Rezz Day .... yay...

Well, I'm one today....... :))

Don't think I've ever built so much in one day........ it's been great.

First there is the Garden, Npirl, Garden of Delights... thats gonna be great, and I've done my bit, well, about 80% finished, I would guess, but it's always the finishing touches that take the time. Hell is in the details...:))

Then, for the first time ever I, at long last, got rid of that terrible Linden grass and sand in the sim I'm working on with Jade...... and made my own... much better, well, couldn't be worse....lol

Unfortunately, for blog readers, theres a bit of a news blackout til its all done, so I'll have to go out and get some gossip instead....:))

Won't be long tho.......

Busy Moving Mountains

Yes, been moving mountains, and those 100 meter prims are a lot of trouble, flying round and round, lol, wears me out just thinking about it.....

Still, gonna refrain from showing you any pictures as yet, cos it'll be better when the trees are in.

NPIRL is also kicking off, so gotta book some space for my little foray into hell, well, The Underworld: hmmm... sounds like real life.....

Charlots been selling stuff faster than she can make it, check her stuff out at....( never get this right)


http://charlotdickins.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/ishtar-goddess-of-the-moon/


and check out Gaia too, while you are there..

Nothing much to report, on the gossip scene, had my head (and body) inside prims for the last week...(year)
oh yes.... its my rezz day on Wednesday, one year old....:))..... just a babe.....

builders paradise

Now, this could be the definition of paradise...... me, Jade and 22500 prim, just waiting to be used...... now, thats what I call a building site.....

The Garden of NPIRL Delights

http://npirl.blogspot.com/2008/04/announcing-more-than-just-build.html

Its the big news.....


Got in...... will be building a new forest at NPIRL's Garden of Delights, which they are doing with Rezzable.com...

soooo,........ very pleased, looking forward to it...

its gonna be 2048 meters, thats about the same size as my Orange Island build, and will be in The Underworld.....:)) spoookie....
as you will see from their website, its gonna be themed... lots of fun for all...

Charlot Dickins is building there too, and shes got a treat in store for us all....:)) I expect it'll be really great..

npirl

well, the big question is..... will I get a space to build at the npirl festival, we will hear tomorrow I guess....
Charlot is also planning on showing there so we've both been busy getting some stuff together, and, in a break with my normal patterns, I am not gonna show my new trees here first, I'm gonna wait til they are planted out.... just to show them as a collection of trees, rather than one offs...... hoping for a little bit of shock tactics as well, cos they wont be what people will be expecting me to build....:))
... so roll on tomorrow...


:))

A new tree in the shop

This is the new tree, its called The Leopardfruit Tree, and is as uncommon as it is unusual.... its very sensitive, having developed alone in the forest for many years before man had evolved. The approach of anyone, nowadays, makes the tree drop all its ripe fruit.... strange but fairly dramatic...

There is one growing on the beach, one in the shop and another has taken root at Brooklyn is Watching.... worth seeing...:))

meanwhile........ npirl has got a sort of building festival, thats more than......

"Rezzable Productions and the Not Possible IRL group have joined forces to hold a large-scale two month extravaganza loosely themed around “The Garden of NPIRL Delights.”

This isn't just about building. It's about giving content creators free reign to further discover their creative might *flex!* and the opportunity to shape our virtual world in ways that... yea, you got it, would not be possible in Real Life.

Taking a page from that madman and artist, Hieronymus Bosch, Rezzable and NPIRL invite you to help us conceive and construct the NPIRL Garden of our collective dreams, spanning four sims to illustrate: the Underworld, Earth, and Paradise"

thats the idea, so if you are interested, just email....

npirldelights@rezzable.com


:))

stranger

Well, theres plenty of strange plants growing around here, but this has got to be one of the strangest....

its called the Pajama Root.... :))

YES !!!

yay, easy, man...... no sweat....:))

Eeeeek!! again

Well, if you dont hear from me again............. my new Rams have arrived and tomorrow morning I am going to do brain surgery on my poor laptop.... like DIY brain surgery, not really recommended....... we will see..... (exclamation)...

another Ram

Twos company and one is peaceful and quiet, but decided that my poor lonely 1Gb needed another to keep him company, so the nice men at Crucial sent me a system scanner to tell me what I needed and they are sending me one reeeaaallly cheap....
two rams gotta be more fun than one.... :)))

so next week I'll be investigating the insides of my hardware and doing very technical things..... lol.... not quite my comfort zone, but ..hey! what the hell.....

also, am very pleased that I have another big build to do....:)) so, after Orange there will be Jade, and after Jade there will be another !!! very cool. should burn out the motor on my little Blender...:)) and fill my invent to overflowing.....

but all is quiet on the Island Front pending our glorious leaders decision to muck about with Island pricing.... hmmm.. have commented on that in an earlier blog... dont get me going....

on a more pleasant note, I have a new tree, on show on my beach, and at Brooklyn is Watching, Selavy Oh helped me with the script, as I neeed help, being still a noob in the scripting scene.... its called The Leopardfruit Tree, and may be my best yet....:))

Juria Yoshikawa

Well, this is Bean enjoying Jelly Flower by another talented artist, Juria Yoshikawa at Brooklyn is Watching....

Strawberry Holiday... pure genius

get the old 1.19.0. viewer here

use this link to get the old viewer..... lots of people swear by it.....

http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/04/03/the-new-viewer-a-well-oiled-machine/

hmmmmmm,...... well, things are going better since I downloaded the old viewer again.....

but then I had to reboot, probably, partly, because of the violent crashes....who knows.... it may be the reboot, it may be the older viewer, but, fingers crossed....things seem to be OK ish......

Still got the skirt bug tho,....seems its not just me....

soror nishi award

Now, I am not being really nasty, or anything like that, but this sign is likely to win the soror nishi award for stupidest sign in the English language....
I think it is great what they are trying to do here, except that it feels a bit like being a goldfish in a bowl type thing...
BUT
what a strange mind set to call me "you"..... now, as far as I understand the English language.... either I am an I or I am a YOU....it seemslike it is impossible to be "you", that sort of suggests that I may not really be a you, but am secretly an I....
SO
I think that the word "you" is the most patently stupid use of the English language that I have ever encountered... and these guys may be due for an award....

Anyway, as Magritte is one of those painters you cant help loving.... and I love a bit of post-modern irony... I couldnt help replying, and though nowhere in the class of "ceci n'est pas une pipe" it did get a bit of frustration out...



I know it sounds funny to those who are either not in SL, or those who just visit, but I do think that I have some rights as soror Nishi, and though this is something to be taken up by philosophers and psychiatrists alike, soror Nishi is a reality, (and a force of Nature) and will not be treated, or called a "you".

issues...

well, the Linden Boys have more issues than you can shake a stick at......... everyone is crashing and nothing is working......
well, did my presentation at Orange, and things were going OK, except one by one my friends were disappearing offline..... i just kept on dancing, but then, stupidly I tried to take a photo....and... crashed.....

3 times I tried to take a photo to blog......it was a cool scene, there were loads of people there, couldnt count if it was 20 or 30 and there were particles being thrown hither and thither.....

Well, hopefully someone got some shots so I can post em later... .we shall see....

anyway, it all went fine, and seems like everyone had a good time once the crashing finished.....

Skirt bug.....

Well, SL never really ceases to amaze.........

Yesterday I got a new outfit from Gilles DeCuir, a very talented designer, and was pleased as punch.... but......... the skirt did very strange things, and as I found out later, ALL my skirts did the same.... THEY DISAPPEARED......

I put on a skirt, 15 seconds later it went invisible..... it could be seen only in Appearance, and my Invent. assured me I WAS wearing said skirt, but it could be seen my no-one......

Now, theres been loads of weird things happen to me in my time, but this has gotta be one of the strangest. No-one I spoke to had ever heard of this "issue" as the Linden Boys like to call our bugs.

So....surely no-one has fixed it on purpose for me to wander round in my underwear, after all, the Boys could rummage thro my drawers anytime they wanted to... not really much option to Search for Skirt Bugs ...... so guess I'll be sticking to trousers for a while, (which is ok, after all I normally wear trousers,) but just for once I thought it'd be nice to wear a skirt......
Sods Law I guess....

Anyway, Gilles has done me proud and I'll look fine tonight anyway....

thanks Gilles
xxx

ColeMarie Soleil

Such an amazing photo, and i'm not just saying that cos its me..... just take a look at her other photos on Flickr at


http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockerfaerie/

hmmm. never get that quite right, anyway, well worth a long look........

rich at last

wow, just got this email....

FROM PRINCE MOHAMMED

I believe you are doing fine today. I am writing to inform you
about the necessary arrangements I have made to safe keep our
family funds. The fund is now with a diplomatic security company
in Europe and note carefully that the fund is in trunk and the
content of the crates is money "US$14 million cash" but I did
not disclose it to the Diplomatic Services as money, rather I
informed them that the crates contains Vital "DOCUMENTS AND
EXPENSIVE AFRICA ART WORK" belonging to a family friend and
also business partner (that's you).

Please i want you to receive the trunks on our behalf and i will
like to have your consent if you are willing to do this so i can
inform you on the further procedures. Please note that you will
get a negotiable percentage of the fund and the deposit paper
is ready and will be forwarded as soon as you begin the process.
I am waiting to hear from you soon.

Sincerely,

Mohammed


so, looks like I'm in the money, well, I said to him that I dont have a bank account except in Sl cos I'm an avatar, but that if he put his money into Lindens..(should get a few lindens for that)... then he could just Pay me and we could put the rest in giant prim and bury it in the cave on my beach, it'd be pretty safe there.....
then I could buy islands and things like that... it would be great.....
don't know if he'll get back to me.... we'll see....

isn't life strange, someone you never heard of wants to give you bundles of cash..... wow

new build on hold...... bugger

Well, the linden Boys have put the spanner in the works for my new build, with my current sponsor, jade, putting things on hold until the new pricing comes into force......
oh well, just gotta be patient, but thats not my best attribute....

this from the linden blog

"For Q2 our Island pricing is changing. New islands will be USD$1000 and this change will go live upon the new Land Store being launched, so before the end of April. Orders placed before the launch will be at the current USD$1675 pricing. Monthly fees will remain the same for Q2.

No doubt there will be lots of questions about how this affects those residents that have ordered islands very recently, and how it affects Openspaces or the Educational pricing. I will follow up with a much more detailed blog post in a day or two, so well before the new Land Store is launched; do please be patient while we get all the information finalised for you."

Hmmm, dont they know that rising land prices are what keeps major economies afloat...i.e. UK..... not something to be worried about...... could even mean that mugs like me get to make a few bob on their investments..... oh well......

no new build for a few weeks then, I guess.....

a date for your diary

well, if you aren't doing anything better, pop along, I should be saying a few words about my creative activities, and then a DJ called Doubledown Tandino will be on the decks for a while so you can strut your stuff and for the talented photographers amongst us, should be a good opportunity to snap away....

its listed in the Search...(SL) and if you cant find it there, its on Orange 4......

and speaking of photos, a list of talented people too long to mention have put some shots on Flickr, best way to find them is to Google 'soror nishi' then follow the links....... they certainly put my humble skills to shame....

WHAT

well.........
still offline, and not amused at all!!

2.21am

Not a happy bunny....

ready to upload now........

Havok....... call me a sceptic...

Well, I haven't crashed this much for a month, so, sorry, but not exactly impressed with the new simulator, havok by name, havok by nature.......

and now, when I got fruits to put on a tree........... OFFLINE .........thank the Gods for Blender, or I'd have to read the Sunday papers which is a fate, not worse that death, but coming a close second........

oh, well, new build going OK, got a nice tree fern I'm working on and the Jade Mountain daisies are really lovely, so all good really.

Jade is still waiting for the Linden Boys to deliver a new sim for me to plant, god, I could have built one myself in this time.... after all its just a few bits of sea and sand thrown together in a corner......isn't it??
How difficult can it be??

Off to plug in the Blender...... bye.........

working on site

Well, the cranes and heavy lifting gear are off-site now leaving just me and this volcanic plug to get on with it.
The bedrock is so permeated with titanium that the rock has taken on this deep amethyst colour.... very pretty



Well, I do a lot of flying around at the moment, its hard working on such a large prim, wears you out....... still, think I 've got it all as I want it now, just gotta get out and find a few more flowers.....

Thx for all positive comments on Orange, by the way....:))

soror

Day 4

Hmmm... lots of hours spent planting and watering, but didn't get my hands dirty....

Havok

Well, you probably already read this....

Havok is on the way........ Hmmmmm..... well, here already actually.... well, better plug in the Blender, cos we're gonna be off-line I guess if the past teaches us anything.....(very sceptical soror) anyway, cant get much worse than last week..... or can it??

this from the Linden Boys....

"Second Life Simulator v1.20.0.83683 Is On The Way! (previously known as Havok™4 Beta Server)
This Saturday we announced the release readiness of the new Second Life Simulator, previously known as the Havok™4 Beta Server. Testing this weekend turned up a couple of issues that we took care of this morning. As a result of this successful initial run, we will be deploying the new Second Life Simulator today and tomorrow in two phases"

well, we'll see..... :)) I guess its in-place which is why everything got turned off..... probably got a download due......

Anyway, been a long day.....:)) will be smiling again in the morning,,........

Bugger, bloody Blogger bugged too........ no photos tonight....:)))))
tomorrow
promise.

soror
xxx

This is how it goes.....

Day Three



Day two



Day one

Well this is how its going, so far.... at the Sacred Feminine site where I am fully occupied at the moment, which is why some may be wondering whats happened to Soror....:)).... busy little builder..

Well I have had to do lots of new stuff, new prims and tex, so now comes the more interesting bit, where I start planting, and you can start seeing what all those hours with the Blender whirring have produced...

The guy I'm working with/for has just bought an adjoining sim, so should have loads of prims to play with...:))... happy bunny....