Underwater

Tags

Photos, photos, Under The Sea

Here’s a quick reminder to myself to make time to explore things outside of my usual realms.

Just before Under The Sea closed, I went to look at it. The vendor displays didn’t distract from the beauty of the place. Not really being drawn to Mer culture, I was pleasantly surprised by the architectural details around the build.

There were colorful fish in schools and larger, possibly predatory fish swimming around but my visit was peaceful.  And I enjoyed post processing with the new water textures in picmonkey. 
The temperatures in first life are in the triple digits today which makes these photos more appealing to me.

Haunted Summer

Tags

Entertainment, Halloween, houses, Pearl Grey, Photos, virtual destinations

While looking through the destination guide I was a little surprised to see that some frightful places that I looked at last Halloween are available year round. This place is Dark Dharma Haunted Manor. It was nice to be the only resident exploring when I went and I always like to see what folks have done with the Hackberry Hall house.

In this particular picture I was experimenting with the new “Clouds” textures in picmonkey. “Water” is a new texture set with the basic free set-up and “Clouds” is with subscription only. Most of the photos I’ve experimented on don’t look quite right to me but I really love how the above picture turned out.     Pearl took a nap while I was working in another window. She didn’t do any of the hunt or game things, just looked around. Later while she was wandering around in the backyard I wasn’t watching out for her and she was “killed” and teleported home.

This visit happened before she got her three dogs.

A Few Final SL10B Photos

Tags

Photos, SL10B, virtual destinations

Even though I kind of grumbled about difficulties attending SL10B, it did get me logging back into Second Life again after feeling kind of bleh about it for a month or so. It is an important event in a virtual world that really is important to me after all.

I took lots of pictures and posted quite a few on this blog last week. Here are a few more that I really liked.
I played with them in picmonkey except for the last one which is framed and nothing more. I remember it was called Anarchitecture. Some of these were on the Astonish build, if not all of them.

 

Visit to Placebo Gallery

Tags

art, Pandamonium 1850 London, Photos, Placebo Gallery, shopping, virtual destinations

Late one recent evening I went to the Placebo Gallery to look at new art pieces and any decor changes. I’d wanted to go out somewhere after getting several new dresses.

When I saw blog pictures of Art Deco era clothing at Genre I knew I had to go check it out. This round at Genre goes until July 12th, I believe. I also picked up some Art Deco furnishings and earrings while there.  

There are different types of art at Placebo Gallery, including some dark themes,  and lovely places to just sit for a while. 

In the above photo Pearl is admiring a new digital painting.

I moved my Victorian furnishings out of my little apartment in Pandamonium 1850  London since the build will be taken down on July 1st. Fortunately I have a London apartment skybox where I feel at home but it was a little sad to leave.

I consoled myself with shopping. Besides the several party dresses, jewelry and furnishings from Genre, I bought a gloomy animated painting from Mr Munro at Grey November Gallery since I wanted to take some black and white photos of me in my new dress. (A little vain, perhaps?).

I also got three dogs from [Manticore] after first seeing a puppy from there in one of the fashion blogs recently. That is kind of fun. They’re worn as attachments but unless I’m wandering in the country I might just take one out at a time. I’ve just posted a picture of me with the three dogs to my flickr page which can be accessed in the sidebar.

In first life when I have little disappointments, I can’t really go on shopping binges.

But back to Placebo Gallery–I recommend it as a place to visit and pick up some awesome art. I have two pieces myself that are displayed in my Second Life home and am pleased about that.

Could Have Done It But Didn’t

Tags

art, creativity, virtual destinations

At Raglan Shire Art Walk 2013

The eighth annual Raglan Shire Art Walk ended a month ago. It was the first one I’d been to and I intend to watch out for it next year and return.

I wandered around in a disorganized way and I’m sure I missed a lot of things. What I saw made me daydream about putting some image of my own creation on a prim.

Somewhere in my random reading on the interwebs during the past month I saw a quote–I’ve no idea who to attribute it to–about not saying “I could have done that” in regards to someone else’s creation. It was something like…..”Maybe you could have done it but YOU didn’t.”

