Quan's Travelogues

2011-11-13

Visual Gluttony: Fractal Forest Sim

I admit I'm an aesthete. And I believe that a visual artist should understand something of aesthetics, especially when he breaks them. Often I do not write not about places because they hurt my aesthetic sense. I make an exception today.

The Fractal Forest Sim overwhelmes the visitor with colors, animated textures, shapes, sounds and scripts. It seems not at all composed in the colors that one can hardly recognize structure.

BUT: In this sim are brought together more ideas as other artists produce in their entire career. The walk through the sim is an adventure and exposes Razorz’ passion of building and immense talent.

But I still think less could have been so much more.

Fractal Forest Sim is open until november 30.

Taxi: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/WASP%20Land/52/20/1003

What a Show: Phantasmagoria

I just come back from Tyrehl Byk's other show at LEA: I am amazed. It is so brilliant! Here some photos:

Here is the schedule: https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=tyrehlbyk@att.net&ctz=Am

DON'T MISS IT!!!!

Taxi: Sadly gone, but here is a video of another show:

Tyrehl Byk's Live Performance at the Miss Virtual World 2012 Pageant from Hg on Vimeo.

2011-11-12

Life Music and Opening Today: Art & Art

In Mariva Mayo's huge gallery opens today a large extension with atworks from briawinde Magic, Lookatmy Back and Loup Erin.Take the TP in the gallery.

Loup Erin

briawinde Magic

Lookatmy Back

Ultraviolet Alter has installed a beautiful Stage and will open the show with her wonderful electronic life sounds.

Stage of Ultraviolet Alter

Maryva Mayo

Opening today at 2 PM SLT (23h European time). You should not miss the concert today!
The show is open until December 13.

Taxi: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hugo/218/177/22

2011-11-11

Imagine Peace Festival Opens Today!

"IMAGINE PeaceFest is about people working together across international boundaries, using virtual and real-world venues to promote the amazing work of real-world organizations. We work together for a better world, with a focus on peace, human rights and justice for all."

The whole weekend will come up interesting events around charity, music, culture and art. Here is the schedule: http://imaginefestival.wordpress.com/

Every single event is worth a visit. Let me just point out 3 events of my personal interest:
You may remember my blogpost about BoHo Hobo and the Afghanistan Museum. As announced Trill zapathero has created new clothes and will present them on a fashion show:

Runway show November 13th, 1pm slt. as Part of Peacefest 2011
Taxi: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Four%20Bridges%20Exhibit/31/27/55

Trill Zapathero also offers 2 one hour Guidet Tours in the museum: Today, Friday at 12-1PM and Saturday 9-10PM.
Taxi: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Four%20Bridges%20Exhibit/55/74/641

On New Caerleon some artists have created some excellent installations around the theme. Lollito Larkham's work is in Mesh:

Harter Fall's work is called "The great Divide". I am still thinking if it is better to be small and coloured or big an grey! XD

My favourite is Typote Beck's work. I like the specific combination of styles, the best chipboard of SL and especially the flowers! Pril, a diswashing detergent, offered these flowers in the 70's as stickers for free and I swear, they glued in every single German kitchen, in some they still do or do again! And the quote of John Lennon in Typote's work is soo great!

The Installations are open all day. Saturday 9-11 AM will be there a DJ set with DJ Gary Kohime.
Taxi: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/New%20Caerleon/72/194/22

And finally I should not forget the reading of Kueperpunk Korhonen. He reads at 1 PM the English translation of his story "Project 38", followed by a life concert of Reis Alter with cool Brazilian sounds.
Taxi: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ataria/124/94/22

2011-11-10

Enjoy life - this is not a rehearsal!

You might already have seen at photos or even RL a Chinese garden. They are not just beautiful. Every item, stones, pathways, water, plants and pavilions have a special meaning. The Confucian scholar is inspired to think about the miracle of life by passing along.

That came in my mind when Shellina Winkler kindly invited me to have s sneak preview on her new installation. Enjoy life …this is not a rehearsal! What a strong sentence! And so true! Shellina commented: “It was a sentence I found on a wall in London when I used to live there and I loved it.” She built a path of live that we can follow here and think about our own life’s. Her great merit is that she uses colors and symbols of a general understanding. Each visitor will make his own thoughts in this way. The path is winded, has ups and downs as we all experience every day. We meet our thoughts and feeling, strongly supported by the colors. The structure of the builds is translucent, that all mingles different from every angle. I sometimes felt a bit lost by lack of overview. A familiar feeling from my own life experience ;) And I had to smile when I looked from inside to the squares outside. Our mind tries to get our knowledge in boxes, but life is not like that….with luck we could understand later in life what happened to us.

Some parts of the installation are combined with interactive sounds. So make sure that media is enabled. Shellina asked me to set sun position on midnight. Back home I was not not happy with the results of my photos. I went back and have chosen EUPHORIA monochrome and Water glassy. Hope you like it.

I highly recommend to visit this work!

Opening is tomorrow 11.11.11. at 11.11 PM (2.11 PM SLT)

Taxi: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/MetaLES/35/60/21

Art and Poetry today!

Today will come up the 8. Art & Poetry event. The concept is wonderful: Based on a poem by Margye Riba (Carmen Auletta in SL) artist are creating builds and machinima. I feel always a bit lost at the openings because they are held in voice chat in Italian, so I have not really a clue what’s going on there. But there are always interesting works.

This is the poem of the current event (translated):

Today I had a short stop over. Glyph Graves and Misprint Thursday still have been working hard to get everything installed. What I have heard from them and seen is so interesting, that it will be for sure worth a visit. And the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse (A.O.M.) is announced. Sounds exiting :)

Giovanna Cerise built a 2 storey installation, this is the 2nd:

This beautiful work of Mencious Watts change sounds and colours depending on virtual winds. I really felt in love with it!

So don’t miss it!

Opening today at 1 SLT, open until Sunday 13.

Taxi: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Brera%20Virtual%20Lab/139/228/46

2011-11-09

Large Variations of Art: Pirats

Pirats Art Network runs an entire sim with four galleries and constantly changing exhibitions. The charme of Pirats consists of the mixture of very different artists and styles. Famous and infamous are the openings with monster lag. Also yesterday the sim crashed. Today's visit was much more pleasant. And I think just at the moment the mixture is particularly interesting.

Josina Burgess' "Nothing Can Hurt You" touched my heart.

Maryva Mayo has implemented two images of the Cubist Auguste Herbin in 3D. It is amazing to experience the art so close and walk through it. Maryva has greatly implemented the specific colors of Herbin.

But there is so much more to see, here a small choice:

Cherry Manga

The Statues of Chuckmatrix Clip looks like heroes

Harter Fall

Lollito Larkham

Luciella Lutrova

Pol Jarvinen

The huge ship of Nessuno Myoo floats above the Market Place Art Gallery, look up!

Zhora Maynard

Taxi to Main Gallery: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/PiRats%20Art%20Network/84/93/63

La Manifacture Art Gallery: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/PiRats%20Art%20Network/216/79/21

Market Place Art Gallery: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/PiRats%20Art%20Network/201/133/22

2011-11-06

Vote for the winner of the year and win a prize

Its time to vote for the best works at UWA 2011. This final round also the voters have the chance to win a prize. So, what to do? Have a look at the 59 scripted and 24 unscripted works and list your 10 favourites of each category on note card. Pass the note card to Jayjay Zifanwe and FreeWee Ling. Deadline is November 30. Good luck! Here a small choice of works: