Warm Winter Nights

The newly wed Aggio and Katie opened a new Jazz Club called Negresco. Inspired in the well known Bar and Restaurant with the same name in Manchester, they managed to recreate the cozy and intimate ambiance you can experience in RL, with a remarkable attention to details, from the table lamps to the pictures on the walls.

The deco in red and black, the comfortable couches in shadowed corners inviting to an intimate chat, the background jazz music and the inviting dance floor are complemented by an outside esplanade where you can watch the sunset in a good company.

Drop bye and take a look for yourself. The dress code is formal and the crew is there to welcome you and make your visit even more pleasant.

The RL Negresco Bar

A bit tired of having a lot of people putting their noses to my front door (and zooming in when I didn’t answer) I finally decided to take my home up to the sky.

The house was taken away from the beach and replaced by a nice waterfall that my good friend June Jurak sent me as a gift and a big tree.

After a whole morning TPing all over SL I could finally find a house that suited me, lovely, low prim and not expensive hehehe.

Me and Max have been decorating it and it was finished a few days ago. I love details so I’m a bit of a prim eater but this time I behaved (cough cough) and managed to leave about 250 prims free – ok, ok not much if you consider that I own a 6140sqm land. But previously I had 100 free so I DID behave hehehe

One of the things I like about the house are the doors. The script sends me an e-mail whenever someone not in the allow list tries to open the doors.

Who on earth wants to get into my bedroom at 3:00 AM???? I’m not there guys! If you want to use it just ask… the furniture is copy so I can place it wherever you want

What do girls do on a Sunday night when all the guys you were supposed to be dating just don’t show up or go to bed early?

Do you log off and go to bed earlier? Do you crash a party? Do you sit down alone at home just waiting?

No, no nothing of the kind!

Just grab a couple of tricycles (thanks Bankinha) and race around an Indian camp (siss loved the new deco at your beach). Well if you manage to get the tricycles. Cause when you rezz them they just go away on their own and you have to race after them. Better than go to the gym I must say *winks

It was quite a blast racing around with siss, Maggie and Bankinha. What better way to end a lousy weekend than with a laugh?

Thank you ladies. Love you all.

(and now off to bed that work is knocking at the door)

Saturday and Sunday morning is always when I take some time to do a little exploring. Not many friends online (meaning no IM hell), lag is low and I can take my time tping from SIM to SIM.

Today I was taking some pictures at Aggio and Katie’s new jazz club, the Negresco (but this will go on another post) and when I finished decided to open the map and see what was around. Not very far were a group of 5 or 6 sims all with Phoenix in their name.

The Phoenix Reflective looked like a big forest on the map so I just clicked there and – wow – I found myself in a skyplatform, almost 600 meters high.

Waited a bit for things to rezz and I was surprised by several floors of what looked to me like the Suspended Gardens of Babylon.

The place is guarded at the entrance by two water serpents, a golden platform takes you to this gorgeous club where a horse stands by a mic near the piano. I thought he needed someone to play along with this singing, but he kept sooo quiet hehe.

Anyways, tried to find the way up to the other levels but couldn’t find the Teleporter. So I just zoomed up and around. Unfortunately I couldn’t make it to ground level cause RL interfered (don’t you just hate that?!), but managed to take some nice (cough cough) pictures of the Suspended Gardens

Tomorrow, May 13th at 02:00PM PDT a new exhibition will open to the public at Galeria LX

“Breaking Taboos” was the title given the authors – Imso Obscure and Elora Lungu. Both of the artists are making photography for some time and this is their first public exhibit.

Hope you can drop by to support these two wonderful people that I have the pleasure to call friends in all the worlds.

At 03:00 PM you can also enjoy the warm singing of Pa Decosta for a half an hour gig he kindly accepted to do for us.

Transilvanya. A full moon shines against a starless sky. In the distance you can see a graveyard.
Looking around, lots of dark stores with even darkers outfits. The streets are empty. An open sewer, a ladder leading to the tunels. Too affraid to explore it, we move on.
We end at a square, some people dancing.
You can see some really scary creatures. Others look like normal people, but don’t let that mislead you. Underneath that innocent look hids a mind thirsty for blood…

… or is it pizza and Beer?

