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The Virtual Environments module, ( 1st Year FD Design for Digital Media ) - set a brief where students had to create a prototype experience based around an area from the DirectGov website . The students were advised to focus their projects on the areas of 'Environment & Greener Living' or 'Health and Wellbeing'
Health and Fitness
This prototype build, focused on creating a community based space and avatar instructor around the theme of fitness. Specifically the team recognised, the audience should be shown exercises that could be achieved at a RL office desk or computer table - using the furniture around you. Utilising your own avatar as the personal instructor to follow. This would reflect on the general situation the user would be in, when exploring SL. The wider project development- also considered a 'portable' version - that would tell people to do exercise if they've logged into SL for a long period of time.
With further development there is a potential progression with this project, and taps into the current zeitgeist of Virtual Fitness instruction but adding the benefits of an online community.
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...
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A Frigg Ragu/alpha.tribe collaboration which can also be obtained at Frigg's island "The Companion": This comes with a fur hat, fur collar, fur sleeves, belts and a skirt and there is a light and a dark version for both men and women all in the same box. Not to mention male and female AO's and two sleighs. One small one you can ride and another one for photo shoots.
Visit alpha.tribe at Klein:
Screenshots taken in virtual Amarna (Akhetaten) in the Open Sim environment developed by Heritage Key.
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Visit alpha.tribe at Klein:
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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.
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Screenshots taken in virtual Amarna (Akhetaten) in the Open Sim environment developed by Heritage Key.
Khao's tunes in Myrdin Sommer's art exhibit that is also interactive in the ruins of the ArtSpace Hangout, open:air
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
The Kushi Textures KT18 Hunt is on from May 1 - 4th at 33 stores around the grid with almost 150 hunt objects in total to be found.
Hunt prizes include gift cards, furniture, clothing, shoes, full perm textures and more.
PLUS we at Two Moon Gardens have provided 'Trellis With Roses' (includes the grass with red flowers), a very special FREE GIFT available ONLY at Kushi Textures Main store. List of all stores and gifts can be seen at www.kushitextures.com
Pick up this gorgeous gift here: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/FashionBoulevard II/162/130/22
Photograph settings are SL defaults on Ultra and was taken at Two Moon Gardens using a mid afternoon setting. A prim with a library grass texture was placed underneath the trellis and everything else in the camera view was derendered.
Our homage to Henry Gray's "The Anatomy of the Human body", 1918
Avatar: Grapho Fullstop
Environment: Alpha Auer
A super brand NEW group gift is now on the ground here at Ferndale. Come and get your copy - its called 'Rest A While'. A lovely table and two chairs with a little bit of planting in the typical TMG style you have come to love. Only 16 prims and mod/copy too!
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ferndale/101/198/26
Photograph settings are SL defaults and was taken on site at Two Moon Gardens using a late morning setting.
The description says "a dark RP sim" and that is certainly the feeling that one gets: Dark! It is really quite eerie, and as such it is hugely successful in having fulfilled its design brief: The sense of desolation that gets conveyed is really quite remarkable.
It really is one of the most atmospheric places that I have seen in Second Life.
Screenshots taken in virtual Amarna (Akhetaten) in the Open Sim environment developed by Heritage Key.
"Padded", a dark and textured outfit designed by Grapho Fullstop, consisting of many attachments for men and women.
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This is truly horrifiying. I had a really hard time doing this...
I saw the Cyborg skin on space ship designer Ichtyo Broome, but seeing it on someone else is not quite the same as putting it on yourself. I did have a sense that clothing Alpha in this skin would be a very difficult thing to do and it took me a really long time to even decide to go out and purchase the skin. But finally I did it yesterday. The bones are the bones of the whale avatar of Flea Bussy.
So, this is the end of the road for now: I have raked this as deep as I think can go at the moment without totally cracking up over it. One of my favorite writers is Mishima and what I think of as one of his best books is entitled "The Decay of the Angel". And that is what should probably be the title of these.
Mediafreaks was engaged to produce this 3D animation sequence explaining how Permasteelisa would go about building the structural and aesthetical cladding of the Supreme Court of Singapore.
Click here to see the architectural animation.
Amina is making up for all the time that I have not let her in of late. So, here she whipped out another one: This one is based on a cow pattern. Comes for both sexes. Men get a more sombre khaki, women lavender and pink. Many different skirts, belts, attachments, some hilarious cow shoes (which Amina re-textured) - all topped off with the amazing Phillips Replacement anime hair, re-textured to fit the theme.
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After a long absence we are back with "Copper Celt" designed by Grapho: The medieval armor which was largely used for the attachments is a full permissions item by Wyld Magic which Grapho has minutely re-textured as well as modified and added onto. This is a unisex outfit with skins and texture leotards for both sexes. All the attachments (and believe me there are a lot of them!) can be worn by men and women alike, although some scaling up may be called for where men are concerned. The ladies also get an extra skirt btw...
available at alpha.tribe home store at Klein:
slurl.com/secondlife/Klein/55/116/63
But also for your added convenience at the Absolutely Fabulous Mall (which is well worth a visit in itself):
slurl.com/secondlife/Lag Free/165/73/23
and the D.C. District Mall:
slurl.com/secondlife/DC District Style/117/57/21
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Every last stitch has been made by me...
