Something in the static

Picture by Atlas Pastorelli on flickr.

When everything seems dead, but it's just the fear of steping outside our shell. Life is made of success, but also failures. For some people it's ok for humans to make mistakes, while others cannot tolarate it. Doing nothing is also an action and the time will pass by, liking it or not. Accepting one extra challenge might drive things beyond the comfort area. Does it really worth it? One would say to take it and never look back, even when ghosts from the past make themselves visible in the horizon? Hard to know, I guess I might answer that e-mail. LOL

So, having an itch I cannot ignore I went after things that would satisfy me in my second life, the result: shopping spree! Yay! It's been quite a time I've been wanting those trousers by Tableau Vivant, they look so modern, so my style, but after buying them, I really found a bit challenging for a good mix and match. Boots in the way I like were hard to match, only shirts weren't enough. I tried mesh jacket and the answer was NO! Then I remembered seeing them on other blogs totally alone, no top part was put on, and I instantly knew why, which just made me more intrigued and challenged - part of this thing about styling has also to do with big packs of patience, a good (mind's) eye and sometimes luck, as the item you're looking for simply doesn't exist inworld. However I did it and felt satiated. The results can be checked above, the clothes bellow:

Hair - Madesigns - Dora
Jacket - Ladies who lunch - Inventor jacket
Shirt - Emery - Tank R.F.
Trousers - Tableau Vivant - Cossak trousers
Boots - CheerNo - Victorio
Pose - Morphine

***Picture taken on Nirans Viewer

Ah this is the soundtrack, I'm in love with this song:

Julia

A couple of years ago, whilst Harry Potter's effect was in a cooldown, I was just walking around a bookshop when a cover of a new release went off in my peripheral sight. It was The Magicians by Lev Grossman - or a "Harry Potter for Grownups" that made me stop and take it home with me. Impressive story that even sponsored a wet and salty face here during the ending. Lovely though.
Then it's funny how things are made up by ourselves along our choices, which for some would be the so-called-destiny. Sometimes coincidences are not enough to explain me the way the course of actions that had driven me into such situation. And there I was at with a friend from work talking about the time when the X-Men were only comics: Rogue was just a rabid evil being, Madelyne Pryor was a Jean Grey's clone (and that time this word clone had a so futuristic sound!) during Inferno crossover. This story happened long before I was a teenager, so it was for my friend, although both had experienced the amusement of that insane turmoil ravaging the lives of those uncanny mutants.

No, sharing some personal point of view among the unending faces of our semiosphere  and at this level? No, it was too much! It seems that the signs, as an actor or just a patient in this hunter-and-bait-and-prey game, along the voracious wheel of semiosis simply manipulates me as if I were just a Kafkanian character. And the girl I was thinking this time has never been in the X-Men roster: the image was there, even the outfit, although it has been taking ages for me to read it, slowly degluting and perhaps following the same pace the story is delivered in The Magicians Kings (it's a sequel of the one mentioned above), I finally met the truth behind Julia, and I've been waiting for it so much. I just had to summon some signs and the whole pool of meanings would drown me in, as "...pretty soon he was going to figure out that she wasn't role-playing a sexy depressed goth chick, she had actually become a sexy depressed goth chick. / And she was enjoying it. She was dipping a toe in the pool of bad behavior and finding the temperature was just right". I finally made it, now I can rest in peace (for a while). See you!

Headdress - gilded:
Make up - Lovely Mi!
Necklace - Shade Throne
Shoulders and tails - TAD / Achilles
Trousers - Miamai
Boots - Neurolab Inc.

hunting you

Hunting you by Atlas Pastorelli on flickr.

Egoisme has release these two outfits called Z-Hunter. It's quite nice for zombie hunting, role playing, but also to use everywhere. There's a gun (yeah! it comes within the pack) very funcional, you can draw it or rest it on your backs - it even launchs granades! If you check the whole thing, it's a very versatile outfit, as you can use its parts mixing with any other stuff. If you just wear off-the-rack them, I find the one with net-shirt sexier, of course, so it's also good to bright on the dancefloor as well. lol

Going back to the viewers point (like I talked about here), I used both: Official Viewer Beta (I always use beta) and Nirans. Unfortunately the official one crashed many times while Nirans handled the environment beautifuly, quite slick viewer in my opinion. The pictures above were taken on Nirans, everything set as maximum/high/ultra (as the official one only crashed) I'm not earning anything by spreading their name, but it's so kewl for pictures that I'm tossing here their website once again: http://sourceforge.net/projects/niransviewer/

