Art in Second Life 2021 (14) “Skin by Mrs. S.” @ DixMix Gallery

09 Feb 2021 1 Comment

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

I visited the exhibition “Skin by Mrs. S.” at DixMix Gallery.
Mrs. S, that mrs S (lauralar). I saw her “Magical Rooms” at Itakos Project and Art Gallery last year (read here), an exhibtion she made with her partner Mr S. (saka infinity).

“Skin by Mrs. S.” at DixMix Gallery (1)

The exhibtion at DixMix Gallery is quite different to what I saw before from mrs S. It consists of 10 pictures, of which 5 are held in white and dark blues and the 5 are more or less black and white like charcoal drawings. What they have in common is that they all show naked females.

“Skin by Mrs. S.” at DixMix Gallery (2)

The skin is white, the background is uni dark, hence you see just the curves, the shape and your eye is not distracted by anything else but a few white areas that could be windows.
The 5 pictures that remind of charcoal drawings just show a few lines with a tiny bit of shadows yet the contures are visibile, again you see the curves, the shape but even less a face.

“Skin by Mrs. S.” at DixMix Gallery (3)

Its the simplicity that makes the pictures intriguing, the clear focus on the shape of the naked female body. From what I see, I think the raw pictures were taken in Second Life and processed to provide the desired effect of simplicity.

Thank you Dixmix for providing and curating the DixMix Gallery, thank you Megan for building it and for contributing at it. I enjoyed my visit. The exhibition “Skin by Mrs. S.” will stay open until February 18th

Landmark to Dixmix Gallery 2020
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Madori%20Bay/46/213/22
DixMix Gallery website
https://www.dixmixgallery.xyz/
mrs S (lauralar)’s Flickr page
https://www.flickr.com/photos/123839917@N06/

Diary 2021 (12) January 23rd/24th Treasury hunt at Milena’s Doll Creations

08 Feb 2021 Leave a comment

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

Saturday afternoon, January 23rd, Mistress and I caught up with our news at Heavy Bondage Club. Faye reported in. We decided to do the treasury hunt at Milena’s Doll Creations and took Faye (Boy Serenity) with us. You have to collect 25 golden idols, then to find the treasury room. In the treasury room are 3 chests, one has the treasury, two bring you back to square one of the hunt. And of course there are many traps and obstacles. Mistress, Faye and I had fun. The traps are creative. We all were caught several times. To give an example, an ogre caught me and I had to answer his questions while being taken by this beast .. Oh My God .. I bet the ogre came 3 times or more before I had answered enough times correctly and could get free of it.

The Ogre says: ***LITTE ONE…TO LET YOU GO YOU WILL HAVE TO PASS A TEST.I WILL SCRUMBLE SOME WORDS AND YOU WILL PUT THEM IN THE CORRECT WAY.THE MORE YOU ANSWER CORRECTLY,THE MORE CHANCES YOU WILL HAVE TO WALK AWAY IN ONE PIECE***
THE OGRE SAYS: ARE YOU READY?
THE OGRE SAYS: Guess the word: speni
THE OGRE SAYS: Guess the word: eveptrr
Diomita Maurer: penis
THE OGRE SAYS: *hehehe…that was sooo wrong!*
Diomita Maurer: pervert
….

January 23rd: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Heavy Bondage club and at the treasury hunt at Milena’s Doll Creations with Faye

We stayed far over an hour in the labyrinth and we all collected around 20 golden idols. I even found the treasury room, but I hadn’t enough idols and I was lost in the labyrinth and all idols I saw where those I had collected alread. We had fun, but reutrned home. That was a nice variation.

At night Angelique and Flo were present and we could play a skipee as teams. This time Flo and I had the lucky cards and the game went by quickly. slave Melissa came inworld just as we finished. Flo had changed into NGW puffy straightjacket and I locked her safely into it when we had finished our game. Then we went to Carnal Intention and spent the night there. Again we chatted amoung us but we also followed and participated in main chat. That was quite entertaining. Faye joined us later and Mistress, Angelique and I spoiled her with our attention. slave Melissa remained mostly silent, following what was going on, decorating us and further “working” at getting used to her corset. She pleased us as always.

