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The new annex to Syncretia is almost all underwater. I have not yet started to really build it but I did make a free avatar for visitors. For men and women, pink for women, blue for men - so, call me sexist and stereotypical! The mohawks in all of these photos are, of course, by none other than the amazing Helena Stringer! And the school of fishes by Arcadia Asylum.
Visit alpha.tribe at Klein:
slurl.com/secondlife/Klein/55/116/63
Note: I took these photos underwater at Poetik Velvets, which to my mind is one of the most amazing terraforming/ground texturing jobs I have ever beheld in SL. So, tribute is definitely due to Hern Worsley.
The new annex to Syncretia is almost all underwater. I have not yet started to really build it but I did make a free avatar for visitors. For men and women, pink for women, blue for men - so, call me sexist and stereotypical! The mohawks in all of these photos are, of course, by none other than the amazing Helena Stringer! And the school of fishes by Arcadia Asylum.
Visit alpha.tribe at Klein:
slurl.com/secondlife/Klein/55/116/63
Note: I took these photos underwater at Poetik Velvets, which to my mind is one of the most amazing terraforming/ground texturing jobs I have ever beheld in SL. So, tribute is definitely due to Hern Worsley.
I actually took these photos of Steampunk Alpha a while ago.
I have been agonizing over a paper I am meant to be writing and suddenly these gave me an inspiration: I shall write about avatars and the Uncanny Valley...
Skin: Vry Offcourse
Steampunk arms and legs: Lucia Cyr
Hair: Six Kennedy
Steampunk boots: Thomus Keen
Top: Devyn Grimm
Jeans: Rebel Hope
The new annex to Syncretia is almost all underwater. I have not yet started to really build it but I did make a free avatar for visitors. For men and women, pink for women, blue for men - so, call me sexist and stereotypical! The mohawks in all of these photos are, of course, by none other than the amazing Helena Stringer! And the school of fishes by Arcadia Asylum.
Visit alpha.tribe at Klein:
slurl.com/secondlife/Klein/55/116/63
Note: I took these photos underwater at Poetik Velvets, which to my mind is one of the most amazing terraforming/ground texturing jobs I have ever beheld in SL. So, tribute is definitely due to Hern Worsley.
Really and truly no comment! For once I am completely gobsmacked...
The Cortech Brain Jar: Total Chastity
Troublemaker belt: Minde Mills
Izumo Pipe: Peel Bearcat
Top: Mistress Midnight
Jeans: Cobalt Neutra
I am soooo totally beyond proud of myself: Ichtyo Broome is a really spectacular spacecraft designer. Apparently he knows wolfie through the aviation circles in Second Life and saw my S+R uniform on him. The other week he contacted me and gave me an order to design a spacesuit for him. Given what a remarkeble designer he is himself, I am tickled pink by this compliment to my design skills. And he made me a wonderful deal on top of the compliment: I get paid quite a nice chunk of L$'s AND on top of that he will give me 5 of his gorgeous space ship. Needless to say, I will be sharing these with my avatar family: Hack gets one, wolfie gets one, Mossy gets one and new friend, lovely Tschoanna gets one also since she too is a kick-ass pilot (unlike me... *sigh*)
So, tonight I had an in-world business meeting with my wonderful client Mr. Broome...
First we went to a cybersuit shop, so that he could show me what he had in mind...
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/alphatribe/74/119/23
There is now also a documentation site in progress here:
Rachel Ruysch was one of just 3 professional female painters in 18th century Holland. The daughter of a botanical illustrator, she painted flowers. This dark, unisex, historically inspired outfit is a homage to her work.
Comes with a very ornate male/female skin, darkly ornate garments, a shawl, spearate hats for men and women (the female version also has a veil), hair, skirt/belt, pearl upper arm ornaments which attempt to capture some of what people used to wear in that period, sleeves, pantaloons and boots.
Visit alpha.tribe at Klein:
Assassin's Creed Origins is a game published by Ubisoft. This image is taken with the in-game photo mode. I use an X-box controller connected to my PC and access the photo mode by pressing F3.
The new annex to Syncretia is almost all underwater. I have not yet started to really build it but I did make a free avatar for visitors. For men and women, pink for women, blue for men - so, call me sexist and stereotypical! The mohawks in all of these photos are, of course, by none other than the amazing Helena Stringer! And the school of fishes by Arcadia Asylum.
