The Wizard Part 1 on YouTube

Posted on October 12, 2023 by Karima Hoisan

Hi everyone,

I know I have been a little scarce here lately, but I am going to show you today why:)
I finally bought a new laptop after more than 8 years and now projects are
possible to realize.
Over the past 12 years, I have created 21 worlds on a platform called, Kitely in Opensim.
Many of these, I think 13,  were done in conjunction with Dale Innis on scripts.
Only Dale can change a horse into a boat as you will see:):)
This is similar to Second Life but allows more freedom and economic
possibilities to even maintain 21 worlds (I keep them going for about $40 a month)

If something ever happened and this grid was no longer in existence, I would lose all
of them and my son was saying that I should film each one, to have at least the YouTube proof of their existence.  Plus most of my readers on WordPress will never visit a virtual world…so now you can see what you’re missing hehe. Natascha and I  made a short teaser for this world in 2021 (It was Nat’s last project) but we never showed what it’s really like to go inside and Ride!!
This is a big job, but I have begun with Part 1 of The Wizard.
As I say on YouTube:

“The Wizard is a virtual world on Kitely Virtual Worlds, created by Karima Hoisan & Dale Innis. This is the 1st part of a 3 part video trying to capture the whole world in 3 sections. The actual tour takes 30 minutes and it is automatic. This 1st part show’s how after you sit on the horse, you are totally under The Wizard’s power until you stand up at the very end. This is not meant to be great machinima, just capturing on film one of our worlds. *footnote my space navigator (3D Mouse) skills need polishing…sorry if you feel like a weaving drunk was behind the camera…I hope to improve:):)

So Please watch it Fullscreen and in HD! All the sounds you hear, you will actually hear,  if you jump on a horse and fall under the Wizard’s spell. All particle effects were created by Kurk Mumfuzz from Second Life and scripted by Dale Innis. I conceived and built the world you will see.
This is what it looked like when I started:
This is what it looks like now:)

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My poem “Rain Forest Balcony” Performed on Spillwords. com

Posted on October 5, 2023 by Karima Hoisan

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I am sooo excited!! My poem “Rain Forest Balcony” is up today on Spillwords and they included a little icon you can push and hear it recited to my own music!!!
WOOOOOOOO!
This is a first for me and I am so thankful to Dagmara K. for trying this out!!!
All the sounds you hear were recorded by me at my house at the beach, over the years, which sits on the very edge of a protected National Park.
I am not going to put the recording here…just please go to Spillwords to read and listen….and leave a little heart or if I could capture yours with my poem:):) Comment are welcome everywhere:)

Rain Forest Balcony

The booming bark of nearby howler monkeys,
announce the day.
Soprano giggling parakeets, against an ocean backdrop,
fly away.

Please go here to read and hear the rest and Thank You!!!
https://spillwords.com/rain-forest-balcony/

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Beach Day With Dale

Posted on October 4, 2023 by Karima Hoisan

My son Julian, who as you remember is into making random drone movies of our real lives,  Click Here , captured Dale and myself and some surfers out on our beach day in Costa Rica.  He made it as a short surprise for Dale, who really enjoyed it, and we all agreed would be fun to share it on my blog:) So here it is…Julian put it together, I added only the title and the music. It’s about a minute long:) Full-screen and Enjoy!!

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Twinkle Heart

Posted on October 3, 2023 by Karima Hoisan

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                    “Twinkle Heart” by Dale Innis on Midjourney AI
Please Click on Play to hear me recite the poem, “Twinkle Heart” to my own audio track written on my new Garage Band.

Twinkle Heart

My twinkle heart sees through the flesh & bone;
It knows just where it really has to go,
if it’s to see the essence pure, the glowing soul,
inside the loved one, it’s desired now to know.

It moves beyond the trappings and the sheen,
the subtle masks we wear to keep others away.
It bores and penetrates until it finds that gem
“Hello my friend, I knew you were exactly this way!