January 23rd: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Carnal Intentions with Angelique, Flo, Faye and slave Melissa

Angelique shared a picture of her, that was taken by someone earlier that day. It really showcases the beauty of her avatar very nice. No wonder that Faye knelt for her (and us). After Angelique and Flo had left we brought slave Melissa home and said goodnight to Faye and Melissa. I took Mistress to “Club Queen Thea” to show her the place. Thea herself and some of her staff were present and dancing in the event dome. We joined the dance and later had particular and kinky fun participating in a sex session that Thea supervised (no pictures here *winks*)

January 23rd: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Carnal Intentions with Angelique, Faye and slave Melissa / at Club Queen Thea

I spend a relaxed hour with Mistress Sunday afternoon, January 24th. We were at Carnal Intention where Lucy (missLucyWales) stayed shortly with us and we were at Dark Butterfly. We just talked, enjoyed being together and reading profiles.

January 24th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Carnal Intentions and at Dark Butterfly

We had a quiet and relaxed night that started with a skipee again. Mistress and Angelique against, Flo and me. Mistress had really bad cards and once again the game was one sided and Flo and I won it. we went to Psi’s realm afterwards, yet without Angelique who had gone to bed. But with slave Melissa who joined us while we played. We spent the rest of Sunday night at Psi’s realm and chatted amoug us and teased the Flo and slave Melissa and Faye who joined us at Psi’s.

January 24th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Psi’s realm with Flo, Faye and slave Melissa

Simploring 2021 (6) Club Queen Thea

07 Feb 2021 2 Comments

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

When I was at Puerto Esclava with Mistress Jenny on Friday, January 22nd, I saw Thea Papp there. She wore the tag “Queen”. Mistress and I always feel blessed when Goddesses, Queens, Princesses and other royals are around us. In Second Life it is easy to become a royal, you just need a tag *winks*. I had spoken to Thea Papp almost a year before we saw her at Puerto Esclava again that afternoon and she had been nice. I read her profile again and came across “Club Queen Thea” there: “Female, male, submissive, lesbian, Mistress, Master, slave, shemale, sissy, slut, bi, straight, gay, femdom, dance, cuddle, hangout, latex, … Drama, discrimination or any other disturbing behavior shall not be tolerated. The group is free.“

After Mistresss had left for dinner I decided to have a quick look at “Club Queen Thea“. The club is located on a sky platform and consists of a very luxurious club building, and open air play area, an event dome and a large pony play area. It is located in a full region, of course an adult region. The region is owned by Thea Papp. I was about to start exploring when Thea came to her place and she was nice again and gave me a tour and explained her concept to me.

Club Queen Thea – bird eye views and orientation map

Diomita Maurer: Is that your private place?
Thea Papp: No, I have an entire private sim downstairs for my own, this is just a skybox. I do this for fun, not for business or so
Diomita Maurer: Is your sim publicly accessible?
Thea Papp: No but i can invite people of course. This place is of course open for everyone, I wanted to make a place with no rules except being polite and respecting others. I did find too many clubs are imposing silly rules.
Diomita Maurer: That is true
Thea Papp: And sometimes more people sometimes less people, but I’m happy. Most people are very open and polite, I do not mind gender also, not even it is a human, a cat or whatever. A lot of sissies, shemales and so on come here, but also females and males. I try to talk with everyone and I almost know every member myself. I find personal contact better then standing like a plant somewhere in a club.
Diomita Maurer: We call them S&M clubs, Stand&Model. So I’m allowed to use the gear here anytime?
Thea Papp: Sure, a lot are often naked here also, I do not mind that.
Diomita Maurer: Do you have regular events?
Thea Papp: We have parties sometimes, but not every week or so

Thea showed me the really large pony area. There’s all you need to exercise with your pony and of course there’re also stalls. Thea showed me the event dome. It is furnished with style and looks really good. The black panels at the walls have sex animations. I can imagine that you could have quite some kinky parties in there! Thea told me that some come here to talk, others for dancing and still others just for fucking *winks*. At the entrance you can grab a free collar, which is rather unique as it has the logo of the club engraved.

Impressions of the event dome at Club Queen Thea

We went to the “Club Queen Thea” next. Again the building convinces with its style in- and outside. Most furniture inside is rlv enhanced, but you can also just play chess or drink coffee there. Of course you find also some thrones there. I really liked the Club.

Impressions of the Club Queen Thea

What else is there? A nice outdoor play area with some more rlv enhanced objects, like a billard table, a table tennis, a bondage rack, a jail cell, a shower….
Thea Papp: A shower to wash cum away. Well you need to provide it. Some can’t go home with cum on their body :-))
The jail cell is quite exclusively for Thea’s particular guest as only she has the keys to lock it. Again even the jail cell had style.

Impressions of the outdoor play are at Club Queen Thea

I should mention once again that the membership in the “Club Thea Queen” is free. And the place is really worth a visit and if the people are as nice and polite as Thea is, it might be even more worth visiting. Yet, don’t get fooled, Thea herself is strict and demanding and she doesn’t mince her words.
Thea invited me to see her private place. It is even larger and her personal villa is large and luxurious. Some of Thea’s staff was present, she seems to have some to support her. Well, a queen should have many staff, shouldn’t she?
Her private sim has quite cosy corners as well as places for worship.

But back to the public “Club Queen Thea“. I enjoyed my visit a lot. If you look for some kinky fun with style, give it a try. Thank you for the tour, Queen Thea!

Landmark to Club Queen Thea
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Queendom/140/150/3509

Art in Second Life 2021 (13) “Figure and Form” by Harbor Galaxy

06 Feb 2021 1 Comment

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

DixMix Source invited me to have a look at “Figure and form” by Harbor Galaxy, an exhibition that will be opened at DixMix Gallery with a party on Saturday February 6th at 1 PM SLT.

The exhibition is right now prepared on a platform, ready to be moved to its place at DixMix Gallery. What is missing right now in my pictures is the fitting ambiente for Harbor Galaxy’s pictures.

Harbor writes about “Figure and Form”:
“In this series of little pictures I wanted to take a step back from the avatar as a personality and concentrate on the its’ figure in relationship to various forms, most of which were the simple building blocks we use here in Second Life and then build upon that relationship with color and light.“

“Figure and Form” by Harbor Galaxy at DixMix Gallery (1)

Actually the figures are comparable small in comparison to the form. Habour uses both, females and males, and instinctively the view of the spectator is focused on the figure, trying to see more details, like clothes, shape and age. The form doesn’t prevent focusing on the figure as it is kept simple. The forms itself would be nice abstract art with the light effects and selected forms and colours, the figures itself would be to small with no particular feature – but together they interact.

I couldn’t find out much about Harbor Galaxy. She is in Second Life for 12 years. And she has a flickr page where I found a short description about her: “Just a pixel dolly exploring my creative side in SL. I don’t generally talk too much about my process primarily because it frequently seems kind of like a happy accident but in my work, I attempt to merge photography and digital painting. I take pictures using screen shots and then edit and manipulate the images in GIMP; frequently using distortion and color to invoke an emotional response from viewer.“

“Figure and Form” by Harbor Galaxy at DixMix Gallery (2)

Thank you Dixmix for providing and curating the DixMix Gallery, thank you Megan for building it and for contributing at it. I enjoyed my visit. The exhibition “Figure and Form” by Harbor Galaxy opens today, Saturday February 6th at 1 PM SLT, and will stay open until March 19th.

Landmark to Dixmix Gallery 2020
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Madori%20Bay/46/213/22
DixMix Gallery website
https://www.dixmixgallery.xyz/
Harbor Galaxy Flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/harborgalaxy/

Diary 2021 (11) January 21st/22nd A new Yasminia

05 Feb 2021 Leave a comment

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

When I came inworld Thursday afternoon, January 21st, Mistress restricted my ability to see locations first thing after we had hugged each other. She took me to a winterly sim. My goad, I wasn’t dressed for that! We took two skiing lifts up to a mountain, where Mistress and I sat down in a chair by a campfire (at least that gave a bit of warmth). She asked me if I knew where we were – of course I didn’t yet I had already got a notecard of the sim greeter when we entered. I first thought, that Mistress wanted to take me there for skiing as I couldn’t do that this year in RL. But no, she had got the landmark from a profile or whatever, she couldn’t remember. But she had tried it out …. the place Aspen Fell – Whistletoe, is a Ski resort, with a lot of menities such as snow skiing, snow boarding, snowball fights, exploring, snow mobiles, ski lifts, snow sledding, animals, live snow that sometimes changes, a beautiful lodge with poses, bar and other games, many outdoor lounging areas and chalet rentals for the Winter season. But the real funny thing is – it is built on a homestead names Yasminia!
Yasminia is a place where Mistress and I spent a lot of time during our first years in SL when I was owned by Yasmin Heartsdale. I had seen other places built on it later when Yasmin had given up it – but I didn’t know of this one!

January 21st: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Aspen Fell – Whistletoe (Yasminia) and at Puerto Esclava with slave Lucy

We went to Puerto Esclava next and caught up with our news there. Mistress summoned slave Lucy (Miss LucyWales) to us, who presented her new catsuit and hood and knelt at our feet decorating us nicely.

At night Mistress was running late. I had a skipee with slave Flo first. She must had rigged the table and the cards as she got many fitting ards and jokers and the game was quicker than usual. slave Flo went cleaning the house while I had an interruption by RL. When I returned slave Irene (AdlerIrene) was present and I took her over to the house and to our office desk. Time that she gets her office desk christening *winks*. Flo and later also Mistress Jenny watched and cheered slave Irene up a bit.

January 21st: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at home and at club Domme a Domme with slave Irene and Flo

When I was done with slave Irene we went to club Domme a Domme, where it was full that night. We chatted amoung us and read profiles. Argi joined us there. She is always entertaining. And before we went to bed, we shortly also saw Faye.

January 21st: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at club Domme a Domme with Flo, Argi, Faye and slave Irene

Friday afternoon, January 22nd, Mistress and I went to Puerto Esclava after we had caught up with our mutual news. We spent more than half an hour there. Not much (nothing) was going on there, that way we had time to talk and to read profiles. I read one interesting profile and grabbed a landmark. We also fixed the theme for our Friday night party later: “It is Friday again … weekend… TGIF … Did you notice that the days are getting longer already? Let’s say goodbye to the short and dark days by wearing something shiny – anything but black, Let us colour the world – or come as you are of course. DJ Virgo is spinning the tunes.”

January 22nd: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Puerto Esclava and at our loft skybox

We went to our loft skybox as my fix was overdue again. And I was lucky that Mistress granted it. I enjoyed serving her and getting my fix. After Mistress had left for dinner, I decided to have a quick look at the landmark that I grabbed before. To my surprise it was really worth the visit and I wrote a simploring post about it (to be published soon).

Nothing really to report about Friday night. Mistress, Angelique, Flo and I played a greedy before our party started. And, you guess it already, we had fun at our party as every Friday – celebrating the start into our weekend in RL and SL.

January 22nd – Friday night party: Diomita, Mistress Jenny, Angelique, Flo, Ebony, Faye, Irene, Baroness Capelo (upper row), Della Randt, Starbright Wingtips, Zarra Fluffpaw, Claire (maddh4tt3r), Talos, Virgo dressed and topless (lower row)

Diary 2021 (10) January 19th/20th Two days side by side with Mistress

04 Feb 2021 Leave a comment

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

Tuesday, January 19th, I met Mistress shortly when I logged in in the later morning. She was on her way going off though. She had met Kitty and had further explored the Dairy K Ranch. I roamed a bit, had in mind visiting a gallery or a sim but I hadn’t that much time myself and I ended up just sim hopping before I logged off again.
In the afternoon Mistress came inworld just to tell me that she had to care for RL and would go afk for a whilte. Thus I spent half an hour silently at Mistress’ feet (and did other things in RL). When Mistress returned we went to club Domme a Domme and stayed there for almost an hour, chatted and had some private chats – and that’s it almost about the aternoon. After Mistress Jenny had left Faye reported in and showed me the nipple clamps she was going to buy (I had asked her to get some). I approved her choice and went off to tend to my RL.

January 19th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at club Domme a Domme and at Carnal Intentions with Flo

Our night began with a skipee together with Flo again. It was a close game and hence it was enjoyable. We went to Carnal Intentions with Flo and spent the whole night there. We had quite some entertainment watching two floor shows and we got almost a third. That gave also reason for a bit of main chat. After a while we had a family and friends meeting as Argi joined us as well as Faye with her friend Gwen (dstross). Faye presented her new nipple clamps to Mistress Jenny and me and we played just a bit with them. And then, after Flo had left already, also slave Irene (AdlerIrene) came by. But it had become late already – as always time flies when you’re having fun.

January 19th at Carnal Intentions: Mistress Jenny, Diomita, Argi, Flo, Faye, slave Irene, Gwen (dstross) / Mistress Jenny and Diomita at home

We returned home and before we logged off to bed, Mistress made sure that I get my dose of her sweet poison *winks*.

Wednesday afternoon, January 20th, Mistress shocked me instructing me to wear a butt plug and lock is. I was struggling and asking her not to do. It turned out, she wanted just to test it. Actually she wanted to see if I can unlock it taking the key myself – I can’t. By the way this plug is named “Devil” and it is evil! And Mistress had enjoyed teasing me *sighs*
Once I had calmed down we went to Carnal Intentions and spend close to an hour there with slave Lucy (MissLucyWales). Mistress and I had slave Irene in private chat. She had her fun trying out a treasury hunt at a shop – MILENA DOLL CREATIONS – Store-Playground-Club. She run into quite some traps and sent pictures.

January 20th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita with slave Lucy at Carnal Intentions / slave Irene at Melina’s Doll Shop tresure hunt / at club Domme a Domme

We also had quite some entertainment again at Carnal Intentions as we watched another domme playing with her sissy sub. Before we logged off for that afternoon, we spent a few minutes at club Domme a Domme.

Wednesday night started with a skipee with slave Flo. slave Lucy (MissLucyWales) knelt at Mistress Jenny’s feet, slave toy knlet at my feet. While we played I began to change slave toy and put her into a hobble dress. The game was really quick as Mistress was lucky with her cards and I was just done with changing slave toy when Mistress had won it. We decided to stay home and went to our Stonehaven patio. I placed slave Lucy on a new frame that I got as advent gift from DsR, slave Flo was placed close by on a cushion – Mistress told me to consider her old bones *winks*, and slave toy got seated on a dildo cushion. That must have been too much for her as she logged off. We had in mind to relax and let her entertain us while making Lucy and Flo horny. Plans often fail in Second Life. I could write many stories about that.

January 20th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita with slave Lucy and Flo at home

We went to our office instead and I had my way with slave Lucy on our desk. That was overdue. Mistress made Flo spoil her with her tongue. I bet I could have smelled what we did in the office that night even on the next day.
To wind down we went to Carnal Intentions next where Faye joined us. We stayed there with Faye after Flo and Lucy had left for bed and I had time to talk with Faye and to enjoy having her at my feet.

January 20th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita with slave Lucy with Flo, Faye and slave Lucy at Carnal Intentions

Art in Second Life 2021 (12) The Carbone Gallery at Noir’Wen City

03 Feb 2021 Leave a comment

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

After my visit of “American Shot” by Milena Carbone at Nitroglobus Roof Gallery (read part I here and part II here) I got in contact to Milena Carbone (mylena1992). She invited me to see her gallery “The Carbone Gallery” and invited me to her gallery group.
Actually Milena has not just one own gallery, she also has an affiliate at Noir’Wen City, the city that develops more and more to a colony of artists. I visited The Carbone Gallery at Noir’Wen City first.

The Carbone Gallery at Noir’Wen City – outside and 1st floor inside

The Carbone Gallery at Noir’Wen City  is in an old former warehouse and has 2 floors. It is named “Art & Bookstore” for a good reason. On the ground level of the gallery you find a board advertising for Milena’s portrait and art service, a board advertising the main Carbone Gallery, a list of her current exhibitions at the different places and – a bookstore.
The books are made for reading within Second Life. They attach on the HUD and you can scroll foreward and backward through the pages. One of the books offered is the book accompanying the exhibition “American Shot”. But there are others, all by Milena and all with her art and texts. And there are also free books to grab. You might want to retreat to a sunny beach, lay in the sun and read – no restrictions in Second Life.

The Carbone Gallery at Noir’Wen City – bookstore and ads for the main gallery and for the portrait and art service

The overview about Milena’s current exhibtions is impressive. The main gallery hosts an art café and two exhibtions, two more exhibtions are currently at other galleries (one is “American Shot” at Nitroglobus Roof Gallery). The Carbone Gallery at Noir’Wen City hosts one exhibtion named “My favourite things”, another named “Locked” in a skybox that belongs to The Carbone Gallery at Noir’Wen City, one exhibtion of a guest artist, Norton Lykin, named “Lux Aeterna” in a second skybox belonging to The Carbone Gallery at Noir’Wen City and a 3rd exhibtion of Milena Carbone “The testament of Mahdi” in the church of Noir’wen City. I had seen the 1st part of this exhibtion called “The Sermon of Mahdi” in September 2020 (read here). Therefore I focused on the exhibtion “My favourite things” on the 2nd floor and had a short visit to “Locked”.

