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Our homage to Henry Gray's "The Anatomy of the Human body", 1918
Avatar: Grapho Fullstop
Environment: Alpha Auer
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:
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:
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:
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:
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
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
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.
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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 retextured 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...
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Frigg Ragu has just set up a venue for "Poses for Prose and Poetry" at Insilico. When she asked the tribe to build for her we were overjoyed: I used to do this sort of stuff in RL, as part of my job as a graphic designer, and miss doing it nowadays. So, this really was a lot of fun!
I built the place and Alpho, with the help of Syncretia Kenin (our island tour guide) took the wall photos.
The beautiful text is Frigg's and adds a great deal of emotion to the place.
So, welcome to Insilico Frigg!
slurl.com/secondlife/INSILICO SOUTH/67/163/3602
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/alphatribe%20island/81/56/22
Fixed LP, take a short walk to the teleporter to go up.
and also "Red" meets "Black" - finally...
These are actually still images of animated avatars. And the animations are by Frigg Ragu. Who else? ;-)
I have decided to stage some photographs using alpha.tribe clothes combined with other stuff - in this case old master paintings of stormy seas and shipwrecks mapped onto huge spheres. Eventually multiple avatars will participate... Once I have worked out what it is that I have to do to get this right, that is.
Part two: The Rabbicorn story poem one. On Immersiva sim in Second Life. maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Immersiva/11/106/22
Walkthrough can be found on my blog brynoh.blogspot.com/2019/05/part-two-rabbicorn-story.html
Build pictures on instagram
A Scientist
in a lab
built the Rabbicorn
from things she had
From Tesla coils
and a music box
parts of a gramophone
and fur from a fox
She gave her a heart
and a strong mind
she was the only one
of her kind
For the ones she made
before her
were Robobears
meant for war
and also "Red" meets "Black" - finally...
These are actually still images of animated avatars. And the animations are by Frigg Ragu. Who else? ;-)
Again, Alpho has designed this so that the outfit can be worn with or without the furry attachment. As usual this is unisex and comes with 3 cat t-shirts, an under garment, black jeans for men and a lace skirt for women. And then there are all sorts of toy accessories like a mohawk and a belt, as well as some lace cuffs and sleeves. Oh, and boots of course!
The skin is a modification of Eloh Eliot's "Starlight" and this is such a gorgeous template that Alpho has thrown in an un-marked version as well.
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Syncretio is turning out to be quite a handful: His refusal to pay for all the damage he has caused during a tavern brawl results in some hefty altercations between the tribe and a harridan of a landlady (played by an alt who prefers to remain anonymous for now).
Ever the peacemaker, Grapho tries to find a middle ground. However the rest of us (me included) proceed to "nyah nyah nyah" the querulous old bat! I mean, what's a few virtual glasses between friends, right?
(I am cobbling all this together from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets by the way. And I am having an absolute whale of a time with it and all!)
alphatribe.wordpress.com/2010/07/11/july-2010-wired/
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:-)
This retro female only outfit takes its name from the jazz standard "polkadots and moonbeams" - as sung by Bob Dorough! (Don't care much for the other versions, only that one. But that one I love, as I love everything the man has ever sung!)
Comes with skin, garment, a hat trimmed with feathers and prim flowers, a dotted transparent collar, puff sleeves, a skirt with a dot bustle and a back bow, a flower corsage as well as regular bracelets and finally roller skates! (Somehow I thought that they would go well with this, I have no idea why...). However, for the more conservative amongst you I have also thrown in a pair of nice French heel pumps.
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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).
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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.
A dark unisex outfit which takes its name from a dingbat font. This comes with male/female skins, garments, unisex belts, a unisex chest ornament, 2 unisex mohawks, boots, an extra skirt for ladies, unisex bloomers, cuffs and arm rings.
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The poses are by the amazing Frigg Ragu. Who else? I am addicted. Actually looking forward to taking photos of these things nowadays! Amazing...
