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Continuing with Haeckel's drawings, this one comes from Amina. It is a white avatar and she enjoyed the change, since it seems that we have not been making too many of them of late. Comes with the headdress (of which Amina is rather proud), the spine, the skins, the g-string belt, the upper leg ornaments and shoes.
Visit alpha.tribe at Klein:
This time Alpha is a siren, yet another not-so-desirable female archetype. She is a mixture of fish, zebra and human. I will also be trying out the golden ocelot skin with this one. She does look like the sort of female that not much good can be expected from I must say... However, does she fall into the Valley?
I got the siren assembly kit at Grendel's and practically re-did an avatar using Flea Bussy's prims. The original avatar has always seemed somewhat meager to me in terms of fins and so on. Here, I multiplied each fin by at least 8 and re-attached the same bunch to spine, pelvis and stomach. The Zebra skin came today as a present from Vry Offcourse, who incidentally, is one of my acquaintances in SL. We met through my photos of the Ocelot skin and we have been sporadically keeping up ever since - a state of affiars soon to improve I hope: Turns out Vry and I are colleagues. She too is a graphic designer. So, as soon as this work frenzy of mine is over we will get together and hang out a bit; comparing our taste in fonts no doubt... hhhh
There's not much here to identify this particular development with City College Norwich. The skypod, which you sit in and quickly blasts you to 4km in altitude (before letting you plummet to the ground) is fun, though.
Sgt. Chance Kilgore from the Wyoming Army National Guard, as well as Air Guard and Wyoming State employees gathered together to participate in a Cyber Shield exercise at the Wyoming Office of Homeland Security, Cheyenne, Wyo., Sept. 28, 2020. This was the first time Wyoming had it’s own independent team, as well as conducting the exercise virtually. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Cpl. Kristina Kranz)
Party held on Tuesday, October 28th 2014 at the Under the Arches venue at Two Moon Gardens: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ferndale/204/138/24
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
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I was going through my folders in my hard drive and found a bunch of photos that I seem to have missed uploading...
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
I rezzed this on the water and will maybe eventually be adding stuff underneath it - a new little underwater area perhaps.
four Yip has been extraordinarily generous in letting me almost completely re-texture her bed to fit in with Syncretia's somewhat monochromatic color scheme.
The bird baths are back! If you missed them the first time around come on over to the Welcome area and buy the box for free beside the auction bid board: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ferndale/128/136/24
Be sure to pick up our other free gift of Yellow Flowers and the group gift of Rest A While.
Photograph settings are SL defaults on ultra and was taken on site at Two Moon Gardens using a midday setting.
More shots of the power plant and Cappadocia. I have added a series of hamster wheels which I did do some work on first: Lifitng the wheels out of their cages and adding some color and shine really helped integrate them into the plant I think. Also added are some gothic thorn bushes from the Heart Gardening Center, which I have sunk into big concrete planters. I have decided long ago that plants sunk into SL soil just don't do it for me. And I have added the rain, huge thunderstorms in fact. This has all been taken with windlight and I love the way you get a mixture of sun and rain in some of these. It has proven to be almost impossible to capture the lightning on these shots, but if you actually go there you will see that it is lightning and thundering like crazy...
There are many repeat shots here where the only difference is the windlight settings. I am uploading them anyway since it may interest people to see how big the difference is.
... recreated in Second Life by Naergilien Wunderlich.
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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
Held at the Majestic Falls in Autumn venue at Two Moon Gardens on Wednesday, November 5th 2014: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ferndale/110/211/24
Up until about 800 years ago Turks were nomads, living on the plains of Central Asia. So, contrary to popular misconception, we are not a middle eastern/Arabic culture but an oriental one; the closest linguistic relatives being Korean and Japanese. And apparently my own looks kick back to a great grandfather from Bukhara...
So, what better dwelling than a tent for a virtual nomad?
This one is from Angry Monkey, although I changed all of the original textures. Those were quite nice too but not exactly right for Syncretia.
Can extreme beauty become scary, repulsive even, simply because it falls outside of the scope of what we recognize as human? Alpha is so beautiful here that I am in awe of her. In fact, this is the most removed that I have felt from her since I started on this little adventure in the Uncanny Valley.
Someone sat down and made these! Two someones in fact: All the attachments are designed by aoimizuno Meili, except for the cyborg feet. They are the work of of Marissa Lurra. The cybersuit has been designed by Tomby Karas and the drow skin is, once again, by Loli Nori.
