Art in Second Life 2021 (102) La Maison d’Aneli October/November 2021

21 Oct 2021 Leave a comment

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

On Wednesday, October 20th, a new exhibtion opened it’s doors at La Maison d’Aneli. This time Aneli Abeyante presents 4 artists and each gave their exhibition a name:
“Duality” by Kicca Igaly
“Out” by Nessuno Myoo
“Bubble Show” by Vroum Short
“Pareidolia” by Sasha Arivalhagan

For this exhibtion Aneli Abeyante offers once again a (Secon Life) booklet with some pictures of the installation as a free gift. It is available in the main hall. I started my visit with “Duality” by Kicca Igaly.

I never saw Kicca Igaly’s art before although the list of her exhibtitions and appearances is very long indeed. Well, the world is large and the universe of SL is also large. Kicca wrote about “Duality”:  “Human nature seen as a contraposition of what is light, balance, wisdom with respect to darkness, wickedness, negative impulses. A thin psychic membrane divides the two natures intrinsic in man who compete for complete dominance. Crossing this membrane one is attracted now to one, now to the other of these natures which condition life so strongly.“


The installation consequently has two parts, the one you see when you get to Kicca’s skybox at La Maison d’Aneli with the the white sculptures that look different from every viewing angle. Some of these express duality as well, like the pair of scales. The second part is reached by walking through the wall, It is a dark blue setting, something like a ritual scene in the woods. Two rows (duality) of mysterious figures lining up towards a giant bat.

Kicca Igaly is in Second life for more than 14 years. She had a passion for painting and art before in RL and Second Life offered her more ways to express herself, sculptures, digital art and buildings. Kicca is a friend of Nessuno Myoo, with who he also worked together on a LEA project in 2013. More information can be found in the notecard accompanying the exhibition at La Maison d’Aneli. More of Kicca’s work can be seen on Kicca Igaly’s flickr page.

Nessuno Myoo installation “Out” at La Maison d’Aneli is a tribute to Jurij A. Gagarin’s flight into space in 1961.
“What if Gagarin was launched today, in the present day, for the first time in orbit around the earth?
“Out” is a tribute to him, to his deeds, and to all those people who (literally) threw their hearts over the obstacle and maybe, just for a moment, they had a desire never to go back. ”
(taken from the accompanying notecard)

The installation is set under a red to orange sky. Either select “Use Shared Environment” or set your enviroment to “TOR BIG SUN – Safarion” to see “Out” like the artist wanted it to be seen. It consists of a vulcano-like mountain and I first thought I could walk up in spirals – I couldn’t and had to fly (ggos that we can in Second Life). Above the top of the vulcano/mountain you can see a space ship and the lonely astronaunt reaching out into the space, The space ship reminded me a bit ouf Steampunk, a popular theme in Second Life. The setting provides an idea with how almost primitive gear this first flight was done – and it was a brave mission.

Nessuno Myoo is in Second Life for 14 years and has a blog (in Italien) and a flickr page.

Sasha (arivalhagan) is in Second Life for more than 7 years. She writes about herself: “My personal acronym: NAA – Not An Artist! I think being an artist is one of the pinnacles of an existence. I don’t think I’ve reached it. That said, I do like photography a lot. The principle of my exhibition is very simple: to allow you to feel you are being seen. Not necessarily watched, but considered, questioned, appreciated, desired, questioned, loved, admired … And then let you imagine what stories are hidden behind all these glances less simple than they appear at first glance“

In her skybox at La Maison d’Aneli Sasha features about 10 picture objects consisting of several layers, partly formed in a U-Shape. Hence the pictures look different depending on your viewing angle. She wrote: “The exhibition is meant to make you feel a bit tripped out and surprised or seduced by shapes and colors that you didn’t see at first glance or at first passage. Play with your camera, and sometimes, with caution try other lights than midnight. Play with the dog lamps (ON/OFF). Look at what is happening around your field of vision.”
I tried and played around a bit, as the pictures have several layers and some are still transparent you can create very specific pictures yourself with them. I loved it. Sasha succeeded in motivating the visitor to play around and to create own eye-catching pictures.
The name of her exhibition is “Pareidolia”, which is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none (from wikipedia).
Sasha’s art can also be seen at Sasha (arivalhagan)’s flickr page.

