John and Yoko’s dream comes to Second Life®
Piercing the sky above one of Second Life’s most northerly sims, stands a tower of light that began life as an artistic concept in the mind of a young, wild-eyed artist over forty years ago. The tower, named IMAGINE PEACE TOWER, will be officially open on October 9, 2009 and will stand as a symbol for universal peace. It is part of a life-long dream of Yoko Ono, the artist who conceived the idea for the real world and who commissioned it’s creation in SL.
The tower will replicate, as closely as possible, its real world counterpart which opened on October 9th, 2007 on Viðey Island in Kollafjörður Bay near Reykjavík, Iceland. The terrestrial version is made of fifteen powerful searchlights manipulated with mirrors to form a column of light that is tall enough to not only reach cloud cover, but has been seen to penetrate well beyond it. According to the University of Iceland, the light is so powerful that, if within the column itself, the light would still be visible with the naked eye from space and could be easily detected with instruments from much further away from our planet. The base of the tower is an elegant but austere cylindrical structure made of white stone that is meant to symbolically represent a well, specifically a wishing well. Circling the well are engravings of the phrase “IMAGINE PEACE” written in 24 different world languages.

There are 15 spotlights in all. 9 shine straight up from inside the well and 6 are in the ‘corridors’ around the base and are reflected up by 6 mirrors.
IMAGINE PEACE TOWER’s wishing well concept is one that is a continuation of Yoko Ono’s interactive art. After the passing of her husband John Lennon, Ono began to collect wishes based on a traditional idea from her childhood. “As a child in Japan, I used to go to a temple and write out a wish on a piece of thin paper and tie it around the branch of a tree. Trees in temple courtyards were always filled with people’s wish knots, which looked like white flowers blossoming from afar.”
CHARITY BALL FOR BREAST CANCER AWARENESS
October is Breast Awareness Month! Come to
Bella Vida on October, 24 for an ALL DAY EXTRAVAGANZA! We have performers all day and night to bring this important issue to you and help those who need it. All donations will be accepted and given to charity, American Cancer Society.
Bella Vida is here to help and looking for all you to come and enjoy, pick up a pink ribbon and show your support.
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12AM - NAZIRAH AVRO
1AM - WOOKIECHEW MUIRCASTLE
2AM - ANASTACIA THOR
3 AM - DIRTYDEE SWEETWATER
4AM - MICHAEL BUBLE CONCERT
6AM - EPONINE DENCH
7AM - DJ SISSY GUFLER
8AM - HORACIOS ALLEN
9AM - MITCH TRIELLIS
10AM - PHIL SETNER
11AM - LAUREN WEYLAND (COMEDIAN)
12PM - NOON TONE URIZA
1PM - HARUNO WATANABE
2PM - HAYDEN SANDALWOOD
3PM - LEIGHLEE TRAFALGAR
4PM - ANGEE SEETAN
5PM - PAULETTE OLDRICH
6PM - BGSINGER HERMIT
7PM - NIC MELODY
8PM - CHELSEAMARIE NOEL
9PM - DAVIDRAMBORGER TEXAN & ONESUMMER OH
10PM - ICHIE KAMACHI
11PM - BRUCE SCRABBLEBAT
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Miramar Studio & Modeling Agency is still looking for Show Scripters for both SL and/or OS Grid.
He or she should be a team player, must have been atleast 1 years inworld, have affiliation with SL Fashion and have good writing skills to be able to write the scripts for the shows.
For more information and/or an Application Form leave us a message here as a comment or IM inworld with Miguel Rotunno or Shalimar Novi or leave us a Notecard.
Sneak preview: Miramar looks over the metaverse frontiers...
...to boldly go where no other SL Modeling Agency has gone before.
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