I uploaded this windlight setting. The download link is further down in the post.
Avenue’s Couture of Hope fashion extravaganza for Relay for Life opens today at noon SLT. The 40 participating designers were asked to create a piece that embodies their vision of a “season of hope.” Entre Mares created this stunning piece that immediately brought Emily Dickinson’s beautiful poem to mind. Hope is the thing with feathers...
Culture Shock opens within a few hours and in case you’ve been under a rock, it’s the biggest thing to hit the grid since the LAST biggest thing to hit the grid.
I kid. Culture Shock is the most recent event organized by that triple threat in the Fashion Community – blogger, creator and event organizer Keira Seerose. This event benefits Doctors Without Borders and you’ll find all of your favorites and probably some new to you creators there, bringing you donation items plus some new/newer releases for your shopping pleasure.
Today I’m going to be showing you lots of pics so if you don’t like pics, seriously move on.
I’m highlighting a couple of things from both Culture Shock and Albero Gatcha. 🙂 So Let’s Get To It Shall We?
After reading about the Legacies 1891 sims in Honour McMillan’s blog yesterday, I had to run over there for a shoot. Thankfully, they allow you to join a group and wear an observer’s tag so you can be safe from zombies and Jack the Ripper. It’s an eerie place and I thought its grim danger might be a striking contrast to the cheery spring joie de vivre of my outfit.
I was not joking about the zombies. They sounded so scary! By the way, this sim cleverly has a tip jar to remind visitors to help support its continued existence. I try to remember to tip sim owners when I visit for a shoot – if they haven’t placed a tip jar reminder, I just pay a flower or a tree. We all benefit from these wonderful public sims and so many are disappearing. I know each little tip is a drop in the buck of tier, but buckets do get filled by drips and drops.
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Innocently checking my transaction history one day – I saw on the Events Calendar – THE MONKEY MORALITY EXHIBIT.
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Before I became ill, I would get a call every two or three months to meet with a delegation of people touring the US with the State Department’s International Visitors Program. Generally the people I met with were activists in their own countries working to advance democracy and human rights or elected and appointed leaders in newly formed democracies. I would talk about activism and organizing, explain how we choose issues, organize volunteers and our efforts to combat racism, sexism and economic oppression in the United States. It’s hard to explain the excitement of teaching Get Out The Vote methods and strategies to someone preparing for their countries very first election in 41 years or discussing ways to frame gender oppression issues in terms of widely held values with women activists advocating for women’s rights in Afghanistan, Somalia and Pakistan, but it is intoxicating. These are people who risk far more than I ever will to make fundamental changes in the lives of their people.
A firm believer in the pedagogy of the oppressed as a teaching method, I learned as much from the visitors as they learned from me. One of the most inspiring and fascinating visitors was a volunteer at Médecins Sans Frontières who lead their work against human trafficking. Before I met him, I knew trafficking existed, but had no idea how extensive it is. MSF, or Doctors Without Borders, won the Nobel for their work providing aid to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters. It’s exciting that the huge fashion event Culture Shock that begins on May 1st will be raising funds for this wonderful and courageous worldwide charity.
There will be 174 stores participating in this huge event – all producing three exclusive items for the event and donating 50-100% of sales to MSF. Â In today’s outfit, the dress and hair are items you will be able to find at Culture Shock. Sissy Pessoa of Baiastice created this stunning Mattina dress for Culture Shock. It comes in several colors but I absolutely fell in love with this beautiful parfait colored dress – the hot colors version of the dress. I shot the pictures at Dragonfly, a magical sim where you cannot shoot a bad picture.
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A-Bomb has released two new bags in a multitude of colors ! YAY FOR BAGS! I’m not going to show you all the colors because I ran out of shooting time but this is just a sample. Continue reading
Do you provide wedding services? Then you need to be a part of this one-of-a-kind event taking place on the Opium sim, June 1-30, 2011.
Present your talents and abilities in relation to SecondLife weddings to the brides and grooms of tomorrow.
There are 23 10×10 booths available with 100 prims for $400 L each. Â If you would like more than one booth, we will do our best to be reasonably accommodating.
Reserve your booth TODAY, by providing the following information on a notecard to Gala Caproni, inworld:
Avatar Name
Business Name
# of booths requested
Type of business
(rename your notecard *Wedding Expo Reservation – YOUR NAME*)
Fee will be due upon acceptance into the expo. Â You will be notified by May 13th of acceptance and will have from May 23-31 for set up.
The most exciting thing about events like Chic Limited is how creators can reify a single inspiration into a fascinating collection that illustrates perfectly that art is the expression of individuality. This month’s inspiration was Cherry Blossom and the collection ranges from softly feminine petal-adorned dresses to the pop art bold graphic style of this babydoll from So Many Styles.
As you can see, I had fun running around MiC Musee de Roma Capitale art installation to shoot my pics. I also used Windlight settings by CodeBastard Redgrave for thee beautiful red sky that really brought the art to life.
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I love many things about this dress from bubble that’s on sale at the Chic Limited Cherry Blossoms event, though it began as a babydoll before I lowered the skirt to my waist. I am never a big fan of babydoll dresses and often try that, but it doesn’t always work as well as it did with this dress. As you can see, this dress comes with a band that anchors the skirt so just increasing its size a bit made it look very natural at the natural waist. This lets me really enjoy the wonderful sense of playfulness in the dress design. I love how the fabric choices almost suggest a wall treatment with the more subdued black on black pattern meeting the vertical stripe pattern “wainscoting” and the cherry blossom border print “chair rail.” It’s cute and clever and makes a gorgeous dress.
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That’s all.
I crack me up.
Your Shopping List:
Shape – Savoir Faire – Gidge
Skin – TULI – Sarah – Peach Tone – Makeup 03
Hair – Truth – Kai – Swedish -with Bangs
Top – SN@TCH – Karma in Black
Jeans – Fri.Day – Low.Rise Jeans (faded)
Shoes – Republic – Charlotte Flats – Midnight Paisley
KittyCat – C Thomas Meow
Goldfish Prop from PROJECT FUR JAPAN – A.D.D. ANDEL! – Take Me Home – Goldie in a Fishbowl
pose – STATUS