Safari Sees Scario

Craft grid was our first stop this week on Safari with a RL place, recreated, and some nifty reproductions of ancient technology that will make you think and wonder. The sim was NoiLab 2, we were guests of Tonino Lane, and the full hop address is, yes, as always, at the end of the post.

Tonino Lane [it→en]: follow me and take your place around the compass of the winds, I hope there are chairs for everyone, what a great group, I'm honored to have you here

The compass of the winds  is of course a great way to enter into the spirit of the Mediterranean world, and  to further facilitate our visit, Lorenza Colicigno helped out with some explanations in several languages in Local Chat so we could better understand the place. Some people think 'oh just tell the group to take a Notecard' but let's be honest, nobody reads notecards, especially long ones, and Notecard Givers fail due to the lag that a big group of people often makes, and anyway it's way more fun if you tell us about your build piece by piece, so we can absorb the information gradually, and ask questions. 

Tonino has been fascinated by virtual worlds and the possibilities of the digital worldwide community from the days of dialup, and his reputation as a builder covers the past 20 years in both SL and Craft Grid. We had arrived in the small port of Scario, about 150 km south of Naples. Tonino spent his summer holidays here for almost 20 years, and had a sailboat with which he used to sail around the Gulf of Policastro, reaching the wild and inaccessible small beaches.

Lorenza Colicigno [it→en]: (speaking for Tonino) Many memories are linked to this place, the growth of my daughters, the card games with groups of friends, the evenings at the bar, in a summer “dolce far niente”, the dialogues with the local fishermen. I remember friendly races between sailboats with friends, and with time each of us honed his style of navigator.  I also remember the emotion of the waves a little higher and when the risks of the sea made us love the land that appeared and disappeared on the horizon, land that we reached quickly, as far as possible. And, finally, the port welcomed us with its guarantee of salvation.

Thirza Ember: I looked for this place on Google, it's identical

Petlove Petshop: This is lovely!

Lorenza Colicigno [it→en]: Yes, Tonino did a good job!

Tonino Lane [it→en]: Yes, I thank Lorenza who replaces me in the description of what I created in Craft

Lorenza Colicigno [it→en] (speaking for Tonino): I want to tell you how I built this port. I started from Google map to acquire the structures of the buildings overlooking the port and the port itself, known to me for the long frequentation, which is why I remembered details useful to faithfully reconstruct those parts of buildings not viewable on the digital map. 

Tonino's sailing school is definitely a fun thing to try but today our goal was to explore the seafront buildings, the ancient artisan area, the 'trabucco' or fishing trap, another piece of ancient ingenuity, and then the lighthouse. 'Totem' teleport machines are all over the sim to help you find the main points of interest, but as you all know teleport devices and large crowds like the safari are mostly incompatible, producing lag, frozen figures and general chaos, so we mostly walked.

Tonino Lane [it→en]: if you wish you can also take a walk along the Scario seafront

Tonino Lane [it→en]: the bells are ringing for you...

James atLLOUD: Is that the dinner bell?

Forest Azure: this guy is taking a picture of me!

fiona saiman [it→en]: lol

Lorenza Colicigno [it→en]: take the postcards and add

Walking along the seafront, you'll find a series of stores and businesses, weaving together RL and the Craft grid community, plus loads of boats in the harbor!

Tonino Lane [it→en]: as you can see there is an antique shop, the art gallery... the artist is elisa halassi Elisa Laraia, and this is the bar where I stopped on my way back from sailing in RL

Lorenza Colicigno [it→en]: Let's go to the artisan village

Tonino Lane [it→en]: here I created ancient crafts 

Lorenza Colicigno [it→en]: VIRTUAL ENERGY in Craft Grid.  Gear complex made by Tonino Lane in "Leonardesque" style, using primitives, textures and  Virtual power sources: hydraulic, wind, and solar. 1-Hydraulics-The water, collected from a spring located on a hill, through a canalization is used to drive a wheel that, by means of special gears, distributes energy to the surrounding factories.  2-Aeolian-The Windmill uses the virtual wind (coming mainly from the East) as an energy source that, through special gears, including a "hydraulic coupler", integrates with that generated by water.  3-Solar-Solar panels transform sunlight into electrical energy which, once accumulated, is used for lighting and motor operation.  Gears driven by the various integrated virtual power sources.  The sum of the energies, obtained with a "hydraulic coupler", through some series of synchronized gears, is distributed:

Tosha Tyran: oh very nice -  show it to all european governments!

Tonino Lane [it→en]: here you can try the animations

Thirza Ember: try the machine! this is good exercise LOL

At the end of the row of workshops, featuring a fabric-weaving loom, cheese production, flour mill, blacksmith and more you find a set of pulleys and gears powered by wind, water and sun, that give the energy to all the machines

inside the blacksmith's forge

Tonino Lane [it→en]: cheese production, blacksmith, flour production, carpenter, 

Taarna Welles: Very interesting

Lorenza Colicigno [it→en]: and feel the thrill of the old knife grinder

Tonino Lane [it→en]: look at the knife sharpener that sharpens a long knife

Tosha in the forge

Tosha Tyran: hey, cool and deadly

Petlove Petshop: Pinocchio yay!

Thirza Ember: and you can try all the machines

Lorenza Colicigno [it→en]: those who need carpets can make them with the loom... you can try to "work" lol

lifted Pixel lurks outside the Cheese Factory. 

