Raul Crimson’s experiences in Second Life®
Second Life® Art
Patron by Eliza Wierwight
Dec 20th
Patron (SLurl) in the personal project of Eliza Wierwight, a beautiful place to visit, a mix of an art gallery, a furniture store and something else.
Not only the place is beautiful, moreover it has personality, surely the personality of Eliza. Personally i really like Eliza, she is a really interesting woman, creative, and with a wicked sense of humour (yes, and beautiful).
Some time ago Eliza asked me to participate in a show in Patron, with no special theme, just the pictures i like the best of my own. Since i don’t use to sell my images, except for good reasons, we decided to give 100% of the sales to Amnesty International-E to help them in their projects.
She must be quite proud, since right now Patron is in the SL Showcase (as The Patron in the Arts section). And Patron deserves that for sure.
I wanted to ask Eliza about what’s Patron for her, she said:
Patron is my creative heart and home Inworld after finally settling into my own design style. It’s the environment I HAD to create , it’s the build I HAD to endure as my insatiable desire to express myself in my own time , on my own terms, evolved. Patron found it’s own momentum unraveled beautifully before me almost instinctively. To keep that momentum over 5 months was exhausting , I don’t regret a single minute though.
One thing I’ve learned about creation Inworld in the last year thanks to the experience of creating Patron and her surrounding enviroment and contents, is to stay true to yourself, your passions. Patron is Eliza, Eliza is Patron. So many stories, people , friends, lovers , revelations and histories of mine all united.
If I’ve learned anything of the experience and the joy I’ve had in sharing her and including the Art and creations of the smexy talented people whose creations & Art that I’m honored also to represent at Patron, is to never deviate from your own dreams. Patron continues to evolve, I never want to see her stuck in a time warp of ambivalence. I want her to reflect my personal best as I continue to learn and grow as a Creator. When I find time to sit back, when I see Patron and especially the contributing works of those I respect and adore gracing her, I just kind of resonate with charmingly smug happiness and guess what, it’s contagious ~winks~
The end !
One thing I’ve learned about creation Inworld in the last year thanks to the experience of creating Patron and her surrounding enviroment and contents, is to stay true to yourself, your passions. Patron is Eliza, Eliza is Patron. So many stories, people , friends, lovers , experiences and history of mine all united.
If I’ve learned anything of the experience and the joy I’ve had in sharing her and including the Art and creations of the smexy talented people whose creations & Art that I’m honored also to represent at Patron, is to never deviate from your own dreams. Patron continues to evolve, I never want to see her stuck in a time warp of ambivalence. I want her to reflect my personal best as I continue to learn and grow as a Creator. When I find time to sit back, when I see Patron and especially the contributing works of those I respect and adore gracing her, I just kind of resonate with charmingly smug happiness and guess what, it’s contagious ~winks~
The end !
Images by Eliza Wierwight published under a Creative Commons license.
JAZZLIVE in Second Life
Nov 9th
Some time ago my friend Arahan Claveau told me about a project he was working on, some like a cross-reality event, about Jazz. Finally he sent me some information about the project… and i think is really interesting! Let me paste some of the info:
The real and the virtual interact as digital artwork on a monumental scale provides a stunning virtual landscape while real-world jazz gigs, broadcast live from a small London club, are injected into the cyberspace. …
… JAZZLIVE at the Crypt presents a short season of jazz concerts celebrating the wealth of talent in the UK jazz scene. The concerts will be broadcast live from the Crypt into a virtual venue in the virtual world Second Life. …
… Those attending the concerts in the Second Life venue will also be exposed to great artwork commissioned especially for the events by some of the virtual world’s most respected artists DanCoyote Antonelli, Oberon Onmura and Juria Yoshikawa. Those attending The Crypt will also experience the art show, as it will be viewable on big screens in the venue. This two-way interaction is an essential element in the project. …
… Also to be screened are excerpts from a forthcoming film about JAZZLIVE by multimedia artist Steve Millar (also known as Arahan Claveau in SL). …
So if you like Jazz and Second Life don’t miss the next fridays at 08:00 PM in London, in The Crypt (RL side) or at noon SLT in Second Life, in the Jazzlive sim (SLurl). Or why not… in both sides at the same time! 
