What: Scott Adams had an avatar created in Second Life just users could abuse him in the virtual world, much like they do on his blog, here, or so he says.

When: Tonight, October 30, 2007 at 9pm Eastern time.

Where: Kula Second Life

Description: From his blog, I took digital photos of my head from all angles and had it turned into a 3-D character, called an avatar. I’ll be on stage answering questions in a public forum in Second Life tomorrow night. Each person will have a chance to come on stage and literally kick my avatar in the nuts. Or punch me, or slap me, or any combination. Just push a button to select your method of assault. My avatar is programmed to react to the blows but won’t fight back.

You can also get a free digital poster of Dilbert and Dogbert, suitable for displaying on your digital wall in Second Life.

This idea was born of the old marketing truism, “Your customers tell you what business you are in.” In my case, this blog has evolved to a forum where I say unpopular things and my readers abuse me in the comments. I’m just extending that to the virtual world where you can take out your frustration at my stubborn refusal to recognize the truth and beauty of your opinions, by kicking me in the ‘nads. This is what you call being customer focused. I think Nordstrom could learn a thing or two from my example.

Second Life URL.

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What: Save Lauk’s Nest Art & Music Festival

When: Today, 11AM-2PM SLT Today

Where: Alviso

Description: The drive to save Lauk’s Nest from doom as a result of the sudden European VAT policy imposed by Linden Lab continues with an awareness-building art show and music event! 14 artists and 3 musical performers have come together for this great cause. Come admire great art, dance the day away and support one of the jewels of Second Life!

Second Life URL.

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What: The Graz Theatre Extension

When: Sep 23, 2007 3:00 am - 4:00 am (Sunday)

Where: public townscape Second Life

Tags: Arts and Culture Epletre Asp public townscape Second Life

Description: Forming architecture of bodies -an intersection of virtual and real.

Real Life Second Life Performance

Join us and take the opportunity to perform at the main stage of the cultural festival Steiricher Herbst in Graz, Austria. Meet real life performers from Tokyo, Berlin, Stockholm and Copenhagen. Have a one-to-one conversation and get a gold skin. Help us create an Architecture of Golden Bodies!

We are all performers and the world is our stage!

The Graz Theatre Extension @ The Office, The Port, The Collective, The Public Townscape - 23/9/2007 3AM SL time/12.00 European time.

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What: Rezzable Productions Presents SLart at the Cannery - An exhibition bringing together six top Second Life photographers and 40 cream of the crop SL photographs by various Second Life artists or SLartists.

When: Opening the 29th of August 2007 at 15:00 Second Life Time. The exhibition will run until November.

Where: Cannery Rezzable

Description: Shoshana Epsilon and Vint Falken, both accomplished SL photographers and artists, brought together Collin Savon, Melodious Source, Kean Kelly, Nephie Eerie, Rob Danton and Stephen Venkman along with other very talented SL photographers.

Vote for your favorite piece! See the results on the web at http://slart.rezzable.com

Dance at the Cannery also and celebrate great art! Check the opening week schedule.

Draw Distance Setting

You’ll find many amazing photos here–more than 100. So in order to rezz the images faster, drop you draw distance settings down distance to a lower value (150 meters or so!). To do this:

1) open preferences. ( [Ctrl-P] or “Preferences” under the Edit menu)
2) click on the “graphics” tab on the left of the preferences panel.
3) find the draw distance box and type in a number between 150 and 250 (lower is better )
4) hit enter or click ok.

CONTACTS for more information:

About Show:
Shoshana Epsilon
Vint Falken

About Cannery:
Holiday Hubble
RightasRain Rimbaud
Lokum Shilova - Retail

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Here another great spot for art, the Oyster Bay Sculpture Garden, Market & Aquarium and the Crescent Moon Museum, who are featuring new a new rotating exhibit that celebrates the Second Life of the master of SL sculpture, Starax Statosky. Here is a video, the notecard and a couple pics. Visit the gallery inworld by clicking here.

NMC Campus Retrospective on Art of StarAx

Posted to Technology Videos on August 27, 2007

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OYSTER - Oyster Bay Sculpture Garden, Market & Aquarium and the Crescent Moon Museum are pleased to announce their collaboration on a new rotating exhibit that celebrates the Second Life of the master of SL sculpture, Starax Statosky.

