Fun Times Saturday in New Toulouse 12 noon slt Big Parade! Live Music At Night!

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Karima Hoisan
Poster by Lawrence

Poster by Mr Lawrence James

Why do I love to live in New Toulouse Sl? Why did I come back? Well days like tomorrow Saturday Feb. 15th are some of the reasons why?
We are having a Big Parade tomorrow to start off the day at noon, and Creatures Great and Small is our theme. From Krakens to The Toad King and everything in between. To make sure I don’t misquote Miss Nikita Weymann, who has All the information, I will just paste it all here like she wrote it down:

Krewe Bayou Parade: A Guide for the Perplexed

WHAT: It’s a parade through the city, with self-powered participants! That means you bring and ride your own horse, bike, rollerskates, or whatever. Simply walking is fine too! More than one person can share a carriage or something. Really, it’s up to you—just please try to keep things semiplausible for the era (1900-1925).

WHEN: Krewe members should be in the city and ready by 11:30 AM SLT this Saturday, February 15, 2014. The parade kicks off at 12:00 noon and should be over by 1:00 PM.

WHERE: We’ll begin at the French Market/riverboat dock area and parade through the streets. Don’t worry—the streetcar will be taking some time off! Landmark for Parade

WHO: You, dressed to reflect this year’s theme of Wild and Wonderful Creatures! This is open to interpretation, but something about your costume (and/or choice of vehicle, if applicable) should call to mind a wild animal or a mythical beastie of some kind. Please, no particle emitters or “bead throwers”!

HOW: Everybody form up behind the band and follow it around. It should be relatively easy, since part of the band will be a monstrous trombone creature (Quiet Wonder) that can see over the tops of many of the buildings! Before the start, Quiet will also distribute parade throws for you to give out to folks along the way.

WHY: We aim to have chaotic fun in a relatively orderly fashion!

AND: You are all the royal court. Check your Krewe Bayou title dropdown to find some added options. And if you wish a specific title (Toad King and King Walksintowalls are taken), contact Niki and let her know.

ALSO: February 15 is National Hippo Day in SL. Make of that what you will.

Then after the parade and the fireworks display and people go home to take showers…
at 7pmslt , Kari’s Bar and Dance is proud to present our Live Show featuring the very popular and talented Blues virtuoso,
Jimmyt49 Dukes.

Poster by Scottius Polke

Poster by Scottius Polke

Friends and Neighbors and Strangers and Parade Revelers,
Come to this great after Valentine’s Day and after The Krewe Bayou Parade Dance with Live musician and Blues maestro JimmyT49 Dukes.
Hearts, romance, silliness, costumes, and Mardi Gras colors are encouraged. Hope to see all friends and neighbors and the public at large there Saturday Feb. 15th at 7pmslt.
After Jimmy’s set there will be Zydeco, Hud dancing, the usual Kari’s spontaneous FUN!
Don’t Miss This One!
“Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez”

Click here for a carriage to The Front Door of Kari’s

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Invitation To A Very Unique Opening~Thursday Feb.13th 2pmslt

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Karima Hoisan
Poster and Photo by Natascha Randt

Poster and Photo by Natascha Randt

Last November Nat and I were invited to participate with other machinima makers in an opening at the Artemis Gallery by Duna Gant entitled, “Regaining Freedom-The Opening” Our video, Window on a Train , was chosen as one to highlight the theme of violence against women.
Now, Thursday, February 13th at 2pmslt, there will be a new opening, something very different, and both Nat and I are extremely honored, excited, and very curious too, as we will not peek before it opens.

Poster by Natascha Randt

Poster by Natascha Randt

Artemis Gallery (GALERIE ARTEMIS) will present a 3D Art Installation by the French artist, Jadeyu Fhang, inspired by our machinima, Drink Me With Your Eyes
( INSTALATION de JADEYU FHANG inspirée à la machinima “DRINK ME WITH YOUR EYES” realisée par KARIMA HOISAN & NATASCHA RANDT)

Sooo, I invite you all to join us and see this exciting art opening in the beautiful and very prestigious European gallery Artemis Gallery (translators will be whirring)
Natascha and I feel very honored indeed, that what started off as a small, memory, turned into a poem, and then a machinima, is now being realized by a renowned  Sl artist, who will bring her interpretation of it into all of our virtual lives.  Is this not one of the best things Second Life offers to those who love to create?
Please come and enjoy this experience with us….Here is your Taxi to Artemis Gallery
 Don’t miss this one!

