Simploring 2019 (103) Twilight Doors – part II

13 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

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

For my simploring tour on Thursday, September 26th, I selected Twilight Doors from scoop.it SL Destinations. Twilight Doors is located on a 1/4 of a full adult sim. It is owned by Bo Zano (Bozanonl Resident). The landmark description reveals a bit of what Twilight Doors is about: “Studio for quality scenes and back drops”

Twilight Doors provides 17 different different backdrops, scences and artistically designed installations. In yesterday’s post “Simploring 2019 (102) Twilight Doors – part I” https://themaurers.me/2019/10/09/simploring-2019-102-twilight-doors-part-i/ I wrote about the destinations Flesh, Dolphins Cry, Rise, Snow White, Flowery Nightmares, Birds and Bees and Royal Hunters.
Today’s part II is about the remaning 10 other destinations: Skybox Scenes Light, Skybox Scenes Dark, Angel Falls, Key to Survival, Two Moons, Aww Cute, Twilight Dolphins, White Serenity, Autumn Leaves and Alien Flames.

Skybox Scenes Dark and Skybox Scenes Light is exactly what you expect: Furnished skyboxes. Skybox Scenes Light provides light rooms, nicely and stylish furnished while Skybox Scenes Dark provides darker rooms, that might be part of old manors aor castles, with candelabra and candles.

Twilight Doors – Skybox Scenes Dark (right) and Light (left)

Angel Falls is a fantasy scenery. In the center is a statue of an Angel surrounded by waterfalls to the left and to the right of the statue, the statue is guarded by two warriors.
Key of Survival again is a scenery which I can’t really classify, something between fantasy and art installation. There’s a key and 3 mysterious monks, a big fantasy castle is in the background. I fail to interpret it.

Twilight Doors – Angel Falls (left) and Key of Survival (right)

Two Moons is a light and art installation dominated by two moons who shed their light on flieds of lowers. The atmosphere is really special and offers great motifs for taking pictures.
Aww Cute is for those who love cute animals, dofs, cats and bunnies, they are cute! Aww Cute provides backdrops with the animals. It’s not my favourite among all the destination, but that’s due to my personal likings.

Twilight Doors – Two Moons (left) and Aww Cute (right)

Twilight Dolphins and White Serenity are fantasy scenes. Twilight Dolphins features an unicorn and a wolf. In the center 2 dolphins are jumping through a door.  White Serenity is a a romantic scene offering a backdrop for lovers. The white pigeon is a feature for scenes with the theme peace.

Twilight Doors – Twilight Dolphins (left) and White Serenity (right)

 

Autumn Leaves provides a forest in autumn. With the hazy windlight it looks quite realistic. Many golden and yellow leaves cover the ground. I took one picture with another windlicht setting and it changed the impression a lot.

Twilight Doors – Autumn Leaves

One of my favourite destinations at Twilight Doors was Alien Flames, another art and light installation. Many bruning matchsticks (yes no tea lights!) are swimming on a calm pond producing wonderful reflections. I took a close up picture of the flames as well as an overview picture. From every angle and distance you get a different (great) view. Amazing!

Twilight Doors – Alien Flames

Twilight Doors provide a lot to explore and discover. It is a paradise for those who like taking pictures and it is perfect if you look for outstanding backdrops and scenes. I really enjoyed visiting. Thank you, Bo Zano (Bozanonl Resident), for providing and sharing all the scenes for everybody!

Landmark to Twilight Doors
https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Beats/26/17/1001

Simploring 2019 (103) Twilight Doors – part I

12 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

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

For my simploring tour on Thursday, September 26th, I selected Twilight Doors from scoop.it SL Destinations. Twilight Doors is located on a 1/4 of a full adult sim. It is owned by Bo Zano (Bozanonl Resident). The landmark description reveals a bit of what Twilight Doors is about: “Studio for quality scenes and back drops“

You land in a night scenery, it is raining and you see lightenings as well as clouds and stars. The moon lightens the scene, the floor is flooded and the lights reflect on the surface of the water. You see many doors, some flowers, ravens sitting on the door frames, other animals, dogs, cats and a flying dolphin liven up the scenery. The whole set up is really artistic in my personal opinion and worth a visit for itself.

