Poperations 2.0

"Window Cill" from Sunday Alone series courtesy of Kasabian Beck - Visit Poperations 2.0
Artist: Kasabian Beck
Model: Vixie Rayna
Skin: Blowpop - Tuesday - Honey Aden #2
Hair: Maitreya - Loelle Pitch
Shirt: Artilleri - Zee Tank in White
Panties: Chic Boutique - Cherry
Headphones: Muism - SL Headphones
Lashes - Cake - Bedroom

Kasabian Beck is back from the dead and SL should be shaking in their boots. He's here to take the art and music world by storm. Poperations 2.0 is open with a new series featuring a voyeuristic look into a "Sunday Alone". The series can be see now in-world on the Wandering Spirits sim.

Working with Kas was a great bit of fun, he works very spontaneously and its a really organic process. He randomly IMs me after my good friend Kali Meads suggested me as a model. He brought me over to his studio and showed off the Polaroid series he was working on...let me just say I was AMAZED. Of course, I agreed to participate! He asked me to pop on some black lingerie and asked me go through my own poses. I mostly heard, "next, next, NO, next...STAY!" He walked around fluidly to find the perfect angle. He asked for a few wardrobe changes and more poses. It all happened so fast and then he was done. A few hours later, he's showing me the work he'd completed. It was the seventh piece in his Polaroid series.

The very next day, I get a texture from Kas and its completely different. He says that he's been inspired. A taxi cab is sent for me and I arrive in Poperations 2.0 and my jaw just drops. Its this entire gallery of raw, erotic, and devastating works entitled Sunday Alone. Kasabian showed me this video by Death Cab for Cutie - What Sarah Said. "Love is watching someone die...so who's going to watch you die?" 

In Kasabian Beck's words, "I wanted the series to be about someones first Sunday alone after a long breakup..what the feeling is like when you wake up in an empty bed, stare at yourself in the mirror alone for the first time after say a couple years. Its a very intimate, yet distant place. Sure you take comfort in say listening to the music you want, but what's the point if you don't have someone there you love to share it." He continued by saying, "Its like you depend on someone for so long that you wonder what to do with yourself now that you're sure you made the right decision, but you're still alone in the end."

Sadly, Kas doesn't post any work online. He must be the last person in SL without a Flickr or Koinup. ;) After a bit of prodding, Kas was kind enough to watermark a few of the pieces so I could promote the series on Flickr and on my blog. Thank you Kas! I've given you a little taste of the series, hopefully this motivates you to see more. Please check out series in-world before it retires.

"The Floor" from Sunday Alone series courtesy of Kasabian Beck - Visit Poperations 2.0
Artist: Kasabian Beck
Model: Vixie Rayna
Skin: Blowpop - Tuesday - Honey Aden #2
Hair: Maitreya - Loelle Pitch
Bra: Insolence - Salome in Black
Lashes - Cake - Bedroom

All works courtesy of Kasabian Beck. All rights reserved.

**Update 11/4/08 with Quotes**

**Update 11/3/08 - Kasabian's new indie-music club, Mixtape will be opening November 8th at 8 pm with DJ Lizzie Schism. IM Kasabian Beck or join the group Mixtape for more details.**

NeAt TricKs

One of my very first connections in Second Life© was with Kali Meads, this amazing photographer/artist/builder/gallery owner/ curator/sim owner/awesome friend. She was so down-to-earth and approachable, as a noobie I must have been annoying. /me cringes at the memory of Kali watching her "build." Over the last few months I've jumped even further into my career in fashion, but we still keep in touch and work together pretty often. Some of you may recognize her name from the premiere edition of Captured©.  There was a featured focus on Kali and Neat Tricks with a collaboration of poses created by Dove Swanson of Long Awkward Pose.

Photo courtesy of Kali Meads - Visit Koinup or Captured©.

Photographer: Kali Meads

Model: Vixie Rayna

Skin: Blowpop - Tuesday Honey in Aden #2 Black

Hair: Maitreya Loelle in Pitch

Shoes: Stiletto Moody - Gladiator in Black

Lingerie - Insolence - Salome in Black

Pose - Custom Pose by Dove Swanson

Visit the Wandering Spirits sim and jump into a surreal 1950's world. Watch out for the giant robot, as he's got pretty good aim. The gallery is free and supported by donations from the public, so if you like what you see, please donate a few lindens. Visit the SIM and see SL© artists such as Cala Rossini, Maded Shepherd, Nedeko Kohime, Raul Crimson, and even Miss Kali Meads in the Gallery. If you haven't been to Wandering Spirits, you must check it out now.

Photo Courtesy of Cala Rossini (Trixibelle) - Visit Koinup.

Walk across the street and you will find Kasabian Beck's gallery, Poperations 2.0.  He is back from the virtual dead folks!  Kali was kind enough to recommend me to Kasabian as a model for his upcoming Polaroid series.  He randomly IMs me to come down and shoot for that series. The next day Kas shows me his final work and to my surprise,  SIX pieces were created as a stand alone collection entitled Sunday Alone.  You can see the ENTIRE series now in-world at Poperations 2.0. 

Photo Courtesy of Kasabian Beck from the Sunday Alone series entitled "She Loves Me." 

Neat Tricks will celebrate its One Year Anniversary on November 30th, 2008. Yesterday, a murder mystery hunt unveiled itself on the sim. The reward for solving the mystery...the ability to enter a photography competition. First prize is 5,000 Lindens and the cover of a Real Life art book developed by Neat Tricks to be released in Spring 2009. This prize will be judged by Kali Meads herself. Second prize is 2,000 Lindens and a free place to stay at Bellecere Estates furnished by Ladydesire Benoir of Bellecere Estates. Second prize will be voted on by the public the last week of November (one vote per avatar). Winners will be announced at the One Year Anniversary party on November 30th - there will be live bands and a party at Mixtape (the new club built by Kasabian Beck).

For more information on the Neat Tricks Anniversary Competition - visit Neat Tricks website.

For more information about the Sunday Alone series by Kasabian Beck - visit Vixie Rayna's Flickr.

***UPDATE - Dove Swanson will be releasing the custom poses she created for the editorial in the most recent edition of captured.  If you would like to see the full series, please visit my FLICKR. ***