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. ;)

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

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

pimp me up (almost for free)

pimp me up, a photo by Atlas Pastorelli on Flickr.

before going for a shopping spree, i decided to look what i have in my wardrobe. some items are free, others are not. but you'll be surprised by the quality of those gifts.

check the styling card ===>

colourful

colourful, a photo by Atlas Pastorelli on Flickr.

this is just an example of what is IN about SL photo trends. ;)

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.

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

kuru kuru world

OMG! You have to visit this exposition! ===> http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/MiC/137/220/22

I just came from it and it's a delicious zeitgeistig popart experience. Go for et!

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.

Props and Pose Fair 2012

Hai models and photographers. There's a props and pose fair going on, they'll keep it until the 8th of the current month. Many poses have their price reduced or special editions as part or even 100% of the sales go to a fundraising for Superhero Epilepsy Combat Brigade.

The limo is here ====> http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hoi%20Polloi/110/205/27

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.