Twilight Doors – Landing in the scenery with the doors

Each door represents the entrance into another scene. The doors function as teleporter to 17 different backdrops, scences and artistically designed installations, 3 more doors don’t lead to another scene (yet?) . I visited all 17 desitinations and some of them did really impress me. Above each door you find the name of the according destination.
I classified the destinations into landscapes (Autumn Leaves, Royal Hunters, Brids and Bees), indoor backdrops (Skybox Scenes Dark and Light), art and light installations (Flowery Nightmares, Flesh, Rise, Alien Flames, Two Moons), fantasy (Dolpins Cry, Twighlight Dolphins, White Serenity, Angel Falls, Snow White) and others (Aww Cute, Key to Survival).

Of course I made pictures of every destination. And it really wasn’t easy to select single pictures or destinations, hence I decided to present all 17 destinations to provide an impression of what to expect when visiting Twilight Doors. In addition I liked them almost all and wanted to keep the pictures for myself as a memory in this blog. I present the different destinations in the order in which I visited them. I split my blogpost into 2 parts. This part (part I) presents the destinations: Flesh, Dolphins Cry, Rise, Snow White, Flowery Nightmares, Birds and Bees and Royal Hunters.

Flesh is an art installation with a demon head in the center, blood is running out of the demon’s eyes as if it were a fountain. It’s a bit scary but nonetheless tantalizing.
Dolphins Cry is an underwater fantasy installation with dolphins, jellyfishs, seahorses and mussels, some pillars and ruins from the ancient world are used as a decoration.

Twilight Doors – Flesh (upper left) and Dolphins Cry

Rise is another art installation and difficult to describe. It is a mountain moon landscape in the back ground with rising, lighted keys in the foreground. For sure you can take outstanding pictures with this backdrop.
Snow White is a white winter fantasy world with a gazebo inthe center and 2 unicorns.

Twilight Doors – Rise (left) and Snow White (right)

Flowery Nightmares is an art and light installation that really facinated me. Two fields of flowers and one field of skulls (hence the name) are place into a dark blue environment and lighted very artistic.

Twilight Doors – Flowery Nightmares

Birds and Bees appeared to me being very small on the first glance. And I first just saw a deer in a forest. After I get closer and closer I saw 2 brids and a bug and the different sizes of them provide a facinating depth to 2-dimensional pictures.

Twilight Doors – Birds and Bees

Royal Hunters seemingly take you into a British forest, a foggy and hazy environment. I thought I could almost hear the royal hunters.

Twilight Doors – Royal Hunters

Twilight Doors provides a lot to explore and discover. It is a paradise for those who like taking pictures and it is perfect if you look for outstanding backdrops and scenes. I really enjoyed visiting. Thank you, Bo Zano (Bozanonl Resident), for providing and sharing all the scenes for everybody!

More about the other destinations of Twilight Doors in tomorrow’s post “Twilight Doors – part II”

Landmark to Twilight Doors
https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Beats/26/17/1001

Diary 2019 (154) October 3rd – A tour with Kitty to Autumn in SL

11 Oct 2019 2 Comments

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

Thursday, October 3rd, I had some time for simploring in the morning as we had a national holiday in Germany. Kitty was inworld and we chatted in IM. I hadn’t yet decided where to go. Spontaneously I took Kitty with me on an Autumn tour to places that I had seen before. We started at “The Beguinage of Bruges“, a place that I had visited in November 2018 the first time (read Simploring 2018 (100) The Beguinage of Bruges). The place has not changed much and I enjoyed seeing it again. Kitty and I talked about Bruges and Kitty told me about her visit to Bruges in RL. We enjoyed the colours of Autumn and walked around a bit.

October 3rd – A tour with Kitty to Autumn in SL: The Beguinage of Bruges

Then we went on to Authors Point, that I had visited in Spring 2019 (read Simploring 2019 (36) Authors Point). Just recently I saw some posts about Authors Point again showing it in Autumn and I had seen it only in Spring so far. What changed with the season is the Fantasy plateau, where the leaves of the many trees glow in Autumn colours. Just lovely! Kitty found a new friend there, a unicorn that followed her as long as we were on the plateau. We had fun!

