Showing posts with label art foundation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art foundation. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

The Demise of an SL Institution

Today is the first day of the rest of our lives. It is also the first day without a new blogpost on My Avatar Name is Apmel, a SecondLife institution that has been accompanying and guiding us residents since 2006.
"She was in Paris" by Sergey Rybakov
Mr. Apmel Goosson Esq., enfante terrible, universal genius, philosopher, rebel, blogger, author, artist, cartoonist, etc., etc. and the honored 2011 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bock McMillan Art Foundation (a part of the BMcM Corporation), has for some selfish reason decided that after 10,000 blogposts enough is enough. He did so without due consideration of the significant emotional distress and soul-wrenching turmoil he thereby causes to his faithful readers.

However, I must begrudgingly admit that my bosom buddy, of course, has the right to make such a decision and move on to new endeavors. In a heart-to-heart conversation, Apmel promised that we would find him on other media platforms but did not want to specify saying "Only the future can tell! Besides I won't leave SL, my avatars would never forgive me :)".

Thank you for your dedicated work through these fifteen years, Apmel! We are all looking forward to seeing your future work.

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Esselebrity Makes A Painful Fashion Statement

Today the esselebrity Mr. Apmel Goosson Esq., world renowned blogger, fashionista and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of The Bock McMillan Art Foundation (A part of the BMcM Corporation) in 2011, proved that he was a highly qualified recipient of the award.

In the spirit of the old Swedish adage "Den som vill vara fin, får lida pin" ("If you wish to be beautiful, you must suffer the pain" - sort of like "No pain, no gain!") by observing the rule of not wearing socks with sandals despite admitting that his feet were cold.

Read all about it here: My Avatar's Name Is Apmel: Yes, Apmel got cold feet :) (url)

Saturday, May 6, 2017

Grand Opening of The Northmead Gallery

The Bock McMillan Art Foundation 
(a part of the BMcM Corporation) 
and the artists 
WayneNZ 
JJ Goodman 
and 
Tomais Ashdene

Welcome you all to the opening of the new erotic gallery at Southern Charm today

From the invitation on Facebook:

"An intrepid trio of SecondLife photographers invites you to an opening at their very private space, the Northmead Gallery at Southern Charm for a showing of gay male erotic art. (or as Kahvy puts it, "dicks, dicks, dicks!") (or as Bock puts it, "a celebration of the male form) (or as JJ puts it, "our brush of love!") (or as Wayne calls it, "Bowchickie wow wow!) (or as RickJ said, "Meow.")

The party starts at 1:00 PM SLT, and DJ Kahvy will be pumping (get it? Pumping!) out some hot dance tunes.

This is just for the fun of it since we had a great time doing al these photos, and we've a cool space to show our art in the rundown city block that makes up the Gallery. Feel free to wander and enjoy some of special places we've built into the venue.

Hope to see you there!

Disclaimer: male/male nudity and sexual acts are portrayed in the photos. No small animals were harmed in the making of these photographs. Enter at your own risk."


Landmark to The Northmead Gallery!

Monday, September 2, 2013

The Vernissage of "Art Erotic"

My friend Ewa Aska, formerly best known as the co-owner of the once famous Ice Hotel and as an actor in several plays and musicals in SecondLife among them the successful ABBA SWEDEN show, has now found a new furrow for her creativity as a photographer of erotic art.

Ewa's exhibition "Art Erotic" opened with a vernissage yesterday, As the chairman of the Bock McMillan Art Foundation (a part of the BMcM Corporation) I was naturally invited. Most notable - and noticeable - among the other guests was an apparition of my bosom-buddy Apmel Goosson, this time present as his alt Apmel Meerson.

