Cajsa’s Fast Five: February 24th

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Fast Five

What to read today?

  1. Inspire Your Look #187: Nati Williams rocks an adorable babydoll and matching shoes from Katatonik. I can feel my lindens getting ready to jump. 
  2. Dress Me! 20130222: iBi 8f8 shoots a pick with stunning use of lighting. If you have not seen his blog before, be sure to check the home page to see an innovative layout and approach.
  3. Inspirational Look #3: Arora Zanzibar occasionally reproduces RL pics that she is drawn to in SL, building a set, even editing her avatar to get as close as she can. Check out how well she went from inspiration to realization.
  4. GIMP Normal Maps – Nalates Urriah provides links to tutorials on normal maps to help creators adapt to new changes coming to second life with the addition of materials which to my understanding would allow you to repeat a texture on an objects to texture the object and then add, for example, a shadow to just one portion of the object. Don’t quote me on that.
  5. #143 – Rinko Humphreys posted a picture from a skybox that has me wanting that room in real life. I am experiencing total book nook envy.

Confessions: Vanity or Pride

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The PXL Creations Seven Sins Gacha skin Vanity is gorgeous with the prideful purple that for centuries signified royalty and imperial power. Buckcherry’s corresponding song for their Confessions album is called Pride. Frankly, it’s a pretty bad song, probably written to fulfill their need to cover all seven sins. You can probably listen to a sample on iTunes, but it’s a poor thing compared to the rest of the series. Good thing for us, the PXL Creations Vanity skin is nothing like the song. It’s a beautiful skin!

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Cajsa’s Fast Five: February 23rd

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Fast FiveHere’s the five posts I think you should not miss today:

  1. Just What is the Beef with Advertising? – Ciaran Laval discusses Linden Labs new adoption of advertising on their web site. 
  2. Re-Opening Delicatessen – Meta Body II: Quan Lavender highlights the new iteration of the very successful Meta Body event by Capcat Ragu and Meilo Minotaur.
  3. Big City: Sasy Scarborough has a found a must-have jacket.
  4. A Night at the Cemetery: Wise Sandalwood is ghoulishly beautiful.
  5. Single Frame Stories: A Retrospective: Deoridhe Quandary asks what she can learn by  putting her images taken over time all together in a collection. She is reflecting on this quote: “[E]ven our most frivolous, clichéd or reflexive work reflects a deep and pervasive web of subconscious stories and associations.”

Where There is Love There is Life

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Love is in the air this month and this lovely dress from *LpD*s Poetry Collection is the perfect thing for the Month of Love.

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I’ve really stepped out of my comfort zone with this dress.  Its a really edgy creation and will draw every eye to YOU on the dance floor wherever you go.

More after the cut….

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Gidge’s Fast Five – Number 1

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Cajsa is always thinking of new things to do to celebrate the things we like, and while I’d like to take credit for this idea, I can’t. I’d like to welcome you to the firs edition of FAST FIVE – the five blog posts that I found inspiring, pretty, made me shop or otherwise caught my eye today – and which I think you are remiss if you don’t see them too. We’ll do this column as the spirit moves us. Could be daily could be weekly could be ten times a day (un-likely).

With that, let’s begin.

1.OWLS – There is something lovely and whimsical about people who like owls. Owls are sort of ruthless predators who like to gut things then eat them. Yet, there is a softer side to the beast, and the people who love owls must see it better than I.  Also places with random balloons can never be bad.  Continue reading →

Confessions – Wrath

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PXL Creations WRATH

Number four on the Seven Sins series celebrating the coincidentally simultaneous release of PXL Creations Seven Sins Gacha skins and Buckcherry’s Confessions album with songs focusing on each of the Seven Sins. Today’s sin is Wrath – and the skin is deliciously maleficent while the song was appropriately angry and hard-edged. Of course, what made it work so well for wrath aurally made it one I didn’t like as well as the others.

Hey man, do you wanna get a fist so hard?
Do you wanna see who’s in charge?
I’m gonna show you your future
Hey man, you think you’re strong enough to play this game?
It’s gonna burn like acid rain, you’re gonna need some sutures

I got this need to be broken and I’m taking you on this ride
I got this need to broken and I keep all my wrath inside

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I chose this dress from Faster Pussycat because its strong lines are accented with white stitching giving it a very disciplined look while the ruff is reminiscent of how animals raise their hackles in anger and also of Queen Elizabeth I who could be wrathful and powerful.

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The Classics

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Today has been one of those crazy days where everything goes wrong. First it started out with my online bank telling me my password was incorrect then it was a trip to the bank where I paid two dollars for the ATM to print out my last 10 transactions but it was out of paper so I never received them. Then I broke two nails and spilled coffee on me. Oh, and let’s not forget about how the alarm clock went off this morning for no reason and woke up my child and therefore me too.

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Talk About….Pop Music, Pop Pop Pop Musik

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Before MTV, HBO used to do “Music Shorts” which were quickly renamed “Music Videos” and in between movies, you might get two or three videos. It’s the place I saw POP MUSIC (1979 for you non believers) video first. I also saw “Video killed the Radio Star” and other late 70s precursors to 80s pop.  A lot of great 80s music, iconic pieces even, launched in 1979.

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Confessions: Gluttony

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Recognizing the happy coincidence of PXL Creations’ Seven Sins Gacha Skins coming out the same week as the new Buckcherry album Confessions, today I am featuring Gluttony.

I get it started and then I get brokenhearted
Because I can’t get a hold of the beast
It’s like I’m blind, I’m running out of time
Everything I crave is out of reach

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