Art in Second Life 2021 (27) “I want to show you something” by Venus Adored

21 Mar 2021 1 Comment

by diomitamaurer in Art in Second Life Tags: , , , ,

On Wednesday, March 3rd, Dido Haas contacted me and told me about the new exhibtion at Nitroglobus Roof Gallery called “I want to show your something” by Venus Adored.

“I want to show you something” was created by Venus Adored, who made projections of the daring, thought provoking RL images by Daantje Bons, a famous Dutch photographer. This way the images, although projected on 2D walls become a 3D effect – light boxes based on RL photography. The boxes are made of light reflections, creating an illusion of depth. It is Mandel Solano also a second life resident, who taught Venus to work with reflections. The effect is even stronger through the mirroring floor of the gallery. Be sure to use either the shared environment of midnight when visiting the exhibtion and enable advanced lighting and projections.

The photographs of Daantje Bons are really quite provocative and in my personal opinion funny. They deal with the female body, with the breasts and the vagina: Flowers held between lips, a chili sliced open, a raspberry on a nipple, an orchid blossom with a tampon. Each photograph and each light box is unique and the add to each other to build a really great exhibtion!
Two quotes of Daantje Bons are highlighted in the exhibition:
“I search what it means to be a woman and how fiminity and masculinity play a role in this”
“It often starts with a feeld or observation. Usually, something that makes me want to challenge it”

“I want to show you something” by Venus Adored @ Nitroglobus Roof Gallery (1)

Venus Adored is in Second Life for almost 12 years. She was a high school teacher of the Dutch language and biology in real life. She recently retired and is now fully enjoying being creative in Second Life. Her greatest passion is making particles with which she occasionally gives shows. Venus regularly works with other creative people to learn from each other and to advance together in the possibilities of making things. I saw her installation “Light Reflections” back in 2017 (read here https://wp.me/psPPu-2jT).

Venus thought that it would be fun to make refections of the RL images of her best friend and art photographer in RL, Daantje Bons. Daantje was enthusiastic about this idea and Dido, curator of Nitroglobis gallery in second life, was enthusiastic as well.
Daantje Bons’ work has been featured in the Netherland’s largest newspapers and magazines such as De Volkskrant, NRC Handelsblad, LINDA Magazine, and &C magazine. Internationally, her work has been published in outlets such as “The Huffington Post”, “IGNANT”, “I-D Magazine”, VOGUE ITALIA, Kurier, FRAME Magazine, and “Refinery29”. You can learn and see more about Daantje Bons at her website.

“I want to show you something” by Venus Adored @ Nitroglobus Roof Gallery (2)

There’s a video from the opening, that provides more impressions of this great exhibtion here

Nitroglobus Roof Gallery is owned and curated by Dido Haas. Thank you for providing the space for the art and for this outstanding exhibition.

Landmark to Nitroglobus Roof Gallery
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunshine%20Homestead/38/25/1001
Dido Haas’ blog “Exploring SL with Dido”
http://exploringslwithdido.blogspot.com/
Daantje Bons’ website
https://www.daantjebons.com/home/
Video from the opening event
https://vimeo.com/519407079

Diary 2021 (30) March 6th/7th/8th A bit of everyday life in Second Life (II)

20 Mar 2021 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in Diary Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Saturday, March 6th, Mistress and I spent almost two hours together in the afternoon. We were at club Domme a Domme. It was quite full, hence we had something to look at and to read. Lily (Lily Bloodrose was there and was eager to get tied up again, yet I wasn’t in the mood for it, it would have felt like being serving her. Faye came by and joined us. She intimidated Lily a bit by being with us and wearing a leash holder. And finally Gwen Drammond (dstross), who was at Faye’s leash at our party the night before came by as well. She took Lily’s keys and locked and gagged her. This way Lily got finally what she was looking for and we had a bit of fun watching.

March 6th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at club Domme a Domme with Faye (Boy Serenity) and Lily (Lily Bloodrose)

At night Angelique was present. We hadn’t seenher for a while as she was busy in her RL. Soon after we had met with her, Flo showed up as well. Time to play a skipee as teams. That was fun (for Flo and me at least as we won *winks*). For a change we went on a shopping tour after the game. We went to KDC and grabbed the demo of a hood and looked at all the fetish gear there, we went to XO, Velvet Dreams, and Violent Seduction and finally we visited a fair. We didn’t get anything though besides a few demos. It was almost flotime when we moved to Carnal Intentions and Flo left us soon after. We moved to club Domme a Domme for a bit and that’s it already. A relaxed night, where we didn’t just stood around looking good.