October 3rd – A tour with Kitty to Autumn in SL: Authors Point

Finally I took Kitty to Fleur Nederland [Dutch] (read Simploring 2019 (102) Fleur Nederland [Dutch]), a place I had visited just a few days before.

October 3rd – A tour with Kitty to Autumn in SL: Fleur Nederland [Dutch] (1)

I gave a quick tour to Kitty, we had a drink at the dinner hut and we visited the town & harbour. To my surprise, there was a change since my visit -we came across an haunted house, an addition for Halloween. We didn’t go in there though as my time was up and I had to return to RL.
And that’s it about my Kitty-Autumn-morning.

October 3rd – A tour with Kitty to Autumn in SL: Fleur Nederland [Dutch] (2)

Many thanks to Jaysun Dagger (The Beguinage of Bruges), to Weed Bombastic (Authors Point), and to Sammy Recreant (Fleur Nederland [Dutch]) for creating and sharing your lovely (Autumn) places.

Landmark to The Beguinage of Bruges
https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Dagger%20Bay/136/239/26
Landmark to Authors Point
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Authors%20Point/108/76/43
Landmark to Fleur Nederland [Dutch]
https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Woodland%20Trail/83/224/21

Simploring 2019 (102) Fleur Nederland [Dutch]

08 Oct 2019 2 Comments

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

For my simploring tour on Monday, September 30th, I picked Fleur Nederland [Dutch] from scoop.it SL Destinations. It has become autumn in RL and the foliage arrived in Second Life.

Fleur Nederland [Dutch] is a moderate homestead, owned and created by Sam (Sammy Recreant). As the sim is supposed to be in the Netherlands the landmark’s description is in Dutch but provides an English translation. For me as a German I could understand it without the translation *winks* “Magisch en kleurrijk dat is herfst op Fleur, welkom op Fleur, onze muziek is altijd goed – Magical and colorfull that is autumn at Fleur, you are welcome to visit, the music is always good”

Fleur Nederland [Dutch] – overview and around landing point

The landing point is at the entrance gate of a residential house. The gate is decorated for the autumn. What caught my eye was a tree with a trunk formed like a woman. As there were no “Private” signs I went over to the house and had a look inside. The house is not only decorated for autumn on the outside but also inside where you find some decorative pumkins and some colourful leaves beside a very cosy interior with many other details. I could sense that Sam has selected the furniture and decoration with love for the detail.

Impressions of Fleur Nederland [Dutch] (1) – the residential house and the dining hut

Exploring Fleur was a particular fun. The leaves of the the trees were overwhelmingly colorful and I took many pictures. The next place I visited was a pond with a larger hut used for dining, maybe for weddings or other celebrations. Outside the trees were illuminated as well as the terrace where I sat down, had a drink and enjoyed the view. I turned my windlight to night to see the nice illumination.

Impressions of Fleur Nederland [Dutch] (2) – at the dining hut, the Chapel and along the shore

Illuminations and fantasy elements as well as some pieces of art are spread over the sim. You also find many spots to sit and enjoy. There’s a gazebo, of course decorated for autumn and it is raining there, which makes sitting dry inside even more cosy. On my way through the forest I also saw some animals and some birds.

Impressions of Fleur Nederland [Dutch] (3) – gazebo and Stonehedge

Finally I got to an ensemble of foundlings arranged in a circle like Stonehedge. Again there’s illumiantion and according to the place Sam added some magic fantasy elements and people. It does look peaceful and it is not too much.

I enjoyed walking through the forest surrounded by the colourful leaves, I visited the chapel, came along another hut and a caravan, saw art and simply had fun. Fleur is wonderfully designed for autumn!

Impressions of Fleur Nederland [Dutch] (4) – wounderful autumn

The Dutch touch comes with the little town and harbour in the south of the island. A large court, again decorated according to the season, some Dutch flags (so that you know where you are), many opportunities to sit and enjoy invite to explore and discover. Have a look inside of the houses, one houseboat is used for the local radio station. The ambient sound is fitting and changing depending where you are and you can listen to easy listening music if you like.

Impressions of Fleur Nederland [Dutch] (5) – town & harbour

I really liked Fleur Nederland [Dutch]. I could feel all the love that went into its design and the result is just beautiful. For me personally a perfect start into autumn. Someone else wrote: “Fleur celebrates autumn with a touch of magic!”
Thank you Sam (Sammy Recreant) for sharing your world with the public!

Landmark Fleur Nederland [Dutch]
https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Woodland%20Trail/83/224/21

Simploring 2019 (101) La Gaspésie (Canada)

06 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

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

My simploring tour on Wednesday, September 18th, led me to La Gaspésie (Canada). I found it on scoop.it SL Destinations and I read Inara Pey’s blogpost “La Gaspesie – inspired by a corner of Canada” before I went there myself.

La Gaspésie (Canada) is an adult homestead owned by Kayla (Tzooki) and Xavier (xavierjacques). The landmark description is an invitation “Welcome to the Gaspésie in Québec Canada. Hope you will enjoy your stay. Bienvenue et en espérant que vous aller apprécier votre visite 🙂.” The landmark description also contains the link to a 26 minutes long chill music stream.
Upon landing you are welcomed by a greeter “Diomita, welcome to La Gaspesie. Please enjoy your stay. We truly appreciate you visiting our home. Kayla and Xavier“.
I felt welcomed.

In the physcial world, the Gaspésie (official name), or Gaspé Peninsula, the Gaspé or Gaspesia, is a peninsula along the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River to the east of the Matapedia Valley in Quebec, Canada, that extends into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. It is separated from New Brunswick on its southern side by the Baie des Chaleurs (Chaleur Bay) and the Restigouche River. The name Gaspé comes from the Mi’kmaq word gespe’g, meaning “end”, referring to the end of the land.

Map and pictures of La Gaspésie (Canada)

The Gaspé Peninsula is slightly larger than Belgium, the population is with about 140,000 a lot smaller though. It is also the only region outside the Channel Islands to contain native speakers of Jersey Norman.
Sea cliffs dominate the peninsula’s northern shore along the St. Lawrence River. Cap Gaspé, jutting into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, is the easternmost point of the peninsula. Percé Rock (or Rocher Percé), an island pierced by a natural arch, is located just offshore of the peninsula’s eastern end. The peninsula’s interior is a rugged northward continuation of the Appalachian Mountains. The peninsula is one of Quebec’s most popular tourism regions with 3 National parks (Gaspé National Park, Forillon National Park and Bonaventure National Park)
(excerpt from wikipedia)

La Gaspésie (Canada) – overview

In Second Life La Gaspésie (Canada) consists of several islands that are connected by bridges. Along it’s shoreline are wide wooden walkways, that can be used to explore the sim on foot or riding a moped.

The landing point is in the center of the sim right next to a teleport board leading to the points of interest and right next to a rezzer for mopeds. Looking around you see two boats in the nearby bay and more in the distance two lighthouses, a water tower and the Percé Rock (or Rocher Percé), which seems to be the peninsula’s landmark.

Impressions of a Gaspesie (Canada) (1) – around the landing point

I used the teleport board and visited all spots. Unfortunately there’s no teleporter back to the landing, hence I had to walk back each time. At the end of my visit I took a moped and had a ride around the whole sim using wooden walkways.

La Gaspesie (Canada) offers a lot of nice views for those who like taking pictures in SL like myself. There are quite some houses and huts spread around the sim and all are open for the public. Some of them are only sparsely furnished, at least one is fully furnished (I didn’t look into every building). While exploring I found innumerable places to sit and enjoy the environment.

Impressions of a Gaspesie (Canada) (2)

Like in RL La Gaspesie (Canada) in SL has some cliffs and rocks as well as areas with a more dense vegetation. And there’re animals, horses, seals and birds. Don’t miss visiting the gazebo which is home for several flamingos which is why I named it flamingo gazebo. Of course you also must visit the Percé Rock.

