Saturday afternoon simploring tour

05 Jul 2016 5 Comments

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

Saturday afternoon, July 2nd, I spent some time of simploring and I visited 3 places, all of which were quite different. I first visited Legacy Ridge. You find a full and perfect description in Inara’s blog: “A walk through Legacy Ridge in Second Life“.
July 2nd: Simploring Legacy Ridge (1)

July 2nd: Simploring Legacy Ridge (1)

Legacy Ridge is just a little town somewhere at a coast. It has all you would find typically in such a town: Diner, Motel, park, Car dealer, restaurants, playground, shops … and spreaded among the hills nice homes for the residents. You land in a house, something like a visitor center, where you can join a group and grab a landmark and get some infos about Legacy Ridge.

July 2nd: Simploring Legacy Ridge (2)

July 2nd: Simploring Legacy Ridge (2)

I explored on foot first the little town itself, then I walked along the shoreline and then I took the big tour through the hills. From the town I noticed a modern house up in the hills with a big window from where you must have a great view. And during my walk in the hills I could take a closer look. A really beautiful house, something I’d love to have in RL. I think that is the secret of Legacy Ridge. It all looks so natural, so familiar, that you could think about moving into one of these nice houses – well I’d take the mordern house with the view over the bay.

July 2nd: Simploring Legacy Ridge (3)

July 2nd: Simploring Legacy Ridge (3)

Landmark to Legacy Ridge:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Legacy%20Ridge/174/150/24
Related link in Inara Pey’s Living in a Modemworld blog:
https://modemworld.me/2016/07/01/a-walk-through-legacy-ridge-in-second-life/
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July 2nd: Simploring It All Starts With A Smile (IASWAS) (1)

July 2nd: Simploring It All Starts With A Smile (IASWAS) (1)

My next stop was “It All Starts With A Smile” – what a lovely name for a sim. And it is really fitting. It All Starts With A Smile (IASWAS) is a picturesque sim by Kaelyn Alecto and Maxx (Maxxster). It is a group of tropical islands with many places to sit and cuddle, to have a drink, to relax and I could almost feel the sun. At least I had a feeling of vacation and laziness. I explored, I wandered around, I sat down here and there and I took some nice pictures. IASWAS is just lovely for a visit with your love or just for getting away for an hour without a long flight.

July 2nd: Simploring It All Starts With A Smile (IASWAS) (2)

July 2nd: Simploring It All Starts With A Smile (IASWAS) (2)

July 2nd: Simploring (or Simplorelaxing) It All Starts With A Smile (IASWAS) (3)

July 2nd: Simploring (or Simplorelaxing) It All Starts With A Smile (IASWAS) (3)

Landmark to It All Starts With A Smile
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Heavenly%20Groove/140/65/22
Related link in Inara Pey’s Living in a Modemworld blog:
https://modemworld.me/2016/06/29/enjoying-a-tropical-smile-in-second-life/
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My Saturday simploring tour ended at MetaLES, an art sim. Inara has a full description in her blog. Ths sim is turning 7 years, hence her blog text is titeled “MetaLES at seven in Second Life“.
July 2nd: Simploring art in SL - MetaLES (1)

July 2nd: Simploring art in SL – MetaLES (1)

I learned that the sim is operated by Ux Hax and Romy Nayar. For the 7th year anniversary it exhibits art work, virtual art form the last 7 years which was captured in pictures by Anita Witt. If I were a regular visitor of the many art sims in SL, I would recognize some of the art exhibited – well but I’m not. I just visit art installation or sims that were created by artists sometimes. But I did recognize some of the artist names mentioned in Inara’s post like Cica Ghost and Bryn Oh. At MetaLES the art is presented quite exceptional. Frames with the pictures hang in the sky, big objects and rocks holding the according hooks. The objects are huge, the pictures are huge. This way my avatar looks quite short and negligible within the art installation, that is for sure an intended effect.

July 2nd: Simploring art in SL - MetaLES (2)

July 2nd: Simploring art in SL – MetaLES (2)

For those interested in art or those who just want to see something different, virtual and temporary art, I do recommend a visit. I enjoyed my visit and the pictures I took will remember me of the particular way the art was presented here.

Landmark to MetaLES
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/MetaLES/242/242/3002
Related link in Inara Pey’s Living in a Modemworld blog:
https://modemworld.me/2016/06/30/metales-at-seven-in-second-life/

Keys

20 Jun 2016 1 Comment

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

When I opened my page at deviant Art Sunday morning I came across a picture of Chisato Watanabe who I watch on dA. It shows her surrounded by keys and is titeled “Arrival at Keys“. That really caught my attention and I commented: “I’ll have to visit this sim! I knew that all the keys I grabbed and lost must be somewhere – there!”. It didn’t take that long to find the place she visited in Second Life – Keys by Cica Ghost.

