On the Other Hand Though

… apparently we won the (red) Mint photo contest.  Or so says D.  We’re still waiting for them to post our pic on their site.  Something about them being on vacation for two weeks…

Also Disappointing

We seem to have missed the registration deadline for the September STEAM hunt by a matter of days.  We had been checking the hunt blog intermittently for info on when they were taking new applications, but for some inexplicable reason, the blog was never updated in any way from the March hunt.  We’re not sure where or how they did advertise it, except possibly by word of mouth, through the people who were already participants in the March run.  I imagine that works out fine for them, since there’s already a gazillion participants.  Not so well for us…

D has a letter in to the organizers, to see if they’ll let us slip in under the deadline.

SL: Racers Island

“You’re taking this whole ‘I can park it anywhere’ thing a little too far, you know that, right?”

SL: Paper Chase

Sort of gives being “at a loss for words” a whole new meaning…

Groovy

I’m in my post-punk hippie Madonna Ray of Light phase.

Last Day on the Pulse/ Sn@tch City Prom Hunt

The Pulse/ Sn@tch City Prom Hunt ends tonight, so if you haven’t made it over there yet, best bump it up on your To Do List.

I have to confess, I was so busy setting up my own boxes, I never got around to looking at everyone else’s, or picking up a few gifts for myself.  (There are pictures of much of what’s available in the Sn@tch blog, naturally.)  People who visit seem to be enjoying it, though.  Dragonia even saw the Tiphareth Red bowties mentioned in the Retail Therapy fashion blog.  Bonus!

Pulse/Sn@tch City Prom Hunt

Hey, check it out!–  we’re, like, real merchants, in a hunt and everything:

(No, I did not do this art, those of you who are wondering.  Ivey at Sn@tch did.)

Here are the two fabulous TD items you can find, both of which are currently exclusive to this hunt:

The TD Tiphareth Red Bowties are free;  the TD Rose Stained Glass textures will cost $L30 for a pack of 12 that contains transparent and opaque versions of six different colors.  Smashing!

Here’s your limo:  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Pulse/71/76/596

Vintage

Vintage is fun.  Aside from that fact that every fashion designer in SL seems to go through a retro period, there are a number of small groups that use their sims for accurate historical reenactment or roleplay, plus larger groups that co-opt the designs and looks and music of yesteryear for their own pastiche.  So you can sail the seas in the Age of Sail, dance at a Baroque Masquerade, walk the battle lines of the Napoleonic Era, darken the alleys of a hundred Victorian cites, quaff a drink in Weimar Berlin, stroll the boulevards of Old Hollywood, drag-race Midwestern streets in the 1950s (theoretically all in the same night)…  and with a little bit of effort, you can look the part while doing each one, often very economically.  (The exception seems to be if you want to be a Gibson Girl.  The Edwardian period is madly under-represented, probably because it’s sandwiched inbetween the Victorian era and the Roaring 20s, two larger timespans that most people are more familiar with.)

Most of what you see me wearing in this picture cost nothing.  The flapper dress, gold belt, skin, hair, necklace, bracelet and earrings (invisible at this angle) were all free, acquired by me at various points in the past, either through my own initiative, or via tips from friends that they were available.  The shoes I already had (ironically, they’re the same ones you saw me unboxing previously);  I just changed their color.  Ditto for the eyes.  I bought the eyelash layer for L$25 off Marketplace, after an informative discussion with Dragonia as to whether or not my normal prim lashes were appropriate for the look, and the eyeglasses from Hatpins for $L125, since I’d had my eye on them for a few months anyway.  Final cost:  L$150–  about 60 cents US, and paid for out of my profits on texture and object sales from Tiphareth Designs.  I’d call that a bargain.

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On the other hand, it is possible to overdo it in pursuit of the Free.  Ivey Deschanel of Sn@tch had THIS to say on the ugly evolution of freebie hunting, and that was three years ago.  Behave yourself.  And if you’ve got the L, and you like somebody’s work, cough up for it once in a while–  especially if they’re catering to your niche-passion under-represented section of the market!

See?

Someone landed here following the search term “best woman ever”.

It’s Dragonia!

Meanwhile

Achoo

I hate Spring.

Eclectic SL

Our bud Ylva got together with a couple of friends and started an SL blog, then asked D and I to do some writing for it.  You can find it here:

EclecticSL

…and through a navigation link in the sidebar.

I’m happy to do it, but really:  at this point, I’m now intermittently posting stuff about SL in two blogs, a forum, a Flickr account and a Facebook account.  And that’s not counting the content I have to produce to list Tiphareth Designs on the Marketplace.  Maybe I should think about consolidating…

Who Is The Victor?

Best.  SL.  Umbrella ad.  Ever.

(And don’t worry, ladies, you’re covered, too:)

It’s like beautiful poetry.

(Hey, screw the umbrella, I want her outfit.  Super cute!)

Art Imitates Life II

Sweet ride…

How’s That Workin’ Out For You?

We arrived too late.

Har har har!  Of course we didn’t.  There was never anyone to save to begin with.  (And really:  if you feel you have time to write in blood on the walls during the Zombie Apocalypse, you have serious [probably terminal] resource-management issues.)  No, this is a WIP shot of the inside of a building Dragonia was building for a Second Life hunt.  (I believe it’s actually the Zombie Killers Hunt, although don’t hold me to that.)  I gave her a hand with some of the textures.

The finished version wound up looking even better than this.  Lots of fun.