Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Grand Opening of the Island of Fear Haunted Mansion -Sunday Sept. 11th 2011 at 2pm SLT

Grand Opening Party This Sunday 9-11-11 at 2pm SLT

Please join us for fun, dancing and a creepy yet humerous explore Sunday, September 11th at 2pm SLT for the grand opening of the Island of Fear Haunted Mansion on the Island of Fame sim. Dj Izzy Mavendorf will be spinning tunes for rooftop dancing while guests can dance or explore this large 4 story very interactive haunted mansion that will then remain open through October. I'd love to see all my blog followers at the party. There is even a group for photos and machinima made there. LInk here for the opening party: slurl.com/secondlife/Island%20of%20Fame/14/145/21 or direct link here: HauntedMansionHere. and here for the Flickr group: www.flickr.com/groups/1775081@N23/

Yes.. I put this haunted mansion together along with the help of some friends. Lowe Runo and Sonicity Fitroy are partners in crime. Drake Huet helped with the privacy walls. I love to explore SL and have been wanting to do a haunted house since I joined SL so this is a chance for me to give something back after enjoying all the live music, art, fashion, products and constructs everyone else has provided me with for hours of fun. Please join us,bring friends and if you cant make the opening feel free to visit and explore through the end of October at which time it will be taken down for other things to be announced.

The visitor's note card reads:
*WELCOME TO ISLAND OF FEAR HAUNTED MANSION*
Long long ago two young girls, twins in fact, resided on this island with their grandmother who was quite the prankster. While their grandmother found it amusing to play jokes on the young girls, they grew to fear and despise her. As years passed and the girls grew into adults they both had daughters themselves. The girls inherited their great-grandmother's home and spirit for pranks. The young great grand-daughters return to the homestead each fall for a so-called vacation and to practice their own form of trickery which has grown darker and more sinister over the years. The locals are aware the girls visit but only because of rumors and the lights seen in the windows at night but no one ever sees them in town. Some say the girls have become evil and won't set foot on their property..... others, more daring souls are curious and sneak onto the land and into the old run down house by night to see if they can summon the girls... many visit but few escape unchanged. Visit if you dare. Mwahahaha
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Island of Fear Haunted Mansion located on Island of Fame is a very interactive 4 story plus rooftop dance haunted house area. To fully appreciate this build please dim lighting and be sure to click on everything.

Take a landmark, tell your friends and return to the haunted mansion any time through October 31st or for some of the special events to be announced. Keep an eye open for all kinds of strange creatures and characters showing up.

Photos and machinima are encouraged and welcome and we’ve created a Flickr group to post to as we’d love to see anything made here. http://www.flickr.com/groups/1775081@N23/
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*USE THE MAGIC TELEPORT DOOR BY THE LANDING TO GAIN DIRECT ACCESS TO THE ROOFTOP DANCE AREA OR EXPLORE THE GROUNDS AND WORK YOUR WAY UP. *
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Some of the many Interactive spot cheats:
-Use magic teleporters to gain access to the attic and rooftop dancing.
-Be sure to sit in all the kitchen, dining room and study chairs for extra fun.
-There are some special tombstones in the grave yard along with gallows and a grave that are interactive.
-The dungeon is a bit tricky to enter through the external cave entrance but once in there enjoy all the “toys” in the large area. Well worth the visit.
-Try clicking on various items around all the rooms for extra fun, jump and sit in spider webs., etc. Some pose balls may be hidden-try typing … 1/show …in local chat to see.
-The child’s bedroom offers free dolls to keep and play with at the interactive doll house. Click child’s head and bed if not moving.
-The master bedroom bed has various animations and the large room picture has a menu for couples.
-Rez and ride an eel under the water which can only be easily accessed at one small spot straight out from the stone path.
-Free candy on the landing stairs in a cauldron
-Explore, click, and have fun
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For questions or comment please contact Kara Trapdoor
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Note: This is a mature sim and while there are places with full menus please no nudity or couples acts directly in front of others. Have fun but be respectful of others at all times. Thanks and enjoy!

Free SFL t-shirt Commemorates 9-11

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(Kathy Nikolaidis models the shirt)

Justin Rallier, a player on the SFL-TGF Dolphins team made these cool 9-11 t-shirts as a tribute and is putting them up on the SL marketplace for free. He is also working on a beanie too. Check it out here: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/products/search?search%5Bcategory_id%5D=&search%5Bmaturity_level%5D=G&search%5Bkeywords%5D=NEVER+4+GET+%5B9%2F11%5D+SFL+BOXED+ or direct link here: SFLSept11shirtshere.

Fashion, Fashion, Fashion!! Modavia and BOSL Fashion Weeks Coming UP!