June 19th: Keys by Cica Ghost (1)

June 19th: Keys by Cica Ghost (1)

Cica Ghost is an artist from Serbia who’s in Second Life since 2010. She created a lot of sims and her art has it’s own handwriting. I visited several of her installations but searching this blog I found just one post about her work: Ruins.
Keys is a sim filled with pipes, grid flooring, screws, steel frames, containers, chains and …. keys! Upon your arrival you will notice the first huge key in the door behind which you enter the sim. I haven’t seen so many keys on one spot ever. They are everywhere and many of them are dangling on chains and seemingly build a curtain.

June 19th: Keys by Cica Ghost (2)

June 19th: Keys by Cica Ghost (2)

June 19th: Keys by Cica Ghost (3)

June 19th: Keys by Cica Ghost (3)

Take a closer look on the picture above. Some of the keys have letters, so they are marked, they belong to someone’s cuffs maybe … just as if here is the storage of all the keys I lost in my time in Second Life. The containers that are spread within the gigantic chaotic mess of pipes, platforms and frames are locked with the huge keys just like the door through which you enter the sim. Of course I entered not just one of the containers. Inside of every one is a giant lonely guy with a scary white face. Beside of him all containers are empty. Maybe it is the same person … or a family … who knows?

June 19th: Keys by Cica Ghost (4)

June 19th: Keys by Cica Ghost (4)

June 19th: Keys by Cica Ghost (5)

June 19th: Keys by Cica Ghost (5)

I searched for a description of Cica Ghost’s keys on the internet as the landmark description simply says “Twisted in a special way…” and found that there’s also a post on Inara Pey’s blog about Keys, that I simply missed – “Cica’s Keys in Second Life“. There you’ll find a more detailled interpretation about Keys and it’s meanings. But I guess everybody has an own interpretation or feeling. For me here are the keys that I lost and in the containers are the souls of the “poor” slaves and subs that I forgot. I am aware that this is a quite individual and opinionated interpretation *winks*.
Last but not least I also visited Cica’s store inworld. The landmark to it is at the landing point to Keys. Here you find some of the stuff Cica Ghost used in her artwork and I remembered that I saw some of it in Cica’s previous installations.

June 19th: visiting Cica Ghost's inworld store

June 19th: visiting Cica Ghost’s inworld store

I am really impressed. Thank you, Cica!

Landmark to Keys by Cica Ghost:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Weed/61/165/43

Landmark to Cica Ghost’s store inworld:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Appalachian/150/143/3502

Related link in Inara Pey’s Living in a Modemworld blog:
https://modemworld.me/2016/06/13/cicas-keys-in-second-life/

Chisato Watanabe’s deviant Art page:
http://chisatowatanabe.deviantart.com/

 

Ruins

22 Mar 2015 2 Comments

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

Diomita visiting "Ruins" (1)

Diomita visiting “Ruins” (1)

So I did it again, simploring following the “Living in a modemworld” blog. I haven’t had the time for simploring on my own for quite a while, so I took the opportunity that arose today. This time I travelled to Ruins. Ruins is Cica Ghost’s newest build. As the name implies, you’ll find just ruins there. Only the blackbirds and wildflowers remain to inhabit the ruins of the once active city, its brick edifices having collapsed to reveal the deserted worlds within.

Diomita visiting "Ruins" (2)

Diomita visiting “Ruins” (2)

Diomita visiting "Ruins" (3)

Diomita visiting “Ruins” (3)

As the name implies, you’ll find just ruins there. But nature is taking back the place, flowers are growing everywhere, in every room, out of every crack in the floor and walls. You can see leftovers from former life when there were people living here. Nowadays its quiet and peaceful, you hear the wind. Some stars, that rise from the flowers, add to the mystery of this place. Stars that arise like phoenix from the ashes ..

Diomita visiting "Ruins" (4)

Diomita visiting “Ruins” (4)

Here is the landmark to travel to the ruins: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wondering%20Dew/38/21/26
Here is the URL to Inara Pey’s blog entry about ruins: https://modemworld.wordpress.com/2015/03/18/ruins-the-ruined-city/

Diomita visiting "Ruins" (5)

Diomita visiting “Ruins” (5)

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