With Max not being online I was kinda bored and decided to do some work for a change. There are exhibitions to prepare, concerts to organize and my good old inventory that is becoming a mess again.
Setting aside the inventory organization I decided to see some galleries and at the same time talked to my friend Ky because of a concert we are organizing and he invited me to drop by.
He was teaching Sun to fight with a lightsaber and we started talking about Star Wars. One thing leads to another and after we put the “Observer” flip title and me changing clothes – I like to dress according with the themes of the Islands – we went to Skylark.
I had never been to a Star Wars RP SIM and my jaw just dropped.
It looked like I had entered some theatre screen, stepping inside the movie. The landscaping, the buildings, the vehicles were amazingly detailed and realistic.
We were even addressed by a Prize Hunter who warned us about the dangers around (I think she was herself dangerous, but thanks the Goddess for that flip title).
After having been swallowed by a desert worm, run over by some kind of floating space vehicle and an Imperial Guard passed by us about a dozen times with a suspicious look, we just stood there speaking of everything and nothing, surrounded by sand sharing ideas about books, phantasy realms and so many other subjects that came up.
A wonderful night in the company of friends and not even the fact we were standing there for hours got me tired.
As usual here are some pictures of the place and some more are at MyFlickr.

Oh and you might be asking about the work to be done… well tomorrow is another day *winks

I have received some notecards in world with these questions answered by some friends and really looked at them and said “Naaa! Not going to answer that!” But then today I was reading my blogs and came to Tymmerie’s and there it was.

So, and only because me and Tym were born on the same day and we Leos have to stick together, here it goes… 

1. What time did you get up this morning? 7:30
2. Diamonds or pearls? Diamonds
3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Haven’t been at the movies for quite some time… but I think it was the last Harry Potter (ok ok my nephew and nieces took me with them)
4. Favorite TV show? CSI

5. What do you usually have for breakfast? Coffee and bread with butter on working days and full English breakfast on weekends
6. What is your middle name? hmmm between Winter and Wardhani… nothing *winks
7. What food do you dislike? Sardines and tomato
8. What is your favorite CD at the moment? Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol
9. Favorite sandwich? Chicken with mayo
10. What characteristic do you despise? Lying
11. Favorite item of clothing? Pants
12. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would it be? Far East
13. What color is your bathroom? No bathroom in SL, light pink and grey in RL
14. Do you make friends easily? Yes
15. Where would you retire to? Any place where the people I care for would be
16. What was your most recent memorable birthday? The last one
17. Favorite sport to watch? Artistic ice skating (and football(soccer))
18. How many towns have you lived in? One. Lisbon
19. How many do you think will send this back? No idea
20. Whats on your bedroom floor right now? My slippers and two rugs… wait my cat is there too! hehe
21. Favorite saying? Laziness is the mother of all vices. And a mother is a mother… you have to obey her
22. When is your birthday? August 2^nd in RL. 25^th November SL
23. Are you a morning person or a night person? Definitely a night person
24. What is your shoe size? Hmmm don’t know in English numbers. 38 in Portugal
25. Pets? Cats… but just because I live in an apartment
26. Any new and exciting news you’d like to share with us? Not really
27. What did you want to be when you were little? Grownup
28. Which talent would you most like to have? Singing
29. Which words or phrases do you most overuse? Really
30. What is your favorite flower? Roses and lilies
31. What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to?  21^st of June (love you baby)

32. What color are your eyes? Brown RL; blue SL
33 . What was your favorite toy as a child? My brother’s toys
34. Summer or winter? Summer… it would be a bit narcisistic to choose me, wouldn’t it?
35. Hugs or kisses? Both and all before and after
36. Chocolate or Vanilla? Both
37. Do you want your friends to send this back to you? Yes
38. When was the last time you cried? Not gonna tell you
39. What is under your bed? Dust
40. Who is the friend you have had the longest in SL? My twin Summer we were born same day, same second
41. What did you do last night? Exploring and chatting about books
42. Favorite smell? The smell of grass after it has rained
43. What are you afraid of? Heights
44. Plain, sweet, or salted Popcorn? Sweet
45. How many keys on your key ring? 5
46. How many years at your current job? 8
47. Do you have any scars? Just a small one on the knee
48. Favorite day of the week? Friday
49. How many people will you be sending this to? Anyone who will be reading this
50. Who’s answers are you looking forward the most? Everyone’s

Paramount Pictures International (PPI) and Marvel Studios announced a competition inviting residents of Second Life to create Iron Man fan art for the chance to win a top prize of L$100,000 (US $400).

My good friend Halden Beaumont already produced a breathtaking video. Just so hope he can win that prize. He really has been developping a great work in Machinima and he deserves to have is work recognised not only by words.

I leave you here the YouTube version but you can see the high resolution here