You may as well not try, for to resist is a losing game.
Keep your wits about you and before time runs out,
feel my sincere wish to roam through all your inner sanctums,
to really and finally know what you are all about.

I love you, my twinkle heart knew it from the start
so just surrender once to this heart’s desire.
Allow it to light a glowing candle in your darkest rooms
and melt the years of solitude, with just a twinkle set your own afire.

Karima Hoisan
October 3, 2023
Costa Rica

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Breaking The Fourth Wall

Posted on September 28, 2023 by Karima Hoisan

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Breaking the Fourth Wall

I am so filled with gratitude that we threw that brick
into the screen, that held us trapped
inside virtuality.
Although that world has its charms and we both
move so smoothly through it.
We work on and conjure up anything we can dream,
but there is much to be said for touch,
something we have learned to imagine over the years
but not in a million could we feel our fingers entwine
feel the salty breeze on our faces and hear every wave
simultaneously together as we sit admiring
the roaring sea and smell the ocean brine.

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This great gift has not gone unnoticed or unappreciated
by either of us…
Driving through the mountains, swimming and floating,
clapping giggling overwhelmed by the mariachi band,
singing Happy Birthday to you..watching you become
10 again, so full of childlike glee.
The quiet moments surrounded by Nature..
My friends already feeling like they know you
hugs and smiles and tears of awe
So glad we did this….so very grateful
that we threw that brick
into the screen, that held us trapped
inside virtuality.

Karima Hoisan
Sept. 27th, 2023
Costa Rica

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So…..We Did It!

Posted on September 22, 2023 by Karima Hoisan

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September 22, 2023 (Dale’s Birthday)

“After 12 years of working together, we finally meet
And one afternoon, InshAllah we’ll sit on the sand
While the sun sets into the water, and finally hold hands.”
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Dale Innis & Karima Hoisan
Taken in Dominical Costa Rica September 22, 2023

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North Atlantic Eyes

Posted on September 19, 2023 by Karima Hoisan

“The North Atlantic” by Dale Innis on Midjourney AI

Please Click Play to hear my Spoken Word version
to the beautiful music of Josh Peterson “Power Of Love”

North Atlantic Eyes

I looked into your North Atlantic eyes and I was hypnotized,
a wanderer upon your swells
I fell one thousand feet into your sea, but obviously
I did not drown, nor did I float away.
I swam and felt your liberty, your rhythmic waves
of rolling consciousness, washing over me.
Surrender pulls me down and you envelop,
the moon is now your face suspended over me.

And if I had a submarine to plummet down
through your mysterious depths,
Right past the closing portholes where I approach,
your last embarrassing ship wreck,
I would uproot that anchor you so proudly wear,
and you would not stop me.
I would paint graffiti on your bright washed public deck,
and you would also help me.

We both know when it’s best, when control is not within our hands,
but in the hands of fate,
When there’s a wood pile that sits nearby
and the fire’s measured to keep its own-self burning.
We might write a symphony with just our tangled hair,
or we may never meet again.
We might get sickly drunk on love, where neither you nor I
can remember how to think again.

When I swim inside those North Atlantic eyes,
I feel azure’s charms from tales of days of old.
Although my blue eyes carry seas of memories,
your promise sails me past them so intrepidly.
You can push me off that cliff, as many times as you see fit,
in falling, I am free to fall in you.
You can count the beats my heart repeats,
or wind me like a clock tonight, it all makes me fall in you.

I looked into your North Atlantic eyes and I was hypnotized,
a wanderer upon your swells.
I fell one thousand feet into your sea, but obviously
I did not drown, nor did I float away.
I swam and felt your liberty, your rhythmic waves
of rolling consciousness, washing over me.
Surrender pulls me down and you envelop,
the moon is now your face suspended over me.

Karima Hoisan
Feb. 4, 2012
Misty Shores, Second Life

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Just Say……

Posted on September 11, 2023 by Karima Hoisan

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 “Carl & Carolyn”  by Dale Innis on Midjourney AI

Please Click Play to Hear my Spoken Word To The Music of
Angelo Badalamenti (Blue Velvet) “Mysteries of Love”

Just Say…..