Impressions of a Gaspesie (Canada) (3) – the flamingo gazebo, fine outdoor dining, covered bridge

I enjoyed the beautiful views and sitting in front of hut on the top of a cliff, I tried out the outdoor dining table, I relaxed on a roof top terrace, I visited the water tower and the two lighthouses, I had a break sitting under an apple tree, I visited a camp site and I listened to the birds and the wind sitting at the beach. La Gaspesie (Canada) is a place you can enjoy for a short time out, be it alone or with your loved one.

Impressions of a Gaspesie (Canada) (4) – lower right shows the Percé Rock in the background

I enjoyed my visit a lot and once again a sim in Second Life gave reason for some research about the place in RL that was the inspiration for the sim. Now I know a little bit more about Canada and in particular of the Gaspé Peninsula. Thank you Kayla (Tzooki) and Xavier (xavierjacques) for creating La Gaspesie (Canada) and for sharing your home with the public.

Landmark to La Gaspésie (Canada)
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Half%20Moon%20Acres/144/106/22
chill music stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbmbmcNw920&list=RDCbmbmcNw920&start_radio=1#t=162
Inara Pey’s blogpost “La Gaspesie – inspired by a corner of Canada”
https://modemworld.me/2019/09/17/la-gaspesie-inspired-by-a-corner-of-canada/
Kayla (Tzooki)’s flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/182108891@N05/
La Gaspésie (Canada) on wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspé_Peninsula

Simploring 2019 (100) The Island That Is Not There

02 Oct 2019 1 Comment

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

For my simploring tour on Tuesday, September 10th, I picked “The Island That Is Not There” from scoop.it SL Destinations, mostly because the name of it caught my attention immediately.

The Island That Is Not There is a moderate homestead, owned by a group with the same name. Founder of the group is Franz Markstein and many objects are owned by him, but I saw many other objects, mainly the houses, are owned by Coralile, who also has The Island That Is Not There in her picks. I even found some other owners. I suspect that Franz Markstein and Coralile are the main builders of The Island That Is Not There and most probably at least co-owning it.

The Island That Is Not There – bird eye overview

The landmark description fits to the name: “Second star to the right and straight on till morning, this is the way to the island that is not there.
There are no saints nor heroes, no hatred or violence, no thieves or soldiers, just fantasy. I agree with you, this is the island that is not there.“

The Island That Is Not There consists of one main island, where the landing point is located and 2 smaller islands. One of the smaller islands is used as a party or event island, as there’s a dj’s desk and there’re dancing animations. The other smaller island is just large enough for one residential house, which is nicely furnished by the way. At this island you’ll find also a small beach. I named this island the cosy island.

Impressions of The Island That Is Not There (1) – main island

Exploring the main island and the many houses there is fun. All houses are furnished with an eye for little details. From every house you have a different view on the island and is is really peaceful. And yes I saw no soldier *winks*. I enjoyed having a look into almost all houses, trying out seats and I went to the cathredal ruins which is another great place for taking pictures.

Impressions of The Island That Is Not There (2) – cathedral ruins and cosy island

In the sea nearby The Island That Is Not There two yachts are sailing along the shores. You can easily get on board (just hoover your mouse above them and sit) and take some extraordinairy pictures or you can also just sit on the deck and enjoy the atmosphere. Also quite unusal is the plane flying over The Island That Is Not There. It does not move but you can get on board of it as well and take a selfie pretending you were flying it. i had fun doing so.

Impressions of The Island That Is Not There (3) – exploring and enjoying

The Island That Is Not There is there! It just doesn’t exist in the physical world, but it does exist in the virtual world of Second Life. The name reminded me that we retreat into our own virtual world when we explore and socialize in Second Life. For me persoanlly this escape is very helpful to load my batteries and at least the impressions and memories I gather virtually are very real for me and part of my real life. We should aspire to make the physical world a bit more like Second Life (ok, without teleporting and flying, but I’m open for that as well!)

Impressions of The Island That Is Not There (4) – the party Island and enjoying the peace

Thank you for creating The Island That Is Not There and for sharing it with the public, Franz Markstein. I had a great time visiting.

