Showing posts with label Debbie Trilling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Debbie Trilling. Show all posts

Saturday, 20 October 2012

Burn2 2012: No Bystanders!


There are no bystanders!
                                                  - Burning Man and Burn2
Saturday 20th October sees the opening of this year’s Burn2 festival in Second Life. Burn2 is the virtual world equivalent of the RL Burning Man festival held in the Nevada desert and where Philip Linden received inspiration to create Second Life itself.
Burn2 is a week long celebration of community, art and fire culminating in the burning of ‘The Man’ and ‘The Temple’ on 27 and 28 October, respectively. The theme this year is ‘Fertility’.
Late Thursday night (GMT) a number of other bloggers and I were given the opportunity to have an advanced look around before today’s official opening. Now, it has to be said that the hour we were given was not nearly enough to take in the hundreds of different builds on the six regions devoted to the festival. But it is enough to get the taste and feel of this year’s playa and take a few snaps.
As is my way, I wandered around aimlessly and studiously ignored the site map we were supplied with. I had a vague notion that I wanted to visit ‘The Man’ and ‘The Temple’ and look out for a WOW-factor build. The pictures on this blog-post come from Thursday’s exploring.
I‘ll be returning often during the week to drink-in the 40-odd live performers, 50-odd DJ’s and especially visiting the art installations of this year’s five invited artists: Silene Christen, Pallina60 Loon, Nexuno Thespian, Ub Yif and Fuchsia Nightfire.
Last year I had the pleasure of observing Debbie Trilling and Aleeta Zelin over a number of weeks as they built, scripted and tested their ‘Man’ installation for 2011. I was asked to take the official photographs for promotional purposes. The final 15 min performance was one of the most dramatic and exciting scripted installations I have ever seen in SL (watch the video below; ‘Change Quality’ to HD for best results).


This year ‘The Man’ is closely modeled on the RL equivalent at Burning Man. It is a collaborative build which included input from the RL Man team. The inner structure – called ‘the pistil’ – is constructed from mesh and therefore requires a mesh-compatible viewer to see it.
I am very much looking forward to this year’s Man burn on the 27 Oct, one of the highlights of the festival.
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The Man 2012
The Temple’ is the spiritual center of the playa – the heart and the soul of the festival. In contradistinction to ‘The Man’ installation, no attempt has been made to replicate the RL equivalent – it is a unique Second Life installation especially created for Burn2. Another of the Burn2 highlights is the burning of ‘The Temple’ which takes place on 28 Oct.

The Temple 2012
The individual installation which grabbed my attention during Thursday’s tour was created by Ultraviolet Alter. This has a real “wow-factor” and although I have embedded a few pics of it here, it really is worth seeking out to see for yourself.


Created by Ultraviolet
As I wandered around the playa it soon became apparent that not all of the builds have a “wow-factor”. Indeed, some are very simple, some are utilitarian, others’ are psychedelic and/or rather garish. There were even a number which I couldn't make head nor tail of.
But that is hardly the point. The point is that hundreds of SL residents have joined together to create a six-region community festival, despite recent adversities that threatened to end it entirely. Anyone who wished to had the opportunity to get themselves a parcel and simply build and create.
One of foremost joys of Burn2 for me is seeing people simply participate in whatever way they wish to participate. Burn2 is a healthy antidote to the “I Just Stand Here” crowd who infest many of Second Life’s otherwise enjoyable venues.
And that is why one of the key slogans of Burning Man and Burn2 is:

There are no bystanders!



