Earendel Rising

The first thing that struck us, when we arrived at Earendel Rising, was the brobdingnagian scale of the place…

… this ‘building’ is like some Third Reich lunatics acid dream… we hardly saw any other avi’s here, but the ones we did see were always huddled around the few actual people-scaled places…

… the upper levels are vaguely places a living being might feel comfortable…

… but, historically, and certainly psychologically…

… this kind of architectural scale is designed to awe, if not to straight out intimidate…

… this is a place for giants and megalomaniacs…

… not for tiny beings…

… I’m not running it down…

… it’s a wonderful build…

… but the size is overwhelming…

… it’s not really a ‘building’…

… it’s more of a massive, tiered plaza…

… multiple, stacked, pseudo-classical/brutalist spaces…

… where people go…

… to feel small, and insignificant. Still, as I said, it’s a spectacular build, and definitely worth a visit, so you can make up your own mind about whether you feel comfortable, or irrelevant, here.

Currently at Soho

Currently, hung in my Soho gallery, are 8 images from my ‘Dream Fashion’ series…

… I really love these images…

… I love the rich detail…

… the lush palette…

… but what I like most…

… is the feeling of tranquility….

… and even bliss…

… that I get from these beautiful images.

New Hanging

We hung my latest work in our Artemis gallery, the other day. I put one downstairs, and five upstairs. The downstairs one now means my newest Mj work is now sharing space with my oldest Mj work. Though my Mj work has definitely matured since I first begun playing with it, nearly a year ago, now, I still really like those first works, and feel they nicely compliment my latest work…

… I absolutely love these latest images…

… not only are they exactly what I wanted Mj to depict…

… but I also seem to have perfected getting Mj to give me consistent, relevant backgrounds…

… as I said in a recent post, I achieve what I want to get from Mj by actually not doing what everyone else seems to do! I’ve found I get my best results from constant reiteration of promising images with very limited prompts…

… and by liberal use of ‘re-rolling’, and the ‘Vary-Strong’ tool…

… it has all payed off with these gorgeous, rich images…

… that convey exactly the amount of drama…

… and majesty that I wanted them to…

… splendidly evoking the stories in my head (:

GBTH-Art Incubator

Today we visited the Art Incubator space…

… there are 8 gallery spaces here, each showing a different artist…

… each space is obviously decorated by the artist…

… so they are all unique…

… there’s some good art, here, and I really enjoyed the interesting spaces…

… there’s a wide variety of styles here, too.

Panjin

Yesterday, Flutterbye and I visited beautiful Panjin…

… this is a wonderfully minimalist build…

… apparently based on a real location in China…

… it is mostly a vast sea of red plants…

… with just a few, perfectly placed objects…

… if you know me, you know I adore this type of scenery…

… the vast red plant field leads down to a small beach, into which several streams also flow from the red acres…

… apart from the red ground cover, it is very similar to any tidal estuary/plane my human has encountered in New Zealand, so we would imagine that high tide would cover this red verdancy…

… hence the boardwalk… the red growth must look amazing beneath the water…

… we stood and watched the frozen sunset…

… our back to a Martian field, in a world eternally approaching twilight.

Kaleidoscope – Monarch Education Project

As a way of making up for my recent neglect of her, I took my sweet little Lepidoptera to Kaleidoscope…

… which is a sanctuary for beautiful Monarch butterflies…

… and an educational resource…

… Flutter was delighted, she kept whispering ‘sisters…’, she knows they can’t hear her, I think she was just marvelling at so many similar, beautiful, fluttering creatures in one place…

… we ambled through the tidy walkways…

… everywhere the glory of these amazing creatures, the soft rustle of thousands of tiny wings…

… there is a cave behind this waterfall for you to explore…

… at the foot of the waterfall are happy critters…

… my baby and I had a lovely time here…

… and I’m pretty sure she’s forgiven me (:

Natthimmel

I decided it has been far too long since I took Flutter exploring…

… so I took her to Natthimmel…

… ‘Isn’t this pretty, sweetheart?’ I asked her…

… she pretended not to hear. She only does that when she’s pissed at me…

… ‘Aww, baby, come here!’ I crooned, trying to catch her for butterfly cuddles, but she wouldn’t come close enough…

… ‘I’m sorry, my darling, I didn’t mean to leave you alone for so long’ I said…

… she still didn’t answer, but she came closer to me…

… eventually she whispered ‘I missed you’…

… ‘I’m sorry, Flutterbye, I’ll try to spend less time in Midjourney’ I replied, feeling pretty selfish…

… after a while she said ‘Yes, Seri, it’s very pretty here’…

… I’ve been so absorbed with Mj, these past months, I’d actually forgotten how much I enjoy photographing new destinations…

… and, of course, I’d left Flutter alone, all that time. I’ll have to make it up to her (:

June Gallery Update

Flutter and I finally got around to updating the work in our Soho gallery, and in our Venezia gallery (unfortunately Firestorm wouldn’t let me copy SLURL’s when I tried to get them for this post… first time that’s ever happened)…

… the Soho gallery now features 8 of the images from my first ‘Dream Fashion’ post…

… you can now stand in front of them and see them in all their gorgeousness…

… I’ve been so pre-occupied with creating this work…

… I’ve hardly been in SL for months, now…

… the images on the first two floors of the Venezia gallery are some of the ones I created when I first perfected my ‘magic word prompt’ technique…

… they, too…

… look glorious when you can actually stand in front of them.

Hopefully I’ll be able to get the SLURL’s next time I try (:

Slipstream Exhibition

I put a new exhibition in my home gallery, today… it’s been a while, so it was nice to see new work, there. The exhibition is called ‘Slipstream’, and it’s most of the images from my last three posts…

… I love these images…

… I feel they are the strongest images I’ve so far created in Mj…

… especially this one, which is my favourite…

… but only by a little bit…

… I really like them all, I love the relative consistency of the character across multiple images…

… and I’ve totally succeeded in creating the kind of look I wanted…

… they are so strong, they are creating their own story.

Zombie Beach Bunnies

Toward the end of my Beach Bunnies/Weird Apocalypse project, I created these Zombie Bunnies. The Weird Apocalypse effected the bunnies in different ways. These ones didn’t get turned into actual bunny-analogs, unfortunately for them, the apocalypse just killed them, but in such a way that their brains didn’t realise it…

… this left them roaming the beaches, still. Although they were no longer their sharp-witted selves, they were still smart enough to notice that the sun was causing their previously gorgeous bodies to rapidly decay…

… so they all moved into the shallows, just off the beaches they so loved. They now spend their days eating fish, and roaming around, longing for volleyball games, and dance parties they can no longer go to…

… you can see these sad, decayed beauties at my Soho gallery (: