It’s all about the Art (and the textures) in the new issue of Prim Perfect!

Prim Perfect: Issue 46 – March 2013 – cover

Welcome to our second issue of 2013 - and more of our new range of features in Prim Perfect magazine, as well as those you know and love!

This month of theme is Art – and we’ve expanded that to also look at textures.

And our inworld issue this month is full of gifts and tools for you, many designed to help you create you own items, as shown in the magazine! So as you read throughh the magazine, watch out for those gift tags  on the left or right of the screen – clicking on them will bring you something very special!

On the fine art front, Rowan Derryth supplies an Overview of Virtual Art, and a guide to some of the art that you might choose to display in your virtual home in Home is Where the Art Is.

Prim Perfect: Issue 46 – March 2013 – Home is where the art is

Honour McMillan interviews the well-known Second Life artist Bryn Oh, and talks to a comparative newcomer to the art scene, Livio Oak Korobase. And I visit our Designers of the Month, Marcus Inkpen and Sharni Azalee, who combine fine art with superlative design on their beautiful region, The Looking Glass.

Prim Perfect: Issue 46 – March 2013 – Bryn Oh

In addition, Honour McMillan supplies an introduction to the Linden Endowment for the Arts, while Tricia Aferdita explores ten amazing art galleries that you should visit.

If your tastes run to textures, you’ll find plenty of information in this month’s magazine.  Ceejay Writer interviews Hyasynth Tiramisu on the subject of the beautiful textures she creates for Silent Sparrow – more than that – Hyasynth not only gives a masterclass on creating textures – she has also supplied a very special texture free to Prim Perfect readers that you can use to decorate your own home.

Prim Perfect: Issue 46 – March 2013 – Silent Sparrow

In addition, Ethan Westland looks at the importance of textures (and gives away a few secret texture-buying locations!) while Qwis Greenwood, in the second of our series promoting small business around the grid, has found three very exciting and very different texture creators to share with our readers.

Prim Perfect: Issue 46 – March 2013 – Building a skybox

In our continuing series on building your own home, our designer (and phenomenal builder) Winona Wiefel will be teaching you how to create a door and windows and add them to the basic skybox that you created in Part 1 of the series.

And to help you with your building, there’s not only a copy of the skybox (which you can use as a model) but there’s also a pack of textures for you to experiment with too!

Prim Perfect: Issue 46 – March 2013 – Building in Mesh

We also have the second in our major series on Mesh. Beq Janus supplies a simple entry to the world of mesh, touching on buying full perm mesh from marketplace with a rudimentary guide to texturing those – and giving a brief view of in world tools for mesh.

And she also supplies a mesh chair for you to start practising texturising too!

Then there are reports on the fantastic One Billion Rising event — the Second Life version of the global event that celebrates women even as it raises awareness of the issue of violence against women. And Beq Janus looks at the opening of Relay for Life and tells us all about the upcoming season of events.

Prim Perfect: Issue 46 – March 2013 – The Looking Glass

Rosamoo Mendelsohn brings us Hunting News, while there are details from our TV shows, Designing Worlds and Happy Hunting!, available on Treet TV.

Our team of talented photographers, led by Judith Lefevre, PJ Trenton, Winona Wiefel, Wildstar Beaumont, and Honour McMillan, bring you some of the most artistic eye candy from across the metaverse.

All this with News From the Grid and more!

Prim Perfect: Issue 46 – March 2013 – Art Galleries

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So how can I get Prim Perfect?

Prim Perfect: Issue 46 – March 2013 – Textures

If you prefer to read the magazine online but not inworld, there are choices. Firstly, there’s the wonderful Calaméo system, which allows you to moves smoothly through the pages, giving you the feeling of reading a real magazine. You’ll find Issue 46 here – and please do leave a comment!

But, if you like to download your magazines to read as you commute to work, or in the bath, or wherever, you can also download a pdf of the magazine from Calameo – or print it out!.

You can get the latest issue inworld – and copies of all our earlier issues too – at our new head offices in the Irish Isles.  It has a great cafe to relax in while you’re reading the latest issue too!

Prim Perfect: Issue 46 – March 2013 – Art Galleries

We also have subscribe-o-matic kiosks throughout Second Life – so you can just click to subscribe. You’ll be sent a copy of the latest issue, and then you’ll receive your issues regularly!

