People did tell me that but I just didn’t believe it *winks
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Yesterday I had the honor to celebrate Aggio’s and Katie’s union. When I first met Aggio about 5 months ago he had just arrived to SL but we soon became good friends. I am very happy for him and Katie and wish them a long and blessed journey together. May the Goddess bless you both my friends!! .
One of these days my friend Elora called me for a sale at Alchemy. Being one of my favourite stores I just TPed and wow! the outfits were at L$50. No need to say that I spend some of my pocket money there and I couldn’t resist and bought also a wonderful outfit from Constanza Volare’s new collection.
Leave you here some of the photos I took wearing her beautiful creations and you can see some more here. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do and don’t forget to drop by Alchemy, sale is still on *winks
The Confidence Outfit comes with Jacket, Pants and 4 prim skirts with 2 models flouncy and straight, with scripted (Seating Script modifiable) and unscripted versions.
In the package you can also find a pair of great stiletos matching the colour of the outfit.
Available in Dark or Light Purple, Brown, Dark or Light Teal, Pink, Light Red and White.
Price on Sale: L$50
Wearing:
Skin: (CS) Vogue skin – Bronzed (Burgundy Glitter) freckled; Hair: Silk Aeon Snowflake Tint; Jewelry: Glass Squares Pink Earrings and Necklace by Shiny Things; Glasses: Uptown Girl Horn Rims by Rebel Hope Design
The beautiful Salsa comes with top (shirt layer), pants and 3 prim skirts, either of them floating gracefully around you when moving.
It is available in 5 colours. Showing here the Caribe, but you can also choose Fiesta (pink), Tropical (red), Carnaval (purple) and Sol (Yellow)
Price on Sale: L$50
Wearing:
Skin: (CS) Vogue skin – Bronzed (Burgundy Glitter) freckled; Hair: Bishwear Brown; Shoes: Spring Covered by Nicky Ree; Jewelry: Greta colour change necklace by Tickled Pink
Alchemy Remarkable comes with Top (shirt layer), Pants, two prim skirts, one unscripted and the other with SS (Sitting Script mod) and flexible prim scarf
It is available in Silver (shown here), Ultraviolet, Yellow, Red and Cyan
Price on Sale: L$50
Wearing:
Skin: (CS) Vogue skin – Bronzed (Burgundy Glitter) freckled; Hair: Silk Aeon Snowflake Tint; Jewelry: Silver Owl Earrings custom made by Alyssa Bijoux
Alchemy Innocence Light Blue is one of the newest releases from Constanza.
It comes with 2 tops in jacket layer (Black and White), 3 sets of pants (Black, Light Blue and silver) and prim leg bows in light blue and white. The texture of the outfit is beautifully detailled with flowers and patterns.
Price: L$ 250 (not on sale)
Wearing:
Skin: (CS) Vogue skin – Bronzed (Burgundy Glitter) freckled; Hair: Silk Aeon Snowflake Tint; Jewelry: Swerve rose necklace bt Shiny Things and Silver Owl Earrings custom made by Alyssa Bijoux; Shoes: Raveness Sandals by Husky GFX
Like I have posted here, my friend Halden Beaumont was nominated media director of SL Ballet and has been working hard on the project.
Finally the complete machinima video has came out and for those of you who hadn’t the chance to see The Nut you can now watch it here thanks to the great job Halden has done, wining his battle against lag and all the SL hickups we are so familiar with.
If you have the time and even if you don’t understand a word of Portuguese (he is too lazy to write in English hehe) drop by his blog and show him your appreciation.
[UPDATE] Halden did write the post in English afterall heheheh
… oppressive regimes, poor economic conditions — that’s what makes an SL user”
At first when you read this you may think that it is one of those eternal oppositionists to Metaverses!
But no, quite on the contrary, those are the unfortunate words of Mr. Philip Rosedale aka Philip Linden, who, as everyone knows, is the resigning CEO of Linden Lab.
These words were spoken in Frankfurt Germany, one of the stops in his European Tour and you can find the whole news at Reuters.
I don’t know about you guys, but I live in a country where bad weather doesn’t apply (ok it has been raining the past 2 days… so???), we will be celebrating on the next 25th of April 34 years of democracy in Portugal and in what concerns poor economic conditions… my dear friends, anyone who can pay for broad band, state of the art computers and still use the credit card to buy Linden Dollars I don’t think we can say we are living under poor economic conditions.
Biting the hand who feeds you Mr. Rosedale (again) is the quickest way to starve. I truly hope you didn’t mean what you said and that it was just a slip of the tongue. Or did you just say it because you can?
