Pillow Talk, Talk Show and the Lonestar Club on the Benevolence Sim

Visit the Benevolence sim here here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Benevolence/128/128/22
Pillow Talk in the Equinox Theater  and Lonestar Club
Web site here: https://www.homeofthelonestar.com/events
https://www.homeofthelonestar.com/
Their Facebook link here: https://www.facebook.com/The-Lonestar-1328328543956352/

Gary (allen.alcott), an old friend of mine, tp'd me to the Benevolence sim his partner Jen owns  He owns and operates the Lonestar club on the sim and Leona is the estate manager and runs the Weddings by Leona wedding business.  The sim also has shopping, a restaurant, Latitude Landings, a cool central partk, game room in the club, there are getaway and honeymoon private suites for rent, and the sim hots a lot of events.



Some of the regular sim events include:
-Sundays: movies in the park: Sundays at 12pm SLT and this week it's Despicable me 3
- Mondays: from 6-9pm SLT they have inventory cleaning social
-Daily: Lonestar club DJs from 10am to 10pm daily.
-Saturdays: Pillow Talk show 8-9 pm SLT.  The reason I went to the sim was for their Saturday night "Pillow Talk" talk show in the Equinox Theater.  This weeks topic was Fetishes in Second Life.

The Pillow Talk show is hosted by Oo Ursula Oo--ooursulaoo, also co-hosted this week by Jen Sunshine.spicoli.  The shows are live with some attendee participation for QA/discussion.  The show is done in voice by the host and voice or text by any audience member who wishes to chime in.  The shows are taped and later put up on Youtube so you can watch past shows there. 

Ursula's profile provides the following info. about the show:
"I am the Host of the New “Pillow Talk with Ursula” live in-world show. We will cover your burning questions about dating, relationships and….sex of course. We go live on Saturdays 8pm-9pm SLT. This show is not for the faint of heart as our topics may veer off into the raunchy side. We encourage audience participation during our live shows and who knows, you may just end up being featured on one of our forthcoming webisodes!"
Have a question? Suggestion for a topic? I love feedback and suggestions....so don't be shy. I'm not"

The show was actually very interesting and focused on things specific to SL.  Ursula spoke candidly regarding foot fetish, adult nursing relationships and lactation, diaper fetish, crossing into rubber/latex/feeling and sensation and also dolcette -cannibalism, snuff, crucifixion.  Due to audience comments they also touched on incest, RP child avatars, animals, BDSM, and scat among others.  Obviously in one hour there was not enough time to cover it all, but that just leaves them topics for future shows and they even talked about future filed trips. After the show we ran over to the club on the sim for a little dancing and some attendees played some games.  I rode the mechanical bull LOL.  There is plenty to do here so check them out. 

I took a few pics: 

Fading, A Cold Frog Exhibit Opening Party Today at Nitroglobus Gallery

Visit here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunshine%20Homestead/38/24/1001

Nitroglobus has been brining us wondeful art exhibits for many years in SL. Owner and curator, Dido Haas, also has a great blog where you can read more about this exhibit here: http://exploringslwithdido.blogspot.nl/2018/02/fading-february-exhibition-nitroglobus.html

"The pictures exhibited @ Nitroglobus are works Cold made some time ago, because nowadays her health doesn't allow her to make new ones, as her RL sight is fading away." Dido goes on to say it best, "This exhibition is something of a retrospective of Cold's past work, as well as a tribute to her creativity, and moreover, to her in general for the cool and crazy avi she created.Most photos exhibited are autobiographical and all deal in a way with suicide and death, not strange because Cold's theme in life is 'the unbearable darkness of being'. However, there is lots of humor too in her work, so don't be afraid to get too depressed."

The opening party is 12pm SLT today, Saturday 2-3-18.  DJ Ferdy will be playing a list of Cold's fav songs.

This is another group of my Flickr friends from long ago who have great skills and make some great exhibits and opening parties, so be sure to check it out.