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When Real Life Echoes Second Life

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Karima Hoisan

Usually it is the other way around, as we in virtual worlds, build our worlds inside from our memories and experiences of the world we live in outside. I hope that makes sense:)
It is a rare treat to see that get turned around, and all of a sudden “normal Real Life” is echoing and mirroring”unreal Second Life”
This striking and evocative snow sculpture, was created by someone who had gone to my reading last Saturday in Second Life, and was inspired, after a massive snowfall, to recreate it in his front yard. It even has a name (one I did not choose of course)
It is simply called, “Karima, the Snow Poet and Her Adoring Fans.”
Peek below:)

umm I am not quite that rotund..

umm I am not quite that rotund..

Definitely got my hair down...

Definitely got my hair down…

I do beleive half of that couple in the center is "Uniqua" from "The Backyardigans"

I do believe half of that couple in the center is “Uniqua” from “The Backyardigans”

From the poet's view..a lot of faceless men in the audience..no major sports event on TV obviously...

From the poet’s view..a lot of faceless men in the audience..no major sports event on TV obviously…

mittens in muffled applause.. "Thank you all for coming to my reading..."

mittens in muffled applause.. “Thank you all for coming to my reading…”

…and to the Builders…much appreciation and smiles at your artistic recreation of my last poetry performance!!
Thank you! Thank you!
Bows and …..loses her head:)

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ReCap of The Tom Waits Show and Reading @ Kari’s Bar and Dance

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Karima Hoisan

This was a first for me. It was the first time I had ever read in my own club in New Toulouse, and combined a reading with a selected DJ session (100% Tom Waits) Thanks to Gamma and Dale I have pictures to share with all….oh and here is the recording for those of you who couldn’t make it. Recording of The Reading.mp3
There were 36+ at the reading and 42 attended in all. I had a great time, and I think all who came did too. Definitely will do this again….in a few more months! Pictures below…
Enjoy!

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“Welcome everyone…..” (photo by Dale)

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Let’s ride our glorious monster… until we all fall down.! (photo Dale)

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Remembering my Rez Day…. SLip Away (photo by Dale)

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My brother Kenneth who came from Far Away..

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Comfy patrons…

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Wurfi!! Dale and Dr. Avalon

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The Beautiful amira…(photo by Dale_)

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My partner Hoyt looking absorped..Miss Francesa looking adorable:) Kenneth looking regal

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1920’s Natskers, Dale, Wurfi, Luna…

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Sleepwalking Through Your Town

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Gorgeous Gamma and Shesa (on her tummy:) photo by Dale

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Inside the chessboard…but outside the game “From Stone”

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Luna front and center, Nat, Dale, Dr. Avalon, Aodhan, Rob Barber and date

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Warming up the DJ set…Here Comes some Pure Tom Waits….

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Our very loved and admired, The Honorable Mayor of New Toulouse, Henri Godenot

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 Beautiful Shesa and Gamma..

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Miss Francesca my neighbor and friend

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Ripped Up the rug…Let’s Dance!

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Moving To The Tom Waits Magic

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Time for  some Blues..

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Gamma caught the shadows and the mood

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Natascha Randt by Gamma and next to Gamma

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Gamma  captures me onstage

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The perfect 20’s couple G & S:)

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Love the feeling of this one too..photo by Gamma

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The Poets sway..Luna and RoseDrop

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Into the mood.. photo by Gamma

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Some residents Mr. Lawrence and Aodhan..and guests

Hope to see you all at the next one:)


 

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Satin Doll Solo

Posted on February 2, 2014 by Karima Hoisan
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Sometimes I just don’t see you...

Satin doll…smoke-filled room, eyes all over you…
feather boas, crowded ashtrays, hard wood stools and plumes,
dark brick walls behind the bar, where the trash turns smoky blue;
couples fumble vertically, up against the wall
pressing their passion under the moon’s bewitching hue.

