LEA 25, 6 and 10: Some Exciting Exhibits Now Open-LEA 25 Opens Today with Events

LEA25 Maya Paris' "Sauce"    Visit here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA25/128/128/20
This is #1 on the SL Destination Guide right now and understandably so.  It will take quite some time to explore every nook and cranny of this crazy, totally immersive, gift giving, couples loving, brilliantly colored and scripted, whimsical exhibit that must have taken a great deal of time to think up and construct.  Be sure to click everything.   "Interactive art - Test your Sauce Factor, try your luck at the Modern Love Bureau, get sparky in the Saucy Science lab and take a headlong dive into a sea of plenty more fish&chips." Be sure to pick up tons of freebies along the way, find hidden or "harder to find" places and it might be fun to take a friend as this one is a lot about "couples".
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LEA10 Taciturnly by Selavy Oh
Visit here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA10/128/128/21
I'd read Honour McMillan's blog post about it before going, and no point in me repeating....check it out here:http://honourmcmillan.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/art-a-trigger-warning-in-second-life/
I think the direct SLURL lands you right in the middle and it's a bit difficult to find anything but the falling white and slightly translucent bubbles, but I worked my way to a edge then following around the exterior... I'd suggest visitors try this.  "Main artist: Selavy Oh
The moaning and groaning,      
The sighing and sobbing,
Are quieted now,     
With that horrible throbbing
At heart:
—ah, that horrible,
      Horrible throbbing!
(For Annie BY EDGAR ALLAN POE)"


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LEA6 Heartseed The Wild Side by Jedda Zenovka
Visit here:http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA6/128/128/23
I set my light to default and took the arial pics, nice lights, sounds, movement, and colors upon landing.  The last part of Jedda's note sums this up nicely, "While our minds and imagination evolves into the digital domain, our hands and naked feet remember the earth and other elements from which we are made. Dreamtime in this sense is the crossing over of two worlds; vision becomes solid and solid becomes visionary. It is instinct and the heart which guide us into and through this journey. The freshness of water, the spirit of a particular plant or mineral, is crafted into new form; the artist becomes the living conduit through which such essences express themselves.
Reach for the stars . .. Put your hands in  Earth!
 This is not  virtual  reality... This is Our world  ! jedda zenovka"

Celebrity Blow Your Tits Off -by Maya Paris at LEA 10

Excuse my French but that is really the name of this exhibit at LEA 10 that opened today by Maya Paris.  Visi here: http://slurl.com/secondlife/LEA10/78/126/3405

5 interactive levels, click click click, head for the holes, lucky stars, cars, bras, and jackpot!  It's a game it's fun, check it out!

Le Cactus at SBCC

Visit here:http://slurl.com/secondlife/SBCC/156/189/2955 or direct link here: MayaHere.

You gotta just love Maya Paris. Get one or all of the 7 free and unusual avatars plus a free music hud. Put on something strange provided and jump around on everything including tentacals, bananas, records, etc,. for animations. I played as a sort of horn/record avatar then as myself so I could see how the animations were in both. My friend Divi got me over to this one and when I arrived he was a pile of whipped cream with bananas with a hoop around it all, so I quickly took a free avatar and found myself a stranger creature with horns and record boobies.


The press release reads, : "Welcome to Le Cactus at SBCC!
A celebration of the extraordinary talents of cultural trailblazer Josephine Baker, queen of the trumpet Valaida Snow, the lampshade-hatted dancers of the Casino de Paris and the offbeat irony of Jacques Dutronc.

Throw a banana on your head, dance on a cactus and tickle a tentacle. Everything's interactive, so click away!


1- COSTUMES - Click the records to get your free costumes you can choose to be "human", OR...go on..., wear the invisible avatar then mix and match to make your own combinations.

*Flickr- you can add pictures to the " Le Cactus "flickr group http://www.flickr.com/groups/lecactus/

2- CREATE YOUR OWN REVUE - to DANCE -click a revolving banana, a cactus or hop on a turntable.

**IMPORTANT** (You'll need to TURN OFF YOUR AO, or the animations all won't work and you'll be standing there like a lemon)

**There's 1920's-30's MUSIC on the stream from Radio Dismuke http://radiodismuke.com/

3- USE the HUD ( right click and choose wear and it will appear on your screen, then click the discs) to listen to Josephine Baker , Vailaida Snow (Queen of the Trumpet) and Jacques Dutronc + also to see movies.

4- There's always someone having a row in the corner, tickle a tentacle if you want to blow off some steam.

5- RELAX by the bar ( click it to get your free drinks ). Sit and smoulder. Dive into a giant cocktail.

Enjoy

Maya Paris 2012
There is a smaller version of Le Cactus inside the Casino de Paris in Virtual Montmartre. LOTS of great other art installations and interesting things to see in Montmartre, do visit!

A huge thank you to Mick Huet, who asked me to participate in the Virtual Montmartre project , to project leaders Dr Bryan Carter, Indea Vaher, Insenara Siamendes and to Liz Rusotti/Zil Jewell, who is so generously hosting the larger version of Le Cactus at the Santa Barbara City College sim ( SBCC).

