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Chic Lunacy

Wearing:

Hair: Burley Tae

Makeup: Tuty’s Tao Moon (Recent)

Top: Violator Hit Me Up (New)

Pants: Violator Luxury Jeans (New)

Bracelet: Kosh Inverted

Ring: Kosh Inverted

Photography: Dammi Quan

Model: Mallory Cerise » View author and full post…

“For some time there was a widely held notion… that the ‘thinking ocean’ of Solaris was a gigantic brain, prodigiously well-developed and several million years in advance of our own civilization, a sort of ‘cosmic yogi’, a sage, a symbol of omniscience, which had long ago understood the vanity of all action and for this reason had retreated into an unbreakable silence.” Stanislaw Lem

Wearing:

Hair: Catwa Afnan

Brow Decor: Zibska Valle

Eye Shadow: Zibska Louche

Lips: [mock] Subzero

Dress: Taliesins Ghostly bride love lost at sea

Photography: Dammi Quan

Model: Mallory Cerise» View author and full post…

Where Dreams Never End

Wearing:

Hair: LeLutka Vibrato

Eye Makeup: LpD Gold (Cosmetic Fair)

Lips: tgs Lip tinte ice queen (Cosmetic Fair)

Jewelry: Donna Flora Carmen

Dress: AD Creations Titania

Pose: Posesion

Photography: Dammi Quan

Model: Mallory Cerise

Location: Tart Gallery» View author and full post…

New Violator

Wearing:

Hair: Burley Kenny

Eye Makeup: La Malvada Mujer The way of shadow #3 (New at Cosmetic Fair)

Lips: tgs Lip tinte ice queen (New at Cosmetic Fair)

Jewelry: PP MeiMei (New at L’Accessories)

Jacket: Violator Passion (New)

Skirt: Violator Candy (New)

Legs: Shi Leg harness

Feet: Slink Mesh feet

Pose: Posesion (New)

Setting: Dammi Quan

Photography: Dammi Quan

Model: Mallory Cerise » View author and full post…

Vogue Snow Maiden

Wearing:

Hair: Catwa Eleanora

Makeup: LovelyMi Sweet Cao

Jewelry: PP Venus

Dress: Pidria Bonetto Factory Gizele

Boots: Schadenfreude Leith

Photography: Dammi Quan

Model: Mallory Cerise » View author and full post…

David Lynch Tribute: Twin Peaks, The Black Lodge, Part II

Everything about her suggested a desperate desire to dive back into the world she’d mistakenly left behind, to rejoin the black fire with all possible haste.

—Lutz Bassmann

Inside me there is something

No one knows about

Like a secret

—Laura Palmer

It’s mostly pain that demands a response.

—me

The Black Lodge is described as “the shadow-self of the White Lodge. The legend says that every spirit must pass through there on the way to perfection. There, you will meet your own shadow self. My people call it ‘The Dweller on the Threshold’… But it is said, if you confront the Black Lodge with imperfect courage, it will utterly annihilate your soul.”

Also: “The presence of doppelgängers, or ‘evil’ aspects of a person’s personality, is possibly the most unsettling feature of the lodge.”

My fascination with the theme of doppelgängers resurfaced a year ago, after seeing this film. I’ll say two things on this subject, mirroring the (non-)duality of the Black and White Lodges.

Without going into the folklore or the psychiatric and neurological underpinnings of the doubling (not something I could do anyway), there’s a lot to be said about someone’s inability or unwilingness to see a phenomenon as a whole, to create meaning out of complexity.» View author and full post…

David Lynch Tribute: The Black Lodge from Twin Peaks

this eeriness does not simply come from something invisible

—Maurice Blanchot

Je ne crois pas qu’il y ait des personnes dont la condition intérieure soit semblable à la mienne, au du moins je peux m’imaginer ces personnes, mais que, autour de leurs têtes, vole continuellement le corbeau secret comme autour de la mienne, cela je n’arrive même pas à l’imaginer.

—Franz Kafka (Yes, I realize he wasn’t French… That’s the only version I’ve got right now)

I never meant to see the small hills and the fire.

—Laura Palmer

I cannot write about The Black Lodge. There’s no writing about The Black Lodge. There’s walking around it, possibly in it, via writing, but it’s the traversal of space that really counts. It’s your bodily motion, your fear of standing still, your refusal to stand still, your footsteps, your minute halts, your hardly perceptible shifts, and carefully, even painfully sustained intensity, at the needle-like point of convergence of the physical and the mental.» View author and full post…

Disreputable Witch

Fashion for Life is the major fundraiser in SL of the American Cancer Society, as presented by BOSL. The fabulous event is kicking in tomorrow, March 9th, and will run through March 17th. An overview of the event can be found here. BOSL radio will be streaming across all nine sims (which are GORGEOUS, by the way) in partnership with the club vaguely known as The Velvet.

Wearing:

Hair: [e] Quirky
Lips: Madrid Solo Vendetta (for FFL)
Necklace: Kosh Epiphany (inverted)
Lingerie: Insolence Deborah
Dress: Essencial Temptation Sheer Dress (for FFL)
Boots: Lassitude & Ennui Nostalgia

Photography: Zoe Jimenez» View author and full post…

David Lynch Tribute: Lost Highway

You will NEVER have me.

Where does one begin to explain one’s fascination with a film like David Lynch’s Lost Highway? How does one say something that comes close to gesturing toward the power this work has over one’s imagination? This movie is, first and foremost, an intense aesthetic experience, informed by film noir sensibilities, the sensibilities filtered through and trapped in the dark ice of Lynch’s mind: the lighting and the shadow work are impeccable, the music used powerfully and evocatively. Except that it also happens to be one of the strangest narratives ever created. Rejecting certain views is as good a start as any: to interpret this film metaphysically (i.e., to say that there are two really existing parallel worlds that wondrously gather, if not trap, the disintegrating, fracturing sense) is to defang it entirely, it’s to rob it of its psychic and/or social acuity (depends on who you’re talking to), not even to mention of its profound bleakness. As metaphysical interpretations are prone to do with just about everything else. (Of course, if I were to talk about Twin Peaks, the question “Does The Lodge exist?” would be answered differently.)

» View author and full post…There are two women, played by the same actress, Patricia Arquette: the first one, Renee, is a brunette, a wife, a murderee.

Jezebel II

The nomadic Jezebel, a zero cipher flickering in and out of the vastly different centuries, follows ghostly, marble-like paths, with the night moving in her veins, with the night forming an exquisite chilling mask on her face. The mask may never be cast aside, not even torn off, not even that.

For the mind is the true receptacle of the night.

Wearing:

Eye Makeup: Mock Mile High Eyeliner
Lips: Mock Martinique Lip Gloss
Hair: DeLa Minna II
Jacket: A/D/E Leather Jacket (Collabor88)
Top: LWL Tuxedo Bodysuit
Skirt: Fanatik Leather Mini Skirt
Tights: Mstyle Dotz Tights