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Contests in March

noreply@blogger.com (Looker Lumet) — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 22:35:00 +0000

You will probably have found these at other places, but I want to share them anyway:

Frogmore Photo Contest 2021

March 5 - April 12

SlUrl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Frogmore/186/41/36

Flickr (rules/group): https://www.flickr.com/groups/14785199@N23/discuss/72157718479256426/

prices: 10Kl$ / 5Kl$ /2.5 Kl$

The following are entry and administration rules for our Frogmore 4.0 Photo Contest. Please read all the rules carefully as they have changed from last year.
1. Everyone is eligible to participate; you do not need to be a member of our Inworld Frogmore group, although group membership does have perks and our group is always free to join. All Frogmore group members do have Rezz Rights for any items needed for your photo. Also, all contest announcements are specifically made in our Inworld group first and can sometimes be delayed for announcement here on Flikr.
2. All photo entries must be taken at Frogmore on or after 1st of March, 2021.
3. Each contestant can have a maximum of 2 photos entered for this contest.
4. Photos are encouraged to artistically show the amazing sim design of Frogmore. Although avatars are allowed in the photo, all photos must include some aspect of our sim.
5. Although Frogmore 4.0 has many amazing new aspects and spots for your enjoyment, we have retained some of the previous design that members are so fond of. Your contest entries can include locations from the sim that are either new or previously existing; all parts of Frogmore are open to this competition.
6. Very important NEW this Year: Contest eligibility and any prizes awarded will require that you include Frogmore in your profile picks with a valid Landmark to our sim. No Exceptions.
7. All contest entries must be named correctly to be eligible. The format for naming your entry is as follow: Frogmore 4.0 Photo Contest 2021 Entry 1 (or 2) (name). Example for my entry: Frogmore 4.0 Photo Contest 2021 Entry 1 Tolla Crisp. You must include a valid second life name if your inworld name does not match your Flikr name. If we can not find you Inworld we will not consider you eligible for any prizes. All entries not named correctly will be rejected and we will not chase people around to ask you to please rename your entry. I will personally check the entry portal at least twice each day; if you do not see your photo in our contest group pool within 24 hours of posting you might want to check your photo name format. If you have any questions about the format please contact me directly either here in Flikr or Inworld @TollaCrisp.
8. All photos must be safe. No nudity. Our sim is Moderate and open to the public at all times.
9. As Frogmore is a Moderate sim we do expect that all of contest participants will follow any and all rules included in covenant. Please be sure you read it carefully.
10. Prizes. 1st Pace 10,000L, 2nd Place 5000L. 3rd Place, 2500L.
11. Our contest closes promptly on Monday, 12th of April, 2021.

Photo Contest Luane's World Spring 2021 March 1st - April 1st

SlUrl: https://www.flickr.com/photos/luanemeo/50990588587/in/contacts/

Flickr (rules/group)): https://www.flickr.com/photos/luanemeo/50990588587/in/contacts/

1st Prize: 7500 Linden 2nd Prize: 3500 Linden 3rd Prize: 1500

RULES:
1. The picture has to be taken at ground level of any of the 4 sims (Slice of Heaven, Morning Glow, Tabara and Dreamers Retreat)
2. The photo MUST CLEARLY show the sims in a recognizable way and you may submit only one picture.
3. You need to have a Flickr account and post the pic in the Luane's World Flickr group: www.flickr.com/groups/luanes_world
Pictures have to be rated SAFE in Flickr to be considered. Make sure your pic can be added to a gallery
4. Your picture has to have the following as the start of the title:
LUANE'S WORLD PHOTO CONTEST Spring 2021 - (and then your title) plus a SLURL to the sim in the description.
5. Porn, obscenery, racism, child play, or violence is not accepted, and those pictures will be disqualified.
6. Only pictures published between March 1st and April 30th will be taken into consideration for the contest.
If any of the above criteria aren't met, the picture will be disqualified.
For rez right join the "Luane's World" group - find the group join link in the greeting message when you enter the sim, or here: secondlife:///app/group/883a26d3-c506-65c7-a759-30eed75f6d26/about
The contest ends on April 30th at midnight SL time.
The winners will be announced within 3 days after the contest ends.

Throughout the years.

noreply@blogger.com (Looker Lumet) — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:05:00 +0000

What has happened over the past ten - eleven years? How did we evolve in this second life? Did we quit, took a break, or started in complete new life, what would be the third or fourth life:)

Interesting questions to all the people I used to know, but had no contact with in the past years, although I never quit, but was maybe less active.

In any case, I found out that the pandemic brought some people back into sl, or at least being more active as before.

I wasn't posting anything anymore on Flickr, but was still doing portrait photography for people who wanted a new profile picture. So my Photoshop "skills" were not in vain after all. But during those past years, I never had an active role, except of being a photographer once in a while, as that has always been my passion.

Since last year, I started to post pictures again on Flickr, but without confidence that this would be a new start for me. Slowly I got to meet new people, but also old acquaintances who came on my path.

In fact you can say that, since last year, my activity was increasing again, on Flickr and inworld.

I was invited to exhibit my work in some galleries, which I had not done since my Avatrait period. This gave me the faith again to continue working on my pictures, and other galleries gave me the opportunity to show my work.

For the past months, I was even the co-curator of a gallery again in Second life, but infortunately the cooperation ended premature.

So, that was my story of the last few years in a nutshell, but enough about me.

In the near future I hope to inform you on this blog about some interesting activities.

Again, I will have to ask you to stay tuned....

To be continued.....

New adventures in the virtual world.

noreply@blogger.com (Looker Lumet) — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 14:05:00 +0000

After quite some years, I thought it might be a good idea to continue, or refresh this blog again.

Many years have passed, and I am sure, for a lot of you, things have changed too.

After being curator for the Avatrait Gallery, I have put this blog on hold, but new opportunities are coming, and I wanted to see if this would still be interesting to share with you.

Since Covid-19 has been spread all over the world, lots of people are working from home, and thus more time to spend in our virtual world.

Although I am still working at the office every day, and hope to stay safe there, I was thinking of updating this blog, and share with you the latest news of what will be coming up next.

I know this is rather vague, and that is why I ask you to stay tuned.....

To be continued.....

Some thoughts.....

noreply@blogger.com (Looker Lumet) — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:14:00 +0000

I have not been writing since a long, long time now, but had suddenly the need to write something after reading Summer’s thoughts. It is not an answer to her article, nor is it a claim of wisdom. It is just what I feel, while being on the grid for more then three years now.

While some people try to compare life with beaches and waves (article of Summer W.), which are coming and going, life is most of all an experience of successive events. Good and bad ones.

Although life seems to be a stacking of negative experiences, these events should be turned into positive experiences which could be used in future events.

In Second Life, events are following each other at high speed, even not realistic in normal RL, and people are emotionally involved, because it is not the avatar who is responding but the person behind the keyboard. It is sometimes very difficult to even process all these happenings, and at the end, people have the tendency to get a moment of depressiveness, where , originally, they started in SL to step out of their RL and have fun in another, virtual, life. Meeting other cultures, other nationalities were the challenges of the new world, but are also increasing the chances of being misunderstood, due to misinterpretations, which can cause frustrations.

These frustrations are the result of trying to communicate in a different language, which, although you can have a great skill, been written with certain proverbs, and not understood properly.

It is the truth that, once something is written, the other person will read it and understand it with his knowledge of the language, which is not always his mother language, and in most cases, even not of the writer either. And there you are…..left with some words, no expression of the face, no gesture language, just words, written in a moment of unknown mood.

The art is, trying to comprehend the other person, not to upset anybody, reacting as a mature person and relativate all events in SL.

Sometimes, the best way to find a solution is on your own, not involving third parties, because other minds, other thoughts can make it all worse instead of better.

Kahlan Bingyi and Adianna Price at the Avatrait Gallery

noreply@blogger.com (Looker Lumet) — Sun, 02 May 2010 18:11:00 +0000

We are proud to have the amazing art of Kahlan Bingyi and Adianna Price at the Avatrait Gallery. I am glad I could persuade them to make 10 original art pieces for this event.

