A Sharing Of Art - Take Seven!

It is time for another amazing installment of a sharing of art. So what do you all say we just get right to it...

Linc G

Morgana Nagorski 

Nillia Lamilton 

Peep Sideshow-Darkward

Jackson Redstar

Revan Jinn

Please if you have not already take time to see the show. It is such a unique collection of art. To go have a peek click here. Also don't forget you can try a LUMIPro demo at our sales gallery. As always feel free to comment here or on Facebook. Well until next time... Happy Shooting!

 

 

LUMIPro Photo of the Day !

From the Ashes . . . IV

By : Morgana Nagorski

It's so nice to welcome Morgana back. We have missed her and her awesome photos . Hoping soon to see 

Palais Orleans Gallery Complex  back soon as well !

LUMIPro Photo of the Day !!

Cause and Effect

By : Morgana Nagorski

AFTER DARK

LUMIPro is once again proud to sponsor a "duet" exhibition @ Palais Orleans Gallery Complex, curated by Morgana Nagorski.

Two artists interpret Film Noir in different ways.

The tough guy, the femme fatale, the detective, the ingenue, the anti-hero, the chanteuse, the ubiquitous cigarettes, the bottle of Jack and the city . . . AFTER DARK

All images in the exhibition, except one landscape and two still lifes were shot using LUMIPro

Opening events:

6:00 - 8:00 PM SLT, Saturday 13 July

and

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM SLT, Sunday 14 July

We would love to see you there.

If you wish to, please get into the mood by wearing black, white or red.

Poster design by Morgana Nagorski, using an image of hers together with one of Kato's deconstructed.

Your Taxi !

Aspects of Solitude

A fabulous new exhibition, sponsored by LUMIPro, opens @ Palais Orleans Gallery Complex this weekend.

Amona Savira and Hartbor Galaxy show us Aspects of Solitude.

The images are intelligent, thought provoking, sensitive and well . . . just gorgeous.

It is such a pleasure to host this exhibition by two such talented artists..

Join us for one of the opening events this Saturday and Sunday.

The artists' statement explaining the thoughts behind  the show

          ”My face in the bathroom mirror

           has white streaks down it.

           I rinse the face and return to bed.

          Tomorrow I am going to visit my mother. ”

                               (from The Glass Essay by Anna Carson)

Just that, to look in the bathroom mirror, seeing herself and only her, no one else there, from a sleepless night and a numb body. The hard light hits her face, head full of dreams and memories.

Solitude – the good and bad of it.

Of course there is a liberating feeling of being by herself, but now she was leaning towards the negative.

More like lived life, like feeling lonely either in the midst of a crowd or by choice. 

All the lonely nights, waiting for nobody…in solitude.

Unified Heart 2013 @ Palais Orleans Gallery

After the phenomenal success of Unified Heart last January, we see this fabulous gallery show  back for a second round, and just as phenomenal  as the last.

For those who may not know  Leonard Norman Cohen, CC GOQ is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality, and interpersonal relationships.

Some of the best and quite possibly some of your favorite singers have covered Cohen through the years. 


It’s almost unbelievable now to think that we almost never heard Leonard Cohen, the singer. A well-regarded poet from the late 1950s through the mid-’60s, it was Judy Collins who encouraged the middle-aged Canadian writer to try his hand at performing his own songs, and the rest is history. She also had a successful cover of Cohen’s “Suzanne”. (from this article: 30 Great Covers of Leonard Cohen. )

My personal favorite  song from Mr. Cohen aside from Hallelujah is Dance Me To The End Of Love .

Morgana Nagorski, owner of Palais Orleans Gallery, works very hard to bring the best of the best of Second Life art and artists to us. She is also an artist herself and her work graces the pages of The Best of SL Magazine. Morgana says she "
has been a Leonard Cohen fan since her epiphany in 1974, when she woke in the middle of night to the strains of “That’s No Way To Say Goodbye” playing on the radio she had left on when she fell asleep."

With this gallery showcase of Cohen's work she received some good press and press from out of Second Life as well. You can read that article HERE. 

