• Building - Create - Haleakaloha - Open Sim - Photography - Second Life

    What’s Up in #OpenSim ?  Rather a lot, really.

    March 17, 2018 - By 

    There’s a lot going on in this story, and I’m playing around with some of it. And ZOMG, I’m committed to something! #OpenSim #SecondLife OpenSim land area continued to increase gaining a total of 3,400 standard region equivalents this month — after gaining more than 9,000 regions last month. The number of active users also increased by 1,300. Source: OpenSim land rally continues – I’m running one of these little mini-grids: These stats do not include most of the mini-grids running on the DreamWorld distribution of OpenSim, or private company or school grids. DreamWorld has counted more than 8,483 mini-grids…

  • Blender - Building - Gimp - Haleakaloha - Open Sim

    Pictures and Progress

    March 13, 2018 - By 

    Progress is being made on both online fronts. For the deeply confused, such as myself, here’s the rundown. Second Life: Bowler Hat needs some love, but I think I figured out the final few steps to finish the meshing of it and I reviewed how to do an Ambient Occlusion bake (again) with another project. I keep having to look it up to catch all the “gotcha” settings. I wish there was a way to just “blammo” the settings for AO test and AO final bake (or is there one…). Haleakaloha: Definitely making progress. It’s really only “up and running”…

  • Photography - Second Life

    All Dressed Up And No Event: Revisiting Qoheleh

    March 12, 2018 - By 

    This event looked interesting so I dressed up in an older kimono and dropped by. But no one was there at the appointed time and date, though dinner was all laid out. Western Geisha Dinner and Chat Our long-standing chat meeting to discuss anything – RL, SL, OOC or IC – whilst enjoying delicious Japanese food and drink around low tables. Kimonos often shown off but not required! http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Qoheleth/167/158/22 This is an older Fall’n kimono called Elegant – it comes with a lot of extras, such as 2 versions of the skirts and a fur wrap that can be “removed”…

  • Haleakaloha - Open Sim

    Castaway Again

    March 7, 2018 - By 

    Thanks to +FerdFrederix, my connection issues have been resolved (all my own fault). To celebrate, I picked up a few odds and ends. There were a LOT of quality items at the HG Safari region on the Francogrid. I’ve been following the saga of the HG Safari traveling club for a long time, it was fun to see their beautifully decorated HQ. This was where I found 3 – THREE – nice female AOs. No more duckwalk for me! Also found my way to Taarna Welles’ wonderful emporium where I found this fun steampunk outfit. I was trying to adjust…

  • Blender - Haleakaloha - Open Sim - Second Life

    Bowler Madness and OpenSim Sadness

    March 5, 2018 - By 

    Amazingly, I have been working on something in Blender and actually have something to show for it.               I’ve been obsessing about Blender lately, but not actually working in Blender. But I needed to get my head and hand back in the game, so here’s what I have so far. It will be a simple thing with a ribbon hatband, and possibly flexi-feathers on the side. I was thinking about doing one, and then saw a local production of the musical “Ragtime,” and was struck by the sight of many wondrous hats (gent’s bowlers,…

  • Second Life - St Helens Dry Goods - Steelhead

    GACHA: *DAWN* Beehive 000, Beehive 002, Honey Shed

    February 10, 2018 - By 

    Do people blog their gacha listings on the Marketplace? I have no idea! I set up my beekeeping enterprise out behind the shop in Steelhead Bay. I went to the Gacha Garden event with a specific goal – find a set of things that looked like they belonged in the dry goods store, not just for sale, but as part of the roleplay or ambiance, kind of like the funky “second-hand” shops my friend Kitty Vinje and others are doing over in SLURL: Bayou Chat Noir. I went out a novice gacha player, I came back a beekeeper, with pretty…