March 6th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita with Angelique and Flo shopping and at Carnal Intentions

Sunday, March 7th, I went inworld in the morning, to check the demos I got the night before. To make it short – the hood didn’t fit and I didn’t get it fitting, and what I had grabbed elsewise went into the garbage as well. Kitty was inworld and I went seeing herat Psi’s realm. She had fun there teasing some other guests and listening to the wisdoms and banter of others. I stayed about 20 minutes with her before I tend to my RL again.

March 7th: Diomita and Kitty at Psi’s realm / Mistress Jenny and Diomita at club Domme a Domme

In the afternoon I visited a gallery and went to club Domme a Domme afterwards where I idled a bit while I was writing the report about my gallery visit. To my suprise Mistress Jenny showed up and joined me at the club. She had not expected to have time in the afternoon. This way we could catch up with our news quickly before I had to leave again.

At night Mistress and I were early and I met Mistress at club Domme a Domme again where she was with lily at her leash. I myself had a longer and quite interesting chat with another domme who has quite some intriguing ideas about how to mold slaves and subs. We left the club and played a skipee with Flo, having lily leashed by the table.
Flo had selected a new outfit for us, a DHB harness and I locked her into it for the week. After the game we went to Psi’s realm with Flo. Lily had left us and had went off to bed. At Psi’s we had a front row place to watch the bunny show. That’s always entertaining, although I only understand half of the jokes, due to my lack of US tv series and games. Anyway it was nice. Flo left us early as well as she had an early start the other day.

March 7th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at home playing skipee with Flo and Lily (Lily Bloodrose) and at Psi’s realm with Flo watching the Bunny show

We stayed a bit longer watching the bunny show, then we met with the domme, whith who I had a longer conversation before. it was nice to see other ways to control and dominate and Mistress had a nice conversation with her. We might visit her again together with our slaves/subs. It is always enriching to see how others make up their SL. When we left it was already way after midnight and time for bed.

Monday, March 8th, Mistress and spent an hour in the afternoon together again. We went to club Domme a Domme, to Puerto Esclava and Heavy Bondage CLub. We caught up with our news, we read profiles, we chit chatted and enjoyed eachother. Mistress had to leave all of a sudden due to her RL and just in that very moment I was apporached by a big curvy woman and I had a short roleplay with her. She was quite strong, it made no sense to resist. Too bad that she had to dash into her RL as well before anything could really develop.

March 8th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at club Domme a Domme, Puerto Esclava and at Heavy Bondage Club

At night I was at club Domme a Domme when Mistress came inworld. Once again I was involved in a roleplay, a play I won’t report about in here, but Mistress knows about it. We stayed at the club for almost one hour, then Flo came inworld and we returnd home for a skipee with her.

After our game we spent the rest of the night at Carnal Intentions with Flo, slave Lucy (MissLucyWales) joined us there for a while and I had some fun teasing another sub there and locking her gag and armbinder. And once gagged all I understand is that they love it *winks*

March 8th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at club Domme a Domme and with Flo and slave Lucy at Carnal Intentions

We went home and Mistress allowed me to lick her and to get my fix before we went off to bed.

13 Year Rez Day Celebrations.

19 Mar 2021 Leave a comment

by jennymaurer in anniversary blog entries Tags: ,

 

Today is 13 years since I joined SL. A long time in any life but more significant in SL.

To make SL work you have to put in to get out. If you find somebody special and you put in then you get twice back. I am lucky that I found Diomita very early in my SL and we hit it off very quickly. The story is in the blog for all to read, and it is in our profiles too. SL has changed a lot of 13 years, not all for the better but when you have great friends and close relationships it is still a very special place to visit. Thank you to everyone I know for making me want to log in again and again.

xxxxxxx

Have fun

Jen xxx

 

 

March 19th, 2021 – Mistress Jenny’s 13th rezzday anniversary

19 Mar 2021 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in anniversary blog entries Tags: , ,

Today marks the 13th rezzing anniversary of my beloved Mistress wife Jenny Maurer. We had an incredible journey together in Second Life and I don’t want to miss any minute of it. This post is just my way to express my thankfulness that Jenny is in my life. I hope for many years to come.
Thank you, Jenny. I love you!