21 of Second Life's best artists worked hard to bring their eye to Cohen's musical art , that have touched the lives of so many over the years.

The artists involved are

Aelin Quan 

Acacia Merlin 

Amona Savira 

Burk Bode 

Callipygian Christensen 

CatBoccaccio 

CorinneHelendaale

Dantelicia Ethaniel 

Dixmix  Source 

Harbor Galaxy

Jessica Belmer 

Kato Salyut 

KiraWestland 

LilyLaufer 

Maloe Vansant 

Meilo Minataur 

Morgana Nagorski 

Petra  Messioptra

Ronda Saunders 

Sare Ethaniel

Skip Staheli 

Please take the time to visit the Gallery, it is well worth seeing . 

We at LUMIPro are so pleased and very honored to have sponsored this gallery.

FROM THE DESK OF STEFAN BUSCAYLET:

Creator of LUMIPro in Second Life

Palais Orleans Gallery Complex has held a special place in my heart as the birth of LUMIPro was through the collaborative works between me and the first curator of the gallery.  Although times have changed, my love of this gallery remains.  Their most recent showing of Unified Heart 2013 represents the works of Leonard Cohen.  A staggering 21 super stars of the art world were represented and I’m happy to report all of the artists are LUMIPro users and most used LUMIPro in this showing.  The buzz created by the show covered every major "who's who" in the SL world and was picked up by major syndication feeds.  And to top things off Morgana received press outside of SL!!   I'm stellar proud of the gallery's accomplishment and especially to Morgana personally who continues to be both a personal friend and supporter of arts and LUMIPro.  If you have not seen the gallery, I encourage you to make it there.  It’s something special.

LUMIPro Spotlight

This LUMIPro Spotlight is courtesy of Corinne J. Helendale, LUMIPro Master. Corinne is not only a fabulous artist she is also part of the LUMIPro team and has spent countless hours in assisting in development and developed  the LUMIPro manual .

It is a pleasure to show her choices for the LUMIPro Spotlight !

Please take a moment to click on thee photos to visit awesome artists Flickr pages to enjoy more of their work or visit the LUMIPro Flickr. 

Visit our sales floor and grab a copy of the fully functional demo of the LUMIPro V3 HUD and see what you can do for yourself ! (Please remember, do NOT tp out of the sales room in the demo HUD as it will cease to function) 

"Crash"

Palais Orleans Gallery presents

"Crash" 

by Dantelicia Ethaniel and Dixmix

Thought provoking images.

"It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you brush past people, people bump into you. Here, nobody touches you.There's always this distance. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something."

There are two opening events to suit different parts of the world.

WHEN:  6:00 - 8:00 PM SLT Saturday 29 September

            and

            10:-00 AM - 12:00 PM SLT Sunday 30 September

WHERE:     Palais Orleans Gallery

I hope you can join us.

Morgana Nagorksi

Palais Orleans Owner and Curator.

LUMIPro Spotlight

Today I'd like to feature the works of 2 of LUMIPro's fabulous artists, Jessica Belmer and Corinne Helendale. If you have not seen their work you really have missed something wonderful and exciting.

Recently featured at Palais Orleans Gallery, The Splendor of Desire, and is still available there for viewing. A must see gallery!  The Splendor of Desire is an exploration of various scenarios where Desire meets conflict, uncertainty or joy.

The Splendor of Desire

THE EXHIBITION:  The Splendor of Desire

THE ARTISTS: Corinne Helendale and Jessica Belmer

My concept for Palais Orleans Gallery was, for each show, to have two artists collaborating on a theme, but Corinne and Jessica have taken the idea of collaboration to a whole new level.  Each piece had been worked on at every stage by both artists  and it has been really interesting being allowed a peek into their unique process and so exciting, over the last few months, watching images develop and evolve and then finally be chosen to form what is a very beautiful collection.