Visit alpha.tribe at Klein:
slurl.com/secondlife/Klein/55/116/63
Note: I took these photos underwater at Poetik Velvets, which to my mind is one of the most amazing terraforming/ground texturing jobs I have ever beheld in SL. So, tribute is definitely due to Hern Worsley.
Again, the Grendel's avatar is called incubus, which does not apply to a female, so Alpha is now the Fog Succubus. This time I colored the originally white prims to black and made them shiny. The skin is the grey version of the Frail skin by Vry Offcourse.
This one has ended up becoming more ominous, although for some strange reason I find the all white smoke succubus more unsettling. But, one way or another, although I enjoy taking these photos, I am feeling very alienated from Alpha as I do it. For the first time since I met her she is no longer a Simulacrum - I can not relate to her or to how she looks. AT ALL!
This one took a long time coming. It is the sister outfit of one called "My name is Black" which Grapho made quite some time ago. It is a challenge when you base a garment on as spectacular a book as "My name is Red" by Orhan Pamuk is. The story evolves around a murder mystery involving a group of calligraphers in 16th century Istanbul. And so, Xia based the garment on Ottoman ornamentations and (predictably enough) the color red.
This is unisex and has a huge turban (well, sort of ;-) festooned with pennants, harem boots, arm and leg attachments and male and female belts.
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Assassin's Creed Origins is a game published by Ubisoft. This image is taken with the in-game photo mode. I use an X-box controller connected to my PC and access the photo mode by pressing F3.
Alpho has decided to join the living - and about time too!
When she saw me playing around with some of Arcadia Asylum's original hobo diving suit prims she practically tore them out of my hands and told me point blank that this type of stuff was her department! The outcome is a historical diver's suit (hence the somewhat corny name of "Jules Verne")/cum hybrid creature for men and women, complete with neko and non-neko helmets, fins, oxygen tanks and a school of very funny fish to follow you around in your travels. We are giving away the original Arcadia Asylum attachments, which we completely re-textured, for free together with the outfit in a separate box. The garment still has numerous attachments which we created however...
Visit alpha.tribe at Klein:
Lots of very similar shots here. More for my benefit than anyone else's obviously.
The outfit comes with two skins, both Drow themed - one dark and one lighter, both with seashell tattoos; two vests, a somewhat sexy jumpsuit ;-), spur boots, the tentacled glow hair and of course the tentacled seashell train.
It took me a very long time to work this one out. Attaching sleeves to the vest alone took me the better part of an afternoon...
The hair is a heavily reworked Philips Replacement full perm object. Similarly, the shoes and the sculpty vest are reworked full perm items created by others. I have used eyes by AlterEgoTrip Svenska, who makes some of the most expressive eyes on the grid I think.
Once again, the entire outfit is skin based - and the skin is yet another skin modification based upon Eloh Eliot's templates.
For men and women, this is an avatar inspired by Native American petroglyphs. There are 3 skins, ranging from a very abstract and geometric one to one where the tattoos are in fact Native American symbols. Outside of the three skins there is a bodysuit for ladies and one for the gents, a very elaborate torso attachment made out of thin loops to which I have attached rocks, two more for the upper legs, a rotating "rock" headdress and some rather silly "rock" slippers.
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... as any decent pedagogical work will immediately and relentlessly tell you. So, I am extremely pleased to be able to say that this hitherto missing condition in my life has been rectified by a recent offer made to me by Bettina Tizzy. I am to be meaningfully employed as one of the guest writers of the NPIRL blog!
My initial assignment was a review of the Konica Minolta sims. So, first taking the opportunity for some shopping (as any woman endowed with any kind of common sense would, of course!) in order to kit myself as out as a journalist, I then set off for the isles. Initially I wanted to get a Safari hat for protection against the tropical conditions down there but in the end the Teddybear hat won the day. I am also toting two notepads (terribly forgetful I can be sometimes, so I decided to err on the side of caution - hh). So, one notepad on my belt and one on my arm. The steampunk goggles are for protection against the glaring sunlight and also come in very handy as an instant zooming aid. And of course I have my hunter boots on, complete with an extra pack of cigarettes, a knife and a couple of hand grenades. I mean, you never really know what you will encounter in these strange new lands do you?
