Sunday, 30 November 2008

bryn oh




This is bryn, the other day at sinetika, dancing on the ceiling at selavys build...which she's (selavy) still working on....(worth a visit when shes made a few changes, i think its friday night theres music, but will confirm that)...



And this is me looking stupidly into a pram again.....





And all this leads up to the most amazing build by Bryn Oh at Immersiva.
I went there today and didnt see the half of it, i think....stuff down pipes, stuff in the sky and tp's underwater..... all part of Bryn's secret bits and bobs.......
I'm not usually one for games....i get bored easy..and I'm not fast enough or practised enough to care about learning new stuff, but this was great... some was clever, some moving, emotionally, but all the bits are well made and thoughtful, and well textured (vital for me to enjoy myself)...it was more than a "must see"...I will be going back thats for sure.

The address is Immersiva (116,157,24) or IM me or Bryn...or just seach the sim and land anywhere... and look carefully...:)))

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Saturday, 29 November 2008

More OL




Well....just a bit more....this particularly for Mac users, well, old mac users........you can use your current viewer to get into OL....check this out the trouble is that then you cant get into SL afterwards....lol

now pasting things into things is not my cup of tea...but I did it.. however......... sculpties still wont pop

The photo is me at 300m in OL trying to will a sculptie to pop. Dealis Widdershins threatened his with a pointed stick...to no avail.

:)) patience is a virtue they say...

OpenLife Grid,




Went to Open Life today, again, and continued my uploading, have now got the majority of my tex and sculptie maps uploaded, so now its just a question of waiting for the grid to be sculptie friendly....

I noticed lots more freebies on offer, loads of hair and clothes, skins and shapes, especially, but, of course, i still walk like a duck even tho there are some anims, they don't work very well. Ajax (region name) seems to be quite stable and tho I crashed once, that was in one of the sand boxes.

Now those of you with PC's and Mac(intel) may not have any problems with the sculptie thing, because you can download the OL viewer, but for me and Linux friends we should try to go in on the current LL viewer.......not quite certain how yet, but will tell you when I've cracked it...:))

Happy thanksgiving to all my US friends....have a great wekend, and dont eat too much....you'll only curse yourself on tuesday...:)))))

xxx

Friday, 28 November 2008

Second Front




Well, quite a show.... unfortunately my graphics card wasn't quite up to the job, so when the particle accelerator started to explode, black holes emerged and the floor melted away under the intense heat..... I saw lots of grey sheet prims ....oh, well, excellent build and amusing enough to keep me entertained for an hour or so.

Thanks to everyone involved....sorry,.. you know what I'm like with names. It was very well attended as you can see...


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Wednesday, 26 November 2008

Linden Labs....a word in your shell-like ears....



At 4002 meters over his shop Aliester Enoch has 100 bots.....they are one prim avatars that show up on search and on your radar



here they are filling my chat box as they do their thing...whatever you can do as a one prim being.....



And so STILL LIFE, SLEEK MODERN FURNITURE has traffic of 122000....which may be a bit stupid at first glance..... they aint gonna buy shit from the poor suckers who rent shops nearby.... BUT it gets Still Life to the top of the search list.

So...what has this got to do with me??? well....michael Linden recently admitted to there being around 7000 bots online at any time...

OK...so, bots are as stupid as a toilet seat but not really as useful.

My problem with this situation is: In a situation where Linden Labs are suffering an immense credibility gap (many don't believe a word they say) doesn't it look a bit like a fraud to say there are xxxxxxthousand people online at any one time???

The concurrency figures must also affect Second Lifes perceived value, as a business and as an investment. Allowing these figures to grow increasingly unreliable is an economically destabilising slip...... spin (lies) we expect from political overlords which is why no-one with any sense believes anything any of them say any more (except the naive and frenzied masses duped by huge 600$M PR campaigns) and that is OK by me.

But what is NOT OK by me is to see my invested time and talent squandered by a series of stupid decisions and lapses.

BOTS ARE SPIN IN 3D .


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Tuesday, 25 November 2008

The Virtual Blood Donor



Xerdar Oh, giving me a lift.


Ahh... yes... well....I have a very good friend of long aquaintence, Caro, one day expressed a certain interest in my virtual blood, which, to be quite honest, I didn't know I had. Anyway, what are friends for if not to help each other out.....

So, actually having forgotten this conversation, I popped over to see her and a friend she was eager that I met. So I did. Now.... yes.... they were all vampires.... It doesn't take great psychic powers of deduction, really, the uniform sort of gives it away, along with the castle, flaming torches and pentagram on the floor.

Now Caro was very seductively dressed, she's always a smart dresser (having an invent five times the size of mine), and the conversation soon came round to parting me from my blood (couldn't find any in invent, but they knew more about it all than me) and I was asked quite politely really if I was up for It ('It' being the parting of ways of me and aforementioned virtual liquid).

Well, a chill ran up my spine.... oh God...I had to ask (a fear to freeze any young thing to the marrow)..." Do I have to wear black?"
Being reassured that it was not a compulsory uniform, and furthermore that I could do it 'part-time' (I'm lousy at clubs and stuff....I never go...)...I thought it would all be OK....so... it was.

They drank my blood and I drank their's, very communal it was....and i left with new friends and some fangs in my invent...the only problem worrying me was whether to stash the fangs as body Parts or Clothing....along with an outfit I guess I'm gonna have to create.It won't be black..... Pink would sorta be rather NPIRL vamp.......hmmm

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Sunday, 23 November 2008

All quiet on the western front... 2




One of those quiet weekends, where nothing much happens apart from recovering from the previous week enough to hit it again.

I have been building some new stuff, the blender whirring, with some success....and still more to do on others. I will be doing a show at Lalala, and am getting some new stuff together for that.

Went to NMC at Sporadic's suggestion....they have some good sculpture there, outside, its worth a visit.

Sporadic Flow has been around, doing good things, and occasionally being recognised. He was away for a while. Hmmm, must get a snap..

NPIRL post by Alpha Auer is pretty interesting.... the creativity, a thing I have often remarked on, of a good number of very talented people in SL will be noticed more and more as the divorce cases and sex scandals of SL become less interesting to the press.

Botgirls blog is great on that topic. "sex sells and your coverage smells." ....:)))

love it

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