The Color Purple

Ah first entry for 2009, lots of shit went on last year and hopefully lots of good shit will come our way this year. So where do we start? we start with a style entry, do click on the pics for a larger view, compression sucks, it sucks!!!

So what do we have here?

Hoodie + Hair: Yes! hoodie plus hair, this hoodie from the store simply named “S” (home of the widely blogged 30L unisex blazer) comes in both hood down and hood up with the hair in the same attachment. The original color of the hair is a bit off and blondish but its nothing a few tinting and recoloring won’t fix. It’s perfect for those days where you can’t think of anything to wear or just don’t give a damn like in this case I’m trying to look like I don’t give a damn but I actually do give a damn, damn.

The Shorts!, those aren’t really shorts they are tights that I have modded to look like shorts and added a prim cuff on the hem to make it look like more shorty. These ‘tights’ are from Ayayai (A.Y.Y) Checkout the store for more good shit.

Bag: Awesome 1L messenger bag from a Japanese I dunno if its a gallery or a store but regardless this bag is awesome. The original thing is scripted and the art on the front of the bag changes like every 10 seconds but I did not like that so I removed the script and put my own texture; Commander Keen hellz yeah (early 90s PC games put a ring on it!) coolness. Oh, its from a place called Art-Meter.

Finally, proof that petty dreams do come true (in SL). To those of you who follow my flickr stream you may notice that I’ve posted a photo of a pair of Pierre Hardy sneaks a few months ago hoping someone would make them for SL…huwell!!! one day I woke up and there they were (behind a ray of golden light and hallelujahs):

Akeyo’s latest shoes; CORA, theres not much to say just look at the level of detailing and the smooth smooth sculpt like wooooh dayumn. Ofcourse they are size and color scripted like most of their other shoes, totally customizable and brilliant! Hats off to Artoo for yet another magnificent creation. Go effing get them, I still can’t get over it I just want to lick them and…sorry.

Happy New Year Everyone!

Closing

HAI GAIZ!

This week will be the final week for shooting my headshots series, to those who want to catch up, please drop me a NC in-world before tuesday this week.

To those i’ve shot last week, I will be releasing the snaps in a couple of days.

Thank you all again for your awesomeness.

Photo from Halolz.com

An Anthem

“Don’t want to have you hanging’
Around me like a leech
I think, you’re just a problem
So stay the hell away from me
Because I don’t believe in you
And I wanna sit sit here all my SLife alone
This may sound a little rough
Don’t wanna fall in SLove”

Green Day back when they were good – don’t wanna fall in love

YES WE DID!

Congratulations to our new God President, BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA! It’s about time, I can already smell change lingering in the air and it’s not because of my air conditioner acting up again. It’s a good day to be an American ; being able to exist, witness, and participate in this historic event feels awesome. Good, good things is what I hope will happen next and they most likely will.

I think I am drunk (you know when you’re like drunk but you think you’re not but you’re not sure? so you just decide to sit down in front of your computer, google Zooey Deschanel, stare at her photo long enough until your mind begins saying stuff like ‘hey did she just blink?’). I was at an impromptu Obama victory party a couple of acquaintances pulled which was a great idea. Half of the crowd were dancing and the other half had their eyes glued to the TV screen waiting for PBO to address the nation. “Change has come to America” and everyone was like hell yeah?! My eyes were hovering (ala SL cam) at everyone’s faces, some had ecstatic expressions while others were teary eyed. Right at that moment someone jumped on my back and I thought I was being attacked. It was my ex! She was hyper and in all her glory telling me how happy she was and some other things I wasn’t paying attention to cause I was seriously scanning her and damn she looks good in that plaid shirt wtf memories, regrets, and a bunch of Conor Oberst shit started pouring in and it had to stop! ‘Me too’ I exclaimed back as we hugged, then her bf popped in out of nowhere was all ‘hey man’ ugh I heyed back while in my head I wanted to stick a pencil up his huge nostrils, other than that it was a fun night!

We will all wake up to a better tommorow.

3.21 AM

“I’m so tired but I can’t sleep
Standin’ on the edge of something much too deep
It’s funny how we feel so much but we cannot say a word
We are screaming inside, but we can’t be heard “

- Sarah McLachlan

I know this may be out of context with my blog but I’ve been really down lately. I’m not the guy who feels like everyone needs to acknowledge his feelings or the guy who corners a friend out and starts ranting, no. I’m the guy who tries to keep his shit to himself as much as possible because I don’t wanna worry anyone or have them waste their time trying to talk me out/in of something, but sometimes I just feel like I need to get some stuff out of my chest in one way or another…just not tonight.

Turn, smile, shift, repeat.

Enough emo shit, back to business!

HAI2U!

Headshot Series

There’s not much to say here. This series is all about the faces of our avatars and how they look, how we adorn them with personal touches, our eyes, noses, lips, facial structure and shit. I like doing headshots because they’re easy in a sense that there’s not much conceptualization involved, once you  have your initial vision or mental prototype the rest will…actually that’s it.

My treatment for these headshots involve a lot of edge smoothening, sharpening what needs to be sharpened (mostly for guys) , softening what needs to be softened (mostly for girls), balancing saturation for a moody/dramatic effect and ofcourse the ever elegant vignette which serves as the cherry on top of this whole pixel sundae. All in all it takes around 25-40 minutes to process one photo.