Find more information about this project in the “JAZZLIVE in Second Life” webpage.
Burning Life’09
Oct 22nd
Burning Life is running in Second Life® from October 17th to 25th, so is running right now in the moment of publishing this post.
I was exploring it around, well, is quite big (34 regions) but i took some pictures and videos you can see in the slide-show above. Click in the image you like and you will find an SLurl to arrive to the place directly.
There are some really good installations and sculptures in Burning Life this year, but i’d like to point specially at two of them:
- Among Other Things: AM Radio’s one, a train in a dead railway ready for you to graffiti it! A really good work in interactivity and collective creation. SLurl
- Vessel’s Dream: by Bryn Oh, a trip inside a dream… SLurl
- Fusion: by four Yip, sensuality, music, chocolate melting, all together… fascinating… SLurl
Also i think the stages, Tokyo and Berlin, are specially remarkable and, possibly, some of the best buildings i saw in Second Life. Burning Life is not only about 3D art, is also about music, performance, DJ sessions…
Also this year i find is not so laggy as was last year, maybe i was lucky and i visited it in the “not so rush” hours… who knows.
If you think SL is about creativity this is one place to be, anyway, not all the installations are so good, as you can imagine being a space opened to everyone to participate you can find stuff of diverse quality, but i presume the important is still to be part of it if you think you have something to say and if you thing you can say it right.
Find more information in the Burning Life site. Explore it and tell me what you think. And burn the man!!!
Vampire… The Hunt at Cienega Soon Gallery
Oct 21st
“Vampire The Hunt” Opens Midnight October 23rd 2009
Vampire Vampira Vampiro Vampir Vampier Βαμπίρ Вампир .. anyway you say it,
it brings up images in our mind of stories we’ve read or the movies we’ve seen … or could they be real?
Get ready for … “Vampire … The Hunt”
The whole Island exhibit will be DARK … Dark and Red
… an environment that makes Vamps and their nemesis feel at home
20 Talented Artists … not listed here (but i’m one of them )… so come see who and what they’ve done!
Image © 2009 Cienega Soon published with permission
Orange Island is closing… that’s bad news
Sep 27th
Next Tuesday, September 29th, Orange Island, one of the best community projects supported by a corporation ever made in Second Life will be closing (find more info in their blog).
The team, Fab Outlander, Eric Arkright, Sarn Aska, Nick Rhodes, Yesterday Demain, Natty Fogarty and Jade Lily, did a wonderful work in the last two years in really interesting projects of sharing techniques, promoting creation and in education projects.
I worked with that team in some projects in Orange Island, and i’m really sad about this closing. When most of the corporations only organized marketing projects Orange Island Team brought a lot to the comunity of Second Life Residents. Massively also posted about this closing.
There will be a closing party next Tuesday, September 29th, at 11:00 AM SLT on Orange Island’s Lower Plaza Auditorium, and i hope to see you there.
I’d like to finish this post saying thank you, thanks to this team of people for all the moments, the shows and the experiences i had thanks to their work.
Photography by Ravenelle, published under a Creative Commons license.
Sculpture by Strisciare Dallagio
Jun 1st
As you some of you may know Second Pride Festival was running in SL last week. I was walking around last Saturday, to explore the parts i didn’t visited and entered the “museum”.
Some interesting works, some not so interesting, but this one took my attention. Sadly i didn’t noted the name, sadly is not there anymore, but i was lucky enough to take a pic of it, at least to a part of it.
There were two groups, one with two men, the other with two women. Caged and trying to compose a heart together. The cages were covered with words and expressions like “Family”, “The team”, “Abuse”, “They will see us”, “What will they think?”, … In some words, a fascinating artwork about the social pressure and and the fears someone may have to front to accept himself, to accept his love.
I hope to see more works by this creator soon, really touching…
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