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Theme was Best in Black to a recording a live Adele concert. Was held at Two Moon Gardens' Majestic Falls in Bloom venue on Tuesday, 5th May 2015 from 12pm to 2pm SL / 8pm to 10pm UK with British voice DJ Greywolf (aka DJ Dieter at the Purple Gator) and hostess Elleese (an assistant manager at TMG): maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ferndale/40/79/26
Computer Science (CSCI) Associate Professor Samuel Siewert is photographed as a new faculty theme of "Teaching in Virtual Environments" in the studio on Friday, August 28, 2020 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
Theme was Best in Easter and was held at Two Moon Gardens' Majestic Falls in Bloom venue on Tuesday, 31st March 2015 from 12pm to 2pm SLT with DJ Greywolf and hostess Elleese: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ferndale/40/79/26
The Centre for Information Literacy Research, in the Department of Information Studies at the University of Sheffield. This particular facility is hosted, in SL, on Eduserv Island.
This newest by Xiamara has more spikes than a porcupine! The whole outfit came out of Xia (as usual) grabbing an opportunity to get up my nose: I was mouthing off to Bettina Tizzy about how I loathed brown to the extent where I did not even have a single brown garment in my RL closet, when she turned around and made this: A brown as brown can be outfit for men and women!
The garment takes its somewhat high falutin' name from the fact that all the textural elements used are art nouveau/seccesionist ornaments. And Xia insists that this is a floral outfit and I have to say that I can not disagree with her. Who said flowers were these cute little innocent things anyway? They can be soooo spikey...
Heartfelt thanks go to Truthseeker Young who gave us a set of amazing prim attachments which we have agreed to put to good use in a collaborative project in the near future. However, Xiamara could not resist utilizing the belt for this garment as well.
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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.
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!
I add the clockwork skin created by Pandora Wrigglesworth to the steampunk arms and legs and remove the hair and ears. Now, I think, Alpha is closer to the Valley.
There definitely has to be something to this theory: I do not feel good subjecting Alpha to all of this and the subtle shifts from human to only peripherally human make me feel decidedly uncomfortable.
Skin: Pandora Wrigglesworth
Cyborg attachments: Lucia Cyr
This is the outfit that had Mossy slap his thighs in sheer merriment yesterday!
OK, Chanel it ain't - but then I am not exactly a Chanel kinda gal either, am I? I do not think that I will be riding in planes and trucks dressed up like this, but I really think it is gorgeous anyway...
Hair: Disembodied Hand
Skin: Toshiya Okawa
Horns: Memnoch Matzerath (Grendel's Children)
Cloak: Vas Legend (Angry Monkey)
Boots: Akira Dulce
Avatars – can there be any doubt that we are the vainest of all creatures?
See them all together here:
alphatribe2015.wordpress.com/fools-fops-and-fribbles/
And, of course, the outfits featured in these shots are available at the alpha.tribe store:
An unexpected Sunday morning delight: Bett had just been telling me about Eshi Otawara's building frenzy at Dirk Talamasca's sim Desperado. Apparently she has been rebuilding the sim every night. Just having returned I missed some great stuff obviously. However, this morning she invited us NPIRL'ers over to take a look. And here it is folks! WOW, right?
A super brand NEW garden 'CHERISHED' is here just in time for Valentine's Day. This pretty short path with arching blossom trees has a number of animations for that special day. Under the trees you will find poseballs for kissing. To the right side of the entrance is a log with sits and cuddles and on the left side a log with marriage proposal animations and if that was not enough a Fireworks Vase is included too! Please note the proposal log can be removed if wished. Main elements are mod/copy and only 299L (Fireworks copy only)! See it here: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ferndale/127/159/24
Photograph settings are SL defaults and was taken on site at Two Moon Gardens using a mid afternoon setting.
A tribute to Cutea Benelli, whose incredible work gave me the idea to put the underwater lightbulbs at Syncretia into an outfit, is very much in order here...