Apmel was - in my humble opinion - the most erotic work of art in the room, especially since he had chosen to dance an extremely enticing and alluring dance and somehow seemed to work his way around me the whole evening. I claimed he was hitting on me, but he emphatically denied it. (You can read our conversation on this subject on his blog, the link is supplied at the end of this post.)
Apmel plays coy but I know what he is contemplating
Apmel hits on me
Apmel in the act of sexual harassment against innocent me
Our gorgeous DJ Rultan and her likewise gorgeous hubby Alf
Paola spots me but keep her distance, in the beginning...
Fia Wycliffe surrounded by erotic art
Apmels favorite piece of art, I named it "A tethered man"
Photographer Ewa Aska in an erotic pose
I avert my eyes from the sexiness of Paola
Guyke comes to my rescue to save me from more sexual harassment by members of the audience
For more pictures from the vernissage and my hilarious conversation with Apmelito please visit "The models hide nothing, but what does Bock hide?"

If you wish to visit the exhibition it goes on through September 15, 2013, Landmark to the exhibition (SLurl)

Sunday, September 1, 2013

ART EROTIC - Black & White

I got this invitation from two friends, Rultan Zeppelin on Facebook and Ewa Aska in-world. 

As the Much Honored Bock McMillan, laird of Southern Charm and prince of Cascade Falls, sovereign ruler of The Southern Enchantment Region etc, etc. and as chairman of The Bock McMillan Art Foundation (a part of the BMcM Corporation) I am duty bound to attend. Please join me there if you can.
The exhibition opens with a vernissage and a party today Sunday September 1 2013, 7AM - 9AM SLT

From the exhibition leaflet: 
"A photo exhibition consisting of six naked Second Life models, posing for erotic and romantic themes.

Black and White. 

Dance, mingle, champagne and canapés.

DJ: Rultan 
Hosts: Andreas Datura & Ewa Aska"

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Something Old, Something New...

Before I go back to my playing with myself and test if Bock may finally be over the problems we have had lately I would like to take a moment to honor two SecondLife blogs and their bloggers.


The first one is the oldest Swedish SecondLife blog, My Avatar´s Name Is Apmel, which is owned and operated by my bosom buddy Apmel Goosson & alts (in his first life also known as +Lennart Nilsson)..

Today the blog celebrates it´s sixth blogoversary and having reached 5,000 posts. The number of pageviews should be close to 700,000 by now as the blog reached the 600,000 mark on March 26, 2011.

My Avatar´s Name Is Apmel has previously been honored by The Bock McMillan Art Foundation´s (a part of the BMcM Corporation) lifetime achievement award on March 26, 2011, read why here SecondLife Culture Blog Honored.

I for one am looking forward to following Apmel and alts on their adventures in SecondLife the next six years also, It is - and will remain - an obligation for every SecondLife blogger to read what Apmel has to say about our life and times.

On the other end of the scale I also wish to congratulate my friend Benja Aquila, who started blogging just recently, on hos blog Benja Aquila´s Second Life. The blog passed it´s first 5,000 pageviews yesterday!

Congratulations to both the blog and the blogger, I am so looking forward to still be a faithful follower when you pass 500,000 pageviews!

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Trash-talk


In the blogging world you can always complain that other bloggers
...are faking their statistics.
...are writing about the wrong subjects.
...are whining.
...are too self obsessed.
...are not serious journalists like yourself.
...are not able to give the readers what they want, expect or need.
etc. etc.

I will always, like the French philosopher Voltaire, maintain "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too."

Every blogger has the freedom and the right and the bloody obligation to write whatever suits them as long as it is not discriminatory, defamatory, against the law of the land or against the guidelines of the blog provider. If you do not like the content of a blog, you should not waste your valuable time by reading it. Just move along and find something better to occupy yourself with.

I have stated this before, in both Swedish and English, this blog is mainly written for my own benefit. I am grateful and happy if others like to read it also, but that is by no means my main objective. This blog is not a public service or a news blog, I don´t charge you anything to read it, nor do I receive any of your tax dollars for writing it. I make no pretenses of being a journalist or catering to the needs of others.