The University of Paris IV-Sorbonne funded the development of Virtual Montmartre in 2004. The Montmartre and Harlem sims have been cosponsored by the National Black Programming Consortium and the Government of Norway for the development of Virtual Harlem and Virtual Montmartre in Second Life. Virtual Harlem and Virtual Montmartre are owned by Dr. Bryan Mnemonic/Dr. Bryan Carter.

More info on my blog- http://mayaparisbluestocking.blogspot.com/

+ more Interactive art projects

Credits: Sculpt maps: cactus - Lemondrop Serendipity, tentacle - Ona Ra, banana - Juliea Diesel, snake -Neema Chester
Animations: Easy Babcock, Nomasha Syka, dais Papp, Jackie Jetcity, Actingill Igaly.
Thank you all!"

Split Screen Hosts Oberon Onmura and Maya Paris

Visit here: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Beleza/39/127/21 or direct link here: SplitScreenHere.
BE SURE TO CLICK STUFF
The installations at Split Screen during April are:

Maya Paris, "Mind the Gap" and Oberon Onmura, "Second Pool"

Notecards with information about each build are available from the Split Screen kiosks.Be sure to visit both installations! They're on either side of the kiosk at the landing point. In addition, Split Screen continues to host Misprint Thursday's "Digital Glove," which won an astonishing four awards at the University of Western Australia's February contest.
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For more info. contact:
Dividni Shostakovich
Curator, Split Screen Installation Space
dividni@gmail.com
http://dividni.blogspot.com

"Second Pool"
"An installation by Oberon Onmura
I created this "Second Pool" in memory of Sabrinaa Nightfire, who asked me to do a piece for her show "Enter ..." at Caerleon about a year ago. That piece turned out to be a pool, as well, different in many regards, but similar as a place of contemplation and peace.

Click the blue cubes at the corners for a transporter orb to the bottom. Watch out for the swimming things. Even though they look fragile, and many of them die before reaching their goal of escaping the pool, they can give you a strong bump if they happen to touch you.

Thanks to Dividni Shostakovitch for commissioning this work at Split Screen Installation Space!
Oberon Onmura
April, 2011"
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"MIND THE GAP"
Let's do this in the dark
Midnight is best + you'll need computer-sound ON + your animation over-ride (AO) OFF.
**There are 3 interactive levels. Take your Dandelion Crown when you hit the bottom.
*LEVEL 1- LONG DROP: Click the UP teleporter disc on the water, then peer through the clouds, and click a Ball and Chain.
*LEVEL 2- DANDELION RISE:
CLICK :The winged Dandelion
Another ball and chain will take you down
or....Walk on water until you hear a splash
*LEVEL 3- CORONATION POND:
Find your Dandelion Crown
Break the glass ( will cost you $0L for damages)
Wear it and BLOW
(The vegetation's worth a click too)

*As the world's media prepare to swivel their lenses away from the serious issues of the day, and focus them on an anachronistic royal-showbiz wedding.......

**LONG LIVE THE MAGNIFICENT COMMON WEED***
Please take your crown off when you go to Oberon's Pool, he'll have my guts for garters if we fill it up with fluff....and if you look hard you can find a way to tunnel through. Click twice.
A big thank you to Dividni Shostakovich for inviting us to show here this month. It's been fantastic and has improved my digging no end. Also to Oberon, who can turn a Maya-script into a thing of beauty.
Maya Paris 2011
(** If you'd like to be added to my mailing list for new projects, please send me your name on a notecard )
also now Open- Veparella- A Fairytale Caper"

Turing Gallery, Extropia Core

Kolor and Kara (me)

Friday, August 20 I visited the opening of the interactive installation Extropia Turing Gallery, Extropia.
L1Aura Loire and Maya Paris' contributions were in the annex gallery (underwater) and Kolor Fall' in the main gallery. Kolor looked like a huge stack of cubes and Maya had on the Mer-mechanic suit. They suggested I get a free Mer-mechanic suit and a free exhibition catalog which I did.

After I picked the free items, Kolor gave me a tour of his work. He had a couple of new paintings up and then the showcase was floating cubes and encryption stuff that I didn't fully understand but knew that it was cool and I liked it. Kolor was patient and explained he's always had an enfinity for Turing's encryption. Kolor advised me chat was being recorded and sure enough whatever I locally typed instantly became part of the exhibit floating in the air temporarily. The cubes moved around and clumped and eventually I told Kolor I loved it, but wondered if he had a notecard, and he passed me one. I will quote it here:

"In general, my art creates in the observers mind an emergent keyed space, that is a spacial fabric in the persons neural network. Tension in this keyed space allows emergent paths to be created and destroyed in the observers mind, within the framework on the key that is placed in the artwork. This keyed space in the observers mind may be persistent, as they leave the install, to hopefully assist them as active observers in the physical world.
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I normally do a small poem with my install ...

"Keys"

Tension - Emergence of space
Keys - Maps removed of form
Time - Creation torn from destruction
Love - Work without insistence"

Next I donned the Mer-mechanic suit and by this time numerous others had gathered outside also in the free suits and we all jumped into the water next to the giant telscope thing. To engage the teleoctoscope we all turned on media and there was a huge structure below with seat-like spots to sit and view sevearl "pods" of different machinima. One of my favorites was of a group of Mer-mechanics dancing. A different machinima could be viewed in each spot.

Maya in Mer-mechanic outfit.


Check it all out here in this direct link: ExtropiaHere