Maybe a cello can inspire your sunrise, walking down the street
you hear the master, and his notes transport you inside, it’s so deep,
but oh my satin doll, you are so much more than that to me,
a guitar solo that cries and it makes me sigh when I can’t find you.
It makes me cry and I sing the Blues..in my lonely Club of Blues

Your perfect loving hands made just to offer and to give,
high high heels, the turn of  phrase, your look that comes up to meet my eyes..
Speak to me my satinized wrapped fantasy, oh I know you so well. I know you so well.
You are no stranger no usurper, no pretender, no come lately…
and you are only mine.

Sometimes I just don’t see you when I open up our door.
I hear, oh I hear you calling me in the passion of a riff
in that whine, in that wailing slide.
When the guitar cries and moans, I hear you but I don’t see you,
I don’t feel you, like you’re lost to me, and I don’t know..my solo cries,
“Let my fingers touch once more your satin strap, your satin skin
your soul, my satin doll……..”

Karima Hoisan
Feb. 2, 2014
Kari’s Bar and Dance, New Toulouse, SL

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Live Poetry by Karima – Tom Waits on Music…A Magical Mix! Sat. Feb.1st 2pmslt

Posted on January 29, 2014 by Karima Hoisan
Poster by Natascha Randt

Poster by Natascha Randt

I want to extend a very special invitation to my readers, neighbors, friends and those who love their poetry mixed up with an open-ended 100% (Dj’d by the poet) Set of Tom Waits tunes. If that sounds like a good idea to you, then please join me on:
When: Saturday Feb. 1st
Time: Karima is on stream from 2pmslt-2:30 ( give or take a few minutes)
            Tom Waits marathon begins right afterwards.
I will be taking requests, dedications, and reading some interesting quotes from Tom in between the music. Anyone who says stuff like this, needs to be periodically quoted:

“Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.” Tom Waits

All this will be taking place at my new-old Bar:
Kari’s Bar and Dance in New Toulouse Second Life.  Click Landmark

If you enjoy what I do, or haven’t heard me yet and are curious to see/ or if you just love Tom Waits and want to hear this tribute to his music;
JOIN US! Saturday Feb. 1st 2pmslt

20’s dress always greatly admired but not mandatory….Just Come!

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The Pale

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Karima Hoisan
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in my dreams…

I want to call the dead back to life.
In the hugeness of data…somewhere they must be found,
And attract all of those souls by changing energy
Reassembling them in my dreams…in my dreams.

I want to shake the living that wear-out their shrouds
Years before they’re needed; who walk so sadly through the night
More dead than alive. When I watch them, I know love kills as well as revives.
I will put them back together, in my dreams…in my dreams.

I don’t have time for those lectures and really neither do they.
Time, when you are waiting, makes a minute seem a day.
What power do we have to change the currents anyway?
It’s all death, those still walking and those who’ve been laid away.

I wish that hope came in green bottles, and you would drink with me
We could promenade the midnights until you believed;
That around a corner, instead of tears, or a tomb, was your better destiny
and I would be the witness that love found you, in my dreams…in my dreams.

The dead can walk and talk and haunt, we all know some who do.
They come to leave us messages and pound to get in before the sun is up.
We cry for them and with them, and drink their hopeless cup,
But when I open up the door, I see them smiling, in my dreams…in my dreams.

Karima Hoisan
January 28th 2014
New Toulouse, SL

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You Have GOT To See This!!

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Karima Hoisan
Come See It Before it Ends!

Come See It Before it Ends! Last day January 31st

I know. I know…I talk a lot about Natascha Randt in my blog! Usually it is because we have just made another movie together, but sometimes, like today, it’s just to invite you to share in her wonderful creative gift and her collector’s passion in Second Life.
I wrote a post way back when (digs it up from 2012) “Just Say Yes! pt2”  about Nat being a total “Transportation Queen,” and since then, I am sure she has doubled her collection of boats, planes, land vehicles, helicopters, you name it. If it moves, Nat has it.
Sooo, when The Linden Endowment for The Arts (LEA) was looking for a worthy recipient of a full sim for a month, Nat was chosen, and she wasted no time setting up her amazing exhibition. I have decided to not include the videos or photos, Nat has been making about it, to entice you to come personally and see her beautifully laid out and unique collection of transport. Her first love is aviation, and her airport has a tower to explore, and so many planes and helicopters, it will make your head spin. She dedicated the whole show to her good friend and fellow aviator, Walt Faulds, who passed away last year.
It is a stunning tribute both to him and to SL Aviation, the designers and builders of things we fly and float and ride. There is a temp rez where you can rez your own vehicle and take a spin over the drawbridge, down the highway,or take off on the runway.
Here is your safe taxi to get you to the airport on time:
Nat’s LEA 15
Thank you Nat for sharing this passion with us all!!
Avies! Come see it before it ends.

