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Natthimmel is different… again…

… just as beautiful…

… gorgeous, scifi sky and palette…

… surreal scifi…

… but, you know us… it was the shore…

… a shore of dreams…

… and the stunning fields…

… the grasses moving gently… these were the things we liked most.

We recently visited this exhibition at ‘The Annex of Nitroglobus Roof Gallery‘…

… this is a lush, rich-hued presentation, both the space, and the work…

… there’s a demented cat…

… whose antics took my attention from these beautiful works, but only for a little while…

… this is a sumptuously appointed gallery space, the space as much a part of the experience as the work, which is always nice…

… I always appreciate the amount of work, especially attention to fine-tuned detail that goes into setting up an installation like this…

… it helps if the work is as beautiful as these are (:

We visited the ‘The Ghost Has No Name’ exhibition, at the ‘Artsville Galleries‘, recently…

… we really liked both the space, and the work…

… beautiful, dream-Rorschach-like imagery…

… we liked them all. They are very reasonably priced, but there was no way we could sensibly buy all of them, so we settled for four…

… the gallery has an upstairs ‘party’ space, and a lovely courtyard…

… the courtyard is kinda zen…

… the ‘party’ space is kinda industrial…

… we totally enjoyed the time we spent, here (:

‘Hmmm… dreaming I’m waiting in a hallway’…

… ‘aww, your’e in my dream, too, sweetheart’…

… ‘how do you know you’re not in mine?’, she coyly replied…

… ‘that’s a very valid question, my little Lepidoptera’, I answered…

… ‘perhaps we’re really here?’, she then asked…

… ‘yes, I think we are.’…

… ‘It’s a very nice dream, if that’s what it is.’ She said…

… ‘It sure is, my little love.’…

… ‘oh, look, here comes the end…’

It’s been years since I got so desperate for new, interesting locations, that I played around with photographic prop backdrops. This staircase is something that always draws me to it in builds, so when I saw it was on sale for half price, recently, I went and grabbed it, and we set it up on my blank-slate sky platform. I added one of my Midjourney works for the backdrop to the backdrop…

… and proceeded to play…

… the world has turned strange, weird things are afoot, these are troublous times…

… it’s best just to go with the flow…

… make sure you are as fit and healthy as you can be…

… freaking out about the magnitude of what’s happening is counter-productive…

… wow!… shouldn’t have looked back…

… it’s ok to freak out a little bit…

… then just get it together…

… and move forward…

… what’s next?

FlutterBye and I visited ‘Pandora‘, yesterday…

… this is a lush, verdant, alien planetary surface…

… the gorgeous flora put us in mind of a sci-fi Rousseau painting…

… apart from the really beautiful foliage, the place seems to be some kind of convention centre…

… which is set in these alien gardens…

… there was more to the sim, but it was one of those ‘members only past here’ deals, and those just annoy us because they instantly change the situation from ‘come and see our beautiful sim’, to ‘come and pay to see our beautiful sim’.

We visited ‘Between the Worlds‘, this morning. This is a gallery of AI-generated art…

… this is, by far, the coolest such venue we have seen in SL, since AI art made everyone an ‘artist’, and some of the best AI art we’ve seen here, too…

… there is a lot of lady-boy imagery, here (sorry… non-binary) which is fine if that’s your speed, but I prefer my pretty girls to be girls…

… images like these are totally my speed! As someone who was addicted to producing AI art for a year or so, I appreciate that these images are more than just someone using an AI art generator as a paint-by-numbers exercise…

… this was my favourite… really gorgeous… this is, for me, the epitome of the level of AI art you can create, if you put the work in; it’s not cliched, there’s a story here, and the whole thing is beautifully cohesive…

… wonderful stuff…

… the gallery, itself, which is advertised as a ‘hangout space’, is really pretty.

We recently visited Hillvale Beach…

… now we know why the Baja Coast and Hillvale builds all look so similar… they are all part of the same real estate venture…

… we particularly liked the well-signposted rentals, here; no nasty, sudden, unexpected evictions…

… we love this Fallout/Bio-Shock vibe…

… these are beautifully crafted builds…

… at Hillvale Beach you can access the beach via a path between rentals, without fear of petty, spiteful evictions that don’t give you any time to work out where the fucking line you crossed was… which is always nice…

… the sky, here, makes me think of Dhalgren (by Samuel Delaney), not that this particular celestial display occurs in that story, but strange things do happen in the sky, in a nameless city where reality collides with… well, with something…

… I suspect genuine design skill behind these builds…

… none of them has a single miss-placed element, and they all form a wonderfully cohesive whole.

We visited Hillvale Bay, yesterday…

… if there was a ‘starter kit’ for the Baja Coast builds, then the Hillvale Bay people used everything from that box…

… then added a few extra bits…

… there’s a lot more glorious, Fallout-style clutter, here… even one of the tunes used in Fallout, playing on a 50’s-style radio…

… it’s very pretty…

… and makes a wonderful backdrop…

… for colourful images of the apocalypse.