Hermes Kondor teaching his class: "Zen Photography: The Magic of Smaller Things" _____________________________________________________________ Wren Carling Parker has set up a series of photography related classes this month at The FOCUS Learning Center, on the main FOCUS Quadrangle -- all free. On Thursday, June 16th, Lord Voxel (1 am SLT) will explore "Lighting in Firestorm". To … Continue reading Lots of classes this month in The Learning Center!

Today, FRIDAY, JUNE 3, is the first Friday of this month: Dancing and live music will start at 6 pm SLT with our favorite Canadian, Maxmillion Kleene, to be follow at 7 pm SLT byDj Bray. Tonight will also mark the opening of new art at our FOCUS galleries. We encourage you to take breaks … Continue reading First Friday comes but once a month!

More later, but the June issue, due out very shortly, promises to be interesting as Angela Thespian, among others, has been exploring art and photography outside of Second Life in other worlds (or grids). Expect a somewhat different issue than many past. Here's a photo taken on one such alternative 'planet': Alternate Metaverse. There are … Continue reading Heads Up: FOCUS Magazine

Between FAIR and A Thousand Words coffeehouse, a new and beautiful building.... Today will be a busy one at FOCUS! The winners of the monthly photo contest (Topic: "Motion") will be announced at today's event, starting at 11 am SLT. Mimi Carpenter will provide an hour of music to celebrate the Grand Opening of the … Continue reading Saturday: A busy day at FOCUS. Again!

The winners of the monthly photo contest (Topic: "Motion") will be announced tonight at 7 pm. Tonight's events will start with Grace Loudon singing at 6 pm SLT. Due to the recent violence in Uvalde, Texas, USA, and other horrific evil like it around the world, Connie Jean -- who writes the Virtually Spiritual article … Continue reading Tonight we will gather…

Human eyes have an average of 4.5 million color-sensitive ‘cone’ cells in that middle part of the back of the eyeball called the fovea (Latin for ‘small pit’).  Stop now.  Try to stare straight at these words and, without glancing sideways, describe the color of something off to the side (a folder or a book … Continue reading More about color perception!

Edges and movement are very closely related. Out of the corner of our eye we sense that something moved, but we don't know what. It might be a butterfly or an arrow or a fluttering banner, but we don't know what until we turn our eyes toward that 'something'. And then, silouetted against the pale … Continue reading Seeing: Edges and Movement!