Another of these beautiful sims I had never been in yet… Someone on the forums recommended to have a look at it, and so I went and… took pictures again, yes. I purposefully chose to take night pictures, since I thought it was giving even more charm to the place. When the theme is clearly celtic, seeing its cottages and forests under the pale moonlight is definitely better!
building | serenite | pictures | screenshots | second life
I came to this realization yesterday, and it made both Sezmra and I chuckle:
Clothes in SL tend to be of better visual quality than clothes in RL.
Seriously, in our daily lives, how many times do we see clothes with seams that match perfectly, and other similar little details? Clothes manufacturers just never bother about that (or if they do, it’s for the kind of very expensive, high-quality outfits that I can’t afford, and have even never seen from close-up anyway). On the other hand, in SL, it looks to me like every somewhat-serious designer makes the effort of at least doing their best to match seams and textures—not to mention skins, in which case it’s a necessity for the templates’ borders to not be noticeable at all. Perhaps this is because we can never get the exact look ‘n feel of certain types of real clothes, and we try to compensate for this flaw in a different way?
Of course, this doesn’t mean that I won’t care anymore and start crapping out clothes by just slapping some texture over the whole thing and not worrying about seams. It’s just another of my usual musings.
Another one of these pathetic things I should’ve done long ago… getting an animation overrider. I could’ve sworn I had grabbed one some time ago (well, some months ago, should I say), but in the horrible mess that is my inventory, there’s just no way I could’ve found it no matter what. Whatever. I get quickly tired of the basic animations, especially of the walking one, which looks quite… clumsy. No idea why I never took the few minutes needed to go find an AO—perhaps it’s because I was always wearing this set of boots with a nice walk animation included, which covered my basic needs in that regard, therefore I didn’t feel the urge to lay my hands on something else?
Anyway, the Tana can now walk in a sexy way all the time. Even in heavy boots. Even if wearing fluffy slippers in the shape of a duck. Not that I have any. Should I ever sell my soul and get some slippers, I’d rather go for the Cthulhu-shaped ones.
No, I’m not drunk. Just glad that I can finally look at my avatar moving and not think “eek, looks dumb”. 
After seeing a screenshot of it (was it on Snapzilla, perhaps?), I came to realize this week-end that I had never visited the Neualtenburg sim before. This is why I went and took a few pictures myself. Let’s be honest, it would’ve been a shame to miss what it has to offer in terms of architecture and quality of building.
building | neualtenburg | pictures | screenshots | second life
So I finally decided to put the Shinigami uniform for sale, with a few add-ons. The complete outfit contains hakama, kimono, socks and shoes. I’ve also included Vice-captain armbands for the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 10th, 11th and 13th divisions (who doesn’t like a bit of ‘important function’ in life, after all).
Currently at Aozora and the Red Dragon Street Market (gee, how I love this place!).
Good thing that I checked the forums this morning, because this exhibition of pictures taken by Craig Horton only lasts through Monday, from what the post says. Faithful to my old habit of taking pictures when I go to any kind of event/place that’s worth it, here are a few shots. The photographs are really good, so if you want to go have a look by yourself, drop by Nocturnal Threads in Pimushe (118,43).
From left to right: Grand Central (Midtown) and Restaurant Row (Hell’s Kitchen), Bright Lights in Midtown, Washington & the NYSE, Brooklyn Bridge, Lady Liberty, towers and the Bull (downtown), The Mall (Central Park).
From left to right: Brooklyn Bridge, Staten Island Ferry & The Waterfront, Liberty statue, Brooklyn Bridge, Battery Park City (Downtown), Frogs at Battery Park City, Tulips at Trinity Church, Trinity Church, cops, NYSE at night, World Financial Center (and a glimpse of Washington statue again).
From left to right: Flower Market, Cabs in the street and “The Pride of Midtown” (a tribute to 9/11), Chumleys (the Village), Subway art, The Firefighter’s Prayer and Theatre District.
The ice skating ring in front of NY Library.
Various scenes from Central Park (including Bethesda’s Fountain).
Panels and inscriptions: The Smoker’s Prayer, Don’t Feed The Rats, Daydreamer Accepted.
new york | pictures | photography | screenshots | second life
...Is that, since its launch, I haven’t even used it once. For someone who used to take that many pictures in SL, it is indeed sad.
I absolutely needs to remedy to this horrible fact. Therefore, as of today, I’m going to start adding pictures here and there to my user page on Snapzilla. I guess these will mainy be isolated shots, pictures that don’t pertain to a specific series, contrary to what I did in this blog for, among other things, Atlantis. Although, who knows, I may end up posting said pictures to this blog as well, if it strikes my fancy.
Once again, I let things slip while not even realizing that it happened. This is why I came back to the SL Exchange website tonight, retrieved the latest Magic Box(*) version, and rezzed it in world to fill it with juicy inventory again. I swear, someday I’ll notice that something’s wrong before two or three months have passed. At the least, I hope that everything’s working fine by now. It did when I tested them, and it’d better go on this way, because it’s a hassle to update.
(*) Okay, I can never say these words without laughing. Why it’s named like a food box for kids in a French fast-food joint…
It was the only design which files were on my laptop, but I suppose that even having the other ones under the hand during today’s evening wouldn’t have changed much to the fact that I worked some more on the Shinigami uniform. Proof’s on the right of this post. I even went as far as to grab a few more modeling poses along the way!
(Now… I just hope I got the shoes alright—these are definitely not the kind of ‘clothes’ I work on the most often, and I need more practice.)
All in all, I think I’m done with it. A few more days to let my mind rest on it, then I can take it back and decide whether to keep it for myself or not. Anyway, I suppose it wouldn’t harm to work on more armbands models, just to be able to change it if the mood strikes. I like making those.
It may seem weird that it took me so much time to realize that I was missing creating clothes, but… stuff happens, as they say. Next time I’m tempted to not work on any design for ages, I’ll try to remember that it’s not that a good idea.
/off to a good night’s sleep now
Oh. Em. Gee. I think I need to thank Mr. Kubo on this one, for providing me with a burst of inspiration recently. So, yeah, I’ve discovered I’m a big Bleach fan, and after having dashed through the 24 available volumes of the manga and some of the anime episodes, what was more natural for me than… yes, you get it. I decided to make a Shinigami uniform. See here the result, which I’m quite satisfied with. I even pushed it as far as to add a vice-captain armband (I picked the 10th division one. Don’t ask me, I quite like Rangiku-san’s character. I’ll likely end up making one for each of the Gotei 13 anyway, just because I can.).
I’m now toying with the idea of adding captain uniforms, too, but the coats would be a hassle to make, and I’m not too fond of simply ‘drawing’ them as part of the hakama/shirt… Heh. Perhaps I’m being too perfectionist on this one. It wouldn’t be impossible.
Will I sell this? I don’t know yet. Maybe. It’s nothing very original in itself, but hey, at this rate, crafting a pair of shoes or a hakama in general isn’t ‘original’ either, so why should I be ashamed. I’ll see how it goes. I still need to complete the oufit with the associated tabi and shoes themselves, and I doubt I can do that before next week, but who knows…
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