Arts writers wanted

If you enjoy sharing you love of the Second Life arts scene, consider writing at Second Arts!  No pay, no obligation, all for fun.  Interested parties should email me at morrisvig [at] sbcglobal [dot] net.

Cetus Gallery District for sale

From Jonah Zenovka, part of the Cetus leadership group:
 
March 23, 2009
Dear Valued Cetus Gallery District Community Members,
As many of you know, construction of Cetus began in 2006. Since then, the district has played an important role in the cultural life of the Second Life grid. Although I have been off-world and away from Second Life [...]

Announcing “The Morris Vig Experience”

I think it’s best to de-link the increasingly personal nature of my blogging with the Second Arts blog, so I’m starting a second blog – The Morris Vig Experience – to focus on my random musings over things SL (and RL).  Second Arts will focus more more tightly on things related to the Second Life [...]

Second Arts: #61 on the list, #1 in your hearts!

Thanks to Second Effects for the mention. It’s an honor to be mentioned in that group of Second Life-related blogs!

Jazz by the Sea presents Beaumont-Vig-Rossini

Jazz by the Sea Gallery presents the Second Life art of Barrowness Beaumont, Morris Vig, and Cala Rossini.  Come! Take in Barrowness Beaumont’s  gorgeous dreamlike landscapes; Morris Vig’s wonderful, thought-provoking SLscapes populated with avatars going about their SLives, and a selection of Cala Rossini’s award winning SL photo art!
In addition, Jazz Calhern, owner of Jazz [...]

Coming REAL soon…

That’s right, my first-ever photo exhibition.  Jazz Calhern (who, as opposed to me, is a really good inworld photographer) has been on me to show some photos.  I finally caved…and we’re almost to the opening of the show!  There will be three photographers (including me) in the gallery, and Jazz is setting up a park-like [...]

Congrats to Filthy Fluno!

 
If you haven’t yet heard, the inimitable Filthy Fluno was profiled in the New York Times Magazine.  Nice writeup, and surely will attract more creative minds to Second Life – a very good thing.
 
For those who aren’t aware, Filthy was part of a very interesting ArtTalk panel on Success in Second Life Art.  I kept [...]

Yes, Virginia, I erred. Really, I did.

From Sledge Roffo, in reply to my post on his Gallery of the Minotaur:
Hey Morris. I appreciate your coverage of my gallery. I read with interest that you usually don’t cover work that isn’t done Inworld.
You apparently didn’t realize that my work is authentic to Second Life. I don’t use Photoshop. I may crop a [...]

The wierdness that is Bay City, part deux

Well, THIS has been an interesting 24+ hours on the blog.  Never mind the avi who got banned by the mall cops.  Never mind the podcasters who were – um – tormenting the same folks.  Never mind that traffic for the first posting in this now-truncated series has sent my traffic numbers sky-high.
The important thing [...]

Art walkabout: The Gallery of the Minotaur

I don’t really discuss artwork that wasn’t generated inworld (as in SL sculpture or inworld photography), but this place demands commentary not for the art (which is quite nice) by Sledge Roffo but rather for the gallery building itself. Sledge just rebuilt his gallery in a Mondrian- inspired style that [...]