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/

Diary 2021 (27) February 25th – 27th Saints and sinners

13 Mar 2021 Leave a comment

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

Thursday, February 25th, Mistress and I had a short roleplay in the afternoon with the housewife od the 1950ies again. We had met her at club Domme a Domme and she had an IM with Mistress. Then she left, Mistress left and I got summoned my Mistress to the housewife’s appratment again. She, let us call her Miss U, discussed with Mistress how to dress me “properly”. That said she played with her wooden spoon and ordered me to strip. I was reluctant but Mistress told me to do as Miss U said. I ended up in a latex dress that has a touch of the 50ies.
After this little scene we left and went to Heavy Bondage Club and later to Puerto Esclava, then our time in the afternoon was up.

February 25th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Miss U’s appartment, at Heavy Bondage Club and at Puerto Esclava

At night we first played a round of skipee with Flo then we went to Carnal Intentions, where we spent most of our night. Faye joined us there later.

February 25th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Carnal Intentions with Flo and Faye

Friday, February 26th, Mistress and I spent our hour in the afternoon at club Domme a Domme most of the time. We both had some nice or exciting IMs, we read profiles and as it was comparably full we had some entertainment. And as always we enjoyed just being together.
Of course we also talked about the theme of our Friday night party and came up with a quite open theme that should suit everybody: “It’s Friday again and that means it’s time to enjoy the start of the weekend. Tonight’s time will be kept very easy – decent or slutty, saints and sinners. Or just come as you are even as nudie …. you will be dressed to the theme. DJ Virgo is spinning the tunes.”

February 26th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at club Domme a Domme

We had another great start into our weekend .. and a rare guest, our former slave Danii. Danii is exploring SL in an isolation suit usually. Well, not so much exploring, more exploring her feelings and her inner self. But she took a break and visited us. The turnout was quite good that Friday and we enjoyed our party.

February 26th: Diomita, Mistress Jenny, Flo, Faye, Danii (Danii Szydlowska), Baroness Capelo, Laura (Laura00175), Claven Albatros, Sarah Fhang, vero Hartmann (upper row), Jammy (navanaxsacratus), Lizzy Rascon, Della Randt, Starbright Wingtips, Sara (SaraRandall), Zarra Fluffpaw, Claire (maddh4tt3r), Talos (Talosborn), Virgo (lower row)

Saturday, February 27th, Mistress and I went to club Domme a Domme to catch up with our news in the afternoon. I have had 2 encounters with other dommes in the morning of that day and hence I had something to talk about with Mitress. While we were standing there (and were looking good of course), another guest approached Mistress praising how good we looked. She fancied to worship our boots. And despite she was wearing a whip, I told her to get closer to us when she opened an IM with me as well. I had her stand in front of me and looked her up from head to toe. It took less than a minute to have her giving me her whip and kneeling down.

February 27th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at club Domme a Domme, at home and at Carnal Intentions with Fay (jessevaharris) and Faye (Boy Serenity)

We took her, Fay (jessevaharris), home with us and went to our Stonehaven patio and continued talking there. I restricted her to our island and she got the assignment to add our script to her RR gear. Faye came by. Faye and Fay knew each other from Carnal Intentions yet they had barely spoken with each other. The names Faye and Fay might give reason for some fun.
After Fay had to leave to tend to her RL, Mistress, Faye and I went to Carnal Intentions until Mistress had to leave. I stayed at the club with Faye for another half hour, then I went off myself.

Our night was different, at least from what we had expected. Mistress and I we both ran a bit late and were suprised that none was present. We went to club Domme a Domme again and ended to stay there the whole night. First Flo came inworld and joined us, Ann (TransAnn) came by, Argi was there and entertained the whole room, Faye found us and stayed with us and Argi… it was a quite busy night. The club was full and we had another applicant to become a maid for us. I had a roleplay starting again… getting blackmailed and will have some fun with that probably (I won’t report about it here though, as far as I consider right now). Mistress and I had each 3 or 4 IMs ongoing plus the main chat – Argi succeeded once again to get it started. And Fay (jessevaharris), who we had expected, didn’t show up at all.

February 27th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at club Domme a Domme with Faye, Argi, Ann and Flo

A fun night!

Art in Second Life 2021 (24) “Real Life” by Hermes Kondor at Art Gallery Rill’Arts

12 Mar 2021 Leave a comment

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

I visited Nils Urqhart’s gallery, the Art Gallery Rill’Arts, the first time end of last year and saw his exhibition “A Winter Tale” (read here). Now I got an invitation to see “Real Life“, an exhibition with RL pictures from Hermes Kondor. The exhibition is on the thrid floor of the gallery, the 1st and 2nd floor were still showcasting “A Winter Tale” when I visited on Saturday, February 20th.