I must admit to the fact that I have raked the poor gentlemen from Konica Minolta over the coals just a tad - but I do take my job very seriously, you know. So, no puff pieces please:
npirl.blogspot.com/2008/05/archipelago-of-konica-minolta....
But all kidding aside, I am really very proud and happy to be part of the NPIRL blog. And seeing this published the other day gave me a thrill exactly like the one that I had when my first paper was accepted at Siggraph some years ago!
Notepad belt and arm cuff: Mehliii Lane
Hair: Sunnivah Jiutai
Teddybear hat and steampunk goggles: Waghorne Truss
Hunter boots: Emily Lelouch
Shirt and top: June Dion
Jeans: Rebel Hope
Skin: Cory Edo
Had a bit of a Eureka moment tonight, during which I discovered "the beard". Or rather stubble. teeee heee...
The reason that all the male skins that we have been putting out there have been as clean shaven as eggs was basically due to the fact that try as we might we could not accomplish making good facial hair in photoshop! I cannot begin to tell you the days and hours spent and the frustration involved. However, try as we might, we just could not pull it off! Which was a huge disappointment: You see, I rather like stubble!
And then tonight as I was trawling the internet, as one does, I came upon "facial hair" photoshop brushes created by a Mr. David Nagel! Now, I had tried brushes before but the results had kind of looked like as if the poor guy had a really bad case of the mange, or all his facial hair was growing in one direction, or it was too curly, too this too that... Never really right!
Well, our beard troubles have now been laid to rest! As of today, every male alpha.tribe creation will have stubble folks! However, this does open up a new can of worms also, of course: We are now gonna have to go back and stubble up all previous male skins as well.
For men and women, this is an avatar inspired by Native American petroglyphs. There are 3 skins, ranging from a very abstract and geometric one to one where the tattoos are in fact Native American symbols. Outside of the three skins there is a bodysuit for ladies and one for the gents, a very elaborate torso attachment made out of thin loops to which I have attached rocks, two more for the upper legs, a rotating "rock" headdress and some rather silly "rock" slippers.
Visit alpha.tribe at Klein:
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/alphatribe/74/119/23
There is now also a documentation site in progress here:
I met Jeanni Nishi on Flickr, through a very nice and supportive comment that she wrote for the Uncanny Valley set, in which she expressed an interest in the whole process. As time went on she and I began to correspond and she let me know at some point that she had designed an "uncanny" skin and showed me the pictures she had posted here on Flickr. Then she wanted to know if I would be interested in trying out the skin to which I gave a yelp of joy in response. The skin duly arrived in SL. So, here it is:
Alpha is crying... Crying helplessly, silently, in resignation. This is the closest that I have ever felt to Alpha, the most that I have ever identified with her avatar pain... Jeanni thank you. You have made Alpha come alive for me, like never ever before.
And also my apologies Jeanni: I do realize that the skin needs to be worn fully naked since it covers the body in such a way that the whole thing creates a really gorgeous continuity. However, here is the thing: Despite my loud mouthed demeanor, when all is said done, I am actually a bit of a prude... In any case, I wore a corset that I hope goes with the skin.
Crying Cyborg Skin and Glow Hair: Eloh Eliot/Jeanni Nishi
Tail: Jaquline Swain
Boots: Julia Faulkland
Corset: Devyn Grimm
Alpha Sea is the name of a second island attached to ShapeShifter at NGrid on the OpenSim. Its fauna is comprised of gargoyles, imps and dragons who are all awaiting their visitors...
hg.ngrid.org:8002:ShapeShifter
This one is a mixture of the geometric and the tribal. Again, this is an outfit to be worn with a special skin, a dark drow skin with blue geometric tattoos scattered onto the cheeks, skull, buttocks and hands, legs and feet. This one has a tiny leotard which exposes strips of the derriere in such a way that the underlying tattoos are revealed. A pair of hunter boots were modified to create the boots with the prim cuffs. The hair is made out of hair-pipes which culminate in spheres at either tip - blue for the skull end, hair for the outer end.The ensemble is completed by a huge prim Elizabethan collar and hip floaters made up of tiny blue segmented cubes and spheres.
NEW FOR WINTER - CHRISTMAS KISSES - ONLY 199L
This stunning new garden with Kissing Under An Archway couples animation is perfect for those Christmas and New Year Romantic moments. At only 10m x 10m and 29 prims and mod/copy, this will fit any garden no matter how small. Gorgeous snow covered trees, pretty grasses, that all important mistletoe over head and to add that extra touch - on/off fireworks! See it here:http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ferndale/88/121/24
Photograph settings are SL defaults and was taken on site at Two Moon Gardens using a mid-morning setting. Surface patch and water were derendered and a prim with a library snow texture placed underneath the garden.
