New Year's Party

You are cordially invited to celebrate the New Year's on the 4th of January 2008, which is the first Friday in 2008 at Elven Enchantment, First Level for a night of dancing, talking and celebration, ushering in the New Year SL style. Dust off your ball gowns and your coat tails, bring your lovely guys, gals, pets, subs and dance the night away celebrating all things new and wonderful for 2008.

Elven Enchantment wishes you a very happy and safe Real Life New Years and we want to see you on Friday, January 4, 2008 at 5 p.m. SLT for a night of dancing, celebrations and fun!! Our in house DJ is Annie Lane bringing us a real treat the original tune of Aulde Lang Syne.

Changes at Elven Enchantment Musuem and Art Gallery

Elven Enchantment Museum and Art Gallery is celebrating Women of Beauty in Real Life and Second Life during the months of January and February 2008. That means that these lovely Second Life women will be able to be viewed in the Gardens for two months.

Surprise, the Second Level has been changed out to celebrate Women of Beauty in Real Life though the eyes of a Real Life BDSM Master and Second Life Master Rhad McMillan. Rhad is also a patron of the Museum and has kindly donated the 20 pictures that I have named: "Beauty in Bondage." These stunning pictures reveal that there is true beauty in bondage and submission.

Elven Enchantment is proud to introduce to you a new up and coming digital artiste, Eden Cale and his three huge pictures may be viewed on the First Level. I am very happy to inform you that Mr. Cale will be exhibiting at the Museum during the month of February for our first Digital Art Exhibition.

And last, but definitely, not least is the change of the scripted artwork by our very own Drathon Montague, whose artwork, "Lupine Dreams," "Dallas," and "Tall Ship" have been hung for your viewing pleasure.

Month of the Drow

As the month of December ends, I am taking a moment to thank all the people who participated in the Drow Elf photo shoot: Matron Mother X, Matron Mother Jax, Weapons Master Zaknafien Barbosa, and the Renegade ArchKaine Hax.

This shoot was a very fun photo shoot and the role playing was at a very high and intense level. If you have not seen the Drow Elf layout at the museum, I urge you to do so as its an accurate snapshot into the daily lives of Drow Elves, the vicious creatures that they are and I hope if you have seen it you have enjoyed the depictions of the the fight to the death approved by Lloth herself.

What and who are Drow Elves? They come from the fantastic imagination of R. A. Salvatore and TOR Publishing House, they live in the Under Dark of Menzoberranzan, worship the Goddess of Choas, Lloth and plot to overthrow the House above their own for the glory of Lloth.

Again thank you Matron Mother X, Matron Mother Jax, Weapons Master Zaknafien Barbosa, and the Renegade ArchKaine Hax you all are marvelous!

Gracie Barbosa Photography Exhibition

Elven Enchantment is proud to present Gracie Barbosa's real life photographs in our second Exhibition. Ms. Barbosa takes road trips in the southwest of the USA and takes photographs of the places she visits from the Grand Canyon to Artiste Drive, Salt Flatts of Utah, to Monument Valley.

Ms. Barbosa's photographs are passionate, and do real justice to the landscape she takes pictures of and the viewer is treated to a fantastic view of the southwest of the United States of America. If you have not had the privilege of visiting this part of the US then these photographs are a must see.

This exhibition begins on Monday, December 10 and runs to December 30, 2007. Bring your friends and come and see these fantastic photographs.

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