tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64166778532985686452024-03-05T03:12:49.536-08:00just melusinaMelusina Parkin has been CEO of MEB Fashion,<br>photographer, Art Deco furniture creator and writer.<br>In this space she talks about her SL. Meluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03041253670491831715noreply@blogger.comBlogger100125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416677853298568645.post-60472979193699004422015-08-10T02:54:00.002-07:002015-08-10T02:59:30.116-07:00Farewell, Adele<br />
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Adele Kling has left us, but her sweetness and her enthusiasm keep warming and lighting up her friends' memories.<br />
In beloved memory of a too short friendship, I post here some fragments of the things we have made together.<br />
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In 2012, Adele owned for a short time a gallery at New Toulouse, called Vintage Vision. She saw my photo series Found in the Attic and she wanted to host them at her gallery. Here below, a pic of the opening.<br />
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Adele was a Flapperette, a member of a vintage ballet team whose shows I had the privilege to follow many times, taking photos of the wonderful work they make. I can't forget the happiness I saw in her eyes while dancing...<br />
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... and when the public celebrated her by endless applauses.<br />
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Adele has been an active member of the 1920 Berlin community - where I've spent a great time, too - for more than 5 years. In the
latest times, she owned there a Photo Studio; she talked to me about it
with a lot of pride. Berlin's owner, Jo Yardley, decided to keep the
Studio alive, as a place where Adele's friends can keep watching her
photos and remembering her activity.<br />
<a href="https://1920sberlinproject.wordpress.com/2015/08/06/the-passing-of-one-of-our-own-adele-kling/">https://1920sberlinproject.wordpress.com/2015/08/06/the-passing-of-one-of-our-own-adele-kling/</a><br />
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A little, cute memory more: once, Adele posted on her FB page a pic of a wonderful old linoleum floor she had found at her RL home. I loved it, 'cause my passion for Art Deco, and I wanted to replicate it in SL, making a texture of the floor for her. I remember how enthusiast she has been with it!<br />
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In the days she passed away, I posted on my Flickr a photo that could be a good homage to Adele: a girl walking on a mysterious road. We don't know where she's going, but we wish she's walking to a happy place. I dedicated this photo, that I love a lot, to the memory of Adele. I'm sure she would have loved it.<br />
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(for a better view, check it out on <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/19727816113/in/dateposted/">Flickr</a>)</div>
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R.I.P., Adele!<br />
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<br />Meluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03041253670491831715noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416677853298568645.post-77857610725079320932014-08-03T21:54:00.002-07:002014-08-04T00:53:59.249-07:00A great gift!I've been always honored with Gem Preiz' friendship. He's one of the most talented artists in SL, his fractal works are among the most stunning creations SL art produced. <br />
Yestreday, when Gem IMed me to say he had made something for me, I was both surprised and happy. But when I saw the object he sent me I got speechless: it's a picture named "Tribute to Melusina". His mysterious fractal algorithms generated a distorced image of a surreal building, painted by muted colors.<br />
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It's something that I really feel like "mine": Gem has caught my spirit
(I wrote him that!), creating the same atmosphere of my photographic
works, but using his own techniques. I often have shot RL-like buildings
in a way that angle, light and colors make them look unusual, thanks to
the absence of people, to the surreal framing, to the symmetries or
asymmetries, to the trend towards a monochrome mood or to a matching
colors palette. Showing the unseen sides of common life things is a way
to show how we can enjoy the world - both real and virtual - when we
don't take it for granted.<br />
Fractals enhance these features: Gem's
work is an harmonious painting talking about loneliness, mystery and
essential geometry's fascination.<br />
I framed the picture and I hung it
on my home office's wall, close to some other beloved gifts. It will
show how much our works share similar feelings.<br />
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Thank you, Gem, thank you so much!<br />
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Meluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03041253670491831715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416677853298568645.post-82769498718126217802014-07-27T04:12:00.001-07:002014-07-31T12:23:49.321-07:00CLOSER LOOKS - Photo exhibit at Yo Mexico - Sociedad de los Poetas Dementes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Watching things from close up is an amazing practice. Isolating an element or a detail in a scene, focusing on it, is like when you repeat a word in your mind until it does lose its meaning: it starts then revealing unespected associations, suggesting unusual relationships, showing unforeseen details in it.<br />
When photographed, the most trivial object, thanks to framing, light, shadows and colors handling can acquire a completely different meaning than its own actual or usual one.<br />
This is what I tried to do in these photos. Enhancing the evocative power of daily life objects and landscapes, showing them out of their context or catching their hidden fascination by camera framing and lighting.<br />
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SL gives us the chance to create the most unusual things. I try rather to tell how even common objects can lead us to look reality in unexpected ways. It can contribute to make our minds less lazy, to increase our creativity and to avoid being flattened by triviality and conformism.<br />
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"Let nothing be called natural<br />
In an age of bloody confusion,<br />
Ordered disorder, planned caprice,<br />
And dehumanized humanity, lest all things<br />
Be held unalterable!"<br />
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(B.Brecht, The exception and the rule, 1937)<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">FEEDBACK</span><br />
Ziki Questi already reviewed the exhibit!<br />
<a href="http://zikiquesti.blogspot.it/2014/07/closer-looks.html">http://zikiquesti.blogspot.it/2014/07/closer-looks.html</a><br />
and Inara Pey as well!<br />
<a href="https://modemworld.wordpress.com/2014/07/27/melusina-parkin-closer-looks/">https://modemworld.wordpress.com/2014/07/27/melusina-parkin-closer-looks/</a><br />
and a pretty photo by WuWai Chun, too:<br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wuwaichun/14788501173/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/wuwaichun/14788501173/</a><br />
and now, Quan Lavender:<br />
<a href="http://quanlavender.blogspot.it/2014/07/gallery-hopping_31.html?spref=fb">http://quanlavender.blogspot.it/2014/07/gallery-hopping_31.html?spref=fb</a><br />
and a wonderful machinima by Wizardoz Chrome:<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4NphdJrGVU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4NphdJrGVU</a> Meluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03041253670491831715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416677853298568645.post-32566855673022457242014-07-15T04:45:00.003-07:002014-07-15T04:45:49.330-07:00Ride through vintage US with Greyhound2014 is the 100th anniversary of Greyhound Lines company. Celebrative articles on the Web and on magazines mostly show the famous buses, of course. I want to remember a different feature of that company history: Greyhound bus stations have been and are outstanding landmarks of Streamline style. Together with motels, gas stations, garages, drugstores, cafes and diners, they have been icons of the "roadside architecture" that featured the popular image of US worldwide, even through countless movies' scenes. <br />My madness for Art Deco and Streamline made me plan to create 3D models of them, and to show them in SL. <br />For now, I show here below a little collection of pretty 1930s-1950s Greyhound stations postcards found on the Web (I added also some photos of terminals not portrayed on postcards). They show typical features of Streamline style: horizontal shapes, round corners, towers, large windows, tiles, bright colors, chrome moldings, big signs. <br />They are a very meaningful example of the original American development of Art Deco style, due to the imagination of architects and designers who answered to the "need of future" so widespread since the difficult times of the 1930s. Even more than great buildings, these places - that people frequented daily - deeply marked collective imaginary.<br />
