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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:
Theme was Best in Native American and was held at the Under the Arches venue at Two Moon Gardens in Second Life on Tuesday 24th March 2015 from 12pm to 2pm SL / 7pm to 9pm UK time. DJ Greywolf (aka DJ Dieter from the Purple Gator) played a mix of music that included both native American music and music by Native American groups. Elleese was hostess for the celebration and the location here: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ferndale/59/227/27
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.
Visit alpha.tribe at Klein:
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
Party was held on Tuesday 27th January 2015 at the Rhapsody in Bloom venue at Two Moon Gardens from 12pm to 2pm SLT. Theme was Best in Biker.
We'll have 1000L on the board so make sure you come and join DJ Greywolf (aka DJ Dieter) and the lovely Elleese for BEST IN JEANS here at Two Moon Gardens on Tuesday, 04 November from 12 to 2pm. Greywolf will be playing some great Country music for your enjoyment so come on over to our Meridian in Autumn Venue:
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ferndale/206/79/24
Photograph settings:
WL Sky: [TOR] MIDDAY Vintage Village
WL Water: Default
Was taken on site at Two Moon Gardens using mid afternoon setting.
Public Health and Health Services Administration Department (PHHA) Assistant Professor Stephanie Machado is photographed as a new faculty theme of "Teaching in Virtual Environments" in the studio on Thursday, September 3, 2020 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
Take a Look at our ★ AUCTION BIDDER BOARD ★ It has CANDY CHRISTMAS this week, with bids starting as low as 99L. A super garden ready for the festive season ahead, measures 32M x 32M and only 88 prims and comes with cuddle bench and skate balls. Well worth seeing so come check it out. The Bid Board is here: slurl.com/secondlife/Ferndale/139/135/24
Photograph settings are SL defaults and was taken on site using the midday setting.
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:
Hummm... Miss Daisychain seems to have gone contrast and geometric all of a sudden? Have to watch this development like a hawk folks! I mean, I need to be out-geometriced by an alt like I need a hole in the head! Granted, the overall theme of damask, which entails stylized floral patterns and the "snowdrop" hair make this one fall into Xiamara's bailiwick. But, even so... grrrrr...
This is constructed almost entirely out of basic prims and specifically out of toruses, except for the sculpty boots that is. Comes with male/female skins, garments, two sets of bloomers, bustles, arm puffs, boots, extra shoes and the above mentioned hair which is constructed out of damask patterned snowdrops.
Visit alpha.tribe at Klein:
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.
This one took a lot of planning and engineering: Alpho wanted to create something which was split right down the middle. However, needless to say, the SL avatar templates do not allow for that. So, she overcame that obstacle by builidng a transparent arm. And the problem with that is that it digs a huge big hole into your torso whenever someone looks at you from the side. So, that little problem our furry sister overcame by adding a plate to the side of the body. This is all unisex by the way and comes with male and female skins, assymetric skirts, the hybrid head complete with mohawk and whiskers, paw boots, the arm and plate and an animated solar system. ;-)
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
Party held at Meridian in Autumn venue at Two Moon Gardens on Tuesday November 4th 2014 at 12pm SLT : maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ferndale/206/79/24
I cannot believe I have the nerve to put this here!
hhh
alphaauer.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/the-chore-to-end-all-c...
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.
Friends, on Saturday 11 October at 2am SLT for one hour, The Second Life Cheerleading Squad will be holding a practice session at Two Moon Gardens! Expect to see a small squad of them at our Radiant Falls venue: slurl.com/secondlife/Ferndale/67/82/24 If you've never seen them perform don't miss this opportunity to see some of them in action.
Hanging out with all those engineers finally seems to be paying its dividends folks! These are completely accurate data-viz diagrams (which I am using with the owners permission of course. He is my brilliant student computer scientist/designer Berkay Kaya whose masters thesis in flow visualization applied to info-viz I have shamelessly pilfered to suit my own unsavoury purposes). Even the 3D excel chart hair ornament is more or less accurate!
So, who's the mostest modernist now, Msssssss Amina, huh? hhh
In addition to said excel chart you get male and female skins, suits, sneakers, page-boy hair and arm ornaments. And as a special gift I am also throwing in what is possibly the coolest hover vehicle ever made in SL: The "Hover Squiddy" by Cubey Terra, textured by yours truly.
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.
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
Theme was Best in Parties and was held at Two Moon Gardens' Majestic Falls in Winter venue in Second Life on Tuesday 16th December from 12pm to 2pm SLT with DJ Greywolf and hostess Elleese: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ferndale/52/85/26
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
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
And to think that I was always bottom of the class in Chemistry... (Math and Physics too for that matter - hhh).
The new alchemical fascilities at Syncretia. These are actually situated within a neko and furry gym that I am still working on, directly below the power plant. I have decided that I am spending way too much money on facial products. So, from this day forward I will be manufacturing my own and I will also be giving it away to my sisters (interested brothers are also highly welcome of course) in the metaverse for free. A walking, talking (not to mention writing) monument to altruism, me... hhh
Lab Equipment: Storm Thunders, Flea Bussy, Euclidean Surface, Eric Linden
Armillary Sphere: Meleni Fairymeadow
Chair: JediMa Katscher
Pointe Steampunk boots: Julia Faulkland
Teapot Hat: nox Pinion
Hair: Six Kennedy
Gym Equipment: Chase Hallard