I know Vroum Short as the owner of VeGeTaL PLaNeT. I peeked at it several times but never found the time to really visit it and to write an extra blog entry about it. The VeGeTaL PLaNeT also hosted Aneli Abeyante’s La Maison d’aneli for about a year. VeGeTaL PLaNeT is gone but there’s now the VeGeTaL PLaNeT Gallery (read about it here and here)
Vroum Short is a French SL artist since 2007. She works with lights and light effects, sometimes also very colourful. Vegetal Planet Gallery a world where everything becomes possible and achievable where the barriers of reality fade away to let the imagination flood it with life.
Vroum has a store for her art on the marketplace and a flickr account.

Vroum Short’s installation “Bubble Show” at La Maison d’Aneli is fitting to what I saw of her before. I room filled with permanent changing blue and purple and white structures, with bubbles that fly around and reflect the light. It is a big room and you don’t know where to look at first, you get lost in the light and by the bubbles. Actually you and “sit” in the bubbles and relax and watch as your avatar flows around. Great light effects!

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 for another great joined exhibtion, Aneli. As always I enjoyed my visit and writing about it. It inspired me.

Landmark to La Maison d’Aneli
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Holland/23/59/22
Kicca Igaly’s flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31465953@N05/
Nessuno Myoo’s blog
http://toctoccenessuno.myblog.it/
Nessuno Myoo’s flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nessuno_myoo/
Sasha (arivalhagan)’s flickr page
https://www.flickr.com/photos/188848670@N02/
Landmark to VeGeTaL PLaNeT Gallery
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Oreo/64/100/501
Vroum Short’s flickr account
https://www.flickr.com/photos/vroum_short/albums
Vroum Short’s art on marketplace
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/fr-FR/stores/81862

Art in Second Life 2021 (101) “Ordinary People” by Melusina Parkin

20 Oct 2021 Leave a comment

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

Melusina Parkin invited me to the opening of her newest exhibition named “Ordinary People” on Wednesday, Ocotober 13th, at Vibes Art Gallery.

Vibes Art Gallery is an example of the transformation of industrial warehouses into a modern exhibition space. It consists of two buildings and a court between them. The court is used for events. While one building has one large exhibition room, the other building has two rooms, that are connected though.
Melusina Parkin’s exhibition extends over the whole Vibes Art Gallery and it is quite particular for Melusina, as she leaves her general theme of minimalism for this exhibtion – at least for a tiny bit.

Ordinary People showcases – to no surprise – just ordinary people. The connected exhibition space in one building showcases monochrome pictures of Melu at the walls, in the other building are coloured pictures. They are all taken in Second Life and have one thing in common – they show people in daily situations.
Melusina Parkin’s photos tend towards minimalism, which is Melu’s main inclination: simple details from daily life or usual landscapes are the subject of mostly empty scenes, stressing voids, space, geometries, lights; this reveals hidden meanings or pushes the observer to give them her/his own one. Her favorite subjects are wide landscapes, city views, industrial environments, popular lifestyles and daily objects … and now she added people to her pictures. But still her pictures impress by their simplicity and by forcing the spectator to foucs on the few details.

Impressions of “Ordinary People” by Melusina Parkin at Vibes Art Gallery (1)

But there’s more to see at “Ordinary People“. Melusina added static figures to the exhibtion. Not just one, she added enough to liven up the exhibition. And these figures are part of the exhibition. You see ordinary people on the pictures and visiting the exhibtion. Melusina wrote about “Ordinary people“:
“The photos of this exhibition put together my interest in human images and my experience in shooting objects, choosing subjects that stay on the thin border between living beings and things that features the virtual world: the “puppets” (or “dolls”) that we often meet when we visit a Second Life places. Like avatars, they are made of pixels; like statues and mannequins, they don’t talk, neither move. They could be seen as objects, as parts of the decor, but at a closer look they reveals to have expressions and their still poses show activities.
The images of this exhibit show that frozen humanity, that silent crowd that populate many Second Life places; the gallery of their portraits could be seen as a collection of human types. It’s both an exercise of “street photography” and a kind of tribute to these pixel beings who can’t act neither talk.”