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Further infos about Greyhound history:<br />
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<li><a href="https://www.greyhound.com/en/about/default.aspx">Greyhound official website</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyhound_Lines">Greyhound Lines on Wikipedia</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Greyhound-Postcards-Buses-Depots-Houses/dp/1583881301">J. Dockendorf, D. Frautischi, <i>Greyhound in Postcards: Buses, Depots, and Post Houses</i>, Iconographix, 2004 </a></li>
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<br /><br /><br />Meluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03041253670491831715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416677853298568645.post-50923343115357104902014-07-14T11:32:00.000-07:002014-07-14T15:46:59.111-07:00The Seraph has flown away...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sadly, every day we see a SL beloved place vanishing, but sometimes they are places saying to our heart much more than nostalgia. They are places where not only we had had occasional visits, admiring their beauty, but places where we have spent a meaningful time, building something, dealing with people, enjoying events or setting our rest places on some of their pretty corners.<br />
This is Seraph City to me.<br />
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In the last year, after a moment of crisis, a new ownership seemed to ensure a better future and the city was going to be rebuilt. Months have passed and finally I had known that the city is gone, due to the choice of the newest owner to use the SIM for private purposes. I never met Bromo Ivory, but his profile should suggest a better personality than that of a person who decides to ignore the history and the importance of a place like the one he bought. I can't wish him to enjoy his new place, 'cause he will make it grow up on the ruins of a wasted masterpiece.<br />
As I've got the sad news, I've thought of my first visit in 2010, of the seek for the owner - the well known sculptor Pumpkin Tripsa, at that time - to arrange a rent for a shop, I've thought of the emotion when I set up the little Melu Deco shop in the Champagne Room quarter. I was fascinated by the unique atmosphere of the city, a 1930-40s NYC-like one, with all the typical landmarks I could imagine of that, from water towers to firestairs.<br />
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Beneath the big Seraph that was standing on the city's sign (a Pumpkin's sculpture), I remember buildings and corners that have disappeared in the time, like the huge Carrington skyscraper, housing a cool 1940s lodge, reached by a pretty lift and decorated by stunning Jazz Age images. I remember also another skyscraper lightened by violet rays, with a stunning Art Deco club on the top; the moving Memorial to War's victims, the late Donna Flora shop at the Champagne quarter, the New Champagne Room itself, with its warm and cozy theater; and I remember the people I met at my shop, or at the city club, or the pretty times spent there with friends I invited to visit the city and to enjoy its beautiful look.<br />
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But Seraph City has been even more to me: I was invited to make there one of my first personal photo exhibits: my friend GStone wanted to rent the Seraph First Bank building to celebrate the first issue of Stil Berliner magazine by an exhibit of my photos dedicated to Art Deco; many of them were taken at Seraph itself. It has been possible thanks to the building's owner Captain Paur Creighton, who later opened her own retro SIM, Swing Times. The gallery has been then used by GStone for an unique exhibit of
Precisionist paintings, one of the most outstanding ones I saw in SL showing RL famous painters. <br />
A few months later, I've been also hired to decorate the Primgraph offices in the city, named The Daily Prim, an exciting challenge, indeed!. <br />
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Later, I saw the city changing, when Champagne Room left the place and the new Estate Manager, Edward Pearse, built the Champagne Arcades, where I moved my shop. Sir Edward did know very well my love for the city and asked me for making some ads to place in other retro places of SL to invite people visiting the "Dieselpunk Capital". We had planned also a photo contest to advertise the city and I still keep the draft of the relevant poster in my inventory...<br />
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These are my personal memories, but of course Seraph was much more: anybody who visited it can remember the stunning skyline, crowded by period skyscrapers, the dark streets below the railway line, the unique style of buildings like the movie theater by Pumpkin Tripsa or like the stunning City Hall, or even the huge Art Deco Sonatta Morales' shop, or even the perfect 1930s style Hawksmoor Apartments building. Everybody will happily remember their trips to the buildings' roofs, from where the whole city did offer a stunning aerial view. And nobody can ever forget some warm and attractive corners like vintage diners, cafes and shops.<br />
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With the vanishing of Seraph City retro and vintage SL loses a prominent landmark. After the closing of the old Decoretropia, of Swing Times, of the Flashmans club and of Esoterica, all of us who love these atmospheres can still walk through 1920 Berlin streets, can enjoy shopping at Vintage Retro, can wander around the fascinating corners of Chicago 1920 or can have a walk on Paris 1900's Champs Elysées, but we can't longer enjoy the special, slightly misterious atmosphere we have lived in the city of the Seraph.<br />
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<b>Goodbye, Dieselpunk Capital!</b><br />
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(Images shown here are taken between 2010 and 2013: they depict different moments of the City's history) Meluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03041253670491831715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416677853298568645.post-45242353209574723522014-06-26T02:07:00.001-07:002014-06-26T02:07:07.042-07:00MICOL: in beloved memory<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's a sad day, today. <br />
I lost a beloved friend. She isn't the first one, in the last year, but pain isn't less hard. Maybe harder, if possible. Sadness added to sadness. <br />
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<b>Micol Choche</b> was a sweetie. Her RL wasn't so good, but her avi's face was always smiling and she always loved joking, dancing, wearing beautiful dresses, meeting nice people, decorating her beloved home... RL has been cruel with her, but she had had the support of many friends in SL and she was happy with that.<br />
She was a model, graduated at look Elite Academy, but her illness didn't allow her to follow the strict discipline modeling requires. She tried to do all what she could, and SL was her main social environment. Her friends can remember her parties, her gifts, her nice and passionate talks...<br />
She loved pets, and I have a kitten she gave me, named Silvestro. Micol gave it to me laughing and saying he was a peast... She was right, indeed! He can't refrain to push me everytime and to bother all my other pets! :)) <br />
This is a little tale, just to remember happy times. No solemnity, no bombastic words, today. SL is made of those simple, warm moments of joy.<br />
Micol loved my photographs and she asked me many times to shot her. I was happy to support her joy for beauty and now I can keep some awesome memories of her. I'm glad to share them with all of you who will read this post.<br />
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Micol at Look Elite graduation<br />
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Micol happily wearing some new clothes and costumes :)<br />
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Micol,
dear, I can't make anymore than this post for you. I would believe you
can read it and remember the happy moments we spent together.<br />
Bye, sweetie, bye!<br />
:,<br />
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<br />Meluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03041253670491831715noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416677853298568645.post-78979893833281817802014-05-12T05:31:00.000-07:002014-05-20T10:35:36.068-07:00I lived a dream, yesterday...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yes, I lived a dream, yesterday!<br />
It has begun years ago, when I was still a noobie, and I visited the old Flashmans club for the first time. I saw there a lady wearing a wonderful retro dress, red and black silk, 1930s cut, wide brim hat... I was stunned by the richness of textures and by the great style, so I asked the lady for the designer who had made it.<br />
A few minutes later, I was at Sonatta Morales' main store (it was at Ballyboo, then), and I couldn't believe my eyes, seeing the impressive collection of retro fashion masterpieces that covered the walls. I felt like in an art gallery: each dress' vendor could have been a painting, depicting a fragment of the 1920-1950s world, the times I loved yet, when great fashion designers made ladies elegant throughout the main capitals of the world, creating a new way of thinking of fashion.<br />
There started my passion for SL retro and vintage, and all that I made later in that field has kept Sonatta's style as a point of reference.<br />
I already owned a lot of Sonatta's dresses when I met her, discovering that the style, the taste and the passion she put in her creation was the same she put in her behavior and in her way to be a friend.<br />
The exciting moments I've lived everytime I met her are endless, but I can't forget how I was happy and moved when I saw my furniture decorating her stores!<br />
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A few time ago, Algezares Magic, another old and close friend who owns now the modeling agency aQuarela, asked me to help her in a show she was planning for Sonatta's creations. I enthusiastically agreed and I started my work building the show's room, where Alge had set a stunning Art Deco runway. I chose my best furniture and lamps and I created some new ones. I took advantage from some of my past builds to create an environment that could match the glamour and the luxury of the 1930-40s. Finally, I dared to add some black/white photos of myself on the lobby walls, wearing the best Sonatta dresses I own.<br />
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A few days before the show, Alge asked me to host it.<br />
Since then, I haven't had other thoughts... Well, I didn't neglect my (too many) jobs, but my inner calendar was pointed on the date when the little fan of the great Maestro would stand in front of her and of the public, presenting the great collection Sonatta was going to present on the aQuarela runway!<br />
Sonatta helped me a lot, giving me a gorgeous, still unreleased dress for the event: when I wore it I suddenly thought of. <a href="http://pleasurephotoroom.wordpress.com/2013/02/06/jean-patchett-new-york-1949-irving-penn/">the famous Irving Penn's photos</a> of <a href="http://vogue.tumblr.com/post/1463046292/nostalgia-model-in-balenciaga-for-the-1950">1950' Balenciaga dresses</a>! So I played with it, to try it at my best before the show, daring to imitate the great photographer's style.<br />
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At the show, I was too busy to take photos, so I can't show here almost anything of the huge audience, of the stunning models, of the warm and enthusiastic atmosphere of the event.<br />
I can only show here below some views of the runway room and some pictures of the show's final moments, when Sonatta appeared on the runway to get the standing ovation from her models and from the public. I also add the pics I'll save as the best memories of this great day, portraying Sonatta together with myself. <br />
I hope that any photographer took pictures and will be able to show them in the next days. But I had to write this post to tell that wonderful day from my own point of view. <br />
A dream. Yes, it's been a dream made real!<br />
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Simonh Sandial, well known SL and RL photographer, invited me to show at his gallery, The Nite's Place; he allowed me to use 6 rooms, so I've thought to dedicate each of them to a different theme among the main ones I love to practice in my SL photographer's work.<br />
The result is an exhibit called Themes, that will open next Friday May 9th, at 2pm SLT.<br />
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As it's shown on the poster, the themes are Details, Solitudes, Industry, Landscapes, Urban and Minimal. They cover almost all of the paths I've followed in the time, exploring some of the most beautiful realistic places of SL and trying to catch unusual perspectives, to look at daily life objects or environments in a special way. </div>
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Solitudes and Minimal are more inspirations than properly "themes": most of the other sections' photos could stay under those titles. But I'm happy with offering to visitors a more detailed guide to the different aspects of my research.</div>
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I hope your eyes will be happy like mine have been when I shot and edited these pictures :)</div>
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<a href="http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Crystal%20Gardens%20Estate...">Melusina Parkin "Themes" at The Nite's Place </a></div>
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UPDATE May 9th<br />
Once more, Ziki Questi offers a preview and a nice review of the exhibit on her exaustive blog. Thanks, Ziki!<br />
<a href="http://zikiquesti.blogspot.it/2014/05/melusina-parkin-themes.html">http://zikiquesti.blogspot.it/2014/05/melusina-parkin-themes.html</a><br />
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UPDATE May 25<br />
Inara Pei posted a very informative review:<a href="http://modemworld.wordpress.com/2014/05/17/themes-of-solitude-industry-landscape-and-more/#comments"> Inara Pei's blog</a><br />
Wizardoz Chrome took a <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/66100504@N04/14077573887/">stunning photo</a> at the exhibit, and now she published a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWWUtmxNdRI&list=UU0yKGOQ01H9J_k9TWKpocvg">wonderful video</a> :)<br />
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<br />Meluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03041253670491831715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416677853298568645.post-62459461183132360192014-04-18T05:50:00.001-07:002014-04-24T11:54:08.085-07:00My new exhibit at Rose Theatre and Art Gallery - American Signs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Months ago, I started taking photographs for a series called "<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/sets/72157635715192173/">Americana</a>": I wanted to shoot typical American places, landmarks and "icons" of American popular culture I could find in Second Life.<br />
While visiting these places, I realized how much signs contribute to define a style, a mood
that we can find in any image of cities, roads, stores and streets.<br />
Most of them are retro styled, remembering the great influence that 1930s-1950s graphics
has had on designing American popular culture's styles.<br />
Diners, pubs, bars, gas stations, motels... the so called "roadside architecture", a typical
American phenomenon, gives us the image of a whole world. It isn't a coincidence that painters
like Edward Hopper or Charles Sheeler depicted them to offer a view of their times' America.<br />
Second Life reproduces this mood: we can find a great variety of typical signs on its buildings
and cities, where diners, gas stations, motels and bars are the featuring elements of the<br />
places.<br />
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I collected dozen signs' pictures, and I tried to make a slideshow on YouTube, while waiting for posting all the pics on my Flickr (in the series "Americana"). <br />
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Kylie Sabra, curator of The Rose Theatre and Art Gallery, saw the show and asked me for an exhibit at the Rose Gallery :)<br />
I'm happy to display again my photo at The Rose, after a first exhibit last year. I selected 20 pics, from the show and among newest ones (I keep taking photos of signs, when exploring) and they will be shown at the Gallery 3 from April 21st.<br />
The gallery isn't used to make official openings, but <b>I'll be there to welcome visitors on Tuesday April 22nd, at 3pm SLT. </b><br />
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<a href="http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Angel%20Manor/110/84/29">http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Angel%20Manor/110/84/29</a><br />
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The exhibit aims to show a side of the "urban culture" that often is neglected or ignored, having it as a trivial or obvious thing.<br />
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But their bright colors, their happy lights, their appeal, their irony, sometimes, give us
an image of a perhaps vanishing world that is deeply rooted on our collective imaginery:
something like "semiotic ghosts", according to William Gibson's words, that play with our
nostalgia and with our desires.<br />
I hope visitors will enjoy them as much as I did when i shot them.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">UPDATES</span></b><br />
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- Kylie Sabra decorated the exhibit rooms (she decided to enlarge the space to gallery 2 as well) making they look like roads, motel rooms, diners, adding amazing details in the signs' style. It's like an exhibit inside (or around) the exhibit :))<br />
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- Kezzy Angel, Rose Theatre manager, gave a special vintage taste to the opening, setting a 1950s music stream to welcome visitors. <br />
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- Ziki Questi, whose blog is a very helpful guide to art events of SL, reviewed the exhibit in the usual sharp way :))<br />
<a href="http://zikiquesti.blogspot.it/2014/04/american-signs.html">http://zikiquesti.blogspot.it/2014/04/american-signs.html</a> <br />
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- Wuwai Chun, when has visited the exhibit, has taken a very meaningful photo, posted on her Flickr; she also added the exhibit's intro to the pic's description :))<br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wuwaichun/13974550245/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/wuwaichun/13974550245/</a> <br />
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- Wizardoz Chrome, who has made some great videos at other my exhibits, posted a pretty reportage of the opening on her Flickr<br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/66100504@N04/13995232085/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/66100504@N04/13995232085/</a><br />
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<br />Meluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03041253670491831715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416677853298568645.post-60421267576444974602014-04-14T17:13:00.003-07:002014-04-14T17:13:24.661-07:00My photo won the Paris 1900 Photo Contest!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I know and love Paris 1900 since my very first SL days. <br />
I enjoyed long walks around that beautiful SIM, discovering new corners every time I did.<br />
I keep there a Melu Deco store on the Champs Elysées, that's one of my most biggest and beloved ones. Moreover, I take care of two MEB Fashion shops in the city and I also worked on decorating many Paris apartments.<br />
But Paris is for me also the place where I started exhibiting my photos: thanks to Olympes Rhode, I've taken part in an exhibit called "Paris Impressions" in 2011 and I never shall forget how exciting has been seeing my pics hanging on the walls of the Brasserie, close to Moulin Rouge.<br />
So, it's a special pleausure to me being the winner of the Paris 1900 photo contest, today.<br />
In the photo I proposed to the jury and to the public, called "Ville Lumiére" I'm posing on the bright background of the Arc de Triomphe, framed by the Champs Elysées streetlamps, wearing the stunning Sonatta Morales' Fera dress. Among many other pictures taken for the contest, I loved this one for the light and 'cause it shows one of the most famous view of the city.<br />
I want to consider it as an homage to a place I love and where I met a lot of great people and good friends.<br />
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An amazing experience! Feeling like Alice in the Wonderland among giant
pans, toaster, pizzas and tomato cans or walking among chair and table
legs tall like trees!</div>
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This and even more can be done at the stunning installation <a href="http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA23/168/26/22">"Invasion"</a> built by Sniper Siemens at LEA 23 (open through next June).</div>
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Sniper is a great artist and builder, as everyone know at least from her former Leonardo's machines exhibit at Im@ginarium and elsewhere (if you missed it, enjoy <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZE3CLDa-AM">the video by Mexy Lane</a> on YouTube).<br />
Her creations are always original and different; she explores SL opportunities in a special way, avoiding too abstract or baroque things and trying to offer better knowledge about art, tecniques and - like in this case - popular culture, pushing us seeing the world in unespected ways.</div>
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Entrance
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Sniper's well
known irony and building skills made a world we can go through looking
at it as we were 20 cm. tall. It's just an house, but you have to walk
as it were a broad region. Daily objects surround and dominate you while
you enter an oven where tasty pizzas are cooking or when you try to use
an old fashioned phone to call for help :) <br />
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Everywhere you meet Greenies, who - despite their wicked faces - show you how to use the huge objects for fun :)) <br />
Their "parallele world", that opens its doors in many house's corners, is the only enviroment where you are right-sized: the contrast to the "normal" objects and rooms increases the disorientation effect.<br />
However, you can also take a breath in this slightly scaring world of giant's daily life: a Greenie-sized diner built on the kitchen table offers you right-size seats, but... the good food it gives is too big for being eaten without getting severe indigestion :)<br />
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I won't reveal the many surprising details you can find in the house: exploring them is the best way to be happily confused by this change of point of view on reality. I'll just tell that I loved a lot playing Monopoly being a pawn on the game's board (it has been a luck that game's jail was hold by a Greenie, yet!).<br />
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Thank you, Sniper, for this funny and stimulating adventure!<br />
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<a href="http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA23/168/26/22">Sniper Siemens' "Invasion" Tribute to Greenies' Home, LEA 23</a>
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It has been a bad fault, since I'm dealing with the attempt to build a broad view of the way of representing America in SL, through my photograph series <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/sets/72157635715192173/">Americana, posted on Flickr</a>.<br />
Now, Mary rebuilt the SIM at <a href="http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA6/75/30/22">LEA6</a> (run visiting it: it will be gone after March 31st!) and I could have the pleasure to visit one of the most amazing examples of the chances SL offers to represent pages of history, culture and social life. <br />
Cinema!, despite its name, is actually something more than a celebration of the Seventh Art: it is an overview of a whole chapter of the history of American popular culture in 20th Century, through some of its icons.<br />
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Centered on the outstanding Empire theater, the SIM is scattered with other meaningful builds depicting some key aspects of 1930s-1940s way of life: the Empire theater itself, a drive-in theater, a diner, a gas station.<br />
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Although the major focus of the entire SIM is of course cinema, diner, gas station and drive-in add other powerful examples of the typical "roadside architecture" that had spread throughout American recent history. Cars are protagonists here, from the row of old fashioned ones parked in front of the Empire building, to the huge variety of types gathered in the drive-in parking, to the diner's seats, to the gasoline pumps, tires and repair workshop of the gas station. Only a motel is lacking to complete the key symbols of this "road culture".<br />
I won't spoil visitor's surprise talking of the dozen of pretty details we can see inside these builds. I just warmly advise to read carefully signs and logos inside the diner, to look at the drive-in's car styles, to pay attention to the wonderful collection of pin-ups' pictures that decorate the workshop walls.<br />
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I started talking of all these things, but the main building and the main subject of the SIM definitely deserve to be noticed.<br />
The majestic bulk of the Empire Theater is an outstanding example of Art Deco architecture, with its statues, windows, friezes and lights. A huge sign shows the theater name in wonderful 1930s fonts, hallways and stairs covered by red carpets and tapestry lead to the two-storeys orchestra and to the box seats. Walking through them you can see glamorous period lamps, old movie posters, pretty corners like the bar or the art galleries that surround the main hall. This is huge like the screen where some talented SL filmmakers show their works. The Golden Age of the Hollywood movie industry has at the Empire its celebration!<br />
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I can't finish my visit without saying of the beautiful building that lays nearby the theater: built in 1940s style, it hosts an amazing collection of sculptures from SL artists picked by Mary; it is worth a visit by itself. <br />
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I'm honored and happy to see the pics I took at the SIM exhibited in one of the theater's galleries, but I'm even happier with the plan to take the students of my classes at Visionaire Institute of Photography to a photo-tour at Cinema! When I had that idea, Mary enthusiastically agreed, offering a gallery space to show the result of the student's exercises (from March 28th).<br />
So, in the latest days of this amazing SIM's life, I advise all art lovers to come visiting the SIM and the exhibits!<br />
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<a href="http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA6/75/30/22">Cinema! Take II</a> Meluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03041253670491831715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416677853298568645.post-44632304620186598882014-02-08T11:49:00.000-08:002014-02-09T05:16:59.245-08:00Trash - A stunning installation by Mexi Lane at Imagin@riumHouses and books in the waste... We can't imagine a more sad and tragic end of world.<br />
When you want experience that, visit Mexi Lane's installation Trash at her <a href="http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/MIC/99/230/21">MiC-Imagin@rium SIM</a>.<br />
On a narrow sand stripe front of the main island, huge bulks of garbage close up the horizon.<br />
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The shock is very hard: compared to the classical, calm beauty of the temples and buildings on the island, to the clean sand of the coast and to the quiet and sunny sea, slowly lapping the beach, the rubbish mountain chain is strongly disturbing!<br />
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But a closer view is even worse: our most beloved objects, houses and books, our own homes and our knowledge's and pleasure's homes are most of the rubbish rising up to the sky. Moreover, they lay on a faint base of garbage and the mountains are spangled by fat black plastic bags, suggesting other, worse garbage. It's heartbreaking!<br />
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Mexi would depict the crisis of our world in the saddest way: she's a great art connoisseur and lover and she knew how much all educated people would be hit by seeing their most beloved objects trown out and neglected like rubbish. Sumptous book bindings, golden fonts, pretty roofs and chimneys seem being no longer useful. <br />
I want to stress that houses aren't huge building or flats: they are the beloved pretty houses we all dream when we think af a quiet day spent reading or listening good music.<br />
However, under some daylights they look like De Chirico buildings, adding a touch of surrealism to the whole installation.<br />
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So, maybe we can also think of it like a nightmare. But nightmares are warnings, too: they come from real dangers and fears. They teach us to do our best to avoid they become real.<br />
Thank you Mexi! Shivers and sadness your work gave us are a push to awake ourselves and to hope the awesome world of your island could come back, when we would start a wiser way of life.<br />
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<br />Meluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03041253670491831715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416677853298568645.post-28144263894665998452014-02-07T07:16:00.002-08:002014-02-07T07:18:48.094-08:00Slideshow "American Signs" :))I got a lot of fun, making a slideshow on You Tube, showing a series of my photos titled "American Signs" :))<br />
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I gathered there many pictures of different kind of signs. I've taken them for my series "Americana", since signs are a typical expression of urban culture.<br />
Neon lights, advertising posters, motels', diners' or gas stations' signs populate our imaginery, and some of them are masterpieces of fun, of vintage style or even of urban popular culture.<br />
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Through SL you can find a lot of them, and this collection is a parade of fonts, lights and announcements from dozen of beautiful SIMs I visited.<br />
I paired to them a cheerful country-rock soundtrack by Chris Norton and Frank Mezin, that looks fitting well to the images, mostly taken in Southern or Western SIMs.<br />
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The Americana series, a work in progress, counting at this moment more than 200 pics (but I planned to post up to 500), is avalaible on my Flickr:<br />
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Enjoy it!<br />
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<br />Meluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03041253670491831715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416677853298568645.post-21178079710848345102014-01-31T06:23:00.002-08:002014-01-31T06:23:56.993-08:00City's two faces exhibit: an update (Wizardoz Chrome's video)I can't add any word to the video I show here. Wizardoz Chrome, who is covering the best SL art events by her machinima, gave me this great gift, making one of them at the opening of my exhibit City's Two Faces at LezSpain Gallery.<br />
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I think all art lovers have to save the link to Wiz' YouTube page, to enjoy all her fabolous works!<br />
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Enjoy the video of the exhibit!<br />
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Thanks to a lucky encounter, I have now the Salk building by <a href="http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/FANATIK/128/128/0">Fanatik</a> in my inventory.<br />
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Flickr isn't a traditional social network, but also there people meet, sharing their passions and skills, talking about their pics and styles, noticing each others things they love.<br />
So happened to me with Kendra Zaurak of Fanatik. I knew Fanatik buildings since a long time, and I've been appreciating their special style, their perfect shadowing, and how good they represent some of the most amazing modern architecture styles. Reading Kendra's comments to my pics has been a great surprise and I felt honored to receive congrats from such a refined connoisseur of modern design and aesthetics.<br />
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I'm even more honored to get the opportunity to shot the building Kendra kindly gave me, after we spent a very nice time talking about architecture history and styles.<br />
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It's the Salk building. The name belongs to the <a href="http://www.salk.edu/about/architecture.html">Salk Institute building</a>, made in RL in the 1960s by the great architect Louis Kahn, who worked side to side with the Institute founder, the famous doctor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk">Jonas Salk</a>, the developer of the polio vaccine. The Institute is a big and prominent research institution, and its venue is a masterpiece of modern architecture.<br />
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Fanatik wanted to rebuild one of the buildings that form the big compound of the Institute.<br />
It's a stunning building: the most modern ideas of the 1960s architecture are living in it and they are still a great lesson in architecture, taste and style. Raw materials made to last in the time without need of expensive maintenance; simple geometric shapes and lines to design open and "natural" spaces, where natural light plays the main role; suggestive changing perspectives at every change of point of view both from the interiors and from outside...<br />
Fanatik replica is the same: an extremely careful choice of texture and lighting makes an intricate game of shadows; a perfect harmony among concrete walls, open windows, stairs and pillars produces fascinating compositions of shapes; wide wooden windows and doors contrast with the raw concrete, pairing the "born" and the "made" (wood and concrete) with a clear reference to the original's inspiration.<br />
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I shot it according to my own style: my passion for minimalist images has found a paradise in the Salk building, the large uniform surfaces, the alternance of materials, the contrast between voids and masses have been an endless source of inspiration for my eye.<br />
I won't present a traditional blogger review of it, here. I've simply taken advantage from the building to build a series of photos that follows my usual style and aim: catching unusual perspectives, letting light and shadow playing, showing details and compositions of geometrical shapes, enhancing the contrasts of empty spaces and massive elements. Full minimalism, in a few words.<br />
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<br />Meluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03041253670491831715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416677853298568645.post-26681399659950577662014-01-20T05:16:00.001-08:002014-01-20T05:37:04.558-08:00Fashion friendsI love blogging my friends' gifts.<br />
I'm so lucky to have among my most beloved friends great designers like Maizon Rayna, of Terra d'Ombra. After a long while, I had the opportunity to share with her a nice time last night, visiting her rather new, <a href="http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/TerradOmbra/221/180/23">stunning SIM</a> and showing her the <a href="http://mebfashion.blogspot.it/2014/01/a-new-meb-for-new-year.html">MEB main store new display</a>.<br />
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While talking about fashion, I showed her the recent MEB dress Turin. Suddenly she sent me a box, saying "I have the right necklace for that neckline!".<br />
Who is familiar with Terra d'Ombra (if you aren't, you're missing one of the tops of SL fashion!) knows very well Maizon's jewels make us dream, as well as her dresses do. So, I'd no doubt that she was right saying that! <br />
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I was wearing a pearl chocker, a very nice one, but it just decorated my neck, leaving the deep back neckline naked. I worn immediately the Maizon's ROMY jewel set, and my shoulder has been enriched by a wonderful design of tiny gold chains and shiny black gems. A bigger gem with a golden bow closed the perfect symmetry of the three-strand necklace, only one of them being shown on the breast. Opulent earrings complete the set, giving the outfit a touch of glamour more :)<br />
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I told it, yet: I'm lucky to have so talented friends. I hope MariaElena and Maizon will like the combination of their creations :))<br />
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<br />Meluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03041253670491831715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416677853298568645.post-62759282816130218532014-01-18T04:00:00.001-08:002014-01-20T04:23:15.929-08:00More cities... Exhibit City's Two Faces at LezSpain GalleryMy friends Annie Rothlisberger and Bimba Orfan, owners of the pretty Lezspain Gallery, where I have already had an exhibit, saw my photo show City Details at ImagineNation Gallery and asked me to go back to their gallery.<br />
Since the urban theme is an endless path I follow in my SL explorations, I've thought to show other aspects of that. My archive is full with cities' pictures, and I selected some 35 ones, depicting the ugly and the fair in the SL representation of urban environments.<br />
Sad outskirts and pretty streets of nice houses, dark alleys and pleasant corners, lonely places and delightful buildings alternate in these photos, showing how different can be our look on cities.<br />
Thanks to Lezspain for the opportunity of adding a chapter more to my passionate novel about SL urban views.<br />
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A crowdy and lovely opening, yesterday!<br />
Visitors could enjoy a nice time of music and dance in the same room of the exhibit (good idea, Annie and Bimba!), with the great tunes proposed by DJGeisha.<br />
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And now I've the pleasure to read two reviews, by Ziki Questi and by Apmel Goosson: both ones focused the main aim of the series I displayed, and Apmel adds a pretty touch of fun, quoting a nice talk we get at the party :) It shows very well the happy and relaxed mood we enjoyed at the exhibit :) Thank you!<br />
<a href="http://zikiquesti.blogspot.it/2014/01/citys-two-faces.html">http://zikiquesti.blogspot.it/2014/01/citys-two-faces.html</a><br />
<a href="http://apmel.blogspot.it/2014/01/year-of-love.html">http://apmel.blogspot.it/2014/01/year-of-love.html</a> (scroll the post to read about my exhibit)<br />
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<br />Meluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03041253670491831715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416677853298568645.post-87075706680423563632014-01-04T20:41:00.002-08:002014-01-10T15:32:57.260-08:00"City details" exhibit at ImagineNation GalleryThanks to Cindy Starostin Ochs and Warren Ochs, owners of ImagineNation Gallery, I'll open tomorrow a new photo exhibit.<br />
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Its theme should be familiar to them who have followed my Flickr in these years: "City details" mixes up my interest for urban environments and my love for details.<br />
The photos in the exhibit don't show wide urban landscapes, but streets, corners, single buildings... I think that these fragments, caught from a closer point of view, can suggest atmospheres and way of life (or better, dealing with SL, the way of imagining and representing atmospheres and ways of life). <br />
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I collect this kind of pictures since a long while: I keep being fascinated by the huge number and variety of urban SIMs around SL and I can't stop exploring them. From oldest mainland places to new RP SIMs with very refined graphics, all those cities are amazing and reveil impressive corners.<br />
You can see here more than 20 different examples of SL cities, from the famous 1920 Berlin to the less known RP places. <br />