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It's the Two Moon Gardens Christmas Party on Tuesday 16th December from 12pm to 2pm SLT with our great resident DJ Greywolf. Lots of fun and Christmas tunes. There's 1000L on our contest board if you want to enter for 'Best in Parties.' We also have a Christmas raffle where you could win a 1000L voucher to spend on gardens here in the store. Join Bunnie, Isis and the gang at TMG for a fun filled couple of hours. Everyone Welcome. Merry Christmas!! Here's the sleigh ride for Majestic Falls in Winter: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ferndale/42/80/27
Photograph settings are SL defaults and was taken on site at Two Moon Gardens using a mid morning setting.
Alpho could not resist this little candid camera shot of two customers at our store who immediately threw on their newly purchased togs.
:-)
Skin -Atomic Bambi
Hair -Exile
Jacket -SG
Bodysuit -Maitreya
Skirt -Maitreya
Tights -Nestle my Bosom
Shoes -Lelutka
Hairband -Lagyo
Bangles -Pacadi
Necklace -So Many Styles
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
burn2, the virtual world of Burning Man that takes place in Black Rock Desert
Visit this location at Burning Man Virtual Regional - BURN2 - Deep Hole in Second Life
Store manager Isis Sheryffe has been with TMG for several years and does invaluable behind the scenes work as well as working as an assistant.
Weekly party, with theme of Best in Gold or Silver, was held at a NEW venue, Rhapsody, at Two Moon Gardens on Tuesday, November 11th 2014 from 12pm to 2pm SLT: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ferndale/51/131/27
Our homage to Henry Gray's "The Anatomy of the Human body", 1918
Avatar: Grapho Fullstop
Environment: Alpha Auer
Skin- Belleza-Erika
Hair- Truth
Earrings/Bracelet/Necklace- SHADE THRONE
Eyeliner- Cheap Makeup
Vest/Shorts- CandyDoll
Orthrus, the two headed wolf/dog is the subject of this full avatar by Alpho Fullstop. Comes with male/female skins, garments, shoulder wolves, mohawk, ears, skirt, back drape, paw hands and paw boots.
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Theme was Best in Black to a recording a live Adele concert. Was held at Two Moon Gardens' Majestic Falls in Bloom venue on Tuesday, 5th May 2015 from 12pm to 2pm SL / 8pm to 10pm UK with British voice DJ Greywolf (aka DJ Dieter at the Purple Gator) and hostess Elleese (an assistant manager at TMG): maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ferndale/40/79/26
this diagram depicts compatibility of the Interpretive Camera with James Gee's (2007) work on Projective Identity in New Media environments.
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.
Multicultural and Gender Studies (MCGS) Assistant Professor Vanessa Esquivido is photographed as a new faculty theme of "Teaching in Virtual Environments" in the studio on Thursday, September 24, 2020 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
This comes with male/female skins, garments, unisex skirts, a unisex spine, furry glow snout and headgear, sculpty slippers, and arm drapes.
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Our homage to Henry Gray's "The Anatomy of the Human body", 1918
Avatar: Grapho Fullstop
Environment: Alpha Auer
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
Theme was Best in Fairies or Elves and was held at the Radiant Falls venue at Two Moon Gardens on Tuesday 10th March 2015 from 12pm to 2pm SLT with DJ Greywolf (aka DJ Dieter) and hostess Elleese: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ferndale/112/76/26
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.
Skin -YS&YS
Hair -LAQ
Vest & Shrug -&Bean
Shorts -Surf Couture
Jewellery -Whippet & Buck
Glasses -Surf Couture
Bag -Tres Blah
Ankle band & sandals -Surf Couture
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.
Our homage to Henry Gray's "The Anatomy of the Human body", 1918
Avatar: Grapho Fullstop
Environment: Alpha Auer
1000L for BEST IN TATTOOS at Two Moon Gardens' Rhapsody in Bloom venue.
This week it is Best in Tattoos at TWO MOON GARDENS on Tuesday, 12th May from 12pm to 2pm SLT / 8pm to 10pm UK time. We'll have 1000L on the board (split between everyone that receives a vote) and spinning the tunes and taking your requests will be British voice DJ Greywolf, assisted by hostess Elleese. The event will be at Rhapsody in Bloom. Ride on over to: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ferndale/53/132/27
Photograph settings are SL defaults and preferences on Ultra and was taken at Two Moon Gardens using a mid morning setting.
