Erik Mondrian

@rainstormsky.com

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Writer, Artist, Scholar, Dreamer. 🏳️‍🌈 Passionate about virtual places; there's more to life than being real. he/they #NoAI https://youtube.com/erikMondrian https://primfeed.com/erik.mondrian https://fosstodon.org/@erikMondrian

A screenshot of the "Layout" workspace in Blender 5.2.0, showing a mesh grid and how to create it (using Add -> Mesh -> Grid). Also shown are the "Add Grid" parameters, where the X and Y Subdivisions have each been changed to 100 and the Size has been set to 10 meters. Note: You can increase or decrease the subdivisions in order to change how smooth the wave will be. Changing the mesh's size here will affect how many times the wave will repeat across the mesh (how many cycles, in other words).
A screenshot of the "Happy Rez Day" email that I received from Linden Lab a couple days ago, on March 23, commemorating my twenty-one years in Second Life: "Erik, it's your 21st Rez Day! Second Life is fun, weird, and always evolving, but the magic ingredient is YOU. The vibrant worlds you build and the sense of community you provide for others is simply priceless. Here's to another year of imagination and experiencing the impossible. -The Second Life Team" The email then lists a few "milestones" to let me know that I visited 662 different regions over the course of the past year, teleported 640 times, and at one point logged in (and out) every day for nine days in a row. The email also mentions that the average Resident visited 87 different regions, with 220 teleports, and had a daily log-in streak of three days in a row.
An image from Second Life that shows a partially obscured night sky, stars competing with clouds that seem like they were painted on, in all the colors of the rainbow. The clouds' colors form different areas, a gradient that shifts from one part of the sky to the next. Some of the clouds in the lower half of the image (in purple, red, orange, yellow, and green) have a rougher and grainier appearance, as though they could almost represent an aerial view of a world's terrain instead of just its sky, clouds becoming multicolored mountains from a distance.
An image from Second Life, composed of three snapshots taken from the same angle (but using different lighting settings and capture modes) that I then layered together and edited in GIMP. The image shows a set of train tracks cutting through a forest, with rocks and hilly terrain on either side. The tracks lead straight up the middle, going from the bottom of the frame until they curve out of sight in the distance. The entire scene has an ethereal, dreamlike quality: The forest is gently veiled by a bluish fog that makes the trees in the foreground seem to glow, and across part of the train tracks is also a large patch of luminescent grass. Above the horizon, the sky is almost completely white, with the world appearing to end at the forest's edges.
A browser screenshot showing part of the "Linden Lab Official:New Linden Homes 2019" page on the official Second Life wiki: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:New_Linden_Homes_2019 Throughout the page are error messages instead of images, stating: "Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination"
A heavily edited shot from Second Life, composed of several superimposed layers showing the same scene and from the same angle: My humanoid, suit-wearing fox avatar standing in the foreground, my back to the camera, as I look down a dark forest path toward a number of tall trees in the distance. On either side of the path, the ground becomes hilly, gently rising (higher on the left) toward the edges of the frame. Above the trees, at the top of the image, is a small patch of night sky, densely dotted with stars, with a larger red glow in the center. The entire image feels somewhat "unreal" and dreamlike, with parallel streaks of green following the contours of the terrain horizontally across the image; the ground is also flecked with subtle shades of purple and blue, contrasting with the sharpness of the grass, and the trees in the distance are capped by an unnatural blue glow. Around my avatar is a ghostly outline, the result of my stance shifting slightly in between each shot, so that there is a faint suggestion of me looking in multiple directions at once.
A screenshot of an extremely enthusiastic and emoji-filled text from Chipotle, received by me at 11:13 am on October 30, 2025, the day before Halloween: 🚨👻 ATTENTION ALL CREATURES OF THE NIGHT 🌑 THE BOORITO PROPHECY is UPON US 🔮 🎃🔥On Halloween 10/31 🌯 CHIPOTLE 🌯 is summoning ALL burrito-loving ghouls 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️ & Rewards Members 👁️‍🗨️💀 to HAUNT their local restaurant 💃 from 3️⃣PM to CLOSE 🌙🪩 bc… 🥁🥁🥁 🌯💸💀 $6 BURRITOS 💀💸🌯 YES U HEARD THAT RIGHT 😱😱 Show up IN COSTUME 🧛‍♂️🧞‍♀️🕵️🧑‍🎤🧑‍🚀🤖 (aka ur most unholy drip 😈), summon ur coven lol 🧙‍♀️, and get ur BOORITO 🌯👻🎃 before it VANISHES 🌫️ into the night 🌚✨ PS our lawyers 🥱 said to tell u text STOP2quit HELP4help
An early morning shot of a sunrise at Black Rock City in the Nevada desert, with the Grand Pyramid in the photo's middle ground, almost directly below the sun. In the foreground, somewhat obscured by distance from the camera and by mist, are a number of people traveling across the landscape, either on foot or by bicycle. Several Mutant Vehicles are there as well: https://burningman.org/event/participate/mutant-vehicles/
A snapshot from the virtual world of Second Life, showing Snowlord's prim-based miniature of the SS Galaxy cruise ship. The ship is "anchored" in a small water feature at the front of my SL22B exhibit parcel, with the snapshot also showing my fox avatar and the large topographic models in the background.
A snapshot from the virtual world of Second Life, showing my exhibit for SL's 22nd birthday celebrations: https://community.secondlife.com/news/featured-news/sl22b-exhibitor-showcase-r11201/ On the exhibit parcel is a display table, with topographic models of SL's first two mainland continents. The table is framed by a partially transparent pyramid (with the walls only there on two sides, so that the exhibit remains open to the road). On the outside of the two pyramid walls are seven decorative prims that stretch along the walls' entire length, evenly spaced from base to top and in the colors of the rainbow. On the inside of the walls are sky textures with a few scattered clouds.
A 24-second animation of a subdivided mesh grid in Blender, where each vertex's height has been adjusted through a combination of sine and cosine functions so that the grid resembles a series of rolling waves. The waves start off almost black then slowly change to white, purple, red, and eventually a deep pink.
A 15-second animation of Blender's default cube rotating slowly on multiple axes, framed by two larger cubes (hollow on all sides) that rotate in different directions and at different speeds.
A gathering of more than twenty gray cubes of different sizes, some quite small and some a little bit larger, rotated in various directions and resting flat on a dimly lit plane.
An abstract image made in Blender, showing a curved plane that resembles part of a sine wave. There is also a checkerboard pattern of raised and lowered tiles, tinted purple, that alternate between light and shadow.
An evening shot (taken from across the street, at around 9:20 pm) of downtown Santa Barbara's Arlington Theatre. There is a crowd of people standing by the entrance, slowly dispersing after the end of an event there. Featured prominently in red neon on the glowing marquee above them is the name "Pete Buttigieg" and "Tuesday 7:30 pm". Also, at the far left of the marquee are the words "Premier Sponsor: Sara Miller McCune".
A screenshot of the "Happy Rez Day" email that I received today from Second Life, commemorating my twenty years in this virtual world: "Erik, it's your 20th Rez Day! Second Life is fun, weird, and always evolving, but the magic ingredient is YOU. The vibrant worlds you build and the sense of community you provide for others is simply priceless. Here's to another year of imagination and experiencing the impossible. -The Second Life Team" The email then lists several "milestones," including that I visited 2,008 different regions over the course of the past year and teleported 2,575 times. The email also mentions that the average Resident visited 103 regions, with 393 teleports.