We are also glad to inform everybody that we have changed the concept of the gallery. Every original art piece can be bought multiple times inworld, at very interesting prices. You will only be able to buy this piece at the Avatrait Gallery. It is exclusively made for the gallery.

By buying a piece of art at the gallery, you support in fact the artist, and give him a sign of appreciation, and that is where they all have been working for: appreciation of their work.
All profits are for the artist only.

You can visit the gallery here.

The Avatrait Gallery will have a new show at a new location!!

noreply@blogger.com (Looker Lumet) — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:02:00 +0000

The Avatrait Gallery has moved several times over the past year to find a good location. Several friends of the gallery have offered their land for a temporary settlement.
The past location was perfect, if it wasn't for the limitation of the visitors. I doubted a long time, because it was only needed for a couple of hours per month, but finally decided to move again.
Naima Rejkus, known from the DBL gallery, has offered her land to be the new home for the Avatrait Gallery. This will not mean that the DBL gallery will disappear, on the contrary.
It will open again in the near future, and a s a neighbour of the Avatrait Gallery.

Naima Rejkus will be the PR manager of the Avatrait Gallery in the future, and, just like the past show, we will have machinima at the gallery. The set up of this machinima event will be done by the Media Techs of the Avatrait Gallery, Veronika Garzo and Bulli Shumann from TEKSTUFF.
In the month of April, there will be no machinima event, because of the change of settings by "youtube", but we will have the nicest videos of SL again in May.

For the April show, the Avatrait Gallery is proud to present five artists.
Ariel Brearly, Mariella Tammas, Djibu Fabre, WhoFliesLikeTheWind Writer, known as "Wind", and Babe Topaz will show each of them four originals, never shown inworld or on any other site.

The Avatrait Management will be glad to welcome you on Saturday, April 10th 2010 at 1PM SLT at the new location.

The Other Life at the Avatrait Gallery

noreply@blogger.com (Looker Lumet) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:01:00 +0000

On Saturday, March 6th, Ahmad "Don" Hosho will be featuring at the Avatrait Gallery. The concept of this show will be heard through the music of Tasty Hax, especially for this show.
He made 10 original pieces for "The Other Life", a show that will explain his and our other life to you.

For the first time, we will also have a special machinima event, with the contribution of Rysan Fall and Hadji Ling, two talented machinima makers. This set up of machinima was possible with the help of Veronika Garzo from TEKSTUFF, who made some efforts for this show.

These machinima will not only be a visual spectacle, but will have audio too.

Visit the gallery here.

Four Artists, Four Styles at the Avatrait Gallery

noreply@blogger.com (Looker Lumet) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:35:00 +0000

After the successful show of Nessy Shepherd in January, the Avatrait Gallery has now invited four artists who make interesting works.
Nevery Lorakeet, Meilo Minotaur, Theoretical Afterthought and J. Blüü have made each four works in their very own style. The combination of these different styles makes this show so special.
After having the gallery on different places for the past year, we hope that we now found a place where we can stay for a long time. It was Tymmerie Thorne and Jerremy Darwin who were so kind to make some space on their sim Ghambt. We could build the whole gallery back again in all his pride, so the work of Prad Prathivi, who built the gallery, and which is a unique building inworld, is still intact.

The gallery will be open on Saturday, February 6th at 1 PM SLT.

Visit the gallery here.

Nessy Shepherd at the Avatrait Gallery

noreply@blogger.com (Looker Lumet) — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:51:00 +0000

The Avatrait Gallery starts the brand new year with a show of Nessy Shepherd.

She isn't new in Second Life, she doesn't need an introduction.
Looking through her flickrstream you can see she handles a lot of styles. She loves fantasy and classic, but also modern and surreal.

This artist has prepared some post processed images but also pure snapshots from the grid.

Like always we will have a party to celebrate the opening of the show.

Don't miss this event, exceptionally it will start on a Sunday at 1 Pm SLT on a new location.

See you on Sunday,

Looker Lumet
Avatrait Manager

PS. Thanks to Metapartners we could build up the gallery on their sim for this show.

