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What are you Reading?

Book Lovers

Well, since my teens i am a hard-core science fiction fan (Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin, Aldous Huxley, Frank Herbert etc...). I know not many people appreciate this genre, but i am addicted lol.

What attracts me is the fact that they all start with an idea, and try to work it out like its reality. And most of all i love that they think about all the possible consequences and moral implications of new inventions or technology.

Some of those authors are true visionaries. Lots of the technology they described later became reality in some way or another. The Virtual Worlds we explore are already a form of Sci-Fi that came true...

(And yes i have also read my classics, like Verne, Shelley and Wells hehe)

Right now i am reading the first Sci-Fi book written by one of my actual favorite German Authors Marcus Heitz.

The earth has been reduced to one pile of junk, humanity has taken his problems with him into the galaxy, and then they get in touch with a new mysterious alien race called "the collectors..." Guess what they are gonna collect....

[M] New... CARRIAGES!?!? (HUH?! I thought she made dresses!)

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Hehe, i Fully approve with this new seal of approval

And btw, those carriages are YUMMIEEEE !!!!!

Black Court Gown from Trefusis Designs :)

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Mmmhhh... another way to translate is "Mistress of Darkness..." *starts to wonder*

Official opening of the Académie de Peinture et de Sculpture

Social Announcements & Introductions

Dear Friends, lovers of Music, Art and Beauty,

I am very proud to present you the birth of the new Acadmie de Peinture et de Sculpture .

The Official opening will be today the 29th of July at 02.00 pm SLT next to the Languedoc Ballroom.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Languedoc%20Coeur/56/55/47

I am especially honored to have so many talented Visual Artists who are willing to exhibit a sample of their work there. Most of them have given me a short biography, which i wanna share here with you.
The Acadmie will be permanently open to the public, and i do hope we will get many artists who are gonna show their work there in the future.

I hope you will enjoy the exhibition, and watch out for regulary art-related events in the immediate future. We are planning lectures about art and art history, general discussions about art and many many more.

If you want to join the group, please call me for an invitation.

P. Panacek, Chirurgien de Coeur.

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First, let me give you some historical explanation (with many thanks to the infamous "Encyclopedia Wikipedia").

The Acadmie royale de peinture et de sculpture (Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture), Paris, was founded in 1648, modelled on Italian examples, such as the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. Paris already had the Acadmie de Saint-Luc, which was a city artist guild like any other Guild of Saint Luke. The purpose of this academy was to professionalize the artists working for the French court and give them a stamp of approval that artists of the St. Luke's guild did not have.

In 1661, it came under the control of Jean-Baptiste Colbert who made the arts a main part in the glorification of Louis XIV. From 1683 on, it reached its greatest power under the directorship of Charles Le Brun with its hierarchy of members and strict system of education. In 1749 the cole des lves Protgs was set up as a separate school within the Acadmie, to give three years' specialist training to winners of the Prix de Rome so that they might make better use of their time in Rome - its alumni included Pierre Julien, Jean Guillaume Moitte and Jean-Joseph Foucou.

On August 8, 1793, the Acadmie was suspended by the revolutionary National Convention, when the latter decreed the abolition of "toutes les acadmies et socits littraires patentes ou dotes par la Nation".

It was later renamed Acadmie de peinture et de sculpture.

The "Acadmie de peinture et sculpture" is also responsible for the Acadmie de France in the villa Mdicis in Rome (founded in 1666) which allows promising artists to study in Rome.

In 1816, it was merged with the Acadmie de musique (Academy of Music, founded in 1669) and the Acadmie d'architecture (Academy of Architecture, founded in 1671), to form the Acadmie des beaux-arts, one of the five academies of the Institut de France.

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Artist biographies:

Kayly lali

I started into abstracts to deal with an anxiety. It has allowed me to explore and bring out hidden feelings that otherwise would not come out.

As a calligrapher of western letter-forms, I had been intrigued with the use of letter strokes. Like the Chinese and Japanese calligraphers of the past, their goals was to go beyond readability of letters into the abstractions of the forms but yet delivers a powerful feeling.

Using a wide house paintbrush, I manipulate it to create strokes of western letters yet unidentifiable to leave an impression on the viewer.
I welcome any comments of your interpretations. Feel free to IM me.

Fae Varriale

Fae came into SL with no experience of art and photography but, touched by the creativity she saw around her, soon found taking the occasional snapshot turned into a love of creating original artworks.

In December 2009 she put her first pictures up on Flickr, where she discovered a rich community of SL artists whose work inspired her to explore her own creativity further. Drawing on the diversity of beautiful and unusual landscapes and the ability to change appearance to almost anything you wish, Fae uses photographs taken inworld as the basis for her pictures.

