• 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”…

  • Paul Cezanne picture Mardi Gras with Pierot, Harlequin, and a Dinkies Kitty
    DINKIES - fashion - Second Life - St John

    Holy Crap, You Guys, I’m An Arteest Naow? #SecondLife

    February 9, 2016 - By 

    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…

  • Second Life

    Schedule for #MardiGras in St John #Second Life – live @RadioRiel DJs, the #Flapperettes, and Always Marching Parade Floats

    February 5, 2016 - By 

    It’s Mardi Gras time in the St John Sims February 7th to February 9th – tune to @RadioRiel for more information. They’ll be doing an all day LIVE broadcast with special music on Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday, the Always Marching Parade will be running (so you can hop on and ride the floats around) and it all kicks off with a big stage show by the Flapperettes. DON’T miss it. There’s a whole new sim of St John Uptown 1916 to explore too, with that newfangled electric lighting! Special transportation is available via the intersim rail/ferry links from New Babbage train…

  • Steelhead

    Missing Steelhead, But Forging New Social Connections

    December 2, 2015 - By 

    Yes, it’s gone. And yes, it was a lot of fun, and I’ll miss it for a long time. I was there for more than 4 years, after all. But now there’s the new place in St John, new people and events along with old friends, and Dhughan has taken a shop in the new sim and will be announcing the location soon. And meanwhile the Ravenwood sim is carrying on with internet radio broadcasts, and so is Sheriff Fuzzball with his new parcel. So things do go on. This is something of a test post – if the Blog2Social…

  • Blender

    Blender Resources For The Deeply Befuddled

    November 26, 2015 - By 

    This page will hold links to some of the tutorials I've found helpful, illuminating, or have bumbled across numerous times in search of answers. Also found here will be stuff relating to OpenSim, as it is useful to have a locally hosted OpenSim private grid as a test bed for uploading meshes and textures.

  • Second Life

    This Is Where I Came In: Second Life Thriller Optioned By Reese Witherspoon’s Production Company

    May 11, 2015 - By 

    I’ve been thinking about this for a few days, and not seeing any mention on other SL blogs: Warner Bros. and Reese Witherspoon’s Pacific Standard are developing a film adaptation of SECOND LIFE. Written by S.J. Watson (Before I Go to Sleep), Second Life is a psychological thriller about a woman who creates an online persona to find the truth behind her sister’s violent murder. Once a devoted wife and mother, Julia starts to lose herself in the lies she creates, jeopardizing not only her marriage, but her son’s safety. via {TB EXCLUSIVE} Psychological Thriller “Second Life” Set At Warner…

  • Second Life DJs for St Patrick's Day
    Cafe Wellstone - Second Life - SecondLife

    DJ St Paddy Style in Second Life

    March 11, 2015 - By 

    My friend DJ Pb Recreant has a regular gig playing tunes at the Blue Booby Bar in Escanes, mostly for members of the Cafe Wellstone politics and news chat group. He always has a pretty eclectic mix and takes requests. On a whim I sent copies of the new St Patrick’s Day mesh vest for men that I put together from a kit to him and some of the other Cafe Wellstone guys, after he sent out a group message announcing the gig. Very kindly he sent back this screencap showing off the vest! That was really nice of him.…

  • Second Life - SecondLife

    My Big Fat Geek Suggestion for Second Life – Group Pages with RSS Feeds!

    December 13, 2014 - By 

    What’s the one thing Linden Lab could do that would have the biggest impact on further improving your Second Life experience? Many Second Life users have thoughts on this – from different approaches for the way things are done today, to brand new features that could dramatically improve their experiences, to seemingly small things that could have a big impact. Today, we’re launching an easier way to share your ideas with us, a new “Feedback & Suggestions” page on SecondLife.com. You can also find this page by going to Help and finding New Feature Suggestions in the drop down. via…

  • Second Life

    My Big Fat Geek Suggestion for Second Life: Group Pages With RSS Feeds!

    December 13, 2014 - By 

    What’s the one thing Linden Lab could do that would have the biggest impact on further improving your Second Life experience? Many Second Life users have thoughts on this – from different approaches for the way things are done today, to brand new features that could dramatically improve their experiences, to seemingly small things that could have a big impact. Today, we’re launching an easier way to share your ideas with us, a new “Feedback & Suggestions” page on SecondLife.com. You can also find this page by going to Help and finding New Feature Suggestions in the drop down. via…

  • Dhughan - Dhughan's Products - fashion - Marketplace - Second Life

    Time Lord Walking Sticks – For Time Travelers And Country Gentlemen

    August 27, 2014 - By 

    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…