OPENING EVENTS:
Saturday, July 28th
            6:00 to 8:00 PM SLT
         
                        and
                             
Sunday, July 29th
            10:00 AM to 12:00 PM SLT


ARTISTS' STATEMENTS:
To desire is to be in a particular state of mind. It is a state of mind that is commonly associated with a number of different effects: a person with a desire tends to act in certain ways; feel in certain ways; and think in certain ways. If one desires water, one will get a glass of water; if one does not get a glass of water right away one will nonetheless feel the urge to do so; one will find the thought of water pleasant and one's current lack of water unpleasant; one will find one's thoughts repeatedly turning to the idea of water; one will judge that water seems like a good idea; and so forth and so on.

We thought these mechanisms of the mind to be rich ground to build visual narratives upon… and The Splendor of Desire is an exploration of various scenarios where Desire meets conflict, uncertainty or joy.

When Morgana asked us to do this show, we of course welcomed the chance. The idea of collaborating on a whole series of images based on desire seemed challenging and compelling.  What happened, though, was way more than what either of us ever expected—we essentially created a third "artist" who was greater than the sum of the two of us.

We incorporated play into our work, and while some of it can be seen in the images, mostly it just rippled through the whole process. We developed each piece together, from concept, to shoot, to final processing. Our images would come from anywhere—anything from a whim to a structured series with a story to tell. We would build sets to match our vision, create scenes, make poses, create textures—everything and anything needed to flesh out the narrative of the images we were exploring.

Collaboration took hold of us and brought us to places we never could have reached on our own.

Many thanks to Morgana Nagorski for believing in us and allowing us the opportunity to exhibit in Palais Orleans. All image-making was completed in our studios with the exception of one shot imaged at Roche and another at Neva River.

We hope you enjoy the work, and have as much fun exploring and engaging the images as we had making them.
Jessica Belmer and Corinne Helendale
July 2012

STATEMENT FROM THE SPONSOR
A warm welcome from LUMIPro—the sponsor of "The Splendor of Desire"

I'm happy to announce LUMIPro's ongoing sponsorship of arts in Second Life. Morgana Nagorski and Palais Orleans Gallery is hosting an art showing, "The Splendor of Desire," featuring Jessica Belmer and Corinne Helendale.

Corinne is someone I call a close friend, and our working  together in the development of the LUMIPro lighting system has been amazing. I personally consider this show a triumph of that collaboration!

I have a personal fondness for Palais Orleans, as the previous owner of the gallery and I were early collaborators on LUMIPro. I'm proud to help continue her legacy.

Morgana Nagorski is an avid LUMIPro user and advocate to the art world, and I'm excited that LUMIPro gets a chance to be involved with her.

Jessica and Corinne used LUMIpro extensively throughout "The Splendor of Desire," from the wearable lights to countless projectors.

LUMIPro is a professional lighting and pose system for artists, photographers, and machinimists. The system has been used for several magazine covers so far in 2012 as well as some of the leading art and music videos. Come check out a demo of our system and the blog and check out our Flickr Group.

Thanks for coming!

Stefan Buscaylet
Colleen Criss

LUMIPro Spotlight

Everyone loves a fabulous portrait . We want them to look elegant and the lighting perfect. No easy photo to achieve but one that captures your model in timeless beauty.

LUMIPro spotlights some wonderful work of the portrait photographers.

Maxi Gossamer by Morgana Nagorski

Laurel Head Shot by Sydney Bonde

Hugo Zelle by Thalia Heckroth
 

Sabine by Corinne J. Helendale
 

Check out LUMIPro. LUMIPro is a game changer in lighting for photography in Second Life. It was developed by a pro photographer RL who found the lighting systems available in Second Life to be inadequate and got tired of the limitation of rezzing prim and moving them each time he reposed his model. LUMIPro changes all this.

Find these fabulous artists on LUMIPro Flickr. 

Find LUMIPro L3 on marketplace and at the LUMIPro Headquarters.

"Lucid Dreams" ~ Sponsored by LUMIPro

A warm welcome from LUMIPro - the sponsor of "Lucid Dreams"
LUMIPro is a professional lighting and pose system for artists, photographers, and machinimists.  The system has been used for 3 magazine covers so far in 2012 as well as some of the leading art and music videos.  Come check out a demo of our system at lumipro.blogspot.com  and check out a gallery of our work.

