Charlot’s Web

The Garden of NPIRL Delights is officially open! More info is to be found here  http://npirl.blogspot.com/ where I just read that Light Waves participated as well. I spent two weeks in the Garden, building on -with good intentions- the “Path to Hell”, but now at last I can change my builder’s hat into a blogger’s one, showing you some photo’s I took earlier on. Of course I cannot show every single build in the garden - there is simply too much to see and you just have to go over there and look for yourself- so I shall act in a very nepotistic way and show you the builds of my friends and idols. Yes, dear readers, inhabitants of second life are in fact as subjective and unfair as common real world people! 

Cheen Pitney’s  Self Consumption

soror Nishi’s In My Head

It looks good in day light and even better at night time …

AuraKyo Insoo With “The Inner Garden”

Madcow Cosmos’ Heterotroph

Bryn Oh’s Steamgarden

Today I finished the last sculpture for Alexandar Vargas. Indeed, Gaia and Ishtar were made as exclusive commission works for this art collector, and so are Persephone and Aphrodite. Since they were birthday presents annex surprises for his partner, this had to remain a secret until today. Now that the presents are given and the ladies have found a new home in Welsh Cove, you -dear reader- can go and admire them there and only there: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Welsh%20Cove/135/186/23

Persephone trying to escape the modern underworld …

Aphrodite’s Victory …

After having made a second Ishtar, it was Gaia’s turn. Same goddess, same attributes, different sculpture …

Made for someone who liked the sculpture I made last week that much, he ordered an Ishtar of his own ….

Being not only with my virtual head in the air, but with the rest of my prim body too making the sculptures which are to be sculpted, I am not always (read never) the first to know the things I should know. One of these things sure is the existence of 3 islands, Welsh Harbour, Welsh Bay and Welsh Cove, owned by Alexandar Vargas. Alexandar Vargas is, apart of being a fine jewelry artist himself, an art collector. Moreover, I think he possesses the largest collection of sculptures in Second Life.  An avatar who loves art just needs to go there and explore those three islands, each of them embellished with sculptures of a great variety of second life sculptors, from the higher to the lesser gods (since last Sunday the latter category includes myself!). Take your time, your camera and a friend and fly to Welsh Bay (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Welsh%20Bay/90/204/54) and discover the art while wandering through the landscape. 

As a teaser, I took some photos of the highest god’s works…

… being Light Waves….

As of tomorrow (27th of April) content creators will start to create their virtual version of heaven, earth and hell. Rezzable Productions and the NPIRL group, which stands for Not Possible In Real Life - a title which does not need further clarification, found inspiration for the building festival’s theme in the Garden of Earthly Delights, a triptych by the Dutch painter Hieronymus or Jeroen Bosch. Builders are able to use up to 500 prims and the buidling will end the 14th of May. I applied to be a part of this festival and hope they allow me to contribute a piece of the underworld. Awaiting their response, I already started to use my imagination … I must say, I have a hell of a time! More information on this festival can be found here http://garden.rezzable.com/ or by clicking on the Not Possible In Real Life link in my blogroll.

… little devils swaying Rezzable flags …

Ladies and gentlemen, here comes Ishtar, ancient Goddess of the moon who is supposed to go and join Gaia in the same sim.

Second Life® does not seem to work for me tonight. Could it be the trademark sign weighing too heavy in cyberspace and causing an extreme amount of cyberlag? Should I change my Macintosh® into an IBM® clone? I presume only the higher gods of the virtual word will know the answer. And I sure hope they are not the inventors or makers of this sign …

…  because I like to create and build and all I ask is the lag to  …

From today on, Cheen Pitney, the SL-world famous sculptor, my example and friend, show the statues he made as private commissions, and thus made only for the eyes of the owner, his friends and his visitors. This is a unique chance to admire these masterpieces without having to hire a private detective or force Cheen to let you peek into his inventory. The pictures below are only a wee fraction of what is to be seen in the Crescent Moon Museum ( http://slurl.com/secondlife/FairChang%20Village/218/206/31 ) and I will show you sculptures I had never seen before and - this goes without doubt - I like a lot more than a lot.

Well, this one goes without words, I only hope my client likes her…

… a few hours later I changed my mind and the texture …