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Death Cab for Cutie performing at Amoeba Music on March 31, 2015, celebrating the release of their new record Kintsugi.
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Today I have something very exciting to share with you all. I recently applied for and received a blogging gig for BeSpoke. Before I get to talking about the wonderful mesh head I’m showcasing today, I wanted to share a little backstory.
When I came back into SL after so long away, I was floored by all the advancements I found for all aspects of the game. The mesh heads and bodies blew my mind in particular. As I teleported around seeing all of the options I came across BeSpoke and I must have spent hours looking at all the wonderful items. The coolest part about SL to me is the creator driven economy. By producing these imaginative heads, BeSpoke makes it possible for residents like me to express my creativity and now (more than ever before) it is truly possible to be anything in SL.
So onto the head I’ve got today.
The Android Raven mesh fantasy head is a style that I’ve always found really cool going as far back as Ghost in the Shell to modern sci fi today with films like The Creator. I’m kind of obsessed with anything cyberpunk/sci fi so this head was a no brainer for me. They also have a cool BoM in four metal finishes tattoo that adds to the overall look. I tested the head with several of the skins I owned and they looked great, but in the end opted to stick with a BeSpoke skin in the porcelain tone. The head hud has many of the features most people would expect of a mesh head and allows for a lot of customization. I really liked the ability to change the color of the metal parts on the head. I wanted a much more subdued look to my android so I opted to keep many parts as their usual color but I did color the piping to be purple as that’s my favorite color.
The rest of the outfit were items that I already had either from event gifts, freebies, or some store bought and I’ll list them below (note: some of the items were given away during events or bought at events, so they might not still be available)
As for the edit itself, I wanted a background that fit the aesthetics of the character I had put together but I also didn’t want it to overshadow the character. I opted to isolate my android using overlays on the background to give the image a more graphic design feel. The rest of the edit was my usual cocktail of softening the blacks, and enhancing shadows and highlights with a dash of some painting on the face to even out the lighting.
I want to thank the BeSpoke team for giving this untested blogger a chance to share his perspective and I look forward to doing many more characters to share with you all.
BeSpoke Android Raven Mesh Head
BeSpoke Android Raven Porcelain skin (EVO X/M)
BeSpoke Android Raven body tattoo - Black Machine
Rebis - Kintsugi Scars. EvoX Gold version
(Slaughter Ink) (Irezumi) Nekogami - V2 Med BoM
KIKI KAIKAI Side Open Hoodie
KIKI KAIKAI short boots 23 remake
(Gabriel) ::GB:: Ignite Gloves
Strunsh. CG-Type 09(U)
[CX] Headphones (TWS Special)
[Krova] Spine
BeSpoke Flickr
Picture shot at Everwinter
Death Cab for Cutie performing at Amoeba Music on March 31, 2015, celebrating the release of their new record Kintsugi.
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Bluebirds Log:
Hello, it is me B.B. bluer than usual in all ways, sad and bashed up, I am in sickbay after what started as a clean-up of a smaller nuclear waste leak of some cargo boxes in storage-bay at the Kb1122-11223 zed...
so anyhow, Me, Pinkeydot, Marioanella, redhead and Miss got commando of some rad-bots to clean up the mess...
So armed with bots equipment and some outdated rad counters we started to clean the mess, well actually the bots did and we commanded them around...
then all the sudden a grid in the ceiling broke loose and the strangest spaceship that I have even seen broke through the falling grid of the exterior ventilation shaft...
...it was a mix of glued together pieces of wreckage of outdated machinery adorned with feathers and wooden barrels attached to it... like a troglodyte spacecraft if there was such a thing and it was such a thing, hanging on the outside where cavemen almost nude with small hides covering their private parts, on their head where ancient space-helmets from the 21st century half-cracked and mended by veggie-glue and thread stitches... like some form of primitive kintsugi!
Two primitives jumped down and knocked out Irena then tied her up, while two others armed with ancient club-like weapons started bashing away at us who tried to defend her and bring her back...
Readhead was the first who got knocked to the floor poor thing, then I Marioanella and I started to confront the raging primal warriors, I was knocked by several blows to my head and here I am with bumps all over my head and a minor skull fracture and headaches like I have been to the party planet for a week...
...Maurioanella who was armed whit her pluming tool, yeah I don´t know what they call those things, could it be a monkey-wrench, a polygrip, a plunger or Usb-stick? I don´t think she knows it her self, she just call it the-tool-I-knock-turtles-in-the-head-with-while-I-Do-Plumming!
...anyhow, she kept on fencing with the troglodytes for some minutes and then even she was overpowered an knocked out...
...or so the rad-bot told me, it was here with flowers and candy to me an Marioanella, it was crying since it was in love with Irena!!! he was sad because he just froze during the combat out of fear of these feral creatures!!!
My God I just got it, Irena is kidnapped again... gotta get out of bed, gotta save her... over and out!
/ Bluebird
Death Cab for Cutie performing at Amoeba Music on March 31, 2015, celebrating the release of their new record Kintsugi.
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An exploration of designing for meaningfulness, combining traditional craft (kintsugi) with electronics and interaction. www.meaningfuldevices.com
Created by Vanessa Julia Carpenter with FabLabRUC (Dzl) (fablab.ruc.dk), FabCafe Tokyo (fabcafe.com/tokyo/), and Kintsugi Artist Kurosawa (kurovsya.com).
Downward Dog, 2015
Earthenware, found object and kintsugi
“Australians are everywhere’’, said the sales assistant in a bottle shop in Tribeca, one of New York’s lower west side districts. I had to agree. Part of being Australian, it seems, is to leave it as often and for as long as possible to soak up a multitude of global influences that we integrate into our sense of Australianness. We are a nation of hyphenated people with most of us identifying culturally with one or more places of origin outside our home country. We travel and our identity is formed as much by the places we go to as the places we have left. My identity as an Australian is a collage of origins and influences.
My work is the same: they are hybrid forms. I use found ceramic objects incorporated into new vessels, the designs of which are influenced by a global culture filtered through local experience. The pre-existing ceramic objects I use act as symbols of origin. They trigger memories and sentiments, and I am able to reinvent and reinvest such objects with new meanings and identities via the new combinations that emerge from the collaged ceramic forms I create.
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I dag og i morgen kl. 10-12 laver vi Kintsugi inspirerede reparationer af ødelagt legetøj. Kom forbi Designmuseum Danmark og vær med. --via Instagram ift.tt/2qHWnSf
Poetically translated to “golden joinery,” kintsugi, or Kintsukuroi, is the centuries-old Japanese art of fixing broken pottery.
This unique method celebrates each artifact's unique history by emphasizing its fractures and breaks instead of hiding or disguising them. In fact, kintsugi often makes the repaired piece even more beautiful than the original, revitalizing it with a new look and giving it a second life.
but unfortunately not all broken things can be fixed by gold..
it’s quite intriguing to repair our own loss, pain, sorrow, heartache and traumas.. and all the damage that has been done.. only not to one person but also to our nature..
I think for this subject “TRUE LOVE” is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us “JOY”
‘LOVE’ and ‘ACCEPTANCE’ and ‘FORGIVENESS’ also signifies to give us strength and confidence..
I think that is the most powerful that can eliminate broken things.
ー-Ⓒᴜɴɪᴠᴇʀꜱᴇ X Chizuru Nakagawa
Emily Baxi
Director, Strategic Philanthropy, Milken Institute
Nate Blaylock
Chief Technology Officer, Canary Speech
Grace Chang
CEO, Kintsugi Mindful Wellness, Inc.
Olivier Elemento
Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Cornell University
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois