Not To Miss: More Highlights from the August Issue

Page 62-69
Body Heat
By: Kyrie Source

This season, don't let your summer favorites lie dormant in your inventory; be tantalized as our models show you how to get the most of your barely there swimsuits and bodysuits.


Page 82-93
Art of Fashion
By: Boe Cortes

Explore the concepts of fashion and art as they intertwine in this piece; embrace your flavor of -ism, be that modernism or futurism, and open your mind to exciting pieces to suit all flavors.


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The State of Haute Couture Homme

By: Jarl Soderstrom

Some like it haute; the men of SL tend to be largely overlooked as it relates to high fashion. This piece explores haute couture for men in different forms, and provides ways to create a look reminiscent of those seen on the runway.

Read these articles in more in the August edition of AVENUE Magazine online.

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Filthy Fluno: An Artist's Life in Second Life™ and Virtual Art Exhibition Opening

A simultaneous real-life and virtual presentation will be given by artist Jeff Lipsky and his avatar, Filthy Fluno, in the virtual 3D environment Second Life™.

Jeff/Filthy will discuss his experience exhibiting, marketing and selling his artwork via the MUVE (Multiple User Virtual Environment) Second Life™. Since creating his avatar Filthy, Lipsky has participated in gallery shows from California, to New York and Portugal. The lecture will be held live in the Towson University's Center for the Arts atrium and simultaneously in the amphitheatre on the Towson Innovation Lab island in Second Life™. A virtual exhibition of Filthy Fluno’s work will open with a reception immediately following the lecture both in Second Life™ and in real life.

Filthy Fluno’s work will also be on virtual display in the Towson Innovation Lab island in the Baum Gallery.

Date : 25th March 2010

Time : 3.30pm SLT

Venue in Second Life :  Towson Innovation Lab

AVENUE Magazine presents Freak Showroom.

A FREAK SHOW

Freak Showroom starts today and is hosting avatar representations of some of Second Life's finest artists such as Cienage Soon, Loglady Loon, Colemarie Soleil, and Miabella Foxley. These artists are displaying avatars of the freaky nature, designed to challenge the way we think about art and to let us see alternative side to beauty.

As Loglady Loon states in an interview, " The research of Beauty, the obsession for Perfect Avatar. Perfect man, perfect woman. This common vision nauseates me. For this reason I tried to do the opposite process. I wanted to create a Nightmare. I've forced artists to think in opposite sense: leaning toward the Macabre. Generating the Ugly. And the most interesting thing is that this process seems to be more "palpable", more plausible, more human."

The exhibit will run for 15 days. Expect to experience a different kind of exhibit, ranging from weird to macabre, here: Freak Showroom.

SL Shakespeare Company :: Twelfth Night

The SL Shakespeare Company Returns to Shakespeare with Twelfth Night— In Their Usual Trademarked Extravagance…

Shakespeare, Second Life: The SL Shakespeare Company (SLSC) will perform a full ensemble performance of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: Act 1 in a special short-run advance miniseason as part of their Fall Season 2008 repertoire. Opening on SLSC Thursday, November 13th (following a "sneak peek" on November 12th), the full-length Act 1 is the first part of the culmination of a summer's worth of rehearsal-performances in SLSC's tag-team staged reading series of Twelfth Night.

Maintaining the Company's tradition of excellence in visual and theatrical extravagance, the miniproduction also introduces the usage of multiple rotating sets, incognito animation preloading, global lighting and weather control to SLSC stagecraft technologies. Live dynamic camera control by a director finetunes the performance with a cinematic appeal, while international subtitles, the SLSC's "Pay as you Will" philosophy, and the play's location in the confluence of four island simulators of the SL Globe Theatre make the performance accessible to as many as possible.

Directed by Ina Centaur and Voice Directed by Enniv Zarf, the production stars MadameThespian Underhill, Joff Fassnacht, Prospero Frobozz, Ludo Merit, Maedin Tureaud, and Lorne Harlequin, and also a motley cast of "silent actors" who create a different variation of a background crowd each time.

Miniseason schedule (All times SLT or GMT-8):
Wednesday, Nov 12 - 11 am "sneak peek"
Thursday, Nov 13 - high noon
Friday, Nov 14 - 1 PM
Saturday, Nov 15 - 2 pm - (ticketed)*
Sunday - no show
Monday, Nov 17 - high noon

* Most of the shows at the SL Globe Theatre are free, but VIP/ticketed shows charge a nominal admissions fee of L$500. The smaller audience may entice.