Impressions of “Ordinary People” by Melusina Parkin at Vibes Art Gallery (2)

Once again you find a table with the books sold by Melusina Parkin. It is located in the passage between the two rooms with the monochrome pictures. Those who are regular visitors to Melusina Parkin’s exhibitions know these books already:
Melusina All-in-One Exhibits allow you to keep at home the whole exhibit you visited and loved. It’s an alternative kind of the exhibit catalogue: you can hang the object on your home’s walls and enjoy the changing images. They come in four versions, that you can choose according to your home style: plain or framed, changing image by touch or in random loop. The objects are set as modifiable, so you can adapt them to your walls.

Melusina Parkin is in Second Life since September 2008. She has been a fashion manager, a journalist, a furniture creator, a builder, a decorator and a photographer. Her work as a photographer has been showcased in more than 50 exhibitions – from which I saw just a few. Melusina has a flickr account which counts more than 13,000 (!) photographs. Extensive collections of her photos can be seen also on her blog Virtual Exhibits and on some slideshows on Youtube (links also under this post).
There’s also an online book with her Second Life exhibits 2011-2019 here.
Melusina Parkin has an own gallery at Time Portal and an own store for Art Deco furniture called “Melu Deco”. Melusina also owns a second place (Melu Space) with another gallery (Minimum Gallery), a bookstore and another “Melu Deco” inworld store.

Impressions of “Ordinary People” by Melusina Parkin at Vibes Art Gallery (3)

Thank you for another great exhibition, Melusina. You extended your art carefully to another field not leaving your characteristic style. I enjoyed my visit a lot.
Many thanks to Eviana Raider (Eviana Robbiani) for providing the space for the art and for enabling this great exhibition. As far as Melusina knows the part of “Ordinary People” with the coloured pictures in the large exhibition hall  shall stay open for visitors until October 24th, the other part a bit longer.

Landmark to “Ordinary People” by Melusina Parkin at Vibes Art Gallery
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Isola%20Del%20Giglio/32/196/2711
Landmark Melusina Parkin’s Gallery at Time Portal
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Time%20Portal/248/101/1940
Melu Space (Minimum Gallery, Melubooks, Melu Deco)
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lunula/192/9/21
Landmark to Melusina Parkin’s store for Art Deco furniture “Melu Deco”
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Time%20Portal/243/99/1930
Melusina Parker’s flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/
Melusina Parkin’s Virtual Exhibit blog
http://meluphoto.blogspot.it/p/home.html
Melusina Parkin’s youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVzglBiqhrOLXnAp3Qt3Zjw
On line book Second Life exhibits 2011-2019
https://www.calameo.com/books/005997622f28dd58ca75d

Diary 2021 (134) October 5th/6th pet’s trial (II)

19 Oct 2021 Leave a comment

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

There’s not much to report about Tuesday, October 5th – at least for during the day. I met Mistress in the later monring for half an hour and we met in the afternoon for 2 hours. We spent our time together standing at clubs and looking good. We had a chate here and there but mostly amoung us and just enjoyed time together.

We had a relaxed night at home. First pet (Newlifeloading) and Flo were present and Flo, Mistress and I played a skipee together. Then we moved on to our club and continued talking with pet. As it is her trial we and she have to make the most of our time together to get known to each ohter even better. slave Holly joined us there. She came at the right time as I had to pee *winks*.

Tuesday, October 5th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at club Domme a Domme, at home and at Carnal Intentions with slave Holly, Flo and pet

We stayed in our club until Flo and later pet had left for bed, then we moved on to Carnal Intentions where we later also met Elena and Ebony.

Wednesday, October 6th, was a bit alike. Mistress and I spent 2 hours together in the afternoon at Puerto Esclava and club Domme a Domme. We caught up with our news and we had a few chats. Msot of the time we stood around looking good *winks*. But it was enjoyable.

Wednesday, October 6th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Puerto Esclava and at club Domme a Domme

At night Mistress, Flo and I played a skipee together while our pet Sun watched. slave Holly came inworld right in time when we had finsihed our game. We went to our decking that night to provide a ride on Bronco to pet. Our old pony was a bit reluctant and it took several tries to get the scripts running properly. But then it was fun to watch again. Now pet knows what we mean with “call the fire brigade”.