The Art Walk wasn’t the sort of event appropriate for taking photos but I did snap this one picture.

 

Visit to Timamoon Arts

Tags

art, virtual destinations

Late Sunday night I teleported to Carrie Lexington’s gallery space in Timamoon Arts which I’d learned about from her blog. It was intended to be just a quick visit but I looked at all the spaces on the several floors and saw a lot of art that I really liked including black and white pieces by Bear Silvershade who’s work I first saw at SL10B.

It made me smile to see that every floor had couples dances available. Only in Second Life, right?

The SLurl I got from Carrie’s blog landed me directly in her gallery space where I took this photo which has been cropped and framed only. When I was leaving the building I saw signs posted in the entry, one saying “Stop Art Theft” and the other saying “No Photography” which of course, I understand. Since Carrie has posted pictures of her photographs and gallery on her blog and flickr page I feel it’s all right to show this picture.

Her work is lovely and it seems like she’s enjoying her new gallery space.   

Beautiful Grunge

Tags

shopping, virtual destinations

When I look at the destination guide on my Second Life dashboard I’m intending to find interesting events or beautiful locations. It just recently registered with me that a lot of shopping places are listed there as well. When I’ve needed something I’ve relied on word-of-mouth, blogs, researching the marketplace or teleporting from the viewer search results.

When I saw the pages of places, I picked one at random from ‘furnishings and decor’ in the Home and Garden Category. It’s titled Cat’s Dirt Project in the guide; when I teleported it was to a place called ‘City 17 Postapocalyptic Shopping Mall Neko Trash”. Yes, there are vendors and signs but not in an overwhelming way; it’s so much more fun than a mall  (which can be convenient and social for some, I know) and there were lots of gorgeous places to take pictures. You can even pick up a free, grungy biofuel truck if you so wish.

I do love the natural world and I enjoy being IN it but scenes of old, abandoned places have such a palpable sense of story for me. My Pinterest collection has lots of beautiful abandoned buildings and further down there are quite a few door photos as well.

If I were a fashion blogger and didn’t wear the same outfit for days and weeks at  a time I would use locations like this for my shoots.

SL10B ~ Stupendous

Tags

SL10B, virtual destinations

Prof Thunder’s Mad Science

Sparkle Bear’s Cake Party

‘Thank You Second Life‘

Prof Thunder’s Mad Science is one of my favorites on Stupendous. Sparkle Bear’s  Cake Party is where I picked up my hat. You can pose for a picture; there’s just water and sky in the background.

“Thank You Second Life” is another exhibit that looks very well done.

Either my viewer or my laptop isn’t doing so well with this; I had numerous crashes,   things rezzed slowly but I feel accomplished that I managed to get a few decent pictures. This is the first SL birthday celebration that I’ve ever attended and I’m glad I checked it out.

SL10B ~ Dazzle

Tags

SL10B

Stepping Through the Mirror

Stepping Through the Mirror

I toured Stunning and Dazzle at SL10B and have a few photos with SLurls of some of the places I especially liked.   There are good exhibits that are difficult to photograph, some are cramped and hard to move around in. I’m overlooking most of the history and informative builds because my first life is saturated with information these days. My choices are just personal favorites.

Stepping Through the Mirror stood out as one of the best builds.

Bear Silvershade Art Gallery

Bear Silvershade Art Gallery

Andrea Palladio Fine Architectures

I like Neoclassic architecture and the building by Andrea Palladio was a good place to take a break.

nearby garden build on Pizazz

This landscaped place was across the river and has several benches for seating.

SL10B ~ Overwhelm

Tags

SL10B

The wild-eyed woman was seen to toss her camera into the canal. Unsteadily she boarded a nearby train where she sat, wringing her hands and mumbling to herself.   Gently rocking back and forth, she was overheard muttering something about “just damned well googling flickr photos of the birthday party if I really think I’ll need to see them in the future”.