The Dirty Grind and The Collection of Masks Art Exhibit by Johannes Resident1997

Visit here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Fender/128/128/22

This is one of my fav venues.  The Dirty Grind owned and built by Jasmine/Lisa and Ian is home to The Dirty Grind Radio, has beautiful landscaping they change up from time to time for variety and updates, hosts live music and lots of fun has a new art exhibit by John/Johannes1977 Resident. Today is the opening for this art exhibit. Come on out for the live music-schedule below.
Jasmine's Hollow and The Dirty Grind, Fender  (37, 134, 25)




SUNDAY ~ SEPTEMBER 4 ~ SUNDAY 5 TO 8 THE DIRTY GRIND ~ The Dirty Grind Independent Artist Community proudly presents our newest Featured Visual Artist, Johannes1977 Resident. His gallery will be opening this Sunday, the 4th of September with three hours of live music on our main stage and featured gallery artist venue. David Csiszer 5p Jamba LosAngeles 6p Phemie Alcott 7p

More info about the exhibit from the sim states: "Johannes1977 Resident is one of the grids premier artists while concurrently a first life United States Marine Corps Officer, who did two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. While deployed in war zones, Johannes1977 Resident used his photography skills and his artistic outlook to capture his view of the wars and scenery. His passion for black and white photography, sepia and vintage tones are a signature glimpse into Johannes1977’s love of by-gone aesthetic. Not only found behind the camera, Johannes1977 is also an instrumental force in supporting other artists with many wildly successful endeavours such as Kultivate Magazine (formally Windlight Magazine) and Windlight Galleries. His community of artists helps raise funds for various non-profits, and he even co-founded Team Diabetes of SL. Johannes1977 has a long resume of accomplishments within SL, and it is an honour to announce him as the newest member of The Dirty Grind Independent Artist Community Family of artists, supporters and patrons."

Out of The Looking Glass at The Dirty Grind

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            The Dirty Grind Independent Artist Community
                    Radio Grind, Radio Grind presents...
                                The Rebakery and
                                  Jasmine's Hollow
                            www.TheDirtyGrind.com
      
                        http://216.155.128.202:8079/

The Press Release from Lisa Witt is as follows:
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I am very excited to announce the opening of my installation celebrating 150 years of Alice in Wonderland. From my private collection, I have curated pieces of art from Second Life artists to help me express the what wonderland is to me.
As owner of The Dirty Grind Independent Artist Community, I have the honour of joining our immensely talented family of artists to help us celebrate the wonder and creativity of the human soul.
We will be opening the final part of this build in a week or so, but stop by any time!
This is a limited engagement through mid-Nov.ish.

Carnival of the Arts, The Dirty Grind's 2nd Anniversary Event June 18-20

 Visit here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Fender/128/128/27

One of my fav sims is having a big event coming up in just a couple of days, so I asked them for some PR info., which is as follows:

"Join us at the acclaimed The Dirty Grind Independent Artist Community as we celebrate our second anniversary with this annual celebration of the arts in Second Life.  Showcasing the members of our artist community, enjoy four days of some of the best 100% live musical talent and visual artists who share their talent with residents of the grid, including our newest featured artist, Sina Souza."

Their official web site is here: http://www.thedirtygrind.com/



I also have some more detailed information:
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            The Dirty Grind Independent Artist Community
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                                  Jasmine's Hollow
                           www.JasminesHollow.com
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Fender/33/134/24
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Ian and I have come to an exciting time in the evolution of our
dream of a not-for-profit artist community in Second Life,
The Dirty Grind Independent Artist Community. As we near
our second anniversary, we are working to expand and
improve upon the already groundbreaking personalized
support we offer artists involved in Second Life and their
management team..
Our goal...our passion has always been to provide a haven
for artists in which creativity and community. flourishes. We
are here for our artists and wish to extend our reach as a
service organization.
The members of The Dirty Grind Family put their heart, soul,
time and much more into their art. We give them our resources
and experience so they can better concentrate on creating.
Ian and I share a background in music and business.
My background includes innovation and leadership in the international,
nonprofit sector, communication, creative writing and art knowledge
I am the  founder and former president of a multi-national 501(c)3 and
an independent mixed media artist. Ian brings his experience
with corporate administration, as well as management history
with a brick and mortar live music venue.
We offer our artists and their management team our knowledge,
expertise, time and sim to help them and their team in many ways;
including:
-  promoting artists work though listening and discovery
   booths at our sim and in satellite locations, as well as
   our website and blog; 
  
                        www.TheDirtyGrind.com
               http://thedirtyblogsl.blogspot.com/
  
-  providing one of SL's highly acclaimed venues,
-  engaging listeners and helping others discover their
    music.
-  hosting a 24/7 radio station, Radio Grind, dedicated to         
    playing The Dirty Grind family
 
                  http://216.155.128.202:8079/
-   host over 40 hours of 100% live music concerts every        
    month
The Dirty Grind Independent Artist Community is by invitation only.
 "...one of the friendliest communities around." -Linden Lab about
     Jasmine's Hollow and The Dirty Grind from Highlights from the
                     Second Life Destination Guide
Nominated for three Avi Choice Awards
Current artists:
Anidi Huet, Bat Masters, Benski Korhonen, Beth Odets, Billy Thunders, David Csiszer, DennyMac,
Doug Lind, Effinjay, Grace McDunnough, Gweeb, Gypsy Dhrua, KatRose Serendipity, Ke Aloha, Kiesta Aljon, Kinagree-Smith, Lyndon Heart, Phemie Alcott, Reggie Sunset, Ren Enberg & Quai Franklin, Sassy Nitely, Sina Souza, Senjata Witt, Shannon Oherlihy, Suzen Juel, TerryLynn Melody,  Tallulah Winterwolf, the matthew show, The Vinnie Show, Toysoldier Thor, Wald Schridde, Winston Ackland"

Music, art, an amazing sim.... what more could you ask for? See you there!

