Seraphim visited ‘Little World‘, today. Little World has several distinct areas…

… a beach area, with a horizon of glittering sky-scrapers…

… a very nice grunge/neon area…

… the avi on the bus-stop roof just stood and watched Seraphim, turning to follow her as she passed. Seri didn’t bother saying ‘hi’… sometimes, she’s just not in the mood, and, of course, the other avi never said a word…

… the neon/grunge area is very pretty. Once you traverse that, there is…

… gorgeously textured urban architecture…

… Seri has seen these buildings in other builds, but they still look beautiful, here…

… she spent a good hour, here, and took 173 photos. Little World would make a wonderful set for an urban story, even one with a scifi element, given the neon strip and the glittering cityscape on the horizon.

Today, Seraphim visited Lost Town-La Citta’ Perduta. She hasn’t been here for a long time, possibly years. When she first visited here, she saw it as the setting for the kind of trendy, dull SL ‘art’ photos she has no interest in, and does not do. Trendy SL artists have zero interest in Seraphim’s photography. Seraphim, whose human has a degree with honours in Computer Graphic Design, knows her photography is at LEAST as good as theirs, but the SL ‘artists’ convince the SL punters that theirs is the ‘real’ art. On Seraphim’s  previous visits to this place, she wrote it off as a backdrop for trendy wanker photography. It was the textures/lighting of the above image she first saw, here, so she never really looked any further…

… she totally missed all this aurora-type lighting…

… and crisp background elements…

… she has to admit, she shouldn’t have written the place off, just because she loathes what passes for ‘art’ photography in SL…

… she thinks she got some nice shots.

Today, Seraphim visited Russia…

… she found a beautiful sim straight out of her human’s dreams…

… not because the human has ever been to Russia, but because the human often dreams about these kinds of wonderful, empty, earlier-time, nostalgic streets…

… there are gorgeous perspective lines everywhere…

… wonderful old cars and communist-style architecture…

… which includes gorgeous interiors…

… there are derelict vehicular hulks everywhere…

… Seri had to climb a lot of fences to get these shots. She worried about being sprung by zealous Russian thugs… worried, not because she was scared, but because she’s over killing mortals, and dreaded having to slaughter dozens of mindless soldier puppets… just as she would in any American facility.

If you know Seri, you’ll have noticed she has an addictive personality… she locks onto things, and obsesses over them, till something else attracts her attention… and, currently, it’s arcade games…

… she just acquired another one for her game corner. Unlike the previous two, this one isn’t posable… but, it makes up for that by being, actually, playable! It’s called Shadow Syndicate, and is made by Tokugawa Heavy Industries, a creator who, ironically, is the creator of one of Seri’s favourite jackets, and, probably, her all-time favourite glasses,  but, who generally makes scifi-techy stuff…

… the game is a homage to 80’s video games and, as someone whose human was an adult in the 80’s, Seraphim can testify to the gorgeous acuity of the homage…

… you also get this poster with the game…

… you start the game, and get a series of loading screens…

… until you arrive at this rain-soaked alley…

… where this guy suddenly appears before you, and your fists come up. You are meant to hit him before he shoots you, and, apparently, that allows you to beat him and progress through the game…

… unfortunately, because you only have a split second to react, and Seri was busy taking pictures, she always got killed! She’d then have to restart the game, and run through everything, again, trying to get the best images… by the time she had enough, she was over it, and hasn’t actually played Shadow Syndicate, yet! But, she will (: