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simploring 2017 (9) Frogs by Cica Ghost

09 Feb 2017 2 Comments

by diomitamaurer in Exploring sims in Second Life Tags: art in SL, Cica Ghost, Diomita Maurer, Frogs by Cica Ghost, Inara Pey, Living in a Modemworld, Second Life

Tuesday, February 7th, I came across “Cica’s Frogs in Second Life” in Inara Pey’s blog. Cica Ghost is an artist from Serbia, in Second Life since 2010. Cica’s art in Second Life has impressed me and I went exploring and discovering “Frogs by Cica Ghost” right away.

Feb 7th: Frogs by Cica Ghost

“Frogs by Cica Ghost” is surreal. The landscape looks artificial, like a model, in particular as you can see how it was build with fiber mats. Nonetheless there’re flourishing flowers and some lonely trees. The island is dominated by huge giant frogs, which slowly jump up and down. Your avatar is really short in comparison to them. and you feel a bit scared beside them until you climb on them. On the top of the one hill of the island is a wall with a door. On one site an ugly girl is painting what might be a self portrait with a bubble that she’s dreaming of a prince just like in the fairytale “Frog King”. On the other side of the wall sits the same girl with a lollipop watchting tv (but it is not a tv, it is a box with a broken glas front and in the box is a christmas scene with a bald christmas tree). It is hard to guess what Cica wants to express with her installation and I assume everybody sees it different. As a human the scenery is a bit scary on the first glance.

While I was visiting Cica Ghost herself showed up and she transformed herself into a frog. You can grab the frog avatar at the landing point and become one of the frogs, hence they are not giant anymore for you and you become part of the installation. I asked Cica which frog to kiss and of course she answered that nobody knows that. I agree with Inara, after a while I began to smile and enjoy “Frogs by Cica Ghost“. It is for sure unique, a virtual, creative and artful approach to the fairtale Frog King.

Landmark to “Frogs by Cica Ghost”
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Aggramar/27/174/25
Inara Pey’s blog “Cica’s Frogs in Second Life”
https://modemworld.me/2017/02/07/cicas-frogs-in-second-life/

bdsm closeup

08 Feb 2017 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in Uncategorized Tags: Angelique Maurer, art in SL, Barbara Reiter-Jewell, Diomita Maurer, Maids in SL, Mistress Jenny, RL, Sarah Fhang, Second Life, Vero Hartmann

Monday night, February 6th, we were invited to the opening of the exhibiton “bdsm closeup” of Barbara Reiter-Jewell. Lady Barbara is a friend of ours who attends our Friday night party sometimes.
Our niece Angelique is a member of her House BHoL and serves as a maid there every once in a while. Also our friend vero, Madame Sarah’s sub, has close connections to Lady Barbara.
Lady Barbara Reiter-Jewell (in SL since 2006) is the Second Life character for a swiss based international pro photographer (born 1962) specialized mostly into fashion and beauty photography for advertising and editorial. In SL she runs a gallery named “20][21”, where she shows some of her work. “bdsm closeup” is the sequel of other exhibitions and moves to a brighter lustful side of the topic. As well the series get into more intimacy by showing only close-up’s, like breaking into that dream and working out the more erotic part of the submissive side.

February 6th – opening of “bdsm closeup” at gallery 20][21: Diomita, Angelique, Mistress Jenny and Lady Barbara

The exhibition “bdsm closeup” will stay open throughout February and maybe March until Lady Barbara replaces it with another exhibition in her gallery 20][21. Pictures are sold unframed, modify only (to adapt the size), no copy, no transfer. Price per picture for this series is L$ 500. If you like erotic pictures have a look at this exhibtion.

February 6th – “bdsm closeup” at gallery 20][21 opened for public

Landmark to Gallery 20][21
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Enchanted%20Love/18/20/2500

Simploring 2017 (8) Light Reflections

06 Feb 2017 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in Exploring sims in Second Life Tags: art in SL, Diomita Maurer, Inara Pey, Light Reflections, Living in a Modemworld, Second Life, Venus Adored

Tuesday late afternoon, January 31st, I went on a short simploring tour and visited “Light Reflections“. Light Reflections is an art installation by Venus Adored and as the name implies it is all about light and reflections. You explore Light Reflections from top to bottom starting at the top and going down. The first two levels are instructions (most important: activate advanced lighting). Then you dive into colours and light. you start sitting in a soap bubble and enjoy great light effects. the next levels are all different. It’s virtual art, always changing, temporary. It’s just what you see and none else will see it the way you do. The effects are great. In some installations there are turning statues and floating candels. In other installations are clouds and leaves that flow through the air. One level is black and white. But all levels are just amazing, each in it’s own way. I enjoyed this short late afternoon tour. Thank you Venus Adored for this installation. According to Inara Pey’s blog the installation will stay online until June 2017.

Jan 31st: Light Reflections (1)

Jan 31st: Light Reflections (2)

Jan 31st: Light Reflections (3)

Jan 31st: Light Reflections (4)

Landmark to Light Reflections
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA27/193/122/1642
Inara Pey’s blog “Light Reflections in Second Life”
https://modemworld.me/2017/01/30/light-reflections-in-second-life/

Simploring 2017 (2) – ragVR

17 Jan 2017 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in Exploring sims in Second Life Tags: art in SL, Diomita Maurer, Inara Pey, Living in a Modemworld, RAG Randt, ragVR, Richard A. Goldberg, Second Life

I picked a recommendation of Inara Pey again reading her post “ragVR: imagination and expression in Second Life“. ragVR is the portfolio sim of RAG (rag.randt), in RL the artist Richard A. Goldberg, an illustrator/Designer looking at SL as a source of inspiration and new experiences. He creates virtual objects and environments. ragVR was created to showcase a wide variety of things such as gachas, graphics, buildings, and vehicles.

Jan 13th: The airplane at ragVR

You arrive just next to an airplane that is parked at the end of a runway, just before a steep cliff. If go go upstairs you see two kiosks. These kiosks deliver pertinent information about things in proximity to the kiosk. There’s an art deco elevator door and when you click the elevator buttom the elevator will come. There is no elevator panel, instead there’s an operator who will take you to the main level of ragVR. Walk through the main building to gain more information on RAG’s past, present and future.

The showroom you reach with the elevator contains RAG’s earliest work for SL, beginning with 2D illustrations up to creating a LEA sim in 2011 “Am I dreaming”. From the showroom a path leads out to the sim where you can see other examples of RAG’s work, like the flying pigs or the snowmen (both created for MadPea). RAG also contributed to a fundraise event of Feed-A-Smile (FAS) (a charitable organization for the children of Africa) with creating a stage/sim setting that you can see on your way through the sim. At the highest point there’s an observatory giving you a view at the zodiac signs. Outstanding is also the Ice Cream Alien, a submission of RAG to a creative challenge. If you click on the bottom of the cone a ladder slides out and you can enter and discover the inside.

Once you finished your round through the sim you’ll come back the showroom. But there’s more to see. On the ground level (where you arrived, you can also follow the runaway and furtheron a path that leads you around the sim. Here RAG plays with textures and light and you can get some extraordinairy pictures and views.

ragVR is for sure a great example of the possibilites of Second Life which still continue to facinate me, although I’m just a resident and my building knowledge is limited. According to Inara you can can contact RAG about projects and ideas and to discuss rates via IM, notecard or through e-mail (rag@ragmedia.com).
Thank you RAG for providing the ragVR to the public, although it is not fully completed yet – which is a good reason to return soon :-).

Landmark to ragVR:

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Devils%20Moon/232/217/30
Inara Pey’s blog entry about ragVR:
https://modemworld.me/2017/01/13/ragvr-imagination-and-expression-in-second-life/

Ephemeral

12 Nov 2016 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in Exploring sims in Second Life Tags: art in SL, Bufje, Diomita Maurer, Ephemeral

Sunday morning, November 6th, time again for some simploring. This time I picked Ephemeral from the SL destination guide.

