The Alanis Angels at Alanis Gallery in Xaara

Alanis Gallery of Sensual Images in Xaara (formerly in Roissy) has always been one of my favorite places in Second Life. Not only do I enjoy the original artwork that is on display in the galleries, quite a few of which I have purchased to decorate the walls of my Art Room, but I have also been fascinated by the rather unique concept of "Living Art" that has come to symbolize the gallery for many people.

Alanis Angel near the Naiad Pool (2015)

This "Living Art" involves female or male avatars called "Alanis Angels" who pose as immobile (and sometimes mute) statues for the enjoyment of visitors to the sim, although many of the statues are free to RP with the guests. They are one of the most visible examples of organized objectification in SL, and as such are of interest to me and others who are fascinated by this area of BDSM, which is termed ODD (objectification/dehumanization/depersonalization).

Alanis Angels at the Gallery Foyer (2015)

According to Michiel Seetan, who owns the gallery with his partner Sylvia Fitzpatrick, they were approached in 2009 by someone who, along with some friends of hers, wanted to become an installation of human statues at the gallery.

The inspiration for the display was a quote from the Story of O, by Pauline Réage:

But even though they thus made use of O, and even though they used her in this way as a model, or the subject of a demonstration, not once did anyone ever speak to her directly. Was she then of stone or wax, or rather some creature from another world…

In her notice for the exhibition, Sylvia Fitzpatrick wrote that "Living Statues" is truly representative of submission, objectification, and commitment to Owner and Art.

Michiel adds that It is this statement made by the display, one which questions conventional sexual etiquette by pushing the values of D/s to their limit, that turns ‘Living Statues’ from being merely a thing of beauty into a work of Art. And it also makes it a perfect piece for Roissy because its ethic mirrors that of ‘The Story of O’.

Alanis Angel with marble skin

The exhibition was quite popular and evolved into the Alanis Angels, who became a permanent fixture in the Alanis Gallery landscape. At the beginning, they were chained to columns and wore marble skins and angel wings, but as time passed the Alanis Angels posed more and more often in their own skins, and many actively interacted with gallery guests.

Alanis Angels in central fountain with natural skins

When I asked Michiel whether there had been any public outcry to the objectificaion of people in the sim, he replied in the negative and noted that:

It's consensual and 

(a) all art involves objectification;

(b) lots of great art is about sexual objectification (for example) 

(c) many RL 'gallery artists' - such as Robert Mapplethorpe, Sam Taylor-Johnson and Nobuyoshi Araki - have specialised in sexual objectification. " 

Michiel with Alanis Angels

He ends by saying that:

What I like most about ‘Living Statues’ is that it wakens emotions that I know will be too primitive, too disturbing for some tastes. Here we have beautiful young women, totally enslaved and forced to pose whenever they are in SL for the pleasure of others. If the dark beauty of ‘Living Statues’ is not to your taste, look away. 

I should note that my personal introduction to Alanis Gallery and the Alanis Angels was sometime in January of 2013. I remember times spent sitting in the central fountain just watching and talking to the Angels up on their pedestals, and one time they even had an event where many Angels were posed on alcoves along one of the buildings. Linda, Tinka and some friends of mine like Serena were Alanis Angels at some point in their SL lives, and Linda's art is also quite visible in the gallery grounds even to this day.

Linda's statues at Alanis Gallery (2015)

Tinka in Angel outfit (2013)

Here are some more fascinating images of the Alanis Angels at Alanis Gallery of Sensual Images:

Android Client Viewer for Second Life

I talked to the lovely Tinka last week. We hadn't seen each other in SL for quite some time due to differences in our timezones, so I've always relished meeting her, even if by chance, and even though she was only present via her iphone (as was the case this time).

Although I could TP her and IM her, she said she could not see me via her phone, and most features in RLV also did not work.

This made me interested in finding out what the app was for droid phones since I use a Google Nexus 4  smartphone (and yes, I think iphones are for girls, to all those guys who still use it).

After some google searching, it turns out the best app is called Lumiya, and you can get it in the Google Play store for $2.95.

Take a look at the screenshot below. Obviously, the Lumiya app is light years better than the one for iphones.

Saying that, there seems to be reports that the roll out of server side baking has created problems for the client app, though only a few reviewers report this. Overall it gets a 4.5 out of 5 stars in the Google Play store.

I might get it anyways, just to get a first hand view of this app. Stay tuned.

New Inworld Depraved Monkey Store

Tinka and I in front of our new Depraved Monkey Store.

