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:

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

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

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

i-mesh

i-mesh, a photo by Atlas Pastorelli on Flickr.

With some tiny modifications in my shape, these mesh stuff imho fell very nice on me.

hairbase - madesigns hair - tintable hair
hair - raw house - khaos white 05
eyes - ibanez tranquil eyes - platinum
earrings - razorblade jacket
watch - 2real tokyoflash (it's free in the shop)
tank - public enemy - 440 volts (mesh)
shorts - epic - chino shorts (mesh)
boots - deco - combatboots canvaswhite (mesh)

Acquiring

According to Cambridge Dictionary:

"An acquired taste:
  something that you dislike at first, but that you start to like after you have tried it a few times.

Olives are an acquired taste."

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Brutal Facility

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

Firestarter

Hair - MADesigns - Leroy - Silver Tone
Outfit - CheerNo - SIN.NOBREZA
Mesh Feet - CheerNo - Feet

The fall - alien and evil

For some reason this month I'm very interested in alien outfits, different structures. Sometimes looking angelic while other looking evil, not exactly demonic. I invite you all to keep reading: in this post - Neurolabs, Tableau Vivant, Ladies Who Lunch and much more.

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.