November 6th – Ephemeral (1)

“Ephemerality (from Greek ephemeros, literally “lasting only one day”) is the concept of things being transitory, existing only briefly. Typically the term ephemeral is used to describe objects found in nature, although it can describe a wide range of things, including human artifacts intentionally made to last for only a temporary period, in order to increase their perceived aesthetic value.” (from Wikipedia)

November 6th – Ephemeral (2)

“Time to reflect the purpose of my art, to serve longevity or fragility?” is what Bufje, owner and creator of Ephemeral, asks. Windlight setting and audio stream (from Ambient Art Sound Radio)are fundamental part of installation, please push play button of viewer.

I think the title is simply brilliant for art in Second Life, as it is temporary in many ways. It is firstly only available for a short time and then it’s gone. Secondly everybody gets different, not easily reproducible views on the art. And thirdly you can change windlight settings and get something total different eventually. I started using the windlight settings that were set for expierencing Ephemeral.
Ephemeral is strange, surreal and it took a while to get deeper into it. Giant beings around me which are threatening just because of their height. The effect is increased as everything is embedded in fog. The fog has another additional effect. Once you get closer to a giant you can see them clearer but you can’t see them as a whole anymore. The ambient music was sort of calming and another contrast.

November 6th – Ephemeral (3)

I was attracted by the giant woman with her two cats and the feeding bowl at her feet. First I only saw the feet and it took a while to see her in full height – not a beauty, yet determined, strong willed and literally standing with her both feet on the ground.

In the middle of the sim, the only coloured spot, standing out is an island of grass an a comparably tiny statue. You can click the grass and choose a ballet dance, what I did.

And then there are on on edge of the art installion many white dice with moving matchstick mans, a screen playing a video showing a horserider. There is so much more to discover but I really miss words describing it, pictures are by far better.

Last but not least, I changed the windlight setting once and took an overview picture. Incredible what windlight settings do with art. Without the right windlight setting, Bufje’s art would be still surreal but miss most of it’s effect. Enjoy your own visit!

November 6th – Ephemeral with no windlight Settings, still surreal but the difference is stunning

Landmark to Ephemeral
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA10/129/76/21
SL Destination guide
http://secondlife.com/destination/ephemeral

Monochrome – black, white and red

03 Nov 2016 5 Comments

by diomitamaurer in Exploring sims in Second Life Tags: art in SL, Diomita Maurer, Giovanna Cerise, Inara Pey, Living in a Modemworld, Second Life

Monochrome derives from the greek words monos (alone, single) and chroma (colour). In art monochromatic painting has been an important component of avant-garde visual art throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century. Painters have created the exploration of one color, the examination of values changing across a surface, the expressivity of texture and nuance, expressing a wide variety of emotions, intentions and meanings in a wide variety of ways and means (source wikipedia).

Ocotber 30th: A visit to Monochrome – black, white and red.

Sunday, October 30th, I visited Monochrome. Monochrome is an art installation of Giovanna Cerise and will remain on display until the end of December 2016. Giovanna calls her project “Soul of coulours”, the colours being black, white and red.
“The installation develops onto three levels, each dedicated to a single color: black, withe and red. The choice of black, white and red was dictated by my passion for these colors that evoke a multitude of contrasting references, in agreement or in continuation with each other. It is best to explore the installation simply walking through, but you get a good effect also flying between locations and by inserting the mouse look. You should try different settings of the environment setting to experience the different possibilities of light and ambience offering the virtual world.” (excerpt from the notcard you can get upon arrival at Monochrome)

Once again I came across this piece of art by following Inara Pey’s blog “Giovanna’s Monochrome in Second Life“.

Ocotber 30th: Monochrome black

The three levels couldn’t be more different and that is not only related to the monchromatic black, white and red. On the black level you experience different levels of cubes which offer new view angels everywhere and the three sculptured steel beings in the center of the black level provide an anchor and orientation – and are a perfect object for photographs. When I visited I was still wearing my Halloween make up in black and white and I think that my own person adds another semi monochrome aspect, yet provides some warmth in the cold black and gray world.

The white level is like a big maze and I lost my orientation quickly. It is not only white as the walls are transparent on one side and like milk glass from the other side. The lost feeling was for me similar to what you get when walking through winter sometimes – in the end all is just white.

Ocotber 30th: Monochrome White

And the red level? it is more like a 3 dimensional accumulation of red blocks in different sizes hoovering in the space. But when you dare to walk from the teleport point towards the red blocks you notice that there’s ground to walk on. Although red is a warm colour it didn’t feel warm at all for me.

Ocotber 30th: Monochrome red

To sum it up, 3 dimensional virtual temporary art at it’s best. You still have the rest of 2016 to visit and experience yourself.

Landmark to Monochrome
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA21/18/125/31
Inara Pey’s blog about Monochrome
https://modemworld.me/2016/10/28/giovannas-monochrome-in-second-life/

Evre – are we everywhere …. at all times?

04 Oct 2016 3 Comments

by diomitamaurer in Exploring sims in Second Life Tags: art in SL, Diomita Maurer, Second Life, Tahiti Rae

Saturday, October 1st, I got some time for simploring again. I used the destination guide to select where to go and decided to visit Evre which is listed under art in the guide: “Time is everything or is it nothing at all? Experience Evre from Tahiti Rae and delve into the power of your mind, merging the paranormal and unexplained with new quantum physics. Evre step outside your dream…and walk right back into it? Maybe we exist everywhere, all the time. Travel through time and then out of it. Exhibit open through Dec. 31” (taken from destination guide about Evre).
That sounds interesting, doesn’t it? Upon landing on Evre I tried to figure out how this journey into time is done. There’re several boards at the landing point and one of them describes how to discover.

October 1st: Discovering Evre (1)

It is quite simple. On the ground level there’re 12 clocks spreaded over the sim. Each clock is a teleport hub to another world. After visiting one world you tp back by clicking on the couple that stands where you arrive.
Each world deals with time be it that you travel into another time or be it that you deal with life beyond death or with parapsychology. For sure everyone will interpret and experience the worlds different. For me it was fun on one side but it also made me thinking. Fun was for sure the world of the dinosaurs – as they live there next to people of the Stone age. I found it amusing to stand next to the really small dinosaurs and to see the Stone age people hunting them with spears. As opposed to the Psi pavillion left me thinking, in particular the board about strange facts and stories around the deaths of some celebrities.

October 1st: Discovering Evre (2) - the Psi pavillon

October 1st: Discovering Evre (2) – a board at the Psi pavillon

October 1st: Discovering Evre (3) – For sure the journey back into the womb was pure fun

Last but not least I also stood between an inclined tower of the World Trade Center and the sinking Titanic, catastrophies of the modern world of which the first one is burned into my memory as if it were just yesterday. Evre is a particular experience in Second Life, something you really don’t see every day and an art project trying to realize the meaning of time and life. Really impressive and worth a visit!

October 1st: Discovering Evre (4) – World Trade Center next to sinking Titanic

Landmark to Evre:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA27/60/66/24
Destination guide:
http://secondlife.com/destination/evre

Cica’s Library

04 Sep 2016 2 Comments

by diomitamaurer in Exploring sims in Second Life Tags: art in SL, Cica Ghost, Destination guide, Inara Pey, Living in a Modemworld

Following the Destination guide I came across Cica Ghost’s Library. I have visited several of Cica’s art installations before, the last I saw was Key’s. Cica’s Library is also – no surprise – described in Inara Pey’s blog “A visit to Cica’s Library in Second Life“. “The only thing that you absolutely MUST know, is the location of the library (Albert Einstein)” is what you’ll find as a sim description. No wonder, Cica’s library is full of books!

September 2nd: Cica’s Library

Upon you arrival you have to pass the librarian, an old Lady supervising the library and she’s not only pale (as an librarian is usually), she also old and wear thick glasses and hence fulfills all cliches. To me she looked really scary as she’s tall, really tall, like everything in Cica’s library.