Landmark to The Island that is not there
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Serena%20Wonderland/153/83/29

Simploring 2019 (99) A trail ride at Broken

26 Sep 2019 3 Comments

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

I picked “Broken” from scoop.it SL Destinations for my simploring tour on Monday, September 2nd. The pictures I saw were tempting, the landmark description however sounds a bit sad, or at least melancholy “For anyone who has lost someone they loved.” I also read Inara Pey’s blogpost “Broken’s summer beauty in Second Life” about Broken before I went there myself.

Broken bird’s eye view

Broken is a moderate homestead owned by Talia (Natalia Corvale). It consists of seven islands, some of them are connected by bridges, some can only be reached with a boat.

Impressions of Broken (1)

There’s not that much to see at Broken on the first glance, there’s just a few houses, a light house, a lot of grass and green, some trees. But the vastness of the green meadows is impressing and develops it’s own atmosphere. Right next to the landing point is a barn and there I found a horse. I had read in Inara Pey’s post about the horses at Broken and that you can ride them. And so I did! It works perfect, a saddle and all the needed gear is attached to the horse …. and there I could ride. And it is great fun.

Impressions of Broken (2)

With the horse, exploring Broken was even more fun. I visited the few houses. All of them are furnished with love for the detail. I didn’t see any sign that they are not open for visiting. I visited all seven islands and the horse carried me even over the water (well I got more than just wet feet). I found some very nice spots to sit and to enjoy the view where you could also cuddle with your loved one. But mostly I enjoyed riding.

Impressions of Broken (3)

Behind some trees I found an little open air slideshow with a few chairs, a projector and a screen, showing pictures of a couple, most probably the pictures are to the landmark’s description about the loss of someone loved. But it didn’t affect my mood luckily, I just enjoyed the simple but beautiful environment.

Impressions of Broken (4)

Broken is a beautiful sim that convinces with it simplicity, with the vastness of the green meadows, with its space. The few houses are decorated and furnished inside with love and there’re more than enough opportunities to enjoy togetherness.  For me personally the riding was big fun. Thank you, Talia (Natalia Corvale) for sharing your place with the public. I enjoyed my visit (and horse riding) a lot.

Landmark to Broken
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Farron/152/133/23
Inara Pey’s blogpost “Broken’s summer beauty in Second Life”
https://modemworld.me/2019/08/19/brokens-summer-beauty-in-second-life/

Simploring 2019 (98) Frogmore

22 Sep 2019 2 Comments

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

For my simploring tour on Sunday, September 1st, I picked Frogmore from scoop.it SL Destinations. Before visitng myself I also read Inara Pey’s blogpost “Frogmore: Swedish childhood memories in Second Life“, which I recommend to read. The landmark description is also providing an idea of what you can see in Frogmore:
“Frogmore Gamla Stan is a memory of life as a child in Öregrund, Sweden.  The air is filled with the scent of the sea, old fishing boats, and smoked herring. A simple life filled with love and laughter.”
It sounded like the perfect place for a short trip to Sweden on a rainy Sunday morning for me.

Frogmore overview and first impressions around the landing point

Upon my arrival I was welcomed “Welcome to Frogmore Gamla Stan, designed by Terry Fotherington. We hope you enjoy your visit to our little bit of Sweden and please come back again soon!”
I have visited some sims that were designed by Dandy Warhlol (Terry Fotherington) lately. He seems to be quite active lately. Frogmore is owned by Tolla Fell (bengta).

Impressions of Frogmore (1)

There’s not much to say, write or read about Öregrund in Sweden. It is a small town of 1,500 people in Uppsala County. Nowadays it belongs to the Östhammar Municipality. In Summer Öregrund flourishes due to small sailboats, pleasure boats and tourists. And for sure growing up there is quite different from a childhood in a more urban environment.

Impressions of Frogmore (2)

Frogmore in Second Life is a very picturesque place. The colourful wooden houses made me feel like being in Scandinavia immediately. It consists of 4 islands. The landing is on the largest island with the town center and most of the nice houses. The main island is connected by a wooden bridge with another island with some more houses and a chapel. To reach the other two island you’ll need to rezz a paddleboat. One island has a camping site (with a nice view on the other islands) and a place to dance with a dj’s tent. On the smallest island you can visit the lighthouse.