Diomita

Mistress Jenny Maurer …. 13 years in Second Life

Art in Second Life 2021 (26) “Ethereal Eternity by Celestial Demon” @ DixMix Gallery

19 Mar 2021 1 Comment

by diomitamaurer in Art in Second Life Tags: , , , , , ,

I visited “Ethereal Enternity by Celestial Demon”, an exhibtion at DixMix Gallery in room Amona.
It is once again an exhibition of an artist, who I hadn’t come across so far. And it is different to what I saw so far in Second Life. The artists name Celestial Demon and the title of the exhibition “Ethereal Eternity” fit in a particular way.

“Ethereal Eternity by Celestial Demon” @ DixMix Gallery (1)

The setting of the exhibition is very thoughtfully adapted to the showcased pictures. In the center Megan Prumier placed 3 transparent almost invisible large Angel statues. The whole room is held in white. The 10 pictures are all monochrome, very large and wide.

The pictures deal with the themes love, heaven, angels and eternity. For me personally the pictures tell a love story, it’s perceived end by death and the joyful reunion in a ethereal eternity. The pictures all have a strong focus on the theme achieved by the large white or light background.

“Ethereal Eternity by Celestial Demon” @ DixMix Gallery (2)

Celestial Demon (celestialdemon) is an Italian artist, who is in Second Life for more than 9 years. I couldn’t find out much about him, as his profile is in Italian. You can see more of his art on his flickr page. On this flickr page I found a comment that describes him and his art quite short and fitting in my opinion: “artist with infinite power of communication in light and shade. Immense talent“

“Ethereal Eternity by Celestial Demon” @ DixMix Gallery (3)

Thank you Dixmix for providing and curating the DixMix Gallery, thank you Megan for building it and for contributing at it. I enjoyed my visit. The exhibition “Ethereal Eternity by Celestial Demon” will stay open until April 2nd.

Landmark to Dixmix Gallery 2020
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Madori%20Bay/46/213/22
DixMix Gallery website
https://www.dixmixgallery.xyz/
Celestial Demon (celestialdemon)’s Flickr page
https://www.flickr.com/people/celestialdemon/

Simploring 2021 (13) The House that Love Built

18 Mar 2021 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in Exploring sims in Second Life Tags: , , , , , , ,

I scrolled through scoop.it SL Destinations to pick a destination for my simploring tour on Sunday, February 28th. The entry “The House that Love Built” caught my attention immediately. It is a new installation of Lex Machine (Archetype11 Nova).

Lex Machine (Archetype11 Nova) was formerly known as Schmexysbuddy Resident and created the Hotel California sims, which I visited in 2019 (read here and here). I saw Lex Machine’s installation “Isolation’s Passengers” last year (read here) and his installation Bermuda Locket earlier this year (read here).

The entry on scoop.it SL Destinations led to a post from Inara Pey “The House that Love Built in Second Life“, which I read before visiting myself.

Impressions of Lex Macine’s “The House that Love Built” – overview and orientation map

“The House that Love Built” is built on Lex’ own moderate full region Solveig. The landmark description tells a story:
‘I want you to show me your love with a build.’ .. ~My Ana … Thank you Ana. This is because of….and for…you.

Ana, that is Anastasia Falcor (Anastasia Nova), Lex’s partner in SL – and he built “The House that Love Built” for her … and he built it with love!

Spontaneously it is hard to categorize “The House that Love Built“. I was even pondering to publish my post under “Art in Second Life”, yet I sticked with the simploring category. The sim is roughly devided into two parts. The first part, where you land, is the lovely, romantic part with a residential house that might be the house that love built. It is not yet furnished though. On this part you find also a wedding barn, fully prepared for Lex and Ana’s wedding party. It is a really lovely setting.

Impressions of Lex Machine’s “The House that Love Built” (1) – around the landing

On this romantic side of “The House that Love Built” you also find a steamboat, an old school house, waterfalls and a farm, some deers made of stone covered with moss and quite some nice places to sit and cuddle, to enjoy the scenery. You can take great pictures and you can even take a ride on a horse. The rezzer for the horses close to the farm.