I found a 2015 bio. in my inventory on Cold Frog from a prior exhibit she had at Nitroglobus and thought I'd share it here as it can be fun to learn more about the artists in SL:

"I came to SL about 7 year ago coz of 'HUMO' a Belgian magazine that had a sim here in SL.
So that meant meeting Belgian folks here, my fellow country men/women.
Soon it became clear to me that just chatting in SL wasn't satisfying enough.
I needed a creative goal: I tried building but didn't have the patience to learn. Later on I became a member of Within, now known as Madpea who create games in SL.

It's there in Madpea that I started to take pictures as I liked to play havoc on their games without giving away clues how to play the games. I started a blog there.: http://coldfroglite.wordpress.com/
At Madpea I met a lot of creative people; among them the best builders of SL. For more info about the place: http://madpea.blogspot.be/

I also had a blog where I placed pictures that fitted the songs I linked; again often with a humoristic touch. But now most of the links to Youtube are broken or do no longer exist sooo if you wanna try: here's the url: http://frogovic.wordpress.com/

Later on I discovered there was a rather large community on FLICKR that posted Second Life pictures. I was surprised about the quality of some of the works. I wanted to try too and until now it's been a learning process for me.

So a big thx to Dido and Nitro who think some of my works are good enough to be shown here at Nitroglobus gallery. All my work shown here is new and never shown before but exclusively made for this expo.

Humor is very important to me and you can still find that element in my work and in the avatars i choose to wear ^^

When making the art works shown here in this gallery I used a lot of the awesome (free) items of Capcaqt Ragu and Meilo Minotaur. Good Cross was so kind to give me rights to rezz on his sim. I like to thank them all for their generosity.

Cold Frog
More of my work you can find on my Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/34641906@N08/:

(Keep in mind that was from 2015.  Also note the new MadPea blog site is here: http://www.madpeagames.com/)

I popped over early for a couple of teaser pics. 

Shameless by Burk Bode At DiXmiX Gallery: Opening Party Friday 2-2-18 12pm SLT

Visit DiXmiX Gallery here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bay%20Port/26/232/33

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/

http://www.flickriver.com/photos/10mix/

(Dixmix at the gallery below)

Wayne Davis Rocks Second Life

I was lucky enough to catch a Wayne Davis Rocks live music show at Solarwinds in SL tonight.  WOW, fantastic show!  A lot of the  music he played was some awesome classic rock with very impressive guitar playing and singing, covers and originals.  He wasn't even done with one song before I joined the group and subscribed and that says a LOT since I keep my groups full and rarely change them out for something new.  He did a variety of music though and his info. boasts his versatility.  I found this 2013 SL interview : http://www.slenquirer.com/2013/08/a-rock-star-in-sl-and-rl-meet-wayne.html.   Then I found a RL video with the help of his RL friend Candy Cane here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfOuQJ23COU.  There are quite a few RL videos there.  In SL prior to seeing this I had to ask Candy cane if  he was using tracks or playing his own guitar while singing, since no one I asked around me was sure, and she said it's really him playing his guitar.  She told me he was gone from SL for two years while on tour with David Allen Coe then came back to SL in October.  During the show he said it was his band. My friend Nick said he used to hear him in SL regularly.  He makes a great show and his true entertainer talents are obvious.  I have no clue how I missed this before tonight.  Apparently everyone else knew and he seemed to know many there.  And there were many there, like around 70 avs.   I'm his newest fangirl! 

Bloop, LEA12 by Suzen JueL

LEA12, Bloop, visit here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA12/128/128/23
This land grant sim is by Suzen Juel.  JUST WOW! I'm loving this.  This area is FULL of colors, bubbles, and cool stuff to look at.  Near the landing you will find a bubble blower on the ground which you can click to make a bubble and hop in and fly/steer around in the sim.  Some other things in the area are clickable so have fun!  I'm loving this one!! Thanks Suzen.

The Luxe Girls and The Monarchs Made for A Great Saturday Evening of Shows!

