Penumbra Opens Today

Visit Penumbra at  Nordan om Jorden here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nordan%20om%20Jorden/128/128/22

This is a cool exhibit by a couple of my longtime fav SL immersive artists.  I've blogged them and their spaces before and they are well known for their sim and gift avatars in "Delicatessen" and the old Flickr favs.

The sim land reads: " Berg by Nordan Art is showing from January through March 2017 Penumbra by Meilo Minotaur and Capcat Ragu and lacrimioare by Huckleberry Hax. Make sure to visit Gallery M and L'annexe as well, all teleports are in the gallery." Space owned by Katebergdorf and curated by Kate and Tutsy Navaranatha.

Read more at the Bergdorf Reports here: https://katebergdorf.wordpress.com/2017/01/05/meilo-minotaur-capcat-ragu-and-huckleberry-hax-at-berg-by-nordan-art/

Here are a few pics.  Be sure to click everything too as you can receive free avatars, the light child, Caterpillar, black moth, and tree.  Be sure to turn up your sounds too and use sim windlight settings.  Then check out Huckleberry Hax's exhibit too by taking the teleporter, which can be found at the landing.

Delicatessen Meta Body II

Visit Delicatessen in Porto
Meta Body Stage 1 here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Porto/128/128/21
Meta Body Stage 2 here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Porto/128/128/21
Meta Body Stage 3 here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Porto/128/128/21
Meta Body Stage 4 here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Porto/128/128/21

Capcat Ragu and Meilo Minotaur have another stage in their Delicatessen Meta Body II sim.  If you have not been keeping up, these two have over time created interesting explores and now in 4 stages a large number of completely free avatars to discover and take along the way.  They encourage photo taking and machinima and have Flickr places to put these.

The Avatars:

Stage I: Sophia by Kikas Babenco, Golden Brown by Cold Frig, Gorgonia by Moki Yuitza, Amazonia by Wanda Beamish, Aquavariel Avatar by Fitch Woodrunner, Green Lagoon Man by Fuschia Nightfire.

Stage II: alpha.tribe Meta Body avatar by alpha.tribe, Chess by Cherry Manga, Alma Blood and Shiverdoll by Eila Magnolia, Christina by CapCat Ragu, darkdoll by Meilo Minotaur, Smoke by Ursula Floresby, Metamorphosis by Piedra Lubitsch. .

Stage III: Steam Boy and Wind Girl by Ggabriel Madruga, Blind Train by Eupalinos ugajin, Ragdohcchio by Veleda Lorakeet, appointment in the garden by Simotron Aquila, Can't stop dancing by Cherry Ravinelli.

Stage IV: Suppressed Red Ridiing Hood by Mimesis Monday, Cica's Meta body Avatar by Cica Ghost, Erato Fractal by Fuschia Nightfire, Hands Free Av and Vibranced Av by Serenvide, Cosmic Radiance by Rhojen Resident.

All the sound installation by: Takio Ro.


In stage one harvest your free avatars from the cocoon like pods in the tree.
In stage two grab your free avatars from a dark gallery hall of moving pictures.
In stage three pluck your free avatars from boxes on the side of a building surrounding a sort of being.
In stage four take the free avatars from glowing balls around the perimeter of a large tenticled sealike or alienlike creature. 

(Peter and I in the chess avs)

(Then Yesikita showed up to try out some of the avatars)

Sure, once again I don't totally "get" all of the build or avatars, but they are cool and fun to explore and experience.  I'm sure others have different ideas about what it's all about or means or maybe it's just for fun, which it is.  Go and check it out for yourself and enjoy the many sites and freebies to be had.

Liquid Song for 2Lei Nov 19-25

Visit here: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Solaris%20Island/206/194/3693
Capcat Ragu and Meilo Minotaur present Liquid Song for 2Lei in their usual unique and creative way. They also offer 2 free full avatars, "Mist" (seen in the center of the 2nd image) and "Frost" (seen below the two figures in the 3rd image) Turn on your sounds when visiting. Look close to see the large translucent figures ebb and flow.

Their exhibit note reads: "Arte Libera partecipate in 2LEI with "Liquid Song" an installation by CapCat Ragu and Melio Minotaur. With their usual poetic language CapCat and Meilo can be referring to women in pain desire to disappear, dissolve theirselves in water. Water is the main principle in our body, but it is tears too, it is amniotic fluid... water flows without end, it's rain, it's sea, it's river... it's an element that see human's history without partecipate in it... How can be helpful to imagine us as water when we are suffering?" [sic]






2Lei Press release text by Simba Schuman: "Mother, daughter, wife, girlfriend, lover, housewife, businesswoman, friend, educator. How many are the roles of a woman and in what way does she know take on them:  all with proud spirit,  with the smile. It's this smile that put on wings to the woman, making special, it's the awareness to take on many roles tirelessly.

But, there are still many women that these wings are wrenched. About the statistics, since the beginning of 2012 in Italy one woman was killed almost every two days (source Adnkronos), while it is difficult to estimate the number of those women who have locked in their houses crushed by abuses of various kinds, domestic and not.

For this reason, this year, we want to shout our anger and our support to all victims through "2Lei", the event born three years ago in Second Life with the target of highlight the "International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women" founded by the the United Nations in 1999. It is not solidarity, it is a request to come up against, all together, men and women, hear the subdued groans , reach out to take a look frightened, for raise one's voice of those who scream with arrogance and does not allow replies. The virtual worlds are an occasion of meeting and aggregation more and more, in little time they succeed in reaching a lot of people. They can be also an important means of deepest messages, as This, in particular when it is not the single person or single group that to shout, but they are so many different realities as those that cooperate to this project. In 2Lei there are Italian groups in Second Life working on art, culture, music, entertainment, and there are artists, musicians, different personalities, both Italian and international.

Our target is to reach as many people as possible because, if our furious hoot becomes a chorus and the chorus becomes real attention to what surrounds us every day, we could be able to bring a smile and cure some injured wings."




Liquid Song
""For I am mist
For I am frost
I want to go back to my liquid form

I want to melt
I want to drop
I want to go back to my liquid form

For I am mist
For I am frost
I want to go back to my liquid form

I want to rain
I want to river
I want to go back to my liquid form

For I am mist
For I am frost
I want to go back to my liquid form"

Be sure to check this one out before it's gone.