It's ice skating time again in Cherish!

By Lord Lisle

Not very long ago Jokul Frosti, better known as Jack Frost arrived in Second Life and did not neglect to touch the Metaversal Arts Island located at Cherish/159/201/60
The landing plaza was instantly transformed into a nice ice rink where skating is a pleasure under the huge Spruce fir which was planted by Yolanda Hirvi. Expect to find a lot of snow so put on your winterclothes, handshoes and knit muffler.

Three different kinds of free skates and a snowball thrower are available as welcome gifts for those who are keen on skating and for those who want to try the ice for the first time. See ye on the ice rink folks!

Again on ice after almost a year! Apparently Lord Lisle has not forgotten his skills of figure skating (only showoff, its just his skating Hud, ahem)

THIS is what will happen in a moment of absence whilst receiving an IM (or pressing the wrong button on the Hud, hehe)

Atheene Dodonpa Performs in the Grand Opening

Lady of Acifer Atheene Dodonpa is the leading Lady minstrel performing medieval music in SL. On 15th March, her performance can be admired in the Grand Opening of Metaversal Arts Shop at 1 PM SLT.

Lady of Acifer Atheene Dodonpa

Young Atheene started her performing career as a dancer in taverns and courts, but soon her musical talents were discovered by Lady Fabienne of Drachemond who asked her to perform for her guests singing and playing a variety of instruments. The rumour started to travel from region to region about this "girl with a voice of an angel" and thanks to the publicity Lady Fabienne had created for her, Atheene was soon called to perform both for nobility and lay people all over the world.

Lady Atheene accompanies her voice with several instruments: recorders and pipes, bells, rebec, symphonie, bowed psaltery, 5-stringed kantele and celtic harp. Her performances have already been a source of joy for hundreds of people in SL and she will continue to sing and tell the enchanting stories for the residents of all regions she is invited to also in the future, of course, God willing.

Metaversal Arts Shop Grand Opening!

Saturday March 15th 1 PM - 4 PM SLT

You and your friends are welcome to the Grand Opening of the NEW BIGGER Metaversal Arts Shop in Metaversal Arts Island, Cherish slurl.com/secondlife/Cherish/164/193/60.

Scheduled program:

1 PM The event is opened with live music by lovely and talented Lady of Acifer Atheene Dodonpa, the leading Lady minstrel performing medieval music in SL.

2 PM Yolanda Hirvi is announcing the winners of the Metaversal Arts Photo Contest.

2.15 - 4 PM Menuets! Introducing a new dance in SL - Menuet by Maar Auer.

2.30 - 4 PM Raffles! We are raffling TONS of stuff, the very same items are sold in the Metaversal Arts Shop.

Also gifts for everybody!!

The event is hosted by Yolanda Hirvi, Darleez DeCuir and Maar Auer.

The Metaversal Arts Shop, March 2008.

Maar Auer's Metaversal Greetings

Right then. I guess I should present myself also. Maar Auer, Metaversal designer. An artist: musician, dancer, graphic designer, a hopeless geek...

In June 07 I was contacted and asked if I'd be willing to give a live net interview during my first steps in Second Life. The bait on the hook was to attend an SL live ballet performance. My insatiable curiosity immediately raised its ugly, hairy head. SL? What the heck? I happily plunged straight into trouble; after a few careless mouse clicks, Maar Auer found herself clumsily bumping into pixels under SL the sun. Maar is a shortening of my RL name, and Auer means 'morning light in the horizon' in old fashioned Finnish.

No, I didn't make a habit of it at once. I grew roots like a persistent weed: kept returning every time I was yanked out of SL soil by merciless grid crashes. From the very beginning I was fascinated by the possibility of building things in a virtual world. Here was my chance: I had always admired acoustic instrument builders in RL. So why not build a lovely, fat ass double bass, a true big mama. I can't play that one in RL - but feel sympathy for those poor, apologetic musicians negotiating their huge basses into jam packed rush hour buses. Took me a loooong while, I can assure you, but boy, was I proud of my first creation, even before finding out how to add sounds or animations to it...

Dar's and my paths crossed earlier. Yolanda followed Darleez to take a look at my newly built house and all my creations. Well - we understood and befriended each other at first glance, and not only because of that bizarre burst of grunts called Finnish. These two powerful ladies asked if I'd be interested to join Metaversal Arts. As you might have guessed, I didn't see any point in hesitating this time either: head on towards trouble once again. (In general, I've noticed it's much more interesting to say yes than no, so.... >;)

MaarBaZaar has been a proud member of Metaversal Arts Shop since November 07. Instruments, animations, furniture... My passion lies in acoustic instruments (those beauties!) as well as animations. Being much too busy and very, veeery much too unorganized in RL, I'm not able to spend a lot of time in SL. Can't release new stuff often. But when I do, I do it with heart involved. MaarBaZaar's best selling article is Maar Auer Concert Grand, an antique grand piano, the result of endless hours of effort. So all the praise received from satisfied customers feels heart-warming and truly encouraging :) I had a scripter helping me with the awesome scripts in the lid: Moundsa Mayo, who since then has become a close friend also. I do script some, but only simple stuff, whereas he's a script artist. Yeah, better stick to where your talent really lies, isn't it.

Next release? I'm working on a lovely mechanical piano, with automatic music sheet rolls. It's almost ready now - so soon, soon! It will be released in two colour options, rosewood and ivory. Also I have a menuet dance coming along, intended to be used as an antique style ballroom dance, for multiple dancers. Fit for a king, so to say. Well, that's the goal at least...

What else? I love witty chats, playing music and performing, traveling, computers and green apples. I hate getting up early, cockroaches, shopping, money, cooking and spam. To mention a few.

To know more u just gotta IM me.

Metaversal Arts News

by Yolanda Hirvi
New Release from Oblonski: Wicker!
In some sims spring is already arrived...so it is in Metaversal Arts. I have been twisting some wicker lately and the results are shown here; wicker furniture for your garden or patio. The set is sold separately so you can mix and match as you wish. You can find the wicker furniture in the yard of Metaversal Arts Shop and in New Oblonski, Antiquity Township East.(Thank you to Lord Lisle for modeling with me in these pics)

The Grand Opening of Cherish-Metaversal Arts Island - sim scheduled to April 12th

The new larger Metaversal Arts Shop will be open late February or early March. The rest of the sim will be finished after that and we are celebrating grand opening of the sim in April 12th.

We are proud to present UKDproject with a amazing live performance of theirs.

Grand Opening of the New Oblonski was a hoot!

The Grand Opening of my branch store New Obonski in Antiquity sims was a succes. Thank you for the lovely people of Antiquity and Metaversal Arts Insiders who showed up!

Dancers from left: NosMo Beaumont, Hope Coakes, Starry Dreamscape, Yolanda Hirvi, Darleez DeCuir, SadieRose Beaumount and Ti Laval