On the roof: page 3 (Xtralife)

Art by Second Life: kayly iali

It is not my intention to write about anyone who displays their art in Second Life. Not that such would be a good thing, but given the amount of art that is created(and use the word art  for covering a wide range of artistry) such would be a full time task. It would be fun to be able to do that and get paid for it, but at the moment I do not receive any monetary incentive  for what I write and who knows.. there might be reasons for it.
Anyway let's get back to what I do like the write about.. Which is simply driven by selfish interests. I have a interest in combining pictures with text to give voice to my stories so anything that sort of helps me with that interests me more. Although.. there sometimes things that are just beautiful.
Now it happens to be that I was looking at some art(istry)  displayed at a gallery and one set of art captured my eye, which is that of  Kayly Iali (A second life name).  She makes her art and displays it in  Second Life, using SL as a way to promote her art.
I took the audacity to copy her profile description:
I am a RL artist and exhibit in SL galleries. I work in oils, watercolor and pastels...using calligraphic strokes to bring about imagery[]
If you are interested in any of my rl paintings, please feel free to IM me. Or check out my website at marleneleeart.com. I'm also on facebook. Thanks.

To be honest I probably would not have shown her art because I am more aimed at showing art that has a kind of story in it, but I liked her studios that her art was displayed in. I know a very arbitrary reason to base your decisions upon. Probably you would say.. you need to show art that is great to be promoted, but is that not a personal taste? And if something is personal, would not any personal reason be enough?
In fact.. you should yourself see if you like her art. More can be found here: marleneleeart.com.

 I think that if you want to go and have a look.. then it would be her portraits that you should at least have a look at. Somehow captures human faces is quite a skill..

Second Life & OS Grid: Lord it over the prims.

All hail to the torus

Well,

That title requires some explanation. Especially for people who are not familiar with Second Life or the OS Grid. Second Life is, as you might have heard, a virtual world. OS Grid is another one. Both OS Grid and Second Life are based on outwardly similar technology. There are more virtual worlds that are based on this same technology. Here you can find more info about it http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page. (A note aside: do not try to find these worlds with the catchphrase virtual worlds.. you will get lost in the woods as you stumble over all kinds of game sites, sex places and what not. While I do not want to say anything for or against these, it is more fitting to refer to the worlds that are similar: the key word that let’s you enter the proper multiverse seems to be: open sim).
One aspect of this sameness is that primary objects can be manipulated in a similar fashion. In fact you can copy over the settings of one world to the other. A primary object, if you have not heard of it, is a basic object that comes in a basic shape that can be altered so to make it look different. Basic shapes are for instance: the cube, the sphere and the torus. The latter which is the subject of this post(or actually.. should that not be.. the object?).
Now all this technobabble aside this post is actually just to show that you can create fun things with the basic shapes available in virtual worlds. You do not need to be a highly skilled person to do that. You just make an object appear, add a touch of fantasy and start changing them parameters. Like, that prim is not going to bite you.
(A side note: i sometimes wonder if it is not much easier to lord it over them prims instead of trying to dominate other people.. which is something some people seem to like to do. Your control of them is total. Prims don’t have a mind of their own and you can do to them things you would want to have done to yourself and get away with it!)
Now I wanted to show some exampled of how the torus can be altered to create interesting new forms that can be used to create great new effects.

Oh, show it already!

The vehicle in this picture I made for a Burn 2 two event some years ago. It is almost completely made using torii. The vehicle was called Poetry in motion and that is what it did. It read out loud random poems and showed the text overhead as text on a picture. Oh and yes.. the one who actually built it was Taubie.. who you see on the picture above. She is  my other main avatar. Actually emotionally she would be THE main avatar.

Now some days ago I was finding some new shape to use and I found a nice one, which I so like that I showed it to Veleda Lorakeet. It is nice to be like a little kid sometimes. She like the shape to, copied it and gave it her won twist. And then she told Laughie who in turn changed it into something else.

Now this is the fun thing about inspiration.

Let me show

Shape I made using two tori, cut in half and one turned 180 degrees.

I use it as a display case.

Veleda Lorakeets changes

Result 1: layered tori in dept changed each one changed by Veleda with glow added to some.

Result 2: two tori changed by Veleda and some shine added.

Version made by Laughie

This is a version made by Laughie. Using the same shape but in full and three prims added to make a face. I thought it looked like a bear or dog, Laughie tought it looked more like a pig. It would make a nice sign or marker. Or a wall painting like this:

Tori butterflies.

What I liked about this is that people inspire and get inspired. It might not be superior art.. but it is fun and perhaps might lead to more.

Cheers!

Welcome to the short version of my wordpress post.
And be happy because it is shorter and therefore more to the point.
Remember Magritte?
He made the above picture and it was referred to as: the treachery of pictures.
What seems to have been his aim is to point out that the picture of a pipe is not a pipe. It does not have the real life properties of a real life pipe.
At some point he describes something along these lines: see this pipe.. you can not stuff it, light it and smoke it..
But the question is this: he did.. he just described something that was not real.. he stuffed, lit and smoked a pipe.
In fact we do that a lot of times these days. I bet you might go and see a movie.. a movie like the nobbit: the desolation of smaug. You see a hobbit, you see elves and you see dwarves.. all make believe in one way.. Yet anything you can imagine you can have them do...

But that is not the point of my post. It is just a bit of irony.
My post was more about this,

My attempt is to show you something without showing it. Like the pipe is a picture.. but it is a common idea. Something we accept when we are confonted by a pipe.. a real one of one that is only a picture.

But even more... the one picture leads to the next.. and without the image.. i can have you see the pipe even when it is not there.

It that what intrigues me. Here is the flow chart.

In a very drilled down version I could show you this and you will still see a think of a pipe.

Is not that fascinating?.. no?.. oh well.

http://meritcoba.com/2013/11/28/ceci-nest-pas-une-pipe-or-what-is-not-there-or-is-in-hindsight/

Dead World