I met Jeanni Nishi on Flickr, through a very nice and supportive comment that she wrote for the Uncanny Valley set, in which she expressed an interest in the whole process. As time went on she and I began to correspond and she let me know at some point that she had designed an "uncanny" skin and showed me the pictures she had posted here on Flickr. Then she wanted to know if I would be interested in trying out the skin to which I gave a yelp of joy in response. The skin duly arrived in SL. So, here it is:
Alpha is crying... Crying helplessly, silently, in resignation. This is the closest that I have ever felt to Alpha, the most that I have ever identified with her avatar pain... Jeanni thank you. You have made Alpha come alive for me, like never ever before.
And also my apologies Jeanni: I do realize that the skin needs to be worn fully naked since it covers the body in such a way that the whole thing creates a really gorgeous continuity. However, here is the thing: Despite my loud mouthed demeanor, when all is said done, I am actually a bit of a prude... In any case, I wore a corset that I hope goes with the skin.
Crying Cyborg Skin and Glow Hair: Eloh Eliot/Jeanni Nishi
Tail: Jaquline Swain
Boots: Julia Faulkland
Corset: Devyn Grimm
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/alphatribe/74/119/23
There is also now a documentation site in progress here:
alphatribe2015.wordpress.com/
Lots of very similar shots here. More for my benefit than anyone else's obviously.
The outfit comes with two skins, both Drow themed - one dark and one lighter, both with seashell tattoos; two vests, a somewhat sexy jumpsuit ;-), spur boots, the tentacled glow hair and of course the tentacled seashell train.
It took me a very long time to work this one out. Attaching sleeves to the vest alone took me the better part of an afternoon...
The hair is a heavily reworked Philips Replacement full perm object. Similarly, the shoes and the sculpty vest are reworked full perm items created by others. I have used eyes by AlterEgoTrip Svenska, who makes some of the most expressive eyes on the grid I think.
Once again, the entire outfit is skin based - and the skin is yet another skin modification based upon Eloh Eliot's templates.
Really and truly no comment! For once I am completely gobsmacked...
The Cortech Brain Jar: Total Chastity
Troublemaker belt: Minde Mills
Izumo Pipe: Peel Bearcat
Top: Mistress Midnight
Jeans: Cobalt Neutra
Had a bit of a Eureka moment tonight, during which I discovered "the beard". Or rather stubble. teeee heee...
The reason that all the male skins that we have been putting out there have been as clean shaven as eggs was basically due to the fact that try as we might we could not accomplish making good facial hair in photoshop! I cannot begin to tell you the days and hours spent and the frustration involved. However, try as we might, we just could not pull it off! Which was a huge disappointment: You see, I rather like stubble!
And then tonight as I was trawling the internet, as one does, I came upon "facial hair" photoshop brushes created by a Mr. David Nagel! Now, I had tried brushes before but the results had kind of looked like as if the poor guy had a really bad case of the mange, or all his facial hair was growing in one direction, or it was too curly, too this too that... Never really right!
Well, our beard troubles have now been laid to rest! As of today, every male alpha.tribe creation will have stubble folks! However, this does open up a new can of worms also, of course:
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We are outed!
Thanks to a wonderful blog post by Helena Stringer more and more people seem to be finding their way to our shop alpha.tribe. So, really no point in keeping this a secret any longer, here is the slurl:
slurl.com/secondlife/Klein/55/116/63
We still have a ways to go, with not an awful lot of merchandise in evidence, which was the reason for not going public until now...
Xia has created 3 skin based outfits which are loosely inspired by Henri Rousseau's paintings (or so she insists - but you know Xia). For one of them she has created a custom headpiece but for the others she recommends Helena Stringer's amazing mohawk Thunderdrome, to be found amongst the texture testers at her store, the Mausoleum:
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/alphatribe/74/119/23
There is now also a documentation site in progress here:
Alpho has decided to join the living - and about time too!
