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Hack and wolfie rez more and more planes, creating a really bizarre conglomeration of wings and engines. The sound generated by so many planes alone was quite something!
Some more wonders by Flea Bussy: A golem, a defender and a crawler. I shall be breaking them apart and combining them with "human" Alpha but they are so gorgeous as they are that I decided to photograph them in thier entirety first. Besides I need the fully non-humanoid avatars for comparison purposes anyway. So, these avatars are well differentiated into being non-human. As such they would have to fall outside the Valley threshold. But do they I wonder?
Very special thanks go to Jonny Dusk, who gave me his beautiful graveyard roses, which I hugely scaled up. Jonny also gave me the altar which I tried to terraform into the crevice of the mountain.
There is still some work to be done here but with material like this to play around with, how can one possibly go wrong?
The reflective surfaces are not textures!
Mumixer had pointed me in the direction of Devil's Moon a few weeks ago but with one thing and another I only made it out there today - and fell flat on my face so to speak: I was always under the impression that reflections and reflectivity is beyond the scope of present day real time render. So, how on earth did they achieve this? And why does it create no lag whatsoever? I took a lot of screenshots, some from the exact same location at slight angle variations since I want my computer scientist colleague, Selim to take a look at these and tell me what the hell is going on here...
Beautiful SIM too btw, but quite frankly the technology had me so gobsmacked that I couldn't really take much else in. Will go back for sure.
6 hours later:
ahum... Mossy put me wise: It is an extremely clever design trick: They did the entire architecture twice, one being the perpendicular mirror image of the other and then interleaved it with those transparent textures.
jeez... am i embarrassed or what?
Amina has made this out of an image created with the wonderful chaoscope software (http://www.chaoscope.org/). Comes with male/female skins and tiny bodysuits; head, chest, stomach and lower leg spiral attachments. All of the textures on these are animated which gives this avatar something of a fluid feel.
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I logged in for a second just now, realized halfway there that I had to get out ASAP because the computer was actually doing a scheduled virus scan and so I really had no CPU left over for running around in SL. However, just as I was loging off, I received this (a flower emitter staff) from Truthseeker. And as it happens, only yesterday I had bought this hair from MAU's & MEJ's. So, I am not sure if Truthseeker and Sunnivah Jiutai are in cahoots here or what, but I really could not resist shooting these together. Not good photos - like I said it was a real rush job, but simply too color co-ordinatedly accessorized a look to resist documentation I thought...
Held at Happy Daze Bar which was part of the Babylon 5 Roleplay which is still above the Delenn sim in Second Life.
Some of Mossy's students were working at the Synthetic University last night. Looked interesting so...
Held at Two Moon Gardens on Thursday 23rd October 2014 at the Radiant Falls venue: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ferndale/63/137/25
Urban Harvy concert at the Rhapsody in Winter venue at Two Moon Gardens on Thursday, November 20th 2014 from 2pm to 3pm SLT: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ferndale/50/131/27
Held at Two Moon Gardens on Thursday 23rd October 2014 at the Radiant Falls venue: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ferndale/63/137/25
Building by Alpha Auer, story and animations by Frigg Ragu, avatars by Grapho Fullstop. As of noon SLT today, October 17th at Burning Life, 12 Mile:
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"Padded", a dark and textured outfit designed by Grapho Fullstop, consisting of many attachments for men and women is now available at alpha.tribe:
Amina Diavolo: The woman totally pisses me off! I need hardly elaborate as to why that is, right?
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Hack and I have been working too hard: As MosMax's assistant he has had to build and rebuild a huge sphere, over and over again. And as everyone knows, nothing, not even the smallest imperfection ever escapes Mossy's gimlet eye! I on the other hand, have been grafting away at Syncretia.
So, we take off a half hour and cruise over the Archipelago...
Between Cappadocia and Citrinitas is a typographic installation, my homage to C. G. Jung: "Mysterium Coniunctionis"...
Syncretia/Citrinitas is an alchemical power plant which utilizes the water pumped from the Black Mountain for alchemical purposes. This water is cycled through the fairy chimneys at Syncretia/Cappadocia, after which it begins its long journey across the plains of the northern shore. The acquisition of alchemical properties is initiated during this phase: As it progresses the water gains in density. In the plant proper the water is further treated to the point where it can actually turn dross to gold! The two Hobo trucks inside the huge containers are currently undergoing treatment. One unexpected byproduct is a rejuvenating elixir! Sitting inside one of the spheres below the purification tanks can create wonders, not only in therms of appearance but also of state of mind!
Amina has certainly taken her revenge upon me for having made her pose for the geometric de.stijl outfit! She has reverted to her unstructured style and designed an outfit based upon Miro.