The Carbone Gallery at Noir’Wen City – Impressions of “My favourite things” (1)

“My favourite things” is as the name implies a collection of about 20 pictures that Milena likes most of her own art. Most of them are female portraits and pictures of females in different environment. They all stell a story – Milena is a story teller with pictures and words. Some of them really invite the spectator to watch longer and to immerse oneself in them.

Milena Carbone (mylena1992) is a French artist and is in Second Life since mid 2019. She discovered its artistic potential and since then has devoted all her free time to creation, associating, as in real life, images and texts. By accepting the rule of the “double” (the real “I” and the virtual “I”), she includes herself in her artwork: “Milena Carbone is a fiction in which, as in any artistic work, biographical and imaginary elements are mixed.” Her creative process is iterative: some of her images inspire her stories and these stories modify the development of the image, which itself transforms the story.

The Carbone Gallery at Noir’Wen City – Impressions of “My favourite things” (2)

That Milena isn’t only an artist creating pictures, she also writes. The exhibition “Locked”, shown in the skybox, consists of 4 rooms called Sideration, Glimmer, Breakdown and Amnesia. Each room has several pictures, 3D objects (not from Milena) and a story. The four phases of this story unfold in a precise order for Milena, but she does not impose it on us.

The Carbone Gallery at Noir’Wen City – Impressions of “Locked”

I’m impressed of Milena’s creative urge. Considering the relative short time she’s in Second life, she has already left quite a big footprint. Moreover it is interesting to see how Noir’Wen City is developing. I plan to finish my “Milena Carbone” cycle with a visit to her main Carbone Gallery soon.

Landmark to The Carbone Gallery @ Noir’Wen City
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Noir%20Wen/243/203/32
Landmark to The Carbone Gallery @ Noir’Wen City – skybox 1 (exhibtion “Locked”)
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Noir%20Wen/225/205/1502
Landmark to Noir’Wen City Church – “The testament of Mahdi” by Milena Carbone
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Noir%20Wen/116/136/32
Landmark to The Carbone Gallery @ Noir’Wen City – skybox 2 (exhibtion “Lux Aeterna” by Norton Lykin)
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Noir%20Wen/216/209/1586

Diary 2021 (8) January 16th/17th A lazy weekend

02 Feb 2021 Leave a comment

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

Saturday, January 16th, I went inworld in the later morning to visit a gallery. I noticed Kitty and our former slave Dana, who is the hucow 971DA now, being inworld. Hence the gallery had to wait. I went to Dairy K Ranch to see the hucow and Kitty. 971DA is a really fat cow in the meanwhile. I had fun teasing her together with Kitty and of course I took a few pictures. Yes, hucow is not my kink .. but also yes, it is fun seeing others having fun and taking everything not that serious. And Dana confirmed that she is having a great time! I stayed for about 20 minutes and went to visit the gallery afterwards.

January 16th: Diomita and Kitty visiting 971DA (Dana Dreezelan) at Dairy K Ranch

I spend quite some time in the afternoon with finishing the report about my gallery visit and had to log on several times to check some details. Then I met with Mistress Jenny and we caught up with our news at Carnal Intentions. As it was quite empty there we went to Dark Butterfly next where Mistress throned in a chair and I sat by her feet. Quite as it should be, I admit, yet sometimes I get more aware of it as at other times. we enjoyed an hour together, talking, just looking around, reading profiles – or I just looked at Mistress.

January 16th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Carnal Intentions and at Dark Butterfly

At night we met with slave toy and Flo at home. Mistress and I had told Flo that we expect her to come up with something restrictive and really she did. She had changed into a restricted outfit of DHB. But before I locked and restricted her we played a game of skipee. slave toy knelt at my feet during the game. And we were just done, when slave Melissa came inworld. She’s still in her corset trainging and we won’t change her into something else before it is finished. The last stage takes quite some time to do.
We went to Psi’s realm and spent the night there. I had the yes of the slaves including Flo at me again and I set a quite creul vision with the AnaVision HUD. I had fun teasing the slave and Mistress has several IMs with others.

January 16th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at Psi’s realm with Flo, slave Melissa and slave toy

At flotime we returned home, said good night to Flo and slave Melissa and stored slave toy. Mistress and I went on a tour and visited club Domme a Domme and Carnal Intentions. Mistress forced me to stay in touch with the two dommes, who I met the year before. I know she plans to furhter strengthen my submission with their help. I can struggle as much as I want, it won’t help me. And as I needed my fix again already badly, I had to comply. Finally Mistress took me back home with her and allowed me to lick her and to get my fix.

