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Short series of woman and chair...
You can read a little breakdown on how I create these images on my 'About' page if you are interested.
Stable Diffusion/PhotoShop/Gigapixel AI
SIMULACRUM, the April-May 2025 exhibition by Manoji Yachvili (aka Onceagain) @ Nitroglobus Main hall.
I'm proud to share that Onceagain is back at Nitroglobus, and this time her work is featured in the Main Hall, giving her more space to showcase her stunning art.
I’ve always loved her work—delicate in color yet powerful in emotion, offering a glimpse into her real-life personality. When she mentioned she might leave Second Life after completing her SLEA3 project ("What is Art and What Will I Leave Behind When I Go?"), I asked her to please exhibit at Nitroglobus one last time before departing. Thankfully, she agreed.
Her current exhibition, SIMULACRUM, is one of her most recent projects. It addresses a very timely topic: the rise of AI-generated imagery and her personal opinion about this. It goes without saying that Onceagain created all the art in this exhibition without the use of AI.
Come visit see for yourself AND most of all ENJOY.
dido haas, owner/curator Nitroglobus gallery
As always I am super glad David Silence found time in his busy schedule to create the excellent poster, based on one of Onceagain's images.
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Opening party: Wednesday, 23 April, 12.30 PM SLT (21.30 hrs CET)
Music by DJ Jillx
LM: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunshine%20Homestead/38/22...
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Description of the exhibition by the artist:
The simulacrum, borrowed from the Latin simulacrum, was born as an effigy, as a statue that depicts divinities, heroes, illustrious figures (but nothing is more illustrious) and the extension of meaning makes the simulacrum a shadow, a ghost, a reflection, which in essence is not or is no longer that someone or something it represents – imperfect simulation.
Reality no longer exists, it has disappeared, crumbled by the media and modern technologies that propose images that do not refer to reality, that receive meaning only from other images and that are perpetually regenerated, thus remaining increasingly disconnected from what was originally real.
Everything I see has an appearance and the power of appearance, without a faithful external image and therefore devoid of the original vitality.
We are surrounded by empty shells, as I feel now, and perhaps it is time to disappear because nothing of what I see pleases me anymore, including this vain attempt of mine to translate this feeling into images
Manoji Yachvili
A huge thanks to Dido that push me to do this exhibition
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More about Onceagain:
Manoji Yachvili (Onceagain) has been in SL since 2007
You can find her art gallery at her land here: maps.secondlife.com/.../Fading%20Shadows/117/147/23
Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/69389809@N03/
Until the end of June 2025 Onceagain has a SLEA grant @ SLEA3, which is for sure worth visiting.
It's called 'What is art and What will I leave behind when I go?'
My first rainbow shot. Couldn't have timed it better for this one, just happened to be walking down Circular Quay when the sun decided to come out.
Enjoy
- Canon 5D Mark2.
- ISO 400, f10, 17mm.
- Canon 17-40mm f/4L USM.
Standard 3 exposure (+2,0,-2 EV) handheld
Processing
Photomatix
- Tonemapped generated HDR using Tone Compressor
Photoshop
- Adjustment of curves to increase the overall contrast (Linear)
- Adjustment of hue/saturation
- Used Smart Sharpen on Background Layer
- Reduced noise with Noiseware Pro
- Sig/Borders Added
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It may be in shadow on the right but British Railways Standard pacific 70013 Oliver Cromwell is generating a smoke & steam screen which has wreathed the building site that is Battersea Power station as we cross the Thames on Grosvenor Bridge with the Sherborne Christmas Carols rail tour.
If you look carefully just to the left of the engine you can see the signal feather directing us down to Stewart's Lane, under the main line and on to the Staines side of Clapham Junction.
A beautiful sunrise over London but the weather turned progressively grey as we headed west.
In some plants, the generating region becomes so large that the usual symmetry is broken and a bilateral structure appears. This happens, eg, some cacti and commercial strawberries. Here, the left flower head of the dandelion is approximately radial, while the right one, with the beetle, is bilaterally symmetric. Such breaking of symmetry can be observed in many systems and produces eg trains of clouds or hexagons of rising oil in frying pans. It can be modeled mathematically.
In manchen Pflanzen wird die generative Region so groß, dass die radiäre Symmetrie bricht und bilaterale Strukturen entstehen. Das passiert zB in Kakteen oder in Erdbeeren. Hier ist der linke Blütenkopf des Löwenzahns in etwa radiärsymmetrisch, der rechte, mit dem Käfer, bilateral symmetrisch. Solche Symmetriebrüche können in vielen Systemen beobachtet werden und produzieren zB Wolkenmuster oder Hexagone in Pfannen, wo Öl von unten erhitzt wird. Das kann mathematisch modelliert werden.
A view of this magnificent coal-powered generating station, one of the few in our area that is still in service....
A gas electric power generating plant in Whitehorse. I think this one is used mainly to help cover peak demand periods when the hydro and large diesel generators can't satiate the growing need for power in Whitehorse. During especially cold spells when people are running their electric heaters, car block heaters, and more, this plant comes online. It's a very real and visible indicator that our lifestyles have an impact on the environment.
Photo taken with the Olympus OM-D E-M1 and M.Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro mounted to a lightweight travel tripod. All raw conversion and post processing were completed in DxO PhotoLab 6.1.1.
I thought of mono when I took this shot with my polarizer ,this is Shoreham gas fired power station which brings our power soon to be aided by an off shore wind farm near to where I live at Worthing
Craig Station, a 1,285-megawatt, three-unit, coal fired power plant in Moffat County, Colorado. The power plant's units were constructed by Colorado Ute Electric Association and began operations between 1979 and 1984. They are scheduled to be decommissioned by 2030 if not earlier.
Just for a bit of fun I played around with generating a Halloween image from scratch. Spring is a season of life, light and colour unlike the Northern Hemisphere where the harvest and autumn/fall colours dominate. I thought I would throw in a skeletal Kangaroo to try and portray the season. All the AI houses had the moon behind them. When I specified a sickle moon the Ai added in a second moon to the side! Now that would be unearthly indeed.