The Cube Project

Cubes cubes cubes cubes...

LEA collaborative project. 25+ artists let rip over 20 regions.
http://lindenarts.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-cube-project-at-lea.html

Use Firestorm viewer to see the windlight settings and enable your sound and media for some surprises. Start here http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA20/110/167/21

Mine here. Pick up a travel cube. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA19/129/157/21

Opens August 22, and closes September 1st, and includes work by Bryn Oh, Cajska Carlsson, Charlotte Bartlett, Dancoyote Antonelli, Haveit Neox, Kicca Igaly, L1Aura Loire, Lapiscean Liberty, London Junkers,  Misprint Thursday, Maya Paris, Nessuno Myoo, Oberon Onmura, PatriciaAnne Daviau, Pol Jarvinen, Rag Randt, Rowan Derryth, Sea Mizin, Secret Rage, Remington Aries, Solo Mornington, Tony Resident, Tyrehl Byk, Werner Kurosawa and Xineohp Guisse.

Video by MarxCatteneo

"Virtual Unreality"

Virtual Unreality, another crazy production by Eupalinos Ugajin - in cahoots with Simotron Aquila, Kikas Babenko & Marmaduke Arado, Trill Zapatero and Maya Paris

party at the [Kou!] sim - LEA 23
Sunday August 5th, 3PM SLT

Does everything appear to be normal? Beware the Estomac, pick a Kou-pilot and hats-on at the bar.

Click the link to bend your brain

 maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA23/64/144/110

More pictures 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/simotron/sets/72157630933709696/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28090997@N03/sets/72157630933384376/

"Celebrity Blow Your Tits Off" @ LEA10

Calling all  Bobby-Dazzlers, Exquisite Punks, Outrageous Grandparents, Platinum Studmuffins and  Space Cadets...

DO YOU HAVE POPWRECKTASTIC POTENTIAL?

Then shiny up your teeth and COME ON DOWN!

PRIZES! FAME! FORTUNE! CELEBUTANTE GIANTS AND MORE! SO MUCH MORE!

Doors Open 2pm  SLT Wednesday 27th June 2012

http://slurl.com/secondlife/LEA10/78/125/3405

Brought to you by our sponsors, Braino, Ransom & Wow™

Interactive Art Installation- Maya Paris @ LEA10

A huge thank you to the Linden Endowment for the Arts for this sim-grant  and for all their hard work. And to Oberon Onmura, Solo Mornington and L1Aura Loire for their invaluable help.

Le Cactus- Le movie

Fantastic Le Cactus movie by L1Aura Loire/ Professor Lori Landay.

Thank you!

Open all hours, click the SLURL to visit.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/SBCC/158/192/2958

mini version at Virtual Montmartre

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Montmartre/217/201/30

Le Cactus - Flickr Group Pool

Great photos taken by visitors to " Le Cactus ". Add yours here http://www.flickr.com/groups/lecactus/

Thank you all!

**CLICK HERE to visit the full-scale "Le Cactus" at SBCC

Throw a banana on your head, dance on a cactus and tickle a tentacle.

An interactive celebration of the extraordinary talents of cultural trailblazer Josephine Baker, queen of the trumpet Valaida Snow, the lampshade-hatted dancers of the Casino de Paris and the offbeat irony of Jacques Dutronc.

Open all hours

Free costumes, free drinks, free arguments in the corner.

Le Cactus @ Virtual Montmartre and SBCC

It's January! Throw a banana on your head, pick up a trumpet and dance on a cactus in an interactive celebration of the extraordinary talents of cultural trailblazer Josephine Baker, queen of the trumpet Valaida Snow, the lampshade-hatted dancers of the Casino de Paris and the offbeat irony of Jacques Dutronc.

So put on your dancing shoes and head on down to Le Cactus at Virtual Montmartre, then continue to the extended version at SBCC

***How does it work?

1- First collect your free costumes.  You can choose to be "human", OR...go on... wear the invisible avatar then mix and match parts of all the costumes to create your own combinations.

*Flickr- you can add pictures to the " Le Cactus " flickr group http://www.flickr.com/groups/lecactus/

2- Create your own impromptu Revue- click everywhere for dance animations- try the revolving bananas, a cactus or hop on a turntable.

 **There's 1920's-30's music on the stream  from Radio Dismuke  http://radiodismuke.com/

3- USE the HUD  to listen to music by and watch video about Josephine  and  Valaida Snow,  rated next best trumpet-player in the world to himself by Louis Armstrong. (Never heard of her? Neither had i until recently, bloody shame. )

4- There's always someone having a row in the corner, tickle a tentacle if you want to blow off some steam.

5- Relax by the bar (free drinks). Dive into a giant cocktail. Recline on a tentacle. Sit and smoulder.

Enjoy

**CLICK HERE to teleport to the introductory version of "Le Cactus" at the Casino de Paris in Montmartre


**CLICK HERE to visit the larger "Le Cactus" at SBCC

A huge thank you to Mick Huet, who asked me to participate in the Virtual Montmartre project, to project leaders Dr Bryan Carter, Indea Vaher, Insenara Siamendes  and to Liz Rusotti/Zil Jewell, who is so generously hosting the larger version of Le Cactus at the Santa Barbara City College sim ( SBCC).

Credits:  Sculpt maps: cactus - Lemondrop Serendipity, tentacle - Ona Ra, banana - Juliea Diesel, snake -Neema Chester
Animations: Easy Babcock, Nomasha Syka, dais Papp, Jackie Jetcity, Actingill Igaly.
Thank you all!

Le Cactus -Music and video links:

Valaida Snow- I Can't Dance, I've got Ants in my Pants http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MONC3QtheXg
Josephine Baker- I Love Dancing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWj_2brB_1k&feature=related
Jacques Dutronc- Cactus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sakr_xgWXLQ

Valaida Snow-movie  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6e7ye-fiJA
Josephine Baker- movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps7m7bUHq2E

More information on Virtual Harlem and Montmartre:

Virtual Montmartre and Harlem blog http://virtualmontmartre.wordpress.com/category/home-page/

The University of Paris IV-Sorbonne funded the development of Virtual Montmartre in 2004. The Montmartre relationship to Virtual Harlem is clear to scholars of the Jazz Age/Harlem Renaissance, for it was there that Jazz was introduced and popularized in Europe by African American troops who fought under the French flag in World War I.
These prestigious Sims (Montmartre and Harlem) have been cosponsored by the National Black Programming Consortium and the Government of Norway for the development of Virtual Harlem and Virtual Montmartre in Second Life. Virtual Harlem and Virtual Montmartre are owned by Dr. Bryan Mnemonic/Dr. Bryan Carter.

The Virtual Harlem Project is a collaborative learning network whose purpose is to study the Harlem Renaissance through the construction and use of scenarios developed in Virtual Reality. 

http://www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/harlem/
http://www.montmartre-virt.paris4.sorbonne.fr/

Harlem in Montmartre; The New School Lecture 
http://youtu.be/qQ-xXA7D6YA

Louis Mitchell
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/harlem-in-montmartre/the-story-of-louis-mitchell/917/

Harlem in Montmartre
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/harlem-in-montmartre/historian-tyler-stovall-on-montmartre/829/

Ada Bricktop Smith 
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/harlem-in-montmartre/historian-tyler-stovall-on-bricktops/830/
Arthur Brigs http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/harlem-in-montmartre/historian-tyler-stovall-on-wwii-post-war-and-bebop/831/


Quick Quick Soon @ InterACT!

 Soon, soon, quick quick soon.....

Click a Rocket

Click a Cube

Beware the Rocks
and don't forget your Kite

http://slurl.com/secondlife/LEA4/14/13/21

 "InterACT!" is curated by L1Aura Loire/ Professor Lori Landay as part of the LEA series of shows.

 "Virtual art can invite, or even insist, that you interact with it. The artists in this exhibition cleverly and creatively make art out of interactions between data, objects, actions, and people within and beyond the virtual world in a stunning array of installations and experiences that stretch the possibilities of virtual art. Expect the unexpected, and click whenever you can. "

Installations by:
Eupalinos Eugajin

Glyph Graves

Lorin Tone

Maya Paris

Misprint Thursday

PinkPink Sorbet

Selavy Oh

Plus Interactive mixed reality performances by  Senses Places, mesh by Sage Duncan, Machinima Mutoscope Viewers by FreeWee Ling, Twitter Garden by Frans Charming, Inner Tube Ride of Your Life by UzzU Artful

Many thanks to L1Aura for asking me to participate in this group show.

The Path

The Path - an inventor, a lazy eye...... a trip.

A collaborative project at the new Linden Endowment for the Arts sims, curated by Bryn Oh and developed along the lines of the Surrealists' Exquisite Corpse  

Hang onto your hat.

Click here to teleport  http://slurl.com/secondlife/LEA2/179/186/23

The participating artists:
1- Bryn Oh
2- Colin Fizgig
3- Marcus Inkpen
4- Douglas Story and Desdemona Enfield
5- Maya Paris
6- claudia222 Jewell
7- Scottius Polke
8- Rose Borchovski





More details from Bryn here http://brynoh.blogspot.com/2011/10/path-opens-today-friday-october-14th-at.html

and from Rowan Derryth and PJ Trenton
http://primperfectblog.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/neo-surrealism-takes-a-virtual-turn-down-the-path/

Many thanks to Bryn for inviting me to be part of this extraordinary group and to the other artists for their amazing creativity, support and good humour.

+ a big thank you to Mik Frequency, Mme Mackenzie, Marian Nyman and Kit, Rod Lupton and April Hand for voice-recordings.

NippleTrees - BoobieThon 2011

BoobieThon art auction @ RoHaus Gallery closes 6th Oct with a party at 6-8pm SLT.

Works from 37 artists, including claudia222 Jewell, Misprint Thursday and some interactive NippleTrees from me (careful, you'll get nip-mobbed). All for a great cause if you've got some lindens to flash about. www.boobiethon.com/

Silent auction with bids taken by receivers in front of each work at any time before the auction closes.

Click here to visit  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Magna%20Carta/160/177/30

More details here

http://primperfectblog.wordpress.com/2011/10/02/for-boobiethon-artists-lay-it-bare/

Skelly Mer - Maya and March at BURN2

Skelly-Mer, an interactive mechanical-mermaid celebration with original music by March Macbain , opens at BURN2 2011, Saturday 1st October.

Collect your skelly- suit and top-hat from the sign, make sure your media stream is turned ON to hear March's great music, turn out the lights and click the Skelly-Mermaids ( there are animations in this build, so do turn off your AO first). If you fancy a dance, click a tentacle.

Click here to teleport direct

Loads to see and experience in the 4 sims that make up BURN2 this year.

BURN ON !

BURN2 is an extension of the Burning Man festival held every year in the Nevada desert and is an officially sanctioned Burning Man regional event.

Many thanks to my talented nieces Alice and Abbie who created the Skelly-face and took the original photo, Oberon Onmura for rescuing my particle-effects when they decided not to get out of bed , everyone from BURN2 2011 for inviting us here and SBCC for virtual studio space.