September 2nd: The librarian at Cica’s Library

Because everything, every book, even the mobile library truck is huge, I felt small – just like my knowledge is small compared to all what is written down in books. Good thing is that you can climb up the piles of books and immediately get an overview about all the knowledge *grins*

September 2nd: The mobile library truck at Cica’s Library

September 2nd: Climbing up a pile of books at Cica’s Library

This is anothter great installation from Cica Ghost – of course everyone will interpret it differently and have own thoughts. I enjoyed my short visit and the impressions I got. Thank you, Cica!

Landmark to Cica’s library:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sky%20Atoll/243/202/40
Destination guide entry:
http://secondlife.com/destination/library-by-cica-ghost
Inara Pey’s blog post about Cica’s library:
https://modemworld.me/2016/08/26/a-visit-to-cicas-library-in-second-life/

ArtSpace UTSA

28 Aug 2016 5 Comments

by diomitamaurer in Exploring sims in Second Life Tags: art in SL, Artspace UTSA, Betty Tureaud, Diomita Maurer, Laoin Xaris, Sasun Steinbeck

Sunday, August 21st, I followed a landmark in the destination guide to ArtSpace UTSA. There are already lots of blog entries about the USTA (University of Texas at San Antonio) and their committment to Second Life (if you want to read more see here). The ArtSpace UTSA is a quite small gallery embedded in a futuristic installation of buildings, stairs, platforms, sculptures and other elements of art.

August 21st: A visit to ArtSpace UTSA (1)

August 21st: A visit to ArtSpace UTSA (2)

The current exhibition (August – October 2016) shows the work from Betty Tureaud (that is the sculpture you see in the picture above and below) and black&white pictures from Laoin Xaris. You can “sit” on the sculpture and get “into it”, then it looks like in the picture below on the right side. Quite a play with colours and quite opposed to the surrounding black&white minimalistic pictures from Laoin Xaris.The gallery is not large, there’s not much more to see but the surrounding structure and buildings are really worth a visit too. I walked and climbed to see what is there. On one plateau I saw a big sceleton of a dinosaur. I also discovered a morphing sculpture from Sasun Steinbeck which impressed me. But go and explore yourself ….
Landmark ArtSpace UTSA
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/TejanoTech/185/128/77
Destination guide
http://secondlife.com/destination/artspace-utsa
Reports about ArtSpace UTSA
http://www.scoop.it/t/second-life-destinations?q=ArtSpace%20UTSA

Kultivate Magazine / Windlight Gallery Summer Art Show

15 Aug 2016 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in Exploring sims in Second Life Tags: art in SL, Bryn Oh, Cica Ghost, Diomita Maurer, Inara Pey, Kultivate Magazine, Living in a Modemworld, Second Life

Following Inara Pey’s blog I came across and art show and event in Second Life “Kultivate Summer Art Show in Second Life“. The Kultivate Magazine / Windlight Gallery Summer Art Show has opened in Second Life. Running through until Saturday, August 20th, the event features, art, music and shopping.

August 14th: Diomita as living art in Silas Merlin’s installation

Over 50 2D and 3D artists are participating in the event. And some of them did appear already in this blog and hence are my favourites: Bryn Oh and Cica Ghost. The whole show is placed on a beach, with a few larger buildings for the 2D art and many kiosks for shopping. Inbetween is a big event stage (see list of events in Inara’s blog article or at the show web page) and the 3D art pieces. I placed myself into Silas Merlin’s sphere and I really stand out there, don’t I?).

I also got into Cica’s art “Cica’s hinging line” tumbling in a huge washing machine (poor me!) and I became part of Bryn Oh’s “Lazy Lazy Bryn”.

20160813 Diomita living art Lazy Lazy Bryn

There’s a lot to see. Have fun!

Link to Inara Pey’ blogpost
https://modemworld.me/2016/08/12/kultivate-summer-art-show-in-second-life/
Link to the event’s web page

https://kultivatemagazine.com/summer-art-show/

Landmark for the event in Second Life

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Water%20Haven/140/137/21

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simploring 2017 (9) Frogs by Cica Ghost

bdsm closeup

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Monochrome – black, white and red

Evre – are we everywhere …. at all times?

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