Impressions of Lex Machine’s “The House that Love Built” (2) – the wedding barn

The second part of “The House that Love Built” is dedicated to the art. Just like in his installation Bermuda Locket Lex plays again with giant pieces of art, mostly created by Mistero Hifeng, the horses are from wassaabii – but I didn’t check all. The giant horses with the “exploding parts” of their heads and the giant statues can be seen well from the romanitc side and the mixture between a lovely created romanitc sim and the art provides a specific touch to this installation.

Impressions of Lex Machine’s “The House that Love Built” (3) – around the farm

The giant statues are arranged around an old theatre. The whole scene looks af if it is long abandonned, plants have reoccupied the place. Scattered around the sim you also find a lot of cars, some look ready for use, others are just wrecks. Cars are often part of Lex’s sims.

Impressions of Lex Machine’s “The House that Love Built” (4) – the theatre

“The House that Love Built” is not just a house, it is a whole sim dedicated to love, a place to dream and a place to enjoy art.

Impressions of Lex Machine’s “The House that Love Built” (5) – the school house, the waterfalls, view from the balcony, “Si scioglie nei tuoi occhi…la Luna” by Mistero Hifeng

Thank you Lex for another impressive installation and in particular for sharing it publicly.

Landmark to “The House that Love Built”
https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Solveig/151/123/23
Inara’s blogpost “The House that Love Built in Second Life”
https://modemworld.me/2021/02/27/the-house-that-love-built-in-second-life/

Diary 2021 (29) March 3rd-5th A bit of everyday life in Second Life

17 Mar 2021 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in Diary Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Wednesday, March 3rd, I was running late in the afternoon due to my RL. Mistress Jenny was at Carnal Intentions with Faye and I joined them there. Mistress and I caught up with our mutual news first and that took a while. Faye was busy with a bondage lover friend of hers. When we had finished with catching up it was almost time to tend to our RL again but to my surprise Mistress took me to our loft skybox and asked me if I wanted my fix. Of course I wanted, I’d never reject such an offer *winks*. This way the short time inworld in the afternon had it’s highlight.

March 3rd: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Carnal Intentions and at home

We had a quiet night that started with a skipee together with Flo. We went to Psi’s realm where it was fully again. But soon the place emptied for waht reason ever and we moved on to HBC. We spent most of our night reading profiles and talking about it. It was nice to have some quiet time and to chit chat.

After Flo had left to bed, Mistress and I went to club Domme a Domme where we met Argi.

March 3rd: Mistress Jenny and Diomita with Flo at Psi’S realm and at Heavy Bondage Club, with Argi at club Domme a Domme

On Thursday, March 4th, Mistress and I spent more than 2 hours together at club Domme a Domme. Lily Boodrose joined us. She had approached us already several times and desired to get locked up. We’re not fulfilling wishes, well not often, yet we allowed her to kneel close to us and Mistress and I chatted with her a bit to get to know her better. Later Faye also joined us. The club was full and shortly before we left there was even a little floor show, but in general we just watched the crowd, read profiles and chatted amoung us and with Lily and Faye.

March 4th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at club Domme a Domme with Faye (Boy Serenity) and Lily (lily Bloodrose)

At night Mistress ran late and I started my night with a skippe with Flo. Then we went to Psi’s realm first. We saw a new bondage rack – in use with a slave who was away from the keyboard – that I might want to use some day. As nothing really was going on I took Flo to Carnal Intentions where we stayed the whole night.

March 4th: Diomita and Flo at Psi’s realm and at Carnal Intentions / Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Carnal Intentions with Flo, Faye and Lily Bloodrose

First Faye joined us and as she had been a bit slow with coming to me I restricted her tightly, as a little punishment on one side, but also as I know she enjoyes it. Then Mistress and Lily joined us. I locked Lily up and had her hogtied on the floor and made her lick my heels, Mistress’ heels and Flo’s heels.

March 4th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Carnal Intentions with Flo, Faye and Lily Bloodrose

Friday, March 5th, Mistress and I went to club Domme a Domme to catch up. We just caught up with our mutual news and spoke about the theme for our party at night. Mistress wanted to keep it simple, hence she set the theme to boots “It is Friday and time to start our weekend with a party again. Today’s theme is simple – present yourself donning your favourite boots. Or come as you are of course. DJ Virgo spins the tunes”.

