House of Alcott - Photocontest

Winner Announcement

 

 

The Judges have voted
and
the results are as followed:

 

First Place: Aires Hax

Second Place: Chandni Khondji

Third Place: Ash Horchester

Congratulations to all Winners!
You can see the Pictures at the Contest Winner Board Presentation.

I thank every Contestant for participating and decided that everyone who not made it up to one of the first three places will get a little gift as a personal Thank you.
Please enjoy and have a nice day,
kind regards

Cale Alcott
House of Alcott

To shave or not to shave, that's the question.

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Next To Me

Ilse Annoeska de Lange was born on May 13, 1977 in Almelo, Netherlands is a Dutch country and pop singer, better known as Ilse DeLange (American spelling).

She started her career at the age of 8 as a lip-synching artist, which won her several contests. DeLange drew greater attention after switching to a live repertoire in both regional and national talent shows in Hilversum (the Dutch city where most TV-programs are recorded). This helped her book some live-performances on national television. She formed a duo with guitarist Joop Liefland, who introduced her to country music.

In 1998 she released her first album "World of Hurt'

The Song "Next To Me" is from her brand new album “Next To Me”. The album will be released on August 27, 2010. The album was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee and contains 8 tracks.

"A tribute to my loves"
  Christo

Next To Me by Ilse DeLange

Forgive me if I seem a little careless
I’m trying, but I’m still so new to this
I’m learning that I need to
Let it, let it, let it be

I’m scared that somehow I will mess it up

That my faith in love will never be enough
But your voice picks me up and
Rescues, rescues, rescues me

And every time I try to see
I am losing sight of what is really there

I just wanna feel like a ship on the ocean
Flying like a bird, floating in the air

We don’t need to chase any destination, baby

We can end up anywhere
          
You can be the anchor that keeps me grounded
You can be my song, and my summer breeze
We don’t need to chase any destination, baby
Don’t care where we’re going
As long as you are next to me

You’re strong, it’s everything I’m leaning on
Your hands, they keep pulling me along
If you show me, I promise I am
Listening, listen, listening

Feels crazy, but I think we’re breaking ground
This love is something we have simply found
Let’s put it somewhere we can
Keep it, keep, keep it, keep it safe

‘Cause when I’m holding on too tight
I am missing out on what is really there

I just wanna feel like a ship on the ocean
Flying like a bird, floating in the air
We don’t need to chase any destination, baby
We can end up anywhere

You can be the anchor that keeps me grounded
You can be my song, and my summer breeze
We don’t need to chase any destination, baby
Don’t care where we’re going
As long as you are next to me

As long as you are next to me

As long as you are next to me

I just wanna feel like a ship on the ocean
Flying like a bird, floating in the air
We don’t need to chase any destination, baby
We can end up anywhere

You can be the anchor that keeps me grounded
You can be my song, and my summer breeze
We don’t need to chase any destination, baby
Don’t care where we’re going
As long as you are next to me

As long as you are next to me

T.R.A.C.S. Party schedule

We are back in the club and here is the agenda for the next parties.
Jenna made this wonderful advertisement.

28-08-10 Asian Party [ DJ Tim ]

04-09-10 Under the Sea Party [ DJ Tim ]

11-09-10 Mexican Party [ DJ Tim ]

18-09-10 Fairy tales Party [ DJ Jrose ]

25-09-10 Jungle Theme Party [ DJ Jrose ]

Young Male Nude Seated beside the Sea

At the Super heroes party at Sweetgrass one practically picture that Norbie placed cached my attention.

I knew this picture so I went searching in my inventory and found this one that I used sometime ago in medieval house where I lived at a Sim called San Miguel.

(Update 5 december 2011. Read the Comment )

http://www.worth1000.com/entries/236748/a-day-off

I do not know who is the artist of this work and also not know what is the original name of it.

But searching on the internet taught me that it was not the original.
The original is made by Jean Hippolyte Flandrin (1809 - 1864) Lyon - France

Study (Young Male Nude Seated beside the Sea) (French: Jeune Homme nu assis au bord de la mer, figure d'étude) is a painting by Hippolyte Flandrin executed between 1835 and 1836. Flandrin had won France's Prix de Rome in 1832, a bursary which provided the winner with a trip to Rome to concentrate on their vocation. There, Flandrin produced this study, which he sent back to Paris in 1837, in fulfillment of the bursary's requirements for the student to submit works in the tradition of various genres. In 1857, Napoleon III purchased the painting, which is now in the collection of Paris's Louvre.

The painting gained attention among contemporary French art critics, and remains one of Flandrin's best-known works, despite being produced relatively early in his career. The subject is an unidentified youth, an "ephebe" (a Greek word for an adolescent age group or a social status reserved for that age in Antiquity), who sits nude on a rock with his arms wrapped around his legs and his head resting on his knees, eyes closed. There is a sea in the background, and no distinguishable landmarks locate the figure. The enigmatic scene provides no explanation for the figure's pose: Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) commented that the young man could be shipwrecked on a deserted island, or be a shepherd who has lost his flock. Ultimately, any explanation for this scene is left to the imagination, leading to comparisons with Surrealist art in the twentieth century.

Vital to the painting's spread were reproductions based on an 1887 engraving by Jean-Baptiste Danguin that was commissioned by the state. As awareness of the work grew, the painting became an icon of homosexual culture in the 20th century, although the work would not have been intended to evoke such a theme. The scene is intimate, yet the figure is, according to one author, "self-absorbed, passive, alienated—undoubtedly contribut[ing] to the persistence of certain homophobic clichés." Photographers Marcel Moore and Claude Cahun adopted the pose in a photograph of the lesbian Cahun, c. 1911. The painting was similarly evoked in early twentieth-century art photography by F. Holland Day and Wilhelm von Gloeden, and later by Robert Mapplethorpe.

The painting and more particularly the pose of the young man has become an icon of homoeroticism, John Coulthart has compiled a collection of its various representations.

The Official Site for Art and Design
by John Coulthart.

Evolution of a icon

http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2006/02/16/evolution-of-an-icon/

and the pose archive

http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/the-recurrent-pose-archive/

Mr. T.R.A.C.S. contest. The final

Our guests arrived soon after the start of the party.

Dillon, manager of Open Minds, became Mr. T.R.A.C.S. 2010.

I have been told that some people said that it is strange that a straight guy could win a Mister contest of a gay club. We where surprised that Dillon wanted to win this contest and that he did everything he could do, to get votes. We not care if he is gay or not. He is one of the frequently visiting guests at T.R.A.C.S. and our club is free for everybody, gay or straight, male or female, human or furry. I'm just happy that not an outsider won but one of our regular guests. Congratulation, Dillon.

Dj Jrose, made a great set of song for this special party.

I did make a few snapshot of Mr. T.R.A.C.S.

but I had some rezzing problems so I did not get a clear picture.

Gladly dad, Echo Douglas, was there and he made this last picture.

One can see who the professional is and who's not.

Mr T.R.A.C.S. contest at T.R.A.C.S.