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Ananda Heart's Blog Has SL Shopping Tips for Your Labor Day Weekend

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I Would Rather Be Overdressed! Is Ananda Heart’s blog about fashion and decor. “Davinia” is her most recent post and is very typical of her fashion posts. She likes more formal wear and is usually shown wearing gowns and avant garde fashions. She creates a composite on Flickr, but you can see the individual pictures at a larger size on her blog. 

• Jumo Davinia dress, new release for WIP! And
  Lizandra eyebrows, shown in BOM brown, new release for The Makeover Room!
• 7 Deadly S(k)ins Rio, shown in BOM tone Marshmellow (browless), new release for Girls Heaven!
• Sascha’s Designs Bobo Glitter shoes in Midnight, new release!
• An Lar all poses
• Doux Summer gacha Summer day hair (rare)
• Shot on location at Time remains

And after the cut, a decor post. 

Rita Glad's Glad-Making Images of An Astronaut in Second Life

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Rita Glad’s pictures show the same joie de vivre as this delightful astronaut among sunflowers. “I would love to live in Maud Lewis’ paintings” is a whimsical homage to the Canadian folk artist whose beautiful paintings of birds, animals, and flowers showed a spirit that was not brought down by her constant struggle with pain and poverty.  

Our astronaut has an adventure below...

This Artist Turns Second Life Screenshots Into Color-Saturated Pop Art

Siobhan Muintir’s photostream is a pop art lover’s delight. I guess I have to check out Misfits Dance Company and the Kul Katz. Siobhan uses layers, filters and color balancing to turn this into fabulous pop art.  

More pop art pictures ahead.

These Serene Still Life Images Actually Started as Second Life Screenshots

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With the unrelenting chaos and controversy in the daily news, sometimes we just need to center ourselves and find some moment of peace. You could do some deep breathing, take a walk, or you could go to Bisou Dexler’s photostream and turn on the slideshow and wait for the peace and serenity that permeates his worldview as expressed in his photos to bring you calm. This picture of a pocket watch laying on a bed of miner’s lettuce buds has such rich colors with the signature sprinkles of light that make his work so pacific and tranquil. 

Around the corner, a conversation of chairs:

Weekend Shopping Tips from Shocking Wonder’s Virtual World Lifestyle Blog

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“Shades of Blue” is a recent post on Shocking Wonder’s Virtual World Lifestyle blog that just totally sucked me in, evoking Santorin, the town on the edge of a volcano in the Mediterranean where all the buildings are white with blue trim. It has the bright Meditteranean sunshine and the lush bougainvillea that adds pops of brilliant color. The scene is filled with details and her list of contents is extensive from her body to her pose and the background buildings, the beach, furnishing, decor, and food. To keep this short, I will just note the table and items on it, for all the details, go check out the blog.

• table: Nutmeg. French Cafe Table / 2
• chairs: MINIMAL – Greek Island Gacha 09
• parasol: dust bunny . beach day . closed parasol

On the table:

• 05 MADRAS Mango Delight Juice Bottle 
• 12 MADRAS Trojan Blue
• 06 MADRAS Mango Delight Diced Decor 
• 09 MADRAS Mango Delight Fresh Mango Se 
• :::ChicChica::: Whisky #9 
• ..::THOR::.. Tile Coaster – Maiolica
• ..::THOR::.. Terracotta Wine Glass

Her most recent post is going to appeal to the fisherfolk, see below.

SL Flickr Pick: Roseleiya Creates Serene Images in the Virtual World

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It’s not Monet’s “Water Lilies” but it’s a beautiful Second Life homage by Roseleiya whose photostream is like a stroll through a museum. The music she chose to accompany the picture is ideal. Dustin O’Harlloran’s “We Move Lightly” which was new to me. Her pictures are deceptively simple with few elements, but every one of those elements perfectly considered. 

More beauty ahead:

Yeya Zuta Turns Second Life Screenshots Into Surreal & Witty Art

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With Yeya Zuta, I almost feel as though I have found the Magritte of Second Life. Their love of the absurd is enlivened with the kind of wit one would expect of the great surrealist. Like Magritte, the lighting is matter-of-fact, the focus being the absurdity that is intended to provoke our thought and attention. 

More thought-provoking images below.

Amazing SL-Based Images By Moki Yuitza -- And How She Made Them

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Moki Yuitza’s “My Ghost” is a stunning photo, eerie and bold. I asked her how she did it and it was deceptively simple: “‘My Ghost’ was made in a black lightbox, using a simple ambient light. I can't remember the specific WL I used, because I often try some to find the right one and then I forget to write the name.”

More intriguing explorations with light and shadows to come:

Bridget Genna Creates Wryly Amusing Stories With SL Screenshots

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“Stoned” by Bridget Genna tells a story. It’s not one we are privy to, but we know it’s there in the deep contemplative gaze into the distance or if it’s a different story, the dazed, vacant stoner gaze. I guess the title lends itself to the latter, but I like the idea that she could be a pipe philosopher divining the principles of metaverse travel. 

More stories from Bridget ahead:

SL Flickr Pick: Saga Mea Makes Perfectly Composed Virtual Landscape Pics

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Saga Mea’s photostream is a mix of fashion pics and landscapes which are all quite good, but it is her landscapes that really capture my attention. There is this sparing discipline to her photos. They are well-composed. Take this picture of the Beverly Hills Hotel. She has framed it so it divides into thirds, the sign, the wall going back to the balconies and the balconies, and the shorter part of the hotel all are thirds of the photo. It is lovely. 

More stunning landscapes to come.