Late at night
When the world is safe within their dreams
I walk the shadows
Late at night
An empty feeling creeps within my soul
I feel so lonely
So I go into the darkness of the night
All alone I walk the streets until I find
Someone who is just like me
Looking for some company
Children of the night
Late at night
Collabor88 just sucked all the L out of my invisible pockets. I love Anya Ohmai’s fox wraps — they put me immediately in mind of the ornate Russian ballet costumes from the Ballet Russes and because of that I had to throw on this pretty new Roccocco dress from Katat0nik along with it. What an awesome season it is! (SLURL to Katat0nik) (SLURL to Collabor88)
Dramatic eyeliner: Miss Shippe’s Studio for Collabor88, dangerous hooks in bruise-F
Fox: Ohmai for Collabor88 – A lil Foxy in red
Dress: Katat0nik (orange) Choca dress
Skin: Pink Fuel Elly (Milk) Angelic
Hair: Clawtooth: My Shilova in wheat for FLF
Hat, headband: Lolapop Corvus Cameo Set
Boots: Miel Puddle Boots – Natural for FLF
Shrug: ~silentsparrow~ (creme) shruggie
Stockings: ~silentsparrow~ (creme) nephilim stockings
I am so excited that I’ve shot my first Guest Stylist for December and it’s Poly Pistachio (nee Polynesia Resident) who is a lovely person I’ve met on Plurk. I was in the mood to shoot someone besides me and I was busy being a cloud most of the night anyway (THANKS LINDEN LAB YOUR PRODUCTS ROCK) so I said, POLY! WATCHOO WEARING?
I was able to perform a very VERY important service to our community also. Poly was trying on shapes Both of which were riding invisible horses. I was able to say “OH MY GOD NO THOSE ARE HORRIBLE NEVER NEVER NEVER BUY THOSE” or something LIKE that. Continue reading
Gidge and I did a bit of shopping yesterday morning with running stops at Fifty Linden Friday stores and ending at Collabor88 where we both felt like doofuses when we saw the second building full of items. I said, “How many times have I come here and never noticed there were two buildings? What a dork!” and Gidge, like me, said, “I never noticed it either.” While we both pondered what wonderful creations we may have missed in our neglectful visits in past months, we busily ran around picking stuff up. Of course, later we learned that it’s just this month that there’s the second build and we have not been missing out on half the collection every month! That makes me feel better. I saw a couch and Christmas tree there that I absolutely adored and wanted so much and for only 88 lindens I thought i could splurge – even though I don’t have a house to decorate. So I put it in my little photobox and slapped on a couple textures from Distressed Textures to make it look like i have a house and voila, there it is! There are five sits on the couch and three on the floor with a nice mix of feminine and masculine poses.
This tree made me laugh. It reminded me so much of this fabulous dried tree branch I used to have that I painted white and potted in a vase with some cement. It arched over my couch at a nice safe height, just high enough to not snag your hair even in an updo. I left it mostly plain except for a few epiphytes, but at Christmas would string it with white lights. I loved it, unfortunately, so did the dog my former roommate babysat for her boyfriend. In the epic battle of dead tree versus 185 pound rottweiler, the tree lost.
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I let my music-loving cat choose the song this morning. After all, he woke me up at 5:40 AM when he turned on James Brown's "Don't Tell A Lie" which is a great song, though not a great 5:40 AM song. I usually turn the Ipod's speaker off now after a 4:30 Flogging Molly wake-up song, but I forgot last night. While I was getting ready to post this, he was pushing fast forward through the playlists looking for something he liked. I decided to let him decide and go with whatever song he finally let play for more than two bars. I actually love his choice - a cover of Elton John's great song by Bettye LaVette who completely made it her own.
I can’t light up no more of your darkness.
All of my pictures seem to fade to black and white.
Oh, I’ve grown so tired and time is standing still before me.
It froze up right here on the ladder of my life.
1971 was a big mix of influences. It was the year the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory movie came out. The French Connection was the big movie that year, winning the Oscar. In September, the first of the presidential crimes that became known as Watergate happened when burglars broke into Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrists office to look for dirt to discredit him. The Vietnam War continued to expand although 60% of Americans opposed it. Inflation was 4% and rising in the US and nearly 9% in Britain. Gas was 40 cents a gallon and that movie ticket to see Willy Wonka cost $1.50. The average monthly rent was $150. Walt Disney opened a new theme park in Florida. Jim Morrison died. NPR made its first broadcast and the Pentagon Papers were published, proving to all of America that the Pentagon and the government lies. We might not be able to find you 1971 gas or movie prices, but if you come to the Velvet tonight you can enjoy the tunes of 1971 – including, quite probably, the iconic cover of Kris Kristofferson’s Me and Bobbie McGee by Janis Joplin and Rolling Stones Brown Sugar.