Angelic Passions - including texture changing globe - 30M x 30M and 104 Prims.
Take the teleport from here: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ferndale/118/135/25
Also features kissing poseballs and space for dancing so is perfect for a romantic encounter with the one you love.
Photograph settings are SL defaults and was taken on site at Two Moon Gardens using a mid-morning setting.
Hair-[e] elikatira- Me
Skin- Mynerva
Eyeliner- cheap makeup
Top- Mon Tissu
Jacket - AOHARU
Skirt- The Secret Store@TDR
Tights- Nestle my Bosom
Boots- Surf Couture
Bag- B@R
Photobox- Modd.g
It's time to DANCE, 10 March from 12 noon to 2pm SLT / 7pm to 9pm UK time! DJ Greywolf will once again take to the air with some amazing music. This week the theme is BEST IN FAIRIES OR ELVES with 1000L on the board. Join Greywolf and Elleese for some great fun. The venue this week is Radiant Falls - here is the limo: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ferndale/112/76/26
Photograph settings are SL defaults and was taken on site at Two Moon Gardens using a midday setting.
It has to be said outright that I cannot play any musical instrument in Real Life. Be that as it may, wolfie's piano really inspired me, so one of the things that I have had my heart set on lately has been a piano in Second Life. I spent quite a while hunting around for one and getting myself familiarized with sheet music and so on, but then tonight I finally got one. In fact, I ended up getting two: One, which has a very high prim count for Syncretia and a lower prim version for Klein. I set the one for Syncretia up on the western shore, against all the black textures that I have there.
I guess lurking somewhere deep inside is a concert pianist here because the amount of joy that I derived from playing this tonight is almost pathetic.
Oh, and I am playing the Goldberg Variations btw. Obviously, nothing less will do... hhhhh
Hack is a champ: Once he is reassured that I will not be demolishing the hospital and the subway he hunkers down to the task of smoothing out my plot. A part of the operation could be tricky, not to mention dangerous. He needs to descend into the foundations of my wonderful new townhouse/subway stop to do some detail work. God knows what the air is like down there so, of course, I follow him down, urging him to not to forget to put on his gas mask please!
Amina wanted to do something "middle eastern", and no amount of lecturing on my part on the lamentable fact that we would not be able to belly-dance our way out of a paper bag could stop her.
So, here it is folks. A full set of belly-dance silks (+ some very nice sculpty high heel sandals and hair).
Visit alpha.tribe at Klein:
Male/Female skins and attachments. There is a particle attachment on the spine, however, one really has to see it in action to get the effect.
Visit alpha.tribe at Klein:
Theme was Best in Shoulder Pets and was held on Tuesday 24th February 2015 at the Majestic Falls in Bloom venue at Two Moon Gardens from 12pm to 2pm SLT with DJ Greywolf and hostess Elleese.
NEW - PASSING TIME - PROMO - A new small patio space with Wisteria pergola beneath which is a cuddle bench, two chairs and table, neat planted tubs and surrounded by grasses and flowers in soft lilacs and pinks. Plants also surround the pergola supports and these include Agave and Climbing Roses. Also includes dancing butterflies. A half-price bargain at only 199L this week. Measures 17M x 15M and is only 59 Prims. Check it out here: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ferndale/78/129/24
Photograph settings are SL defaults on High using a midday setting. Was taken on site at Two Moon Gardens with everything else in camera view derendered and a prim using a library grass texture placed underneath the garden.
A full set of belly-dance silks (+ some very nice sculpty high heel sandals and hair) available now at alpha.tribe:
This time Alpha is a siren, yet another not-so-desirable female archetype. She is a mixture of fish, zebra and human. I will also be trying out the golden ocelot skin with this one. She does look like the sort of female that not much good can be expected from I must say... However, does she fall into the Valley?
I got the siren assembly kit at Grendel's and practically re-did an avatar using Flea Bussy's prims. The original avatar has always seemed somewhat meager to me in terms of fins and so on. Here, I multiplied each fin by at least 8 and re-attached the same bunch to spine, pelvis and stomach. The Zebra skin came today as a present from Vry Offcourse, who incidentally, is one of my acquaintances in SL. We met through my photos of the Ocelot skin and we have been sporadically keeping up ever since - a state of affiars soon to improve I hope: Turns out Vry and I are colleagues. She too is a graphic designer. So, as soon as this work frenzy of mine is over we will get together and hang out a bit; comparing our taste in fonts no doubt... hhhh
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?
