I love the bold, color-blocking in Appolonia Criss’s new dress called City Chic. She takes a very mod style and updates it with a blouson top and short, very modern sleeves.
I decided to note the military-inspird sleeves by adding the gauntlets from Nzuri, though most gauntlets don’t have adorable bows at the wrist.
This brilliant and bold color got me looking for a brilliant and bold place to shoot and that led me to the Labyrinth of Absurdity.
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Palais Orleans Gallery
It’s always the nights where you just slap a few things on that you end up going out, right? So there I was between outfits (bald and barefoot doesn’t begin to cover it) when Morgana Nagorski sent me an invite to the opening of an exhibit at the Palais Orleans Gallery. It wasn’t just the exhibit that was opening — it was the first exhibit in the reborn gallery, and the first that Morgana is running as sole proprietress. So what could I do? I threw on the first folder I could find and went…
(More about the show behind the cut, including a teasing hint of artwork and a chat with the curator!)
It’s the kind of Spring day where I feel like sipping a mint julep out on my veranda and just watching the clouds roll by. Who’s with me?! OK instead I’m at work, but my avatar is about to go party with the gators in this new mesh Rebel Hope gown. It moves really, really well, and it totally covers my bunny slippers.
Dress: Rebel Hope Lalani (mesh) dress in champagne
Poses: Lolapop
Eyes: ~bounce~ neko anime eyes – yellow
Ears: SLink Sachara elf ears
Hair: Lamb Baby’s on Fire – Ink
Tattoo: Aitui – With force we go
Gloves: Pig Glove mid Suspenders in steel, Starlust gatcha item
Makeup: Mock Masqued Rainia Makeover (red)
Skin: Pink Fuel Elly (milk) – tutu
Nails: Mandala female short nails
Shoes: fluffy bunny slippers
Sometimes I have my pictures shot and everything ready to post and I paste in the bit of code from Flickr® for my first picture and come to a dead stop, tripped up by lack of a title or any sort of idea for the post. It’s then that I envy those bloggers who started out numbering their posts. I could just call this 1643 and be done with it. Instead, though, I resorted to that best of all places for help, advice and suggestions, the much-maligned world of Plurk. Within minutes I had plenty of ideas. I think the first idea was to let my cat choose my title.
Plurk is sort of like Twitter in that it is based on 140 character plurks of information, but unlike twitter, all responses hang into a single plurk drop-down window on your timeline. It has a large contingent of Second Life users and unlike so many other social media, embraces Second Life exuberantly. You can have your pseudonymous avatar account, no questions asked. You can even list your home as Second Life and Second Life has its own special front page. Because it has such a large cross-section of Second Life, it brings people from many different walks of SLife together. Anytime you have lots of people in the public square, folks will bump shoulders and have a dispute here and there. That’s human nature and is not caused by Plurk, but by the gravitational pull of the numbers of participants. However, Plurk provides all the tools we need to avoid conflict. It’s just that we choose not to mute, block and disregard. As Cassius said, “The fault, Dear Brutus, is not in the stars. But in ourselves…” Plurk is what you make it and I have found it a wonderful community of brave, bold and creative people.
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One of the problems with moving is that I forget what I have, so I have to drag things out and then they need cleaned and I have to sort my life out all over again.
I was talking to a friend of mine last night, about how sometimes I start my SL over. I’ve done it several times, and many of the people change and the scenery sometimes changes. I’m still me. I didn’t change, but for whatever reason – maybe it’s just the transient nature of the grid, I find myself shoved into a new life, willingly or not. Continue reading
The new Anne dress, recently released by Kunglers has a fabulously ornate print that makes me think of a Rorschach test for Mother Nature. Like most of Kunglers work, there is organic inspiration that has been stylized and elevated into art. This print is luscious and come in other colors as well.
I had a surreal day. But I also got to be outside in the perfection that is an Orlando springtime, and because of that, I had to celebrate with a few springy photos in SL too. Here I am strutting around in my new Miel boots, enjoying a sakura-laden afternoon at the temporary Zacca & Nonino build. Mmm-achoooo! Ah, that sakura pollen!
Poses: Lolapop! Katat0nik poses
Sim: Zacca & Nonino
Skin: Milk Motion Therese in pale
Skirt: Honey Kitty (dot-yellow) half pleats skirt
Socks: Katat0nik from the Ruff Haus dress
Glasses: Hate Me and Eat Me – glasses – granny takes a trip
Freckles: L. Fauna serious freckles
Scarf: Miel fringe scarf – leafy
Boots: Miel timber boots, accidentally got the male version & resized down
Shirt: DP**yumyum Sweat T in yellow
Hair with bird: Look, sadly you can’t have this. It was by Clawtooth for an ancient Stumblebum. But I promise that if you go to Clawtooth you’ll find equally awesome hair.
Audrey! Two syllables that conjure up visions of elegance and timeless grace. Does anyone even need the last name to know who Audrey is? Of course not. I think it’s a bold thing to name any design Audrey because there’s such a world of expectation and obligation that come along with the name. I decided to do no editing whatsover in order to let you see how well that obligation is met.
This is Audrey for the 21st century – with fabulous laser cut fabric just released at the Première Vision fabric show in February. The fabric is sheer, with flirtatious glimpses of a thigh, a hint of torso, the outline of the body. What impressed me is that it’s not just sheer, it’s sheer and mesh.
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Squinternet Larnia has released a new dress, the first since her long struggle with illness began in December. Her struggle is not over, but I find so much hope in her return to designing and in the forward-looking name of her new outfit. April is the month of new beginnings, of rejuvenation, when the flora and the fauna return with full life force after the long winter of retreat and hibernation. I hope that the name for her new dress is a harbinger of hope, just as April is the harbinger of renewed vigor and vitality in nature.
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The first morning in a new place is always so odd. Where is anything? Coffee, shower, make up, basically, the morning after a move these things are the MUST haves. Continue reading