Wayward Carnival in Second Life

Wayward Carnival is a special site.  Visiting the site seems to be in a small Coney Island where I find the pier and amusement park, a small reminder of the past time

A little further on is the Luna Park and then the picturesque harbor with wooden pier, boardwalk, and a long beach. If you get the feeling like you've been, do not worry. In a sense it isWaywark, the playground and the lovely boardwalk ocean are immortalized in many films.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs

Perhaps not everyone knows that, but the name "Luna Park" takes its name from the first amusement park in history opened right here in Coney Island in 1895, named in honor of the sister of one of the owners.

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Machu Picchu In Second Life

I'm glad I visited this site because it is the synthesis of a difficult and important work made by the University of  San Martin de Porres about the Machu Picchu site.

Some believe it to be the last outpost of the Andes, the starting point to enter the forest and impose new populations. For others it was a hidden sanctuary, a large and peaceful aclla Huasi, home of virgins devoted to the worship of the gods. Based on the examination of the bodies exhumed, the population of Machu Picchu (which in its heyday had to get close to 1000 individuals) is composed of 80% women.
In all likelihood it was a "llacta", ie an administrative and religious city where lived the high officials, priests and a bevy of servants and craftsmen. The isolated place where it stands suggests that it was the refuge of a selected part of the Inca nobility in case of attack. The researcher Waldemar Espinoza Soriano claims that even the Andean people knew the location of Machu Picchu, with the exception of the "Sapa Inca" or "only king" and belonging to the royal family of Pachacutec. He adds: "Machu Picchu was an obviously defensive role. It was a llacta of refuge, by all means to withstand a siege and not have communications for decades."Some claim that the city was used as a shelter elite Inca after the coming of the Spaniards. With the death of Tupac Amaru (1572) he had no reason to run: it would explain the lack of knowledge of the city by the Spaniards. A city chosen can not exist without its elected.What is known with certainty is that the city was abandoned suddenly and permanently, until it disappears swallowed up by the forest ..

 Machu Picchu is home to some spectacular creatures like the cock of the rocks national bird of Peru and the Andean bear or ucumari, the only úrsido South America.Also they find refuge in the rare dwarf deer or sachacabra, taruca tanka and over 400 species of birds. The flora is particularly diverse and interesting: some 400 species of orchids, many of them unique in the world.Sanctuary dominates the landscape of the majestic Salkantay (6,271 meters), the highest mountain snow of the Cordillera Vilcanota, revered by locals as Apu or tutelary deity. Machu Picchu combines the majesty of a natural setting of great beauty with the attractiveness of the most famous pre-Hispanic ruins in the world.
The main attraction visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists is a visit to the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, which is located at km 110 of the Cusco-Quillabamba railway from where you can see the impressive Vilcanota River Valley , the sacred river of the Incas.
Its objectives are:- Protecting endangered species such as the spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus) and the cock of the rock (Rupicula peruviana), as well as archaeological remains.- To preserve a peculiar flora and fauna, and scenic beauty of the surrounding forests and contribute to the protection of archaeological remains located there. Much of the beauty and charm surrounding Machu Picchu, the spectacular natural environment: the mountain forests of this historical sanctuary.

from the owner's note:

The citadel of Machu Picchu is the most important tourist attractions of Cusco, is considered one of the most extraordinary examples of landscape architecture in the world.
Machu Picchu (in Quechua, "old mountain") is located on a mountain of granite structure. Using ingenious techniques, the Incas were able to carry heavy blocks of stone carving and polishing and neatly surprising.
Among Its main building we found edifications that would have been used as religious and ceremonial centers and for administrative activities, among the first group there are the Temple of the Sun, the Temple of the Condor, Sacred Place, etc. and the second group we find the Housing Area, Noble Area, etc.

For more information, please visit the official website for tourism promotion in Peru.

http://www.peru.info/en/

http://www.usmp.edu.pe/

Simulacion Machu Picchu -  USMP  (203, 1, 30)

The City of Steelhead

An american's sim  with traits steampunk intrigued me because Second Life today is stingy of experiments and this work is an important point for the culture and architecture in SL.

The sim is built with all the main architectural elements defined in a Steampunk (building blocks, cultural substratum)

Tracks stempunk in the hall

from http://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/adalovelace/

Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) was born Augusta Ada Byron, the only legitimate child of Annabella Milbanke and the poet Lord Byron. Her mother, Lady Byron, had mathematical training (Byron called her his 'Princess of Parallelograms') and insisted that Ada, who was tutored privately, study mathematics too - an unusual education for a woman. Ada met Babbage at a party in 1833 when she was seventeen and was entranced when Babbage demonstrated the small working section of the Engine to her. She intermitted her mathematical studies for marriage and motherhood but resumed when domestic duties allowed. In 1843 she published a translation from the French of an article on the Analytical Engine by an Italian engineer, Luigi Menabrea, to which Ada added extensive notes of her own. The Notes included the first published description of a stepwise sequence of operations for solving certain mathematical problems and Ada is often referred to as 'the first programmer'. The collaboration with Babbage was close and biographers debate the extent and originality of Ada's contribution. Perhaps more importantly, the article contained statements by Ada that from a modern perspective are visionary. She speculated that the Engine 'might act upon other things besides number... the Engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent'. The idea of a machine that could manipulate symbols in accordance with rules and that number could represent entities other than quantity mark the fundamental transition from calculation to computation. Ada was the first to explicitly articulate this notion and in this she appears to have seen further than Babbage. She has been referred to as 'prophet of the computer age'. Certainly she was the first to express the potential for computers outside mathematics. In this the tribute is well-founded.

 

Steampunk has always been first and foremost a literary genre, or least a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy that includes social or technological aspects of the 19th century.

 

 

 

 Second Life is a special world. Often architectural projects are developed in a form completely different from an urban idea. This sim follow a little fil rouge and respresent and respect the funcional space also if is often different from the real world.

 

 

 

 

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