Meeting Sang (Colorado/Cardiff)

Sang (Sang Ahn, a Google SketchUp employee) is the default Google SketchUp in-application person used for measuring the scale of 3D constructions. SketchUp's primary use is to allow 3D builders to populate Google Earth with models of 'real' life (RL) buildings in their correct place. Sang is the sole inhabitant of SketchUp's 3D world and occupies a space next to the point of origin (a north pole of sorts). His is a lonely existence.

Visiting Google Earth, Sang arrives at the default geographic position for English users of SketchUp, Boulder, Colorado (Latitude: 40.0170N, Longitude: 105.2830W), where SketchUp is created. Sang is a representation of the RL Sang, no attempt has been made to create this avatars persona, instead he is an extension of himself beyond a singular existence.

Venturing outside of Second Life, Garrett Lynch, my representation of myself in Second Life, goes to meet Sang and then invites him to visit the representation of my home in his virtual world.



Above: Meeting Sang in Google SketchUp at the point of origin.



Above: Meeting Sang in Google Earth at the point of origin, Boulder, Colorado.