As a keen builder she soon also developed a passion for creating 3D art & kinetic sculptures,creations of woven light and motion.
She is also involved in creating installations as part of mixed media performance space, incorporating live music, storytelling and dance and is the creator of stagesets for the Independant Ballet Company and DiversionzDance.

Fae has exhibited at Wash Street, gallery 4, Tiatopia Fine Arts Gallery, Pyramid Gallery, Dark Draconis Gallery, Gallery Arctica, Rose Gallery and gallery 23. She was also awarded a prize in the unscripted category from UWA for one of her sculptures.

Fae is the owner and co manager of Branwen Arts Centre which houses a gallery, exhibition space and theatre.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fae_varriale/

Milly Sharple

Milly Sharple has been creating fractals for the past 6 years working mostly with the software Apophysis. She creates soft, flowing, liquid effects rather than the more technical kind of fractal art. Her inspiration is nature and her own moods are often reflected in the art she produces. She enjoys creating images on light backgrounds as much as on dark ones and enjoys a vibrant palette as often as a muted one.

Antenna Rae

The work I am showing in Second Life is mostly abstract. I am interested in color as expression and the balance or imbalance of light and dark. I often work very intuitively, sometimes not even knowing what a piece is about until I am well into it.
I like to hear what people see in my artwork. As much as I like to hear that they see what I see, I am delighted when I encounter different perspectives on and interpretations of my work.

I've worked as an artist in different ways over the years. I started out as a scenic artist and properties artisan for theater and opera companies in the US. I studied art education and now teach private lessons and small classes in my studio. I've been painting in watercolor specifically for about 10 years and after having painted realistically and trompe l'oeil for theater, I'm enjoying working in the abstract. In addition to painting and teaching from my studio in real life, I work as an artist-in-residence in a hospital.

Many of the pieces available in Second Life are also available in real life as originals or prints. Contact me inworld or email me at antennarae@gmail.com if you are interested in knowing more about a piece.

Sheba Blitz

Sheba Blitz is a RL and SL artist who exclusively paints Mandalas. Mandalas are ancient & mystical symbols of the universe. And the way of the "peaceful path".

Classically in the form of a circle (the Cosmos) enclosing a square (Earthbound matter). My Mandalas generally contain what is called a quarternity or a multiple of four. This squaring of the circle is a common archetypal image of wholeness and order.

Sheba was born and lives in Australia. Has studied, explored and accumulated many Art Diplomas from different art processes since 1968. But always returns to geometric, symmetrical design, painting and creating Mandalas in mixed media.

Mandalas are seen as sacred places by their very presence in the world, and remind the viewer of the immanence of sanctity in the universe and it's potential to themselves. And that there is a way to follow the "peaceful path". They are a means to discover divinity, by the realization that it resides within one's own self.

Melusina Parkin

Melusina Parkin was born in SL in 2008, and since 2009 she works as CEO at MEB Fashion. Since 2010 she has her own furniture brand, Melu Deco and she decorated by her furniture many cafes, offices, private homes and fashion agencies, renewing the taste of Art Deco style.
She holds a blog ( www.justmelusina.blogspot.com ) and a Flickr, where are pics of almost all MEB Fashion shows, of great SL paces, of vintage culture, of Art Deco architecture of SL. ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/ ).
Shes also chief editor of the magazine Esselle ( http://blog.libero.it/EEMM/ ), writing there mostly about fashion.
Since 2011, Melusina takes part in the Photographes de InterSIM group, based in Paris 1900, and started to exhibit her works.
Her inspiration mostly comes from her curiosity for SL atmospheres and meaningful places.
Not all the Melusina's pics are for sale at the places where they are displayed: to buy the ones not set for sale, pls, contact the author inworld by IM or notecard.

Helendar Bailey

Hello I am Helendar Bailey. I'm from Europe, Serbia, 29 years old, I do painting since 2004. I want to introduce You with my artwork.
Paintings are handmade in real life. Acrylic on canvas and dry pastel. My inspiration is LOVE.
I had several solo and many group exhibitions in real life. And this is my start of exposure in SL Enjoy! Greetngs, Helendar

Sheba Blitz

I began creating fractals in April of 2010 after enjoying the wonderful works of the artists here. Prior to that time, i worked with acrylics and jewelry making.

I love the creativity in SL and the different styles of art from all around the world. the creativity and friendly, helpful artists from around the world never cease to amaze me!
I hope you enjoy my work and please feel free to message me with your comments.