As my buddy and enfante terrible the Swedish universal genius, philosopher, rebel, blogger, author, artist, cartoonist etc., etc. and the honored recipient of the lifetime achievement award from the Bock McMillan Art Foundation (a part of the BMcM Corporation) Apmel Goosson once wrote (well, only a few hours ago), "The day I start suspecting that what I write is governed more by what I think the readers want to read than what I myself think, I promise to shut down my blog and permanently stop writing anything at all"

*Bock stretches out his arm with the hand held in a vertical position and says, "Talk to the hand ´cause the face ain´t listening!"*

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Worrying News

The McMillan household was today reached by some worrying news. Read all about it at Vaneeesa Blaylock´s blog.

Friends should inform friends before undertaking dangerous art forms. Apmel is after all a recipient of The Bock McMillan Art Foundations (a part of the BMcM Corporation) lifetime achievement award, see this post.


Tuesday, November 15, 2011

The Laird Inspects Installation Art

"No Name Yet" Installation art by Kandinsky Beaumont
The Much Honored Bock McMillan, laird of Southern Charm and prince of Cascade Falls, deigned to honor the Imagine peacefest at Solace Island with his presence on Sunday evening.

During his unusually lengthy visit the laird took the time to inspect a piece of installation art that had been partly sponsored by The Bock McMillan Art Foundation (a part of the BMcM Corporation). The installation was made by Kandinsky Beaumont, hostess of the event, and met with the highest approval of the laird.

The peacefest was a great success with entertainment by the singer and songwriter POL Arida and the fabulous group DRUM.

All and sundry of the existing art mob in SecondLife passed through the party during the many hours that the laird was there, but he most appreciated the presence of his beloved sister Millimina Salamander whom he had not met with in a long while.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Named Avatars 3

Today it is my great pleasure to let my buddy Apmel tell us about how he named his avatar - and his host of co-avatars.

As you perhaps already know Apmel is a prominent figure in the virtual art world of SecondLife. His blog "Min avatar heter Apmel" ("My Avatar´s Name is Apmel") is also the oldest existing Swedish SecondLife blog and the distinguished recipient of the prestigious lifetime achievement award from The Bock McMillan Art Foundation (a part of theBMcM Corporation).

The Apmel Trinity - from the left Meerson, Ibbetson and Goosson
"When I registered my first ava I first looked up a surname that ended with “-son”... it just happened to be Ibbetson and Apmel as first name, which was simply a reversal of one of my nicknames at work - "Lempa" instead of Lennart.

Later, I wanted to have a name ending in “-sson”, two s´s, and more Swedish I thought .. while I kept the first name. Apmel Goosson plain and simple with everything that it has come to mean...

When I created the next avatar, that was first conceived as a pure backup, the choice for a surname happened to fall on Meerson.

Eventually these alternate versions of Apmel developed, as several of you already know. 


Apmel Ibbetson was modeled using pictures of myself taken just before my sixtieth birthday in real life and hey presto, he became Uncle IB. The "last name" IB comes from the fact that my primatar initially was determined to promote his RL-activity, "Indexkompaniet Bokförlag" (The Index Company Publishers) and started an Index Company book café in-world where the group´s members were called IB-agents (Yes, I did have the (for Swedes) well known IB-affair in memory, and liked the ambiguity).

Apmel Meerson quickly turned into “Kludden” (the daub). An inexperienced young cousin to Apmel who is finding his way around in Second Life. Daub rapidly strengthened my interest in the virtual arts.

At long last Apmelina Slingshot came along and proved to be the sister of Apmel that Apmel´s dad never had. Apmelina rapidly extended my old-fashioned (albeit narrow) musical taste in a more contemporary direction - with a little help from Milli, I readily admit. :))

 


And the last (latest?) avatar that I have acquired is a banker who originally was of the same indeterminate sex and age as the name I gave it, "Apmelsprivatabankman" (Apmel´s-private-banker). I refuse to use the ugly surname Resident that automatically and not so amusingly came with it. This avatar later developed into a beautiful woman in her fifties. I am hoping she will bring order to the Apmellian finances :))"

Sunday, May 1, 2011

A Very Special Art Auction


As I have told you all earlier, today Sunday May 1st 12 PM (noon) there will be a very special art auction at Ventura Arte & Jardin.