This one too is unisex, with hip floaters, sandals, a little cresent moon to hide your derrirere and a headpiece. There is a PG and mature version to the female skin. Amina is posing with the one which is PG... Of course! ;-)
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Hack and wolfie rez more and more planes, creating a really bizarre conglomeration of wings and engines. The sound generated by so many planes alone was quite something!
This unisex outfit is actually the sister outfit of one on which Xiamara is working at the moment. I should probably be saying "brother outfit" though, considering that this has actually been designed by Grapho, our in-house dark/texture specialist.
These two outfits are both inspired by the novel "My name is Red" by Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk. The book describes the events surrounding a murder amongst illuminator/calligraphers in 16th century Istanbul. And so, Ottoman ornamentation is the underlying design system for both this one as well as Xia's, which will in fact be called "My name is Red" in tribute to Orhan Pamuk, and will be released within a few days. (Hopefully!)
Oh and, not to forget, Grapho has lightened up the regal nature of the pennants and the Ottoman boots which go with the outfit, with a custom textured pogo stick with which you can become a hopping Sultan or Sultana!
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Held at Happy Daze Bar which was part of the Babylon 5 Roleplay which is still above the Delenn sim in Second Life.
I like this better. The horse and lion were lovely but just didn't fit somehow. Maybe I can figure out a way of integrating them later but for now they have gone elsewhere...
Some more wonders by Flea Bussy: A golem, a defender and a crawler. I shall be breaking them apart and combining them with "human" Alpha but they are so gorgeous as they are that I decided to photograph them in thier entirety first. Besides I need the fully non-humanoid avatars for comparison purposes anyway. So, these avatars are well differentiated into being non-human. As such they would have to fall outside the Valley threshold. But do they I wonder?
Held at Happy Daze Bar which was part of the Babylon 5 Roleplay which is still above the Delenn sim in Second Life.
I like this better. The horse and lion were lovely but just didn't fit somehow. Maybe I can figure out a way of integrating them later but for now they have gone elsewhere...
The installation bringing together the Real and Second Lives of MosMax Hax/Max Moswitzer can be seen at Uqbar until February 9th.
Between Cappadocia and Citrinitas is a typographic installation, my homage to C. G. Jung: "Mysterium Coniunctionis"...
Syncretia/Citrinitas is an alchemical power plant which utilizes the water pumped from the Black Mountain for alchemical purposes. This water is cycled through the fairy chimneys at Syncretia/Cappadocia, after which it begins its long journey across the plains of the northern shore. The acquisition of alchemical properties is initiated during this phase: As it progresses the water gains in density. In the plant proper the water is further treated to the point where it can actually turn dross to gold! The two Hobo trucks inside the huge containers are currently undergoing treatment. One unexpected byproduct is a rejuvenating elixir! Sitting inside one of the spheres below the purification tanks can create wonders, not only in therms of appearance but also of state of mind!
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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Amina has certainly taken her revenge upon me for having made her pose for the geometric de.stijl outfit! She has reverted to her unstructured style and designed an outfit based upon Miro.
This one too is unisex, with hip floaters, sandals, a little cresent moon to hide your derrirere and a headpiece. There is a PG and mature version to the female skin. Amina is posing with the one which is PG... Of course! ;-)
Visit alpha.tribe at Klein:
Amina has certainly taken her revenge upon me for having made her pose for the geometric de.stijl outfit! She has reverted to her unstructured style and designed an outfit based upon Miro.
This one too is unisex, with hip floaters, sandals, a little cresent moon to hide your derrirere and a headpiece. There is a PG and mature version to the female skin. Amina is posing with the one which is PG... Of course! ;-)
Visit alpha.tribe at Klein:
Sweetlemon Jewell (on the left) is a valued customer at alpha.tribe, having purchased quite a few of our things in the past - in fact she happens to be one of our oldest clients... Today she brought her friend Kariwanz Felisimo. When they wanted to take a group photo with me I immediately threw on my own manbo sailor outfit - and so here we all are! Happy as clams!
Held at Happy Daze Bar which was part of the Babylon 5 Roleplay which is still above the Delenn sim in Second Life.
Today was wolfie's first rez-day.
Ultimately breeding will always tell: A perfect Viennese gentleman in full Tuxedo, he played the piano for me! The music was absolutely divine: In fact so much so that we never even heard it... kk
Must remember to get a baby grand for my town house. Not that I am musical or anything, can't play a tune to save my life - but, it will definitely add a certain class to the place which will very nicely counter balance my tail... And also, if being musical were a prerequisite to buying a piano most of the babies would remain on the shelf, right?
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Best in Black or White party at the NEW Graceful Falls venue at Two Moon Gardens on Tuesday 25th November from 12pm to 2pm slt: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ferndale/213/162/28