We finally took the jump into running an inworld store, locating it in the GreyMyst shopping mall.

The SLURL to the store is:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Greymyst%20Estates/161/94/36

Visitors to the store will find running demos of the Plumber's Pleasure, Santa's Revenge, Tusk Rituals, Fuck the Drunk Futon, and the newest not-for-sale yet DM Angel Hunt on the first floor, as well as buy posters for the smaller items in the DM inventory such as the DM Whip, DM Vibrators, and the like.

Moving to the second floor, they'll find three naughty elf and teddy bear toys from Serena's You're the One, including the naughty spanking Lecherous Leprechaun and the Master Teddy Bear.

In order to buy any item, visitors can simply right click on the relevant poster behind the demos and click BUY. A folder will appear in their inventory.

I'll be setting up the store as the landing point for people to get free gifts and join the old Monkey Elephant Group (MEG) as well.

Karada

One of the first rules I initiated when I collared Tinka was that she would wear a Karada, or rope body harness, when we were together in SL. This consists of an intricate structure of rope wound around the body in a complex web-like fashion, and I slowly developed a strong fondness for this simple yet utterly erotic outfit. Tinka would wear it by itself when we were in private, but also as an accompaniment to more traditional garments when we went out in public.

Now that I have started learning the basics of Kinbaku (or erotic rope play) as a new hobby in RL, my appreciation for the Karada has grown even stronger, and I look forward to the day when I can create complex patterns of rope on the supple and shapely canvas that is the human body.

The Hunt Color Coding System

After a bout of furious activity working on the Hunt project, we're happy to say it'll probably be released within the next week.

We also developed a rather interesting method of marking the prey in the hunt so as to better inform participants of the status of the game.

We did this by setting up a ball that would float above the head of the prey and change color as the game progresses.

A RED BALL above the prey's head signifies an inactive prey, one who has donned the Prey Mark (an attachment in the game that a prey needs to wear) but has not REGISTERED himself or herself as the designated prey

A YELLOW BALL above the prey's head signifies that the prey has registered herself as the designated prey. She can do this by simply touching the ball on her head. There can only be one designated prey per game.

A GREEN BALL above the prey's head signifies that the game has started and the prey is now  a legitimate target of the tranq gun- wielding hunters. Hunters who try to shoot the prey when she is not active will find that their gun does not respond to firing commands.

A final BLACK BALL above the prey's head signifies that this prey has been overcome and that the game is over. The name of the winner of the game (the one who scored the most hits) will be displayed as floating text above the black ball.

When this winner approaches the incapacitated prey, a leash will automatically form between the hunter and the prey which will allow the winner to drag the prey around.

At this point, we have decided not to include any other RLV to the game system.

Thanks to fetish model Tinka for the images above.

Grand Canyon

 I once visited the SL Grand Canyon awhile back...well, SL time, it was actually only last year, and did some skiing and was dutifully impressed. But I didn't know how large and cool the sim was until Tinka took me up on a balloon ride to survey the place.

A place to definitely visit in SL  especially with someone you care about.

Angel Hunt in Alanis?

Alanis Gallery has always been a favorite haunt of mine, not really for the excitement level at the place, but for the beautiful erotic artwork in the galleries. More recently, my Tinka girl became an Alanis Angel, so we both have some attachment to the place.

By chance the next product that we'll be rolling out is a Hunt system, which allows any landowner to suddenly host hunt parties for guests. No need to visit laggy sims, which are usually crawling with the dregs of SL.

The Hunt System, which is derived from one of the DM Tusk games, allows people to designate a Prey, with all the other participants being Hunters, and set a time limit for a Hunt, in which the Hunters use tranquilizer guns to try to score points off the fleeing Prey.

The system keeps tracks of the scores, and the Hunter who accumulates the most scores after the game gets to keep the prey. I might add RLV to the system such that the winning Hunter automatically gets to leash the fallen Prey.

As part of the rollout of the product, we became interested in gifting the product to Alanis Gallery and organizing Angel Hunts in the sim. Tinka and I are in the process of putting together a proposal for such a  Hunt, and I have spoken to Serena Mist of You're the One to help build a statue or similar object that is related to Angels to hold the DM Hunt system in Alanis. More updates hopefully are soon to come.

DM Tusk Ritual in Marketplace

Well, it's one day late, but as mentioned in this post, we did finish the toy and it's ready for the public here.

Enjoy! We here at the Depraved Monkey certainly enjoyed creating it for you.

