Back in Second Life
Getting back into Second Life and enjoying art from a new perspective has been fun! I get to tour all the galleries that as a museum and art gallery owner, you don't have time to see!
It's also fun discovering new things on the Second Life art scene. One of the biggest discoveries is that Linden Labs has endowed the SL arts, "Linden Endowment for the Arts (LEA). They offer "land" free of rental fees to up and coming artists in Second Life. The committee, formed of famous and respected Second Life artists make up this committee, has an art gallery sandbox and new artists seeking funding can display their work here.
Once a month, the committee members meet at the sandbox and vote on the best art based on pre-agreed upon criteria. Then the artist who won the votes gets of have land for their art for three months. Touring the LEA lands is fun and inspiring. Some great examples is LEA6, which features, Dante's Nine Levels of Hell and Catharsis, which is a 24-minutes of machinima magic!
Another new artistic discovery is 3D and kaleidoscope artwork. The 3D art is just that 3D and can be any subject matter. The kaleidoscope art is very popular and it's just like looking through your kaleidoscope when you were a kid and seeing all the lovely colors. The art moves and rotates just like a kaleidoscope.
The jump in good scripted artwork is amazing! This type of art is also called interactive art (with your Avatar). Sometimes you touch the picture and blocks come out of the picture or you stand and the artwork "does" something with you!
The new sculptors in Second Life are introducing new styles and designs such as the artistic spheres, where you have an environment that is not dependent on the Second Life viewer allowing the artist more control over the sky and ground.
However, the most popular artwork in the galleries that I have toured is Second Life photography. Some artists touch up their artwork in Photoshop; others brag that their work is untouched!
This gives my creativity an outlet and a forum to display my art! I do not consider myself in the same league as Spiral Silverstar, Feathers Boa, Milly Sharple, to name a few, but I still love art and want to share what I find to be picture perfect in Second Life! I also highlight galleries that are closing and that have been in Second Life for as long as I have been there and only a few remain.
I was amazed to discover Primtings, which takes a real life artwork by a Master and then they make it 3D and display the original picture beside the 3D one, giving new meaning to, "making art come to life." This type of art was displayed on another sim under a different name when I first came into SL and it was fun to rediscover this fun style of art, especially since the original 3D museum closed.
Artists bring their Real Life art projects in to Second Life and ask for volunteers to participate. I did participate in a new and exciting project in SL called, "1000+ Avatar Project" by Gracie Kendall. It's an amazing undertaking featuring you as an avatar and how people view themselves!
Another amazing piece of art is the art you can wear; some artists take the Real Life works of the Masters and create an outfit out of that picture for you to wear!
Last, but not least was my tour of the Halloween sims; the ones that I featured had to be scary, give me the goosebumps on the back of my neck, making me shiver, and be frightened even if I was only a pixelated avatar! I loved the way they took our basic fears and scared the tar out of you! From sims with fog, to gore, scared of the dark, and clowns! There was something there for everyone! Some art galleries make the Brother's Grimm Fairy Tales come to life some true to the tale, but others give them a twist from an adult's perspective!
It is my belief that everything in Second Life is art, but some take it to true artistic levels that mere mortals can only admire!
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