Wanderlust Art Park and Cafe ~ May and June

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Quentin, Sansara, Second Life, virtual art, Wanderlust Bench Art Park, Wanderlust Cafe

There’s a little over a week left to visit the art park and cafe in Quentin if you haven’t been there in May and June.

The photo above shows work, from left to right, by Mr Kaplan, (Art Park owner), Klaus Bereznyak, Wheedle, Melusina Parkin and Arden Grendel. The retro television in front is by Kimika Ying.

There are sculptures from my Silas Merlin collection scattered about and I got some new seating from Hearth and Home, a shop on the mainland I saw during the Steam Hunt.

Art from left to right is by Mango Lassi, SAUL GOODIE, Lynette Trinity, Elle Thorkveld and Kate Silver.

Every exhibit series has had a timely literary quote on a notecard placed in an image. I did the first few and Klaus has done very well since. The collection is on the back fence at Sojourners Ground. The work on the right is by Cake and a couple of my pieces are on the far left.

Our Second Life locations are transitory. The first set of destination posters we offered was valid for a good while. Recently a new set was created. Click the posters for landmarks; you can also take copies of individual posters plus there is a free box of 18 posters in a folder on the nearby bench.

The photo on the right is by ChrysTeRox.

A new sign reminding people of more art in the birdhouse.

There’s more seating in the birdhouse; all species welcome.

The large pot in the foreground is by Lynette Trinity. There are exhibit posters plus art by Saul, four on the left and a collage by baker Bloch. This is on the Wanderlust Cafe and Art Park Extension side as it WAS about a week ago.

Not to be missed is a 3D piece by Art Oluja, a mini Glass Jars, (like her LEA 11 grant sim, open until the end of June) which can be peeked into. There’s also a 2D piece by Savage Taurus, part of which can be seen in the upper left here.

Planning the new construction above.

More people have been moving into the Quentin area lately; the view is changing. Last week SAUL GOODIE changed the Cafe side and I love it. The timing is right.

Keepsakes Contest and Travelling Art Truck

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A Little Piece of Art, Glass Jars, Linden Endowment for the Arts, Sansara, Second Life, secondlife, Wanderlust Art Truck Tour

There are two time sensitive things you have the opportunity to enjoy during the week ahead. One is the Wanderlust Art Truck parked in Maryport through the 28th and the other is a Keepsakes Contest with a deadline of June 1st.

The truck is parked at A Little Piece of Art. On the grounds are a cafe, The Pixel Gallery and a club called A Heart Shaped Box.

The Glass Jars Keepsakes Contest is offered by Art Oluja:

“My vision is to keep this *Easy, Fun, and Inspiring* so here are the guidelines:

1. The theme of the contest DOESN’T NEED to reflect the LEA11 Glass Jars exhibit specifically,
but more importantly, its about how you relate to the concepts of DREAMS, MEMORIES, TIME. Be creative, be authentic, have fun. 🙂

2. Your choice of expression, whether its a poem, story, snapshot, scanned artwork, 3d piece (not too big or li heavy please), or other forms of creativity are good!

3. No fb/flickr/whatevs needed. You’re of course welcome to share wherever you like, but the contest will be a non-voting one, focused on inworld appreciation of creative expression.

4. Winning Pieces will be selected by Art Oluja, based on a range of criteria, with just one being the overall technical skill/quality of the finished piece. However, authenticity and reflective perspectives, openly expressive pieces will go far in the “judging” process.

5. Please send a copy of your work to Artistik Oluja, the object must start with the title GJ KEEPSAKES, so that it doesnt get lost. DEADLINE IS JUNE 1st! The pieces and works will be displayed at LEA 11, Glass Jars until the end of the lea round (June 30)

and Finally! Several cash prizes to go out to the winners,
1000L to favourite piece, and 500L to five more winners for surprise categories.
Think of this contest not as one to win over the votes, but as a prompt to create something you would personally want to take away from the experience.. as a keepsake!”

While you’re checking out the Art Truck and exploring the parcel, you can click on one (or more) of the squares on the profile pic display board in the club.

The Wanderlust Art Truck is an enjoyable project by myself and Klaus Bereznyak. We show art from contributors and from our collections of ourselves and those of our hosts; it’s different each time. Sometimes there’s an opening party, sometimes not.

I have documented  the Truck at each location and uploaded them to vimeo. They aren’t organized in a collection but here is the machinima from the last location at Jiminy.

A good portion of the fun for us is the filming of the travelling scenes by road, water and air. Above is shown a photo from our journey to Toshimora Observatory.

We began the project in February at my home in Rosieri (where I accidentally returned everything that was rezzed) and the truck has visited Sojourners Grove, Elle’s Art Lot, Trilby’s Moors, Toshimora Observatory and Cricket’s Comfort. The Truck, or sometimes just the container of art, is usually at a location for about two weeks.