This is actually a really old outfit which I completely retextured and added countless attachements to. It is unisex, has male/female skins, skirts for both, capes - one simple the other one more ornate, no less than 4 variations on the necklace (got a tad carried away there - hhh), torso, arm and leg ornaments, boots for boyz and gurlz, and a mohawk of course.
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Despair not, dear non-furries: Alpho is a liberal at heart who believes that people should always have a choice in what they wear. Thus, she has designed this so that the outfit can be worn with or without the furry attachments. As usual this is unisex and comes with 2 t-shirts and a bare chest version where the ladies get a prim bustierre. Other than that enough attachments to replenish a small sized tribe on this one, including a tail, a mohawk, leg warmers, sneakers... ;-)
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and also "Red" meets "Black" - finally...
These are actually still images of animated avatars. And the animations are by Frigg Ragu. Who else? ;-)
Based on 17th century Vanitas paintings, this unisex outfit has many sculpty attachments, a mask and hat, pearl pendants, boots, a hand held skull, 2 separate garments, and one dark and one light toned furry skin. It also comes with a custom AO by Frigg Ragu and Alpho is showing some of the poses in these photos together with Grapho.
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Unisex avatar comes with M/F skins, headdress, spine, bracelets, prim manicure, various belts with trains and g-strings and bare foot sandals.
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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
grrr... another one I forgot to post!
This one is called "Alpho loves lace" - which she does!
It is constructed almost entirely out of toruses onto which the Furry sister has mapped a whole bunch of lace - everything from hair to collar to sleeves to skirt and bloomers... Also included in the box is a detailed lacy bodysuit. And then Alpho has done a first here: Added a "fur" texture onto Ms. Eliot's wonder template. What the somewhat ecclesiastical purple is supposed to be in aid of she would not tell me btw. Told me to shut up and mind my own business. Which I did... ;-)
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Building by Alpha Auer, story and animations by Frigg Ragu, avatars by Grapho Fullstop. As of noon SLT tomorrow, October 17th at Burning Life, 12 Mile:
slurl.com/secondlife/Burning Life-12 Mile/131/234/25
alphatribe.wordpress.com/2010/07/11/july-2010-wired/
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slurl.com/secondlife/Klein/55/116/63
:-)
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.
Based on 17th century Vanitas paintings, this unisex outfit has many sculpty attachments, a mask and hat, pearl pendants, boots, a hand held skull, 2 separate garments, and one dark and one light toned furry skin. It also comes with a custom AO by Frigg Ragu and Alpho is showing some of the poses in these photos together with Grapho.
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Decapoda by Alpho Fullstop. This is a crustacean avatar based upon the biological drawings of Ernst Haeckel. Comes with male/female skins, back carapace, headdress, claw hands and feet and skirt.
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One more by Xiamara and then I have told her to make herself scarce for a while: She has been occupying center stage a tad too long for my comfort!
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.
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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.
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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
Come visit a sunset that casts long shadows: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/alphatribe%20island/81/56/22
One small note: Please use the shared region light. I have built this whole thing around the shadows that things cast (they are very long and come at a particular angle). So, anything other than the light setting that I put in place will not let you see what this is all about. :-)
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
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.
alphatribe.wordpress.com/2010/07/25/july-2010-3-new-headd...
Visit alpha.tribe at Klein:
slurl.com/secondlife/Klein/55/116/63
:-)
Just a couple of days ago Truthseeker gave me that extraordinary gift and last night I received another one such from Suzanne Graves!
"Cyclic Structure #3" is rezzed on the lowest platform on the southern shore of Syncretia, for all those that want to admire it in world.
Based on 17th century Vanitas paintings, this unisex outfit has many sculpty attachments, a mask and hat, pearl pendants, boots, a hand held skull, 2 separate garments, and one dark and one light toned furry skin. It also comes with a custom AO by Frigg Ragu and Alpho is showing some of the poses in these photos together with Grapho.
Visit alpha.tribe at Klein: