What is Die Antwoord?

I’m bored. I turn on the radio and everybody is listening to the same old “top 40 from 40 years ago” garbage. I find no respite. Even those people I respect as great musicians listen to this crap. Over and over again. Every goddamn day.

This is the future, so why are we still doing the same stuff we’ve been doing since the 1900s? Where are the new concepts and ideas? How do you shake off this creeping malaise? What is the answer?!?

The answer is Die Antwoord.

My initial impression of Die Antwoord came from a random click on a YouTube thumbnail. I felt that the song and artistic style was uniquely interesting, but the self-aggrandizing, womanizing, anti-education of gangsta rap isn’t really a genre I enjoy. But more YouTube thumbnail suggestions in the sidebar dragged me into a 9-hour rabbit hole. Somewhere in those nine hours of thumbnail clickings, my mind did a sudden and total flip-flop over what I thought Rap/Rave/HipHop and new music in general is all about. This was the beginning of a long and fascinating obsession with Die Antwoord, their history, the musicians they collaborate with, and South Africa in general.

Some New 3-D Fractals

Been playing with a fractal program and here’s three new pieces…

 

Passage to Burn2

I hope everybody is geared up for Burn2, the Second Life® manifestation of the Real Life® Burning Man event!

Breedable & Feedable Interactive Virtual Pet Rock!

The latest in a long line of Breedable Pets! This exciting, interactive  Pet Rock is the perfect gift for anybody with some time on their hands! Even amateur geologists will joyfully pull their head out of their hole in the ground and proudly proclaim “This is some gneiss schist!”

Organize your Desktop

A nice clean way to organize your desktop. Click “READ THE REST OF THIS ENTRY…” to download a full size copy to use as your desktop image!

Deluxe Land Shaping Tool

The new “WaterMoon Breeze Land Manicure Tool” is finished and listed on SLExchange HERE.

A terraformer’s most-used (and our most requested) tool! Once you use it, you’ll wonder how you ever terraformed without it!

Great for quickly and accurately re-shaping your land! Using the terraform tools in your Edit Window yields inaccurate, and sometimes unsatisfactory, results. The WaterMoon Breeze Land Manicure Tool allows a much more controlled behavior of the land terraforming options.

WaterMoon in Transit 002

The new island is coming along nicely. The store is not yet open for business but if you get a chance, come see the place. Here’s an SLURL to get you there;

 http://slurl.com/secondlife/Professors%20Lab/72/170/55

WaterMoon in Transit

“Movin’ day – pack up your sh¡t and get away…” – Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks

WaterMoon Breeze is moving once again! We’re still part of Gilligans Island, but we’re relocating to an outlying isle designated as Professor’s Lab. At this stage, I’m incorporating many of our products into the landscape as examples of how easily our products can be used and manipulated to create their own beautiful, natural surroundings and environments (more pics and info after the bump)

Latest Goodie – Fire Pit

This is pretty neat. A fire pit with sculpty fire, smoke, embers, ashes/hot coals, etc. Easy click-menu controls for smoke and embers, realistic sound, fun features, and more! The sculpty fire is so real you and your guests will stare deep into it for hours as the flames dance and lick among the logs. Come by WaterMoon Breeze and try it out for yourself! Here’s some pics (more after the bump)…

 

Gallery Show French Quarter Update

Here’s a SLURL to get you to the gallery show featuring my photoshops in the French Quarter in SL. Hope to see you there!

http://slurl.com/secondlife/French%20Quarter/106/28/0