Wednesday, October 6th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at home, at Psi’s realm and at Carnal Intentions with Flo, slave Holly and pet

After the little show we went to Psi’s realm shortly and then after Floa nd pet had left to bed we went to Carnal Intentions with slave Holly.

Art in Second Life 2021 (100) “Duet” by Evie and Dutch Ireman @ The 22 art space

18 Oct 2021 Leave a comment

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

I got an invitation for the latest exhibition at “The 22” art space in Bellisseria, that opened October, 2nd. The exhibtion is named “Duet”. It features the art of Evie (Eve Pearl) and Dutch Ireman, a duet of two photographers, couples of images and geminate ideas.

“The concept behind it was born more or less by chance. At first, the gallery curators selected four pictures of each artist’s established production and suggested that Evie and Dutch completed the sets of images in a way that would make some sense to them. The results came with a positive surprise: even if each photographer didn’t know who else would join them in the exhibition, they provided the gallery with photos that could be arranged in sets of two. In other words, the concept for the exhibition just emerged from that: there were duets – both of pictures and of ways to think of those photographs.” (taken from the accompanying notecard of the exhibition)

Impressions of “Duet” by Evie and Dutch Ireman @ The 22 art space (1) – on the upper left “Dusk” by Dutch Ireman and “Cosmic girl” by Evie (lower left)

“In order to underline that concept, other elements have been placed in the gallery, together with the pictures. They are some daily, common items, that people generally think of as forming duos or tend to see as halves of a certain unit. Of course, there is no intention to draw attention from the photographs to other objects, they are just a detail, a way to actually emphasize the dualism that characterizes “Duet”, the exhibition.” (taken from the accompanying notecard of the exhibition)

The objects are everyday life items, that occur as pairs like gloves, shoes, salt and pepper.

Impressions of “Duet” by Evie and Dutch Ireman @ The 22 art space (2)

Evie (Eve Pearl) and Dutch Ireman were both new artists for me and I couldn’t find our mach about them. If they didn’t know of eachother is it a nice coincidence that both joined Second Life almost at the same time almost 13 years ago – another duet. You can see more of their art on Evie (Eve Pearl)’s flickr  and Dutch Ireman’s flickr pages.

Impressions of “Duet” by Evie and Dutch Ireman @ The 22 art space (3) – on the upper left Ship to wreck” by Evie and “Shy” by Evie (lower left)

The 22 Art space is a gallery in Bellisseria, a continent with many Second Life prime members homes. The gallery is on one of these homes. It is owned and curated by Randy Firebrand and Ricco Saenz. The gallery’s name refers to the Modern Art Week in 1922 in Brazil, also known locally as “The 22 Week”.
Thank you Ricco Saenz and Randy Firebrand for enabling and presenting this exhibition. You guys have great ideas and found an outstanding concept to present Evie and Dutch’s artwork. I enjoyed my visit a lot.
“Duet” by Evie and Dutch Ireman @ The 22 art space” shall stay open until December 11th.

Landmark to The 22 Art Space in Bellisseria
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Grenouille/60/35/35
Evie (Eve Pearl)’s flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/163063355@N08/
Dutch Ireman’s flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dutch-ireman/

Diary 2021 (133) October 3rd/4th pet’s trial

17 Oct 2021 Leave a comment

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

Sunday, October 3rd, was a quiet Sunday for me. I met Mistress Jenny shortly in the morning and after she had left to tend to her RL I roamed around for an hour. I had a nice chat at Heavy Bondage Club and that’s already it. I was inworld after lunch again but also nothing that would be worth to keep as a memory here, happened. And finally I met Mistress a bit later in the afternoon. We went to club Domme a Domme. I spent most of the time with my egg, My egg? Yes. It is an old toy that we used many years ago and Mistress wanted to play with it. It’s not that it didn’t work anymore, but we couldn’t switch off the sound and hence playing with it would annoy others. Strange enough, Mistress’ own egg had the option to turn the sound off. Mistress even looked at the store of the egg,
it’s from xcite, but of course there’s no updater anymore for such an old toy.
With all this our time in the afternoon was over way too quickly and we returned home. And of course there’re not many pictures as well, actually just one of Mistress Jenny and me at club Domme a Domme.

At night we had a few guests at our sim. pet (Newlifeloading) was inworld, Flo was playing skipee. I went seeing pet, caught up with her, then I took her with me to the landing point and we chatted a bit with the visitors. Well only one ot the three visitors talked, the others stayed silent and left after a while. The visitor was Mina (MayhemZodd McDunnough), who also had attended our Friday night party. Angelique came by, Flo came by after she had finished her game and finally Mistress Jenny joined us – and Mina left.

Sunday, October 3rd: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at club Domme a Domme / at home with Angelique, Flo, Faye and pet

We, Mistress Jenny, Angelique, Flo and I, played a round of skipee and pet watched us playing. Faye also joined us when we had finished our game. We stayed at home that night and went to the Stonehaven patio and just talked about our pet and her trial. She told us a lot about her former Second Life and time just flew by quickly. After all had went off to bed, Mistress and I went to club Domme a Domme again for half an hour, then we called it a night ourselves.

Monday, October 4th, I met Mistress Jenny in the afternoon at club Domme a Domme. We caught up with our news and had several IMs each. Mistress had to step away for a while to tend to her RL and I summoned Faye to me. Faye deocarated me very well and I got several IMs praising my latex doll. Later Mistress Jenny returned and we stayed at the club until she and Faye had to leave.
I myself went visiting two galleries before I logged out myself.

Monday, October 4th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at club Domme a Domme with Faye

At night Mistress and I continued talking with pet. Alessi, Angelique and slave Holly joined us at the Stonehaven Patio. After pet had left for bed we went to Carnal Intentions for the rest of the night. Faye joined us there,

Monday, October 4th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at home and at Carnal Intentions with pet, Alessi, slave Holly and Faye

Simploring 2021 (31) Nelipot – Autumn 21

16 Oct 2021 1 Comment

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

I read Inara Pey’s blogpost “Nelipot’s Autumn peace in Second Life” and it tempted me immediately to visit the place myself as I love the colours of Autumn.

Nelipot is a moderate homestead owned and designed by Shawn Shakespeare (SkinnyNilla) and Lien (Lien Lowe). It consists of 4 smaller islands and one bigger island. The landing is on one of the small islands right next to a lovely camping site. From here you have already the first great views into the colours of Autumn. The trees glow in different colours, the ground is full of leaves and more leaves are falling.

Nelipot Autumn 21 – overview / at the landing point

A roundtrip starts naturally by crossing the covered bridge withe the fitting inscript “Welcome Fall”. It leads to another island with a farm. The two buildings are furnished nicely inside and invite to take a look at many details.

Nelipot Autumn 21 – camping site / covered bridge / farm

The path continues naturally to the main building at Nelipot, an old windmill. The mill is used as a bar and again is furnished with style. The banks and chairs outside are a great place for a rest drinking a glass of wine or a rare beer – both can be found inside of the mill. The area outside of the mill seems to be also used for small events. The water from a waterfall flows beind the mill. From the mill you follow a wooden path along the shore until you reach a little platform with a chair – another lovely view into the Autumn landscape.

Nelipot Autumn 21 – at the farm / the old mill in- and outside / the wooden path and overlook platform

Next to the platform is a small pier with a boat. The boat is only for sitting and can’t be used though. A zip line connects another island with the pier, but it can only be used from the island side. I had to walk back to the wooden platform and walked to the other side of the main island where you find an old tram and tram tracks. Around the corner is a nice and cosy little hut, which I named “Writer’s hut”. A place to be and to enjoy, lovely decorated and the big windows offers anotehr great view.

Nelipot Autumn 21 – the pier / old tram / Writer’s hut

As I couldn’t use the zip line I had to walk back along the wooden pathway, along the old mill to the farm. At the pickup is a bridge to the next island which is used for a residential house. Again that is furnished and decorated with love for the detail. I sat a while on the porch and inhaled Autumn. From here you can walk over a bridge to the last island, a small island with a wrecked shack. This island has its own charme as you look to the landing island and to the writer’s hut from here. A real paradise for photographers.

Nelipot Autumn 21 – pier and zip line / residential house / wrecked shack

I finished my visit with taking a few more pictures and of course I used the zip-line.