Pixie xx

Tuesday, 4 September 2012

Brains & Boobs: Colleen Photographs Debbie

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Recently, two friends whose work I have long admired were introduced to each other for a photographic glamour session.
The first of these ladies needs no introduction from me as she is already well known in the adult community – Colleen Criss.
Colleen’s photographs and machinima have deservedly graced the pages of THE PORNSTARS blog many times; her own popular blog and flickr page are good examples of how to steadily build up a solid respected body of work over time.
All the photographs on this blog-post were created by Colleen.
Colleen Criss
Colleen is also appreciated for her technical understanding of SL photography - advanced lighting techniques, the viewer itself and post-production.
As an admin of THE PORNSTARS group, Colleen can often be seen showing patience, restraint and tolerance in group chat as she helps handle some or another delicate and/or potentially explosive situation.
For this session, Colleen was the photographer.
Colleen Criss
The second of this glamorous couple is perhaps not as well known in the Second Life adult community. Indeed, this is her first session as a glamour model even after having being in SL for nearly six years! Her name is Debbie Trilling and, although not particularly well known within the adult community she certainly is in other SL communities!
For this session, Debbie would be Colleen’s model.
Debbie Trilling
Debbie was the Creative Director for some of the biggest live shows in SL, including artistic interpretations of Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ and Fritz Lang’s 1927 ‘Metropolis’, as well as producing over eighty mainstream machinima. For the last three years she was responsible for creating the climax of the ‘Burning Life’ festival in SL – the burning of ‘The Man’ itself - which occurs on the penultimate evening of the festival.
Debbie was one of the judges at last year’s THE SEXIEST adult machinima contest and it was from here that she started looking more closely at the adult art scene and appreciating the amount of creativity, talent and passion that the community possesses, and wanting to experience that for herself.
Debbie Trilling
Colleen’s photos of Debbie on this page are the outcome those desires.
Colleen and Debbie are recognised as experts in their respective fields. As you can see from their pictures on this blog-post they are both also gorgeous and beautiful. They prove that having brains and talent and being sexy are not mutually exclusive!
Debbie Trilling
Both Colleen and Debbie appear in the September 2012 edition of ‘Busted’ – a SL magazine dedicated to busty ladies and prim boobs. Colleen has a full spread with photographs by Kei Frequency which also appeared on THE PORNSTARS blog; Debbie appears in the ‘Around the Community’ section. I wonder how many like me would like to see her in a full shoot! However, unsurprisingly, I understand there is a long waiting list to appear in the magazine!
I must admit that, although I have seen the vendors around, ‘Busted’ is new to me and I read it for the first time after being sent this month’s edition. The Senior Editor, Maggie Bluxome, has gained a reputation for exacting standards and high quality. The magazine reflects this; it is easily of equal quality to most other magazines on the SL circuit and I’ll be reading regularly now from on even though I am not a prim boob wearer. I found the articles interesting and informative, the photographs stunningly attractive. In the September edition we also see photographic sessions from firm favourites Jeanne Sahara and Aliecia Lionheart, as well as Colleen, Kei and Maggie.
Colleen Criss
To finish off, I embed below a video of Debbie’s only solo performance in her Second Life artistic interpretation of ‘The Wall’, the aptly named “Dirty Woman”! (EDIT: this video is blocked by EMI in UK and so I have replaced with another from 'The Wall' performance).

See her YouTube for the whole one hour performance which climaxes with the large puppets of The Judge, The Mother, The Wife and The Teacher and a massive collapse of the wall itself.

Wednesday, 25 January 2012

THE SEXIEST® - The Judges Unveiled!

I have great pleasure in introducing you to the fourteen individuals that comprise the judging panel for this year’s THE SEXIEST® adult machinima contest.
Each of the judges are authorities in their own field and have selflessly donated their time, experience and knowledge into making this contest both fair and fun.
I would like to sincerely thank them for their contributions. I am proud and honoured to be on their Friends List.

Aspen Huntress (b. 22nd Feb 2010) is a Second Life photographer whose work is widely admired and respected.
Her talent and aesthetic sensibilities shine through in every picture she publishes.
Aspen is passionate and creative – and sometimes stubborn and obstinate – but always in her work we see a soul seeking expression through her chosen medium.
Aspen is pleased to report that she is feeling much better, and is optimistic for a full recovery, since the permanent restraining order was placed on Spunky Puddlegum.

