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Bend it stretch it anyway you like it
We are nearly halfway through Novemeber already, can you believe it? This year has flown, and yes we say that kind of thing every year, but this one just got crazy manic. With the amount of events, and ‘things’ on each and every week, there just didn’t seem to be a down time at all, you know those weeks that go on endlessly and we all anticipate the next big thing…I miss those boring weeks lol.
A mix of design houses today, in the form of LG Concept and Nyte n day. The jeans I have on both me’s are from LG Concept Femme, and they are really lovely, I especially like the patch work ones, I do admit to it taking a few hours for me to realise that the patches are in fact very religious in nature. But they say you wear your heart on your sleeve, so why not your religion on your pants . The Puiqe set from Nyte n Day is so darling, that it can be worn as a beautiful off the shoulder top, or as the all in one with so sexy flippy skirt. Another great recent item from Nyte n Day is the Capu Hoodie, this hoodie is so soft looking I could spend all day in it for reals. An added bonus is the length of the sleeves.
You may notice I am wearing the new Slink Jolie Hands, yes amazing sculpted hands. These end up at the mid forearm, and while the hud is so easy to use, and you do also have the option of jewelry to hid the seam, sleeves of this length with prims makes it perfect. Not only do you get wonderful nail polish options, but it also now comes with a nailpolish hud for tinting which means colours are endless. Other adorable accessories are the great glasses I am wearing from DECO, both the buddy and cats meow are fun to wear and come in a great variety of colours. It is wonderful having such a good range of real sculpted glasses nowadays.
The new boots I have on are the latest from Courtisane, and come in so many lovely colours, these are some of my favourites available and as usual Enktan of Enkythings built these beautifully. A great way to show off – finally – the Eva skins from Glam Affair is the new Vishe lingerie from Nyte n Day. Tanks long and short, as well as bra options are all great. The Eva skin has a wonderfully youthful look, with incredibly gorgeous pouty lips and beautiful make ups. All topped off with wonderful styles from Magika, that woman is a hair making machine, I cannot wait for more more more.
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Hair: Kyo, Cinta, Pixie, Layne – Magika
Skin: Eva – Glam Affair
Clothes: Immaculate Jeans, Miami Jeans – LG Concept
Puiqe set , Capu Hoodie, Vishe Lingerie – Nyte n Day
Shoes/Boots: Esprit de Sable – CourtisaneÂ
Accessories/Jewelry:
De Jolie Hands – Slink
Lia Scarf – Miel (flf)
Marina Tote – Indyra Originals
Buddy Glasses, Cats Meow Glasses – DECO
Lashes – LeLutka
Eyes by : Fusemelon
Poses by : Glitterati
Equipment Used:
VR Studio 3.0 and HUD and Library for location shoots – VR Foundry Mainstore , VR Foundry @ The Deck
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19.99 a minute
I asked Whimsy tonight, “What do you think we are missing from our blogs” her response “paid Subscribers, 19.99 a minute’ that girl is going to kill me one day. Seriously within minutes every day spent with her I end up choking with laughter, that she then panics because she doesn’t know how to dial 911 for Australia. I keep telling her its 000 and she just laughs at me. Right now she is looking up cheap flights in the UK…why? God only knows, she is just fixated on the fact that they have them lol.
DeLa recently released the Letti cowl neck sweater dress, and while as a dress this is gorgeous, it is killer as a seperate as well. So mixing the upper or lower portions with other pieces, I had a great time. So much of course that I ended it in the blue/choc combo because it is so cute I don’t want to change. I am wearing it in the beige as is, then with the pinkupper only with the new ripped low rise jeans from Nyte n Day, a recent release that are just great. The lower part, which really works well even with a jacket layer above, just a small pull down on the skirt prim, I am wearing with the GORGEOUS Season Sweaters from Fri.day, first with the belt that comes with the dress, and then secondly with the pashmina belt from Veschi that is at The Dressing Room blue for a short time.
