Category: art
New Project: External B&W Night Shoot
New Project: Outside Shoot
Seraphim finished putting the final touches to her latest still-life project, this morning. Well, it started as a still-life project, but kind of evolved into Seri making herself another home! There’s way too much detail to capture in a single shoot, so she started with shooting the outside, first…
… with so much time to do this project, Seri was able to really rummage through her inventory, and find lots of her old treasures…
… as well as spend time finding new treasures at the gacha market, and on MP…
… the sleeping bambi, and the lilac chainsaw were her two most expensive gacha-resale purchases, both ‘rares’, both really beautiful works of art…
… she’s really enjoyed this project, as always. It forced her to take a lot of stuff back into her inventory, at home, because she was getting too near the limit of her prim allotment, would not, actually, have been able to complete this build, if she hadn’t deleted/taken back, hundreds of prims. Although she really dislikes taking stuff down, it always makes her feel refreshed, it’s a good exercise in non-attachment… though there are a lot of things she simply couldn’t imagine EVER becoming non-attached to, like her 134 prim Pegasus Alteran Stargate!…
… Seri could happily move into this house, now…
… she loves it. Several things in this build, like her ‘Hungry Yule Cats’, she moved from other places on her property, one in particular, the house she built for her and Zoey, which has been almost totally unused since she built it. She’s just about worked up the determination to pull it down, as she needs to free up the prims, but, she also needs to move on…
… which she is, slowly, but surely, doing…
… so, the tour of the outside brings us…
… up on the back porch…
… to the back door. The next photo-tour will take us inside (:
New Project; Day 4
Seraphim has spent the large amount of another day, working on her new project… it’s not work, at all, because she loves it so much. A big part of these projects, for her, often involves sourcing awesome gacha… but the lag that is usually present at the gacha resale sims, was mind-numbingly horrific, yesterday, when she attempted to shop, there. She was delighted, today, when a notice popped up in her Firestorm Support Group feed, saying there would be a tutorial about lag, at 3pm… it was 2:30pm at the time… and she zapped over to her first ever Firestorm tutorial (she’s never usually online during week days, so has never had the chance, before)… there were two other avi’s there, so it sure wasn’t crowded. Anyway, what she learned, enabled her to go to the gacha sim… and experience barely ANY lag! It was GLORIOUS! She promptly spent a few thousand Lindens on awesome stuff…
… Pandume, who is also online much more in these locked-down times, is working on improvements to her own place, just up the road from Seraphim. She popped over to see how Seri was getting on with her new project, and gave a very favourable report. Seraphim pointed out some of her favourite additions…
… and showed Pandume the front porch, which she feels is almost done. In fact, she thinks one more day of fine tuning should complete this project. Another thing Seraphim does a lot of, during these projects, is perusing Market Place… if she sees gacha she likes at the resale sims, she checks to see if it’s cheaper on MP, often saving hundreds of Lindens. She also looks at random things she thinks might work, so she’s looking at MP way more than usual. Last night, she saw something that astounded her, and she thought she would share it with you guys… someone on MP is selling an ugly sofa set (admittedly full-perms) for… L$139,000! Seraphim has NEVER seen anything that expensive on MP. She told Pandume, and Pandume said she hoped that money got you an RL sofa as part of the price.
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/BoX-Artemis-Sofa-F-by-Lucylla-Seerose/7323235
New Project; Day 3
Seraphim has been spending hours and hours happily pottering with her latest project…
… unlike all her previous ‘still life’ installations, which have not really been representative of anywhere Seri would live, this one has, by itself, become quite evocative of Seri’s own ‘style’…
… it wasn’t deliberate, just happened.
New Project; Day 2
Seraphim’s human’s country, an island nation of 5 million people, went into total lockdown, 3 days ago, for at least 4 weeks, due to the covid-19 virus… the human must stay home, unless going to the supermarket, or walking/biking for exercise. Seraphim finds herself in a strangely parallel situation, only, it’s not a virus causing her to self-isolate, it’s the appalling lag in SL, making going anywhere a miserable experience. Seraphim’s human has told her it’s not just SL, everything on the net seems to be running slower, no doubt due to the millions and millions of people, worldwide, under lockdown, and turning to the net for amusement, distraction and, of course, for those lucky enough to have the option, work…
… it’s the beginning of Autumn in the human’s country, the human is snuggled up inside, being creative, while outside, the temperature is dropping, it’s dark, windy, and raining… likewise, Seri is cosy in front of the fire in her amazing, free house, enjoying placing some of her gorgeous stuff, to create a cosy, new world in her own back yard (:
The Lost Unicorn Gallery
Seraphim has hardly visited any galleries for at least a year, more like two… and, suddenly, she’s visited two in a few days! Today she visited The Lost Unicorn Gallery…
… she was very impressed. The gallery is beautifully decorated, and the art, which is all fantasy art, is very good… it’s easy for this genre of art to be cliched, but almost all the images on display, here, were above-average works…
… and beautifully large…
… Seraphim can’t remember when she last saw so many excellent works in a single gallery…
… she thoroughly enjoyed wandering around this large space…
… and found the range of works delightful…
… none of them appeared to be for sale…
… but, if they had been, this is the kind of place where, a few years ago, Seraphim would have blown a small fortune!
Frame Not Included
Seraphim visited the Monocle Man Gallery, today. She seldom visits galleries, any more…
… those of you who have known Seri for a long time will remember she used to have a huge gallery, housing her equally huge collection of art by SL artists. Seraphim loves art, and loved collecting SL art, which she did, prolifically, for 8 years, spending tens of thousands of L$’s on her collecting…
… she did it, not only because she loves art, but to support SL art/artists… she had several favourite artists who charged thousands of lindens for each and every painting, Seraphim bought them all, even when she could barely afford to…
… she eventually had to admit to herself, that perhaps only 1 or 2 of these artists she was supporting, EVER contacted her, to say thank you…
… not only that, when she eventually met some of them, their self-entitled arrogance appalled her, not to mention that some of them literally talked down to her, as though they were her superiors…
… she seldom goes to the galleries of these people, any more, and seldom buys SL art.
Another Fairy Tale
Seraphim visited ‘Another Fairy Tale‘, this evening… Cica Ghost seems to be really smashing them out, lately…
… the colours are really beautiful, with that sub-aquatic lighting that Cica Ghost seems to favour…
… whimsical critters in pools of light…
… and plants that look as though Salvador Dali and Hieronymus Bosch designed them together, one night, after they’d both taken acid…
… the only thing Seraphim disliked were the ugly little, flying face creatures, which seemed always to bomb her carefully setup shots, just as she was about to take a picture… she actually had to photoshop out the one that invaded this picture.
100 Levels!
The 100 Levels project recently achieved it’s goal…
… Magnum Yoshikawa announced the building would stay up until the 22 of March, so there’s still time to go to Kowloon and see this wonderful, collaborative construction piece… Seraphim found that the last 20 floors seemed to be a bit bland, like people had run out of ideas, but she still found a few she quite liked…
… they tended to be fairly whimsical…
… Seraphim likes whimsy…
… she popped into her own unit, to check on her hedgehogs, and make sure they were ok spending a few more weeks here… they were fine, spending the day snoozing on the bench, and the night snuffling in the grass for bugs… they also still enjoyed the view, and didn’t even mind the eccentric, French music.
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