January 16th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita at club Domme a Domme, Carnal Intentions and at home

Sunday, January 17th, I spent quite some time inworld. Mistress was absent during the day. I was already inworld in the morning and talked with Kitty who got trapped for 30 minutes as she explored a sim. I hopped over the usual places, but despite a nice roleplay caht for 20 minutes nothing really happened. In the afternoon I finally could get over my laziness and I visited a gallery and wrote the according report.
At night I was at Puerto Esclava when Mistress can inworld. We caught up with our mutual news and then returned home to play a skipee with Flo. After the game we went to Mesmerize Dungeon but it was way too quiet there and we just stayed for 20 minutes or so and went on to Heavy Bondage Club, where we stayed the rest of the night. slave toy, slave Melissa, and alter Faye joined us there. We chatted amoung us, I teased the slaves a bit, Melissa worked down more time on her corset but will still have a few days more before I can tie the corset to this full tightness. And that’s it about Sunday … ok, I took a few pictures at night at least.

January 17th: Mistress Jenny and Diomita with Flo, slave Melissa, slave toy and Faye at Mesmerize Dungeon / at Heavy Bondage Club / and before we logged off at our left skyboy

Art in Second Life 2021 (11) American Shot by Milena Carbone – Part II

01 Feb 2021 1 Comment

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

On January 15th I published a post about “American Shot” by Milena Carbone (mylena1992) at Nitroglobus Roof Gallery (read here). The Nitroglobus Roof Gallery is owned and curated by Dido Haas.

What is an American Shot? It is a photograph framed from the character’s mid waist to right above their head. It is characteristic of American movies of the first half of the 20th century, at the dawn of cinema, and of the American empire. The exhibtion “American Shot” deals with the rise and fall of an empire, in particular of the American empire. The title has nothing to do with the pictures itself though, that are “Italian shots”, showing full bodies. That’s the educational part of this blog entry *winks*.

With “American Shot” Milena shows us the decay of the Western Empires in 28 images of which 14 were shown until end of January 2021. Milena has changed the images and now the remaining 14 works are showcased until mid of February. The re-opening party is tomorrow – on Tuesday, February 2nd at 12PM SLT.
Moreover, Milena also made a book of this exhibition in which not only all 28 images are presented but also the story she wrote ‘Greatness again and Decadence’. You will find the the book on the table at the Nitroglobus Roof Gallery and can purchase it.

“American Shot” by Milena Carbone – Part II (1)

The 2nd 14 pictures shown right now are also quite large and show people representative for their group, way of life or attitudes, like the one that was selected for the exhibition’s poster – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court’s feminist icon. This picture is named “Humanism is a dissent”. With the floor mirroring the pictures they all become quite expressive. And along with a few thoughts and texts they invite the visitor to spin stories, to connect them with the rise and fall of the American empire, to connect them with the texts.

In the accompanying notecard Milena writes about “American Shot”:
“Even before the emergence of civilizations, human beings devoted part of their lives to representing faces. Animals, gods, chiefs, parents. They drew on rocks, they carved masks and statues in pieces of wood, clay or stones. The art of portraiture is found in every work of art. Each era carries its style and its faces. It is accepted today that the portrait is the representation of the absent. Absent God. Absent Master. Absent wife. Father absent. Unknown soldier. Lost friend. Jesus on the cross. Regretted Mary.“

“American Shot” by Milena Carbone – Part II (2)

Milena Carbone (mylena1992) is a French artist and is in Second Life since mid 2019. She discovered its artistic potential and since then has devoted all her free time to creation, associating, as in real life, images and texts. By accepting the rule of the “double” (the real “I” and the virtual “I”), she includes herself in her artwork: “Milena Carbone is a fiction in which, as in any artistic work, biographical and imaginary elements are mixed.” Her creative process is iterative: some of her images inspire her stories and these stories modify the development of the image, which itself transforms the story.

“American Shot” by Milena Carbone – Part II (3) – The Art Buyer (upper left), Aiien QAnspiracy (upper right), The frustrated housewife (lower left), Secret Service (lower right)

Dido Haas wrote a comprehensive article about “American Shot” in her blog “Exploring SL with Dido“. It includes more information and a video of the exhibtion, that was made by Milena herself.
Thank you Dido for providing the Nitroglobus Roof Gallery and for featuring the two parts of “American Shot” by Milena Carbone. I enjoyed my visit of part 2 as much as I enjoyed the first part.

