• Yes We Are Calm now SHUT THE FUCK UP
    Building - Chameleonic Possessions - Photography - Second Life

    Blender? Blimey, Begin @ The Beguineing, Sheepishly

    January 21, 2011 - By 

    Dhughan attended yet another class on sculpted prims, and came away shaking his head at choices offered if we want to get serious about making stuffs again – and not get too frustrated at our inability to make anything besides blobs. Sculptypaint, for all its excellent freeness, is really limited in its usefulness. It’s marvelous for producing simple-ish geometric shapes, which can also be twisted and textured in the program. It’s a steller smoother, if a sculpt has been produced with a different program. But for detailed sculpting, or a carved or high-relief look, not easy to use. So hey,…

  • Second Life : Keep Calm And Carry On
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    Possible in Second Life: Leyat Propeller Cars

    January 14, 2011 - By 

    This is just the kind of impractical yet endearingly retro design that would work well in Second Life as a scripted vehicle. Before the world completely gave up on the notion of flying cars, manufacturer Leyat decided that we can fly without ever leaving the ground; all we need is an overpowered engine and a dangerously light chassis. Sporting an 8 horsepower radial plane engine and an over-sized wooden propeller, it took a while for Leyat to come up with a relatively safe design. Originally planned as a 3-wheeler, this idea was scrapped when the prototype crashed over, and over…

  • Second Life cows and bulls
    Building - Photography

    Visit Beautiful Northfarthing in #SecondLife

    January 12, 2011 - By 

    Northfarthing is a pleasant fantasy-medieval sim, and recently it’s gotten a mountain-sized makeover. A lot of the old Abbey remains, but it’s been completely rebuild on one side and has lots of balconies with nice views of the new mountains, an intriguing ruin, and a beautiful rocky stone-henge. The old Green Dragon inn is gone, and some of the other places I remember; but the remaining homes, cottages and castles are really pretty. Also, there’s stuff to buy. But the mountains were the big surprise, as there was nothing but empty sea surrounding Northfarthing before. Now it’s enclosed by a…

  • Second Life cows and bulls
    Building - Second Life

    Walk In The Maine Woods

    January 10, 2011 - By 

    Here’s a nice walk in the Maine woods the typist took a few years back. I like the curved rails and may work them into a build one day. I’ve been working inworld, at last, trying not to get bogged down or immobilized by the fear of failure. Made more headway on the shell of the Steelhead St Helens dry goods store. Almost ready… have a lot of ideas, don’t want to psych myself out after being stumped. Speaking of which, I made a fair approximation of a stump after getting an example of one from a Steelhead neighbor to…

  • Keep Calm and Change the Subject... turn that crown upside down!
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    Resist Our Robot Overlords! Price Reduced On Virtual Land #SL

    January 4, 2011 - By 

    I’d just like to say that some robots are very nice people and quite funny. But the landbot ones that scoop up your land when you set the price to some crazy low price by mistake are a bit of  a nuisance. Heh, yes, I have a horror of landbots. I used to live next to a 16m parcel that had a daily visit from a mysterious Puppet person. I realize they perform a useful function, but they’re creepy. I’ve just reduced the price on the 512 lot to $L2250, and the 1024 lot to $L4500. Reasonably entertaining offers will…

  • Second Life avatar sitting on a market stall stacked with empty inventory boxes
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    Otterly Fun

    December 31, 2010 - By 

    see more Lolcats and funny pictures Dhughan here; just dipping a paw to test the waters and update a little. Shall be building and repairing items for Miss Lelani’s new digs in Steelhead Shanghai, and fortunately it’s near water. Whether in human form or not, it shall be otterly fun.

  • Steampunk robots dancing cheek to cheek
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    Another Parcel For Sale, More Coming

    December 30, 2010 - By 

    I hope some more of my Tintafel neighbors might like some primlots; I’ve sold one to the photographer across the way already. The next one is priced to prevent botting, but anybody interested should contact me inworld to talk a little virtual turkey. I’m posting via aetheric iMarconi at the moment, but the slurl is: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tintafel/215/210/100/?title=Tintafel%20Grassland%201%20%24L3000&msg=You%20can%20never%20have%20enough%20prims At least one other neighbor is actively creating; it’s a shame I’m moving on just as someone interesting is working on a fun project involving SHARKS ZOMG etc. etc. She had them swimming around her house yesterday. I’m probably going to keep a smaller…

  • Second Life avatars dance around a bonfire in fantasy garb.
    Building - Chameleonic Possessions

    Housekeeping

    December 26, 2010 - By 

    It’s been a good few months since I did anything productive around my mainland holdings. I finally did some tidying up, and spent some time thinking about what I’d like to do next, and what my goals might be for accomplishing that. I will probably be selling off some of my mainland holdings and throw in my lot with the excellent folks in Steelhead; they are a terribly creative bunch when it comes to home and store builds, air armadas, naval junks, and what-not. My plans are up in the air, though; I will have to give matters serious thought.…

  • Get Excited and Make Things - the crown image is made of wrenches
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    Needed my awesome amplified, Torley comes through again

    December 25, 2010 - By 

    This is so helpful to me in my current “blocked” condition. Most of these entities are in my head, or I fear that I could turn into one of them. an artist’s job is to make art So keep creating. Can you relate? “There will always be trolls, haters, critics, copiers, feedback both good and bad, and the artist must always express themselves in spite of this, to take in what is useful to them, let the rest go, and not get caught up in their own negativity.” via Torley amplifies your awesome. • So keep creating..

  • Steampunk robots dancing cheek to cheek
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    Brushes with Greatness

    April 19, 2010 - By 

    I’ll be downloading some brushes from Obsidian Dawn shortly – it appears that they can be used with GIMP and she’s got some lovely ones for jewelry that can be used for my virtual creations. I’ll need to write a notecard to include with anything I end up making to sell on Second Life to give her credit – this post is really more of a memo to myself on that score. Obsidian Dawn Resources – Photoshop & GIMP Brushes, Illustrator Vectors, and more! These graphic design resources are free, but there are some limitations to how they can be…