Barry Lubezki (b. 3rd Jan 2007) is the creator and owner of the ever-popular ‘The Keyhole Club’.
Barry noticed how people in Second Life loved to watch others having sex and so at first created a live sex theatre.
In September 2008 he came up with the idea of a club designed and built especially for voyeurs and exhibitionists – the aptly named ‘The Keyhole Club’.
It was at the Keyhole that Barry opened Second Life’s first cinema dedicated to machinima pornography – ‘The Keyhole Cinema’ - in 2009.
Today, ‘The Keyhole Club’ attracts many thousands of people, all wanting to watch others or be watched.
And they all still visit the venue’s cinema because, as Bobo Puddlegum is fond of saying, “nobody can resist a good, hot movie!”

Bazz Soulstar (b. 4th Nov 2009) leads a double-life as a respected pillar of society and an absolute sexual pervert, in approximately equal measure.
Although Bazz has often been called a chameleon, he would rather be thought of as a kaleidoscope.
After a mind-expanding experience involving a nylon sock, a pair of maracas, a tuning fork and a small satsuma, Bazz is much more relaxed about life.
He has always been open and liberally minded and does not care much for censorship, other than that needed to protect children.
Bazz enjoys watching and reading pornography.
He considers 'The Grande Bouffe' and 'Fritz the Cat', two films he watched as a young man, as being instrumental in his development of enjoying erotic and unusual pornography.
Bazz Soulstar was so impressed with Bobo Puddlegum’s Remmington Fleshlight, he brought the company.

Trained by his cousins Solok and Nasty to be a performer at the Albanian State Circus, Bobo Puddlegum (b. 6th May 2010) has variously been employed as an acrobat, human cannon ball, clown, elephant tamer and pickpocket.
Bobo, always the womaniser, was honoured to be presented with the coveted “Playmate Midget of the Month” award.
Bobo lists his hobbies and interests as dancing, baking, knitting, embroidery, sailing, spanking and anal fingering.
He’ll often he found touring adult venues in Second Life while chewing on a pair of stolen knickers.

Debbie Trilling (b. 16th Oct 2006) is a Creative Director involved in some of the biggest shows to have been staged in Second Life, including ‘The Wall’ and ‘Metropolis’.
For the last three years, she has led the team responsible for the climax of Second Life’s annual ‘Burning Life’ festival, the actual burning of ‘The Man’ itself.
Debbie has produced 80+ videos documenting her own and other 3D artists’ work in Second Life and other virtual worlds.
Her IM’s never get capped.
Debbie has asked that we do not reveal that she has a number of the Puddlegum family on her Friends List. We feel honour-bound to respect that request.

Ever enthusiastic about the creative possibilities inherent within Second Life, Ferdy (b. 9th Mar 2007) is owner of ‘The Village Café’ - a folk and world music venue that is especially welcoming to the transgender community.
The Village Café is inspired by early 1960s Greenwich Village, NYC.
Ferdy is Nasty Puddlegum’s favourite lover. Bobo fancies her too. And Solok. Even Spunky, for that matter.

Iono Allen (b. 24th June 2007) is a machinima film maker working from Paris, France.
Respected in the SL art community for his enthusiasm but balanced, honest encouragement, Iono has filmed numerous other artists’ work to great effect, as well as create his own movie stories.
Iono was winner of the 2010 Hosoi Ichiba Machinima Award and recently was awarded joint-fourth place in the prestigious MachinimUWA IV awards.
Iono has confirmed that he is now willing to collaborate on a future film project with Nasty Puddlegum after Nasty offered him a horse’s head that was impossible to refuse.