El Eiren

I was born in Cuernavaca Mexico way to long ago. My father was British and my mother was half Mayan and half Portuguese. My father lived in San Francisco and my mother cared for the family business and extended family in Cuernavaca and Vera Cruz. I spent most of my summers with my father in either San Francisco or London.

I matriculated with a degree in Fine Arts from The University of California at Berkeley and completed a MFA at Antioch. I have sketched and painted since I was a boy. I spent a number of years working as a cinematographer for the California Department of /Education before returning to Mexico City where I attended medical school and completed a residency in General Surgery. I then entered a fellowship in Neurology in Great Britain, which led to training in Neurosurgery. My profession has been Neurosurgery,; my avocation remains the fine arts.

Briawinde Magic

I began creating fractals in April of 2010 after enjoying the wonderful works of the artists here. Prior to that time, i worked with acrylics and jewelry making.

I love the creativity in SL and the different styles of art from all around the world. the creativity and friendly, helpful artists from around the world never cease to amaze me!

I hope you enjoy my work and please feel free to message me with your comments.

Candace Ducatillon

SL found Candace Ducatillon in 2007, and in that time, the realms of discovery have been, and continue to be, quite the voyage.

In addition to the genuine friendships formed with people from around the globe, and our shared adventures, one of the opportunities I cherish most in this grid existence is the relaxation and joy derived from capturing moments and musings that give me pause along the way in this journey ... art I simply refer to as ... REALMS.

I am proud to be displayed here in the Duche de Coeur, the area I choose to call home in SL.

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New Releases from Trefusis designs- Court gowns & One Justacorps-

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Ehhrrmmm, ehhrrmmm.... even without my beloved wifes 'hint' I would have come to your shop. A nice men's suit is rare indeed.... (nice job !)

Seafaring Mariner Line... in Le Grenier du Château

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Another line of fine clothing for men... What would we be without our Master Taylor, monsieur Beaumont...

*starts counting his sous at his desk... "Stoooorrrmmmmyyyyyyyyy ?????"*

New blog - "Andronica's Wolfish Thoughts"

Bloggers' Corner

Lady Llewellyn, i really enjoyed your Blog entry. Looking forward to read more . Being a time-traveler myself i do understand your stress. (Do you also use Aspirine to reduce the headaches)

Keep up the good work And i do hope we can meet one day inworld.

Your Loyal servant, Dr. Panacek P. War Surgeon.

How about a Dressmakers Class?

General Discussion

Maybe this will sound strange (believe me in have done stranger things in my lives), but i would like to attend these classes too... (i promise i bring champagne and cake for everyone)

Fundraiser to Support Royal Courts Ning Site

General Discussion

Now that we reached this goal... can we go on to the next subject please? Who wants to donate some Urine Samples for the medical cause? Flasks at your disposal at the practice....

About laughter and other sins.

General Discussion

Dear fellow Courtiers,

recent events have finally driven me to take my quill and a parchment and spill some ink on a certain important matter: HUMOUR.

What on earth are we talking about? Let me look up some definition first.
"Humour or humor is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humors (Latin: humor, "body fluid"), control human health and emotion." (source: the infamous Wikipedia)

I bet you are all familiar with the first novel by the Italian author Umberto Eco: "The Name of the Rose".
It was the first, but certainly not the last book i read from him (forget the Da Vinci Code, read the real stuff: "Foucault's Pendulum").
The plot: Franciscan friar William of Baskerville (in the movie played by a brilliant as always Sean Connery) and a Benedictine novice Adso of Melk travel to a Benedictine monastery in Northern Italy to attend a theological disputation. There have been a number of unexplained deaths (murders) and they try to solve this "whodunnit".
As the story evolves, it becomes clear that all the death monks have read a secret book, a semi-mythical work by Aristotle which heretically declares laughter as the only escape from the doctrine of Universal Truth. The fanatic Librarian monk wants laughter to be destroyed, because people who laugh and make fun of things, possibly would make fun of God himself, and turn the (Catholic) world into chaos.

I always enjoyed coming to this ning site, because it was a well mix of historically correct posts, and funny, often satirical ones. Some pictures make me say "wow" (gazing at the beauty of historical costumes and buildings), others made me laugh. Personally i need both. For me SL was and shall always be an escape from the Real World. I have a very demanding job in RL, working with people who have become victim of tragedies, traumatized human beings, individuals who have lost all meaning of life, who are extremely sad and depressed. Who have lost all sense of joy, laughter and ... humour.
The moment i see the first smile appear on their face during the therapeutic process, i know they are slowly healing.

There are many forms of humour. First of all there is the subtle, catchy form of humour which actually started to bloom in our beloved 18th Century. Those days one saw the rise of a new kind of humorous author: the wit. A wit is usually a person who can make quick, wry comments in the course of a conversation. My friend Lord de Verne is a master in this genre. So he really is a man of the Enlightenment (i never doubted that anyway).
Then you have the dry 'British' kind of humor. My friend Cpt. Gedenshire masters this genre like no other. Furthermore we have the satire (yes a certain sculpted cow falls under this category), the black humour, the self relativating humour, the humour as a defence mechanism (to overcome anxiety) and many others.
And last but not least the absurd, surreal humour. I am personally a huge fan of this genre. Thinking of this, one name immediately comes into my mind: "Monty Pythons Flying Circus". Only one word for it : B R I L L I A N T. And... timeless. Most of the sketches still look very fresh and some of the themes they card are still actual. In some ways those guys were visionary.
I am not playing a very serious character here (although people who really know me hopefully realize that i am very serious in RL, and if i post something i always do research on the historical accuracy of the content). BUT, I love to behave absurd, and some of my posts, read for instance my 'sailing adventures', are just intended for my own amusement and to cheer people up. If i am getting a smile on someones face, for me its "mission accomplished".

That brings us to another point: satire. Often related to dark humour. The Pythons pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable in style and content. But at some episodes they certainly will have offended some institutions or persons. "The Meaning of Life" (1983), contained a great deal of black humour (including an exploding man), and after its release the Pythons confessed they wanted "to offend everyone".
The border between satire and "over the top" is sometimes thin. What is funny for one person can be very offending for another. Again i refer to our 18th century were a lot of satire was written. Voltaire for instance wrote a lot of satirical pamflets on the Catholic Church, censorship and the French civil rights (or the lack of it).
As you all know the history of medicine is my specific topic of interest. In the 18th century they published a lot of satirical 'cartoonesque' drawings about doctors and their (lack of) knowledge. Some are really funny to see.
Satire is meant to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement. Although satire is usually meant to be funny, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit as a weapon. Satire is necessary for every community to kick them a conscience. Off course, its not always appreciated. One certainly recalls the recent fact that many people died worldwide because of some satirical cartoons published in a Danish newspaper. Although those cartoons certainly testified of very bad taste, the reaction of lots of people worldwide really stupefied and horrified me.

Some sculpted cow falls not only under the category of satire but also under that one of fables. A fable is a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized (given human qualities), and that illustrates a moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be expressed explicitly in a pithy maxim. I never realized that persons like Jean de La Fontaine or Hans Christian Andersen could be cataloged as perverts promoting bestiality. Lets rate them 18 + instead of storytellers for children ?
My SL partner loves to anthropomorphe her beloved animals and give them certain human "qualities". Like her Peacock Dorian, named after "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (vanity you remember?). Courtsie Cow is also a sweet satire on frivolity and vanity. Two properties well known to court life in the 18th century.

Where is the boundary between humour, satire and bad taste? What is acceptable to a community and what not? Not very easy questions to answer. On the contrary. One can argue about this for ages. As long as one argues in respect and tries to come to a consensus.

BUT, banning all humour, insulting and demonizing comedy writers and painters, and strictly getting 'back to serious stuff', is WRONG. It isn't even wrong, its dammm DANGEROUS. It leads to people hurting people, it leads to FEAR and fanaticism and extremism. We all know where that ends. I already see the signs here: people who are getting anxious to publish or comment. People who are apologizing, because they are afraid to have hurt others. People who delete nice posts because they are fearing to be demonized...
Not that long ago the Python sketch about "the witch" was posted here. We laughed at it... Well, now regarding it again... it leaves a bitter taste in my mouth...

I come from a country were every inch is covered in blood. Flanders has been the battlefield of Europe for ages. Every corner breaths history here. My maternal grandparents flew for the enemy to France, my maternal granddad was captured and forced to go work as a forced laborer in Germany. My paternal granddad was member of the resistance. As a kid, my dad saw the prison camp not far from here, where prisoners of war where tortured and killed, or send to the concentration camps. Not much humour left in those days... If persons take themselves too serious, it leads to catastrophes like this.
Humour is an essential human right. It makes you think, sometimes it puzzles you. Sometimes you laugh out loud, sometimes you grin a bit wry. Its all part of the process. Nothing wrong with it, on the contrary, its en essential weapon against bitterness, grief, hate and sadness.


A society that bans humour or satire, that controls what others say or think is INSANE. We live in the age of Enlightenment here don't we? What use is it to study history if we don't LEARN any lessons out of it? Last events didn't only made me sad, but even worse, they let me almost loose my sense of humour...


Pekel.

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