Written 29 November, 2011
Blizzard!
Seems we're having an unexpected blizzard on Whimsy!
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Written 29 November, 2011
Return to SLeezyWood
I should know better than to seek destinations at the Linden Showcase. I'm usually disappointed.
My last venture was to a place that sells mobile homes and RVs. It looked too much like a real RV lot-- flat and boring-- but unlike real life sales lots, this one was chock full of camera traps. I had one hell of a time getting out of this vehicle:
Do you see me driving this thing across the country? No way!
And so I took myself to a place that KNOWS how to make trailers trashy-- the one and only SLeezyWood!
Besides, I was low on herb and intent on raiding this shed I found back in early 2007:
Alas, the shed and the grow lights and the plants were gone-- no doubt hauled away in a bust by the ever-vigilant Bay City police-- but I did find some classically shabby blue-collar abodes. Photos are below the fold.
HO-Made Pizza! Sheesh!
Saturday, November 26, 2011
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| "Must... Get... Penny... Royce's... Name... Off... The... Scoreboard!" |
Baja Rides the Bull
Baja Mekanic, who lives rent-free in the lava of the volcano Pele (she seems to like him), holds the high score on the bull-riding game at Whimsy's PG Den of Iniquity.
Even though he holds the high score, Baja seems obsessed with beating his record. Here's what I witnessed last night:
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| "Okay, Bull, It's Just You and Me!" |
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| "That's What I'm Talking About!" |
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"Where'd I Go? Where'd I Go?"
I left and came back later; Baja was still on the bull. I suspect he rode it far into the night, just as I once did. See here and here. |
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| Notice the All-Prim Top Worn by the Avatar in Blue |
Now You See Them, Now You Don't!
(AAOOOGAAH! NUDE BREASTS BELOW THE FOLD)
I rarely wear revealing clothing in Second Life-- probably partially because despite a body that's far less than perfect, I've always worn exactly what I wanted in Real Life, and probably partially because I think more is sometimes less (in other words sometimes more clothing is sexier than little or no clothing).
Night before last I tracked Sweetie to a fancy dress show. She straightaway crashed, leaving me to stand and look around.
Straightaway, I noticed an avi with an all-prim top.
Now, all-prim tops are subject to disappearing because they don't rez properly or just haven't rezzed yet, so I was surprised when, after seeing her breasts covered, they suddenly popped out.
What? Had her top derezzed? No, most of it was there; only the part covering her breasts had disappeared. Was it mesh, which my viewer is not supposed to see? No, because I had seen it earlier.
When I next looked, her breasts were only partially uncovered.
I finally realized the most likely explanation was the prims covering her breasts were scripted to appear and disappear at random, or perhaps when cued.
Which begs the question why wasn't the damned thing turned off in public.
Don't you just know she had something to prove? Like, oh, I don't know, that she has no breasts in real life or if she does they're small or overly large or saggy? And that even if she has breasts and they're perfect, she would never dare to reveal them in public?
One of the reasons I like Second Life is that it allows people to express themselves in ways they cannot or dare not in real life. And yet when people are over the top vampires or sluts or she-males or slaves or would-be models, it just makes me feel sorry for them.
Friday, November 25, 2011
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| Catharsis |
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| Night on Bald Mountain |
Written 25 November, 2011
Tyrehl Byk's Fabulous Catharsis Particle Show: Go Immediately and See It
Tyrehl's latest show is Catharsis, and it's truly a tour de force.
Through interaction of particle, prims, music, and camera viewpoint, Catharsis not only paints pictures in the sky-- it takes its audience through the same sort of journey 1940 viewers experienced when seeing Walt Disney's Fantasia .
Tyrehl's show has some abstract particle effects, to be sure, but he's skillful at painting pictures with particles, making, for instance, constantly changing trees.
This is the last weekend, so go NOW and see it.
Here's the New World Notes article on the show.
Here's the URL for Tyrehl's schedule.
And here's the SLURL for the particle show.
More photos forthcoming.
GO NOW!
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Written 24 November, 2011
Free Foliage at Nature's Touch Nursery
Yesterday a friend told me everything at Ricardo Avalira's Nature's Touch Nursery on the Sweet Water sim is free until the 27th.
I tried to go last night, but the teleports silently failed. Tonight another friend IMed to tell me about the sale. I kept trying until I got in, and then teleported in Sweetie.
Sure enough, everything on huge plot was free-- evergreen and deciduous trees, palms, flowers, grasses, garden structures, off-sim islands-- hundreds and hundreds of items. The only item that wasn't free was Ricardo's tree house, which was priced at $100L.
Needless to say, I stocked up-- and so should you! Go here. Keep trying until you get in.
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