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2021年02月21日

The last arts at UWA

Here are some of the last arts that were left at the UWA SIM that was scheduled to shut down last year. The exhibition theme this time was “Gratitude”. This art is “Dream of Gratitude” by Ama Avro. I joined the kids with the Alice clothing. It is one of my joys to select clothing to match each art.




“Thanks - Little monument to the gratitude” by Asperix Asp, a Spanish artist. As I mentioned usually, my photos are not to introduce the arts but different pictures that I took using the arts as material. But I only put myself next to them and never modified the arts themselves. For a person who is interested in the arts of the artists, I put the URL that was attached to the explanatory notecard.
Asperix Asp’s gallery: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Polyakov/56/27/33 




French SL artist Vroum Short; “Sincere gratitude UWA - Humans offer flowers to express their gratitude. For once I want to imitate them. Thank you.” I selected a plain red avatar to match the base color of red. But why does the flood on the floor look like blood?
Vroum Short’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VegetalPlanet




Chic Aeon, a regular artist at UWA, “Point of Focus - Sometimes confused. Sometimes overwhelmed. We look for a point of power and are grateful when inspiration arrives.” Sometimes the art concept might be changed by adding myself in it, but at this time, I hope that me at the center might not be so away out. It is rather difficult to stand on a desirable spot. When it was impossible to stand at the center, I stood a bit apart from the spot and select the camera angle to be seen as it looks. It might be my self-justification not to use any composition when shooting arts.
Chic Aeon’s SIM and gallery: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Moon%20Beach/203/109/2512




“CM Sisters” by Cherry Manga, also a regular artist. Another joy of SL art is to be able to erase everything around to show off the art itself. In a private galley, the stage for exhibition itself might be a part of the art, but in a joint exhibition, sometimes it is better to separate the art from the ambience. Sorry but there was no artist’s explanation notecard for this art but the shape is so cool!




“Thank you for the magic” by Luna Larsen. The artist said in the note card, “I do not pretend to be an artist, I do not pretend to be unique. I do not pretend that I am talented, I am just a human with feelings, trying to show with a little creativity, my world, my imagination. ;- )” But, thank you for the beautiful figure! I wore a wedding dress that I had never a chance to use it in SL. Last but the greatest, thank you again UWA for offering the stage of arts for a long period!






  

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2021年01月31日

Sayonara UWA 4

The SIM of UWA that was scheduled to be shut down last year still exists at the end of January. I walked around the last campus almost every day.




The remaining arts were retrieved one by one, and only the name tags were left behind. It is like a department closing.




Another my favorite site to shoot arts has gone. I took a new-year memorial photo.




In an art with falling snow. Australia is now in summer though…




The Hacket Hall, a museum in the UWA. This may not be similar to the real one. There was a dance ball at the middle. I wore a flat red avatar that I prepared for pictures together of arts.




There were many trees in the front yard like a botanic garden. Very cool campus!




This is in 2011, when I visited UWA at the first time. There were many arts filling the whole space. This was also my first time to encounter the colorful 3D arts. The art contest by UWA was not started yet. There was neither mesh nor sculpture, but it was enjoyable to watch free ideas of young students. Where have all the enthusiasm gone? Long time passing…







  

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2021年01月17日

Sayonara UWA 3

Still there is the SIM of UWA, so I walked around the campus. I have not noticed this corner, an outdoor class room. Was there any lecture here?




A large tree at the front yard. This could be a popular kind of trees in Australia.




This is a similar one that I saw at the botanic garden in Sydney. Please let me know the name.




There are many natural parrots that I saw also in Sydney. They could like pigeons in Japan?




An art of forest spirits holding the Winthrop Hall? I have never been to the Western Australia, but it seems like a beautiful university with full of nature. I would have liked to study abroad there.




Wow there was a Covid19 left behind. According to this damn thing, overseas travels became impossible. I wish that everything goes well within this year.






  

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2021年01月12日

Sayonara UWA 2

The SIM of The University of Western Australia was scheduled to be closed as of the end of last year but still it is in the new year. I took some memorial photos in front of the Winthrop Hall.




The actual Winthrop Hall that I have not visited. It is noted as a tour list spot.




The entrance of the hall that could be also realistic. I wore my best new year kimono as a graduation ceremony.




The inside of the hall. I remember the good old days in a Japanese University, when the principal handed out diploma one by one.




Also, a connecting corridor is a nostalgic spot, where we walked together with friends chatting joyfully or crossed with my heart throbbing senior.




A corridor in SL. Nothing special but it looks meaningful when thinking this is also erased soon.






  

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2020年12月06日

Sayonara UWA

The SIM of UWA (University of Western Australia) that has stopped activity for these years will be closed at the end of this year. Following the LEA, another SL art program will be vanished.




The last exhibition was opened the other day, the theme was Gratitude, at the special stage above the campus.




At the golden age, there were hundreds of arts from over forty countries in the world, that filled multi storied stage. The awarding ceremonies were held at the permanent stage using four SIMs in the sky. Also, there were several full-SIM art projects. This time the exhibition are on a single floor which is not filled up, and there are several posters of past events.




Not so many new displays and some are parts of the past exhibition.




The Winthlop Hall that represents the real one. There had been many arts exhibitions in the front yard. This was the first experience for me to touch the SL arts. Contests were held every month, and I introduced more than 60 artists in my blog. I was privileged with the honor of being one of the judges once. Thank you UWA, for the long period of activities.




Inside of the hall, the chairs are under cleaning up. Lonely graduation ceremony only for me…




The last event the other day. I woke up at 4:00am Japan time, but there were only live music performances and no ceremony. There was only one artist who I know. (Please side-scroll.) On the day I had an appointment for tennis, so I stayed only one hour and went to bed again. Is there any event on the last day at the end of the year? If you were interested in the past exhibition, please crick the UWA in the left “Category” column. The exhibition this time will stay until the end of the year.
UWA: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/University%20of%20WA/76/227/25






  

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2020年03月15日

Joy of 3D arts 3

“Transformation 331 for Humanoids” by Elle Thorkveld. “Everyone in life sometimes hits an obstacle in which, by passing through, they find they are truly transformed. In the future, this may also happen to humanoids. This is an artistic imagining.” This artist depicted the transformation with a change of skin texture. The multi-colored avatar in front changes affected by the wall texture.




There are four avatars set through the transformation but they are not clear. So, I erased the wall to show them. I also would like to experience the change and tried to find the same pose. In the previous article, “Daughter of the Wind”, there was a suitable one in my inventory but it was not this time. The shape looks like the one at the editing shape, so I used it. Since anyone could come into the stage, so I used the plain black skin.




In the art, the skin was influenced with the wall texture but I preferred more free transformation. These are green marble and silver skin that I used sometimes. My original shape is a bit poor for normal days but convenient for shooting since it looks similar to the ones used in arts. It might be somewhat standard shape resultingly.




Even trying to be free, if I would change the shape also, everything could be possible, so I changed the color only. But the one actually I made was the red one on the right end. Once a monotone skin was made, it is easy to change the color on the Photoshop. Also, it is possible to make them with real avatar with using hair and eyeballs that allow color editing.



I have got an approval from UWA to shoot pictures and use them in my blog, but does it cover to modify them?
Please forgive my tricks as a kind of poor parody-arts.
  

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2020年03月11日

Joy of 3D arts 2

UWA art exhibition again, “Daughter of the Wind” by Fae Varriate. This title attracted me as my favorite movie, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind




At the first glance it looked like a simple lace dress in the wind, but second look comfirmed that there is a young girl inside.




I would like to fly with this kind of clothing, but I do not have a suitable one in my inventory. I forced myself in the lace but I cannot find the position since the structure of the dress is not clear. I tried hard but did not get a good result, so I casted off everything and flew around there freely.



UWA Art Gallery: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/UWA/182/142/248




  

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2020年03月08日

Joy of 3D arts 1

One of my hobbies is photograph. To take a picture of 2D arts will end up with a copy of it. The 3D art such as sculpture or installation art makes it possible to shoot from various angle to take my own picture. In addition, 3D arts in SL provides more freedom such as lighting and camera angle even from the top of it. Above them all, it is easier to get approval to shoot pictures in SL. I missed the art events by LEA and UWA, but there are some exhibitions left at UWA.
This is a part of “Venusflytrapp” by claudia222 jewell. The figure protruded from the plant is a human leg.




Like the name of Venus, this is the most beautiful monster I ever met. The shape was not clear in the dark, I erased the surroundings. She is still beautiful in daylight. Sorry for the artist but this is another joy of the art in SL.




“Strange plant ... ugliness and beauty and ccc serpent chair vehicle” by claudia222 jewell, the same artist above. The artist said that this is the first presentation in SL. There was no explanation about this art but I see the same strange beauty as the above spider.




The one next to the above was “The Night Orchid” by Soror Nishi. The layout may not be planned but I felt a good combination. This is also a joy of an exhibition.




A moving art set at the front yard of UWA, “Metempsyche's Garden” by Alizarin Goldflake . Cool figures are coming up and drifted away in the wind. This kind of art is a sight I never tires of. Also, it is fun to find the best timing to shoot pictures.






  

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2020年03月01日

Nude photo again 2

Again from the LEA gallery. "Your virtual self?" by Myra Wildmist. The note said,” This is representation of the light used to construct every virtual identity. The result can be a beautiful statue awaiting the user's identity to give it life.” A cute figure like a girl. Although the hip is wide and the bust is ehough, but why does this look like a young? Could it be because the head is rather large? I have never been in a shape like this. Is this simply an envy for the youth…




"I... io" by Mistero Hifeng. “How far can we lead ourself? Sometimes exceeding the limits means to lose oneself. In the image of the man who dissolves into a thousand pieces, there is all the drama of loneliness and desperation of those who can not go back.”




I love this pose. To expose bosom and throart in front of eyes of a beloved person is to throw away any self conscious and defence and to tender everything. While he is watching me burning off from the head he himself is also breaking up. It is a final happiness to feel him coming a moment later than me falling unconscious…




“The Night Visitor” by Secret Rage. This is a three-dimensional figure of the picture “The Nightmare” by Fuseli. 3D of faomus painting was one of the areas of SL arts. There was a museum for that. One of the LEA project, the huge 3D version of Guernica by Picasso was interesting to be able to walk through the details.




The original painting is awesome. There are two types of 3D paintings in SL; one is to make it truly three-dimensional to make it possible to watch from different angles, and the other is to make the central character vacant to be able to set oneself instead. Unfortunately, this one is neither of them. I would have liked to look into the sleeping face of the lady in the nightmare closely or in profile…




This is my version of The Nightmare from a different angle. It was hard to make this unnatural pose with my avatar. But as a result, my one became too graphic and indecent, so I put a glass plate in front of it. The profi this time on the left is a part of the picture I used.




Instead, I put only my face in the original to get some feeling. But this ended up with a simple sleeping face that does not depict the delicate anguish for the nightmare shown in the original in which the eyeball movement behind the closed eyelid could be felt. The artist is great, needless to say!



UWA Art Gallery: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/UWA/182/142/248
3D-2D. The Yellow House by Gogh: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/UWA/50/33/1302
Old article: Primtings; http://temisirbu.slmame.com/e1168151.html
Project Guernica; http://temisirbu.slmame.com/e1294169.html




  

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2020年02月23日

Nude photo again 1

Women who love camera might had shot herself body at least once, though it is rare to release them to others. When I started SL, I went for self-picture. In SL, it is free to set lightings, camera positions, or poses. Anything was possible at the bottom of the sea where nobody came in. I bought textbooks studying how to shoot, but there is still some difference from the real one, so I got fed up. I visited the UWA show room, which have stopped activity but we can see many favorite arts in the archives. I found some cool figures, so I took off clothing and shoot myself again together with them.

This is "Trascendence despite Poison Rain" by Noke Yuitza. The note card said this art talks about feeling chained to a bad ending with a beloved due lack or bad communication and how this one is then like poison rain. I cannot follow it but the nude pose under the rain is impressive.




The exhibition at UWA is one of the few galleries where I was allowed to shoot and use it in a blog. I like to shoot myself together with arts, so I put myself next to the figures this time too. My body looks similar to the one used in the art, though my torso is rather long and the busts are poor in normal life.




The sub-figure in a silhouette. Slender limbs, slim waist, and the fingers are also beautiful




I tried to copy the figure in front of the backdrop. The fat legs and a bit bulgy tummy are my character. I prefer a bit longer arms but this is the limit of the avatar.






  

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