>>> ABOUT The Company: <<<

The SL Shakespeare Company (SLSC) is a resident-funded and resident-supported professional theatre company that embraces the best of what Second Life (SL) has to offer. Since 2007, we have been making history by providing extravagant and unforgettable theatrical performances on Second Life. With each show, we continue to shape the field by developing and releasing a new technology for virtual theatre on Second Life. Their vision is to make live Shakespearean theatre available to anyone anywhere with a computer to create new possibilities in entertainment, culture, and commerce for residents of a diverse, unbounded geosphere. Those are the side effects of our mission: to make Shakespeare cool again!

Latest News: http://blog.SLshakespeare.com

>>> ABOUT The SL Globe Theatre <<<

SL Globe Theatre, sLiterary is a virtual reconstruction of the Original Globe Theatre that historians conjecture stood in Shakespeare’s days. It is meticulously adapted as a functioning theatre in the massively multiuser virtual world of Second
Life. The SL Globe Theatre is the most historically accurate rendition of the Globe Theatre on the Internet. Its SL rendition is set in the confluence of 4 island simulators — thus allowing for the maximal number of local audience members.

Web preview: http://visit.SLshakespeare.com

SL Globe Theatre Entrances:
The 4-Sim Global theatre, sLiterary (23,13,23)
SL Globe Theatre Stage, Shakespeare (252, 250, 24)

The Wall V-2 Live at RL Natural History Museum

'The Wall V-2' will be performed in SL and broadcast to a live RL audience at Museum of Natural History at the University of Florence

This performance will not be advertised in SL and is by Invite Only. This is a one-off special performance, before the show is retired.



'The Wall V-2' has already been performed publically 30 times in SL to over 2200 avatars, and to rave reviews...

"Amazing. Not so much viewed as it is experienced" ~ Metaverse Messenger
"All I can say is WOW. GREAT show" ~ Second Arts
"Nothing short of spectacular. A complete immersion" ~ Looking Glass
"Impressive, touching and thoughtful. Second Life at its best" ~ MixedRealities
"Never seen anything like it. A perfect amalgamation of creativity" ~ sl-newspaper
"Cutting edge art and performance" ~ NMC Observer

This is a limited invitation to attend either the Open Rehearsal or the actual Live Broadcast performance...

Open Rehearsal:
Wednesday 22nd Oct at 2pm SLT PROMPT (please arrive early)

Live Broadcast Performance:
Saturday 25th Oct at 2pm SLT PROMPT (please arrive early)

Both the Open Rehearsal and the Live Broadcast will be performed at NMC Campus West

Hope to see you there!

IMPORTANT: Please note that facelights and all other prim lighting are strictly prohibited from the venue.
Please detach all such prim lighting systems before arriving.
Please be aware that facelights and other sources of prim lighting will not only ruin the show for the wearer, but also for everybody else within up to 20 meters of the wearer.



The CARP Wall Team:

Creative Director: Debbie Trilling (UK)
Producer: Velazquez Bonetto (Germany)
Wall Design: Elfod Nemeth (UK)
Animated Puppets: Duggy Bing (US)
Animations: Caravaggio Bonetto (Austria)
Original Music: Junivers Stockholm (Sweden) & Josina Burgess (Holland)
Stills Photography: Adec Alexandria (UK)
Dancing & Joyfulness: Klute Copploa (France), Southern Riptide (US)

with valuable contributions from:

The NMC Campus
Haven Colville (UK)
Scio Kamanchi (US)
Gypsy Paz (US)
Lyddyn Tzara (US)
Celeste Moonlight (US)
windyy Lane (US)
DJ Jenns (UK)
and George W Bush (US)

and, of course, Pink Floyd's incredible album 'The Wall'



Watch out for forthcoming CARP Production in 2009 ~ Fritz Lang's 1927 classic "Metropolis" ~ by the same team that brought you 'The Wall V-2'

Useful links:

Machinima of live performance
Selection of performance photos
Cybernetic Art Research Project
Debbie Trilling wiki
Debbie Trilling SL profile
Velazquez Bonetto SL profile

AVENUE MAGAZINE LAUNCH ISSUE OCT 08

The advent of the ultimate fashion and lifestyle magazine for Second Life has arrived.  Our inaugural issue celebrates a special Stiletto Moody tie-up exclusive to AVENUE Magazine where the great shoe designer Stiletto Moody is featured with the newest yet to be released Stiletto Moody shoe, Pinup Spike in Tartan Red.  Watch out for the release at our launch party on 5th October 2008 12pm at Anjuna HouZe Club where it will be launched together with a fabulous fashion show featuring SL's top fashion designers Baiastice, Beauty Avatar, Jador and [KA] Designs. 

Here's a sneak preview of magazine.  Just click on cover picture above or Open Publication below to see the launch issue in all its glory!

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