Or you can have it delivered to you each month as an IntelliBook, by joining the Prim Perfect Readers group inworld. It costs nothing to join and, apart from delivering the magazine each month, we won’t overload you with chat or messages!

Prim Perfect: Issue 46 – March 2013 – Ars Virtua

In addition to delivering the Intellibook version of the magazine, you’ll also get a link to the online Calaméo version of the magazine, so you’ll be able to access that too.

How to Join Prim Perfect Readers

• Inworld, open Search.
• Search Groups for Prim Perfect Readers.
• Click to join

Prim Perfect: Issue 46 – March 2013 – LEA

So … enjoy! And let us know what you think of our new edition!

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Explore the Four Elements with the Spirit Light Galleries and the Spirit Light Dance Company

The Elements exhibition

A message came to us from the LunaMar Performing Arts, The Spirit Light Galleries:

Why did we never see an arts event in Second Life that combines dance with an exhibition of RL paintings, sculptures, poetry, and creations of digital art?

Well the opportunity is now here!

Fire

 The Spirit Light Dance Company is a Second Life group of dancers with a really outstanding dance repertoire attended by a large audience from all over Second Life and the world. They will give a performance with the theme “The Four Elements:  Fire, Earth, Water and Air”

In collaboration with this, we organized an arts exhibit with the same theme The Four Elements. Specially for that purpose, a beautiful gallery has been created to display artwork and poetry panels by SL creators using this theme. There are 4 pavilions decorated into one of the Elements in which art of 23 artists is displayed. Well known artists as well as new residents who never have exhibited before. Special and not often seen in SL is that a lot of poems are also displayed .We can conclude that art in all it forms are connected in this special exhibition.

Earth

On Saturday and Sunday March 23rd – 24th, the really breathtaking performance of the Four Elements by the Spirit Light Dance Group under the direction of Caryl Meridith will be performed.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS (in alphabetic order)
Alesia Barbosa
Asmita Duranjaya
Bella Larkspur
Caryl Meridith
Elin Egoyan
JudiLynn India
Jullianna Juliesse
June Faramore
Karli Daviau
Kylie Angel
Luna Branwen
Margaj
Mathilde Vhargon
Mik Frequency
Milly Sharple
Monroe Snook
Rosedrop Rust
Sarafina Destiny
Simonetta Martella2
Treacle Darlandes
Tuatha Tread Softly (rivereden)
Ub Yifu
Una Milena

 

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Encounters in the Cloud – Designing Worlds explores Cloud Party

Now available on the web – our latest episode, as we explore a whole new virtual environment – Cloud Party!

Cloud Party uses the metaphor of islands floating in the sky,while the the menu systems uses the metaphor of a smart phone with various apps – a rather clever way of introducing users not used to virtual worlds to what can be a complex set of tools.

To help us explore Cloud Party, we’re joined by three creators from Cloud Party – Maxwell Graf, who is well known in Second life as the designer of Rustica, Ashasekayi Ra, who has been doing some interesting work on avatar customisation, and Phate Shepherd, who has been exploring some of the possibilities of scripting and game creation in Cloud Party.

Inside Cloud Party – looking at the islands

We visit a number of islands within Cloud Party, including the starting including Phate’s fascinating Misfit Toys, Maxwell’s stormy forest … and an amazing art creation by the well known artist in virtual worlds – Claudia222 Jewell.

Watch the show – and learn more!

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InWorldz invites visitors at the 2013 SXSW Conference to have a glimpse into their grid!

Inworldz welcomes SXSW

SXSW will be in InWorldz – from March 8th – 10th in 49 regions.

SXSW stands for South By Southwest and is a real life Conference of Technology, Music & Film which runs in Austin Texas annually – this year from March 8th – March 10th 2013.  They have a website you can visit here:  http://sxsw.com/

InWorldz Creators, Artists & Educators have composed a 49 sim display, sponsored by the founders of InWorldz, containing some featured builds from within their grid and are inviting visitors to the Coference to take some time to see them all, and return afterwards to become a part of Inworldz!

The Main sims and themes:
Sim A – Education
Sim B – Arts & Literature
Sim C – Entertainment
Sim D – Technology
Sim E – Physics
Sim F – Fantasy & Roleplay
Sim G – Transportation
Sim H – The Harbor- Boating & Nature

These 8 main featured sims will be part of a 49 sim block, many of which are scenic backdrops and “crossing sims” where vehicles will take you from one main sim to another.