“Hidden Starax!” will present over 20 rare Starax pieces over the course of 6 weeks, beginning on the evening of Wednesday, July 25. The pieces will rez on the main exhibit platform in the Oyster sim at Oyster Bay. Sculpture pieces will include Starax classics like Kong, Drowned, Achilles and David and Goliath. Due to high prim counts, only one or two pieces will be on display at a time. The pieces will rez on Wednesday and Sunday nights on the main platform.

“The Crescent Moon Museum donated these Starax pieces to Oyster Bay because of our shared interest in bringing the finest Second Life art to SL’s residents,” said Tayzia Abbatoir, owner of Crescent Moon. “My Starax collection is an example of the creativity that is possible using Second Life as a medium. I’m excited that the world will have the opportunity to share in Starax’s work.”

The climax of “Hidden Starax!” will be an inworld Second Life Community Convention event from August 24-26. Three of Starax’s most lauded pieces will be on display at Oyster Bay. The SLCC event will also coincide with the launch of the new Summer/Fall show at Oyster Bay, meaning the entire venue will be refreshed with the latest examples of Second Life sculpture.

Also, the permanent Oyster Bay Starax exhibit in the adjoining Shepherd sim will feature free, copy-able editions of Starax works like Samson, Nature and the Flyable Pegasus. These free pieces will also rotate throughout the life of the exhibit, and visitors will be encouraged to take copies for their private art collections.

“Making the free Starax pieces easily accessible to the public is a passion of Tayzia and mine,” added Morris Vig, Oyster Bay owner. “Like any collectible market, the market for Starax brings out the unscrupulous element. I personally was taken on a Starax piece when I started collecting his work and did not know the pieces were free. Offering these pieces to the public is our way of helping make sure that never happens again.”

Lastly, other events aligned with the Starax theme are being planned. Information on those events will follow.

Starax Statosky is recognized in SL art circles as one of the finest artisans that Second Life has seen. His works, always done with a level of precision in prim construction that few can match, vary in theme between whimsy and classical design. His legacy is secure as his pieces grace the grounds of many of SL’s finest venues. Starax left Second Life in mid-2006, and speculation is rampant as to whether he will return (or perhaps HAS returned in “alt” form?).

The Crescent Moon Museum is the Oldest Art Museum in Second Life. It is host to hundreds of pieces of original art created by SL residents. The exhibits change bi-weekly. The collection includes over 35 Starax pieces (many on loan to Oyster Bay for “Hidden Starax”), the RC jewelry collection, and art created from many other amazing SL and RL artists.

Opened in January 2007, Oyster Bay focuses its effort as a cultural space that focuses nearly exclusively on artwork generated using Second Life as the medium - sculpture and SL photography. Through the signature sculpture garden and the new Second Arts Photography gallery, as well as its artistic market stores (often mini-galleries to themselves), Oyster Bay has cemented itself as one of Second Life’s top places to view and purchase art. It was voted the second most popular cultural venue in Second Life in the 2007 Corsa Guide competition.

Second Life URL.

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A friend of mine just introduced me to this art gallery in second life, the Alician Fresh Auction Company & Gallery, it’s pretty new, so, the place isn’t full of art, but what they have there is really good. Check out the pics below and the info from the notecard they give you when you get there. Check out the gallery here.

The Current Auction is CLOSED

The next auction is set to begin the first week of SEP.

Join the Alucin Fresh Auction Company Group for more information and announcements.

The week prior will be a preview week

Artists please take a copy of the submission notecard, fill the questionnaire, and return it to Alucin Enoch to submit your works for auction,

Our gallery rental spaces are available for L$200/week 50 prims or (Double space) L$350/week 100 prims, or you can go all out and rent an entire floor (four spaces) for L$600/week 200 prims

other options are also available including commission based

please contact Alucin Enoch, Sharone Jie, or Fresh Babenco for more information

Tiny Second Life URL

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What: The S&S Gallery of Fine Arts will hold A Special Evening for its Group Members and Friends

When: 8PM-10PM (sl time), tonight, Wednesday, 22 August 2007

Where: S&S Gallery of Fine Arts

Description: The S&S Gallery of Fine Arts will hold A Special Evening for its Group Members and Friends at 8PM-10PM (sl time), tonight, Wednesday, 22 August. Come meet the artists, mingle with your friends and other like-minded individuals. The event of the year. Complimentary wine, cheese, chocolate fondue and the finest southern whiskies. Free Sculpture. View the masterworks of Dali, Picasso and Van Gogh and acquire them at a fantastic discount. See you there at our Chirico Gallery.

