thank you for always being there for me, even when i am trying to kill you. there is no possible way i could be in this life without you
you hold me still when all i want to do is run in terror from everything around me.
you’re the only one who knows what i mean… you’re there when the whole world is falling to pieces…
when i can’t sleep you’re there to lean against and watch over me until my eyes flutter closed.
i feel like i don’t say it enough. but I LOVE YOU.
i always love finding recreations of real world places in sl. even though sl is supposed to be a make-believe world where we can be anywhere we want, it’s nice sometimes to be on earth, in present day, in a place that i’ve actually been to before when i was younger.
when i was a kid, my mother used to take us on small road trips to visit different places in the states closest to us. one year we went to the rock and roll hall of fame. i sadly have no photos of the trip because cameras were not allowed inside the hall of fame but it was one of my favourite vacations ever.
last weekend lucas found this place by accident. he was trying to fix a glitch where he was stuck floating and tp’ed randomly on the map to see if he would stop. he ended up here and tp’ed me immediately. he thought he’d just found cleveland, but as i started panning the camera around… i found it.. the rock and roll hall of fame. unfinished, no exibits, but the building was there, and almost exactly like the real one.
places like this make me smile. as summer comes to a close, and i no longer have the money to afford small road trips in real life, it was nice to have almost a mini summer vacation in my second life. sadly i was pressed for time because we were about to go to the artist’s park opening so i neglected to get an lm, but hopefully we will find it again.
so usually i avoid places that are popular at least until they calm down a little. i hate trying to take photos in crowded areas, because someone always walks into my camera view. but last night lucas and i ventured to chouchou for the very first time, and i issued him a challenge. we would both take photos and see who would be better. i haven’t seen his finished ones yet but i chose 2 from the ones i took and this is what i came up with.
this one is slightly manipulated, adding some painted hair and a wing. also kinda fuzzied the photo a little.
this one was done completely with windlight, using a torley windlight setting called “good for marriage” no photoshop tweeking except for resizing a little.
chouchou was beautiful, i want to see one of the band’s shows now…
also do make sure you check out the hud, i didn’t use it to take these photos but it really makes you see the sim in a new way. very cool.
jeebus this shop thing is taking over my every waking moment! but it’s going to be worth it…
i just wanted to check in on my poor neglected blog for a moment. last night i did the CSR stamp rally and omg why haven’t i seen this before?!?! i had so much fun and found so many kick ass shops to go visit again when i have more cash!
plus, the prizes were wow… first i nabbed the freshman bag from gritty kitty but then my second prize was this beautiful thing:
!!! is that not the most gorgeous freaking armor you have ever seen? it’s all glowing and shiny… and the gun works! i ended up blowing my self up half way across the sim but still… seriously awesome 😮
today is the last day to do this so check out this page and do what it says! if you’re getting confused there is a visual diagram for the instructions and it is in english as well as japanese so check that out for more help.
this has actually been around for a while now but i forgot to plug it! so if you have any LuNi Designs products and you’ve taken photos of them, we’d love to add them to the group! there’s no limits to how many photos you can post so feel free to join and flood 😀 just as long as the photos contain at least one LuNi Designs item somewhere in it, it’s eligible to be added!
not much else to say, just wanted to let people know that existed.
oh yes.. one other thing i forgot about. i’m making video demos for our animated objects (love kills, suicide talker, stop talking, etc) so people can see what the products do before they buy them.. because i am a nerd with fraps.. and i can lol
saturday i was pleased to be witness to the opening of the new arthole gallery by arahan claveau and nebulosus severine. these two are good friends of mine and impressive artists both inside and outside of second life™.
arthole was comprised of 3 levels the first and second of which were shared by arahan and nebulosus while the third level was given over to the crazy mind of ichibot nishi who’s installation was MINDBLOWING.
one of the highlights of any installation by these three is the creativity they show in making non-static art pieces. from the spinning pages of arahan’s journals, to nebulosus’ giant television, and ichi’s case… floating breast spheres. these folks bring 3d to their artwork in a way that is both appealing and in no way boring. some of the pieces were even interactive! (try colliding with arahan’s “shoot me” piece head on and watch the colours change)
after checking out the art we were treated to a great (and unplanned) party dj’ed by arahan and nebulosus, which ended up with some of us dancing in our undies hehe.
if you are part of the arthole group, don’t miss the chance to check out this awesome gallery! not a member of the arthole group? well you’ll have to take that up with them.
i took alot of photos so i’m just going to link to to my flickr account. they are all there
yes i know i mentioned in the last blog that i would review something every wednesday and yes that is still in the works, but thanksgiving was this week so i was busy.
lucas made awesome turkey hats and handed them out to the LuNi Designs Group. didn’t get one? well you have to be a member of our group, and the only way to be in there is to purchase something :p.
we had a lovely thanksgiving dinner and invited our friends but sadly only 2 of them could come. still we said what we were thankful for and then sat at the table with our animated forks and exchanged photos of us in our noob days. nada excluded since she was only noobish for an hour before i got on and bought her skin and stuff lol.
now that thanksgiving is out of the way i’m going to try and focus on making some new stuff for our store and hopefully we’ll have a shop or two in world in the near future.
also on the list for things to get, ram for my computer because i really wanna play with windlight :p
ok i think my resolution for the new year is going to be to make this blog not suck lol. yeah that probably won’t happen but i think i’ll try to post at least once a week.made the layout all wintery cause it’s getting cold out there.
we had a wonderful halloween party in october, which i forgot to blog about, so here’s photos from it:
it was a great night and we thank all that took the time to show up on such short notice 😀
windlight first look was opened to the public at the start of the week and wow is it cool…
unfortunately, using those sky settings lags my pc down to 1fps 🙁
and of course this is also a downer.. my laptop can’t even support shaders… so i get this:
not even a cloud for my sky 🙁
anyway i’m not sure what else to write. got to go to irl work pretty soon. i think i’ll do a review on wednesdays… that should get me blogging.