I don’t charge zilch for this (although tips are welcome & appreciated lol), anyone can IM me and we can arrange something out with regards to time of shooting ; I’m usually on from 12 PM to 4 PM SLT. I suggest keeping things it as minimal as possible, you can wear some jewelry (no bling pls or gtfo) but nothing too WTF-ish as to not distract the focus from your face. You can take them on from my flickr and upload them to yours just link it back on the description, you can also upload them in-world for whatever purposes, oh what the hell do whatever you want with them.

Above are some of the shots  I’ve completed, click on the photo to go to the flickr page.

Featured above are : Krez, Samara, Severine, Esme, Sawyer, Brooke, Bakersfield, and Ally.

100 Avatars : Completed

As a kid I’ve always looked forward to class picture day, as a teen I loved photographing friends together and being in group shots, as a young adult … I still like certain group activities.

One night while re-playing Mortal Kombat: Armageddon and looking at the special features I found a photo that has all the MK character’s in it and I thought it was rad. “I bet this’d look cool with the peeps from SL in it” I said to myself, “Oh yeah it totally would” I responded to myself which I tend to do a lot. I started thinking of how to approach it, how to reel in 100 avatars, how the shooting would be like. I knew it was impossible to have 100 avatars pose all together at one time cause that’s like having your own Hair Fair and nobody wants Hair Fair without hair actually being faired so, no. I thought of taking a photo of each single avatar and then just mashing them all up as a group and that’s what I did and it worked!!

The shooting sessions were a ball! I started with a few close friends and they TP’d their friends and their friends TP’d friends etc. and people would see each other and be all ‘O HAI omg you know him/her omg that’s so fetch 3 degrees of separation shit!’ and all that jazz it was FUN and I enjoyed every second of it. The sensational Esme Milena has helped the most in TPing people in thanks muchos Esmer I owe you some foot licking or whatever <3. Dick Volare summoned in the nekos, neko-bots, an elf, a fish and furries to the set which was a delight, Gattina Dumpling bought in some interesting creatures as well THANK YOU guys and to everyone else that TP’d in a friend or two or three or four to the set, hats off to y’all!

Yadda yadda yadda, nobody reads these long ass documentations so I’ll try to wrap it up. The editing took longer than the shooting, it wasn’t easy touching up edges, levelling, adding/deducting shadows and color correcting 100 images one by one so wheew. I plan on making other versions of this, just not right now haha maybe tommorow, with other another batch on the first row so you can see their cool shoes. Shoutout to Krez McAllister for making the art version in-world denke! (I will send it to y’all later).

Click on the pic to open the Flickr page, there you will find the hi-res versions and some comments.

Here’s the names of the participating Avatars, thanks again guys you rock :

(In alphabetical order)

Adeline Blackthorne – Aidan Aqaucade – Amelya Hastings – Annabelle Reinard – Aubrey Shinn – Ayako Guerrero – Bakersfield Kidd – Bliss Aristrocrat – Bone Mosten – Bootsy Breumann – Brayden Foggarty – Brooke1 Ashbourne – BrookeBxx Gossipgirl – Butthole Magic – Celyna Exonar – Chaos Kilara – Chlloe String – Christian Naziko – Clocks Cloves – Dahlia Elide – Davey Goldkey – Daymian Decosta – Delena Paine – Detective Ninetails – Devo Horten – Dick Volare – Disembodied Hand – Dreamsicle420 Gossipgirl – Drinkinstein Sorbet – Eenalem Gossipgirl – Emleigh Westland – Esme Milena – Fable Luna – Filthy Boozehound – Flutter Memel – Four Yip – Gattina Dumpling – Gene Luik – Gensis Rossini – Giselle22 Bristol – Hush Rau – Irie Campese – Isabel Susanti – Jon Crawford – Jordyn Lannock – Justice Capalini – Justin Lusch – Kallum Denton – Kayliee Decuir – Keetarah Mills – Krez McAllister – Kylarai Hayek – Kylie Walluf – Lanai Jarrico – Lance Lubezki – Lauryn Arado – Lizzy Albartos – Lolaa Michalski – LolitaL Magic – Lolli Munster – Mariya Nesiote – Mascara Tarber – Meat Carver – Micah Kuhn – Mijun Boa – Mochi Milena – Moonlight Ninetails – Narcissa Larkin – Nichole Messenger – Nicolas Sinatra – Nicolette Marx – Pamela Anderton – Phant Nabob – Rance Alva – Rhia Zohari – Rumor Parx – Sage Straaf – Saiga Metall – SallieElston Gossipgirl – Samara Cioc – SemiSweet Sorbet – Severine Morrisey – Sparky Eames – Spindle Vlodovic – Staceluv Allen – Staige Aker – Stasia Serevi – Stokely Mayfair – Strelok Perl – Sunlight Ninetails – Sylar Boyd – Teddy Ponnier – Teddy Whitfield – Three Fall – Turbo Zipper – Ubelievable Destiny – Uma Ceawlin – Valeria Pienaar – Violet Morellet – Vylorna Demar – Woodrow Stapleton

I hope you like it.

Project 100

I want to make an image with 100 avatars in it, kinda like a really big class photo, family reunion shot or that courtyard orgy scene from Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. 

Each avatar will be shot individually, then digitally combined all together once the goal number is reached.

I’m going to start inviting avatars in-world just as soon as I log on, if you want to be part of the project please IM me.

Unanswerable Question

Why are girls so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so 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DAMN COMPLICATED

Bare Face

I love my glasses. I’m so attached to them to the point where when I’m not wearing them I feel like I’m naked, and that applies to both RL and SL. This is me naked :

Shot was done with minimal editing; saturation adjustment and smoothening of edges. I think I’m channelling a bit of a younger Henry Townsend (Silent Hill : The Room).