I had run late and I had to leave for RL all of a sudden, so there is not anything more to report for the diary. I even didn’t take a picture of us with Faye and Ann (TransAnn), who had joined us.

And at night we enjoyed our party starting off the weekend..

March 5th – Friday night party: Mistress Jenny, Diomita, Flo, Baroness Capelo, Faye (Boy Serenity), Gwen Drammond (dstross), Trick Sinister, Salammbo (paixana2), Virgo Babii (upper row), Della Randt, Starbright Wingtips, Sara (SaraRandall), Zarra Fluffpaw, Claire (maddh4tt3r), Bacon Littlepaws, Talos (Talosborn), Virgo Babii (lower row)

Art in Second Life 2021 (25) “Virtual Tables by Simulat Almendros”

16 Mar 2021 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in Art in Second Life Tags: , , , ,

Last year I visited “Spirals and Metaspirals – An exploration by Simulat Almendros” at Hannington Arts Foundation (HAF) (read here). The exhibtion is still open, although it has been rearranged. And on February 17th, an addition was added, a second level, that is full with tables, well virtual tables of course.

Simulat is in SL for almost 14 years. He’s an artist and displays his work at two galleries. In the 1st life tab of his profile he describes himself with the tags: “Computer art, philosophizing Web, graphic arts programming, simulations“

For the expansion with the “Virtual tables” Simulat wrote an notecard explaining his work at bit:
Second Life was the first 3D modelling medium I worked with. I got pretty good with prims but they do have limitations. About 2 years later I started using Blender which is a free 3D modelling system that is as powerful as commercial 3D software like Maya. The learning curve is very steep. Learning to use a powerful program like learning a language. You start of with simple things and slowly your vocabulary and fluency increase. Now 8 years later it’s become a central tool in my art making tool box. I use Blender to make 2D pictures that are raw material to import into Photoshop to make Snowflakes. And of course I use it to make 3D forms to import into Second Life.

I like to explore meaningful but abstract forms. The forms are abstract because generally the don’t represent anything that you would see in reality. They are based on the implications of math and science. I work with geometry and symmetry. I try to make those kinds of abstract ideas into concrete forms that you can walk around.”

The expansion “Virtual tables” by Simulat Almendros on a seperate level of “Spirals and Metaspirals”

The tables are really outstanding, colourful and artful. Simulat uses mostly glass for the table plate so that you can see the counter framework. It is suprprising to see his different ideas. I can imagine such a table in RL as an eyecatcher in every room. They can develop their class standing close by eachother but I assume that Simulat wanted to show how different you can make them, her can make them. I’d buy one in RL immediately, if I could.

Virtual Tables by Simulat Almendros

Thank you for this expansion, Simulat. I really like the tables, well done!

Hannington Arts Foundation (HAF) is owned by Hannington Xeltentat. Thank you Hannington for providing the space for the art and for enabling “Virtual tables by Simulat Almendros”. I enjoyed my visit.

Landmark to HAF “The Hannington Arts Foundation at Xeltentat Enterprises”
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Xeltentat%20Enterprises/163/145/3502

Diary 2021 (28) Febrary 28th – March 2nd – Maurer’s Latex Doll

15 Mar 2021 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in Diary Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Sunday, February 28th, was a varied and entertaining day in Sacond Life for Mistress and me. In the morning I went on a simploring tour. In the afternoon Mistress and I spent an hour together at club Domme a Domme. It was full and Mistress and I had some chats and no need to move on.

At night Mistress was running late and I had a skipee with Flo while we waited her for. Flo was wearing her DHB chastity belt as I had requested it the night before and I locked it thight and secure. slave Melissa came inworld after she wasn’t with us for some weeks. It was great having her back with us. I went to Caranl intentiones with Flo and slave Melissa and Mistress Jenny joined us there when she came inworld. We were in group IM with each other all night and had fun. slave Melissa finally finished her corset training and got rewarded with a ride a the dildo cushion at the club. Mistress and I have plans for her next outfit, we just wanted to finish the corset training.

February 28th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at club Domme a Domme, at Carnal Intentions with Flo and slave Melissa, and at Puerto Esclava

At flotime we brought Flo and slave Melissa back home and went to Puerto Esclava for more than half an hour. There were some new faces and it was quite full, hence time went by quickly. We returned home and Mistress allowed me to lick her and to get my fix before we called it a night. Thank you Mistress.

