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Erik Mondrian
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Writer, Artist, Scholar, Dreamer. 🏳️‍🌈 Passionate about virtual places; there's more to life than being real.

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I haven't been to Chipotle in ages, but apparently they still have my number. 📲 ⬇️

I feel like their #marketing team just wanted to see how many emojis they could fit in a single message. 😯🤯 Either that, or someone ate all of the #Halloween candy before hitting send.
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
November 3, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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A gorgeous sunrise over Black Rock City this morning at #BurningMan 2025, featuring the PlayAlchemist camp's 71-foot-tall Grand Pyramid: www.playalchemist.com

Taken from the live webcast at 6:36 am PDT: burningman.org/live-webcast/ #BMwebcast
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/
August 31, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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And while you're here, make sure to check out the miniature of the SS Galaxy (sl-aviation.fandom.com/wiki/SS_Galaxy) that my friend Snowlord made entirely from prims! Snow also has an exhibit of his own, Primfection, definitely not to be missed: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/S... #SL22B #SecondLife
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 Snowlord's "Primfection" exhibit. The main part of the build is composed of an intricate system of twisting and interwoven prims, forming a large spindle-like shape that hovers above a circular inverted fountain, with the water pouring down from all sides into a hole at the fountain's center. Floating at the heart of the spindle shape itself is a glowing black orb, with three tentacles reaching out from it in different directions. Two end in the air in front of the spindle, while the third arcs downward, piercing into the terrain, toward the fountain, and coming out again through the water's surface.
July 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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A big thanks to @maxwellgraf.secondlife.bio for reminding me that I never posted about my #SL22B exhibit! It's a 3D terrain model of Sansara and Heterocera, SL's oldest mainland continents: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/S... SLB will be open till July 20, so there's still time to visit. #SecondLife
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.
July 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Made with @blender.org and @kdenlive.bsky.social, another experiment in reshaping a simple mesh grid using trigonometric functions. #Python #VisualArt #b3d
June 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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And another little experiment with the default cube in @blender.org. Not a perfect render (I could have done more), but still rather hypnotic to watch. #b3d
May 16, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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A meeting of the minds, made with @blender.org. Whether in #SecondLife or elsewhere, "it all starts with a cube." #b3d
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.
May 16, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Did some personal "art therapy" today with @blender.org and its #Python API, repositioning the vertices of a mesh grid using trigonometric functions like sine and cosine. The results are quite abstract, but I like how they turned out. They work pretty well as desktop backgrounds too. #b3d #VisualArt
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 abstract image made in Blender, showing a bluish plane that was modified to resemble a repeating sine wave. The troughs of each wave are streaked with lighter shades of blue toward the bottom left, becoming darker toward the upper right. An abstract image made in Blender, showing a red plane that was modified to resemble a repeating sine wave, with a different phase on each half. The waves go diagonally from upper right to lower left, and with a tile-like pattern across each one. An abstract image made in Blender, showing a series of stylized "rolling hills" that were created by superimposing sine and cosine waves across a tiled, green plane. The edges of each tile are slightly raised. There is also some depth of field, with the middle of the image being sharper than the slightly blurrier areas at the top and bottom.
May 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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I had the privilege of attending a sold-out talk by @petebuttigieg.bsky.social at the Arlington Theatre last night, organized by @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social's Arts & Lectures. Pete was eloquent and inspiring, acknowledging the challenges we face but also offering reasons for hope. ❤️ #UCSB #MayorPete
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".
April 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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I joined #SecondLife on March 23, 2005, which means (hard as it is to believe) that I've been a part of this amazing virtual world for twenty whole years now! 😲🦊🎉 Where did all the time go?!?

#RezDay
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.
March 24, 2025 at 2:35 AM