Poster art, such as this 1971 poster by Ernest Trova, had always been a big part of political movements and continued to be. I thought it might be fun to posterize my photo as an homage to the posters that are so much a part of political messaging. However, I didn't want to mess up that gorgeous mesh dress from AnE, so I am showing the pic twice.
In December, 1970, the Environmental Protection Agency opened its doors and in 1971 President Nixon gave an important environmental speech proposing the Clean Water Act and other substantive measures to improve the environment. In the late 60s, the Cuyahoga River had caught on fire. There was movement afoot and in 1971, Greenpeace was founded to wage a nonstop, global campaign for stronger environmental protections. In 1971, my sister (who was married and had children before I was even born) was living with her young family in a little suburb of Niagara Falls called Love Canal. They only lived there 3 or 4 years, but when my niece’s son was born with birth defects a few years ago, I wondered whether living the first years of her life on a toxic dump played a role. It’s something we will never know. However it is discouraging that 41 years after the first Earth Day in 1970 and 40 years after the national commitment to clean up our planet, we have people conflating local weather with global climate in order to allow industry to continue to degrade the planet and to avoid the changes in our energy use that are urgent and necessary.
This morning I was confused. I knew exactly what shirt I wanted. I couldn’t recall having WORN it though. But I knew I had it, and it was perfect for a half day at work and I had it all planned what I was going to wear.
As I stumbled around in the early AM it came to me. This shirt was from Miamai.
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Hello 🙂
Aliza Karu is one of the most inspired, eclectic, creative, talented SL fashion designers I’ve ever known. Her works are one of a kind and easily recognizable by her unique style, a mix of goth, avantgarde, steampunk, dark, doll and lots of fantasy. She puts her emotions and feelings into her creations, she says: “Those who wear my clothes, they’re wearing a mood, a feeling, a fear, a desire, a passion, an anger of me”.
Aliza made new amazing works for this winter/Christmas time and now I’m going to show you some of them.
So, enjoy the fascinating crazyness:
With this beautiful Magic Winter Dress (skirt, jacket, bra, headpiece) Aliza gives her own interpretation of the dark magic of winter. It’s available at the ZombiePopcorn Dark Magic Winter event, which will be held from 1 till 15 December on the Sketch Pad Sim.
This stunning outfit is Aliza’s prize for K.V. Christmas Hunt: yes, it’s free! Find the little yellow star hidden somewhere in the store (hints and slurls on the link I gave you) and the Glitter Winter outfit will be yours!
More after the cut!
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I have a bird on my head. And wolf ears, and a hood, and antlers, and hair, all on the same Thing! Oh dear oh dear, DP**yumyum is so cute! I had to share that hat. And just because I love this season in SL, I’ve dug out a bunch of old seasonal outfit stuff that you can’t have (although similar things are available in the shops), just to encourage you to go snap up the special cuteness while you can! [SLURL to DP**yumyum]
Have you seen Cajsa’s awesome post, by the way? Go read it!
You can totally get:
Hoodie: DP**yumyum Wolf Hoodie A
Tights: Honey Kitty diamond tights in black
Skin: Pink Fuel Elly in milk – angelic
Shoes: Lassitude & Ennui Arcanist in red
Undies (don’t peek): Schadenfreude rouge cirque noir panties
Stuff from Holidays past!
Gloves: Vintage from Fleur (I miss you, Fleur)
Shrug: So Many Styles fur shrug from an old seasons hunt
Eyes: (fd) bride eyes
Dress: Honey Kitty’s 2010 group gift xmas dress
Evelyn Hartshon and I have been working on Blogging Second Life for a couple months now and it’s been growing steadily. We have added new sections and new initiatives in response to community requests and suggestions and hope that you will find it a useful tool for connecting in Second Life. Some of those are in their infancy and we hope other people may have an interest in taking the lead on some of them. So what is Blogging Second Life?
1) It’s a blogroll of Second Life bloggers. This includes blogs that focus on men and women’s fashions, on home and garden, on travel and on Second Life news and commentary.
2) It’s a directory of Second Life stores and creators with links to creator profiles and their marketplace stores so people can find the stores easily. We also have a special section on stores that use the Standard Shapes for Mesh clothing
3) It’s a connection for bloggers and creators. There’s an online application for bloggers who accept review copies that feeds into a searchable database allowing designers to find bloggers they might like to work with.
4) There’s a new section that we hope will become a directory of Second Life arts, education and entertainment – clubs, galleries, art expos, theater and sports would be found there as well as artists and photographers. We hope we can find someone who is active in one of those areas to take that on and build it into a real resource instead of a framework waiting to be filled.
5) It’s a connection for entertainers and those looking to hire them. We have added an online form for DJs, musicians and other entertainers to complete and feed into a searchable database for people looking for someone for their events and clubs.
We hope that if you have a blog, a store or a service that you add your information and get yourself listed. We also hope you add Blogging Second Life to your blogroll – connecting your readers to this useful directory.
We hope that if you have a blog, a club, a store,