“Real Life” by Hermes Kondor at the 3rd floor of Art Gallery Rill’Arts (1) – exhibition poster and overview

The exhibition “Real Life” by Hermes Kondor consists of 15 monochrome photographs.
Hermes Kondor wrote about himself and his pictures: “Always inspired by the great French photography masters like Henri Cartier Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Jaques Henry Lartigue, or Andre Kertesz, I use my camera to capture all the complex simplicity of daily Life, always with a deep respect, and gratitude to the ones that are the essence of my street photos.
As a former professional photojournalist, street and the reality that passes through my eyes, are the natural subjects of my photos, that I have the honor to share here with you.“

“Real Life” by Hermes Kondor at the 3rd floor of Art Gallery Rill’Arts (2)

Hermes photographs are quite opposed to what we see in the virtual world of Second Life, where most of us are young and beautiful. They show everyday life scenes. Some of them are extraordinairy like the view on the spiral staircase or the view on the many balconies of a cruiseship with people who obviously say farewell. First I thought it was the view on an apartment building.
Others capture scenes, people at the beach, in a museum, on the market or a man in his bookstall reading a newspaper.
Honestly I know none of the great French photography masters listed by Hermes, but I like his pictures. Looking at them I immediately began to think about the story behind them, just like photographs should do.

“Real Life” by Hermes Kondor at the 3rd floor of Art Gallery Rill’Arts (3)

Hermes Kondor is from Portugal. He’s a photographer and photojournalist. Hermes has 40 years of professional photography experience. He dealt with the hard reality of real life photography working for a daily newspapers, and as a photographer and photo-edtior in several magazines. He also worked as a teacher of photography and photojournalism.
Hermes is in Second Life for more than 13 years. His pictures can also been seen at his own gallery, the Kondor Photo Gallery, and at his flickr account. Hermes also owns the Kondor Art Center, a place for art, photography and music in Second Life.

Landmark to Art Gallery Rill’Arts (with the exhibition “Real Life”)
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Helvellyn/58/206/31
Kondor Photo Gallery
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Waka/238/107/1501
Kondor Art Center
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Waka/204/132/241
Hermes Kondor’s flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kondor-photo-studio/

Diary 2021 (26) February 22nd – 24th – Back wearing the slave collar

11 Mar 2021 Leave a comment

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

Monday, February 22nd, Mistress and I met in the afternoon. We spent an hour Carnal Intentions where Faye joined us. Mistress and I talked and I had to admit that I had been lenient with adressing Mistress properly the last days. After the time wearing the partnering collar I had got used to address her as my wife again. Mistress unlocked my collar and exchanged it with the slave collar and she did it publicly. I could feel the thick collar and that had an direct effect. In addition Mistress called me “Ehesklavin” again.

February 22nd: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Carnal Intentions with Faye / Diomita wearing the slave collar again

Mistress had got an update for her throne. When we met at night, Mistress sat down in her (updated) trhone. I was not prepared for what happened next. Mistress spanked me with her bare hand to punish me for being unattentive and not adressing her properly. I squirmed and apologized knowing she was right but of course that didn’t help. Mistress removed her pants and peed on me before I had to lick her clean and then to an orgasm. I got my fix this way. It was quite humilating for me and had the effect, that Mistress desired. I’m back at her feet.

February 22nd: Mistress Jenny and Ehesklavin Diomita at home / at club DeLust with Flo

I had to take a quick shower afterwards before we went seeing Flo. We had our almost regular round of skipee, then we went to club DeLust with her. It was full and hence we had quite something to look at. And I got another slave application. After Flo had left we move on to club Domme a Domme for a bit. Our night ended with a dance on the roof of our skybox.

February 22nd: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at club DeLust, club Domme a Domme and at our skybox rooftop

Tuesday, February 23rd, was a quiet day for Mistress and me. In the afternoon we spent an hour at Heavy Bondage club and I had a little continuation of a roleplay in a private chat while we were there.
At night we were at club Domme a Domme first and returned home to play a skipee with Flo, when she came inworld. We were at Mesmerize Dungeon with Flo and where joined by Vani (Vanilla Meili). After Flo had left we went to Carnal Intentions where Faye (Boy Serenity) joined us. To sum it up, a quiet day in SL, yet enjoyable.

February 23rd: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Heavy Bondage Club, at Mesmerize Dungeon with Flo and Vani and at Carnal Intentions with Faye

Wednesday, February 24th, was another comparably quiet day for Mistress and me. In the afternoon, Mistress made me wear a chastity belt. She knows exactly how much I hate it and talked about keeping me in that thing the next days. We went to club Domme a Domme, Puerto Esclava and Carnal Intentions. I for my part tried to stay calm and to blind out my thoughts about the chastity belt. It makes me very submissive as Mistress does as she sees fit and she enjoys that I obey.

