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Monday, July 4th – 1 PM SLT
Particle show by Kurk Mumfuzz followed by Afterparty with Dixmix Source
Please join us for a couple of hours for a brilliant light show followed by dreamy music and dancing.
We hope to see you there!
Kurk Mumfuzz – Lights over America
Dixmix Source – Afterparty Magician
Kurk Mumfuzz presents
*Lights over America*
A Particle Lights Event
Please note –> Show begins at 1:00 pm SLT but please arrive at least 15 minutes early for a better experience as I will be flashing textures into your viewer cache. This pre-show display will help you to see the particles more immediately when I throw them…
Please note also that the particle display works so much better when I am not competing with heavily scripted avatars for the sim server’s attention, and that is why I ask you to please reduce your script count and complexity by as much as your vanity will allow…
Dixmix Sound will follow the display with a party and good music…
About viewer settings
If this is not your first experience with particles then you probably have your settings just as you want them…
If you are new to particle lights or not sure, don’t worry. Kurk’s lights don’t require any special settings. Just make sure you have the following set in your Graphics Preferences (these suggestions are primarily for Firestorm users)…
-> Draw distance set to 256 meters up to 512 (if you can)
-> Graphics Quality set to High or Ultra (if you can)
-> Max. particle count set from 4096 to 8192 (if you can)
-> Render Attached Particles (checked in Rendering tab)
Also, when you arrive you will be offered the “Elite” experience for your Firestorm viewer. Please accept this experience (it allows me to set your environment for optimal viewing) and you should set your viewer to “Use Shared Environment” (World > Environment > Use Shared Environment)…
Be sure to render Kurk Mumfuzz fully…
Please note: I should warn anyone who might be vulnerable to any kind of seizures (such as epilepsy) that I can create a lot of bright flashy visual noise and this particle display should probably be avoided. I strongly recommend that anyone who might suffer any kind of seizure should not attend this event…
Finally, a word of appreciation to my friend, Akiko Kinoshi and all the friends of and contributors to Akipelago. Akiko makes a lot of good things happen…
This program is a celebration of America and the American Dream.
We don’t always get it right. But our intentions are good and right…
T H E P L A Y L I S T
Prelude: John Jarvis – Wide Open Spaces (4:50)
Prelude: John Jarvis – Up From The Valley (4:40)
1 Ray Charles – America the Beautiful (3:37)
Willie Nelson – Living In The Promiseland (3:21)
3 Neil Diamond – America (4:19)
4 Arlo Guthrie – City of New Orleans (4:34)
5 Mitch Rossell – American Dream (3:48)
6 MKTO – American Dream (3.46)
7 Dolly Parton – Color Me America (3:52)
8 Brooks & Dunn – Only In America (4:29)
Postlude
John Jarvis – Southern Hospitality (3:01)
And one afterthought from historian Sarah Churchwell:
“The American Dream” has always been about the prospect of success, but 100 years ago, the phrase meant the opposite of what it does now. The original “American Dream” was not a dream of individual wealth; it was a dream of equality, justice and democracy for the nation. The phrase was repurposed by each generation, until the Cold War, when it became an argument for a consumer capitalist version of democracy. Our ideas about the “American Dream” froze in the 1950s.
Today, it doesn’t occur to anybody that it could mean anything else.
Read more about in Sarah Churchwell Book
Follow:
Akiko Kinoshi – Owner builder & creative head of the Akipelago Islands
Kurk Mumfuzz – “spinner of light”
Dixmix Source – Belgian artist, photographer, director, musician & curator of Dixmix Gallery – Flickriver