Landmark to Nitroglobus Roof Gallery
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunshine%20Homestead/38/25/1001
Blogpost about Art in Second Life 2021 (5) American Shot by Milena Carbone – Part I
https://themaurers.me/2021/01/15/art-in-second-life-2021-5-american-shot-by-milena-carbone/
Dido Haas’ blog “Exploring SL with Dido”
http://exploringslwithdido.blogspot.com/
Dido Haas about “American Shot by Milena Carbone”
http://exploringslwithdido.blogspot.com/2021/01/american-shot-januaryfebruary.html

Art in Second Life 2021 (10) “Waves of Silence” by Etamae

01 Feb 2021 1 Comment

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

Last year I had quite some blogposta about Etamae and her art. I visited her Eta’s Feed Your Fetish Gallery (see my blogpost here) and her Extempore Gallery and Lounge (read here). I saw her contribution to the joined exhibtion of Apirl 2020 at La Maison d’Aneli (read here). I saw her “little boxes” at Hannington Art Foundation (read here) and her “Memories of a Foreign Reality” at Itakos Project Art Gallery (read here).

Etamae is in Second Life for almost 5 years. She’s from the UK and began transforming her pictures from the things she has seen and loved in Second Life into something else, in digital art in 2018. Etamae is not defined by just one style or area of art, she plays with different patterns and tries herself out in a broader spectrum of art. And so also the current exhibtion at the DixMix Gallery proves her attitude to always try out different forms of art.

The exhibition “Waves of Silence” is located in the room Abby at DixMix Gallery. It consists of 9 partly quite large pictures. The walls of the room and the floor is kept in grey tones. At the walls you see some shadows of people and objects. The background fits well and is used to contribute to the pictures. The largest picture named “peek”, that you see in front of you when you enter the room consists of two halfs, in the center of the combined pictures is something that looks like a boxing ring, each half shows the silhouette of a person (a boxer?). In fact the left and the right part are just mirrored pictures that were coloured differently. If you step back far enough and look at the picture the shadows on the wall behind add to the picture so that you can recognize a face.
Etamae also played with mirrors in her picture “reflective”, also colouring both (mirrored) halfs differently.

“Waves of Silence” by Etamae at DixMix Gallery (1) – away (upper left) / reflective (upper right) / peek (lower picture)

Etamae’s picture “Waves of Silence”, gave her exhibtion at DixMix Gallery it’s name. In this picture Etame uses several layers (I think just two, but mabye three), that are zoomed in and zoomed out slowly. This way she creates the illusion of waves, colourful waves. It is quite calming to look at it and to watch the slow change of the picture.
In the picture next to it, named “peace”, she uses another and much more visible effect of changing it permanently. The picture has two layers that are permantenly moving against eachother (one to the left side, one the right side). It is one on the same picture, black and white, and shows a face. The upper picture is transparent. There is a moment when both pictures fit exactly, then you see one picture only. But mostly you see the face changing, you see at least 2 faces … or even none. And the changes are quite quick.

“Waves of Silence” by Etamae at DixMix Gallery (2) – Waves of Silence (left side) / peace (right side)

The third technique Etamae is playing with in her exhibtion at DixMix Gallery is a moving a thin layer of grey or fog over her pictures. In her picture “rapture” this makes the background changing just a tiny bit. You do not notice it at the first glance that the picture is animated. In her picture “sleep”, the effect is stronger and quite visible as two second layers (the fog) are moved over the picture against eachother and thus the picture gets partly darkened, but the dark parts move.

“Waves of Silence” by Etamae at DixMix Gallery (2) – rapture (upper) / sleep (lower)

Etamae showed again her ability to play with different techniques. I enjoyed my visit a lot. Her artwork is intriguing. Thank you Etamae!
Thank you Dixmix for providing and curating the DixMix Gallery, thank you Megan for building it and for contributing at it.
The exhibition “Waves of Silence” by Etamae will stay open until February, 19th.

Landmark to Dixmix Gallery
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Madori%20Bay/46/213/22
DixMix Gallery website
https://www.dixmixgallery.xyz/
Landmark to Extempore Gallery and Lounge
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Blarn%20Isle/13/210/1502
Eta’s Feed Your Fetish Gallery
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Swanbridge/204/19/3216
Etamae’s Flickr page
https://www.flickr.com/photos/157802675@N08/?

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