I have constructed a scaffold + a circular wire tunnel upon which I am perching the avatars. I am trying out the construct by itself but also with the sea prims through which I am now letting the background peek through. And I think I need to do that even more.
The light is partially local lighting in-world, but also heavily processed in photoshop with both levels and curves. And also there is quite a bit of touching up, particularly on Xiamara's fingernails. I think the next skin I make will have no fingernails. What a stretch nightmare!!! I had never looked so closely! grrrrr...
And now there are 4 of us: myself, Grapho, Amina (dressed as a man) and Xiamara. The poses are Frigg Ragu's, and quite frankly I think the whole undertaking would be a wasted effort if it weren't for the expression and body language which they give to the avatars.
Our homage to Henry Gray's "The Anatomy of the Human body", 1918
Avatar: Grapho Fullstop
Environment: Alpha Auer
This is the outfit that had Mossy slap his thighs in sheer merriment yesterday!
OK, Chanel it ain't - but then I am not exactly a Chanel kinda gal either, am I? I do not think that I will be riding in planes and trucks dressed up like this, but I really think it is gorgeous anyway...
Hair: Disembodied Hand
Skin: Toshiya Okawa
Horns: Memnoch Matzerath (Grendel's Children)
Cloak: Vas Legend (Angry Monkey)
Boots: Akira Dulce
School of Nursing faculty Paul Weingartner is photographed as a new faculty theme of "Teaching in Virtual Environments" in the studio on Friday, August 28, 2020 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
Christmas Presence measures 50m x 50m, is Panoramic, has 161 Prims is mod/copy and costs just 699L! This magical winter skybox features a bench with couples and singles animations, a frozen pond, sparkling trees and grass and a river to sit by: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ferndale/52/196/2402
Photograph settings are SL defaults and was taken mid afternoon on site at Two Moon Gardens
... recreated in Second Life by Naergilien Wunderlich.
npirl.blogspot.com/2008/12/many-elaborate-gowns-of-maiden...
Taking inspiration from Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk's novel "My name is Red", this one involves Ottoman ornamentation. Men and women get the skin together with a body suit, the pennants, the shoulder pads, a belt with a sword and the Sultan boots.
Oh and - a custom textured pogo stick to lighten it all up: A hopping Sultan/Sultana!
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
We have a NEW small patches - AUTUMN GRASS AND TREES* on sale for 149L. This is a really useful combination of trees and grass in autumn colours. Meauring 10m x 10m with only 7 prims in total! Pack includes falling leaves! Mod/copy so you can rez as many of these as you wish. Fantastic extra Autumn filler. Teleport from the landing point: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ferndale/95/128/26
Photograph settings are SL defaults and was taken just before sunset.
I have constructed a scaffold + a circular wire tunnel upon which I am perching the avatars. I am trying out the construct by itself but also with the sea prims through which I am now letting the background peek through. And I think I need to do that even more.
The light is partially local lighting in-world, but also heavily processed in photoshop with both levels and curves. And also there is quite a bit of touching up, particularly on Xiamara's fingernails. I think the next skin I make will have no fingernails. What a stretch nightmare!!! I had never looked so closely! grrrrr...
And now there are 4 of us: myself, Grapho, Amina (dressed as a man) and Xiamara. The poses are Frigg Ragu's, and quite frankly I think the whole undertaking would be a wasted effort if it weren't for the expression and body language which they give to the avatars.
Hookah's or nargile as we call them used to be a thing that one would occasionally see old men smoking when I was a kid. In later years they disappeared almost completely from Turkish culture - only to make a huge comeback over the past 10 years or so. Nowadays it is really young people of all backgrounds and appearance that puff away zealously at the 100s of nargile cafes that can be found all over the place.
I decided to create my own little nargile parlor, under the benevolent gaze of horses and lions. I like the way the hookah looks but much as I like the idea of smoking in the company of animals visually this doesn't look quite how I would like it to look. So, I will probably be rezzing this elsewhere and differently. For now I took the photos to remember the moment....
Nargile: Monkey Eagleburger