Lar Jun (b. 26th Jun 2007) is owner of the immensely popular ‘Old Lar’s House’, one of the few adult venues to be listed in Linden Lab’s ‘Destinations’.
Lar is most often described as a kindly, humorous, benevolent senior citizen and, in fact, is seen by many as being the perfick roll model.
He also has an enviable and deserved reputation as a babe magnet.
Lar is partnered to Marcy Palmer – rumoured to be able to tie knots in spaghetti with her tongue. Even in his senior years, Lar continues to enjoy excellent hand-to-knee co-ordination.
His hobbies include upskirt photography, drooling and drinking copious amounts of Budweiser. He is a regular contributor to ‘Face Sitting Weekly’.
Court records prove that he has had close business ties with the notorious Puddlegum Family as far back as 1964.

Although ‘WarmAnimations Lisa’ was born on 6th February 2010, her player’s experience as a virtual world entrepreneur actually began three years previously with the creation of two major projects for RL companies with a presence in SL.
After these projects were successfully concluded, and sensing an increasing demand for high quality clothes, she started to provide clothing templates to high-end branded virtual stores.
In 2009 she developed her virtual skills even further by creating animations - leading to the well-known and respected brand ‘Warm Animations’.
Lisa is still as eager as ever to improve and supply the best and most unique animations on the market and fully dedicates herself to developing and improving of the products.
Bobo Puddlegum has found 101 uses for Lisa’s best-selling ‘Dirty Sex Rug’; 102 if you also include using it for dirty sex.

Octavian Venera  (b. 2nd Nov 2006) has been an SL photographer for over five years.
He specialises in portraiture and erotica. His work is defined by its studious attention to detail and a clean, unfiltered composition.
His work is on display at the ‘SiLK Gallery, open to the public.
Octavian considers each completed photograph as a small victory in creating beauty. He is fascinated by the process of meeting models that have managed to create their own individual look, and then capturing their unique beauty in a photograph.
Octavian rejected Spunky Puddlegum’s job application to be employed as a camera tripod. He did, however, once employ Bobo as a stand-in fluffer and underwear scrubber.

Paddledog v3.0 (b. 26th July 2007) is the latest release from Puddlegum Innovations.
Paddledog v3.0 represents a quantum improvement in usability and interactivity over all previous Paddledogs.
Key to this improvement is the patented integration of Random Chaotic Strange Attractor (RCSA) subroutines.
Lazy Buddhism’, ‘Exuberant Taoism’, ‘Soft Nietzschean’ and the ever-popular ‘Sacred Secularist’ modules are installed as standard.
To fully enjoy Paddledog v3.0 to her fullest, you will need the following minimum system requirements:
·        CPU Clock Speed: 120 IQ or above
·        Irony, Wit and Humour indexes in the 90th Percentile
A demonstration video of a fully functioning Paddledog v3.0 can be seen here.

Phillip Sidek (b. 6th Dec 2006) was born to parents Adam and Eva on a cold, rainy and moonless November night sometime in the early 1940s, as the family fled from Nazi persecution.
Exact details of Phillip’s birth place and date, and all attendant public records, have long been lost but the family solicitor has refused to deny rumours about a certain lowly cattle shed in Palestine.
His mother Eva was a beautiful, highly educated woman with an independent income as a respected piano teacher. Village gossip concerning an alleged long-term love affair with Solok Puddlegum in 1940/41 is almost certainly untrue. However, Eva has never satisfactorily explained how traces of Solok’s contaminated semen were found on her favourite blue dress or in her hair.
Phillip’s father, Adam Sidek III, was a dark, sinister and shadowy character. It is a documented fact that Adam had numerous affairs with the both the house maids and Phillip’s nannies.  An uncorked bottle of ‘Mother’s Ruin’ was always left on a shelf in the kitchen pantry for the female staff to gulp as necessary.
Phillip was Adam and Eva’s only child together. He was principally raised by several caring but very strict nannies. None of them ever spared the rod, nor spoilt the child.
Phillip did, however, have the benefit of private home tuition and the privilege of a University education. He majored in both economics and cosmetic plastic surgery at Prague University in 1964.
Phillip discovered his love for photography during a guided tour of Prague mortuary in 1965. It was here that he met his future wife, Pearl Kira-Sidek, as she ably assisted the coroner in an autopsy on a murder investigation.
Pearl and Phillip married quickly with Phillip photographing every sweet moment of their blossoming love. Pearl, however, found she could not accept Phillip’s extreme sexual appetite or his increasingly intense interest in fetish photography.
Divorce soon followed but not before Phillip had transformed Pearl from a humble mortuary technician to a top-class photographic model, and part-time escort.
Phillip has never had any children of his own, mainly due to his penchant for anal penetration.

