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If I didn't know any better I would be almost tempted to say that it gazes up at me like as if it actually quite likes me...
What it is probably really doing is taking a very precise aim at my nose!!!
These photos were mostly taken from within the Botanical Garden, looking towards Cappadocia.
One major worry when designing a huge space, which is exactly what an SL island is, is that the space won't gel, won't create good transitions from one visual domain to the other - unless, of course, you are designing something that is all part of one visual system and/or serves one function. Syncretia has entirely different spaces and visual approaches, and that has been my intention from the very beginning. Cappadocia is situated very close to the botanical garden and looking at them together made me do quite a bit of additional work on the garden's, originally white, cubes. I added textures as well as bumpmapping. I think this brings the two environments into closer harmony, while still sufficiently distinguishing them from one another.
OK, no one will believe this! They will think that I conjured this up in photoshop or something!
Just at that moment, out of the corner of my eye, I see that Truthseeker has just logged in. I first send over a photo. But Truth wants a TP (obviously! I would too...). We take a little souvenir photo - also proof positive that this really did happen to me!
The landscaping reminds me very much of the kind that one encounters in late Gothic illuminated manuscripts.
Terraforming: LittleToe Bartlett
Ground texture: LittleToe Bartlett, Pavig Lok
Trees: artoo Magneto
The crawler avatar is a pretty remarkable thing in itself. Here I have re-assembled the bits around Alpha, together with Vry Offcourse's Bronze Forge skin. I made some transparency changes to the avatar parts so that the human part can merge better with the mechanoid part. I will probably be re-assembling this avatar as a sculpture at Syncretia - I like it so much.
Again, lots of very similar shots here too.
Some photos of slides shown @ my talk @ LandExpo last Saturday.
the ppt of my presentation: "Historically Accurate Buildings in Virtual Environments: The architecture of Shakespeare's Era in Second Life".
I did have the presence of mind to put on one of my 300 or so gasmasks - so I was spared the worst of the smog...
The crawler avatar is a pretty remarkable thing in itself. Here I have re-assembled the bits around Alpha, together with Vry Offcourse's Bronze Forge skin. I made some transparency changes to the avatar parts so that the human part can merge better with the mechanoid part. I will probably be re-assembling this avatar as a sculpture at Syncretia - I like it so much.
Again, lots of very similar shots here too.
I have to say that I am a bit upset about how these turned out: Earlier this evening I was taking some screenshots for a very good friend of mine who will be joining SL, so as I was taking the shots I also included the interface items in the photo setup list. And, sadly forgot to turn them back off before I took these.
So, I had to crop them so that I got rid of the palettes I had floating all over the place and quite frankly out name tags we could probably also have done without.
So, we will have to repeat this little excursion and reshoot properly wolfiekiens...
Otherwise, as I already told you in-world: What an absolute stunner this is!!!
I am beyond proud of what my colleague MosMax Hax (aka. Max Moswitzer) achieved here...
Really nothing much to say, the photos will say it all and then some.
At one point Mossy has a better idea: We slide down the rutschbahn with the truck and land in the water...
OK, so I am sitting over on the platform at Syncretia, minding my own business, cleaning and organizing my inventory. As one does?
I zoom into the sleeve of my gorgeous Kimono to do some fine editing prior to shooting a photo of it. I zoom back out - and this is what I see!
hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
The Rejuvenation Spheres...
Sculpty tree by Steph Da Silva, crawler branches adapted form an avatar by Max Hatfield.
And why didn't anyone tell me I was so SHORT???
And so bloody dark and puny and snotty looking on top of it as well?
hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
The landscaping reminds me very much of the kind that one encounters in late Gothic illuminated manuscripts.
Terraforming: LittleToe Bartlett
Ground texture: LittleToe Bartlett, Pavig Lok
I am beyond proud of what my colleague MosMax Hax (aka. Max Moswitzer) achieved here...
Really nothing much to say, the photos will say it all and then some.
Last time I threw a party like this one here was probably 20 years ago ;-). So, I am glad that it went very well. Thanks to all who came and shared the day with CapCat and the tribe.
Visit the exhibit of CapCat Ragu at the alpha.tribe Gallery of Photography at Klein:
slurl.com/secondlife/Klein/55/116/63
Oh and, can everyone who sees themselves in these photos please add themselves? Sorry about that folks, but I cannot for the life of me remember what you were all wearing... :-\