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Real Waves second life
This past week in class I have been exploring Real Waves in Second Life. Second life is a virtual world where you can explore islands, connect with people, and basically do anything you do in real life just in a virtual world. Real Waves was created by Mefisto Rabeni, and is like a virtual beach goer’s getaway. The island is mostly made up of beaches and also has highlands covered with grass. There is also a clear walkway that wraps around the outer end of the island. On the walkway there are roundabouts where you can purchase land to create in your own way in real waves. The island has an Art Gallery, furniture store, and also a clothing store. The furniture store is located on the beach and exclusively sells beach furniture. The art gallery is located on the highland and is called Redi Vivus Lust for Life; in the gallery you can purchase different paintings, sculptures, and lava lamps for your second life home. The clothing store is also located on the high ground part of the island, the store is not yet finished and has coming soon signs hanging from the windows. Real Waves is centered on a surfing theme. Surfing originally began in Hawaii before the 15th century by European sailors. Surfing didn’t become hugely popular in the United States until the 1950’s and 60’s, Hawaii and California with Hawaii being at the center of this new trend. During this time surfing ascended from a sport to a lifestyle, with the mass production of surfing movies, surf music, surf fashion and also surf magazine. The living Curl, The Endless summer and Surf party are some examples of surf movies during the 1960’s, with Endless Summer being the most popular. Endless summer is a surf documentary where Bruce Brown follows two surfers around the world on a search for the perfect wave. Endless summer was immensely popular with surfers because the movie depicted surfers as athletes, instead of beach bums and playboys. The music industry was also heavily affected by the surfing culture, with such surf bands as The Ventures, The Beach boys, the Surfaris and artists such as Link Wray and Dick dale. Surf music started out as being soft instrumental music, but gained its must commercial success with the Beach Boys as vocal music. The Beach Boys though lost favor with some surfers because as their careers grew they started to stop singing about surfing.

References 1.	Secondlife.com 2.	Imdb.com 3.	Tomson, shawn, Bustin down the Door the surf revolution. 2008 print