Notecards for the Glass Jars Keepsakes Contest can be picked up inworld from the posters at A Little Piece of Art and Glass Jars, LEA 11.

 

 

 

Drawbridge Garage, Drawbridge

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Drawbridge Garage, mainland, rez zone, Sansara, Second Life

“Public rezzing area, 5 minute auto-return.
No gas. If you have to stop here you should have planned better.”

Drawbridge Garage is a 240 square meter parcel just off the road in Drawbridge, Sansara.

The calendar page in the garage is from February 1950. The place is clean and there hasn’t been a lot of vandalism. It looks cared for.

There’s a path leading down to the next parcel, Stony Cape. “Gateway to the Sea of Fables.”

But that’s a post for another day and for you to explore in the meantime.

 

Tristizias Garden, Hooper

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Hooper, mainland, Sansara, Second Life, Tristizias Garden

Along the roadside in Hooper, on the continent of Sansara, Tristizias Garden has a bakery cart and seating that first drew me in to the property as welcoming to visitors.

A path beckoned me up the steep hill. To the left of the Tristizias Garden parcel is land called Tristizias Home. Seeing a closed gate at the bottom of the hill and another at the top, I didn’t enter.  There was a cute critter that kept popping it’s head out of the trash can at the bottom of this property.

The grounds are very well cared for, with lots of spring flowers and wildflowers.

It isn’t overly manicured; there’s a sense of wildness and established naturalness to the land.

There’s seating around the rock pool as well as at the very top of the hill.

I hadn’t been by this parcel for several months. I’m guessing it’s been there for a while but seemed more private without the bakery cart.

To me, this whole parcel looks especially well put together.

The sunroom of the house and the small greenhouse next to it, look really good next to the garden parcel.

Wanderlust Bench Art Park; March–April

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Sansara, Second Life, virtual art, virtual worlds, Wanderlust Bench Art Park

There’s still almost a couple of weeks left to see the work by a variety of artists at Wanderlust Bench Art Park and Cafe.

Today also marks the one year anniversary for the park side of Wanderlust.

The sculpture in the foreground is by RMarie Beedit.

Melusina Parkin was gracious in sending me some things when I requested to exhibit some of her work.

Work by Kate Silver, Wheedle and ChrysTeRox shown above.

Kimika Ying contributed the piece on the left. The photo in the middle is by Klaus Bereznyak and contains a quote, one in a series.

Myra Wildmist is exhibiting one of her works using projectors.

From left to right, work by Saul Goodie, Lynette Trinity, Elle Thorkveld and Mango Lassi. Sculpture by Silas Merlin from my collection. 

Photo by Art Oluja (next to the tree) and a black and white photo by Mr Kaplan, the park owner who started this whole thing.

Posters for destinations and exhibits are encouraged and kept up to date. Arden Grendel did the work on the right; her first piece shown at Wanderlust.

A copy of work by Savage Taurus is shown on the Wanderlust Cafe side.

I really like the sculptures by Silas Merlin and have been including more from my collection the last few rounds.

There are vintage prints for Quelques Choses on two levels inside the large birdhouse.

Saul Goodie exhibits some of his graphic designs on the fence.

The Saul Was Here exhibit is in the sky above, March through April, which I posted about here.

A vase by Lynette Trinity sits near the teleport door the the sky exhibit.

The collage in the center is by baker Bloch.

A documentary machinima of the March-April has been uploaded to Vimeo.

I don’t know if we’ll still be here next year but we’ll likely have new work shown for May and June.

Art STIM

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Art Oluja, Art STIM, mainland, Mount G'al, Sansara, Second Life, Uli, virtual art

The 1120 sq m parcel, Art STIM, is located on the side of a sheer hill overlooking the Uli Peninsula on the subcontinent of Sansara Volcanic Sims.

The open cave in a huge boulder, with a view of waterfalls and Mount G’al, is a quiet place to do some work or talk.

A gallery is situated on top of the boulder.

From Second Life Wiki :

“This is the largest of all volcanoes and probably the oldest of all. It lies in Sansara, inside Mahulu sim (but also stretches into nearby sims). Maximum altitude rises to 179 meters, making it higher then many other continents. Its cauldron of liquid lava is large and dangerous. Do not try to enter there, it is deadly. Health drops instantly from 100% to 0%.

The cauldron is asymmetric, with a higher peak on one side, a great spot for photographers. From the other direction, lava is flowing down the cone, creating two rivers of fire, that in the end merge and enters back into the volcano to be reheated.

The volcano is important also from another point of view. This is the central piece of Sansara Volcanic Sims, a Subcontinent with a lot of history. All mountain ranges are formed from the volcanic cone and also this is the central point for the hydrological network (all rivers are formed at the bottom of the volcanic cone and flow to the ocean).”

The discs seen in the photo around the volcano are Skydancers made by Spotlight Promotions. The river and the waterfall area are accessible to the public; there are some banlines about.

The gallery holds a collection of of 2D and animated 2D works from Art Oluja’s Metamorfaces, an LEA sim the second half of 2015.

Wanderlust Bench Art Park and Cafe ~ November & December

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art, art gallery, Quentin, Sansara, Second Life, virtual art, virtual art gallery, Wanderlust Bench Art Park, Wanderlust Cafe

We’re pleased with the art on exhibit at Wanderlust Bench Art Park and Cafe for November and December. If you’ve not visited since after mid-month November, there have been additions and several artists have rezzed new pieces at the beginning of this month.

After we got the additional prim allowance, which makes a big difference in small parcels such as this, a large birdhouse was added to give more wall and installation space as well as providing a cozy hangout. The birdhouse with its two levels can be accessed via teleporter.

Jade, an animated cylent by Art Oluja, is currently installed here.

On the Cafe side is Decayed Maps, an exhibit of nine pieces by Klaus Bereznyak. You can click on the info notecard for the story of how the maps came to be.

Over the Cafe is “Hive Horizon Shownight 12bit (Final)” referring to the club event at which it was first debuted and tested. This one has about 30 textures in it which can be replaced by an owner for their club or event. The hive canvas was made by Emma and the scripting done by Isadora Alaya. There’s a pre-loader in it and I believe it will be available for purchase eventually. I enjoy having it here, especially on midnight setting.I invited Kimika Ying to rez a display model of her Babbage Go-Devil which I recently blogged.   

We enjoy having avatars visit the park. Some like to chat a bit and others simply to look around. Near the event posters is a chair with info and LM to the Chair Conservatory. A gacha machine with art inside has been added.

There are three digital pieces by Seraphim Placebo (Chris Attwell) plus an info card with LM to Seri’s Placebo Gallery. I got to see some of the WIP of these pieces on Chris’s blog. 

On the park side, left to right, is a note carded quote inside a piece by Klaus Bereznyak, a lovely photo rezzed by Kimika Ying and two Gridism art paintings by [a.e.meth] which are available for purchase.

Not to be missed is a book titled Trilby’s Frankenstein. I  rezzed my copy which I’d gotten as a party gift on the occasion of Mary Shelley’s 300th birthday on August 30th. The party was given by Trilby Minotaur. The party was fun; I made a 1:15 vimeo of the lab. My friends and I really enjoy the book.  

Fold screen section by Lynette Trinity, 2D art by Elle Thorkveld and baker Bloch.

Myra Material Face by Myra Wildmist contains links to converting a photo to “materials” and Myra’s Flickr feed. Photographs by ChryTeTox, Muse and art by Wheedle.

The destinations are being updated as posters instead of framed photos.

If you’d like to show your work, please contact Pearl Grey (pearlgrey resident) or Mr Kaplan (quinnleilani resident).

Cricket’s Comfort, Jiminy

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Amundsen Road, Cricket's Comfort, Sansara, Scorze, Second Life

Cricket’s Comfort is a 512 plot in Jiminy off Amundsen Road in the snowlands of Sansara.

There’s protected land between Cricket’s Comfort and the road. A rez zone and a couple of the snowmen from the Linden Department of Public Works are near the road which is in Scorze. Pods go by in both directions.

The land description reads: “Cozy hangout and reading nook for thinking hobos.”

Boris, is a little old and clumsy and might shove you a little. He’s also sweet with a cute face.

The nearby stove usually has something cooking on top and something in the oven.

Waiting for dinner.

 

Mysterious Journeys, Coniston

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Coniston, Mysterious Journeys, Sansara, Second Life

Located on Willow Terrace in Coniston is Mysterious Journeys, Art Gallery and Fine Wines. It’s currently decorated for Halloween. It is indeed, mysterious. There are several virtual photos, some drawings, wine, notecards to read from the book case and a copy of the New Toulouse Tattler. (My exploring companion became quite intoxicated from his drink.)Coniston is located in the northeastern corner of Sansara and created to look like the landscape of Northern England.An exhibit is located in the upper level. Mysterious Journeys is owned by Leonardo Myst.

There’s a broomstick rezzer in the park across the street for those who want to travel around the area if their broomstick is in the shop.

Elle Thorkveld’s Alchemy Inspiration

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Alchemy Inspirations, Alchemy software, Elle Thorkveld, Generative Art, Glitch Art, Montara Bridgeworks Gallery, Sansara, Second Life, virtual art

Elle Thorkveld’s Alchemy Inspiration exhibit at Montara Bridge Works continues through the end of October.

The exhibition features generative and glitch art derived from sketches created using Alchemy software. There’s an animated sculpture on the upper level.

An informal artist chat was held on September 4th where visitors learned more about the process from Elle. The art is available for purchase and a gift piece is available by clicking on the prim under the stairs.

An artist bio and information about the exhibit is available at the gallery.

As curator of the gallery, the informal chat was enjoyable, seeing old friends stop by and meet other avatars. The conversation was lively and interesting, both on- and off-topic.