I love to paint nature in the abstract form as I feel it. I try to capture that energy, the movement, of the natural world. My innate and incessant feeling and filtering energy is what drives me to paint the crazy way I do. – Shakti Adored I make no apology for covering another art […]
The art of Shakti Adored in Second Life
Officially running from Friday May 22nd through Sunday May 24th inclusive (so my apologies to John and the Kultivate team for getting to it so late) is the 2020 Kultivate Sensuality Art Exhibition. As the name suggests, this is very much an exhibition of adult-themed art, so may not be everyone’s cup of tea. Located […]
2020 Kultivate Sensuality Exhibition in Second Life
Join us this Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at The Kultivate Loft Gallery for the grand opening event of Kultivate presents The Art of Shakti Adored Exhibition!
The grand opening of this exhibition will take place from 1pm to 3pm slt and feature live performers Mavenn and Lark Bowen with a casual dress code.
Slurl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Water%20Haven/28/114/32
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Below are the winners of the Kultivate Sensuality Photo Challenge! Please note that these images are adult in nature.
1st Place-Graham Collison:
2nd Place – Alex Avion:
3rd Place – Gina Brucato:
4th Place Tie – James Raww:
4th Place Tie – Jamee Sandalwood:
Honorable Mentions: Kelly, Matt Thomson, Ahn Avion, VanessaJane, ViktorSavior, & Malarky Studios
Today is the last day of the 4th Annual Kultivate Sensuality Exhibition! This annual event features adult and sensual themed art and is Kultivate’s only adult exhibition! Today’s events are:
Sunday, May 24, 2020
-Sensuality Photo Challenge Winners Announced
-1pm to 2pm slt – Sinful Event with Erika Ordinary (2,000L’s Bosh Gift Card Giveaway – Adult Furniture)
-Exhibition Ends @ 1159 pm slt
**dress code is anything with clothing being optional. No kid avis are allowed at this event**
slurl:http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Legions%20Cove/189/174/2995
The 4th Annual Kultivate Sensuality Exhibition is now open! This event will take place May 22 to 24, 2020 and features adult themed photography and art, live music, and giveaways! We also have a special photo challenge where you can win lindens! You can find all events on our official event page: https://kultivatemagazine.com/sensuality-exhibition-2/
Today’s events are:
Saturday, May 23, 2020
-Sensuality Photo Challenge Entries Due (6pm slt)
-1pm to 2pm slt – Naughty or Nice Event withWolfie Starfire (1,000L’s Bad Unicorn Gift Card Giveaway – Adult Furniture)
-2pm to 3pm slt – Naughty or Nice Event with Samuel James (1,000L’s Bad Unicorn Gift Card Giveaway – Adult Furniture)
**dress code is anything with clothing being optional. No kid avis are allowed at this event**
slurl:http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Legions%20Cove/189/174/2995
The Woods of Whimsy, May 2020 – click any image for full size
Gilfalma Ashbourne recently invited us to visit her recently opened Mainland parcel, Woods of Whimsy. Within it, she has created a garden setting with something of a Middle Earth setting that stirs in one or two other influences to create a space of natural beauty ripe for exploration and photography.
The Woods of Whimsy, a Tolkien inspired land, mixes virtual gardening with a love of magic and the divine. Here paths meander through waterfalls, threading ancient ruins with a verdant splendour.
– Woods of Whimsy description
Woods of Whimsy, May 2020
Bordered by water on two sides and high cliffs on the other two, this is a place that blends the space between these borders to create an environment that is richly evocative. Fronting the high cliffs, the parcel’s uplands step gently down to the lowlands…
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| The default viewer camera placement has long been the bane of the Second Life viewer. Placing the camera well above and behind the avatar, it gives an awkward over-the-head view of the world, rather than the more intuitive over-the-shoulder view seen in many video games.
While the camera’s debug settings have allowed a custom camera preset to be set-up, it has never really been possible to easily create, save, and swap between presets according to need. | Table of Contents |
The Camera Presets controls, developed and contributed by Jonathan Yap, the developer responsible for the graphics presets options in the viewer (see Avatar Complexity and Graphics Presets in Second Life for more) and released on…
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The 4th Annual Kultivate Sensuality Exhibition is now open! This event will take place May 22 to 24, 2020 and features adult themed photography and art, live music, and giveaways! We also have a special photo challenge where you can win lindens! You can find all events on our official event page: https://kultivatemagazine.com/sensuality-exhibition-2/
Today’s events are:
Friday, May 22, 2020
-Exhibition Opens
-Sensuality Photo Challenge Opens
-4pm to 5pm slt – Smexy Event with Stephanniyah Sinatra (1,000L’s Xcite Gift Card Giveaway)
-5pm to 6pm slt – Smexy Event with Alex Mays (1,000L’s Xcite Gift Card Giveaway)
**dress code is anything with clothing being optional. No kid avis are allowed at this event**
slurl:http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Legions%20Cove/189/174/2995
The May 2020 Issue of Kultivate Magazine is now published! This issue features artist and Kultivate 5th Annual Spring Art Show Best in Show Winner, Skye Joubert. The Dirty Pretty Sim, the HP Lovecraft themed Innsmouth Sim, and the Twins Exhibit at Carbone Gallery will be featured. The issue also contains articles on live performer Lark Bowen, the 15th Annual Raglanshire Artwalk, the Thermae region, and the forests of Bellissaria. We also debuting a new travel feature: Travels with Tempest! Click the issue cover below to view it:
Kultivate Signature Gallery: CybeleMoon
CybeleMoon (aka Hana Hoobinoo) is an artist oft featured in these pages. Her mixed media art is renowned for its fabulous richness of tone, balance of light and shade, depth of symbolism and – most poignantly – its wonderful framing of narrative that makes any exhibition of her work in Second Life utterly unmissable.