February 24th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at club Domme a Domme, Puerto Esclava, Carnal Intentions, club DeLust and at home with Lisa

To my surprise Mistress Jenny removed the belt when we had to tend to our RL again.
Our night started as the afternoon ended. We hoped over the clubs. While we were at club DeLust, a slave named Lisa approached me. She had applied to me a few days before. We took her with us to Carnal Intentions and began talking with her, when slave Flo came inworld late. Hence we returned home, took Lisa with us, and had a game of skipee with Flo. It was already flotime when we were done. We continued talking with Lisa for a bit, then went to our loft skybox and Mistress allowed me to get my fix.

Art in Second Life 2021 (23) Soulportraits at Itakos Art Gallery

10 Mar 2021 2 Comments

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I got an invitation for the opening of “Soulportraits” at the Black Pavillion of The Itakos Project and Art Gallery on February 19th. I went there a few hours before it opened officially.

“Soulportraits” is a follow-up of the exhibition “2020 Summer Collection” (read here) with a collective of talented artists selected from the Soul Portraits – Itakos flickr group. In total there’re 21 pictures from 5 different artists: Catherine Nikolaidis, Lula Yue, Choo Vegas, Tutsy Navarathna and Akim Alonzo.

Avatars in Second Life don’t grow old, something most of us do appreciate. Actually all stay between 20 and 30 years old, all have beautiful faces with no wrinkles and many have perfect bodies. What differs is the the haircut, some facial details be it the eyes, the eybrows, the length of the nose, the form of the mouth and chin and yes also the body. But still, most look beautiful and young.

Impressions of “Soulportraits” at Itakos Art Gallery (1) – Lula Yue

That said, portraits taken in Second Life show beautiful people. And we like looking into and at beautiful faces. Hence many pictures (also my own) taken in Second Life are portraits or close-up’s. Akim founded a flickr group for portraits named “Soul Portraits – Itakos Art Gallery“, where people can contribute their best portrait pictures. In the meanwhile there’re far more than 500 members in this group and over 10.000 (!) pictures had been uploaded.
There are certain rules:
– The focus is on expression and emotions transmitted by avatars and photographers.
– The group has a partnership with the Itakos Art Gallery in Second Life.
– The raw pictures have to be taken in Second Life
– The pictures may not be just a pure (raw) snapshot. As opposed to the photos must be elaborated and interpretated by the artist.
– The pictures are evaluated and accepted in the group at the discretion of group admin.

Impressions of “Soulportraits” at Itakos Art Gallery (2) – Choo Vegas

The main difference between the “2020 Summer Collection” and “Soulportraits” is that all pictures showcased in “Soulportraits” are Black & White.

Impressions of “Soulportraits” at Itakos Art Gallery (3) – Chaterine Nikolaidi

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All 21 pictures prove that people in Second Life are beautiful. But they also prove that you can make your face and avatar look very individual. The portraits also tell a story by the background, by the facial expression, the viewing angle, by the light choosen, the hair style, the view, the jewelery and by the way the protrait is presented. You can loose yourself while looking at them.

Impressions of “Soulportraits” at Itakos Art Gallery (4) – Tutsy Navarathna

And some of the 21 pictures are not classic portraits but more (erotic) portraits of the body. One picture just shows a man from his backside – in this case it is more the atmosphere, that is captures, a certain state of mind rather than a portrait.

The selection is once again impressive. It is still surprising for me what possibilities Second Life offers for taking artful pictures (and processing them). I enjoyed my visit.

Impressions of “Soulportraits” at Itakos Art Gallery (5) – Akim Alonzo

Thank you Akim for providing your space for the art, The Itakos Project and Art Gallery, and for your own contribution to “Soulportraits“

Landmark to Itakos Art Gallery BLACK Pavilion
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/ATL/183/171/1009
“Soul Portraits – Itakos Art Gallery” Flickr
https://www.flickr.com/groups/soulportraits/
The Itakos Project and Art Gallery website
http://itakos.it/

Diary 2021 (25) February 19th-21st – A relaxed and varied weekend

09 Mar 2021 Leave a comment

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Friday, February 19th, I had time for myself during the day. Mistress Jenny was not inworld due to her RL. I was inworld in the morning shortly and I met slave Melissa shortly. She’s still busy in her RL and went inworld just to send a sign of life – and I had the opportunity to take her back home (she had been with me at Dark Butterfly last time she was online longer and had to leave all of a sudden).

