Long Overdue Amendment to my Resignation
Ina Centaur
As I've explained earlier, my resignation was due to personal and
professional reasons.
Personally, I felt that people just didn't like me, and were basically
looking for their first chance to put me in a position where I would
not be comfortable working on the production.
Professionally, I'm pretty prissy about who gets to print the name Ina
Centaur... so (for example) I have been involved with SL Ballet, the
main theatre at Broadway Live, etc., almost a year ago, but I've
chosen to remain uncredited because I wasn't entirely satisfied with
the whole enchilada. I don't like putting my name on someone else's
work. At that point, I haven't done much other than write emails with
my own tech perspectives... which no one reads... so it didn't make
sense to credit me. Timewise, that was not time well spent! Moreover,
I was cut off from knowing what would actually happen/what would
actually get implemented.
sLiterary's resignation has to do primarily with how (really!) there
are people who view any sort of support for things even (literary)
sexual in nature degrade from one of sLiterary's goals of improving
SL's image... and deviating from the whole sexball scene. I
fought/ignored them for as long as I could, but then I realized that
there really was no point in fighting them. This production could
exist without sLiterary, and in fact, that's basically what was going
on.
I wanted to kill two birds with one stone. The only official
semi-useful task I was doing was maintaining the VSpot account I
started way back last October/November. You guys wanted me out of that
(and an official statement), and I figured I might as well resign from
the whole thing. I emailed Shael/VDay my resignation, and also routed
command to Victoria Long.
I did not expect Shael/VDay to respond by canceling the production. I
realized the immediate implication. I cited that I had announced in a
transcripted meeting that I would do the task of communicating with
VDay and the group... and so, although I was totally surprised by the
development, I realized the blame would obviously shift to me!
The truth is that VDay had been aware that this was a Second Life
production ever since October/November, when I emailed them as both a
source of initial publicity raving about this production and also to
clarify the platform... And, I imagine Shael might have been trying to
negotiate this special case with those who owned the rights to this.
But fighting for rights is basically the kind of things only destined
martyrs would do..
I don't think it's anyone's fault, per se. I think it was just
miscommunication and misunderstanding.
But, in the end, people would always need someone to blame. So, if it
makes you feel better, feel free to... blame me.
P.S.
One avenue I have not tried yet is to directly ask Eve Ensler's agent
(George Lane) about rights for a non-professional production on Second
Life.
My stance is that the show can still go on as the VM, once the point
is made clear to the right person. But, I'm not sure whether I should
continue to worry about this or actually totally quit (as I had said I
would... I guess I am just a workaholic by heart?). I dunno. It just
seems to me that people in this group are both quick to blame and give
up the original plans..