Second Life's 8th Birthay approaching - and I'm in!

We are just two days away from the start of the 8th Birthday Celebration of Second Life SL8B. The sims open on June 20, 10 am SLT. All in all 21 regions will show many aspects of Second Life. The past two weeks artists and builders have been busy setting up their plots for the viewers. And yours truly was among them.
To follow this year's theme "The Magic of Second Life" I decided on an installation named "The Magic of Second Life is: YOU!!!". As this title says, I tried to portray those who make Second Life what it really is: the Residents. Without them the grid would just be a bunch of servers that run a highly complex software. But, the residents are the ones who bring it all to life.
I don't want to give too many spoilers here. I will only say as much, that my build is full of little scenes, which will only come to life, if you step inside. So, if you visit my plot, don't just cam around. Go inside and take part in the magic world of Second Life. And on the way out, don't forget to take the t-shirts with you.
I had a lot of luck with placement this year around. My plot is on the Astonish-sim, right behind the Auditorium. You can easily find it, because it's the middle one of three installations on seaside, which are all held in the prime colors RGB and yellow.
Admittedly, there are fancier builds than mine. I tried to keep it simple and focused on the message. So i went with very basic texturing, forms and figurines.
It was a lot of fun building the installation - and I hope the visitors will enjoy it as much as I do.

Opening at Ice Caverns Art Gallery

After a few weeks of hybernating, I am definitely back in action. One of the main reasons is my new show, starting tomorrow at noon SLT at the Ice Caverns Art Gallery in the Alpine Executive Center. I will be showing brand new work. A new series called 'feathers' in continuation of my focus on SL-nature series. I am very honored to be invited by such a fine gallery, following in the footsteps of many famous SL-artists. The show opens at 12 pm (noon) SLT and I hope to see many of you there. It's also a chance to celebrate the art of four other wonderful sl-artists in this thrilling setting. If you want to know more about Ice Caverns Art Gallery, click here. Or see videos of their past shows. See you there!

The Burn2-project is well under way

Not much time left until the Burn2-Festival opens. October 16 is the big day. For all the artists and builders involved this is a extremely busy, but also fun and rewarding time. Aeonia Artist Group has - as I previously said - 5 plots and 1 theme camp to fill. And our project is well under way. All plots are coming to live - one of them even is close to completion.

Unfortunately I cannot show you any of the work we have done so far, due to burn2-regulations. But what I can show you is: Burners (as the people involved with the Burning Man are called) don't only work hard. They party hard, too. A big chunk of them took time off last night to come together to film the trailer-machinima for the Burn2-festival. And they were burning for sure! It's just an amazing bunch of hugely creative people coming together to create what has been - and hopefully will remain to be - one of Second Life's benchmark events. Expect to be amazed, when the doors of the two week long - open 24 hours a day - festival are opened. See robots, ants, crawlers, dancers, crazy vehicles, architechture, stories and lots and lots and lots of fire. And above all: be at some of the events running 24/7 at the four Burn-sims.

Burn 2 is coming! YAY!

Haven't posted anything here in a long while. Well, too many happenings inworld have kept me busy. But the ones following my art have probably seen my latest exhibitions.
For instance at my Main Gallery or maybe at the all new location of SLACC or Tiatopia  (which are both on the SL-Destination Guide now) or my small shows at Park Galleries or Gualdo.

New RL-Pictures

I have decided to also show a couple of my rl-picture sets. I will talk about these later on. Just this much: A small selection of pictures from the Hawaiian Islands of Kauai and Molokai can presently (Sept./Oct.) be seen at the A.R.T. Gallery at New Boston. Please pay the show a little visit as with Autopilotpaddy Poopy and Mary Rosebud two other great artistshave their work on display.

And now off to BURN2

Now...not trying to be overly excited...but then I am. The new Burn 2 Festival is approaching and the Aeonia Arts Group is part of it!
As regulations go, I cannot and will not tell you much about it. Just this little bit: Aeonia Arts Group has won a Theme Camp and aditionally has 5 plots under it's control. So we are going big. All six plots will be running within the same theme which we have developed over the past weeks. On the left side you can see a picture of Ally Aeon and me exploring the (still empty) plots that we got.
BURN 2 is going to be a great experience for all of us, as we have never pulled off something this big as a group - not even with our haiti-fundraiser at the start of the year.
So definitely mark October 16 through 25 in your calendars and go to http://www.burn2.org/ for more information.
In the mean time visit us at Aeonia where there is always plenty of great art to be seen.
BTW: Aeonia Artist Group besides me and Ally is: Penelope Parx, Pete Jiminy, Nik Gandt, Miki Bizet, lala Lightfoot, Visceral Dreamscape plus a growing number of Guest Artists that pay us a visit and work with us.