Monday, March 1st, I was inworld in the afternoon and should have met with Mistress, yet she didn’t made it inworld. She had announced that she might not make it due to her RL. I spent the afternoon at club Domme a Domme and one of my ongoing roleplay threads was present. Being a switch can be quite difficult sometime, at least for me that afteroon. It became humiliating as I ended kneeling at the park bitch post – and had to be thankful that I had not to strip.
Faye (Boy Serenity) came by and noticed me there and left again as she didn’t want to spoil what was going on, good girl! It took a while until I could stand again and then I called Faye over to me and we spent half an hour together at the club before I had to leave to tend to my RL

March 1st: Diomita kneeling “parked” at club Domme a Domme / Diomita and Faye at club Domme a Domme

At night Mistress and I first caught up with our news. Then we met with Flo and started our night with a skipee. We were almost done playing when slave Melissa showed up. The night before slave Melissa had finished her corset training, hence it was time to change her and to take advantage of training. Mistress and I had agreed to transform her into our latex doll for a while. We took her to our house and after I had took off her corset I dressed her with a latex catsuit, a NGW armbinder venus corset with the smallest waist and a NGW Aphrodite hood. That took a while and it was worth the effort!

March 1st: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at home and at Carnal Intentions with Flo and slave Melissa / slave Melissa’s restricted view

We spent the rest of the night at Carnal Intentions with slave Melissa and Flo. First Faye joined us there, then Ann came by too. She had dressed up as a latex pony. The suit she was wearing offerend quite some opportunities for locking and of course I did not refrain to tease Annie and to lock her pony suit with a timelock. Annie had once complained that none would dar to lock her – well, I dare *winks*

March 1st: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Carnal Intentions with Flo, pony Ann (TransAnn) and Maurer’s Latex Doll Melissa

I had a busy day in RL on Tuesday, March 2nd, and went inworld in the later afternoon. Mistress Jenny and Faye were at NGW and trying out hoods. Unfortunately none of the hoods fitted on Jenny’s head – nor on mine, but we didn’t try hard. More importantly, Faye found a hood that fitted nice on her, yet she still hesitates to become our second latex doll.
We went to Carnal Intentions next and I caught up with Mistress. We had to move as the sim was restarting (restart Tuesday) and decided to go to Psi’s realm for a few minutes. And that’s it already about the afternoon. An hour inworld passes by very quickly.

We had a varied night starting with a skipee with Flo once again. The game went down quick that night (and one sided which is less fun). slave Melissa came inworld right in time for visiting a club. We went to Mesmerize Dungeon for a change as it was quite full, but the place emptied quickly and hence we moved on to Carnal Intentions again.

March 2nd: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Mesmerize Dungeon and at Carnal Intentions with Flo and slave Melissa

I played a bit with our latex doll’s vision blindfold and she sent me pictures of her vision again. I was surprised how dark her view was! slave doll wears the APhrodite hood and I knew that the blindfold doesn’t work properly … well, for us, who we use the Firestorm viewer. But slave doll uses Marine’s RLV viewer and this viewer can handle the “RLV spheres” for vision control. Hnce beside the restriction of the AnaVision HUD, slave doll had an almost dark screen. I thought and I think that this makes not much sense and allowed her a more clear view – still very restrictive yet she ccould at least picture how her environment might look like.

March 2nd: slave doll Melissa’s totally restricted and the less restrictive view / Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Psi’s realm with Flo, Faye and slave Melissa

Carnal Intentions was full and Faye wanted to join us, so we moved on to Psi’s realm where she could come to us. Faye had bought the NGW hood that she had tried on in the afternoon and I fitted some extras locking the hood and restricting her view a bit. We had fun at Psi’s realm. slave Melissa must have made some impression. Two other women changed into their venus armbinder corset. The place was full and there was banter and locking going on, quite entertaining. We stayed there until midnight before we went home and to bed.

March 2nd: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Psi’s realm with Flo, Faye and slave Melissa

Simploring 2021 (12) Skrunda-2

14 Mar 2021 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in Exploring sims in Second Life Tags: , , , , , , ,

When I was checking scoop.it SL Destinations on Sunday, February 21st, I came across Skrunda-2. The entry led to a blogpost of Maddy Gynoid “Simtipp: Skrunda-2“, which I read before visiting myself.
The landmark description is precise and a short version of what to expect: “Skrunda-2 is loosely based on the town of the same name in Latvia. It was run by the Russians to host radar. They left in 1998 and what remains to this day is a complete, but empty ghost-town, a time capsule to Cold War paranoia and Soviet styling.”

Skrunda-2 in Second Life is built on a full region. It is owned by Titus Palmira and was designed by Megan Prumier and Sofie Janic. I remember that either Megan or Sofie had invited me over but busy me had forgot about it.

Skrunda-2 – bird’s eye view and overview map

I strongly recommend to read more about Skrunda-2 before visiting. You will get offered a notecard upon entering the sim, that contains the main information. But a look into wikipedia might also be very helpful.

Skrunda-2 in the physical world

When I started my tour I kept the preset windlight which is set to night. It gives the scenery an even more odd atmosphere. I went to the residential blocks in the center and visited the water tower. The lights are set nicely to illuminate the abandonned town. Nonetheless the pictures were a bit dark and won’t show the many details. Therefore I decided to change my environment setting to “Anan Adored Realistic”.

Skrunda-2 – at the landing, the water tower and the residential blocks.

There is really a lot to explore and discover at Skrunda-2. Unfortunately the sim was quite full and even without using shadows and with a low drawing distance the lag was quite heavy and made moving around difficult for me. I enjoyed my visit nonetheless.
I went to what I named “meeting hall” first. The hall seems to be used for events nowadays. But in general every building looks like it was just abandonned, there’s garbage, graffiti, stuff, furniture as if the town was just left yesterday. But what proves that is is already empty for many years is the returning vegetation that slowly takes over the place again (as in RL I assume).

Skrunda-2 – at the landing / the meeting hall

From another former residential part only ruins are left over, dogs stray through the roads and there’s still furniture outside and other relicts of former life. I’m sure there’s more to discover but lag prevented me from sneaking into every corner.

Skunda-2 – the residential ruins

Of course you also find the leftovers of the Russian army, cars, barracks, water and fuel tanks, antennas .. and you find spots to sit and to think about how it might have been here in those days.

Skrunda-2 – Impressions

Quite outstanding is a large building with many antennas on its roof. Inside you find several large rooms with art on the walls, vegetation inside of the building… and a funny statue on the roof. I have no idea if that building is part of Skunda-2 in the physcial world (it might be) and what its purpose was, yet the art inside is impressive.

Skrunda-2 – the Military complex

The residential blocks are a very good replica of those in the physcal world. Again you can go inside and see the leftovers of life. I did not explore this part in detail as navigating was too difficult for me, but Maddy had some pictures in his blogpost. I visited the old indoor pool, found a statue overlooking the sea and went into another building which purpose I couldn’t find out. I decided to name it “Logistics” as there were cardboard boxes inside, and large piles of bags of coal and some ropebelt conveyors.

Skrunda-2 – indoor pool, residential blocks, the statue overlooking the sea, logisitics building

Skrunda-2 is a paradise for photographers as there’s so much to discover, so many backgrounds you don’t easily get some place else. It is a place I’d never visit in real life, I didn’t even know about it. It reminded me immediately of Serene Footman, who also had many installations of odd places in real life. Hence for me this visit was also educational and made me doing some research.
There is much more to see than I saw during my visit of 1 1/2 hour.

And Randonee Noel made a short video of Skrunda-2. In the video you see the bunker. It is quite close to the landing, just turn right after you passed the entrance barrier.

Skrunda-2 – the bunker and the barracks close to the landing

I enjoyed my visit a lot and I learned a lot and I took many many pictures and I finally traveled to a foreign place again which made my day particularly during these times. Thank you Titus Palmira, Megan Prumier and Sofie Janic!

Landmark to Skrunda-2
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Rockford/206/20/22
Wikipedia about Skrunda-2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skrunda-1
Maddy Gynoid’s “Simtipp: Skrunda-2”
https://echtvirtuell.blogspot.com/2021/02/simtipp-skrunda-2.html
Video Randoneenoel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/randoneenoel/50943905512/in/pool-14746851@N23/
Sofie Janic’s flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/154984823@N02/
Megan Prumier flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/meganprumier/

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