My good friends from my old Flickr days and the art world, Burk Bode and Maloe, are having an art exhibit opening party tomorrow/Friday. Burk has put together an exhibit in DiXmiX Gallery. Here's the invite info.:
"Burk about Shameless :
This is the exhibition I always wanted to make. Living out my exhibitionism and giving you all the chance of being a peeping tom for a while. Come, look and have fun.
"featuring Maloe and ..."
opening party Friday February 2nd * 12 pm SLT
Dj set : Aida"
Unfortunately I won't be able to be at the opening party since it's during my usual work time, however for all you who are free, this should be a fun party. I used to be able to hit some of these openings and it was always a good time with great people and some awesome art. Burk and Maloe have been creating wonderful creative art in SL ever since I've known them, which has been over 8 years. They are well known to the SL art community and are a super sweet couple. They are always open to helping out old friends and I've actually had some of their art in a couple of my past galleries. True talent here.
This time Burk's images are adult rated, so during my sneak peek, when taking pics, I cropped out some "things" ~cough~ for this blog teaser. There are some other very interesting ones but I couldn't even figure out how to get SFW pics of, that you'll want to see. If you want to see it ALL, head on over to the gallery. The images are very creative and of course the quality of the work is clear. The subject matter will conjure up a few fantasies .. or maybe it's reality for some of y'all. Anyway ;) enjoy.
While there I ran into the DiXmiX Gallery owner, Dixmix Source. He was kind enough to offer me the sneak peek for the blog post. The gallery has been around for a long time and I've visited before but for those of you who have an old landmark do use the current one as this gallery has been in it's current location about a year and a half. DiXmiX is French but speaks English and he gave me permission to blog about the gallery and take a pic of him. I'm sure many in the art community are friends with him. He has various rooms to the large gallery area and I looked around at some of the other exhibits that were cool too. They have a nice party room set up ready for dj Aida and visitors tomorrow. DiXmiX is a Belgian artist, photographer, director, musician and more. He's been the owner of the gallery since 2008. He has his own Flickr here: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/10mix/
Hurry over to Art on Roofs as Inara Pey's "Through A Blogger's Eyes" exhibit ends tomorrow. I've been meaning to blog this and am just getting to it so you have one day left to see some lovely exploration pieces from this prolific blogger at this location. I highly respect Inara, her blog, and photography so wanted to make sure and spread the word. For more info. and one of the best SL blogs around check out her site here: http://modemworld.me/2016/01/09/through-a-bloggers-eyes-in-second-life/
Visit here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA24/128/128/0
Cica Ghost has done it again. She continues to impress me with her creations and the latest is Dreamers at LEA24. I took a bunch of pics. When you visit be sure to click on the heads in the garden as many of them will teleport you to various other dream areas which are also immersive and you can click around in them too for animations and pose spots. It's great for exploring and photography. Everyone else is blogging it too so I'll just post some pics.
Circa has this cute exhibit of her signature moving cartoon type drawing figures placed around Lost Town. I think there are more than 20. There are free group gift umbrellas available as there are little magical rain drops all over also. The little stick figure bike rider is impressive as it actually bikes all over the sim. It's like magic to me: ) The exhibit note states: "Under pouring rain, arriving in the city the Cica Ghost Visitors , with their colorful energy, and open the windows of the Lost Town La Città Perduta on the sensitive and poetic vision of their creator.
A new Art Exhibition in Lost Town La Città Perduta"
This is a super cool sim to explore too and I've blogged it before. Enjoy.
Visit Split Screen here: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Beleza/74/201/1501 or direct link here: MisoSplitScreenHere.
Split Screen has two artists preparing their exhibits for August for the normally scheduled bi-monthly double artist large immersive installation Split Screen hosts. But in the interim, Miso Susanowa has her "Time As A Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" piece on the Split Screen platform for all to enjoy. " Set to Midnight, have particles to at least 4096 under Graphics, and turn local sounds on loud (not the music stream). You can sit on the build too!" Just my style.. art to play in! But for all you techys there is a lot more to it.
Miso's associated note relays some of the thought put into the installation. She presents as a Composition for Kandinsky saying, " Kandinsky saw houses and churches decorated with such shimmering colours that he said "...upon entering them I had the impression that I was moving into a painting." Music was also a critical influence on his painting and this piece has a soundtrack that plays with time. In Kandinsky’s work, some characteristics are obvious while certain touches are more discrete and veiled; they reveal themselves only progressively to those who make the effort to deepen their connection with his work.