Check out the Dance Queens blog here: http://sldancequeens.blogspot.com/p/new-to-dance-queens.html
Inworld SLurl: https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/This%20Sim/193/228/23

Elysion and The Luxe Girls here: https://elysionsl.tumblr.com/about
The Elysion sm SLurl here:

The Monarchs Flickr here: https://www.flickr.com/groups/themonarchs/
The Monarchs: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Monarchs/172/116/1880

More information about various dance troupes in SL can be found on Inra Pey's blog, "In A Modem World" by guest writer and photographer, R Crap Mariner here: https://modemworld.me/2018/01/26/now-is-the-time-on-living-in-a-modem-world-when-we-dance/


Performance Dance has been around for a long time, but it seems to be growing with more and improved dance systems, special effects, and interest.  I've blogged many groups and shows over time and was even a member of the It Girlz and Fellaz for a while until my computer at the time decided I needed to retire from that for a while.  Performance dance is not traditional exotic dance, mind you, these are very valid entertainment shows, many of which are suitable for all audiences. I'm usually not a big fan of posting information about things after the fact but in this case, the shows were great and worth talking about plus both groups have ongoing shows so more can be seen at a later date.  Please refer to the above links for more information including the link for The Dance Queens who promote many of the groups via regular notecards and other PR that is super helpful to me to find the dates and locations of events.

***The Luxe Girls***
Saturday I entered SL just in time to change clothes to "circus theme black/white tones" as requested for the Elysion special Le Cirque Revie, circus showcasing the Luxe Girls.  This particular show was offsite and the entire places was landscaped and decorated in such beautiful detail I will refer to the pics I took.  I kept my pics in the sim suggested windlight which was a little dark but when I tried other lights, some of which were very cool, I felt the set lighting seemed fitting and worked well with the many special effects.  The attendance capped out at 100 avatars.  I actually missed the first few dancers but what I did see was beautiful and impressive.  The Luxe Girls shows actually are "adult" rated.  They typically do periodic shows on their home sim Elysion which is an amazing si to explore.  They do have group membership dues there but they have weekly events and keep the sim looking awesome which I find worth it. At this show dancers included:

All the Luxe girls ended with a group finale and some of the dancers were (Yeah I didn't check names until the very end so some spellings might be a bit off and I could have missed some)
Aelva,  Jarla Capalini, Luci Hurricane, Six Digital, Eostri, Exobitionista Nirvana, Aubryanne mohegan, Binx Inkpi, Genie renztoy, Acrylic kitty, ninette secretspy, Syn Zane, (syn beresford)

Big top tents surrounded the main stage where individual dancers performed their shows.  Carausal horses circled the main finale stage area. The tents were themed: Tests, Lust (Six), Carousel, Serendipity, The Sideshow, Twilight Reverie (Eos), The Abyss (Aryanna), Diviner, Cloudburst (Exhi), Pyromancer, Wishing Tree (Bryn),

Thanks to Syn, DJ Little and the amazing Luxe girls of Elysion!! The show was amazing.



*****The Monarchs*****

Right after the above show I dropped into the Monarchs show that was in a theater which is a little more typical of shows, however their sets and special effects were no less magnificent.  SL live singer, AleyKat, was showcased singing the music for the song and participating as a lead dancer so this was a double treat.  She's a fantastic singer and if you want more info. on her and her schedule check her out on the Whispering Sands Live Promotions web site here: http://wslpromo.net/aleykat/




As always if you want to see more pics, click right on a picture which takes you to my Flickr and more pics.  If you like to take in shows and dont have an amazing computer or a huge inventory like me some things take a big to rez and unfortunately sometimes the scenes move on before all is rezzed right.  I have some pics like that and seems right when they'd fully rez I'd miss a pic as the scene moved on.  But its all still amazing.  Enjoy some future shows in SL 

Flux Sur Mer

Visit Flux Sur Mer here: https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Flux%20Sur%20Mer/128/138/24/

Flux Sur Mer Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Flux-Sur-Mer-918921801484732/

I've been doing a little more exploring lately and recently enjoyed the beautiful sim of Flux Sur Mer by creator and designer Nic Bour (nicbor resident), along with custom mesh designer Imoken Neox.

Their sim info. states: "Flux Sur Mer is French country side embracing the old charms and the slow rhythms of country life. Surrounded by small quaint shops, flea markets, old cottages and even ‘vide grenier’. She sits on the shores of a deep estuary where the river meets the ocean, surrounded by opulence of trees and nature." 

Ironically I googled it and found a blog post from 2015 about it BY ME! LOL.. it has been reworked and looks amazing.  Well worth more visits.  Check it out some time.