Alanis Angel

Tinka became an Alanis Angel at the Alanis Art Gallery last week, and I just wanted to take a moment to congratulate my baby girl. Alanis Gallery has the best erotic art from RL in Second Life, and is justly famous for the bevy of Angels who act as Living Art for visitors to the gallery.

DM Tusk Rituals: Finished and Available May 30!

Fetish Model Tinka feels the pain of the whip

Thanks to my beautiful and sexy fetish model and photographer Tinka, without whom this product would not have been launched. All the fantastic pics here depicting various poses and animations in the DM Tusk Rituals are attributed to her. 

Some people may have wondered what happened to the very large DM Tusk project. What happened was that due to the size of the project we decided to subdivide the various Tusk functionalities into separate products.

Tinka sags against the restraints

The first of the products to roll out is called DM Tusk Rituals, which is an MLPV2-driven, menu based sex toy with many single and couple animations and poses.

I'm flying!!!!

In addition to various sex animations, the DM Tusk Rituals sex toy contains many of the couples static poses shown for the new BDSM Pussy.

Begging for air

It also contains Single Avatar Display poses, including an "Impaled" pose with blood dripping from the entrance point of the tusk.

OMG!!!!

Check out some of the animation and poses in this new DM product below, then head over to the marketplace to get your own copy.

Bad Tinka Girl gets spanked

Ready for the Dog

Uh-Oh

Upside Down Single Avatar Display

Single Avatar Impaled Display Pose

Couple Poses - The BDSM Pussy

A Mouthful of Crop

In addition to single BDSM poses that can be triggered via the menu, the BDSM Pussy will feature couple poses. During the last week, Tinka and I have been working feverishly on some of these couple poses, and the first thing we found out was that it was very hard to align two people in poses together without pre-set configurations, and this might frustrate customers.

A Petting

 The solution to the problem is to include in the BDSM Pussy product a functional MSRP2 pose toy with full dialog menu so people can easily switch between the various couple poses.

The use of poseballs of course means pre-set couple posing can only be done where the poseballs are rezzable, but the couple poses for the sub will also be included as part of the default pussy BDSM poses, which means the sub can trigger them anytime anywhere she might like.

As always, our customers get the best of both worlds.

A Petting

I've also discovered that Tinka is a very good photographer, both in SL and RL, so from now on many of the photos for the marketplace and brochures will be her work.

A Captor's Embrace

As you can see from the images in this post, all the poses are original Depraved Monkey animation, created from pictures and artwork researched by Tinka. Some are animated, some are static, but all have been crafted as lovingly as possible so that the raw eroticism and energy of the original images are fully captured in the SL poses.

A Captor's Embrace

The poses shown in this post include "A Mouthful of Crop", "A Petting" (which is an active animation), "A Captor's Embrace" and "Protected". There will be maybe four other couple poses in the final product.

A Captor's Embrace

As always, a big thank you to my girl Tinka, without whom this project would still be mired in the mushy warrens of my busy little mind.

Protected

Girl on Fire - The BDSM Pussy

Tinka - Girl on Fire

Development of the upcoming BDSM Pussy has started and the beautiful fetish model Tinka, has signed on to help in the release.The BDSM Pussy will be an upgrade to the DM Pussy, which we started selling a few months back and has already sold nearly 1000 units in that time.

Tinka is not only an experienced biker in both RL and SL, but she is also a "girl on fire", a bonafide dragon-rider in SL! She'll be modelling many of the new D/s poses that will be included in the pussy, as well as providing research support.

In addition to the multitude of features of the DM Pussy, some of the various new features of the BDSM Pussy will be as follows:

1. New Depraved Monkey original poses and other D/s poses will be integrated into the menu

2. Users will now be able to customize chats (and of course turn them off altogether if need be).

3. Original D/s sounds will be integrated into the menu, voiced by our talented voice actresses

4. An owner system and menu will be added to the pussy, which will allow primary and temporary "owners" to have various levels of control over the user's pussy.

5. Integration with a Hunt system which will allow a user to be hunted for points. The Hunt system is based on the DM Tusk Hunt Engine and will be sold separately, but the pussy will allow a user to register as the prey of as many hunters as she wants. Hunter who gets the most points after she drops gets her ;-)

We've already started on some of the D/s poses. Below are examples of some original poses made for the new BDSM Pussy, as modeled by Tinka. Click pics to get larger images.

"Offering the Crop" (Original DM Pose)

"Surrender" (Original DM Pose)

"Steady"

"Hands Open"