AM Radio's "The Refuge and The Prospect"

AM Radio's wheat field at "Far Away" has been one of the most photographed artistic installations in Second Life. For a limited time, until March 6th, you can see a new installation, on a larger scale: The Refuge and The Prospect.

The scale makes for a different experience, which is probably why the exhibit has a new name. Despite some of the pieces we have grown to know from the initial installation, The Refuge and The Prospect stands on its own and silently prompts visitors to participate by fitting into the look and feel. Don't be surprised if you find yourself taken over by an overwhelming desire to whip out a run-down truck and drive it on the highway through the middle of the set. :)

You can meet and greet AM Radio on Saturday, March 1st, at 6 PM SLT (Pacific time). Click here for a teleport link. Many thanks to Callipygian Christensen, who has donated the land for the artist's use.

Also, a heads-up: March 8th - Madcow Cosmos, the maker of dinosaurs and other fine things, will be next in line with an installation in the same spot.

The Photography Studio of Grignano

Contest 30: COMICS

Theme: Comics, funnies, cartoons, single panel or strips MADE IN SECOND LIFE
Cash prizes.


SL Toon Studio is on the roof of the Photography Studio! Try it out - it rocks!

http://doodle.blip.tv/ <---demo video Patch Lamington is offering 3 Special Prizes for Toon Studio shots:
#1 - 500 L for best submission using an unedited Toon Studio snapshot (single frame)
#2 - 500 L for the best submission using 3 or more Toon Studio snaps stitched together to make a single comic. (no other editing!)
#3 - 100L special bonus for the funniest joke set in the library ( just to see if its possible :-) There is a Toon Studio in Amicitia at Patch's Place which can be used by anyone.
Also one will be set up for use at Blumfield Park.
Boxed Toon Studios will be available at both places for purchase.

THEME
The contest themes are always loose - any interpretation is good. The theme is comics. Do ANYTHING you want. Get funkeh.
Single panel, multi-panel, dress up in cel-shaded gear, use the SL Toon Studio or use something else.
If you make a machinima cartoon I can display it - however if I get more than one it won't be as easy.

You may make something like an animated texture or other cool thing if you want. You don't have any tight limits.
If you make something cool that doesn't seem to fit the "textures" requirement just enter it anyway.

Straight snaps or manipulated - it's all good.

DATES
Enter by: 7 September 2007 - late entries will be hung space permitting but will not be eligible for prizes.
Exhibition: 10 September - 30 September 2007 in the Photography Studio upstairs gallery.

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We will have an awards ceremony - time TBA.
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TO ENTER

SPECIAL COMIC-TYPE ENTRY RULES
COMIC STRIPS may be formed from multiple textures on prims.<<<--
or
Enter 3 textures of Second Life screenshots. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<----------
Textures can be no bigger than 512x512 - rectangular photos saved as 512x512 regain their proportions once they are put on a prim.

Title entries with your name + title <---= so I don't lose it in my inventory
Send them to Osprey Therian with MOD permission and COPY permission.
Give me an IM so I know to look for them.

Don't send them in a notecard - I say this as I look at textures every day but I rarely look at notecards. If I don't get your heads-up the entry gets buried under the billion spam notecards I get per week. I hate it when things get lost - the only entries to've been lost thus far were in notecards.
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Opening Night

The Show Must Go On, a variety show with many performers, and which is over half an hour long, opens on Info Island at the SLL Pantheon Performance Hall on Saturday, 9 June @ 4 pm. Partial funding was provided by the Foundation For Rich Content.

Previously a glimpse of the show, without audio introductions, was performed at the Ask Patty grand opening on Ride. The Saturday opening, however, is the full show with up-to-the-minute audio enhancement. This show has been almost a year in the making, proving that development in SL can be glacially slow, yet it pays to stick with it.

After Voice hits Agni - well, the audio will change again.

The Photography Studio of Grignano

The Photography Studio of Grignano
is having a new photo contest.

Themed Photography Contest: FLIGHT

Cash prizes.

THEME
The contest themes are always loose - any interpretation is good. The theme is FLIGHT. Do ANYTHING you want. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it able to leap tall buildings in a single bound? Run away! Run away! Airport ‘76. I don’t know - there are lots of possibilities. Give it your best shot.

I swear - ONE DAY I’ll get back to using the backdrops the way I started these contests in 2004 - but not yet!

DATES
Enter by: 28 April 2007 at 5:30.
Exhibition: 30 April - mid-May 2007 at the Photography Studio upstairs gallery.

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We will have an awards ceremony - time TBA.
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TO ENTER
Enter 3 textures of Second Life screenshots.
Textures can be no bigger than 512×512 - rectangular photos saved as 512×512 regain their proportions once they are put on a prim.

Title entries with your name + title <—= so I don’t lose it in my inventory Send them to Osprey Therian with MOD permission and COPY permission. Give me an IM so I know to look for them.

Don’t send them in a notecard - I say this as I look at textures every day but I rarely look at notecards. If I don’t get your heads-up the entry gets buried under the billion spam notecards I get per week. I hate it when things get lost - the only entries to’ve been lost thus far were in notecards.

The Photography Studio is located in The Brownstone East, Grignano
Grignano is a pg sim. <–=

Sunrise at Cotton's Dystopia

Cotton's rendition of the "Hear no evil, Speak no evil, See no evil" monkeys, with very artistic prim manipulations and curves.

Although there is no associated event, I wanted to bring to your attention a wonderful place created by Cottonteil Muromachi. I'm calling it "wonderful" because it is one of the few places in SL that manage to convey a powerful emotion in such a compelling way.

Cottonteil Muromachi, sitting and contemplating dystopia.

Cotton's Dystopia isn't a cheerful place, but it is beautiful in its architecture and composition. The weathered walls and mossy covered water sides encompass a land that opens towards the inside. It's unsettling and barren. The artwork now placed around the center gives the viewer's gaze something to embrace, like an unspoken promise of hope. I hope she decides to keep it there. :)















I encourage you, if you haven't seen this place yet, to visit it and be ready for an amazing journey within.