More than Just a Girl

In early September, Hybrid Ansar threw down the gauntlet by challenging webloggers to oversize their female and, it also turns out, their male shapes.   As I mentioned in an earlier post (“Muscling in on Identity”), this meme and Botgirl’s post on changes of identity through time caused me to feel the impact of FL cultural messages — [...]

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Beguiled by Gita Rau

Many months ago, good friend L shared with me information about a new jewelry designer, Gita Rau, and her jewelry line “Beguiled.”   (Gita also happens to be a wonderful photographer.)  Gita and her Beguiled line would have been a perfect fit for the Shengri La Vintage Marketplace apprentice-designer program.  Her wonderful personality and talents reveal themselves [...]

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“Muscling” in on Identity

I’ve been inworld for nearly 3 years (hard to believe), and for the first time,  I felt the issue of “virtual or avatar identity” make its presence known.  The timing of  Botgirl’s latest, always thought-provoking weblog entry is fairly ironic with its revisit to the topic of identity but with a twist:  changes in identity through time.   Some of [...]

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“Pearls of the Ocean”

I couldn’t resist sharing a sneak peek of another amazing mer-gown, one that I will be modeling during the “Pearls of the Ocean” fashion installation on Sunday, September 13th (8:00 AM SLT, Shengri La 81.68.253).  “Pearls of the Ocean” is a showcase of mer-apparel by Misteria Loon, creator of Pas De Deux fashion.
Misteria’s gorgeous “Black Pearl” mer-gown is sublime.  Take [...]

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Gorgeous Mer Fashion

Pearls of the Ocean Mer Fashion Installation
Sunday, September 13
8 am PDT/ 11 am EDT
Shengri La 81, 68, 253
 
I am so honored and thrilled to be able to share news of a fashion installation featuring the gorgeous creations of Misteria Loon (creator of Pas De Deux), who last spring graduated from the Shengri La Vintage Marketplace program [...]

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Doll Face by Andrew Huang

 I just came across the “Doll Face” short film (from a posting in Facebook), which I understand went viral on YouTube in 2008.  I hadn’t seen Andrew Huang’s work before.   ”Doll Face” is a powerfully compelling and hauntingly thought-provoking exploration of virtual identity well worth revisiting or seeing for the first time.  
The short film plays with the [...]

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Sometimes a Revisit

Tonight, I returned to Sometimes They Rise, AM Radio’s latest build where I learned that the build is meant to change on a frequent basis.  This time when I arrived wheatfields whiskered the ground around the trees.  Snow sparkled its way gently down the skies, blanketing the horizon in gray-white ripples, and a HUD cast a wonderful [...]

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Images in my head

I upgraded from the free animoto service to the full-length version.  The full-length version produces videos that run somewhere around 35 seconds (instead of 20 seconds) and that allows for video within video, along with photos.  My first full-length video (below) contains photos only, with thanks.
 

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Chaising the Build at Mischief Cove

Not too long ago I finally attended my first building class at Mischief Cove.  The classes are announced 10 minutes before they begin, which is wonderful if you’re inworld when the announcement is made.  But by and large over the past year, I’ve missed those announcements and always struggled to recall the general day/time that was listed [...]

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