In the past months I dedicated a You Tube slideshow to the urban decay; that "Urban Blues" was another way to look at SL cities: in this exhibit I want to portray a less distressed side of them well ordered streets, elegant buildings, bright lights, but also bus or metro stations, dark corners and lonely squares.<br />
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As always, things' colors, shadows, lights, contrasts are my protagonists, rather than humans. An ancient author wrote that a city isn't made by stones but by its citizens... well, I want to reverse this statement, like Renaissance painters have made, depicting their "ideal cities" as empty places.<br />
After all, what are SL cities if not "ideal" ones, both when they replicate historical towns, and when they built a "typical" environment for playing a crime game?<br />
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I hope this journey through great SL builts will lead visitors to think of the passion and of the caution that owners and builders got in creating and in mantaining their cities. I also hope to succeed in offering a different "eye" for looking those creation with all the care they deserve, discovering meanings and suggestions they can give.<br />
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<a href="http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wicked%20River/112/88/22">ImagineNation gallery </a><br />
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I got some pretty memories of the opening.<br />
As I wrote in the comment below, Ziki Questi wrote a kind review of the exhibit<br />
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and WuWai Chun honored me with a wonderful portrait on her Flickr<br />
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Moreover, Cindy Starostin Ochs took as well a nice pic of me,<br />
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LadyVelvetrose gave me this pretty composition depicting all the guests at the event:<br />
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A big thank to all of them!<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b>UPDATE JANUARY 10th</b></span> <br />
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Wizardoz Chrome is a videomaker who specialize in art events. Her collection of videos on You Tube is a kind of archive of art events in SL <br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU0yKGOQ01H9J_k9TWKpocvg">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU0yKGOQ01H9J_k9TWKpocvg</a> <br />
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Moreover, they are artworks as well: extremely well-finished images and great soundtracks.<br />
Through them you can enjoy an event at its best even when you missed it.<br />
Well, today, Wiz made me another gift, making a video at the opening of City Details exhibit!<br />
I can only comment that I'm the most happy with it and I encourage all of you to enjoy it!<br />
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Thank you, Wiz!!!<br />
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Meluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03041253670491831715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416677853298568645.post-54954799833800620722013-12-26T07:55:00.000-08:002013-12-26T13:24:05.850-08:00Santa has come to my home!Santa charged my friend Laura to bring me a gift! ;)<br />
Today I got a pretty Christmas box, and inside it I found a very lovely dress from Compulsion :))<br />
It's something that remembers the famous Coco's words about "a little black dress" :)<br />
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A double-layered short dress: a simple black lace tunic, covered by a smaller opaque one. Lace is shown on the top and sticks out from the bottom edge of the graceful skirt. On the high waist, it's decorated by a tiny belt with a large golden buckle. Sober, simple and extremely classy!<br />
I'm very happy to hear from Laura that she thought of me, when she had seen that. I think that is a great compliment being viewed as a girl who matches this great style!<br />
So, I thank her by styling the dress at my best and shooting it in a proper place, the glamorous Deco Cafe at Bay City.<br />
Happy Holidays! <br />
<br />Meluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03041253670491831715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416677853298568645.post-31255629049395340472013-12-13T15:10:00.001-08:002013-12-13T18:01:01.787-08:00Frosty Impressions contest at Galerie der Sinne - 2nd winnerI've taken part in the Frosty Winter contest at Galerie der Sinne, whose owners Pippa Mint and Herzkoenig Actor are very active in supporting art photography. They make seasonal contests at their beautiful venue, and award ceremonies are enriched by beautiful concerts.<br />
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I'd had the honor to be among the winners, this time, and I enjoyed a lovely night of live guitar music by Arminus Writer.<br />
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Antartica Slade and Damatjo Magic have bee the 1st and the 3rd winner with their beautiful photos.<br />
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Many thanks to the Galerie and to its owners, and also to the jury, made by Brin Oh, Falbala Farey, Roy Mildor and Max Butoh.<br />
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Meluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03041253670491831715noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416677853298568645.post-89967670524542412122013-11-21T11:00:00.002-08:002013-11-21T11:00:19.372-08:00Birthday gift!My beloved friends Laura, Julie and Briju know how they have to do when they want to present me a gift... They just have to TP me to Sonatta Morales's store and to be patient, suffering my hundreds of "Oooh! Look at this!", "Wonderful!", "I have to wear this!", or my endless comments about that or that other dress' style and history...<br />
When a new collection like Reverie is displayed at that store, my enthusiatic comments and my indecision about choosing are even harder to afford!<br />
How I prefer to cheat my usual MEB clothes? (Well, it isn't exactly cheating: MEB doesn't make retro clothes!). Which dress deserves to be chosen first? The sparkling CoolJazz or the romantic Garden? The (super)classy, Balenciaga-style, Noite or the dreamy Mesmerizer?<br />
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At the end of the tale, I'd fallen in special love with two great dresses, so my friends could have a sigh of relief! <br />
I definitely love them and my new dresses Babylon and Artemisia. I'm wearing them in these pictures, taken on the appropriate background of the Deco Yacht Club.<br />
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Artemisia is a 1930-40s style dress, inspired by oriental design. Long pencil skirt, crossed neckline, black silk painted with golden natural patterns, large black sash on the waist, short black gloves and a simple round hat: it's perfect for an elegant happy hour or even for an important work meeting. I wear here the Diva Winged sunglasses, trying to imitate the wonderful look (a bit "dark lady") of the store's vendor. Who loved Wong Kar Wai "In the mood for love" movie could maybe recognize something of the classy and austere elegance shown there by Maggie Cheung.<br />
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Although it deals with ecology, of course, I wanted to experiment a quite different approach than the most traditional one to that theme. In shooting or selecting my photos I tried to show the lack of balance that industrial and urban development had introduced into the "organic" model built by the Gaia theorist to explain how our planet works as a whole.<br />
So I used a simple trick: alternating images of nature and urban or industrial landscapes in the same frame, and letting the visitors changing them by clicking on easy, opposite symbols set on the photo itself (a burning industrial bin and a tree).<br />
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So, my pictures try to show two worlds which cohabit the same planet. The reference to Gaia hypotesis are mostly in the introduction and in the last photo shown.<br />