The collar on the season sweaters is just amazing, so pretty, and I would love to see this done as a dress, such a beautiful style, that needs more options. Lucky me that the Elsa boots from Surf Co have such similar contrast colour options as the sweaters, so they are a must with these. With all of the pics I am wearing hair by LoQ…relatively new to hair in the past year, such a great release at Hair Fair with the lace cloche’s, these newer styles are all win. The Brucella (black) is actually a special in colour packs on Marketplace for only 50L a pack, a steal, and if you join her subscribo you get another style free as well.
I am wearing Eva the new Glam Affair skin, but more on that soon
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Hair: Iced Coffee, Brucella, Mocha – LoQ
Skin: Eva – Glam Affair
Clothes: Letti Cowl Neck Dress – DeLa
Seasons Sweater – Fri.day
Low rise ripped jeans – Nyte n Day
Pashmina Belt – Veschi ( the dressing room blue limited time )
Shoes/Boots: Sandra Sandals – DeLa
Elsa Boots – Surf Co.
Accessories/Jewelry:
Lashes – LeLutka
Eyes by : Fusemelon
Poses by : Glitterati
Equipment Used:
VR Studio 3.0 and HUD and Library for location shoots – VR Foundry Mainstore , VR Foundry @ The Deck
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Your Mumma wears army boots
I watched an incredible movie the other day, the idea was that you got to know exactly when you would fall in love with your soul mate. The movie is called timer, and you would think it would be straight forward and all that, but it was amazing the different things that could go wrong, or right as the case may be. What would it change in you ? the idea of knowing that something had a timer on it, wealth, happiness, love…would you be reckless until then? would you be a lazy moo and do nothing lol. All interesting thoughts really, fun film, you should watch it if you see it around.
Speaking of movies, Whimsy and I went to the unveiling of Harbinger last night, it is the latest movie by Phaylen Fairchild, and it is a totally different direction than Divas. This movie was scary, unfortunatly since last night it has gone private on YouTube, but probably just for some last minute editing. So you should look it up when you have a moment and want to be scared out of your wits.
Anyway, on to not scary things. The new boots by Gos are GTFO. These boots are great hiking style boots, with wonderful texturing features, as all Gos items have. This time though it will only be the fat packs that allow for combination changes, otherwise it’s a set look per colour combo. They were a perfect accompaniement to the latest items from Royal Blue, have you seen the new Royal Blue store? it is fabulous, a floating flagship in the sky, you really need to check it out, especially if you have been wanting some of her older items from her leLutka range, as they are all now in her outlet section.
I am wearing her What’s Up Spock leggings ( Marni has the best names for things) with some upper items from Aoharu, the off the shoulder top is just divine, and the simple leather jacket is going to get lots of wear in the future, it is stunning work texture and sculpty wise. The beautiful bag I am wearing on the left is a latest release from Ondyra Originals, the Marina Shoulder tote, such lush colours these come in, and the weave is great, they come with three options for wear, and the colours go with the shoes and clothing also recently released.
In the second pic I am wearing the latest Lounger sets from Fri.day, so fun and comfy, so much so that I went shopping in the sage and even then onto the movie premier in it last night lol. They all come in matchy matchy colours and prints, but you can of course mix and match like I did. The colours are also lovely for extenders under even shorter tops, as they come on all layers. After the movie I had a great time on the “Reap the Wild Wind bookpile’ created by W.Winx (which is of course Whimsy ) this build is amazing fun, and brings you back to those days home sick from school, when you could turn your imagination into the most wonderful of adventures.
You will of course have noticed all the beautiful hair I am wearing in this post, it is all by Elikatira (previously ETD) the styles are just beautiful, and luxurious in texture, I would be so hard pressed to find a favourite, I know that one in particular has been seen sported by many, but I would have to say Vivid the bottom right in the grey is just divine, It has everything and more you can want in a hairstyle….so beautiful.