Impressions of Frogmore (3)

Although the houses are not furnished there’s still a lot to discover at Frogmore. In particular I couldnt get enough from the picturesque views and I tried out some different windlight settings for my pictures. If you like Scandinavia and the nature up there, Frogmore is a place you shouldn’t miss to visit.

Impressions of Frogmore (4)

I wonder if the name Frogmore as any special meaning for Tolla Fell (bengta). Is it just a coincidence that Frogmore is also the home park adjoining Windsor Castle in England with the Frogmore house and the Frogmore Cottage?
Anyway, I enjoyed my Sunday morning trip. Thank you, Tolla, for sharing your place with the public and thank you Dandy Warhlol (Terry Fotherington) for designing it.

Landmark to Frogmore
https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Solerno%20Sands/78/221/22
Inara Pey’s blog post: “Frogmore: Swedish childhood memories in Second Life”
https://modemworld.me/2019/08/29/frogmore-swedish-childhood-memories-in-second-life/
Information about Öregrund, Sweden in Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Öregrund

Diary 2019 (140) September 13th – Starting into a green weekend

21 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

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

I met our Kitty when I peeked into SL during the morning. She was at The Red Room, a fetish place that we discovered in February 2018 (read here) and that we visit every once in a while. It has changed and Kitty really likes it there.
She told me about a project, that Hinnla, the owner of The Red Room, is working on. It is a mask that attaches to your face, once you click on it. But then you can’t detach it anymore, you can’t click it nor can you locate it in your inventory. And the owner of the mask can control you with it. According to Kitty is works even without RLV. But so far the control and the mask only works in the sim, where The Red Room is located. So once Kitty leaves the sim and relogs, the mask is gone.
I caught up with Kitty, then it was time to tend to my RL again.

September 13th: Diomita and Kitty at The Red Room / Mistress Jenny and Diomita with slave Gwendi at Mesmerize Dungeon.

In the afternoon I met with Mistress and we caught up about our mutual news. As Mistress wasn’t inworld the night before we had quite some news to exchange before we picked up slave Gwendi and went to Mesmerize Dungeon. Mistress Jenny was clearly enjoying hewr control and power. She put me into a bound pose and had slave Gwendi hogtied at her feet, while she talked with her and with me in private.

Our Friday night started with some intimate time for Mistress and me and I got my fix so that I could enjoy the Friday night party fully relaxed. Starry had proposed the theme for this Friday night party: “Horror”, as it was Friday, the 13th. Mistress and I selected Halloween dresses and Mistress decorated our dance floor with some of her collection of Halloween statues and decorations.
While we enjoyed dancing Mistress Jenny and I agreed to have a different Halloween party for this year. Inspired by the clown costumes of the pixie prison gang it shall be “scary clowns and broken carnival”. And as October 31st is a Thursday this year, the party will be on Friday October 25th already and thus it also will be just one day after our 11th wedding anniversary, almost a perfect timing.

September 13th – Friday night party horror: Mistress Jenny and Diomita / slave Gwendi, Virgo Babii, Baroness Capelo, Starbright Wingtips (upper row) / drdarkwolf, papafox57, Della Randt and a halloween deco statue (lower row)

We had another great Friday night party, another great start into the weekend and for me a particular weekend. Mistress Jenny had granted a green light for me starting Saturday, September 14th. Before we went off to bed, Mistress exchanged my Ehesklavin collar but not with the sub collar but with the partnering collar. What a surprise! Thank you, my love.

Landmark to The Red Room
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Chained%20Tail%20Estates/153/197/1987

Simploring 2019 (97) La Maison d’Aneli in September / October 2019

19 Sep 2019 5 Comments

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

I got an invite from Aneli Abeyante to the opening of the new joined exhibition at La Maison d’Aneli on September, 18th. As I knew that I couldn’t attend that day, I visited the exhibition already on Tuesday, Sepembter 17th.

The exhibition presents the art from Eylinea, Olympes Rhode, Desy Magic, Megan Prumier, Akim Alonzo, Jolieelle Parfort and Moki Yuitza

I started my tour through the exhibition with Eylinea’s art. Eylinea is quite new in Second Life, she joined in May 2018, and got in contact to recognized artists who generously transmitted their art to her. Since then she has been exploring with great pleasure the different artistic possibilities of SL: painting, photography, sculpture and even soon tattoo creation. At La Maison d’Aneli she shows some animated 3D paintings and scultures. Unfortuantely you can’t really take a picture as you caputre just one single moment, but then at least the picture is unique.