Season's Greetings

noreply@blogger.com (Looker Lumet) — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:50:00 +0000

Panteleimon Aeon at the Avatrait Gallery

noreply@blogger.com (Looker Lumet) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:57:00 +0000

On Saturday, November 7th, Panteleimon Aeon will open his exhibition at the Avatrait Gallery.
The show starts at 1 pm SLT and will be followed by a party as usual, with the fantastic dj Vivienne Dufaux.

Ten original works and ten of his most beautiful art works will be displayed on the Smilla sim.

Last month we had to set up the gallery temporarily at a different sim, but now we are back on Smilla, the sim where the gallery was located since August.
We have put a teleporter at the entrance of the gallery, so that visitors can visit the "Paradise" and the "skyhub", two places which are worthwhile to see.

Visit the gallery inworld!

Etereal Ghost wins the CW Studio Halloween Photo contest

noreply@blogger.com (Looker Lumet) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:32:00 +0000

I am proud to inform that this picture has won the first price in the CW Studio Halloween Photo Contest 2009.

It is not always easy to find the right inspiration for pictures, but I am happy with this result.
I truly appreciate the comment written on their blog.

"The use of a transparent layer is breath taking when done right!
The soft ghost against the dark night is what made this image our winner.

I loved the lighting contrast and attention to detail."

Find me on the Windows® 7 Wall

noreply@blogger.com (Looker Lumet) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:13:00 +0000

Click on the picture.

Rebeca Bashly at the Avatrait Gallery

noreply@blogger.com (Looker Lumet) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:40:00 +0000

Next saturday, October the 3rd, Rebeca Bashly will be featured at the Avatrait Gallery. The show will be on for the whole month, but if I were you, I wouldn't miss the opening party for a dime.

Rebeca isn't an Avatrait member, but was a co winner for the May show, where she could exhibit her winning piece. It was at that show that she impressed the Avatrait board and they asked her to do a personal show for the gallery, which she gladly accepted. She made 20 new originals for this show, and I can say that they are really amazing.

I tried to put her soul in the poster. Don't miss this event!!
Dj will be Lucifer Hammerer

Saturday , October, 3rd
1- 4 PM SLT
Smilla 31/191/3501

TOTAL FUSION presents the Singles Mix&Mingle Hunt 2009 (Sponsored by metaLIFE) metaLIFE Website Launch Party

noreply@blogger.com (Looker Lumet) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:03:00 +0000

September 25th, 2009 -- Total Fusion -- will be launching the metaLIFE website (http://meta-life.net) on Sept. 27th, 2009 which will be hosted at Luck Inc. sim by CK Winx & friends in the relocated TuneZ Club belonging to LeChuck Reifsnider. The party starts at 12.00pm slt & the music alone is reason enough to attend, but the $70,000L in cash and designer goodies doesn't sound too bad either. This marks the highly anticipated kick off of Total Fusion's 120+ designer grid-wide Singles Mix&Mingle 2009 Hunt. These red carpet events have a high probability of SLebrity sightings, so don't miss your chance to party with the in-crowd. In true Total Fusion tradition, expect to keep your pimped out pixels in motion with 3 amazing DJ performances & a special guest set by real life superstar MixMaster DJ Nano2Hype [Visit: http://www.MySpace.com/Nano2Hype].

On November 1st, 2009 closing festivities will be held at >>>TOUCH<<< href="http://meta-life.net/">http://meta-life.net) or contact Robbie Kiama or Pauly Richez in-world.

Total Fusion
MetaMarketing & MetaBranding Services
Eris Alexandre
email: TotalFusionSL@gmail.com
blog : http://totalfusionvip.wordpress.com

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

Sunday, September 27th
Total Fusion Party @ TuneZ (Luck Inc.)
LM: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Luck%20Inc/134/111/503 or SLURL:
DJ LINE-UP:
12pm to 2pm • CK Winx | Germany [Visit: https://luckinc.wordpress.com/]
02pm to 4pm • Eris Ashdene | USA [Visit: http://totalfusionvip.wordpress. 04pm to 6pm • Nano2Hype Kidd | USA [Visit: http://www.MySpace.com/Nano2Hype]

Sunday November 1st,
Total Fusion Party @ >>>TOUCH<<< href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Touch/204/223/23">http://slurl.com/secondlife/Touch/204/223/23
DJ LINE-UP:
12pm to 2pm • CK Winx | Germany [Visit: https://luckinc.wordpress.com/]
02pm to 4pm • Eris Ashdene | USA [Visit: http://totalfusionvip.wordpress.com]
04pm to 6pm • Analogue Voom | USA

PRIZE DETAILS
$20,000L from metaLIFE in Shopping Vouchers (Robbie Kiama)
$20,000L from LUCK INC. in Cash (CK Winx)
$20,000L from THE LOFT "The Wisteria" Pre-Fab (Bethany Heart)
$18,000L from AM PRO in Vehicle Vouchers (Abacus Mimistrobell)
$17,500L from APHOTIC GLOOM in Goodies (Rico Plisskin)
$ 9,000L from XR SKINS in Gift Certs (Mystical Demina)
$ 6,000L from !be DESIGNS in Gift Certs (Diamond Shelford)
$ 6,000L from ASD Gift Cert (Alicia Stella)
$ 6,000L from DIESEL WORKS (Rogan Diesel)
$ 6,000L from MALIBU DESIGN in Gift Certs (Chelsea Malibu)
$ 3,500L from URBANITY in Gift Certs (Trixie Wuyts)
$ 3,000L from NAYAR in Gift Certs (Kaz Nayer)
$ 2,000L from VON DUCKY in Skins (Maylee Nishi)
$ 1,200L from MSTYLE in Goodies (Mikee Mokeev)
& More :)

MIX&MINGLE 2009 STARTING LOCATION: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Luck%20Inc/75/132/22

Are SL Artists becoming scarce?

noreply@blogger.com (Looker Lumet) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:15:00 +0000

I was reading an article, actually more a message, yesterday, about Second Life art, and more in particular the art of images. It seems that there are some people who believe the making of art works in Sl is over. People wouldn’t be interested anymore in making images in the virtual world. Instead of that, they look for other challenges as building, scripting, machinima, shops or whatever they think about what would give them more satisfaction than making art images.

My opinion is, that maybe there are less photographers inworld interested to make beautiful pieces, but….to me…it is only a natural change of interest. The “few” that will be left, will be the ones that are motivated to work on images and will try to maintain the quality of their images as high as possible. Others, with maybe more skills and talent, eventually will find their way in building or other activities. It is not always because you have the skills, that you are meant to be an image maker, and perfectly understandable to look for other challenges.

But there are exceptions. People whose life has always been about photography and who want to improve their skills in Photoshop or another post processing program will eventually stick to the pictures enhancements. SL is an ideal platform to take pictures and try out all the tools in your photo program. It is a world that is not comparable, as you can choose which background, which scene, which pose, which angle…etc….what you can not do so easy in RL

I won’t call myself an artist, but since I have registered myself at SL, I have been using the opportunities in the virtual world to enhance my skills in Photoshop. I wasn’t familiar with the program at all at the beginning, and, although I am not posting as much images as in the beginning, I still have fun by surfin’ the net for tutorials or images which I can use to process my pictures. And I see others improving too, and that makes me happy.

We do see a slight change though, and that is that more and more avatars use RL pictures to blend with SL pictures, but as long as the main object is from inworld, I don’t think it would ruin the appreciation of the majority, as being SL images.

I hope I am not alone with my view on this matter, and that we still will have quality SL pictures in flickr and inworld.

Sebcaen Ulysses at the Avatrait Gallery

noreply@blogger.com (Looker Lumet) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:25:00 +0000

On saturday September 5th Sebcaen Ulysses will open his exhibition at the Avatrait gallery. Over the past years we could already see on flickr what Seb was able to, but now he made several magnificent pictures, never seen before, not inworld, not anywhere else. The gallery will show originals as well as his best artworks over the past.

Beware of the new location!!!
slurl.com/secondlife/Smilla/31/191/3501

Avatrait Gallery on the move

noreply@blogger.com (Looker Lumet) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:27:00 +0000

After 3 shows at Kapako, the Avatrait Gallery will move again to another sim.
We were lucky that Mecca Merosi gave us the opportunity to have our shows at her sim, while we were looking for other possibilities.