Which brings me to the last pic, all of this of course wrapping itself around the divine pale version of Mima by LAQ. This skin was released just moments before Halloween, and I didn’t have a chance to show it then, but I don’t think it should only be considered as such, as it has such wonderful make ups, and only two of the skins comes with blood, which can be used for art, machinema, halloween, costumes, or RP, whatever works for you. The tone is beautiful and I decided to bring out the adorable dress by Rotten Toe to do it justice, as well as The Corrector neck corset, that seemed to fit right in.
To even out the visual I went with the latest wings by Material Squirrel, these are so amazing, that Kala has gone on to create in sculpted form, what she has always done with prims, is a testament to the passion and education that Second Life inspires amongst its residents.
Enjoy your day, and if you haven’t already read the High Res Myth post that Mel did earlier today, you need to. HERE
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Hair: Lasting 1 & 2 – Elikatira
Skin: Mima Pale – LAQ
Clothes: Off Shoulder Gauze Tunic, Basic Blouse Black, Simple Jacket – Aoharu
What’s Up Spock Leggings – Royal Blue
Helena Sash – Persona
Desi Sweater Dress – Eclectic Apparel
Shoes/Boots: GTFO Boots – Gos
Accessories/Jewelry:
Marina Shoulder Tote: Chinese Laquer – Indyra Originals
Lashes – LeLutka
Eyes by : Fusemelon
Poses by : Glitterati
Equipment Used:
VR Studio 3.0 and HUD and Library for location shoots – VR Foundry Mainstore , VR Foundry @ The Deck
Click HERE to SLURL’s Page.
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Hair: Melody, Fresh, Mood, Rush – Elikatira
Skin: Mima Pale – LAQ
Clothes: Lounge Set – Fri.day
Shoes/Boots:
Accessories/Jewelry:
Lashes – LeLutka
Eyes by : Fusemelon
Poses by : Glitterati
Reap The Wild Wind Bookpile – W.Winx
Equipment Used:
VR Studio 3.0 and HUD and Library for location shoots – VR Foundry Mainstore , VR Foundry @ The Deck
Click HERE to SLURL’s Page.
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Hair: Rush, Rumor, Vivid – Elikatira
Skin: Mima Pale – LAQ
Clothes: Dark Blossom Black – Rotten Toe
Paint Filled Dreams – Royal Blue
Shoes/Boots: Goth Ribbon Lace up boots – J’s
Accessories/Jewelry:
Diabolical Demon Wings – Material Squirrel
The Corrector – Maison Broceliande
Lashes – LeLutka
Eyes by : Fusemelon
Poses by : Glitterati
Equipment Used:
VR Studio 3.0 and HUD and Library for location shoots – VR Foundry Mainstore , VR Foundry @ The Deck
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The High Res Myth
Often Mel and I discuss questions that often come up in groups, or IMs about different things regarding Second Life limitations. I am not an expert, much of what I know I have learned from others, and by observation. What I do know though is that when I am stumped about something, I tend to go to Mel, and usually he has an incredibly precise answer. This was a recent discussion, and he mentioned that I should do a post on it, so I sent that idea back to him and invited him yet again to share his wisdom. I do hope that you get as much knowledge out of it as I did.
xoxSasyxox
To some, this information is old news, but once in a while I run across designers who misunderstand something and begin to design and advertise “high res” clothing, which is built using 1024×1024 clothing textures with the hopes of allowing for more detail in the clothing design. If this were truly possible, it would be great! Unfortunately, the way the clothing system works in SL, it is not at all beneficial to upload 1024 textures for clothing, and in some cases it is even harmful to the design, as I’ll illustrate below.
For this example, I have made 2 textures containing 1 pixel wide black and white vertical stripes – one with 512×512 pixels, and the other with 1024×1024. The textures were then applied to a skin, and I have photographed the results.
This first skin is using the image with 512 pinstripes on the 512×512 texture. As you can see, the stripes are present in as much detail as the viewer allows.