Styling card? Well, besides the skin, shape and hair, the whole thing is by Egoisme as it was said above. ;)

home & garden

home & garden, a photo by Atlas Pastorelli on Flickr.

these are lazy days of mine. as i'm not good enough at props (i should be as teoretically i "know" how to create them), there's not such a paradise out there than a furniture/props shop which is things are outdoor lol.

picture taken at the beautiful shop called {what next}

maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hodgepodge/102/114/31

they also sell via marketplace ==> https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/28052

there's also this new hair by Dura, very fluid and alive! you should see it by yourself. lovely though.

hair - dura - dura-boy 37 - blonde

shirt - baiastice - open shirt ice

shorts - house of europe - dolor (the attachments are not on | beads are not included)

sandals - cheerno - lourensso brown

poses by morphine (except the bench one, which is in the prop itself)

the red racer

Ah, a studio picture? Yeap, unfortunately many sims I've been to have no shadows enabled on their props. And instead of trying to create something I admit I'm not that good at - LOL - I'd rather go back to studio and take this picture in there.

Reading this blogs comments, I've saw this one: "But how can I get this outfit?".

So, before anything else, let me help those who don't understand the meaning of a styling card - it's usually like this: on SL I noticed we tend to start from the head down to the feet, ending sometimes with the pose you're in. Then the props/items are described as  <body part> + <shop name> + <item name usually goes with the colour/id numer or whatever to identify it>. Then if I want to own such item, what should I do? Go to SL search (inworld) and put the name of the shop, in the shop you'll have to look for them, can ask the info to the manager or anyone who's working there (it might help reading the owners profile, they usually describe who's there to give you a help).

Last saturday we had a burlesque show by Models in Motion/Opium Evolution, and I had an act in there with Veracity Afterthought. I guess I never saw such a thing in world. And boy, that was nice. Unfortunaly I didn't take any picture, but pictures wouldn't be enough - perhaps a video would be a blast! The acts I like best were by Anastacia, World Undercroft and - if she reads this I change it, I swear - the venue owner whose name I don't remember right now. They had astonishing scenarios, creative dances and a very smart use of particles I've rarely seen inworld. I'm very glad I was part of it, although in my case it was just a tiny part lol.

Whatelse? Erm... besides I'm STILL playing loads of League of Legends (I'm improving in there) I received some new releases, and decided to style it. As I said, I really really tried an inworld full of shadows picture, but the result was like... erm... nevermind.

Coming back to the outfit: Egoism has release three new mesh jackets. I picked the red one for it looks perfect for a daredevil racer, it fits into cars as well as for bikes. I tried black trousers and so, but the red was screaming - not actually negative - and I was like "Why not having red bottom as well?" I remembered then of a pair of trousers the were never used (sometimes we have so many stuff in our inventories that we forget what we have, even when they're very organized, which is shamely not my case lol). A hairdo here, props there, and the whole thing was done. Many people do like red, but if to you it's too much, just put a light coloured t-shirt on and some jeans would look perfect as well.

As this blog is not only about styling cards/clothes - no it is not! :P I downloaded Nirans viewer and found it classy to take pictures with. Although it's not that easier to use for beginners, it handles shadows nicely. The teleport screen is so... smooth and different! You really should give it a go. I recommend it (the same way as it was recommended to me lol). The link follows here http://sourceforge.net/projects/niransviewer/ . Have fun ;)

And if you got what I said about styling cards, let's check:

Hair - Uw.st - Uw.7R Ash hair
Eyeware - Tokugawa heavy industries - Optical Shades
Jacket - Egoism - Red biker
T-shirt - Ramp design - X-men t-shirt
Gloves - Tres Beau - Driving gloves (if I'm not wrong it's a gift)
Trousers - TheAbyss - Chaos leather pants red

NoR

NoR, a photo by Atlas Pastorelli on Flickr.

This weekend more and more League of Legends, and to make things a bit worse I've got Diablo 3. Although it's not been able yet to steal all my attention. Who knows in the near future?

Then all this stuff about dark feelings, plus Legal Insanity new releases (mesh t-shirts) brought me some comfort as I could leave the danger zone and go back to my dark and withered world (ah, this so reminds me the song My World by Colony 5! You have never heard it, probably. Check it out on youtube, you will like it).

This picture was taken at NoR. They claim they're the oldest urban rpg over SL. being that true or not, the sim is very busy, then, old or not, it must be a very nice place for some rlplayen.
[ NoR limo ==> http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Remembrance/228/187/40 ]

And finally the styling card

hair - raw house - khaos [white]
eyes - ibanez - soft glow eyes
shirt - legal insanity - jimi red tuxedo
shorts - balkanik - baggy shorts pants blk2.0
boots - pxdtoxic - basic combat boots

witches forest park

witches forest park, a photo by Atlas Pastorelli on Flickr.

some nice spots in this sim, i like it, so check it out when you're able to.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Witches%20Forest/79/58/24

in this post, about the outfit, there are two mesh pieces, the hair and the trousers. i really like them, although the picture is a bit dark, i was like "if i have it lighter, it'll lose it's atmosphere", then i left the way it was. this is an outfit for day by day, if you're good in mix and match, there are unendless possibilities, as the trousers also have different textures (different products though), and the hair, although it's mesh you can resize it! :D

hair - salon de glow - cm-01 (mesh)
necklace - barerose - lost kittens necklace
cardigan - prodigal - tight cardigan white 3 (gift)
trouseres - egoism - ego blue jeans (mesh)
shoes - fir & mna - the citizen boots rose mens
pose by agapee

What’s Your Digits? – Take 2: The Mesh Revolution!

What’s Your Digits? – Take 2: The Mesh Revolution!, a photo by Atlas Pastorelli on Flickr.

I find it a great idea what Strawberry Singh is doing about the use of the share of our digits.
[her post at strawberrysingh.com/2012/06/30/whats-your-digits-take-2-t... ]

So, am also sharing mine here:

Height - 7' 11"
Body Fat - 0
Head size – 80
Torso Muscle - 68
Pectorals - 7
Hand size – 35
Leg Muscle - 78
Hip width – 60
Butt Size - 65
Package - 0
Saddle Bags - 14
Foot size – 10 (but can be zero)

***Btw, I find having package more than zero really disgusting as it looks like beer belly instead of any 'bulge'.

p s y c i t y

p s y c i t y, a photo by Atlas Pastorelli on Flickr.

hey hey. well, i told in the last post, i'm also blogging some different gift skins. the one for today is akeruka's gift. as it's dark - darker than you see in the picture lol - i thought about wearing a warm coloured top part, in which case is by legal insanity. the trousers aren't released yet, so let's say they are a preview of what's coming by. anyways this is a very trendy and urban outfit, and the t-shirt comes in three options, i chose the 'neckless' one as it looks sexier for this outfit. hope you like it. hugs. ;)


hair - dura - dura-boy 33 dark brown
necklace - cheerno - native leaves
shirt - legal insanity - lenny shirts - pirate girl
trousers - jlb apparel - baggy skull pants (will be released soon)
shoes - balkanik - blk2.0 sneakerz
skin - akeruka - antonio skin goatie1 (group gift)


pic at psycity
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Altha/137/202/38

playing to kill

playing to kill, a photo by Atlas Pastorelli on Flickr.

Yeah, I came back to SL, although I have to share my time nowadays with another game, actually a MMO, name is League of Legends. At first I was like "blah", but a friend insisted that I should give it a go, now am so addicted to it. haha So, after killing many minions in there, I guess I got some inspiration to build this outfit, very urban and street, perfect for playing RPG in world like those police and bandit games, and also for clubbing and so. Imho it's still a bit sexy for the low rise camo shorts. No more words now, going straight to the styling card.

Hairbase - Madesigns tintable hairbase
Hair - Burley - Carlo platinum 03
Dogtag - Rok-Nav Dog-Tag
Jacket - 4mc Jacket1 (mesh)
Undies and shorts - Legal Insanity - baggy pants urban camo (there are a gun and some bullets attached to it, see why its also nice for urban rpg?)

Ah I seldom say the eyes when they're not Ibanez, but why not giving you the secret tonite? Alright, they're Lelutka pierce eyes. For the next posts I'm about blogging some gift skins I got, just need to try them and see if they fall well on me. Well, ladies and gentlemen, this is it. See ya.

getting wet

getting wet, a photo by Atlas Pastorelli on Flickr.

it took me a time to think how to match this only two items. lol
perhaps i'm tired today, but i guess it ended up very well.


hairbase - madesigns tintable
hair - burley - jimmy platinum 03
shirt - legal insanity - wet tank - petroil 3
boxer - vitamen - sheer oriental blue
feet - coco - barefeet (gift)

picture taken at vitamen shop - limo ===>
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Japarid/128/159/42