The Haunted Halloween Tour

25 Oct 2014 1 Comment

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

As Halloween is getting closer we treid out some temporary installations. The Halloween tour is really good, very well made and lots of fun. As it will be gone soon, don’t miss the tour. It is worth your time!!
Thank you Inara for sharing!

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The Haunted Halloween Tour, launched with the October Premium Membership offer The Haunted Halloween Tour, launched with the October Premium Membership offer (click images for full size)

Launched alongside the October 2014 Premium Membership offer, but available to all SL users, is the Haunted Halloween Tour, he latest offering from the Lab to feature Experience Keys, and one that appears to be specifically geared towards the Oculus Rift.

The tour can be accessed via the Lab’s Portal Park – simply go through the gate marked “Halloween” following your arrival. The path will lead yo to the access point, with gateways available for those with and those without an Oculus headset (the latter obviously requiring the Oculus Rift project viewer).

Whichever one you take (the actual tours are more-or-less the same), the first time you do so, you’ll be required to grant the experience the right to carry out certain actions on your avatar (perhaps most noticeably in this case…

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Exploring sims and places

13 Oct 2014 Leave a comment

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

Not that this blog is going to change but I have been visiting two other places that were described in Inara’s blog and are really worth a visit.

Darkwood boat tour

Darkwood boat tour

Last weekend I visited Darkwood (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Breakfree/248/242/23), first alone and then together with Jenny. The full description can be found here: http://modemworld.wordpress.com/2014/10/02/along-the-paths-of-the-darkwood-where-the-nightshade-lay/. It is an Halloween design, so I assume that it is temporary only. I recommend doing the boat tour. You have nothing to do but enjoying the ride along the coast first and then the boat lifts into the skies. It’s fantasy, dark fantasy.

Darkwood boat tour

Darkwood boat tour

20141013 Snassouci Park_003Today I visited Sanssouci (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Rajika/130/33/2008). The Sanssouci Palace is the former summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, in Potsdam, near Berlin. And I visited it 3 years ago in RL. Here in SL there Sanssouci looks just like it is in RL with one difference: there are not as many visitors and there’s no admission fee. Thus you can get a feeling of having been there without any effort. And maybe you dress according to its time. Or you might want to arrange an event there like a wedding. Anway, have a look!

Sanssouci Park

Sanssouci Park

Diomita overlooking the terrace at Sanssouci Park (SL)

Diomita overlooking the terrace at Sanssouci Park (SL)

The next blog entry will be about our kinky side again, promised!
Love from Diomita

 

The Viewing Room

01 May 2014 Leave a comment

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Voluntary Commitment by Whiskey Monday

Voluntary Commitment by Whiskey Monday

Again I stumbled over a niece piece of art following Inara Pey’s  blog (Living in a modemworld). This time it is about the artist Whiskey Monday. According to Inara her pictures are also available in RL. Here is the link to the blog post of Inara (https://modemworld.wordpress.com/2014/04/29/calling-time-on-whiskeys-shots/). Right now Whiskey’s art can be seen in a gallery at “The Viewing Room” but this gallery might be closed soon, so hurry when you want to see the exhibition. I was impressed by the pictures as well as by the room installations where everyhting is upside down and I placed myself into it.

Dio at The Viewing Room

Dio at The Viewing Room

Happy 1st of May. Enjoy!

The Lefevre Mansion

04 Mar 2014 Leave a comment

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20140304 The Lefevre Mansion_001Again a short entry about exploring the non-bdsm world for Second Life. I came across the Lefevre Mansion through the “Living in a Modemworld blog” again. In fact, I still have 10 sims to explore that were presentated there. And I can’t keep the pace with the little time I have left over beside RL and caring for my family with Jenny in SL. Anyway, here is the url to the post in the “Living in a Modemworld blog”: https://modemworld.wordpress.com/2014/03/03/the-lefevre-mansion/.

I went there today. Great, marvellous, a real WOW. Here is the link to their blog http://thelefevremansion.com/ and the LM
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Lefevre%20Mansion/25/25/22.

Please enjoy the view and admire the passion and the love for details. It feels so real ….WOW.

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Getting snotty

23 Feb 2014 Leave a comment

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20140223 Dio plays golf_006
This morning I was already in the mood to dress a bit more elegant and I got some compliments. Tonight before getting online just after dinner I came across another blog entry at Inara Pey’s “Living in a Modemworld” blog. It’s about golf in SL (https://modemworld.wordpress.com/2014/02/23/working-my-way-to-the-nineteenth/).
I had to try it, even though I had no golf outfit to wear. And I admit – it’s fun! Most probably much easier than in real life. But the putting is difficult. Here are just a few impressions. And yes, I’m sure that Kitty will like trying that and will become a champion once she has finished with her pony Training (so about in 2 or 3 years).

20140223 Dio plays golf_004

20140223 Dio plays golf_005

Art in Second Life (2)

04 Feb 2014 Leave a comment

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Dragon Curves by Mac Kanashimi

Dragon Curves by Mac Kanashimi

Again an entry in the “Living in a Modemworld”-blog brought me to visit an other LEA sim. This time it is LEA26 – Dragon Curves. The Dragon Curves exhibit showcases sim-wide variations of dragon curve art. The spectacular script-controlled dragon curve landscape changes continuously. Dragon Curves is Mac Kanashimi’s largest work until now. The project will be online until June 30th.