Additionally they will be featuring some special builds in some of the surrounding sims as well.

These include Replicant City, Alchemy, Wizard Gynoid’s Temple of Sacred Geometry & E8 Polytope, a Mer Cove surrounding the Roleplay & Fantasy sim and a few backdrops from artistic creators. There are musical events happening from 8 am to 10 pm all 3 days with Live Performers, Djs and even Belly Dancing!

This event has so much to do and explore, to learn and to interact with. Of course the InWorldz grid is much larger, but they hope visitors walk away with a good sense that the  grid houses many wonderful things beyond what they see at the Conference.

 

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Designing Worlds explores the making of One Billion Rising in Second Life

The Stage at One Billion Rising, photographed by Honour McMillan

Join us at 2pm SLT today, Monday 4th March, for our new episode of Designing Worlds at our studio in Garden of Dreams as we take several peeks behind the scenes at how the event One Billion Rising in Second Life was created – and how the music video “Break the Chain” was created in Second Life as well!

We’ll be talking to Victor1st Mornington about how he created the amazing stage, to Judi Newall about how it felt to be there as a volunteer on the day.

The four-region stage at One Billion Rising in Second Life, photographed by Wildstar Beaumont

And then we’ll be visiting the Dazzlers to talk to Pyper Dollinger and Tatiana Kurri about how they created the amazing dance that formed the core of the video, to Samantha Ohrberg about her work with sponsors and pulling the dance together, and to Petlove Petshop who filmed and edited it (with a little assistance!). Petlove also talks about the challenges of streaming such an event for a full twenty four hours, as she was the organiser of the Livestream team who made sure the whole event was broadcast.

The Dazzlers Break the Chain – Image captured by Petlove Petshop from the Second Life Break the Chain video

And we’ll be looking at the stunning art installations that were created for the event, and talking to two of the artists whose work was such a vital part of One Billion Rising – Em Larsson and Solkide Auer. And we’ll also be taking a tour of many of the installations that were on display.

Solkide Auer’s Respawn at One Billion Rising in Second Life

It makes for a fascinating show – so do come and join us at 2pm.

Or – if you can’t attend in person – tune in at 2pm SLT on Monday for the live show on http://treet.tv/live – or catch it later in the week on our shows page on the Treet.tv web site at http://treet.tv/shows/designingworlds – our very own version of the iPlayer!

One Billion Rising in Second Life, photographed by Tillie Ariantho

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Prim Perfect Jigsaw: Dancing for One Billion Rising in Second Life Mayfair

Dancing for OBR in Mayfair

Today’s Designing Worlds show is all about One Billion Rising in Second Life, and takes a look behind the scenes. Among other people, we’ll be talking to some of the people behind the making of the music video we created – Pyper Dollinger and Tatiana Kurri of the Dazzlers, and Petlove Petshop who filmed and edited the final product.

We’ll be talking to other people too – and looking at the event and the amazing art installations that were an important part of it. More details coming later but – in the meantime – here is a jigsaw!

Dancing in Second Life Mayfair for One Billion Rising

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Catch up with your Prim Perfect jigsaws (showing images of Second Life and other virtual worlds).

If you’d like to submit a photo of your own to feature as a jigsaw, send it to the Prim Perfect Flickr Group. It should be sized 800w x 600h, or else it will need to be re-sized.

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Moving forward with the campaign … after One Billion Rising in Second Life

Bryn Oh’s installation at One Billion Rising in Second Life

During the one Billion Rising event last week, The Guardian newspaper in the UK live-blogged the event – and  mentioned the Second Life event as part of their coverage.  But – as for so many of us – it’s not going to end there.  Today I received an invitation from them, to carry the campaign and its message forward.

Following on from the momentum of last week’s campaign and running up to the Commission of the Status of Women in March, we’re asking readers who inspires them in the fight to end gender violence. Malala caught the world’s attention last year – who else needs recognition? What are the amazing projects we should be highlighting?

You can submit yoru nomination directly to our site, or upload a photo to flickr, twitter, facebook or instgram using the hashtag #globaldevwomen. Full instructions here http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/feb/14/ending-gender-violence-inspiration

Please share this – and send in your thoughts and inspirations.