There are many ways to explore Cybele’s work, some of which I’ve touched upon in writing about it. However, there is one aspect that I’ve not really explored in words thus far; one that Cybele herself examines in her latest solo exhibition The Spaces Between Heaven and Time, which is currently on display the the Kultivate Signature Gallery.
I often use doorways, windows, bridges and solitude in my images as a way of conveying my impression of stopping the world and perceiving my own reality in the shifting tapestry of…
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On May 20, 2020 the next issue of Kultivate Magazine will be published! This issue will feature artist and Kultivate 5th Annual Spring Art Show Best in Show Winner, Skye Joubert. The Dirty Pretty Sim, the HP Lovecraft themed Innsmouth Sim, and the Twins Exhibit at Carbone Gallery will be featured. The issue also contains articles on live performer Lark Bowen, the 15th Annual Raglanshire Artwalk, the Thermae region, and the forests of Bellissaria. We also debuting a new travel feature: Travels with Tempest! You can get a sneak preview of the cover below:
After my blogpost about the April exhibition at La Maison d’Aneli (read here) I had contact with one of the artists who were featured in this exhibition – Etamae.
Etamae is from the UK and began taking photographs and then turning those photographs into digital art in 2018.
Her first passion was erotic art and I had come across Etamae in 2019 the first time when I visited her exhibtion “Dominance and Submission” at Elevate Femdom (see here).
Eta’s Feed Your Fetish Gallery (1)
And more of etamae’s erotic art can be seen at Eta’s Feed Your Fetish Gallery which is “a little edgy, somewhat sensual centered about the erotic and the BDSM lifestyle” and hence does fit to my personal passion. On Monday, April 27th, I visited Eta’s Feed Your Fetish Gallery.
Eta’s Feed Your Fetish Gallery (2)
etamae uses the pictures she took…
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Second Norway, March 2020
At the end of April I was able to confirm that Second Norway, after recent concerns about its future, would be continuing as a part of the Luxory Estates group, with Vanity Bonetto and her team taking over day-to-day management of things – land management and sales / rentals, etc., with Ey, Mialinn, SlaYeR, joining the Luxory team with responsibilities for the road and rail network, management of the Second Norway airport and for social / community elements within the estate. See: Second Norway: the future is bright.
In that article, I noted that as part of the change-over, there would be a certain amount of work being put into the estate, with the northern regions being re-worked to offer new island home spaces, together with a re-laying of roads and rail systems through the more connected regions within the estate.
Second Norway: one of…
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I have had KittyCats almost as long as I have been in Second Life. The Firestorm KittyCats are the most collected I think because they are always for a very limited time to get them and are usually celebrating Second Life’s birthdays. They are not breedable, do not need food to stay alive and they live forever and will be replaced for you if you should ever lose them. They only need your love and that it is debatable because all they do is give you love always. What a better time than this in our lock down and scare with Covid-19 than to have a lovely KittyCat telling us nice things and making us happier? If you have never gotten a KittyCat before now is your chance and in the package there is a certificate for 2 baby kittens of your very own to raise and breed. This Firestorm…
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Join us this Sunday, May 17, 2020 from 1 to 3pm slt for the grand opening of Kultivate Signature Gallery’s latest exhibition, featuring the work of Cybele Moon! The exhibition is titled ,”The Spaces Between Haven and Time.”
The event will feature 2 live performers from 1 to 2pm slt and from 2 to 3pm slt with a casual dress code.
Slurl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Water%20Haven/52/185/26
You can read more about Cybele below:
Cybele Moon (Hana Hoobinoo) or the Dune Mouse, and “not always here and never all there” at some point began a journey of storytelling and imagery that is inspired by many wonderful places both real and imagined.
I’m a time traveler who loves exploring old stones and tomes and forest groves. My dreams are filled with enchanted children and haunted woodlands.
INFP–introverted, neurotic, freckled, peculiar
Visit my blog for my stories and travels: or any of the links on my profile and picks!
The Runes of the Gatekeeper’s Daughter:
https://cybeleshineblog.wordpress.com/
Join us this Sunday, May 10, 2020 from 1pm to 2pm slt for the May exhibition opening event at Kultivate Select Gallery! This gallery is Kultivate’s only themed gallery and the theme is the beach!
Live performer Mavenn will perform throughout the hour and the following artists will exhibit their art work:
Jamee Sandalwood
Johannes Huntsman
Karma Daxeline
Nodomé Morgenröte (Nodome Resident)
RagingBells
Reycharles Resident
Tempest Rosca Huntsman
Vanessajane66 Resident
Veruca Tammas
Vita Theas
Yves Wells
The dress code is casual for this event and the slurl is: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Water%20Haven/26/67/26
If you don’t know anything about the WordPress free photo library, it contains thousands of free images that can be used by all WordPress users.
I’ve been using the feature ever since it first became available. I can’t remember when WordPress first launched it, but it was certainly more than 18 months ago.
I’ve been surprised by the number of WordPress users who didn’t know about the WordPress free photo library.
It got me wondering why they hadn’t found it. I think the main problem may have been that to access the library, you had to know where to look for it.
Now, ever since WordPress mentioned it on the new ‘My Home‘ page we all see on our blogs, it’s become a lot more visible.
Not only does the photo library include hundreds of free photos, it’s also easy to use.
And when you factor in that…
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