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    Building - Chameleonic Possessions - SecondLife Steampunk

    AT LAST: A new Steampunk flight-assist topper listed for #SecondLife

    July 4, 2011 - By 

    I’ve been wearing it enough – for months, actually, and my friend BookemJackson Streeter loves hers, so it’s not like I couldn’t go ahead and box it up for sale, right? Right!! At last!  Have fun flying around your favorite Second Life locations in the Steamlands or anywhere with this Flight Assist Topper. In an antique Western medicine-show style, with flexi feathers and rotating, golden gears. Haida Indian sunburst detail on the gears; now you can visit Steelhead or one of the other Western themed Steampunk sims in style.This hat was originally a gift in the STEAM 4 hunt but…

  • Get Excited and Make Things - the crown image is made of wrenches
    Building - Second Life

    Scaling Down: Something To Ponder

    June 25, 2011 - By 

    I’m using the celebrations at #SL8B as a way to get more socially active in Second Life; have to admit that it’s been occasionally exhilarating getting IMs from old friends and new friends saying “get over here!” or “OMG famous people at this party.” I had never actually seen a Linden with my own virtual eyes and real monitor until I went to the Thursday event, which featured an appearance but no speeches by Rodvik Linden and Lexie Linden. I now have an actual Linden bear, and yes, I know I could get a bunch more at “Bear Island” on…

  • Happy girl: me thinking about learning 3D modeling Overwhelmed girl: Me learning 3D modeling, covered by texts: shit ton of hot keys, smooth shading terrible, Ctrl-Z Ctrl-Z Ctrl-Z
    Building - Second Life - Steelhead - Steelhead Shanghai

    Kaʻiulani: The Sad Peacock Princess

    February 22, 2011 - By 

    During the course of making and decorating items for my shop in the STEAM hunt, I was struck by the story of Princess Ka’iulani of the Kingdom of Hawaii, who was deposed before she ever ruled by American business interests, and who died young after spending many years being educated in England. She was a proper Victorian lady of royal birth, and like the inestimable Isabella Bird, is an inspiration. In fact, she was known as the Peacock Princess, and so I have decided to include peacock feathers in my hunt gift, because God knows we all need a little…

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    Building - Cafe Wellstone - Chameleonic Possessions - Second Life - Steelhead - Virtually Anything

    Creativity Killers: The Internets, TV, Fear, And Everything Else

    February 19, 2011 - By 

    Creativ(ity) is an easy kill. A simple search of creativity killers yields a multitude of would be candidates: television, the Internet, inflexibility, too much flexibility, fear, lack of fear, goals, lack of goals, time pressure, too much time. The list is sizable. via Phasing Grace | Social Architectures and Virtual Worlds: A Penchant for Creativity – Knights and Nobles. Wow! Yes. I am a little behind on a commitment I made to myself and to others to create, create, create. And the killers are all listed above, but chiefly “fear, surprise, terror, and an almost ruthless INefficiency” which causes me…

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    Building - Chameleonic Possessions - Dhughan

    Dhughan Triumphs Over Adversity …mumble…Bally walking sticks had stumped him

    February 17, 2011 - By 

    Dhughan here, having returned from a trip to a strange, sandy land to consult with an alien entity concerning a technical difficulty. With this help I was able to work out how to use Mme. Kamilah Hauptmann’s open source cane control script so that I could use her charming and clever Gentleman Jim and GJ Cane AO’s with one of my humble walking sticks. I spoke with a being who wore the sigil of a green lantern on her chest (their homeworld is most impressive), who traced the fault in my ivory-handled stick to either an incorrect rotation around its…

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    Building - Second Life - SecondLife

    I Too Am A #SecondLife Hoarder

    February 16, 2011 - By 

    Just like this woman here, except that most of my stuff is not rezzed, it’s just sitting in my inventory making me wonder “what the hell is that?” And then a lot more of it is boxed up in an “organizer” which isn’t really that useful, and consists of freebies from various seasonal hunts that are individually nice, but collectively are a nightmare. What to do? The memories! I can’t dump them!

  • Second Life screenshot shows a fantasy cottage with lots and lots of scripted DFS trees and plants.
    Building - Chameleonic Possessions

    GIMPing Around #SecondLife Making Lamps and Hats and a Mess in my Inventory

    February 15, 2011 - By 

    I’ve spent too many hours tinkering with GIMP, trying to find images in Picasa, fooling with the Second Life editor trying to find stuff in my inventory, and struggling to remember all the nifty ideas I had for products… on the other hand, I DID get one new product listed today, and I’ll have another couple ready to go in the next few days. Wow, it was a tough hurdle, but I eventually cleared it. Meanwhile, still working on a better method for organizing inventory. Anyway, here is “The Man In The Kyomoon Lamp.” It’s technically a lamp, but it’s…

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    Building - Second Life - Virtually Anything

    My Brain is Blended

    February 14, 2011 - By 

    I just took an excellent class at Builder’s Brewery in Second Life given by Eleanora Newell, need to copy some of the class notes and the link for the information I need. Also, have to reinstall the latest version of the “public” or free-will version of JASS-2. Blender: Begin with Basics Before you attend the Blender: Begin with Basics class, please get the latest free version of JASS-2 inworld in Second Life at: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Jass/145/191/24 You will need to pay 1L$ to be given your download page. Install the version needed for your OS and platform (both Mac and PC versions…

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    Building

    Messiah Studio for $10-40 – Just Playin’ Around Money

    February 10, 2011 - By 

    It’s an incredible deal for 3D modeling software. What the heck, it’s normally almost $1200 for the pro version. If enough people “dare to share,” they get the software. If not, the money is refunded (and I paid via PayPal, which can’t hurt). It’s overkill, but may be fun to play with for Second Life purposes. The software company pmG Worldwide is conducting a viral test marketing campaign by selling their award-winning animation/rendering engine Messiah Studio 5 for an incredibly low price. There are two options for purchase, the first being a limited-feature basic edition for $10 (regularly priced at…

  • Second Life screenshot shows a fantasy cottage with lots and lots of scripted DFS trees and plants.
    Building

    Blender: I’m about to do something very stupid

    January 23, 2011 - By 

    We have just repackaged Jass-2.3.5 so that your entry to meshes next week is well prepared. The brief list of fixes/features is: NEW: Mesh support: A fix to the Collada-1.4 exporter. NEW: Mesh support: We now also distribute the avatar.blend FIX: removed old “pyc” files python compiled sources. NEW: the factoryreset program has been rewritten. FIX only jass-pro: multi part bakes now independent of choice of parent part. FIX only jass-pro: Precision regression caused by missalignements in UV map customers: You will find the new jass-2.3.5 pub and free in your personal download folder and we hope you have bookmarked…