Weekend Highlights: Exploring, Music, Parties

First of all I'd like to wish everyone a happy mother's day, mom's, dads, aunts, any adult who "mother's" children at time.. as it take a village and all that, and children need good adults in their lives, especially their mothers.

Next I figured I'd just blog post some of the stuff I did this weekend.  Some of the SLurls can be used for exploring and music in the future and a couple of the events were one time deals, but I figured I'd post my pics. 
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Visit here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wondering%20Dew/128/128/27

Life in a Bowl, by Cica Ghost.  This full sim art installation/explore opened today Sunday, and since I love Cica's work, I ran over late once I heard about it.  It's cool, as expected, so be sure to visit. Yes, it's realistic looking (not Cica's typical style) and well done, but what is not realistic are the giant fish tanks about the island. Very interesting indeed.


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Visit here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA18/128/128/40
I visited LEA 18 by Frank Lefavre: Cocytus The 9th Circle of Hell, Dante's Inferno.  This is a cool explore.  Be sure to let the sim control your windlight, as it really makes for the ambiance. 
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Visit here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Fender/128/128/27
I spent Sunday evening at THE DIRTY GRIND INDEPENDENT ARTIST COMMUNITY
first with Billy Thunders, as he followed DenmnyMac who I missed as I was RL, then Reggie Sunset.  We enjoyed some acoustic blues, roots and contemporary folk-rock.  While there I also enjoyed the great Steampunk style sim and the artwork by Kiesta Aljon, this month's featured visual artist, in SL's premier steampunk venue.  I love this sim and hang out here quite a big for a great explore sim, some of SL's best live musicians, friendly people, and the art.  A great combo for me.   The sim is owned and run by Lisa and Ian Witt.

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 After Dark on Idle Rogue here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Idle%20Rogue/128/128/28

Later Sunday I went to After Dark to see one of my fav Sl musicians Saramarie Philly at, Singer-Songwriter pianist performs LIVE Today's Hit Pop Covers, Originals, a great party with great people in this casual venue that's been around a is a great live music spot for a long time.  More on Sara here:  http://saratiemogo.com/saramariephilly/ Both this place and The Dirty Grind have great crowds when they have their live musicians and it's always a fun time.  Saramarie was followed by another of my favs, Redheaven who used to go by the name Dragonfy in SL.. Joel Eilde.  I've been going to hear him since he started in SL and then he took a little break and is back full force with a puts on a great show.  Red Heaven is a Canadian band which plays original, full-band rock music. He played music from his latest album Moth, hit prior album, Amplification, and a few others.  More info. here:
http://redheaven.ca/
After Dark is owned and run by Meegan Danitz.
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SL Live Radio here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/MistyFalls/128/128/22
Sunday midday I hung out with my good friend DJ Sonicity Fitzroy and the gang over at SL Live Radio.  Soni's DJ gig every Sunday from 12noon -2pm SLT features some of the best of the best of SL's live musicians.  It's a nice combo of music from some of the musician's listed above and so many more.  DJ Soni's focus for her show Slowbake is the SL live musicians.  The station features a variety of DJs and music though, which can be streamed into stores or land too, but their live shows are fun so be sure to check out Soni's on Sundays. http://sonicityradio.blogspot.com/


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Saturday I went to a Prince and Princess birthday party for a group of people.  I dressed at Khaleesi from Game of Thrones and there were a lot of Disney prince and princess etc.  This is a fun and nice group of people  who had this private party in a huge castle.  The princess of honor was Laure Marie Davi along with a few others with close birthdays.. the main group being:  Chloee Davi, Kathy Nikolaidis, Christopher Leon, Arwen Clarity, Kyrene Grace Glendevon, Ena Roane, Ashland Peris, Deriand Humphreys, Mercy Mangala, and Veronica Lynn Parx, I think.  

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Saturday evening I spent 4 hours with live music at Templemore's Sinister Ball at Muzik isle.  The theme was post apocalyptic/Steampunk and the venue, outfits, and music was all fantastic.  For more info., see here: http://karasecondlife.blogspot.com/2015/05/sinister-ball-post-apocalyptic-event-5.html

The Dirty Grind Live Music Lineup for Sunday

Visit here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Fender/128/128/27

One of my fav live music venues is having a great lineup Sunday including a duel stream you won't want to miss.  Not only do they have great live music but the sim is a fun explore. Check it out.

The Dirty Grind-Explore Second Life

Visit here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Fender/83/78/34


I've been exploring The Dirty Grind. My friend E showed me this cool place that has an overall steampunk theme with much to offer including some of the main attractions such as a live music venue, Jasmine's Hollow, beautiful nature areas to enjoy with a friend, shopping, some residential rentals in the same theme, engine room, dark woods, bakery, game lounge and dock areas. The beautiful game room houses a bar, Greedy, Triumph, and Cards Against Humanity. Most of the larger areas are loaded with some great art too. The whole area is rich in color. As I wandered the grounds I found a small cave area and later found a large underground tunnel system you can walk and also boat through to find secret rooms. There are plenty of cuddle areas and some great photographic scenery. The sim is very well put together and is well worth a long visit or many. I've included this week's live music schedule on one of my photos.





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