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Like Old Times….But Even Better!! Kari’s Bar and Dance Reopens!

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Karima Hoisan

Friday January 17th, my little club, Kari’s Bar and Dance, had its reopening..and my oh my what a reopening it was!! I am going to let the video and pictures speak for themselves.
Thank you Nat and Dale for having the energy (and graphics) to take pictures!
There were 59 avatars grooving to the amazing Tukso Okey, who so generously kept going and going (another 40 minutes) even after time was up. Tukso was  totally inspired and inspiring and it was one of those new times, that can remind you of the good old ones:)

Tukso Okey

Tukso Okey

 

Thank you Tukso for sharing your amazing talent with us all. Thanks to all who came, and to those who could not, we missed you. Thank you to everyone who was so generous and supportive of the venue. Thank you Monsieur Marcel Touissant for doing your very special blessing for the club. It really seemed to work! 🙂
Thank you Nat for this cameo of the party below. New Toulouse, we are back in business!  You all come visit soon.

and now..lots and lots of great pictures. These come from Dale:

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Gorgeous Gamma & Shesa

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A tall drink of water..Miss Gish

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and Tukso was Inspired!!

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Menubar!!

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The otter  Scottius and the filmmaker Nat

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Daxx & Joshua

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Dale and Luna front and center

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Smoking allowed

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Our Honorable and Fun Mayor Mr. Henri Godenot

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He stands proudly seeing how well his sim performed with almost 60 guests

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Tukso Tukso Tukso

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Magic!

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My Sister Suze made a surprise landing at the end! Dale and I still moving at the end..

These are Nat’s great shots!! Thank you Nat for taking these:

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Sir Mac and Tita with the chorus line behind

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Monsieur Toussaint bringing in the good vibes

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Luna joining in

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and the line grows..

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Top hats were in…

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Miss Natskers

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Speech time

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 and they kept coming and coming…

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Tukso …we LOVE you!!

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The odd but very cute couple

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Rosi Miss Kari and Miss Dale and Luna

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Gorgeous Gamma!

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Shesa In the Shadows……beautiful (above)

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I would recognize that a…..ah blue hair anywhere Miss Rosi!

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Gorgeous ladies..

Whew!
Here is your cab ride to the front door: Kar’s Bar and Dance New Toulouse SL

 

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Tukso Okey @ Kari’s Bar and Dance~ Grand Reopening! Jan. 17th 9pmslt

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Karima Hoisan
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Poster by Scottius Polke – Orginal Tukso Poster by Menubar Memorial (tweaked by Padula Bing:)

If memory serves me well, it was the very same musical genius, Tukso Okey, who played the last Live show at my bar in March of 2010, Sooo……it’s very fitting that he will be the first to play for the reopening on Friday, January 17th, 9pmslt.
Kari’s Bar and Dance reopens in the pre-Mardi Gras mood, and I cordially invite you all to join us and have some fun getting into theme too. Kari’s is loosely set in the 1920’s-30s of  New Orleans. I say loosely, because the music of Tom Waits can be heard blaring from the porches. There are no RP police in New Toulouse, so you can come as you are, but if you feel in the mood, dress up in style and enjoy an hour of the amazing Tukso Okey, “Groove Master” Exceptional, and get in the groove with us all.
Here are some many posts, videos, and pictures I have blogged about Tukso in the last 3 or 4 years. Take a peek at a few:
Tukso on Rez Day Video “Flux Capacitor” Karima & Tukso   Train Ride Down Video   Why I Stay Up Too Late  Tukso & The Mistaken Paparrazi  Tukso Tukso Tukso!

“Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez”
And here is your swift transport to put you right inside Kari’s Bar and Dance:
Landmark to Kari’s
Hope to see you all there on this Friday at 9pmslt! It’s going to be a good time for ALL!

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