Looks like LoL did indeed pay attention to the whole blogosphere and the strike that some blogs did for 3 days (you can see the list here).
Laura Linden provided some clear answers to some of the questions posed and let us hope that the dialogue continues and that all the departments at LoL may follow the example and give us clear explanations about what is going on on the grid – instability, viewers that don’t work properly, inventory losses and all of those things we all know – unfortunately – so well.
Most of my friends know that I love piano. Not that I can really play it, I did have some lessons in another life but was too young to know that you have to do the same exercises over and over again before you can actually play anything, so I got fed up and dropped it.
But there are few things that please me most than to listen to some piano piece. I just forget everything around and stay there completed focused on the hands moving over the ebony and ivory, identifying every note, decoding every message and feeling a peace not easily reached any other way.
TP, my lil bro, just appeared the other day at his bar in Paradisus-Portucalis with his new toy… guess what? A piano! A gorgeous piano with place for two people playing together.
SL was a mess that day (what else is new?) and we couldn’t teleport anywhere and no one seemed to be able to reach us in Portucalis (thankx LoL for SIM restarts), so we just sat there and played for more than an hour to the few friends gathered around us.
I hadn’t such a lovely night in a long time. We will repeat that for sure and this time in a proper place and – if the Linden Gods allow it – in a better SL day. Thank you bro.
Just after I wrote the post bellow I received in my e-mail the Mentors Digest with some e-mails, one of which was from the sister of one of our buddies saying she was ok and would soon return to us (she is still at the hospital).
Although I don’t know her, I have been reading her comments on several issues on the digest and I consider her a wise, calm and gentle person.
I answered her sister wishing a quick recover and received a wonderful mail that brought tears to my eyes. It made me remember that Second Life is not the drama, the land prices, the trademark policies… Second Life is about people and making their life better.
It were people that made me enter the Volunteer program, it’s the people who make me log in everyday. If I can help bringing a little light to just one person’s life it will be worth to be here.
Don’t know if any of you guys know Kieohae, but I leave here her sister’s message… just think a bit about it next time you don’t feel like talking to someone, you might make the difference!
All the best for Kieohae. Hope she returns to us really soon and in good health!
“And if you may please thank all that know Kieohae,
as they are the ones who have made Kieohae how she is today, in mind and spirit,
Second Life took her out of her small world and opened up a new life for her.”
Just read in the Official blog of those that cannot be named (aka LoL – thank you M2 for the acronym) that the buying price of private Islands will go down from US$ 1,650 (plus VAT if you are European based) to US$ 1,000 on the second quarter of this year.
After reading the comments on the post and done some thinking – which I normally don’t do hehehe – there are pros and cons on this, once again, sudden announcement.
More issues can also emerge from it, from the mainland prices mentioned in the statistics, to the “cleaning” LoL is doing in mainland. But I’ll stick to the virtual reality I’m familiar with.
Pros
- People who wanted to buy land can now do it with less effort than we land owners did *gasps* 2 months ago
- People who buy land are more pron to be committed to the metaverse owned by LoL, thus assuring and increasing the LoL monthly income – and they are, after all, a company who needs to profit from its activity and not a charity institution for those who want to have a good time online
Cons
- The community is already p****d off with LoL due to its recent policies, from the VAT applied to Europeans to the new trademark policy
- Lowering the prices of the islands will make lots of land businesses to go bankrupt. People who invested real money (we are speaking of the green bills, not the virtual currency) expecting a profit on land sales will now be forced either to sell it bellow cost or just wait till the market prices go up again, loosing money either way.
- Many of the present landowners will once again feel disregarded by LoL and may sell and leave S*d L*e
- Some of the residents that recently ordered an Island and didn’t got it yet will for sure drop the order now – either by opening a cancellation ticket or simply by ordering no payment to LoL to their credit card companies or Paypal. Thus the income previewed by LoL for this month sales will be under the forecasts and will probably make them loose some thousands of US Dollars
- As for the World of LoL economy, it will also suffer from this measure. People will buy islands mostly for business. Even if it isn’t for profit, most of us want at least to recover the investment and have some extra Lindens to pay the monthly tiers and the events hosted at the place. With an expected increase in the number of islands, the shops, malls, clubs, which are already more than the market stands, will be in an even higher number. With offer being above demand… you don’t need to be an economy expert to figure what will happen.
I’m gonna wait for the next developments and I do honestly hope that LoL didn’t shoot its own foot again ’cause, in spite of everything, it is still great to live in their world with our imagination :0)
