Nearly 100 trailblazing saris, including the first ever to be worn at the Met Gala, will be displayed in the UK as part of a new large-scale exhibition examining the garment’s modern reinvention. — Read on www.theguardian.com/fashion/2023/jan/10/design-museum-show-saris-modern-reinvention-met-ball
Real fashion as virtual fashion and vice versa? It’s old news in Second Life
Must visit this shop ASAP. This is while previewing the EXPO event space… uh, it’s a huge area.
I won. Congratulations to the Windlight Magazine & St. John (Riel Estates) Photo Challenge winners! They are: 1st place: Lelani Carver 2nd Place: JamieWolf 3rd Place: Sugar Vegas Via: Windlight Magazine: Mardi Gras Photo Challenge Winners Yes, it’s very dark. The full size one at Flickr shows up better. I was shocked when I got the email from Johannes1977, the Windlight Magazine publisher. I thought I might have a chance at third place or honorable mention; there were several other photographers who chose that tomb as their subject or as backdrop to a fashion shot. But that was the first…
Huzzah and such! A new product (actually, a pair of them): In honor of the newest Doctor, the walking stick of the First Doctor. This is a common country-gentleman style, so it’s not limited to SF roleplay. via Second Life Marketplace – @DF@ Timelord Walking Stick – Light Ram's Horn. I’m very happy to get this done, it’s been a hard slog of prim-twisting, image-wrangling, and animation-tweaking (not to mention script-monkeying). Good Lord, is that the time? Doesn’t matter, just hop in the old TARDIS and arrive just in time for breakfast, well rested! The sticks are in honor of…
Introducing the Royal Wedding or Ascot Hat Fatpack. When unboxed you’ll have 7 hats, plus one extra rotated for a side-brim look. Royal Wedding/Ascot Hats Fat Pack Colors: Allspice, Blueberry, Cardamom, Cinnamon, Grape, Laurel, and Mustard. Also sold separately. Great for spring or summer weddings, garden parties, polo events, or just looking elegantly cool and collected. Late Victorian/Edwardian Style Prim/Sculpt construction Fits Mesh or Classic Avatars Resizeable (larger size fits bigger hair for a different look) Rotate for a side view look! via Second Life Marketplace – @LC@ Royal Wedding or Ascot Hats Fat Pack.
It is possible to get Photoshop filters up and running in The GIMP. It just requires a little legwork to set up. This has been tested to work on The GIMP 2.6.7, which is the latest release at the time of this post. I can’t comment or advise on any earlier version, but the good news is GIMP is freeeeeee, so upgrading won’t hurt your wallet. via How to: Photoshop Filters in The GIMP | Random Ramblings, Tip & Tricks. This is where I stopped for the night – after installing several new GIMP scripts, including one that was written…
Time for boycat Dinkies and male Tinies to have a decent walking stick with simple animations – so I started to adapt the Ivory Walking Stick, which is old enough to need some freshening up. I started by testing some nicer textures for the ivory, and setting it in a sort of cup-bezel with engraved silver fittings (I may play with materials a bit if they don’t add greatly to the land impact (LI). Then I resized it to the right length for a Dinkie or Tiny avatar, and got the pos/rot information with a script so as to update…
Here I am sitting on my first (actually second) mesh object ever, which is more than a year old. Yes, it’s that damn Kipling Rock, which I now plan to fix up and put out as a fishing seat in the pond between my store and Dhughan’s Nature Reserve. Now, finally, I can move on and make mesh stuffs, because at least I got this far in… ugh, almost TWO YEARS. I’m wearing the test-texture version of my dumb party hat, which debuts tonight at Toot Toot’s. Also wearing: my beautiful cinnamon sari by Luminous Designs. You can find it…
Just listed at the Marketplace – as I thought, it took about as long to create the marketing textures as it did to create the original hat, although I spent a lot of time tweaking this one. It’s a unisex style again, and I’ve been wearing variations of this hat for MONTHS, so it’s high time I got it ready to release. In the meantime, I discovered that it fits my new Dinkies Kitty avatar with a little rotating (no size adjustment necessary). Hurray, kitties in hats! Change the textures on this versatile antique hat for year-round style. Add your…