Finally Coolz0r Courier offered to put the gallery on his sim . Landmarks will be given soon, after our hard work to put the gallery back in his glory.;)

On September 5th, the gallery will be opened with a brand new show of Sebcaen Ulysse's works.

Eventually, for the visitors of the gallery, nothing, or at least not much will change. The gallery stays the same, it is just moved to another sim.

Thank you Mecca, for hosting us these past months, thank you Coolz0r, for giving us this opportunity, and thank you, visitors of the gallery, for your everlasting support.

Flanders' contribution to virtual Art in Second Life

noreply@blogger.com (Looker Lumet) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:29:00 +0000

A friend of mine and "almost" neighbour in RL, Dan Yapungku, one of the teachers of the virtual TLE Educational Network, and also teacher in Arts in RL, opened last Wednesday, August 26th, a festival, together with the help and co-organisator AuraKyo Insoo.

Many coming artists have participated in this show, such as Elizabeth Spieler, Penelope Parx, Franchella Milena, Rozamyndi and Ludo Meri, as a result of their workshops in SL.

RL works of Dan, the maestro himself, are also exhibitioned in the Indie Egg Studio.

Another part of the festival is dedicated to the friends of Dan, with the amazing works of Roodvosje Rosse, SaveMe Oh, Bekas Takaaki , yeuxbleux Noel, Carabella Babii, Artistide Despres, Arnold Jung, Petta Hax & Teaseu Xeno, Igor Ballyhoo, AuraKyo Insoo and ...Looker Lumet.

This is one art show you don't want to miss. Follow the link to visit the R.E.N. festival.

CNN iReport has covered the opening too, you can read the report here.

"Second Life (SL) Art Educator, Dan Yapungku, has revolutionized fine arts instruction using SL’s abundant artworks and SL’s infinite 3-D canvases to empower artists. In a stunning show of artworks featuring a dozen of his colleagues and students."

For the Dutch speaking readers of the blog, they can also read an article, which is more detailed than mine on this site, written by Frans Tomsen, CEO of Metapartners.

"Een Festival ter afsluiting van het eerste gedeelte van het KHLim project, met Daniël als begeleider – coach – kunstenaar, waar studenten lerarenopleiding/kunst, experimenteerden en via kunst-workshops, beide realiteiten in- en uitliepen als waren het kamers waarbij de scheidingswand was weggenomen.

Dit alles met de steun van het Regionaal Expertise Netwerk Vlaanderen (R.E.N Vlaanderen), onder de auspiciën van het Vlaams Ministerie van Onderwijs, Vorming en Tewerkstelling."

aRa Sheridan at the Avatrait Gallery

noreply@blogger.com (Looker Lumet) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:30:00 +0000

Most of the time we see her works in fashion vendors, but now she made some originals for the Avatrait Gallery.

Saturday, August 8th, will be her moment to show her art in the gallery. Never before has a non member been featured at the gallery, but aRa was a logical choice.

In the future there will be more exhibitions of non members, just to give them a chance to be known in the art community as well, as far as that is needed of course. aRa Sheridan is not unknown, but she never had the opportunity to show her works in this environment.

The opening is at 1 PM SLT and the DJ for the evening is Kiki DiVenna.

Fundraiser Event at the Avatrait Gallery

noreply@blogger.com (Looker Lumet) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:04:00 +0000

For the first time in Avatrait's history, there will be an event at the gallery, to support another artist with another art form. There are a lot of avatars making beautiful machinima on SL, but yet, this art form has not been directly supported by Avatrait, as it is difficult to frame a movie.
Nevertheless we want to support those artists too, and accepted the request from Noelani Mahana, to organize a Fundraiser Event for her next project.

You can see some of her previous works on YouTube, here and here.

Noelani Mahana is also a novice writer, and you will be able to find her works on Black Lashed.

"This Summer Mahana Machinima is dusting off the reels and embarking on a new machinima production right here in our beloved Second Life.

To finance this movie project Mahana Machinima is hosting a Fundraiser Event at the marvelous Avatrait Gallery on Saturday the 11th of July 2009 between 1-5 p.m. SLT.

Avatrait Gallery

We are honored to send you this invitation and hope to see you there where the owner of Mahana Machinima, Miss Noelani Mahana, will get more into details about this movie project.

This presentation will be followed by a magnificent show by the sensational DJ, Saturn Ariantho.

On behalf of Mahana Machinima I welcome you.

Noelani Mahana "

The art of Iam Yumako will still be displayed during this event, so don't hesitate to visit us, and enjoy the wonderful art of this artist.

Artist of the Month in Vain INC.

noreply@blogger.com (Looker Lumet) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:17:00 +0000

I was looking at the kiosks at the Avatrait Gallery, and suddenly I saw the cover of Vain INC. And there it was my name, artist of the month. Although it took me some time to go through the pages to find the article and pictures, it was worthwhile.

Iam Yumako @ the Avatrait Gallery

noreply@blogger.com (Looker Lumet) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:09:00 +0000

Come and join us on July 4th to the wonderful DreamWorld of Iam Yumako at the Avatrait Gallery. This artist has prepared some interesting views on the virtual world, from fairytale to futuristic cyberart.
The show starts at 1pm SLT, as usual, and we will have great music from DJLucifer.

Freak Show - GODart - The New Project

noreply@blogger.com (Looker Lumet) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:13:00 +0000

A new project is born. That is the least we can say about the next project from Freak Show. Loglady Loon published all about it on this blog.

Are you ready freaks? This the new project of Freak Show.

"Tell me what is your religion.
Religion is not only a spiritual organization with symbols, beliefs and practices. Religion is linked to Trascendental and Spiritual concepts, and also with the consciousness of the Limit of Human Mind. Who believes in no-one over us, who believes in a Thinking Entity that rules the world, who doesn’t care about the meaning of life, who thinks that Religious Institutions are only a way to control people, joined into the same symbol. Who needs Religion to live better, who entrusts all the life to God. In the name of God history took place; wars, homicides, love, humanity, help, solidarity, lies, power, self-improvement.
Religion defines our culture, traditions, hates; Religion creates rules and liberty; Religion can be destructive or creative.
Tell me in what you believe. Show me your personal concepts of Religion. Do it through SL medium, this blank canvas available for you, in which you can explain your idea with freedom.
I know, it’s another hard theme, full of delicate arguments. No censor as always, everyone can explains own vision of Religion and Faith. And I want to underline that a different thought about Religion is not offensive, but only personal. And we have to respect all different points of view. Cause world is various, and this show wants to link all this concepts together.
So, show me your GODart, the art of God, even if you think he is dead
This will be the first Artistic Showroom about the concept of God. God as faith, God as life, God as hate, God as an Entity or as Caos, God as Nature or as Organization. Your Religion: past, present, future. Utopia, Reality, or only.. Myth."

I can't wait to see what art is shown by some of the greatest artists in Second Life.
If you think you are up to it, go the blogpost and join the IW group.

I have never had a piece in the shows of Freak Show, but I am certainly going to try to submit a work of mine this time. The idea is so general, and yet a theme, that it is possible to go in any direction. Whether you're a believer or not, this theme can be expressed in different ways.

You are hanging on a VERY thin thread

noreply@blogger.com (Looker Lumet) — Fri, 29 May 2009 09:33:00 +0000

I was reading some plurks and stumbled on one from Hyang Zhao, who wanted to reset her password for SL, but seemed to have forgotten her security question. Peter Strindberg wrote a blogpost about it.

So, even when you have a premium account with all your private information, credit card numbers, RL name and address, you can not change your password at LL. It must not be easy for Hyang to find support on that matter since she is Russian, and will have to call to the US, which she already did, but without any result so far.

After being on the grid for more than two years, this proves again what you money is worth to LL, what you are worth to them. You're just an avatar, a genuine pig to them. They use your information to improve their game, their business, without thinking of the people who brought them so far as they are now. It is a shame.

I know Hyang is getting support from her friends, but at the end, she will have to clear it with the Lindens. And if they can not help her, she will have to build her personality in SL from scratch, although she is a well known person in the community.

I only can say, beware! You're just a number, an avatar...not a person!