Good to be Back!

I just spent almost 2 weeks in the hospital. It was horrible. I hope I never have to do that again. I have spent the last week or so seeing different docs and adjusting meds. It has been NO fun. The whole time I just wanted to feel good enough to blog. SO....now I do...and I have been thinking and ...

Midnight Rant 07: Copyright

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/embed/G64m3-PFkwI[/youtube] (Note this was recorded about a month ago and I didn't get around to publish it at the time. Also, I was scared.) Links: TGIB on Kiva TGIB on Kickstarter TGGrid Neb's Racer Kit Neb's Death Race  

5 things to pay before the money runs out

I've been quiet the past two months, which is mainly attributed to a much-needed holiday vacation and subsequent stressful getting-back-into-work period. All this is complicated by the fact that El's currently staying in the hospital, but hopefully will be out again sometime this week. Anyway, as you can imagine, there wasn't much time to do anything productive, so I don't ...

Kandy and Victory Modan

For those of you that have followed my blog for very long at all, you will know that I model hair for Ali & Alli.  This CUTE little updo is one of their newest releases aptly named Kandy.  When Alice gave us the hair she simply asked for "something sweet" . . .and I can see why.  I LOVE the ...

3 of a Kind – Jeans

A few weeks ago, as I was looking through the feeds and flickr photostreams I came across a pic of an avi . . .just a simple pick.  The picture showed an avi in casual clothes, various poses but all together and I had a thought . . .perhaps I should start a category in my blog where I shot ...

Siss Boom, Eclectica and R2 Fashion

I was going to do a Q&D for this post . . .I PROLLY should have done a Q&D (Quick and Dirty) for this post, but I once again became so enamored with it once it was done, that I just HAD to talk about it a little.  There are SO many things about it that are SO pretty. It has ...

Midnight Rant 06: The Hypergrid

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arblVyxn0qQ[/youtube]   Links: Interview with Justin Clark-Casey Hypergrid Business - The Hypergrid is a social web Chuck Prophet on Archive.org Douglas Coupland and William Gibson on the KWLS William Gibson in Second Life (Part 1 | Part 2) Jeremy Bailenson on Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life and New Worlds Aloha

Ever an’ Angel

Don't you hate it when people aren't nice? Sometimes I wonder. Sometimes it seems like some people just want to be hateful and don't give two squats about what others want or need, or what is right or wrong. They live on the “me” level. And I find that SO disconcerting. It is NOT that I have never “visited” that ...

The Missing Image 04 – Meeting Justin Clark-Casey

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJNWidQrgf8[/youtube] Links: Open Simulator Overte Foundation Justin Clark-Casey's Master's Dissertation on Internet-Scale Virtual Environment Architectures Hypergrid Unity 3D Second Life Experimental teleport between Second Life and OpenSim Diva Distro Kitely OpenSim Creations Topics: 1:30 How do you become an OpenSim core developer? 8:00 Can OpenSim become the "3D web"? 14:00 Does OpenSim need asset security? 24:00 Does OpenSim need feature parity with Second Life? 31:30 How do you decide which features are in OpenSim core? 37:30 The state ...

Donna Flora A to Z C is for Cerry

   Several years ago, when I was just a little bitty avi, I stumbled upon a shop named Donna Flora.  I still do not remember how I found it.  It was probably through one of the numerous groups that I am a part of...always looking for a bargain.  But I remember looking around and thinking that I had found THE ...

Midnight Rant 05: OpenSim and Unity 3D

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/embed/JnUPx0dF5h8[/youtube] Links: Archive 3D Blenderswap Pathfinder's Virtual World Presentation Lag in Second Life and OpenSim and how to deal with it

e!…Ingenue, Essences, Dark Mouse

    A while back my wonderful partner, Vanish suggested that I stop making my blogs SOOOO detailed and just blog about the one or two items of each outfit that really caught my attention.  That is SOOOO hard to do when there are SOOOO many pretty things just staring back at you!  The funny thing about it, is that this outfit ...

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19 Questions

by V | 2 » | Jun2 11
For a while now, there have been a few very good and thoughtful threads sitting around on SLU by a user named KKaras, which sadly were somewhat overlooked and haven't been adressed too much. And because they're not all that easy to answer and require a little more room, I'd like to adress them here, where they might even get ...
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TGIB Speedbuild Tutorial 9: Making an animation in Poser

by V | 1 » | Apr16 11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXV2A-V-NS4 You can find the resulting animation on OSC.
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TGIB Speedbuild #8: Making your avatar invisible

by V | 1 » | Apr11 11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTwh8VcYnic Get the pose on OpenSim Creations.
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TGIB Speedbuild Tutorial #7: How make a sculpted table cloth with blenders collision

by V | 2 » | Apr1 11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZXhi23_XAQ
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TGIB Class: How to modify a skin for Second Life / OpenSim

by V | 0 » | Mar28 11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3jO2txDe3c The class was a little short and not very in-depth this time, but I hope it can give an introduction to making skins. I might make a speedbuild tutorial on that soon.
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TGIB Speedbuild Tutorial 6: Making a pose for Second Life / OpenSim with Poser 7

by V | 4 » | Mar27 11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo8zgvUloxE
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Moving inventory and creations from Second Life to OpenSim

by V | 1 » | Mar26 11
I recently held a class on VWBPE about this topic, and I think I didn't too good a job at it, hence this article. The problem is, this topic is larger than it looks at first glance, and has so many facets to it, that I struggled to cover them all in an one-hour lecture. In the end, all I ...
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VWBPE Class – Building in OpenSim

by V | 4 » | Mar21 11
Class held on the Virtual Worlds – Best Practices in Education conference on 20th of March 2011. VWBPE building class Links from the class: LibOpenMetaverse: http://lib.openmetaverse.org/wiki/Download Backing up with LibOMV: http://rock-vacirca.blogspot.com/2011/03/moving-objects-between-opensims.html Imprudence Viewer: http://blog.kokuaviewer.org/ Previous versions of Imprudence: http://wiki.kokuaviewer.org/wiki/Imprudence:Downloads OSAvatars: http://osavatars.com/ Rexxed: http://www.rexxed.com/ Jon Brouchoud's website: http://jonbrouchoud.com/ TGIB: http://tgib.co.uk/ TAOS (TGIB forum): http://taos.name/ Hypergrid Adventurers Club: http://becunningandfulloftricks.com/hypergrid-adventurers-club/
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TGIB Speedbuild Tutorial 5: Making a sculpted Ankh for Second Life / OpenSim in Blender

by V | 1 » | Mar21 11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiP1SSLYLtI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIU-YNxABqU [Edit 22nd March 2011: Re-uploaded the videos, used the wrong aspect ratio on first upload.]
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TGIB Speedbuilding #4: Making a sculpted hat for Second Life / OpenSim in Blender

by V | 2 » | Mar14 11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNBVqqPvigM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebef84KrzsY [EDIT 15th March 2011: Uploaded the second part again, since the audio stream got out of sync at the first try.]