Georgia

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Puffball/71/135/21/?title=PRAKA%20Fine%20Arts%20Gallery&msg=Sledge%20Roffo%27s%20%22Georgia%22 Saturday, December 11 6-8 pm Opening Event at PRAKA gallery In this series, a challenging one I might add, I attempted some Georgia O'Keefe itype mages using only one prim shape - the torus. I wrote about this series months ago and this opportunity for a solo show presented itself - thanks to Morgana. The poster is fantastic! Updated: The Opening is a Success and still going strong! Here's a little something someone wrote about it: http://nordanomjorden.wordpress.com/2010/12/12/review-praka-twilight/

Dots and optical Illusions

Cool stuff........due in part to exact complimentary color usage.

Dot Crazy - Yayoi Kusama

She is 80 now...but was avant-garde in years past. She is crazy for dots!

http://www.yayoi-kusama.jp/e/happening/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq0LXh3sais

E-Motion in Berlin

This is a picture of my entry into the E-Motion contest - "Prism Angst" This scripted sculpture received 121 jury votes - with the top jury votes at 125 - :) But the real winners got the public votes too...and they all cool! Here were the rules:

1. The artwork has to be new and created exclusively for this specific contest.2. The topic is "eMotion" This has two meanings, "electronic motion" and "emotion" in the sense of "moving the mind"3. Something has to "move" in the artwork, either animations, particles or through scripts. Flat pictures without movement are not accepted.4. You can use up to 25 prims.5. One piece per participant!6. As usual in my contests there will be a public and a jury panel voting.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berlin%20Capital%20City/220/124/2

The sculpture is for sale. Come look at all the entries! 300 visitors so far....

The City Burns!!!

Burn2 ends.........the city burns today...explodes tonight!

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Burning%20Man-Bordello/35/167/25

Here Comes the Sun

Welcome to the City! This picture of our build was taken by Honour McMillan for her blog http://honour-mcmillan.blogspot.com/ Jewel and I had fun again on the Playa. It runs from October 16-24. Soundy did it again and provided some great sounds that add to the work. Jewel's textures of the city were awesome and take a look at the sillouettes in some of the windows! :) Great fun! Click on the sunburst and change the colors and initiate some new sounds. Turn the music stream off to hear the sounds or turn it on and do some dancing in the streets!

THE DIORAMA OF SECOND LIFE

After a few weeks of working on the small plot for BURN2 I acquired, I've come to realize that the work would be well represented on a tilted plane like a diorama, with a background of distant objects, a false perspective, with objects in the front much larger than those farther away. This is done to reinforce the illusion through depth perception of viewing a larger space— in this case a city based loosely on New York City. The background will be on a curved surface so that the viewer is not distracted by corners, seams, or edges. All of these techniques are means of presenting a realistic view of a large scene in a compact space-- an attempt at binocular perception of depth.

I enjoyed an interesting bit of history researching the typical diorama --the Daguerre Dioramas from Paris in the early 1800s. The Daguerre Diorama was a theatrical experience viewed by an audience in a highly specialized theatre in which large landscape paintings were viewed. The audience rotated on a massive turntable to see several scenes. These Daguerre Dioramas often had two paintings, but in some cases there were three. They consisted of semi-transparent linens that overlapped in a deep tunnel to create the depth the artist wanted to convey through manipulation of natural light, making the scene change like a live-action movie. The inventor and proprietor of the Diorama was Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787–1851). He later co-invented the daguerreotype , the first widely used method of photography. Some "typical diorama effects included moonlit nights, winter snow turning into a summer meadow, rainbows after a storm, illuminated fountains," waterfalls, thunder and lightning, and ringing bells.

I'm reminded of Alizarin Goldflake's immersive containers and some other immersive artworks of SL. The landscapes in the SL sims are like dioramas that our avatars roam through, representing something we know in real life.