SL Pro. Post 2

The real Amsterdam happens to be the artistic capital of the Netherlands and has many widely acclaimed museums, such as the Rijks Museum and the Stedelijk Museum, which houses many 19th and 20th century works by artists such as Van Gogh and Picasso. There are a couple of art galleries in SL Amsterdam, but the mature areas seem to be in the more accessible and populated areas. The museums seem kind of tucked away on the edge of Enterprise. My guess is that SL Amsterdam is in progress. Many of the buildings seem rather new, such as the Barock Museum, which was made in June of this year. The day before our project was due in class, I exclaimed to Okosu with excitement that art had been added in a once-empty building. I later found out that the art was added by a different person than the one who built the building we found it in. In “About Land,” I also learned that the land in SL Amsterdam is “Group owned.” Though I haven’t yet talked with the members of the group about it, they seem to be allowed to rent the land out to certain people, who are then allowed to be creative with their space. For instance, one renter made a sort of “beach house” on their plot.

The land is very interactive; there are “love spheres” and other intimate blue and pink globes all over the place, hidden and in visible places; however, there are also several places that are group-oriented or restrictive. In one building I was called a "slave" and told that the door was closed. Most of the lamp posts in Sin Alley are group-only camping sites, and the geisha house is for women only. But when Rupert entered this forbidden-zone, the only thing that happened to him was that he was politely asked to leave. At first I found the existence of the Japanese-style site within Amsterdam, but then I thought upon the way people view the geisha, and I understood. Geisha in Japan are often associated with the red-light areas, which many of them are forced to turn to for funding to continue their practice of the traditional arts. There’s also a movie theatre that anyone can go in and watch old or new movies. When I went, I picked 3:10 to Yuma, and it played in English.
The people in Amsterdam tend to be unresponsive a lot of the time because they are usually “camping,” or, sitting in specified places to earn money. The people that are not camping can be rather friendly. I met a guy from Germany and was added to his friends’ list.

So, as a summary, Amsterdam in-world is very interactive, the people are mainly there for camping, but are friendly if not always attentive, and the land is very detailed, if not always accurate.

“Amsterdam Art Galleries (Amsterdam, Netherlands)." World Guides: City Guides and Travel Information. 20 Oct. 2008. 20 Oct. 2008. http://www.amsterdam.world-guides.com/art_galleries.html.