Nelipot Autumn 21 – at the wrecked shack / using the zip line / Autumn views

Nelipot is, as Inara wrote it, a very peaceful rural sim. It offers countless nice views and I enjoyed the colours of Autumn. A very well made, romantic place. A place to wind down and forget the world around us and to simply enjoy.
Thank you Shawn Shakespeare (SkinnyNilla) and Lien (Lien Lowe) for creating Nelipot and in particular for sharing it publicly. I enjoyed my visit a lot!

Landmark to Nelipot
https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Safe%20Haven/81/88/23
Nelipot flickr group
https://www.flickr.com/groups/14758902@N20/
Inara Pey’s blogpost “Nelipot’s Autumn peace in Second Life”
https://modemworld.me/2021/09/23/nelipots-autumn-peace-in-second-life/

Diary 2021 (132) October 1st/2nd Colours of Autumn

15 Oct 2021 Leave a comment

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

Friday, October 1st, I spent some time inworld around lunch/early afternoon. I was not in the mood for simploring and hopped a bit over sims, had a chat here and there and… got myself into troubel. Well not really into trouble yet, but I had a roleplay and someone is blackmailing me. I will see what might develop from that.

I had to log for RL and returned at night for our Friday night party. Mistress Jenny and I had agreed on the theme – and conincidentally we had the same idea: “When it’s Friday, it’s party for us. Autumn has started, the days get shorter, the leaves are changing colour so wear your best Autumn colours and join us – or come as you are. DJ Virgo is spinning the tunes.”

October 1st – Friday night party: Diomita, pet (Newlifeloading), Angelique, Flo, Elena (Elenaslv Serenity), Dana Darkwatch, Janina Foxdale, Julie Johnson (juliejett), Aimee Moonbeam (skippyflower), Mina (Mayhemzodd Mcdunnough) (upper row), Della Randt, Starbright Wingtips, Sara (SaraRandall), Jayson Dakota, Bacon Amore, Baroness Capelo, Claven Albatros, Heather Heike, julie Heike (juliestormfollower), Virgo Babii (lower row)

We had a great turnout and fun as always. I talked quite a lot with our pet who started her trial for us that Friday night. It won’t be the usual trial. Mistress and I had agreed to just ground her on our island for some time before we sould collar her.

Saturday, October 2nd, I visited a gallry before lunch. I enjoyed some time for myself and the exhibtion was great. The right thing to do for a weekend.
In the afternoon I met with Mistress Jenny at Heavy Bondage Club. She was there with our pet. Mistress had quite a lot to catch up with me and told me about her Friday in RL and why she couldn’t attend our party. She had fun herself and that’s what counts. I told Mistress about pet’s trial and we returned home to our Stonehaven patio. Mistress fixed pet there at at wall and we two sat in front of her. Then Mistress told pet about her expectations for the trial. Not that I hadn’t explained it to pet, but Mistress found other words and confirmed it. Then we all had to leave to tend to our RLjulie

Saturday October 2nd: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Heavy Bondage Club and at home with pet

Our Saturday night began with some intimate time together. Mistress Jenny made sure that I stay addicted to her poisoness juices and I got my fix first when we met. We went to Puerto Esclava next. None of our family and potentials were present, slave holly away for the weekend, Faye absent, no Flo playing skipee, and pet logged in quickly to let us know that she was busy in RL that night. Mistress and I moved on to club Domme a Domme and then to club DeLust. It’s strange, when you’re expecting to have the family around and Mistress and I felt a bit lost first – but then enjoyed to the fullest being together. We seeked trouble and we almost found it, well almost means we did not *winks*.

Saturday October 2nd: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at home, at Puerto Esclava, at club DeLust and at Carnal Intentions with Faye

Faye came inworld late at night and we met her at Carnal Intentions. We caught up with her news, teased her a bit, then went to bed.

Art in Second Life 2021 (99) Somewhere by Theda Tammas and Iono Allen

14 Oct 2021 Leave a comment

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

Saturday, September 25th, a new art installation at DixMix Gallery was opened on the skyplatform “Womb”: “Somewhere” by Theda Tammas and Iono Allen.

The Womb is a seperate platform in the skies above the gallery. The teleport is right next to where you land.
Once you’re on the platform you should adjust your viewer settings: graphics to ultra (or to the best your system can handle), enabled advanced lighting, shared environment (top menu “world” -> “environment”) and allow media to be played automatically.

