Showing posts with label sculpture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sculpture. Show all posts

Monday, December 26, 2011

Second Life Art - Arctica Dreams

Rebeca Bashly - Arctica Dreams Entrance

Rebeca Bashly's Arctica Dreams is a great big ice world with translucent walls, misty columns, and flowing water. You start off on the top of a big snowy plain with a hole in it, and then you have to jump into the hole to see this icy dreamscape.

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While walking through Arctica Dreams, some folks landed right in front of me and started editing their appearances. One thing I rarely understand about Second Life is why so many people like to dress up like skanky hoes. LISTEN HONEY, IT AINT SEXY, ITS SKANKY! Or is it simply that many people's sexy fetishes actually involve them dressing up as skanky hoes? Oh well...

Rebeca Bashly - Arctica Dreams

While walking through, you may not see the embedded sculptures all at once. This really depends on the angle at which you are viewing the walls. This makes good use of the transparencies and that "blind spot" that you get sometimes where different layers cannot be seen at certain angles (the same way they sometimes hide the money in those money trees).

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There were also some more traditional ice sculptures.

Rebeca Bashly - Arctica Dreams Exhibition

And the centerpiece of the exhibition.

SLurl: Teleport Now to Arctica Dreams

Second Life Art - InterAct! (Linden Endowment for the Arts)

LEA

I flew in to explore LEA, the Linden Endowment for the Arts. On first glance, it looks like nothing but sea, but one can walk on the watery surface to explore several different installations in the area.

LEA4 Glyph Graves

I saw a great big spinning sculpture by Glyph Graves entitled Diversity - A Tapestry Spun - I sat on a box and watched the petals spin around and around...

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This installation may not seem exceptionally out of the box in any particular way, however, Glyph Graves is also responsible for another great work in which he uses kinect to capture his face and instantiates it in 3D in second life - read here or here, or see the following video for more:



LEA Sound

And a sound installation by Lorin Tone. You can touch the speakers to change the sound samples attached to each one. The execution is simplistic and perhaps a bit too literal for me but I am sure you can see the applications of this method for other sound works...

Read more about the Linden Endowment for the Arts

SLurl: Teleport Now to LEA