Second Life Flowers by Vlad Bjornson

For about a year and a half I have been selling the flowers I create in SL in various locations around the grid. For the last year I’ve had a small store on Turing Isle, where I have been very happy. Sandry and  Blu have taken very good care of me there. Great sim, great people! So I was very happy when they offered to let me rent a much larger parcel on Turing Isle.

Now I have a nice big store where I can display all of my FloraPrims flowers and other landscaping items. W00Hoo! I have an example stream that I created with my Sculpted Stream Kit, and nice big waterfall, dozens of colorful flowers, realistic sculpty mushrooms, logs, ferns, trees, bushes, and eve a new collection of original landscaping textures. Stop on by and enjoy a stroll through my garden.

SL Portrait Photos by Autopilotpatty Poppy

Miss Poppy, who runs the Gallery Tamrannoch, is quite active in the SL art and Caledon communities. She’s combined who love of both with her latest show, the Exotic Women of Caledon. She’s really outdone herself with this show - over 50 beautiful women are represented. You really get a sense of the culture of Caledon when you see all these wonderful pictures together. Patty took over 2600 photos while preparing this show! A trmendous effort of scheduling, shooting, and editing - but I think the results must be well worth the effort.

Here are a few snaps from the opening of the show. You can see the collection at the Gallery Tamrannoch for the next several weeks.

I can see my house from up here.

Here are a few panoramic images taken from high above the Caledon sims. After stitching the original images together, I changed the colors a bit and overlaid some textures to give them a painterly feel. Caledon is the perfect spot for pictures like these - filled with textures and details. You can see some higher resolutions version on Flickr.

In an attempt to avoid only posting info gleaned from other blogs and thus complete the cycle of the self-devouring Ouroboros, I present the first in a series of articles called Inventory. In which I pull random things from my inventory and play a bit of show & tell.

The first item I thought of when I came up with this idea, was this sculpture by Stella Costello. the face was the first piece of sculpture I put in my first real gallery in Second Life. Stella was one of the first artists that I ever contacted in-world and I was a bit star struck when she agreed to come by and display the face. This is probably the one item I would hate to loose more than any other object in my inventory.

OK. So I went a bit crazy and captured more than a few images of Stella’s sculptures. :) Stella’s pieces show off her witty sense of humor and her ability to express emotion and story with simple human gestures. Quite a task when your working in this hard edged, digital medium.