Dukedom

A week ago I received a tp  to Dukedom from my Explorer friend Ed. He showed me the helicopter hanging in the sky, from which it's fun to jump, with or without a parachute, the rusted pedal boat and the telephone booth. 

Dukedom is a full region created by KnOcks ShadOws (whozyer.daddy) for photography and exploring. It's an adult rated sim with an adult themed area or two. So NO child/teen avatars allowed there. Dukedom is half grungy urban inner city and half country. 

The sim is well made with lots of lovely, cozy and horny places. So there is fun for all. After all it IS an adult sim.

I made a few images then, but decided to return today and explore a bit more of the place. Well there is a lot more to explore. Will show you in some of the many images I made.

I discovered a deserted motel with in front a sort of hippie colony with hookers, nude girls and boys in daring poses. I got inspired and sat on the lap of a guy sitting on a sofa. Luckily he was a bot and super safe 😅

FUNDAY by Cica Ghost

 

Sunday, 2 January 2022: this afternoon visiting the brand new installation FUNDAY by Cica Ghost with Miha. I love this installation, it's fresh, crispy colours and of course with fun animations and it has a great mood/atmosphere. I used ultra graphics and shared environment light.

I made several images, but advise you to go and explore the installation yourself. When you are lucky you will find Cica there. Give her my love.

The Outer Garden

The Outer Garden is an enchanting place, created by Bisou Dexler, a male avi from Japan. I love the atmosphere of the place, especially the abandoned room with the frayed wallpaper, the dusty piano and all the furniture swept in a heap. The Outer Garden breaths great taste and the use of quality textures is obvious.

Bisou has a blogpost about this awesome place in which he indicates that on 16 December he (re)opened the Outer Garden for the public. Reason was the many requests from people who told him they were sad and concerned coz the garden was closed.

Bisou writes in his blogpost: 'The quiet kindness that Aki (his SL partner) showed me as I reopened the garden, as it had been before, seemed to sink into me. I decorated the garden every day, little by little, to light up the garden with the graceful warmth that Aki showed me.
I hope this kindness will be conveyed to everyone who comes to my garden. That's why my garden is only complete when you come to it. I hope you like the white garden.

Many thanks and yearning to my dear Aki. No matter how much I thank you, it will never be enough.'

I visited The Outer Garden with Miha this afternoon, while exploring some of the many LM's I weekly receive from a friend, who is a super explorer (thanks Caytoria).

Of course I couldn't resist to make many images of this truly lovely place.

at entrance point

Clay and Seed Installation

Yesterday, 1 December 2021,  I visited twice the installation 'Clay and Seed' by Haveit Neox, Bamboo Barnes and Lilia Artis at Akimori/Akipelago, which will open officially on 5 December 12 PM SLT with music by Bsukmet Stormcrow.

The invitation I received read:

'CLAY AND SEED
A collaboration of art, utilizing 3D, 2D, and Text. For the Clay and Seed exhibit, Bamboo Barnes chose to focus on 2D artwork, Lilia Artis on poetry, and Haveit Neox on sculpture and architecture. The goal was to have these disciplines unite into a single work, which in this case of three like-minded artists, occurred organically. 

Haveit’s galleries provide the supporting walls for Bamboo’s imagery, while Lilia’s poetry garnishes the windows of these clay buildings and thus closes the circle. During the process, each artist’s work contained a seed of inspiration for the other two. Being admirers of each other’s works for many years, it seems destiny smiled on these three with the opportunity to share their visions together and in an art region that inspired their creativity.

Describing the erosion of the environment and human relationships, the work of all three artists explores the fields of destruction, growth, abuse, hope, gratefulness, and loneliness.'

I love sneak peeks, when there's nobody around and I can walk around at my own pace and listen to the music. At entrance point there are several chairs to sit and relax, which I did. There are also 2 gift boxes one from Haveit and one from Bamboo. 
When I started walking around I was immediately taken by the hares, which I spotted inside Haveit's barn building. After all my name is 'Haas' which is Dutch for Hare. My family I always call avi's in rabbit outfit.

spot the hares 

projections by Bamboo

I wandered around following the paths, I admired the many superb  artworks and builds of Haveit and the ditto images of Bamboo. Worth mentioning are also the great colors of the sky, the serene atmosphere of the installation set within a setting of sand dunes, the centaurs and horses .... and sooo much more 😀
Of course I couldn't resist to make a lot of images, which I show here in this post. 

A sincere thank you to Aki (Akiko Kinoshi) who made this possible with her art sims Akimori/Akipelago, in which she gives so many artists the opportunity to show their works. 

Do visit and enjoy this exquisite installation by Haveit and Bamboo and let yourself be enchanted. Don't forget to pick up the gifts, they are both lovely.

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Graphics Settings: High to Ultra / Distance 256m / please Set World / Environment to "Use Shared Environment