The installation extends over 3 levels. “Somewhere” uses a lot of the different creative possibilities of virtual worlds. On the first level, where you arrive, is a big screen quite at the end of the platform. The floor is white, something between snow and sand, the sky is grey, cloudy and dark. The screen shows a film that seems to be made in this environment. A woman with a magnificent head of blue hair is dancing, she almost hoovers over the ground. And step by step other women, twins of her show up. When they are five, all dancing sychron, they disappear into the horizon before the video restarts.

Impressions of “Somewhere” by Theda Tammas and Iono Allen (1)

On the left side of the platform is a stair. It leads your to the 2nd level of the installation. The ground has some gaps through which you can see the 1st level below of you and in the sky you see the 3rd level frough even larger gaps. On the 2nd floor are several objects. The woman of the video now appears as animated dancing figure. She dances in or around the objects, she sits in a red net like being caught by it. She dances under huge gates and she watches herself dancing in other videos shown on 2 screens. The combination of light effects with the ground and skies, the videos, the 3D art ojects, the animated and static figures build a unique and permanent changing art installation. You can animate yourself to dance by clicking objects that look like bar stools on the first glance. And then let your mind wander …

Impressions of “Somewhere” by Theda Tammas and Iono Allen (2)

Getting on the 3rd level wasn’t that easy as I found no stairs. I tried walking through gates and all of a sudden got to the 3rd level. This level was obviously used for the opening event. Again you find different objects with the woman either dancing of being kept like a prisoner. Once free they dance, seek nearness to each other and follow a lead. They break out of their own prisons and limitations.

Impressions of “Somewhere” by Theda Tammas and Iono Allen (3)

Theda Tammas is in SL for more than 14 years. She has had already some exhibtions of her work. I couldn’t find out a lot more about her. If I interpreted it right, then she’s from Brasil (I might be wrong though). Theda has an own website where you can see a lot of her former installations.

Iono Allen is also more than 14 years in SL and not only from his profile I conclude that his main passion is making films, so called machimas. He has an own vimeo channel where I found a video about “Somewhere”.

Thank you Dixmix for providing and curating the DixMix Gallery, thank you Megan for building it and for contributing to it. Many thanks of course also to Theda Tammas and Iono Allen for creating “Somewhere“. Another great installation of the two. It is not the first collaborative artwork of Theda and Iono. Theda made the figures, the art objects and the setup of the installation, Iono made the video clips. Once again I enjoyed my visit.

Landmark to DixMix Gallery
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Madori%20Bay/46/213/22
Theda Tammas website
https://bytheda.weebly.com/
Iono Allen’s vimeo channel
http://vimeo.com/user2558273

Diary 2021 (131) September 29th/39th Within our (large) family

13 Oct 2021 Leave a comment

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

Wednesday, September 29th, I had another relaxed afternoon with Mistress Jenny at Puerto Esclava, club Domme a Domme and Heavy Bondage Club. She spent 90 minutes together, first alone, then with slave Lily (Lily Bloodrose) at my leash. Faye come inworld when we were at Heavy Bondage Club and I couldn’t summon her to us as the club was full. Soon later we both had to log to tend ot our RL.

September 29th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Puerto Esclava, club Domme a Domme and at Heavy Bondage Club with slave Lily

We had a quiet and relaxed night within the family. Flo, Angelique and pet were present when we cam inworld. Mistress Jenny wanted to play a skipee but Angelique was absent. Faye Holly joined us and when we wanted to start a greedy Faye crashed. Finally we decided to go to Psi’s realm.

We stayed a while at Psi’s realm, then went on the Carnal Intentions. At both clubs it was comparably quiet and Mistress still hadn’t got her game. We returned home and as Angelique was still more or less absent, and slave Holly had just come inworld, Mistress and Flo played a skipee against slave Holly and me. pet watched. It was a really close game and close games are fun. After we finished pet and Flo went off to bet. Mistress and I wento to Carnal again with slave Faye and slave Holly. Not that there was more going on than before – but at least we had some shiny eye candy and fun teasing Faye and Holly.