I'm happy to announce LUMIPro's ongoing sponsorships of arts in Second Life.  Morgana Nagorski and Palais Orleans Gallery is hosting a art showing "Lucid Dream" featuring  Amona Savira and Harbor Galaxy.

I have personal fondness for Palais Orleans as the previous owner of the gallery and I were early collaborators on LUMIPro and I'm proud to help continue her legacy.

Morgana Nagorski is an avid LUMIPro user and advocate to the art world and I'm excited LUMIPro gets a chance to be involved with it.

Amona used LUMIpro for all of her pics in the exhibition and Harbor for about a third, and she is now experimenting further with it.

Colleen and I are looking forward to seeing you at the opening parties.

Stefan Buscaylet


All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. ~Edgar Allan Poe

Amona's statement about the show


"Just sinking into the dreamland she wanted so much, like a relief, a wanted ending to another day. Eyes closed, her body being one with the ground, just waiting for memory to escape her. Never being conscious of the moment when she faded in from the reality into the dream.

Enjoying the lucid dreams carrying her over water, to distant cities, the encounters with strangers, just briefly discovering their secrets, dreams of dreams, each more deeper than the other.

Floating moments, more vague now, the dream slowly filling her body, making it weightless and translucent. Mirroring it in distant oceans, posed in colored rooms, wander through dream gardens, between painted walls and encounter lovers and fairies, friends and enemies.

She would just live the dream, picturing it, seek and sense it and just dwell in it, like being in another existence or a second life."
This was the dream I wanted to be in - and that I wanted to picture.

It has been a joy working with Harbor. Her obvious artistic sense and skills has been an inspiration for me and has made me challenge myself, and I hope you will notice that.

Thank yo so much Morgana for your work with preparing and creating the shows for your gallery and work with us. It is very exciting for me to exhibit in your gallery.

Second Life has been a blessing for me and made me able to use my artistic skills again. Thanks to my friends in SL and in Flickr, without you this would not be as fun. And thanks to my partner, you know how much you mean to me.

Amona Savira May 2012




Harbor's statement about the show


I've always felt that Second Life was a type of Lucid Dreaming, a world created by our fantasies and desires. A world vivid while immersed in it yet ephemeral upon departure. A dream within a dream.
My hope was to convey that ephemeral quality of the dream state.. a vision short lived, grasped for a moment by the mind only to disappear, leaving us with a vague memory or sensation.

My many thanks to Morgana for all the work she does in creating and supporting these shows at her gallery and for her belief in my work. Thank you to Amona..who's talent makes me want to expand and push my personal horizons and last but certainly not least thank you to all who use this dream we call Second Life to create. It is your acts of creation from the smallest item to the largest sim that fuels this dream.


Harbor Galaxy May 2012


Transport to the gallery

I'm extremely excited about this show, having seen some of the artwork already I can you tell this is another not to be missed gallery. I've been in Second Life since 2007 and I've been very fortunate to meet and work with some of Second Life's phenomenal artists and photographers. I sincerely hope that you will stop by this gallery. Morgana Nagorski  chooses her gallery artists with an expert eye as an artist herself in both worlds. Support Art in Second Life.

See you there,
Colleen Criss

LUMIPro Spotlight

You spend hours creating your set , finding your perfect look, adding the right accessories, so why not have the perfect light to enhance it all. Check out LUMIPro. LUMIPro is a game changer in lighting for photography in secondlife. It was developed by a pro photographer RL who found the lighting systems available in secondlife to be inadequate and got tired of the limitation of rezzing prim and moving them each time he reposed his model. LUMIPro changes all this. 

 Damnation by ςคlyקร๏ รקคгг๏ฬtгєє

Elicea XV by Morgana Nagorski

SIMPLE MORNINGS by Applonia Criss

torch by Jessica Belmer

Chained by Domitalia Jinx 

 

 Please visit these wonderful artists flickr sites to see more of their awesome works, or catch them on the LUMIPro flickr listed on the side bar of this blog.