Pixie Rain (b. 13th Feb 2010) - who by some freaky genetic accident is in fact the daughter of Solok *and* Nasty *and* Spunky *and* Bobo Puddlegum - is a digital artist who only gained a University place by sleeping with her college lecturer.
Pixie uses Second Life to practice film making techniques and experiment with artistic concepts that cannot easily be translated into RL films.
Straddling the dual worlds of SL art and SL pornography, Pixie’s combination of sexuality, visual aesthetics and quirky humour result in her unique and distinctive variety of adult-erotic machinima which, much to her surprise and delight, many people seem to enjoy.
Four of her films were nominated in different categories at last year’s THE SEXIEST® adult machinima contest, with one win. This year, however, Pixie was asked to be head of the jury panel and therefore, naturally, none of her films have been entered.
Pixie Rain has a complex personality – she has an oral fixation but cannot resist crunching down on hard-boiled sweets; a protestant work ethic but detests anal sex; takes pleasure in having penis envy but cannot stand dicks.
She has never had a latency period.

Tutsy Navarathna (b. 21st May 2008) is one of the foremost filmmakers working in Second Life today.
A French artist currently residing in Southern India, Tutsy was one of the original pioneers of experimental and avant-garde video in the 1980s and ‘90s.
His work has always explored that nebulous boundary line between the imagination and reality. His SL machinima continues to investigate this realm by seamlessly merging RL and SL footage.
Joint-winner of the prestigious MachinimUWA III award, outright winner of MachinimUWA IV and 1st runner-up of the influential international Machinima Expo 2011 awards, Tutsy’s films are a master-class in technique, composition, imagination, story-telling and simple artistic talent.
Although Tutsy confesses to having met Bobo and Nasty Puddlegum in the gentlemen’s lavatories at Gare de Lyon train station, he swears he didn’t inhale.

Sunday, 25 December 2011

'Tis Sometimes Better to Receive Than Give

Dream Worm Shoulder Pet by Madcow Cosmos

I was brought up in a secular family.
Hitchens and Dawkins were, and still are, discussed far more than, for example, Mohammed and Christ. It is not that anyone in the family is particularly disrespectful of religious figures, not at all – it’s simply that they are not considered important enough to warrant any serious discussion outside of mythological or other academic studies. In our house, Mohammed and Christ are considered in similar vain as, say, Osiris or Mithras. 
As such, I am rarely motivated by religious festivals.
Dali clock & baked beans by Dave Vellhi
Hand drawn sketch  & Xmas tree by Tutsy Navaratha
Yesterday and today I watched a 20min film shot by a close personal friend of his meeting with the Dalai Lama, (or to use the official title ‘His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet’).
I found the film to be deeply moving in a strange and quite unexpected way.
'The Creature' by Markus Inkpen
Asphalt & Shovel by Dave Vellhi
'The Watcher' from Tutsy Navarathna
 
It seemed to me that the Dalai Lama radiated humanity and warmth, a natural love and empathy for his fellow man which is often spoken about in religious circles, but sadly rarely ever seen in my, admittedly limited, experience.
Today, for possibly the first time, I seriously wondered if there may actually be “Holy Men” on this crazy planet that orbits a rather ordinary and nondescript G-type star.
Stilts by Heb Dexler
My only other exposure to such ideas as “Holy Men” was an in-depth documentary about the Hindu Kumbh Mela pilgrimage held every 12 years on the banks of the Ganges. Although fascinating for many reasons, proof of the authenticity of “Holy Men” was certainly not one of them.
Ground mist/fog from Bazz Soulstar
So did my friend’s film of his meeting with the Dalia Lama cause me a personal epiphany of sorts? No, I don’t think so. But it was nevertheless emotionally beautiful - causing bodily streamings from the crown of my head to the base of my spine, as mentioned in traditional yogic texts describing the ‘Chakras’.
Violin from Lar Jun
I am at home from University for Christmas, staying with my parents. The best thing about being home for Christmas? Central heating. Oh, and on-demand hot water. Seriously.
We have a Xmas Tree in the corner of the living room. It is really pretty with delicate blue lights playing against the silver tinsel. But there is neither star nor an angel or any other symbolism remotely religious on it.
Latrine by Dave Vellhi
Shopping Trolley by Bryn Oh
I am sitting here wondering if that is a deliberate policy of my parents. If so, how much influence has it had on my professed atheism, if any?
On Christmas Day, while my mum and I cook dinner, dad and my brother will go to the local pub for a few pints.
Ciggy by Squonk Levenque
We exchange gifts on Christmas morning and that is the subject of this blog-post. Or rather, *receiving* gifts is the subject matter.
This last year I have been blessed to have been given some extraordinary special gifts in Second Life from some extraordinarily talented people.
Comic book speech bubbles by BobE Schism
Some of these gifts, like Madcow Cosmo’s ‘Dream Worm’ shoulder pet or Lucia Genesis’s beautiful outfits are free to anyone who visits their sims.
Others, like Byrn Oh’s shopping trolley or BobE Schism’s comic-book speech bubbles are props they have used their in installations or films and have generously given me a copy of.
TV slideshow by Lollie Razor
Portrait by Jinx Jiersen
Other gifts have been made especially for me - like the pile of asphalt, baked bin tin, latrine, Dali clock and lots of other things by Dave Vellhi. Or the hand drawn RL sketch from Tutsy Navarathna.
Shopping trolley by Bryn Oh
Squonk Levenque and Miuccia Klarr of Kamikaze generously gifted me items from their store; Lisa, owner of Warm Animations, overwhelmed me by giving me a copy of her whole store’s stock after noticing one of her animations being used in ‘Rapture’.
Cello from Lar Jun
'The Watcher' from Tutsy Navarathna
Ciggy by Squonk Levenque
Other gifts have been purchased for me – Lar Jun brought me my violin and cello, for example; Tutsy ‘The Watcher’.
I have been extraordinarily lucky.
Not only to have received the gifts themselves, although that as well of course, but to have found myself in the right place at the right time.
2012 Machinima calendar by Glasz Decuir
In almost all cases, I could not make these gifts as well as the Creators have. And, even if I could, they would not have the same meaning to me or be as special as they are.
These gifts make my Second Life special and meaningful to me.
I am incredibly grateful.
Rocking chair by Dave Vellhi
The biggest single gift is that Debbie Trilling and Adec Alexandra so generously let me live on and share their beautiful island. It is such a privilege that I hardly know where to start. As I student, I could never afford to live on a sim like this with no prim policing forced upon me.

Debbie & Adec
I love my corner of the Metaverse; I love my existence in the Metaverse.
I am so, so thankful to all the people who have helped me. I wish I could return more than just my thanks and my love. But I, being poor, have only my dreams…and you are helping me realise them.
The gifts that people have given me are special. They help me feel good about myself, my work and my life.
And, because of that, ‘tis sometimes better to receive than give.
Happy Christmas to you all, regardless of your beliefs, religion, timezone, skin colour, mental health records or any of the rest!
Pixie xx