When she saw me playing around with some of Arcadia Asylum's original hobo diving suit prims she practically tore them out of my hands and told me point blank that this type of stuff was her department! The outcome is a historical diver's suit (hence the somewhat corny name of "Jules Verne")/cum hybrid creature for men and women, complete with neko and non-neko helmets, fins, oxygen tanks and a school of very funny fish to follow you around in your travels. We are giving away the original Arcadia Asylum attachments, which we completely re-textured, for free together with the outfit in a separate box. The garment still has numerous attachments which we created however...
Visit alpha.tribe at Klein:
For some unknown reason I have always been fascinated by old sea disaster paintings. So, Amina, who is the one best suited to the task at hand will be creating a series of these avatars which I then intend to use for constructing "genre photographs". hhh...
This comes with male/female skins where you get the disaster on your tummy (ouch!), garments, a sculpted body drape, leg drapes, belt/skirt, a bandana and shoes.
Visit alpha.tribe at Klein:
For some unknown reason I have always been fascinated by old sea disaster paintings. So, Amina, who is the one best suited to the task at hand will be creating a series of these avatars which I then intend to use for constructing "genre photographs". hhh...
This comes with male/female skins where you get the disaster on your tummy (ouch!), garments, a sculpted body drape, leg drapes, belt/skirt, a bandana and shoes.
Visit alpha.tribe at Klein:
*** We now have some super NEW hanging baskets for Autumn - please NOTE these are MOD/TRANSFER - they are NOT copyable. Priced at 125L each - to buy click on the baskets. Ideal for gifts.
Also now available are Halloween Goodies - TRANSFER ONLY - Price per Box is 150L - box contains, pumpkin patch, pumpkins, sacks and decorative basket: slurl.com/secondlife/Ferndale/94/129/25
(summer pot plants now in Greenhouse - slurl.com/secondlife/Ferndale/194/61/1203)
Photograph settings:
SL defaults and was taken just after sunrise.
Surface patch was also de-rendered.
Lots of very similar shots here. More for my benefit than anyone else's obviously.
The outfit comes with two skins, both Drow themed - one dark and one lighter, both with seashell tattoos; two vests, a somewhat sexy jumpsuit ;-), spur boots, the tentacled glow hair and of course the tentacled seashell train.
It took me a very long time to work this one out. Attaching sleeves to the vest alone took me the better part of an afternoon...
The hair is a heavily reworked Philips Replacement full perm object. Similarly, the shoes and the sculpty vest are reworked full perm items created by others. I have used eyes by AlterEgoTrip Svenska, who makes some of the most expressive eyes on the grid I think.
Once again, the entire outfit is skin based - and the skin is yet another skin modification based upon Eloh Eliot's templates.
First off: What a JOY it was to take these photos! In the usual run of things I loathe photographing the outfits. Things took a dramatic turn for the better when Frigg Ragu gave me an unbelievable present in the shape of her poses. And what beauties they are: No weird deformations on the avatar structure, no funny angles jutting out where there shouldn't be any. And beautiful, fluid body language on top of technical expertise! Thank you sooooooo much Frigg! You literally made my day!
This one here is a bit of a change of pace. What with summer in RL and all that, we have been doing quite a bit of naughty stuff of late with only prims and little bits and bobs barely concealing the parts which need to be concealed on a virtual body to allow one to enter even a mature sim these days.
So, for all those bashful avatars out there, here is one which is well covered indeed. The "manbo!" sailor takes its name from an amazing animated attachment of that name created by a most generous soul named Gonzo Shan. I have put the maracas that will let you "manbo!" as an extra little gift into the box which also includes male/female skins, garments, a naval collar and cap, upper and lower "manbo" sleeves and bottom flares, boots, a skirt for the ladies and some rotating naval pennants for ladies and gentlemen. The hair is by none other than the amazing Bryce Tully who is THE hair designer to go to if you want really natural looking ultra short hair in Second Life.
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This garment is a tribute to Redouté's beautiful Rosa Indica drawing:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Redout%c3%a9
The outfit comes with two skins, one of which is quite wild in that the roses cover the eyes and lips, creating an almost scary feel. The other skin is far more flattering. There is a black and a white version to the garment, which comes with arm attached rose particle emitters, a mohawk, skirts, sculpty pumps and sheer stockings.
Available at alpha.tribe's home store at Klein:
slurl.com/secondlife/Klein/55/116/63
Also at the Absolutely Fabulous Mall:
slurl.com/secondlife/Lag Free/165/73/23