Thirza Ember: in each of the workshops, Tonino's made a brilliant reconstruction of the movement of the machines, showing the ingenuity of people before electric power, but also his own ingenuity  because not easy to script these things

Star Ravenhurst: I can't imagine how long the scripts must have taken to get it all right.

Lorenza Colicigno [it→en]: where you can also" work " to weave, to make vases and to roast knives

Tonino Lane [it→en]: and you can follow the various stages of production up to pressing

James atLLOUD: Is this oil good to taste?

Tosha Tyran: yes, it tastes so good - I just tried it

Petlove Petshop: best in the world!

Lorenza Colicigno: olio extravergine

Tonino Lane [it→en]: I hope you take lots of photographs

Thirza Ember: the water wheel is amazing, with the little drops of water

James atLLOUD: Oh I see the water wheel - yes, the drops are a nice touch.

lifted pixel: this prim work is so good

Star Ravenhurst: It is incredible!

Tonino Lane [it→en]: thank you for appreciating my "work"... look at the hopper at the top that puts the grain into the grinder

Tosha Tyran: very, very nice build and great scripting, Tonino

Rosanna Galvani admires the workshops

Petlove Petshop: This is really cool.  In the old days i think it would have been hard to have so many scripts working so closely together, too.

Thirza Ember: which was the most difficult one to build Tonino?

Tonino Lane [it→en]: more or less the difficulties have always been the same, in particular the synchronism of the gears, for the mill and to the machine to make the ropes... it was complicated to achieve the synchronism with the counter-rotations that provide the string's loops

James atLLOUD: water and solar power - very interesting.

Tonino Lane [it→en]: here there is an ancient machine for making ropes

Lorenza Colicigno [it→en]: The rope factory, located a short distance from the workshop complex, works with special gears, rotates clockwise and counterclockwise the parts of the machine that makes ropes, twisting the strands and combining them together to produce the rope.

Thirza Ember: rope of course is essential for ships

Tonino Lane [it→en]: Indeed

Rope making machine

lifted pixel: what happens if i put my hand in here

Tosha Tyran: you will have no more hand left

lifted pixel: it'll turn me into literal pixels

James atLLOUD: lol - yes, no scattering please

Thirza Ember: ok  guys  so after seeing all these machines what would your favorite job if you could go back in time? Obviously Tonino would be a sailor and James would be a chair maker

Taarna Welles: Difficult. I like them all.

lifted pixel: first thing that came to mind was 'make shoes' for some reason

Forest Azure: i'd be an icecream taster, very important job

Petlove Petshop: work and play

Thirza Ember: Tutz and Tosha would be architects, Marlon, hmm, I don't know if they had DJs in past centuries

Tosha.Tyran: we could implant dj in the past

Tonino Lane [it→en]: no no DJs, but there were play pianos in the houses

James atLLOUD: I might be able to clean up after the animals.

lifted pixel: thirza would be the mayor

Pinocchios at the wood turning build

Forest Azure: thirza would be the museum guide

lifted pixel: ooh yeah that's better, the curator

Petlove Petshop: they had jesters in the old days !

James atLLOUD: ha ha true.  that could be the job for me

Thirza Ember: Roffellos can be the landscape painter

Tosha Tyran: landscape painter sounds like fun also

Tonino Lane: ora vi porto a vedere un trabocco

Tonino Lane [it→en]: Now I'll take you to see an overflow

Tosha Tyran: overflow? a tsunami?

Thirza Ember: the translator got it wrong, it's not an "overflow " it's an ancient fish catching machine, called a Trabocco... follow Tonino, it's more ingenuity from ancient times

Tonino Lane [it→en]: a fishing system used in the Adriatic Sea for many centuries, now disused...  there are few who know how to build them in RL, I only know how to make them in Craft hahaha

Lorenza Colicigno [it→en]: The trabucco, in the Abruzzo and Molise variants also called trabocco, travocco or libra, is an ancient fishing machine typical of the Abruzzo, Gargano and Molise coasts. Its spread extends mainly along the lower Adriatic, starting from Pescara to some places in the province of Barletta-Andria-Trani, north of Bari. They are also present in some points of the lower Tyrrhenian coast and that of the Veneto. Along the Marche coast, albeit with the name of peaches at the painting, there are structures similar to trabocchi in form and function.

lifted pixel: NEMO!!! NOOOO NEMO!!! 

Tonino Lane [it→en]: have you seen the seagulls that grab the fish before the fishermen get them hahaha

Petlove Petshop: lol

Lorenza Colicigno [it→en]: In the notecard there are the info on the trebuchet

Thirza Ember: so we have here, flour, cheese, olive oil, but no wine... hmm something to hope for lol

Lorenza Colicigno [it→en]: in fact there is an olive grove but not a vineyard... we're teetotalers, but if you go to the bar you risk getting drunk

Tonino takes a quick  nap between catches

Tonino Lane [it→en]: seen the cabin where the fishermen rested??? you can also take a nap

James atLLOUD: and smoke from the chimney

Thirza Ember: oh the sleeping pose is cute Tonino. We just have time for the lighthouse if we run... can you guys see the lighthouse? it is back down the street we came on, at the far end

Star Ravenhurst: I can see it

Petlove Petshop: is that our next destination? the lamplight effect is great!

Tonino Lane [it→en]: seen the view??

Forest Azure: yes, very nice

Star Ravenhurst: Thank you for the tour. I enjoyed it very much!

Lorenza Colicigno [it→en]: thank you for coming

Tonino Lane [it→en]: I am happy, thanks for being here, and I hope you enjoy coming back

Taarna Welles: <<<<<< APPLAUSE>>>>>>

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