Art Ideas! Parties, Galleries, Museums & Districts
Thinking about new kinds of parties, I was reminded of this old wish of @tis's - a party that's essentially a blank slate with floaty gravity and items "stick" where you drop them so you could build big art projects. I still think that's a cool idea! And I think you could get some neat variation in party styles which give you different backgrounds to work with. It would also be cool to have a "viewing gallery" area that party artists can invite guests to where they are cordoned off and can't pick up any of the dropped items outside the viewing area.
But what I think would be extra neat is if when you are finished, you can "save" the scaled-down artwork as a furniture "wall decoration" item! Maybe you can choose the final size.
You could also introduce a new item: the ViewMaster, which allows you to view slides of the final creations of past art projects (not sure about how they'd work yet), and share them with others, hopefully.
But what I think would be extra neat is if when you are finished, you can "save" the scaled-down artwork as a furniture "wall decoration" item! Maybe you can choose the final size.
You could also introduce a new item: the ViewMaster, which allows you to view slides of the final creations of past art projects (not sure about how they'd work yet), and share them with others, hopefully.
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I was just thinking about that I wanted an "art district " somewhere in game , like a whole street with buildings, with actual art museums/galleries , where our frabjous artists could do installations. Should I make a new thread to talk about art galleries/museums Or just continue here ?? I really like art project parties idea as a collaborative art effort , and the museums and galleries as more an artist to share their art in a public venue. I can remember having a list of "artists" that I wanted to go visit their towers to see what they were creating lately, but it got complicated to change from home street to home street to see the artists work.
I love that idea btw - it could be a thing that happens in the city of Abbasid, maybe ... the only concern is the typical one about scaleability, and that there would need to be a way to cycle installations? Or maybe the public and vote to keep an installation past an initial period?
Perhaps Galleries could be weekly ( real world time) ,that any player can submit their own artwork or nominate another players artwork to be displayed in the gallery. ( I saw entirely too modest artists ,who wouldnt have attracted attention to their own art, so i'd have happily nominated them!) I am thinking to simplify, it would be a snap of the art (as some art would be exceptionally difficult to re-create) would go in the FORUMS . A snap would also allow for submissions of art that were done on a tower wall, house wall, or "on a street" ( remember the toilet ,made of cubimals , on the flush street? ) or other locale in world . (I just think requiring the art to be "visitable" might be a bit restrictive) . Maybe make a category for snaps as art as well. ( several people were really good at capturing lovely snaps!) ( on a separate note , I'd love a parade of homes too,for home decorating, via snaps, will make separate thread) . Not sure how to be scaleable... maybe do submissions in the forums per week, people vote with lobe, and the top 5 or 10 snaps of art,per category go to the in game building, the Gallery. Then the voting starts again , in game at the Gallery, players must go to gallery building to vote for your top 1 in each category. The number 1 winners are then put on display in the building, the Museum , until the next round.
Maybe TWO museums , 1 for player art that is outlined above.
And a separate museum for solicited entries on a theme , like maybe weekly or monthly have a specific theme: like ice sculpture, still life, wildlife, religious ( like say you made an art picture of a giant tree to represent spriggan), joy ( what art would you do to represent "joy" ) , etc.
OR just have a separate category that is " specific theme for the month " entries . and skip a second museum ( too confusing/) .
So you'd have the system outlined above, and the categories could be :
1) Snaps of Ur ( just for pretty snaps) 2) snaps of physical art that is created 3) snaps of art that are based on monthly theme. Thoughts ?