Big Vote of Thanks to JamesT

The SL-Newspaper is owned by JamesT Juno and has a fantastic eNewspaper on his website: http://www.SL-Newspaper.com and a wonderful blog where he reports Second Life, events, news stories, focus on people, and many varied stories.

He has featured several articles on his Events, M.A.C.E., and Explore sections of his newspaper. As a vote of thanks on your next visit to Elven Enchantment pick up a SLurl to his RL website from the newstand! Thats right folks, you can now come to the museum sit down and read the SL Newspaper, where you can find all the happening news on Second Life and whose opening new stores, reviews on products, and which club is opening.

Thanks JamesT for the space in this week's M.A.C.E. section and for the readers of this blog you may read it at: http://www.sl-newspaper.com/mains.htm .

We also have a a newstand at Digital Knight Scripted Art Studio so if your not up for the museum go buy some scripted are and read the paper there!!

Premier Gala of Fractal Art

On November 12, 2007, at 5:00 p.m., SLT, the Museum is very proud to host its first exhibition featuring the Fractal Art of Sprial Silverstar. Mr. Silverstar is a fractal artiste is Real Life and one of his pieces on display for the International Conference of Mathematicians.

What is Fractal Art? Perhaps you would call it "modern" art and dismiss it. However, I find that it grabs your attention and draws you into the picture and captivates your passion. Fractal art consists of an indefinite number of spirals and circles using mathematical equations to give you the proper distance from one spiral to the next. That is the simple layperson view on this art.

A more technical definition of Fractal Art and I quote Mr. Silverstar: “Simply put, fractals are shapes which show similar features at different sizes. Much as a very close inspection of a rock can show similar features to an aerial view of a mountain, fractal shapes are characterized by this property of self-similarity.

Much of what goes into fractals is based on mathematics. Sometimes the math is complicated; sometimes it is not. But, you do not need to know or understand the mathematics behind the art to appreciate it. The basic images are created using fractal generating software.

There are some who will feel that if this is all just based on mathematics, that it cannot be art. Fractal art does not pop out of nowhere, mathematics notwithstanding. To produce an aesthetically pleasing fractal image requires enormous input on the part of the artist. It also requires patience, and an eye for form and color—skills that are required for virtually any artistic discipline. (Damien Jones)

Can't anyone produce fractal art? The simple answer is yes. However, anyone can buy a camera and take snapshots, but very few can produce photographs that can be appreciated as art.

The images created in this gallery were made using the Ultra Fractal and Fractal Explorer software programs, with post-processing work done in Photoshop.

I hope you enjoy my work and realize that the finished products here are not simply the result of clicking a few random buttons. Thanks for taking an interest in my art, my passion.” Unquote.

As the artiste, Mr. Silverstar must choose the color combinations that really make this art truly unique and beguiles the viewer.

Elven Enchantment Art Gallery will be selling an Original and a Limited Edition Series from the Art Gallery and a special certificate of authenticity (COA) commemorating this Exhibition as the premier show that the Museum hosted will be put in each piece of work sold for the duration of the Exhibition. There will be two pieces chosen to be multi-copy sold from the Museum for the duration of the exhibition and there will be COAs also put in these and once the Exhibition is over the COAs will be removed from the multi-copies and the artwork will be available from Mr. Silverstar's gallery. However, the original and Limited Edition Series will remain at the museum until they are sold and once sold no more will be produced for purchase in Second Life.M/p>

Fractal Art is a vibrant, passionate, and beguiling and as Curator of Elven Enchantment, I am very happy to host Mr. Spiral Silverstar.

Fractal Art...What is It?

What are fractals? What is fractal art?

Simply put, fractals are shapes which show similar features at different sizes. Much as a very close inspection of a rock can show similar features to an aerial view of a mountain, fractal shapes are characterized by this property of self-similarity.

Much of what goes into fractals is based on mathematics. Sometimes the math is complicated; sometimes it isn't. But you do not need to know or understand the mathematics behind the art to appreciate it. The basic images are created using fractal generating software.