The skin is a modification of Eloh Eliot's "another skin". I tattooed the face as well as the skull and parts of the body with huge red ammonites, which were created with Filter Forge.
The outfit comes with two skirts and two headdresses. The skirt and the headdress emit light, on top of which the headdresses very slowly rotate around the head.
I had a total lark doing it...
Oh and, will this be for sale? Yes, it will be - eventually... All but the skin. That one will be a gift, in the fullest respect to the actual creator, the amazing Ms. Eloh Eliot! To her I owe the inspiration (and of course the skin template to begin with - hhh)
Representations that fall into the Uncanny Valley would not necessarily have to be mechanoid - or at least that is what I would imagine. Something which is humanoid yet clearly non-human, should also qualify. It would however have to have negative subconscious associations, such as a succubus surely must have. I am reading up on my Freud to see if I can find any substantiation for this claim in what he has to say upon the subject of the Uncanny.
So meanwhile, Flea Bussy's Smoke avatar comes with an entirely different shape and skin as well as hair. I kept the bald look and adjusted all the prims to Alpha's shape and size. And also made them semi transparent. The skin is Vry Offcourse's "Frail" skin.
This one is actually called the "Smoke Incubus" at Grendel's Children. However, since Alpha is female she cannot be an Incubus, only a Succubus.
Screenshots taken in virtual Amarna (Akhetaten) in the Open Sim environment developed by Heritage Key.
Screenshots taken in virtual Amarna (Akhetaten) in the Open Sim environment developed by Heritage Key.
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
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
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
The famous Replicator avatar of Grendel's Children. I did not use one in its entirety but assembled the elements of several of them around Alpha; since in their original state these avatars diverge too far from the human and would probably fall outside the Uncanny Valley's threshold.
I have replaced the "Drow" skin with the "Forge" skin designed by Vry Offcourse. This is not really a "nude" skin in that it covers the entire body with metal plates... I think this skin does actually bring Alpha closer into the threshold range.
Screenshots taken in virtual Amarna (Akhetaten) in the Open Sim environment developed by Heritage Key.
Screenshots taken in virtual Amarna (Akhetaten) in the Open Sim environment developed by Heritage Key.
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
Representations that fall into the Uncanny Valley would not necessarily have to be mechanoid - or at least that is what I would imagine. Something which is humanoid yet clearly non-human, should also qualify. It would however have to have negative subconscious associations, such as a succubus surely must have. I am reading up on my Freud to see if I can find any substantiation for this claim in what he has to say upon the subject of the Uncanny.
So meanwhile, Flea Bussy's Smoke avatar comes with an entirely different shape and skin as well as hair. I kept the bald look and adjusted all the prims to Alpha's shape and size. And also made them semi transparent. The skin is Vry Offcourse's "Frail" skin.
This one is actually called the "Smoke Incubus" at Grendel's Children. However, since Alpha is female she cannot be an Incubus, only a Succubus.
This is an architectural presentation representing Pico's concept and vision of the China Aviation Museum 's - to be built in Beijing .
Click here to see the architectural animation.
And you can paint your place too, if you go here:
slurl.com/secondlife/LOL/147/108/22
and get the flight gizmo.
Thank you Naxos, for showing me!!!
:-)
And thank you pallina60 Loon, for providing this!
(Naturally, it all looks much better with one of Mescaline Tammas' sky presets. This is one of the London ones, always forget the number, for some reason)
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.
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Designed by Alpho Fullstop, this one 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 some original Arcadia Asylum attachments, which we completely re-textured, as a gift in a separate box to people who purchase the garment, which also has numerous attachments which we created.
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
Our homage to Henry Gray's "The Anatomy of the Human body", 1918
Avatar: Grapho Fullstop
Environment: Alpha Auer
Screenshots taken in virtual Amarna (Akhetaten) in the Open Sim environment developed by Heritage Key.
A conversation I had with Hack about SL versus RL appearance last night, plus the jealousy I exhibited over Alpha's gorgeous tresses earlier today prompted me to rummage in my inventory for clothes that are like my RL clothes. So, here's the first batch: Denim, black, combat boots - I even have a choker similar to this one that I wear occasionally... My hair is shorter, I do not normally wear this much make-up (if any at all, to be honest), and alas, no tail and cat ears/eyes either... hhhh
Sometimes the regular SL viewer beats Windlight and this is certainly one of those times: The way Synth Uni is visible in the background against the sunset is really good I think.
Neko ears and tail: Ivy Graves
Hair: Six Kennedy
Skin: Toshiya Okawa
Choker: Katati Noel
Combat Boots: DarkLour Watanabe
Denim Jacket and Jeans: Janie Marlowe
T-shirt: June Dion