I always thought when a man would propose
he would choose the most romantic place;
he would pick the perfect time and weather;
the lighting would be dim and birds would sing.

I never expected him to be wearing a brown suit.
Brown, to me, is only the color of shoes not suits
and in this diner, with garish wall paper, I wanted to cry
When he told me, he could not bend on one knee.

The floor was just too filthy; it was not swept and dirty.
So he sat there looking out at the customers, not at me
and said in sort of a brown monotone voice,
“Carolyn, would you marry me?”
I too looked out at the customers and didn’t even hesitate,
I said “No” and I’m sure I dodged a bullet.
When everything is so wrong….
You just have to say “No.”

Karima Hoisan
September 11, 2023
Costa Rica

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Wishing To Be Freed

Posted on September 10, 2023 by Karima Hoisan

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Photo taken by me in a Second Life Art Installation in 2011 built by claudia222 Jewell
This poem first appeared on my blog in 2011 when no one yet was reading it:)
Click Play to hear my recital to the haunting cello music of David Darling’s “Minor Blue.”

Wishing To Be Freed

On alien air kisses I hovered passing close to you
beast and angel becoming one inside of me.
That odd orange and green was our night’s color scheme
multicolored moving glows, surrounding our cracked halos.

How familiar it did seem, as if in my last lucid fluid dream,
I remembered how I breathed and each breath took me deeper.
We pump our themes under frightened canopies.
We pump our lives into each other just to catch that extra breath,
because loneliness passes in swimming schools,
and our eyes stay fixed and we choose not to look or move.

Should we trade our passion for smiles,
or let it drift into visions until it pours and floats away?
Like a small remembering, old youth circulates in our sap, our blood our beast.
Whipping it back into form, the colors sadly fading,
we choose to cage it, in tufted bubbles of sobriety.
Sweet dark perception…  savage calling… stay away!
Intent is so much more than the crime
and these eyes can not help but plead guilty
to wishing to be freed.

Karima Hoisan
Feb. 22, 2011
Parallel Worlds ~ Farscape SL

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We Have Been Everything Except…..Real On The Same Set:)

Posted on September 4, 2023 by Karima Hoisan

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Most of you who read my blog know who Dale Innis is. He has been a friend and collaborator with me for almost 13 years in virtual worlds. He has been in most of the movies I made with Natascha,  is a master scripter (coder) and makes us avatars move.  We have built more than 12 virtual worlds together, worked on my live poetry readings and too many other projects to even list.
We have, for some reason, never decided to meet in real life (most people in the virtual don’t by the way) but this year…IT”S DIFFERENT!!  I am going to throw a great birthday party….
with Mariachis 🎉🎂🎈💃🏻🎸 for Dale Saturday Sept. 23’rd (his birthday is the 22nd) in Costa Rica and Dale will make like a jet setter and spend a whirlwind 3 days with us in my home.
I wrote this poem for this MOMENTOUS occasion:):) Click Play & Enjoy & Wish Us Luck!!:)

Before The Afternoon Rains
For Dale Innis

Before the afternoon brings the rains
We will soak up the blue sky, the giggling birds
marveling at each shade of perfect green,
The luck we made to be together in this scene

A whirlwind through a weekend
We are both crazy and we know it..
No skyscrapers here, just mountains and the sea
No avatars, we are the real deal you and me.

Could this change anything as we know it?
Of course it will change everything and nothing
We are just the same souls we’ve always been
changing our perfect avatars for imperfect skin.

Am I excited? Well that goes beyond saying…
After 12 years of working together, we finally meet
And one afternoon, InshAllah we’ll sit on the sand
While the sun sets into the water, and finally hold hands

Before the afternoon brings the rains
We will soak up the blue sky, the giggling birds
marveling at each shade of perfect green,
The luck we made to be together in this scene

Karima Hoisan
September 3,2023
Costa Rica

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