Eylinea’s art at La Maison d’Aneli

The exhibition part of Olympe (Olympes Rhode) is named “Trip to Normandy: 2019/1944 – RL & SL pictures”. Olympe says about herself: “Passionate by words and images, Second Life has allowed me to give a new dimension to my passions, poetry and photography ….. My photos tell a story. They reflect the emotions within me,  with either happiness or sadness, explosion of joy or dismay, they always are created with the same intense passion.”
The exhibition at La Maison d’Aneli shows pictures of a trip to Normandy in 2019 and mixes with some on 1944, when the Normandy was the landing site of the allied troups liberating Europe and was the site of many battles.

Olympe’s art at La Maison d’Aneli / lower right shows one of two sculptures from Mistero Hifeng that are exhibited in the area of Olympe’s corner at La Maison d’Aneli

Desy Magic is a passionate photographer and she has a unique and colourful style in which she processes her pictures and makes them real eye catchers. You can still see the original motif yet the abstract forms or objects added to her picture are a dominant element, intriguing.

Desy’s art at La Maison d’Aneli

Megan Prumier is a multimedia artist and resident in Second Life. Her skills are extended on the field of photography, mostly portraits on modern, minimal and even surreal Scenes. The exhibited pictures at La Maison d’Aneli are in black and white and they are quite dark. And they are shown at a dark corner of La Maision d’Aneli. By this artistic light setting, the women shown in her pictures are highlighted and get a mysterious aura. Amazing what can be done with light.

Megan’s art at La Maison d’Aneli

The art of Akim (Akim Alonzo) is in a seperate room. The floor, the ceiling and the walls are black, green letter, symbols and figures run along all walls and are the only source of light beside the exhibited pictures. This setting fits to the name of this exhibition part at La Maison d’Aneli – “The Matrix”. The pictures are loosely based on the cult movie The Matrix. A metaphor for a world of people trapped in a simulated, virtual reality that has many aspects in common with the Secondlife world.
Akim is a traveller and photographer in Second Life and he owns “The Itakos Art Gallery” and runs a website.

Akim’s art at La Maison d’Aneli

Jolie (Jolieelle Parfort) work in virtual/digital art is a new direction in a long art career. “After finding myself retired I discovered an extremely enjoyable virtual world with my new computer and became immersed in Second Life.  In this world the landscapes and tableaux available seem never ending and various;  there is always a new scene or setting to challenge me and to capture.“

Jolie’s art at La Maison d’Aneli

Moki Yuitza is in SL for over 11 years now: “From the beginning I found myself more comfortable working with SL basic prims. With simple, basic shapes, and some manipulation possibilities, I can create almost everything. Although I appreciate the possibilities offered by the meshes, I continue to create exclusively using prim base. In RL I am an architect and in this metaverse I found the possibility to realize my idea of ​​space and my architectural fantasy, as well as to share it with other people.”
When you visit her art installation “La SERRE” at La Maison d’Aneli make sure that your set your windlight to midnight, otherwise you’ll be blinded by the light. Moki is inviting us to sit down, to watch the moving and ever changing ojects and light, to mediate and to be drawn into her installation.

Moki’s art at La Maison d’Aneli

La Maison d’Aneli is owned by Aneli Abeyante. Through her gallery she brings together all forms of creativity in RL and SL and the featured artists come from around the globe. Aneli’s intention is to “put her gallery in the service of artists, so that the world can be better, exchanges and meetings probably contribute even though it seems to be particles.”
Thank you Aneli for another great exhibition and thank you to all artists. I don’t know how long the current exhibition will last, but I guess that you have at least a month to see it. Enjoy your visit, if you go there yourself.

Landmark to La Maison d’Aneli
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Oak%20Park/101/136/3502
Website Akim (Akim Alonzo)
http://www.itakos.it
The Itakos Art Gallery
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/ATL/212/189/1009

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