Oberon Onmura

The snapshots are taken from Oberon Onmura's exhibit at his sim, Push. The notecard is paraphrased below...

"April, 2011 I have prepared five pieces - some old, some new - for display at my place on Push. I'd be very happy to show them to you personally, or you can just visit whenever you get a chance. Here are very brief descriptions and LMs. Please use this notecard as a self-guide to go from piece to piece.

Light and Heavy http://slurl.com/secondlife/Push/191/212/2751

One of my earliest pieces using opposing physical objects to create movement and energy. There is also, in my mind, a cognitive tension created by seeing seemingly massive steel cubes dancing in space like helium balloons.

Plaza

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Push/172/198/3501

The brick blocks that make up the Plaza rise and fall and change color depending on the density of the cloud cover overhead. Random chairs appear and disappear, giving the scene an added desolation.

Contact Improvisational

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Push/178/226/3251

Based on a dance improvisation technique from the 1970s, the prim "dancers" control and energize each other in a continuous dance.

The Stand

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Push/180/222/2002

A stand of cybernetic ornamental grass, waving and changing color as the wind blows through. They collapse when avatars get too close.

Khamaseen

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Push/180/222/2002

A cyclonic type wind that is common in Egypt and Sudan towards the end of March and April of each year. Hot weather ensues, as well as sandstorms."

I loved them all but best one for me was Khamaseen...

Glyph Graves to Sabrinaa Nightfire

A beautiful creation by Glyph Graves, for all to experience:

The notecard:

"In one of our last conversations Sabrinaa said to me "I want to go kayaking" Its something she enjoyed very much and she kayaked in the river that flowed right past her house I imagine her gliding across its surface creating gentle ripples across its surface When we move through the world be it virtual or physical we create ripples, and, sometimes those ripples touch others. Sabrinaa created many ripples, gentle ones. This piece for Sabrinna is in two parts The first is a representation of her river go on, walk through it .. make your own ripples The second part is a flower, as many of you know she loved to make her flowers..... this one is for Sabrinaa. you can reach by touching the smaller flower at the base of its stem. Please turn off streaming music and media. Once there you can hear her river, the one that flows right next to her house. The notes and colours of the balls you see are chosen by the height and the surface temperature of her river. They will phase in and out with each other like an unstructured Steve Riech, there is no set tempo each one moving to the vaugarities imposed by the sim, bobbing like leaves on water, As her river slowly rises and lowers the texture is shifted so it changes the colour of the flower head that surrounds you. you may want to up your draw distance and pan from the outside. Sunset is a good setting. This is her river in real time more or less ..

Glyph AcknowledgmentsSoundsChords by Lorin ToneAmbiant Drone by DJ Chronos (freesound.org)Padbell by Jovica (freesound.org)"

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Erato%20of%20Caerleon/153/157/24

Art Inspired by Music Inspired by the Sciences

Misprint Thursday invited me to participate in an exhibition called Visualizing Theorem. The show is being hosted by UTSA Adminstrative Island. The basis of the work is music that is inspired by math and science. Each artist chooses a musical piece to inspire an artwork. http://www.musictheorem.com/theorem/Cover.html

I chose 002 "Error Code" because I liked the quick-paced rhythms, the electronic stacato, drum beat and the soft but off chord melody. It was pervasive, like the rhythm of rain and light patterns. As usual, I had to go through several iterations and failures to finally discover what I could do to best express the music. My work hasn't much to do with math and science or an error code. Its all about what the music inspired.

Photos above show the 100 prim piece created for 002. There will be teleports to the various artists submissions.

ARTISTS 0001 • Time/Space- Werner Kurosowa 0002 • Error Code 0c7-Sledge Roffo 0003 • Dark Energy -Betty Tureaud 0004 • Division by Zero -Oberon Onmura 0005 • Mitochondrial Savannah 0006 • Phases- Miso Susanowa 0007 • Positron -Penumbra Carter 0008 • AbioGenesis -Binary Quandry 0009 • No E Level-Misprint Thursday 0010 • Moons Of Galileo-Douglas and Desde 0011 • Socratic Paradox 0012 • Neolithic Revolution 0013 • Event Horizon- Scarp Godenot 0014 • Hypnagogia 0015 • Aleatoric 0016 • Ladder Contraction

The opening for the exhibit is set for Saturday April 2, at 4 pm SLT

http://www.musictheorem.com/theorem/Cover.html

Error Code slurl:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/UTSA%20Roadrunner%20III/70/200/25

A wonderful catalog of the exhibit: http://issuu.com/misprint/docs/visualizing_theorem_catalog_final

Art Breaker II - Album Cover Theme

Pendulum's album cover looked like something I could make for the album cover theme for Art Breaker at the Pop Art Lab this year. There are only a few more weeks left before it opens and there is much to do. I've enlisted the great minds and talents of two collaborators - Desdemona Enfield and Jewel MacMoragh to help me make this a fun and lively interpretation. Desdemona is well known for her scripting and builds quite well too. Jewel has helped me several times with her clever textures and inspiration.

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Desdemona_Enfield

Frankly, I don't know too much about the music but the cover art is pretty cool.

Artist Michael Knutson

Shown above:

Bipolar Coils II, oil on canvas, 183 x 366 cm (72 x 144 in), 2008 San Romano, acrylic on canvas, 213 x 152 cm(84 x 60 in), 1981

Tango, acrylic on canvas, 152 x 213 cm (60 x 84 in), 1982

A local artist...painter. I was looking at representations of "tango" and came across this great article showing a vast portfolio of his work. I'm impressed. They are very organized and geometric, yet organic.

http://www.geoform.net/features/features_knutson.html

House Full of Shadows

Pirats - Omega Art Gallery, PiRats Art Network (63, 77, 85)

Featured on the poster is a picture from the exhibit that I brought to this gallery. Its called a House Full of Shadows. It's a 3D experience that falls into a category that is only possible in a virtal world - where else could I build something like this? Come experience it and let the shadows play on your avi.

The textures were created by Jewel MacMoragh, my ex partner and collaborator. This House Full of Shadows is dedicated to her and our memories together and to everyone that has enjoyed time with another and loved another. On the wall is an excerpt from a song..."In this House full of shadows, while the rain keeps pouring down my window too, when will the pain recede to the darkness, from whence it is come and I'm feeling so blue". Van Morrison wrote these words in "Reminds Me of You".

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/