I’m also going to be talking here on the blog about elements of the event and sharing ideas how we could move this campaign forward in Second Life – and asking how best we could share our ideas too. So watch this space!

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Prim Perfect Jigsaws: Tough and Crazy – from One Billion Rising in Second Life

Gracie’s installation

At One Billion Rising in Second Life

You have all been very patient about Prim Perfect Jigsaws while I have been a tad busy with a certain event known as One Billion Rising in Second Life. So here today are not one but two jigsaws (yes, count ‘em – two!). Admittedly they both come from One Billion Rising in Second Life but … I’ve been a little tunnel vision for some reason, you know?

And one is tough because it’s a complex abstract image, and the other is … well, I went a little crazy, you know?

The first jigsaw is a glorious, colourful abstract, taken from Gracie Kendal’s joyous mini-version of her installation Ce n’est pas une peinture, the large size version of which is on display at LEA15 – it was one of the locations used in the One Billion Rising in Second Life video.

Gracie Kendal’s Installation at One Billion Rising in Second Life

Gracie will be in conversation with Rowan Derryth today at The Linden Endowment for the Arts Festival – you can read about the Talks here. But first – do the jigsaw!

Secondly, we have a jigsaw taken from a photograph taken on the One Billion Rising in Second Life regions – and here, as you will see, I decided to go a little crazy!

One Billion Rising in Second Life region

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Catch up with your Prim Perfect jigsaws (showing images of Second Life and other virtual worlds).

If you’d like to submit a photo of your own to feature as a jigsaw, send it to the Prim Perfect Flickr Group. It should be sized 800w x 600h, or else it will need to be re-sized.

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Prim Perfect Jigsaw: Funky Fembot Rising by Maya Paris at One Billion Rising in Second Life

Funky Fembot Rising by Maya Paris

One Billion Rising will be happening tomorrow with twenty-four hours of music, dance, and sharing.  Today the regions – – OBR Walk, OBR Strike, OBR Dance, and OBR Rise are open for you to explore at your leisure before the party starts!

There’s the beautiful park – the awesome stage and then the amazing art installations.

Take this one – Funky Fembot Rising by Maya Paris – which has a wealth of poseballs attached – it’s great fun to try out!

And so too is the jigsaw …

Funky Fembot Rising by Maya Paris

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Catch up with your Prim Perfect jigsaws (showing images of Second Life and other virtual worlds).

If you’d like to submit a photo of your own to feature as a jigsaw, send it to the Prim Perfect Flickr Group. It should be sized 800w x 600h, or else it will need to be re-sized.

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Art and Music at One Billion Rising – and an Open House invitation!

The Stage at One Billion Rising, photographed by Honour McMillan

One Billion Rising sees twenty-four hours of music on a stunning stage (designed by Victor1st Mornington.  You can find out which musicians will be playing on the One Billion Rising web-site – which has a special Event Schedule page.  Find out if your favourite DJ will be playing!

But there’s more than just music.

The stage is set in open parkland, landscaped by Winona Wiefel and Aisling Sinclair, utilising plants generously supplied by the Heart Garden Centre.  And at the edge of the park, there’s even more.

Capcat Ragu & Meilo Minotaur’s installation, photographed by Honour McMillan

We are thrilled to have 18 of the best SL artists from around the world supporting the One Billion Rising event. Details of their installations, set around the edge of the four sims, appear on the One Billion Rising in Second Life website, where you can find bios, information and samples of the artists’ creations.

And we realised that it might be a little hard to appreciate all this wonderful art when the performers are in full swing, so we are opening the four regions to the public on Wednesday 13th of July, a day ahead of the main One Billion Rising event.

There will be an Open House on all four sims from 12 midnight SLT till 12 noon SLT on Wednesday 13th February.

You can arrive at any of the four sims – OBR Walk, OBR Strike, OBR Dance, or OBR Rise and then explore at your leisure.

My Property by Haveit Neox, photographed by Honour McMillan

After noon on Wednesday, the sims will close to the public as we perform final load testing. The event will be fully open starting at 11pmSLT on Wednesday, February 13. We want to allow people the chance to stagger their arrivals to lessen the strain on the sims. You will thus have time to find your way around the event site and make your way to the stage before the dancing starts at midnight on Thursday, February 14.

And don’t forget to collect information from our kiosks and gifts supplied by our sponsors too!

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