Right-click to sit on the Mondrian grid and use your camera to look up, down and around the piece to enjoy the experience of Kandinsky's vision translated into 3D. Try all preset lightings.
You can get a mouselook view by pressing Esc twice. If you prefer an outside cam view and you get Mouselook on sitting, unsit, then use your cam controls to move your cam, then resit."
"The title is adapted from the Samuel R Delany story, "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-precious Stones," a title which always has invoked for me a mystical, philosophic mood quite apart from the story itself; a kind-of abstract mantra guaranteed to put me in a reflective mood."
The note goes on to state...."I am fascinated at the computer's ability to make infinite shadings and tonals of color combined with translucency/reflection/transparency; a plastic fantastic palette."
While I was visiting and taking video someone (whom I wasn't fast enough to ask permission to quote) posed the question to Miso in the Split Screen group asking, "would it defy time if the direction of rotation of the panels was from the red to the green? [16:34] Miso Susanowa: erm.... i am not in control of the particles/panels [16:34] Miso Susanowa: the wind controls some; physics controls the rest [16:34] Miso Susanowa: the particles are being sent out in rotating semi-random patterns, in the math [16:35] visitor: oh [16:35] Kara Trapdoor: I knew that [16:35] Kara Trapdoor: : ) NOT [16:35] Kara Trapdoor: Diviiiiii [16:35] Dividni Shostakovich: ;-) [16:35] Kara Trapdoor: hahaha [16:35] Dividni Shostakovich: hi Kara! [16:35] Kara Trapdoor: hey [16:36] visitor: perhaps I chose a bad moment to look at its rotation [16:36] Dividni Shostakovich: more likely a good moment, because it suggested things to you [16:36] Miso Susanowa: the patterns used by the generators have different "shapes" to their dispersion [16:36] Miso Susanowa: those dispersal patterns were then randomized by hand... [16:37] Miso Susanowa: and then some few, interspersed, were made subject to wind [16:37] Miso Susanowa: so any "patterns" that show up are basically coincidence [16:39] visitor: well I like it [16:39] Miso Susanowa: thanks! [16:39] visitor: how long will it be here? [16:39] Miso Susanowa: *points to Dividni* ask him [16:39] Miso Susanowa: he's the honcho :) [16:40] Dividni Shostakovich: actually I don't know -- it's officially an "interim" piece between the next two big builds, but if the artists there don't need the prims then "Helix" will stay up -- the last interim piece, Misprint Thursday's "Digital Glove," stayed up for three months [16:41] Kara Trapdoor: beam me up scotty I want to see... [17:07] Dividni Shostakovich: :-) [17:07] Miso Susanowa: and I didn't want it in a giant black box... yet on the ground, the focus gets grabbed by seeing things through it [17:07] Dividni Shostakovich: I'm glad you could put it up in full form here -- and I didn't even know! [17:07] Miso Susanowa: this is how I made it [17:08] Miso Susanowa: in IW I have it much much larger, and the trees are set on the mountains [17:08] Miso Susanowa: as for the meteor [17:08] Miso Susanowa: i dunno. I put it and took it out a half dozen times [17:09] Miso Susanowa: it just seems to balance things [17:09] Dividni Shostakovich: it's funny how those things work [17:09] Dividni Shostakovich: i like it [17:09] Miso Susanowa: to give a nice horizontal depth in a line with the grid and between the trees [17:10] Miso Susanowa: a lot of elements in my work are not plotted [17:10] Miso Susanowa: i am more a sculptor than builder [17:10] Miso Susanowa: as I work, my hands do things and then i try to listen to what they are telling me [17:11] Miso Susanowa: then perhaps I assemble an "overview" of the piece... but it is the making of it that informs me [17:11] Miso Susanowa: my hands know things I don't
Well I just thought those were cool quotes from the maker of the exhibit since the first part was way over my head, as indicated by my interjections : ) and the last provides some insight into the artist. Check out this cool fun exhibit and keep your landmarks for Split Screen that seems to be hosting some of the best artists SL has to offer since opening.
Miso made a machinima of this too.. and you can check it out on Divi's blog here:http://dividni.blogspot.com/ or direct link here: DiviMisoHere.