Up until about 800 years ago Turks were nomads, living on the plains of Central Asia. So, contrary to popular misconception, we are not a middle eastern/Arabic culture but an oriental one; the closest linguistic relatives being Korean and Japanese. And apparently my own looks kick back to a great grandfather from Bukhara...
So, what better dwelling than a tent for a virtual nomad?
This one is from Angry Monkey, although I changed all of the original textures. Those were quite nice too but not exactly right for Syncretia.
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.
In this first trial shoot I am using Loli Nori's really amazing charcoal "Drow" skin, which she (for some reason best known to her alone) is giving away as a freebie at the Bare Rose Mall. This skin is simply the best skin that I have seen anywhere in Second Life. Sadly, I do not use it on a regular basis since the dark tone sort of stops Alpha from being the "look alike" avatar that I prefer her to be. I am not too sure that this skin will actually get Alpha into the range of the Valley's threshold since it is actually very "humanly" expressive. It is why it is such a gorgeous skin in the first place...
SUNLIT MEADOW – This lovely fenced garden measures 32m x 32m and yet is only 42 prims. Lots of buttercup yellow flowers abound in the lush long grasses. The perimeter is surrounded by trees and shrubs, some shrubs have delicate flowers – a garden well worth viewing here: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ferndale/207/71/26
Photograph settings are SL defaults and was taken on site at Two Moon Gardens using a midday setting.
My recent visit to Karnak is still roaming around in my brain. So, here I am playing Alphshepsut (a thoroughly questionable reincarnation of Hatshepsut?)......
I was actually looking for something completely different in a sky shop when I stumbled upon this dress and really beautiful it is too. So, I took myself to the Egyptian temple at Themiskyra and did a little playing around being an Egyptian Priestess...
Dress Shaoshan Llanfair
Temple: Aura Lily
Nubian Dreads: Booperkit Moseley
Skin: Cory Edo
Sandals: June Dion
Up until about 800 years ago Turks were nomads, living on the plains of Central Asia. So, contrary to popular misconception, we are not a middle eastern/Arabic culture but an oriental one; the closest linguistic relatives being Korean and Japanese. And apparently my own looks kick back to a great grandfather from Bukhara...
So, what better dwelling than a tent for a virtual nomad?
This one is from Angry Monkey, although I changed all of the original textures. Those were quite nice too but not exactly right for Syncretia.
A while ago Naxos Loon came to our shop. Sadly we fell far short of his approval since, as it turned out, nothing we had was macho enough for his exacting standards...
So, what on earth could possibly be more macho than a sailor!?!
hhh
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
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.
Theme was Best in Formal and the party was held on Tuesday 30th December 2014 from 12pm to 2pm SLT with DJ Greywolf (aka DJ Dieter) and hostess Elleese at the Radiant Falls in Winter venue: slurl.com/secondlife/Ferndale/117/72/26
Theme was Best in Shoulder Pets and was held on Tuesday 24th February 2015 at the Majestic Falls in Bloom venue at Two Moon Gardens from 12pm to 2pm SLT with DJ Greywolf and hostess Elleese.
I met Tegen only once, at Klein, and I have to say that even in that really short moment I felt that I was in the company of someone very special. The truck really is a wonder truck: It can fly, swim, negotiate the wildest terrain - of course with a kick ass driver like Mossy at the wheel.
I love to see this evidence of life on Syncretia, which seems to go on even when I am not around: Mossy has parked the truck in front of the Angry Monkey tent and suddenly the whole place looks inhabited.
I also took the opportunity for a mini fashion photo shoot:
Hair: Queue Marlowe
Skin: Cory Edo
Ears and Tail: Ivy Graves
Gloves: Nine Catteneo
Top: howard Lindley
Skirt: Princess Kendal
Boots: DarkLour Watanabe
:)
Up until about 800 years ago Turks were nomads, living on the plains of Central Asia. So, contrary to popular misconception, we are not a middle eastern/Arabic culture but an oriental one; the closest linguistic relatives being Korean and Japanese. And apparently my own looks kick back to a great grandfather from Bukhara...
So, what better dwelling than a tent for a virtual nomad?
This one is from Angry Monkey, although I changed all of the original textures. Those were quite nice too but not exactly right for Syncretia.