My sweet and wonderful friend Mariposa Upshaw, owner and curator of the gallery, for the fourth consecutive year hosts this event in SecondLife in support of Virtual Ability Inc. and The Dream Sims (organizations working with autism in SecondLife).

Artwork has been donated by these generous SecondLife artists:
 

 Sculpture:
Alizarin Goldflake
Blue Tsuki - a special work to be donated to Dreams
Bryn Oh
Blue Tsuki - piece to be donated to Dreams
elros Tuominen
Fuschia NIghtfire - 2 works
Gleman Jun - 3 works
Glyph Graves
Gore Suntzu - one of a kind/exclusive to  auction
Jon Haskell - 2 works
Kicca Igaly
Miso Susanowa
Neeks Karu
nessuno myoo
Pumpkin Tripsa
Rag Randt - 2 works
RebelMum Slade - exclusive to auction
soror Nishi
Treacle Darlandes - exclusive to auction
Ub Yifu

Paint & 2d works:
Eliza Wierwight - exclusive to auction
Fiona Leitner - 4 works
Gracie Kendal - 2 works
Milly Sharple - 2 works
Sheba Blitz
sledge roffo
Trill Zapatero

Photography:
Cala Rossini * signed work
Carlotta Ceawlin - 2
Dom JInx - 2
Eves Rodenberger - 2
Jocgart Larsen
La Baroque - 2
Lookatmy Back -2
morgana nagorski
WickedV Carver

"Art can change the world :)
Thank you for your interest in supporting residents on the autism spectrum, and promoting awareness, support and understanding thru art and music."

Mariposa Upshaw
owner/Curator Ventura Arte & Jardin
So meet me there today or be totally square, this is a worthy cause people! Enjoy the art, the music and the banter in local chat... And if you are so inclined make hefty bids for the artwork.

Limousine to the gallery

The Bock McMillan Art Foundation (a part of the BMcM Corporation) encourages everyone to visit this event although it does not have the formal or financial support of the foundation.

Saturday, April 30, 2011

McMillans Root For Goosson/Nilsson

It was today brought to the McMillan households attention that the lairds bosom-buddy Mr. Apmel Goosson yesterday announced on his blog that his primatar Mr. Lennart Nilsson was going to take part in the MachinimUWA III: Journeys competition and that all his winnings from that contest would be donated to The Bock McMillan Art Foundation (a part of the BMcM Corporation).

When the news reached the household Wild Zepp, spokesman for the McMillan household, made the following statement:
"The much honored Bock McMillan, laird of Southern Charm and chairman of the art foundation, graciously accepts Mr Goossons generous contribution to the foundation and wishes him the best of luck in the competition.

It is an honor for the foundation to receive this benign attention from such a renowned benefactor of art and culture in SecondLife."


To see mr Nilssons awesome contribution please follow this link "The Rider" machinima by Lennart Nilsson.

Read all about the competition here

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Autism Experience 4

Ventura Arte & Jardin Presents
Autism Experience 4
Art and Music benefiting  VAI (Virtual Abilties Inc.) and Dreams/Brigadoon Explorers
 

EVENTS: 

PREVIEW - all art donated for the auction on display now  thru april 30 at Ventura Arte & Jardin 

FIRST MUSICAL EVENT:
Sunday April 17 @ Ventura
noon sl - James Corachea
1pmsl -   Saintess Larnia

SECOND MUSICAL EVENT:
Sunday april 24
1pmsl - Gina Gracemount
2pmsl  - Cylindrian Rutabaga
more music tba

A VERY SPECIAL ART AUCTION
Sunday May 1st 12 PM (noon)
 