September 29th: Mistress Jenny, Diomita, Angelique, Flo, pet, slave Faye and slave Holly at Psi’s realm and at Carnal Intentions

And that’s it about Wednesday.

Thursday, September 30th, I met Mistress Jenny in the morning. We hadn’t planned to meet and I had not much time. We spent half an hour at club Domme a Domme, a nice extra time for us.
Mistress and I met in the afternoon again and stayed at Puerto Esclava. We talked a lot about our family and upcoming events like Halloween and we outlined some plans. Faye came inworld and decorated us for 20 minutes, then it was time for us to tend to our RL again.

September 30th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at club Domme a Domme and at Puerto Esclava with Faye

Our night began with a greedy together with Flo, pet was watching at Mistress’ leash. We went to Mesmerize Dungeon first. We hadn’t been there for quite a while as it was mostly almost empty. That night there were a few more poeple but nothing going on. Somehow, with some people not going there anymore, it lost it’s attraction.
Hence we moved on to Carnal Intentions. It was not only full there, we also filled it well as our group grew. In the end Mistress and and I had our hands full. We chatted mostly amoung us. And of course we also teased.

September 30th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Mesmerize Dungeon and at Carnal Intentions with Angelique, Flo, pet, slave Faye, slave Holly and Elena

These two days were family days, hence the title.

Art in Second Life 2021 (98) Thunderous Train Of Air by London Junkers

12 Oct 2021 Leave a comment

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

London Junkers invited me to experience his newest installation named “Thunderous Train of Air“. The installation is set up at Kuidvis Art Space, a project that unites art in rl and sl and that offers the artists a chance to show their creativity. Kuidvis Art Space is founded and curated by lylaya.

To best view this installation set your viewer to Shared Environment and turn advance lighting model on. To understand the piece it is (more than) highly recommended the click the book right at where you land or at the center of the round floor to receive a poem, which inspired this installation. To read it, just add the object you will receive.

The poem is written by London Junkers, as far as I understood it. And he wrote it for Ruth Stone, an American poet, author, and teacher (1915-2011).

In the wikipedia entry for Ruth Stone the American journalist and author Elizabeth Gilbert tells a story about Stone’s writing style and inspiration, which she had shared with Gilbert:

“As [Stone] was growing up in rural Virginia, she would be out, working in the fields and she would feel and hear a poem coming at her from over the landscape. It was like a thunderous train of air and it would come barrelling down at her over the landscape. And when she felt it coming . . . ’cause it would shake the earth under her feet, she knew she had only one thing to do at that point. That was to, in her words, “run like hell” to the house as she would be chased by this poem.
The whole deal was that she had to get to a piece of paper fast enough so that when it thundered through her, she could collect it and grab it on the page. Other times she wouldn’t be fast enough, so she would be running and running, and she wouldn’t get to the house, and the poem would barrel through her and she would miss it, and it would “continue on across the landscape looking for another poet.”
And then there were these times, there were moments where she would almost miss it. She is running to the house and is looking for the paper and the poem passes through her. She grabs a pencil just as it’s going through her and she would reach out with her other hand and she would catch it. She would catch the poem by its tail and she would pull it backwards into her body as she was transcribing on the page. In those instances, the poem would come up on the page perfect and intact, but backwards, from the last word to the first.“

Impressions of “Thunderous Train of Air” by London Junkers (1)

London Junkers took this story and made a poem of it, a poem for Ruth Stone. And he not only wrote the poem, he also visualized it in Second Life. His installation has all elements mentioned in the story and the poem: The running girl, the thunderstorm, the whirlwind, the sun, the winged stars, the fields of wheat, the paper and the pen to write down the poem, the sun and light that breaks through the clouds, the dark air. And yes your can almost feel the “Thunderous Train of Air“.

Impressions of “Thunderous Train of Air” by London Junkers (2)

London Junkers is in Second Life for more than 13 years. He runs a store for Gothic clothes “Lnlsquare” in Second Life and, he writes and he visualizes (his) short stories and poems in 3D.

Landmark to “Thunderous Train Of Air” by London Junkers at Kuidvis art space
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Omael/17/38/25
Kuidvis art space flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/146337904@N08/
Gothic clothes “Lnlsquare”
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Borgatti/248/49/301

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