This afternoon was the opening of a show of excellent portraiture by well-known photographer
JJ Goodman -- everyone was there. And when I say everyone ... well, my private rule of thumb is, if there are enough people on the sim to crash my system, it's a good party. If I crash more than once, it's a great party. Judging by that, this was the party of the decade: I crashed
eight times. I think part of that was that my system was overloaded by the fantastic voice of
Samm Qendra, who gave an awesome and very personal performance. But part of it might have been just an amazing number of great-looking avs. It's my new standard for
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| The amazing vocal talent of Samm Qendra opened the show |
most crashes in a single hour.
Eight crashes means I have to apologize, because I didn't even come near to documenting everyone who was there. I couldn't manage to get Samm in performance mode, sorry to say, but I did catch a snap after she finished. There are a couple of personal friends for whom I'm going to have to do the SL equivalent of buying
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| JJ Goodman, the artist |
them an apologetic drink, because I just couldn't manage to snap them looking so good ...
I know the exhibit will be up for some time and you should definitely see it. JJ specializes in portraiture and he's taken a few amazing pictures of me over time at various events; he knows how to capture personality in a casual way and make the av seem very immediate. I
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| WayneNZ, half of the team that runs Holtwaye Gallery |
loved looking at it and you should see it. You can find Holtwaye Gallery
here; thanks, as always, to my friends
WayneNZ and
Holter Rez for hosting the great opening party, and Holter for his curation skills.
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| Holter Rez, who curated the show |
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| Sebas [yonsan] |
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| Xavier Beaumont-Zettau |
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| Astanias Jayaram |
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| SLebrity DJ Hottie B. Lockjaw |
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| Ohiomike Lockjaw |
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Two great DJs, Cupric Router (foreground and on the wall)
and Hottie Lockjaw, twerking |
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| Duncan Armundsen |
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| Bart Boon |
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| Beckham Brunswick (L), Divos Titanium (R) |
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| Rusty Redfield |
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| Brick Fallen |
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(L to R) PuPi [Pupila Abeyante], Talu [Taluna.ishtari],
Stephano [stephano76] |
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| Mintxu Denimore |
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| Stephano [stephano76] |
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| Alloson Sands (L), WayneNZ (R) |
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| Julia Umarov |
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| Nikolai Warden |
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| Tiffani Celestialis |
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| Garrett Smith |
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| Fordis Flores |
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| PuPi [Pupila Abeyante] |
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Rusty Bloom-Bayard (L) dancing with
Cathy Ghost-Gale (R) |
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| JP Damien |
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Talu [taluna.ishtari] in his own design; the Guernica jacket
isn't on the market yet |
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Palix Beaumont-Zettau
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