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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…

  • 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
    Chameleonic Possessions

    Selling a little #SecondLife mainland: 1024, anyone?

    May 3, 2011 - By 

    Every now and then I toy with the idea of lowering a little of my mainland tier in order to increase my holdings in the Steamlands, and this is one of those times… I’ll have this flat square parcel up for sale for a while and see what happens. Green grassland in Tintafel for sale, nice flat square 1024 good for building or skyboxen. Quiet area, zoned residential or commercial. via Square 1024 in Tintafel $L1500, easy building plac… – Second Life.

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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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • Yes We Are Calm now SHUT THE FUCK UP
    Chameleonic Possessions

    Online profiles: A curiosity in #SecondLife

    January 14, 2011 - By 

    Yep, web-enabled profiles are here and have been for a while apparently. When I looked at mine just now, I realized I needed to fix some outdated stuff. The land is still for sale, though, and my new project is progressing although RL commitments cut into building time. Prices have been reduced and it’s finally showing in search. Also, I put out some freebies on both parcels – a silly Ceiling Cat T- shirt I made using a photo I took at last year’s Chicago W00tstock nerdfest. Drop by, pick one up, mock my dumb half-finished build, listen to the…

  • 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.…

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    Chameleonic Possessions

    A Longer Update Soon

    October 24, 2010 - By 

    I am still here. Still here! And getting ready to leap back inworld. At least there are plenty of Second Life blogs to read in the meantime… and here is a secret code for the Technorati dwarven who insist on validating my ownership of this blog. 8WD6AGM3CEUY take that!

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

    Patriotic Party Necklace UPDATED gah

    July 15, 2010 - By 

    Wow! Something went wrong with the permissions on this sales item on XStreet.sl – thanks to the kind customer who gave me a heads up. #secondlife http://tinyurl.com/294l5jg The only thing missing is a trio of matching vuvuzelas (and don’t think somebody hasn’t already thought of that, I’ve been getting freebies in my group gifts all week) Yeah, finally got something made AND imaged AND textured for marketing online AND uploaded. XstreetSL is changing over to this new “Marketplace” format, so now is a good time to be refreshing old stock and adding new, because there’s a couple of weeks of…