Rdlovely Pera’s paintings and photography are displayed on the second floor.
Hope to see you all there!

Second Life URL.

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Here is a great review of the top 10 art installations in Second Life from New World Notes. This one he says is the toughest list he had to make, as there are some nice creations in sl, like recreations of the Sistine Chapel, etc, to consider as well. Here are the first three, hit the link to see the rest of the top 10.

1. DanCoyote Antonelli’s Arts & Letters Installation
A brilliant new way of describing space in Second Life, filled with interactive exhibits and breath-taking panoramic paintings. The image above is of one of the artist’s works - “Exploding Starax”.

2. Sabine Stonebender’s Installation at Zero Point in Kelham
This is an amazing journey into a land born straight out of imagination. Its electric colors and the architecture of the space, including the scripted ride are things you must experience for yourself.

3. Seifert’s The Future Installation
With an interesting blend of mathematics and art, Seifert Surface is both a visionary and a skilled artist. His installation is an experience comprised of a journey through his futuristic teleporting system and a myriad of sculptures, some interactive and some pushing the limits of prim modeling in Second Life. Source: Top 10 Art Installations of Second Life Amalthea Blanc surveys the SL arts scene for New World Notes

Even if you don’t want to see the sims in the art scene, that blog is a must read.

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Saw this post on Wired mentioning the Old Masters Picture Gallery opening in Second Life, representatives say it is the first, huh no way, real world museum to clone itself online.

If you can’t make it to Dresden this summer, consider teleporting. The pearl of the city’s museum collection, the Old Masters Picture Gallery, recently opened a virtual version of itself in Second Life. Second Life representatives say it’s the first real-world museum to “clone” itself online, although virtual versions of other collections (most famously “Second Louvre,” which has no official ties to the Paris museum) have popped up.

All 37,700 square feet of the 150-year-old building, plus the grounds outside, have been recreated, down to the trash cans and fountains in the courtyard and ceiling moldings, staircases and furniture within. The highlight, of course, is on the virtual walls: 750 paintings spanning 300 years of European art.

And Dresden isn’t the only historical site to move to the net. The city of Cologne already has plans to open a virtual version of its famed cathedral, which has been on the UNESCO World Heritage list since 1996, this month. Source: Dresden’s World-Class Art Gallery Duplicates Itself Online

Anyway, of course Wired didn’t actually link to anything, so I will add the Second Life URL when I login later.

Another site that may be of interest to you in Second Life is the Sistine Chapel.

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Art debate

When: Aug 12, 2007 12:00 AM - 1:30 AM (Sunday)

Where: Gaori Second Life

Tags: Adult Arts and Culture Gaori Mature Sati Pera Second Life

Description: The inaugural meeting of Art Debate will be this Sunday 12 am second life time 12/8/2007 at the Gaori Community Art Gallery. The motion is “There is no such thing as second life art” This motion will be moved by An Eun and opposed by Alphonsus Peck. When they have made their speeches there will be a period when the debaters may question each other. Finally the floor will be open to the audience. If you wish to contribute to a debate about art please support us or just come and listen.

Second Life URL.

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SOUTHERN FRANCE

The ‘Colors of Southern France’ exhibition at Elektra’s includes oil paintings by Pandore Jarvis and Provencale furniture by Doug Massey.

When: July 28, 14:00-16:30

Where: The Endless (106, 235, 28)

Popularity: 1%

Check out this work of art that will debut on the Princeton Sim on July 21st.

FlowerBall - A Second Life Interactive Art Thingy

Posted to Technology Videos on July 19, 2007

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Can’t make it on the 21st? Here is the Second Life URL.

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