BOSL Fashion Week 2011- September 18-25th
I write for BOSL magazine's Events & Society section each month so I try to keep on top of their events and all things BOSL, but the annual fashion week is something anyone in SL should pay attention to, even if a person is not totally into shopping and fashion (not sure who that might be but ok). The fashion week is notorious for the most amazing presentations. Last year had impressive sets, special effects, props, and outfits presented in a very entertaining manner. Cutting edge sets by premier architects, top models, RL and SL fashion designers, I can't wait.
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The press release outlines the shows:
-September 18th 10:00am SLT- GIZZA (stage set by Bryn Oh)
-September 19th 4pm SLT-Virtual Super Heros (stage set by Mike Denneny & Willilicious Georgette
-September 20th 4pm SLT-The Perfect Storm-Shan Bathing suit collection (stage set by Tricia Farella)
-September 21st 4pm SLT-Red LIght District (stage design by Fae Varirale)
-Spetember 22nd 4pm SLT-Avant -Garde (stage set by ColeMarie Soleil)
-September 23rd 6pm SLT-The Divaa's Shop (stage design by Thorne Dreadlow)
-September 24th 10:00am SLT-Le Rought Fashion Show (stage design by Cherry Manga)
-September 24th 2:00pm SLT-Nicky Ree (stage design by: DB Bailey
-September 25th 10:00amSLT-The Domino Effect (stage design by Nish Mip)
September 25th 1:00pm -BOSL Fashion Week closing celebration-A tribute to who started it all. (stage design by Maddox Dupont with live performance by ColeMarie Soleil)
BOSL Fashion Week DJ: Sofia Diage


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Modavia Fashion Week --September 8 -15th
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Monday, September 5, 2011

Good Ol' Charlie Brown

Charlie Brown once said “There is no problem so big it cannot be run away from.”
(Just an interesting quote provided by a SL friend)

Retropolitan in Second Life

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The last couple of months I've written articles for the Retropolitan Magazine in Second Life. My first was about retro hair styles and for September I wrote about the sim, Virtual Montmartre, which is an impressive art sim full of galleries, clubs, events, The Moulin Rouge, etc., and all things art and theatrics which I was quite impressed with. The magazine is filled with wonderful articles about sims, products and retro information in Second Life. It's a journal of style, fashion, and culture. Visit their main office here: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Esoterica/31/74/21 or direct link here: RetropolitanHere.
Their online magazine and site information can be found here: http://retropolitan.org/Retropolitan_Magazine/Home.html or direct link here: RetropolitanOnlineHere.

Sneak Peak-Something Wicked This Way Comes.....

It's Cooommmmiiinnngggggg!

Just a little teaser of something I will be sharing soon.
(photo: Acousticenergy Nitely & Kara, Isabelle Mavendorf, Kathy Nikolaidis, and Dividni Shostakovich)

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Mesh, The Good the Bad and the Ugly

Addendum: Today 9-6-1 I heard Firestorm came out with a Mesh beta ... 'haven't tried it yet, but I will. Then I read Carrie Lexington's blog post about it just now and she has good things to say. Her pics looks good and she says the mesh outfits are fluid with no prim parts sticking out and the clothes move with the body.. wow.. that sounds great. I want! Anyway.. check her blog out here: http://slifefantastic.blogspot.com/ or direct link here: SLifeFantasticHere.
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Original Post
I'm on Phoenix viewer... I hope to stay on Phoenix until the other viewers become more stable and user friendly for me. I have tried, really I have. I see some good points in V2 or 3, whatever that I REALLY want for myself. But even still...

Mesh

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(WTF Mesh?)

So I thought I'd check out this "Mesh" everyone is talking about lately. They had some freebies and things with Mesh demos at a store so I went with a friend to check it out. What I saw amounted to avatars with boxes on them. That was seriously what I saw. Short avatars had oddly shaped colored box looking bodies and taller avatars were strange shaped boxes with their head sticking out. Nice. So a friend switch to a couple of different mesh enabled viewers and saw the outfits perfectly fine as intended. In another store the Mesh model looked like a big 3d oval ball. The moral of this story is.. if all is going Mesh some day.. Phoenix won't let me see it at least for now, meaning if a person wears the mesh outfit Phoenix viewer people wont see them. This can't be fun for the wearer of the Mesh outfit, or for the Phoenix viewer people. The logical question was could Phoenix viewer people see the um.. bits.. under or through the box?.. and the answer is no. God only knows what products will look like. So maybe Phoenix has an update or an adjustment to see Mesh but I have not heard about it yet and therefore probably most other people have not either. If anyone knows of this please please let me know.

Today is Phoenix Viewer's one year birthday. Jessica talks about this and all things SL and Phoenix on her site here: http://www.phoenixviewer.com/ direct link here: PhoenixHere. Thankfully she fully addresses the Mesh issue and also indicates Firestorm will soon work with Mesh. I am still not overjoyed with losing Phoenix to Firestorm or any other viewer at this point. For me Phoenix is easy to use, has all the wonderful features and interface I love and takes great pictures and machinima for me. Some of my fav features, specifics in radar, stability (a biggy) and photo quality is lost on some of the others at this point. Maybe viewer changes are being released before they are ready???

Blogger Seraphin did a wonderful interview and got a pretty good explanation of Mesh out of an exceptional SL builder Maxwell Graff here: http://seraphimsl.com/?p=6322 or direct link here: SeraphimHere.