There are some who will feel that if this is all just based on mathematics, that it cannot be art. Fractal art does not pop out of nowhere, mathematics notwithstanding. To produce an aesthetically pleasing fractal image requires enormous input on the part of the artist. It also requires patience, and an eye for form and color—skills that are required for virtually any artistic discipline. (Damien Jones)

Can't Anyone produce fractal art? The simple answer is Yes. However, Anyone can buy a camera and take snapshots, but very few can produce photographs that can be appreciated as art.

The images created for this exhibition and in my own gallery were made using the Ultra Fractal and Fractal Explorer software programs, with post-processing work done in Photoshop.

I hope you enjoy my work and realize that the finished products here are not simply the result of clicking a few random buttons. Thanks for taking an interest in my art, my passion.

Spiral Silverstar

Premier Art Exhibition at Elven Enchantment

The Museum is very proud to host its first exhibition featuring the Fractal Art of Sprial Silverstar. Mr. Silverstar is a fractal artiste is RL and one of his pieces on display for premier exhibition has been displayed in RL at an art exhibition in Italy.

What is Fractal Art? Perhaps you would call it "modern" art and dismiss it. However, I find that it grabs your attention and draws you into the picture and captivates your passion. Fractal art consists of an indefinite number of spirals and circles using mathematical equations to give you the proper distance from one sprial to the next. That is the simple lay person view on this art. For a more technical overview please see Fractal Art...What is it? in this blog. As the artiste, Mr. Silverstar must choose the color combinations that really make this art truly unique and beguiles the viewer.

Elven Enchantment Art Gallery will be selling an Original and a Limited Edition Series from the Art Gallery and a special certificate of authenticity (COA) commemorating this Exhibition as the premier show that the Museum hosted will be put in each piece of work sold for the duration of the Exhibition. There will be two or three pieces chosen to be multi-copy sold from the Museum for the duration of the exhibition and there will be COAs also put in these for the duration of the exhibition. Once the Exhibition is over the COAs will be removed from the multi-copies and the artwork will be available from Mr. Silverstar's gallery.

The other pieces that are for the exhibition may be purchased from Mr. Silverstar's own gallery and a LM will be available to all those who are interested.

Elven Enchantment Incorporation

Elven Enchantment is now a registered corporation in RL and very exciting things are to come for the new company.

The first new thing for Elven Enchantment is that the land that the Museum and Art Gallery sits upon is going to be solely owned by Elven Enchantment as of November 25, 2007. Dano Singh the current landlord has been a rock of support for this museum as it was painstakingly put together and has been a huge help in his encouragement of purchasing the land from his SL company Singh Holdings. In fact, he sold all of his SL property except the land upon which Elven Enchantment sits and he hesitated to put it on the market for fear someone else would not be as passionate about the Museum as he and would cause the Museum to close due to higher rent.

Dano Singh is a Patron of the Museum and Art Gallery and a man of integrity, and it has been a wonderful five months that I have worked with him and he has worked very hard to obtain prims for the Museum and has always dropped whatever he was doing to answer my questions about this or that.

When the final touches were added to the Museum just before September 1, 2007 for the Gala Opening, Dano was amazed at the transformation and very enthusiastically loaned a piece of his personal art, "Twins" to the Museum for display until December 2007. This loan fleshed out the art on display on the First Level. He also introduced to me some artiste's whose beautiful wildlife photos are displayed next to the "Twins" and helped me finalize the art on this level of the Museum.

Mr. Dano Singh has been a huge blessing to Elven Enchantment and believed in my vision even when I was learning how to build as fast as my fingers would allow me to make prims! To Dano...your the best!

Winter Has Come to Elven Enchantment

The weather person was correct in its prediction of early snow and Elven Enchantment has been dumped upon...the ponds are frozen over, the snow pixies whirl around the Museum and snow drifts are everywhere.

However, there is something sizzling hot at Elven Enchantment and that is our "Not All Pixels Are Created Equal" canvasses on the Garden Level, featuring our first male model in various stages of dress and undress.

For the optimal impact when teleporting in and walk straight to the "Snow Horses" and take a left walking clockwise around the gardens. There are over twenty canvasses celebrating the Second Life men in their handsome, clothes and tattoos.

The model wishes privacy so please do not ask for a name as one will not be forthcoming. After that enjoy a walk around the winter wonderland that is in the grove. Bring your skates and skate around the ice rink.

Be sure to bring your warm clothes because it's cold outside!