I visited a gallery in the later morning and I was online in the afternoon. I hopped from sim to sim and I met Emma Prior (Emmaprior) at Lochme. I had met her a few months ago at Puerto Esclava and she was owning our former slave Kelly (kellytrip), who was with her. Hence when I met her I asked her about kelly and she told me that kelly had comitted suicide (in Second Life). Emma has a pick with Kelly’s tombstone in her profile picks: “My delightful, nearly perfect slave girl. She had some reoccuring issues with loyality. We were working on them. Sadly she took her own life. RIP.”
Well, I can confirm the loyality issues *winks*. Slave kelly certainly is inworld again as a reincarnation, her old profile is not accessible anymore.

I went to kelly’s SL grave at Emma’s sim and met Emma there. We chatted and talked and she showed me around at her place, which is huge and full of toys and in a moment of weakness she took control and we had a short play – quite humiliating for me though.

February 19th: Kelly (kellytrip)’s SL grave / Dio in the hands of Emma Prior (Emmaprior)

At night we had our regular Friday night party. Mistress and I had planned the theme already the night before: “It’s Friday again and this week was Carnival, well it was supposed to be Carnival. One reason for Carnival is chasing out the Winter. Let us dress colourful to chase Winter out … come and party with us .. of course you can also come as you are.. or naked *winks*. DJ Virgo is spinning the tunes”

February 19th – Friday night party – Carnival: Mistress Jenny, Diomita, Flo, Baroness Capelo, Claven Albatros, Faye (Boy Serenity), Jammy (navanaxsacratus) (upper row), Della Randt, Starbright Wingtips, Claire (maddh4tt3r), Sami Littlepaws, RaCnAd, Virgo Babii, Virgo Babii (lower row)

We had fun starting our weekend.

Saturday, February 20th, I met with Mistress in the afternoon. She had granted a short mini green light for that afternoon and I was determined to make the most of it. After we had caught up with our nutual news, I put Jenny into a reverse amrbinder straitjacket, I added a gag and kind of a harness and took her to club Domme a Domme to expose her. We both got quite some IMs and I had to restrict Jenny so that she could focus on me.

February 20th: Diomita and Jenny at club Domme a Domme

We stayed close to half an hour, then I took my property to Angel of pain and had my way with her …. and enjoyed her tongue. Time flies when you have fun .. and it was time for Jenny to leave. She was not inworld at night.

February 20th: Diomita and Jenny at Angel of Pain

My night was quite surprising as Flo wasn’t inworld. I met with Angelique and we visited a store together. Mistress and I thought she might not know it, but it turned out that she knew the store.
I hopped over diverse places but that night I couldn’t find any good roleply or anything interesting. I looked at profiles and outfits and I bought something new for myself. That is always the best to do when it is quiet – shopping!
Finally, after midnight I found a short roleplay and had a bit of fun. It is always enriching to experience how others act.

February 20th: Diomita alone .. at Puerto Esclava, Heavy Bondage Club and club Domme a Domme …. and seeking and finding trouble

And that’s about it 🙂

Sunday, February 21st, I was inworld early and met our Kitty. We went to Dairy K ranch and visited the hucow 971DA (Dana Drezelan). She’s getting fatter every day. I took Kitty to another place and showed her around there, she might find some trouble there. Kitty is still seeking some noew adventure, hence when you see her, don’t hesitate and give her a blast *winks*.
I was a bit early inworld in the afternoon for meeting with Mistress Jenny and went to club Domme a Domme, where I met a woman dressed like in the 1950ies. We chatted and she turned out to be nice yet she must be an evil in disguise as she characterized herself as dominant, strict and satistic in her profile. She had just offered to show me her home, when Mistress came inworld. I returned home and quickly caught up with Mistress, then we met this woman at Lochme. And she continued being nice, talked about her life as a decent woman in the 1950ies … and finally took us both to her kitchen. This visit ended with a warm bum for me as she used her spatula to spank me. I can imagine that “spatula” might become a trigger word in our family. Anyway, that was another nice variation of our SL.

February 21st: Diomita and Kitty at Dairy K Ranch / Mistress Jenny and Diomita meeting a lady of the 1950ies / Diomita and Mistress Jenny at home

We returned home as I had to take advantage of my last minutes in control of Mistress. I took the opportunity to feel and enjoy her tongue before I returned control to Mistress. Thus ended 10 days where I was side by side with Mistress and even a bit in control – and I enjoyed it a lot. Thank you, Mistress Jenny.

At night Mistress wasn’t inworld again due to her RL. When I came online I found Flo at the skipee table. She was wearing her gord doll suit, ready for me to lock. She looked funny at the skipee table – what a pose to play cards without hands!

February 21st: Diomita with Flo and Faye at home, at Psi’s realm and at Carnal Intentions

I locked her up and took her to Psi’s realm where Faye (Boy Serenity) joined us. We had fun talking with each other and with the other guests there. And I was looking good with Flo and Faye at my side and feet. After Flo left for bed I took Faye to Carnal Intentions shortly before I went to bed myself.

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