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. ;)

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

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.

Nexus Prime

Nexus Prime, a photo by Atlas Pastorelli on Flickr.

I'd really, really like to recommend a visit to this beautiful and futuristic sim.

All about games, synthesis and the like ;)

Nexus Prime Bonifacio limo ==> http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bonifacio/186/16/24

Some of the wearables:
[ CheerNo hair | LWL "Jacket" | Miamai trousers ]

Pose by Del May.

Brutal Facility

In this post: Dura, Kalnins, Lanevo, Sephora, TKO, Ibanez.

Atlas, the demicorn

A demicorn character for a roleplay sim. Superb picture by Clem Velinov

Future of Denim

Well, after reading some trends about fashion I got inspired to create a casual outfit with simple things. As many spring 2012 collections are increasing the use of denim, I thought "why not applying some leather and denim in a way it doesn't hurt our eyes?"
"Why?", would someone say in a reply to my question. It's quite simple, over SL it's hard seeing leather and denim used as a daily outfit, instead it's much easier seeing master and slaves wearing sexy leather-ish stuff much more than in our RL. Browsing on market place I didn't find any good shorts/bermuda in leather, for instance. Not any type I could match with a blazer... perhaps I didn't search enough, and then might be wrong, or perhaps the only options are meant for the satisfaction of sexual pleasures?

fingers scintilla

If you haven't heard of him visit his flickr => http://www1.flickr.com/photos/fingersscintilla/

For this post I was looking for some cyber avant garde with more art into it. Then instead of taking the pictures myself I went for digital artists like that nice bloke above. I'll put just a tiny thumbnail beside it, so that you'll have to read to whole post see what I mean. LoL

the year is just beginning!

Hair MADesigns Toby | Jacket Ladies Who Lunch !Faint | Eyes Ibanez Color Glow Eyes Sirion | Necklace Kosh Enigma | Tattoo TattooArt Arcane | Skin Akeruka Manuel

Well, I might have taken strange decisions specially in the end of 2011, but 2012 is already being very promising. I don't like to tell things before they happen, but on the other hand I'd like to thank all of my friends and these new people I'm meeting.

die magi

Powerful magic Ibanez eyes and outstanding crafted necklace by Shade Throne

In this post: Ibanez, Shade Throne, Lassitude and Ennui, CheerNo and Miamai. Keep reading.

Eisbrecher

Incredible visor/display/shades from Fairlight Industries

For this post not too much words. I've just noticed on how I've been focusing on white clothes and backgrounds. Perhaps it's a contrast for what I see inworld. Everybody is dark skinned and brunette. Why is this so? Loads of tattoos, strips of cloths, post-emo-but-still black emo hairs. Perhaps I'm just tired? Or perhaps I just don't want to think about anything? Or perhaps I'm in love? Oops, saying too much... LoL

What do we have in here to be so called an icebreaker... Let's see: Akeruka, GRAVES, some heavy industries (Tokugawa and Fairlight) and a part of a roleplay kit?

After the blizzard

Well, it seems the worst has already passed: the blizzard of stress that caused a turmoil in the fashion scene and the grid itself. Now it's time to slow down a little bit and start planning for the coming year or at least trying to find our path after the hell got frozen. What are you going to do? A list of dos and don'ts really helps? I'm not a very fan of enlisting goals, but perhaps those that require just a few baby steps are easier to lift up our confidence than dreaming about moving mountains or even continents.

What about wearing at least something comfortable and resistant enough to give us some base for the new upcoming? There are some new releases to fuel our endurance, just click on "read more". ;)

How to turn a prince into a (cyber) punk!

Yeah! This is the first post about cyber fashion. Do you really think that in order to have a nice look you're going to find stuff only at known cyber shops? The answer is yes and no. Yes, because there you can find complete outfits, great apparel, body enhancements and the like. No, for it's quite possible mix things from "average" shops into a cyberlook. One just need to have a good eye and choose wisely which items are going to the mixer.
I was supposed to take the pictures at INSILICO, but unfortunately the sim doesn't have good shadows on the ground. And then I've just found another sim which I will have to explore soon: name is Cybercity.

Let this winter pass...

I know that so far there's not post about any cyber stuff. You might be curious. It will come, I assure you. But just arriving from a show and walking around a beautiful sim, I was tempted to show you some casual chic, as I'm not only made of coils and screws.

Why not, then, run out of the classic black and/or bring some light into darkness? By the way, these winter-ish sims are so beautiful to take pictures. Is this my only impression?

Vigilante

After being the cute boy on the last post, now it's time for something tougher - not that much, ok?
What happened these last few days is that I found a cool designer of beards and finally I got beards, goatees and stubbles of the same colour of my hairbase. With those facial hair in hand I visited many sims around the grid in order to find a nice urban one, not say punk alike. Piece of cake, right? Wrong! Perhaps I'm not in my lucky day or many sims are covered by globes or "ceilings" having poor shadows. Am also using Viewer 3 Beta (yesh, the same one I reviewed bad beforehand! well, not actually the same, it's an updated version though) for pictures. Oops I was talking about clothes, sims or viewers? Find it out next.

Does the winter have to be cold?

Well, it seems the snow is already falling over the grid. People are wearing more clothes. It's getting cold... or not! So instead of complaining about the temperatures, I went after an outfit that could give me freedom for sports, clubbing, hanging out not mentioning being sexy *chuckles*. This is the first time I got courage to wear mesh and leave my home not caring if people could see my clothes or not. Then I noticed that there are still loads of users of Phoenix, who - so far - cannot see these beautiful stuff I had. Talking about mesh, now I understand why one should be really careful before buying any, as the mesh objects aren't still that god smackingly glorious about fitting plus some still remind us SL 2007 a land full of squares and poor textures.

MBPS-MotM / Model of the month

Yay! I won Morgane Batiste Model of Month Contest for the current month (December) with the picture related bellow:

Urban Samurai

I was a little bit bored when suddenly a group notice arrived and caught my attention. Dura has moved its shop to a new sim and in order to celebrate the new shop Chiaki Xue (Dura owner/designer) has released a fantastic brand new hair. I felt so excited that I needed to post this new hair. It's also available there [click here for the new main shop].