Art donated by:
 

Sculpture:
Alizarin Goldflake
Blue Tsuki - a special work to be donated to Dreams
Bryn Oh
Blue Tsuki - piece to be donated to Dreams
elros Tuominen
Fuschia NIghtfire - 2 works
Gleman Jun - 3 works
Glyph Graves
Gore Suntzu - one of a kind/exclusive to  auction
Jon Haskell - 2 works
Kicca Igaly
Miso Susanowa
Neeks Karu
nessuno myoo
Pumpkin Tripsa
Rag Randt - 2 works
RebelMum Slade - exclusive to auction
soror nishi
Treacle Darlandes - exclusive to auction
Ub Yifu

Paint & 2d works:
Eliza Wierwight - exclusive to auction
Fiona Leitner - 4 works
Gracie Kendal - 2 works
Milly Sharple - 2 works
Sheba Blitz
sledge roffo
Trill Zapatero

Photography:
Cala Rossini * signed work
Carlotta Ceawlin - 2
Dom JInx - 2
Eves Rodenberger - 2
Jocgart Larsen
La Baroque - 2
Lookatmy Back -2
morgana nagorski
WickedV Carver

Art can change the world :)
Thank you for your interest in supporting residents on the autism spectrum, and promoting awareness, support and understanding thru art and music.

Mariposa Upshaw,
owner/Curator Ventura Arte & Jardin


The Bock McMillan Art Foundation (a part of the BMcM Corporation) encourages everyone to visit this event although it does not have the formal or financial support of the foundation.

Dance In Light - Sunday April 17th, 12 PM (noon)

Dance in Light is a 45 minutes show with original music, dance, lights and particles.

It is brought to you by an international team:

junivers Stockholm: Composer, Music performer Stage and Light design (Sweden)
Medora Chevalier: Choreography, Costumes, Dance Performer (UK)
Sunshine Vayandar: Dance Performer (South Africa)
TheDove Rhode: Dance Performer (USA)
Southern Riptide: Dance Performer (USA)
Efrantirise Morane: Light Show operator (Italy)
Warpy Centaur - Musician animation operator (Ireland)

Dance in Light's original numbers:
Dance of Life
Are You an Angel?
No More
Carp Rock
Eden


For more information contact junivers Stockholm, Medora Chevalier or Sunshine Vayander

Landmark to the Garden of Change


The Bock McMillan Art Foundation (a part of the BMcM Corporation) encourages everyone to visit this event although it does not have the formal or financial support of the foundation.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

WTG Apmel

It´s a great joy to see that my friend and co-blogger Apmel Goosson´s blog "Min avatar heter Apmel" today hit the 600 000 visitors mark!

As you hopefully still remember that blog received the prestigious lifetime achievement award from The Bock McMillan Art Foundation (a part of the BMcM Corporation) the past weekend.

Way to go, Apmel, you are an example to us all!

Saturday, March 26, 2011

SecondLife Culture Blog Honored - Updated

Original header
Updated header
In a communique issued this morning by The Bock McMillan Art Foundation (a part of the BMcM Corporation) it has been announced that the foundation has decided to honor the blog "Min avatar heter Apmel" ("My avatars name is Apmel") with "a lifetime achievement award for it´s dedicated work to spread information and knowledge about art, culture and philosophy in SecondLife to the culturally challenged residents of both the virtual and real worlds." 

The chairman of the foundation, The Much Honored Bock McMillan, Laird of Southern Charm, in an exclusive interview said: "It is true that Mr Lennart Nilsson, the primatar behind the hosts of Apmels swarming all over the virtual worlds of SecondLife, InWorldz etc. etc., is a dear friend to me and my sister Millimina, but that has nothing to do with this decision. The foundation simply wishes to recognize the blog for it´s worthwhile and dedicated work. He may sometimes be an enfant terrible but he always stays true to his character and his elected mission." 

UPDATED with the new blog header! Did I tell you Apmel is sweet?