I’m not a mathematician. The learn more about the algorithm behind this kind of art, look it up at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_curve.
Being at the sim you are surrounded by colourful blocks that change, raise, decrease, appear and disappear. You can walk upstairs to the top of it and downstairs. As the creator notices, there are 108 Kilometers (!) of walkable Dragon curves. Considering that is changes permanently, my impressions of Mac Kanashimi’s art are unique.

It’s another prove of what Second Life can provide regarding digital art.
Thank you Mac Kanashimi!

Dio's visit to Dragon Curves by Mac Kanashimi

Dio’s visit to Dragon Curves by Mac Kanashimi

Art in Second Life

14 Jan 2014 Leave a comment

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

20140114 Dio in Frankx LeFavre - LEA19_002We had already some blog entries about art in SL. Again “Living in a Modemworld” by Inara Pey (see Active blogs list) brought my attention to something I didn’t know before: The Linden Endowments for the Arts is hosting a series of 16 “interim” art projects through until the end of January 2013. Inara just had a post about it today “Of light and glass and picturing Second Life“. I first visited Frankx LeFavre art installation at LEA19 and made some self portraits as well ass some snapshots of the art that is surrounding you anywhere there – amazing!

Frankx LeFavre - LEA19

Frankx LeFavre – LEA19

Dio in Frankx LeFavre - LEA19

Dio in Frankx LeFavre – LEA19

Following to this visit I went on to an other art project, which is from Thea Dee at LEA18. Thea enjoys the interconnectivity of the art community in Second Life. She found much wonder in the visual imagery in this virtual environment. Her pictures are mostly done with minimal post-processing and at LEA18 she exhibits some of them and I do really like them, both the ones that capture athmosphere and landscape and those who are just art. Grab the notecard at the entry point to lean more about Thea, her art and where you can see more (Wawata Gallery @ Ground Zero Music and Art on the Eyefliez sim)

Thea Dee - LEA18

Thea Dee – LEA18

Thea Dee - LEA18

Thea Dee – LEA18

20140114 Dio at Moving Islands collective project - LEA20_001Once exploring I went on from there to the next sim just nearby – LEA20 and found the “Moving Islands” collective project. This is pure fantasy and art. Surrealistic. The snapshots I made are unique as every angle, every light setting, every stochasitic combination of the art objects is singular. I made not a single post processing on these pictures. They are just as they are and I really like them. If you google about the project you’ll find many more articles, news and pictures of this project and I learned that there’re many artists involved in the project. Thank you all, for some wonderful impressions!

Moving Islands collective project - LEA20

Moving Islands collective project – LEA20

Moving Islands collective project - LEA20

Moving Islands collective project – LEA20

Do I do still do anything else in SL but exploring? Of course! And don’t worry, we still have a lot of our “usual” fun in SL.

Sydney Opera House – 2013 in review

31 Dec 2013 Leave a comment

by diomitamaurer in Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The people of WordPress.com send me a few figures and remarks reviewing this blog for 2013. The review starts with a nice comparison: “The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 9,300 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.”

Some statisical figures: Our blog had actually more than 9,400 clicks in 2013 alone, it contains 210 posts. In 2013 we published close to 200 pictures – thats about 4 per week. Quite enlightening is what attracts readers to our blog – at least some of them search for information about:
What is an Euro Brat?
What is a humare?
Prison Role play
Pony Play
What is an Ehesklavin?
I also should do an update of the “My Viewer” page as it is often clicked, but honestly I was too lazy doing that.
In 2013 we hat visitors from 67 countries around the world. Most visitors came from The United States (2.500). Germany (1.700) & The United Kingdom (1.200) were not far behind. No surprise here if you take into account where Jenny and I live.

Enough about statistics. Thank you all for reading. Appropos reading: Via the “Living in a Modemowrld” blog of Inara Pey (see the post of last week) I found “Prim Perfect –  Style for Homes and Gardens in Virtual Worlds”. It is an online magazine with now already 50 issues and provides information about what to explore in Second Life, some stories, and it is another source for ideas. I enjoyed reading it. There’s also a blog with even more information and with the link to the magazines of course (read the last issue, winter wonderland). So I added the url of the blog to the other links section (http://primperfectblog.wordpress.com/).

Last but not least: No blog without a picture. As we began the “Enjoying Bondage”- series this year, heres another one from our everyday fun. Have a great Silvester night!

Angelique, Dio, slave Flo at The Secret House club

Angelique, Dio, slave Flo at The Secret House club

Living in a Modemworld – Thoughts on Virtual Living

26 Dec 2013 1 Comment

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

Today the SL Fetish Fashion blog (see Active Blogs list) pointed me to antoher blog that I didn’t know about before: “Living in a Modemworld” by Inara Pey. Inara writes for more than 6 years now and her blog is about living in a virtual world in general as the title indicates. What caught my eye was beautiful winter landscape picture taken in SL. WOW. One part of Inara’s blog is about sims and landscapes and just for that it was worth visiting her blog. I will go on exploring her blog and the sims. Inara has another blog that deals with all matters relating to D/s relationships in Second life. I will have to read that too. Now I have a lot to read (and also to see inworld), thank you Inara !

Back to the beautiful picture, it can be found here: https://modemworld.wordpress.com/2013/12/19/calas-in-winter/

I followed the link in Inara’s blog and found Calas Galahon Park Sims. In one word: That’s beautiful and amazing. I strongly recommend that you have a look on what can be created within Second life.

Winter in Calas Galahon Park

Winter in Calas Galahon Park

Here is the link to the Calas Galahon Park Sim http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Calas%20Galadhon/137/233/22

You can find the link to Inara’s blog in the Active Blog list now.

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