Here is the skin with 1024 pinstripes on a 1024×1024 texture. As you can see, the detail of the stripes is completely lost, as every pixel has been averaged out to 50% gray.
What happened to the pinstripes?
When you wear clothing layers in SL, there is a process that takes place to attempt to reduce the amount of data that needs to be sent to other avatars who can see you in world. It would require a crazy amount of bandwidth if the asset server had to send over every single texture for every clothing layer of your outfit, so the viewer does a little trick. When you wear an article of clothing, your viewer downloads the individual textures for all the clothing pieces, then sandwiches (bakes) them together into a single image for each of the parts – legs, torso, and head. This allows the entire outfit to fit into 3 textures, instead of the dozens of textures that go into the layers. These 3 textures are then uploaded to the asset server to be sent to anyone who can see your avatar. When the viewer generates these textures, they are generated at 512×512 resolution regardless of what the resolution of the clothing layers actually are! This is why the 1024×1024 resolution images these designers create never actually make it onto the avatar. This gray, unstriped avatar we see above is the result of resizing the 1024×1024 image down to 512×512. The color of each group of 4 pixels gets averaged together, and then turned into 1 pixel as illustrated below.
As a result, the detail of the stripes is completely destroyed, leaving behind only flat gray.
So! If you ever run across a designer claiming to sell “high res” clothes or skins, at least for the time being, they are either mistaken about the limits of SL clothing, or trying to create a false impression that their goods are on another level from those of “normal” designs. In the end, it’s all just a question of what they can fit into the 512×512 pixels they’re allowed, so just look closely at the design and let your eyes do the talking.
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Happy Anniversary Beulah
First off seeing as I am so slack and did not participate in the actual request…I wanted to aknowledge that it is the one year anniversary of Beulah Mills blog One thing at a time. A year is a huge achievement for any and all bloggers, it is that milestone that carries you into the nostalgic transition phase. You will question the way you blog, how you represent your blog, and what it is that you want to say or do with your blog. Beulah has always represented herself as one classy lady, the Manager of Ivalde and a very professional person. I have had dealings with her over the years both work related, blog related and more recently friend related…though we don’t talk that often, she is always so kind, and really lovely to know, and an incredible right arm for her Boss, with whom she is loyal like crazy for. Happy Anniversary Beulah and I hope that you see many more.
A stunning recent release of hair from Exile, these styles made me happy happy joy joy. Especially Crissy which is the updo that has two versions, one with bangs and this one without, I think both styles are fun, but I do adore the without more. Jennifer is the hat hair and we all know I love my hat/hair, this one is super fun, the style of hat is creative, and straw with different colour options is all win. The 3rd style Mella is a very flouncy curls style, not exactly beachwear style, but in this case, I only got into the water as high as you can see on the dress.
How fun is that, I have an old tshirt from a freebie box back in 06′ that is wet look, and I cannot throw it away lol, but the tank dress from deetalez may make that possible to do. You need something to cover up the mini micro kini, so little and leaves nada to the imagination. I am wearing the jolie pied feet from SLink, they recently sent out an update on these, so if you didn’t get yours, maybe check your inventory or ask the creator, these are the mid ones, that are partially on point, not sure if it was all of them.
The skin I am wearing is from Amacci, the skin is a recent release and as usual comes with a huge array of options. Cleavage, hairbases, and a hair bun for wearing the base with, so pretty too. I am only showing a few of the make ups available, there are 16 in all, so make sure you check out all the demos.
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Hair: Jennifer, Mella , Crissy 1 – Exile
Skin: Irina – Amacci
Clothes: Bikini Orange minimini, White Bikini Minimini, White wet/dry dress , Neckholder Dress Stripes– Deetalez
Shoes/Boots: Jolie Pied – SLinkÂ
Accessories/Jewelry:
Lashes – LeLutka
Eyes by : Fusemelon
Poses by : Frooti
Equipment Used:
VR Studio 3.0 and HUD and Library for location shoots – VR Foundry Mainstore , VR Foundry @ The Deck
