The "Passions of Black Swan" event has come to a close after twenty of SL's most talented designers came together to bring you their own take on the magic of Black Swan through their creations.  Timeless Modeling Agency will showcase these designs one last time at 2 pm SL today to finish the event with a flourish.  Be sure to arrive early and follow the path to be able to have a front row seat as the models walk the runway one last time.

Rezzable & Language Lab have come together to celebrate cultural diversity in SL by holding a Global Music Festival for the month of September. Throughout the festival, September 6-28th, Rezzable is sponsoring the 'Captured Proverbs' Second Life Photography Contest. This is not your typical photo contest; it is a celebration of the RL diversity that helps make SL special. This is your chance to showcase your Real Life Culture by taking the best photo in SL that represents something typical to your home country & culture: it's proverbs. Prizes are abundant, with 30,000L$ and lots of in world goodies for the first prize winner.

After a month of showcasing their best works at Rezzable's Cannery, virtual photography artists Stephen Venkman, Raul Crimson, Kimberly Mirabeau and Marianne McCann have taken their works of art back into their inventory. They make place for a noble cause: the Relay For Life Photography Exhibition, organised by Claudia Mantis for the Relay Raiders.

We like to thank the artist for sharing their great photographs with us, and hope we can work with them again. In case you missed the exhibition - or if you just can't get enough of it, here's some more information about the artists and where you can visit their work:

A new bug (VWR-7614) is causing headaches for folk taking snapshots in sl. Fear not! There's something you can do about it. Read on for further info...

Photography in SL is one of the most democratic artforms around - you don't need to learn to build or texture, and if you have a flickr account you don't even need to spend lindens to show your creativity to the world. If you develop a hobby out of sl photography however you're sure to be using the SL release candidate viewers to take your shots. Release candidates are where all the fancy new graphics options are available, and without them your artists pallet is much more restricted, so when they break the quality of photography goes down.

'The Cannery is dead! Hail the Cannery!' No, the Cannery did not disappear of the virtual map. It just got a make over and a change of concept: we are still offering virtual photography artist a chance to display their work and to show it to a bigger audience. Participating artists at the Cannery have free choice as to how they choose to display their work and if they want to sell or not. The only limitations? Time and prim limit! ;)

Image by Prad Prathivi

Artists showcasing their great photography work until the 12th of June are:

A beautiful statement from Raul Crimson: 'I’m an avatar, i’m a lover, a dreamer… I’m all that and nothing of that at the same time. I’m contradiction, i’m weakness… I’m human.'

Visit their exhibitions in-world, they are definitely worth of your time! It's via here and then the first hangar on your left behind the triptych. ;)

All those of you interested in 'virtual photography' must have heard about - and probably even participated in - the Koinup 'Windlight' Contest. And all those interested in and enjoying virtual live performances and music, can't say they never heard the name 'Jax Streeter' before. Today, at 11 AM SLT, we'll combine both great forms of art: music and photography: the Koinup Windlight Exhibition in-world is opening.

Featuring the 3 first place 20000L$ winners of the Koinup WindLight contest and 7 honourable mentionings as jurored by Torley Linden, Pastrami Linden and Vint Falken, the Koinup show might be small in numbers, but rest assure it's big in quality.

To celebrate the opening of the WindLight show and the kick ass photographers that participated in it, Koinup booked one of the best known music artists on the grid, Jax Streeter. Mr Jax 'Streeter Nation' Streeter, always guarantees awesome music and a great party.

We - that's Koinup and Rezzable - hope to see you at the official opening of the Koinup 'WindLight' show. Come early - 10.55 AM SLT - if you don't want to miss Jax Streeter's show. And who knows, maybe Torley Linden will show up?