. i want to be with you in this.

all is what all is

i am not going to improve the world and i am not going to improve myself.

i am just what i am.

The animals are wise.

They don’t hide their truth.

She tells me nothing.

She shares with me everything.

i don’t need to survive.

i am everything.

There is no spoon.

There is no meaning.

There is no end or finish. There isn’t even a beginning.

Dance is alive. It doesn’t have a destination. It just lives.

Without the space between things, there would be no things.

The intervals are magic.

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There is no real or not real. Everything is an existence. Human works to beat nature into submission to no avail. They used all the trees to print controlling meta to harness nature but have been removing a mustard of their own self in doing so. What is labeled worthless is precious, and what it labeled of value destroys this precious being.

A game has been designed, but in doing so the truth has been shelved to be unseen. The creation of rules gives an addiction to never being here now. There is always a goal, and the human has forgotten that they made a magic trick on themselves by creating the rules. They threw away the key to the door of truth and forgot that there ever was one.

In mathematics, there are patterns and structures that are truths. A rule is simply a chosen restriction by a human in order to obtain control.

Now they must dominate and police to stay in comfort. They hurt and farm the being who is exactly the same as them in the same way they farm nature to its death. Nature is the human so the human remains in pain. Every attempt to lift themselves from this pain is done with the exact tool that put them there because they cannot remember.

To let thought be observed as it flows like a ripple on the ocean. To reside in the now and be as the tree. To never farm but rather to know and feel, that the equation of equanimity equality and the balance of two equals one, is truth. All is one.

One cannot arrange something without this something arranging one.