In the text I started by a quote from one of the first popular books that started to build an ecologist awareness in the Sixties, Rachel Carson's <i>Silent Spring</i>, talking of th absurdity of the fight humans are doing against nature, that's a fight against themselves. I continued with another quote, taken by an impressive more recent book, Kevin Kelly's <i>Out of Control</i>, envisaging a future where man doesn't give up "progress" to go back to "nature" (the most naif version of ecology) but where machines (the "Done") do work according to the logic of the nature (the "Born").<br />
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This is roughly symbolized by the last picture: tall windmills taking energy from nature in a pleasant and intact natural environment.<br />
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It's just an attempt to show something we can only to glimpse, today. But it could be the way for a future where the two worlds could be again only one, "organic" whole.<br />
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I can't finish with this post without remarking how the wonderful concert by Ultraviolet at the opening contributed to enjoy the exhibits at their best.<br />
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Meluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03041253670491831715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416677853298568645.post-57164736861373712032013-10-09T08:05:00.000-07:002013-10-09T08:05:44.458-07:00My "Americana" photos on Bestyle magazine!What better, for a photographer, than being requested to publish her photos on a magazine?<br />
Agtaope Carter-Lane, editor of Bestyle magazine did it to me! <br />
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She told me she had been impressed by my first "chapter" of the series "Americana" I've posted on <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/sets/72157635715192173/">my Flickr </a>and asked me copies to publish them on her great mag.<br />
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I know and love Bestyle since a very long time: MEB's SIM, Klio, is close to the old, glorious Best of Italian Style one; we collaborate with The Best since the time when Annemarie Perenti, the mall founder, allowed MEB to open a pretty store there.<br />
The friendship between MariaElena Barbosa, the MEB designer, and Annemarie quickly has extended to myself, and I lived an exciting experience working close to the volcanic Anne's mind :)
Then, Agtaope had taken the SIM and the magazine from Annemarie, who was tired of the huge work and who wanted to live a more relaxed SL. And a new close friendship had begun :)<br />
New collaborations started up, and I saw that Agy's sweetness is paired to great managing skills: the magazine follows improving in quality and in richness, fashion market had had a big impulse by <a href="http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/BEST%20OF%20ITALIAN/219/184/21">Gypset market</a> and finally the whole SIM has been rebuilt in a minimal and classy style by Creativedream Zsun.<br />
MEB had had the honour to be on almost all the issues of Bestyle, including with a cover story (July-August 2012), with the wonderful photos by Florence Babenco, while the <a href="http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/BEST%20OF%20ITALIAN/178/81/23">MEB shop at The Best </a>follows being one of the most important in MEB stores' web.<br />
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(MEB cover story - Bestyle July-August 2012)</div>
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(The latest MEB ad on Bestyle magazine: September-October 2013) </div>
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Moreover, as MEB CEO, I've taken care of participating to the Bestyle market Gypset and to collaborate to Soloevane Agency events, based at Bestyle, offering room in the Klio SIM (last opportunity is in these days, the Autumn Symphony shows managed by Genevieve Kamala, Preciouss Metal and Sequoia Nightfire, other beloved friends!<br />
By the way, on next Friday October 11th, MEB will be on that event's runway showing its new Fall Collection.<br />
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This is the past (and I'm sure, the future, too), but the wonder and the happiness of today is seeing my name and a reference to my "Americana" photos even on the new Bestyle issue's cover!<br />
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Emotions in virtual world are pretty real, and I feel them very strongly in my heart. Although I published some MEB ad's photos on that magazine yet, seeing there so many pages showing a set of photos I love very much makes of today one of my top days in SL :))<br />
Thank you Agy, thank you Bestyle!<br />
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("Americana" is a series of photographs showing some of the best SL places inspired to American locations and themes.
Chapters will be gathered in a set under this title: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/sets/72157635715192173/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/sets/72157635715192173/</a>)<br />
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Bestyle magazine is avalaible from kiosks at <a href="http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/BEST%20OF%20ITALIAN/139/119/22">The Best of Italian Style SIM </a>or in the best fashion stores.Meluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03041253670491831715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416677853298568645.post-41836147868341255402013-09-28T15:44:00.003-07:002013-09-28T15:56:20.319-07:00Tamara ! Today is my fifth birthday in SL.<br />
I'm too lazy to make parties or so, but my friends don't forget the date :)<br />
So, Laura18 Streeter has come to my home, bringing a big pink box (what color if not pink, for a Laura's box?) ;)) I opened it and inside.... I've found another box, from Kittycats!<br />
I don't know if you are aware that when you buy a kitten, you touch the box and you get a message saying: "Your kitten has opened her eyes, but she needs 15 minutes to be ready".<br />
15 minutes can be very long, when you're waiting for a new baby :)) I kept sitting with Laura, talking about kittens, while the box followed sending messages about the state of the birth process and sometimes it moved, 'cause the pet inside did definitely want to come seeing her new family!<br />
After 15 minutes, the box disappeared and we saw something like a little white stain on my black rug: a moving stain! The kitten!!<br />
Laura told me that, seeing the image of the new pet, she had thought of Art Deco: the shiny white hair, the elegance make her look like coming from that glamorous Era. So I suddenly thought of famous 1920 women for the name to give her, and I've chosen <b>Tamara</b>, in honor to the great painter Tamara de Lempicka, an Art Deco icon.<br />
Tamara is very, very small: we couldn't shoot her close with us, simply 'cause even a foot is too big to stay in the frame, when you want to focus on that microbe :))<br />
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Along with Tamara, Laura gave me a collar for her. it's a very pretty one: gems and gold for a true Lady, as Tammy has shown to be since her very first steps in this world :))<br />
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<a href="http://laura18streeter.blogspot.ch/2013/09/happy-rez-day-melu.html">We've taken a lot of pics</a>, where Tamara, without any point of reference, looks like a normal cat. But she isn't! Her lovely blue eyes are like pinheads, and when she runs around my home's floor (how speedy is she!) , peeking at every object I have there, you can think it's just a white ant!<br />
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See her at "home" (her home is a pretty cushion i bought for her "brothers" and "sisters" Mercury, Silvestro and Hanaya... yes, I've four kittens, now, aside the other shoulder ones! My lazy labrador Ulisse will be even more jealous!) and compare her size to that of the older brother on the background!<br />
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And see how Hanaya makes the "watchCAT" while Tamara is sleeping!<br />
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I see I put a lot of "!" in this post. It's the sign of my enthusiasm and happiness for the new baby kitten, and of my love for my friend Laura, who wanted to celebrate my 5 years of SL - that are almost 5 years of friendship between us - giving me an unforgettable afternoon, the afternoon Tamara is born!<br />
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