Homeless Camp at Hangars Liquides

In a gesture of solidarity for all people homeless and displaced in RL these days…

… and as a gesture of inclusiveness to any homeless SL avi’s…

… Djehan Kidd has built a homeless camp in Hangars Liquides…

… any homeless avi can come here, choose an empty tent, rez a few belongings, and ‘squat’ here…

… I found most of the sitting poses to be pretty pensive…

… if not downright depressed…

… which, I guess, kinda goes with the territory…

… but, if you have to live in a homeless camp…

… having Hangars Liquides to explore would totally help relieve the anxiety of displacement…

… and not all the ‘sits’ are depressing, this one, ‘maybelinefux’ is a totally gorgeous little, hands-behind-back, hip-swinging, cute-as-a-button delight, guaranteed to make you smile (:

ChicLand

I visited ChicLand, today. I went with the ‘shared environment’ lighting, which I found a bit anaemic, to start with, but really liked the fast-moving clouds, as clouds are very much a part of all my picture compositions. Eventually, I grew to actually like the soft colours, as well…

… they definitely add to the mise-en-scene, giving an almost oil-paint richness in their own soft way…

… ChicLand is well worth a good explore. There is a perfect mix of country and urban environment to play in…

… the background scenery is beautiful…

… there’s humour…

… cuteness…

… nice perspectives…

… and a lovely, coherent, architectural theme…

… as I was leaving, this bat-wielding avi IM’d me and said ‘Hey, come back, we’ll make a picture together’. As this is the first time, EVER, in 11 years, that another avi has asked me this, I put aside my initial caution about people swinging blunt objects around…

… and came back and posed with her. She sent me one of the pictures she’d taken, thanked me, and told me she thought I looked cool. Moments like these are absolutely why I adore SL (:

Leaving the Ground III

My idea for our second helicopter excursion was one of Skye’s wonderful islands, Skye Neist Point…

… the main feature, here, is this stunning castle eyrie…

… this time round, Witchy went for for the serious chopper pilot look, and had added pontoons to her machine, in case we ran out of fuel over the vast ocean…

… the castle attracted us like moths to a flame…

… and we inspected it quite thoroughly…

… marvelling at it’s gothic splendour…

… and it’s sheer size…

… then we headed away…

… flying low down a valley…

… and back out to sea.

Leaving the Ground II

Witchy took me for a ride in her new toy, today…

… I’ve never been in a helicopter, before. This was wonderful, seeing all the pretty islands and atolls passing beneath…

… there’s so much to see, when you start exploring out over the sea, in SL, like this…

… for a first-time pilot, Witchy was very fluent with her new machine…

… I felt perfectly safe as we cruised around, sight-seeing…

… we came across this delightful scene, and I asked her if we could get closer for some pictures…

… she deftly brought the chopper down to the level of the water…

… so close, the rotor downdraft was kicking up spume off the water…

… I was very impressed with her skill…

… but not so impressed that I forgot to keep my camera drone rolling…

… I’m already thinking where we can go, next (:

Leaving the Ground

I bought myself a superhero outfit, yesterday. Well, more of a super-bimbo outfit, but, hey, it looks really good on me…

… just have to concentrate on leaving the ground…

… and, voila!…

… floating effortlessly into the ether…

… gravity cannot hold me!…

… perhaps I should take my glasses off, so my friends don’t recognise me? At the very least it’ll mean I can’t recognise them (:

Future Fossils

Today, I visited Future Fossils. The premise, here, is that of a frozen explosion, creating a ‘memory of what once was’…

… what I actually found was a powerful gravitic anomaly…

… which was destabilising pockets within the house…

… making it quite difficult to move around inside…

… without joining the various items of furniture/decor that were levitating/tumbling about in the various pockets of this anomaly…

… it got a bit disorienting…

… I was never sure which way was up; I felt like I was in a Jeremy Geddes painting, half the time.

Orange, Feint and Bone

Yesterday, I visited Orange, Feint and Bone… *edit* I have realised, since my visit here, that I forgot to use ‘shared environment’. Hence, my images of ‘Orange’, are not orange! That being said, I went back and checked to see what I’d missed, and I actually prefer my images, taken using ‘mid-day’ windlight. *edit ends*…

… this build is pure whimsy and fun…

… from some angles, it can appear a bit ramshackle/chaotic, but if you choose your sightlines with care, the crazy jumble of objects turns into wonderful elements placed with zen-like precision. I loved this big, shell-like thing…

… it’s patterning, size, and shape instantly reminded me of a Chris Foss spaceship…

… my favourite thing, here…

… was this wonderful guy! I loved his size/shape/colouring, everything, he’s perfect. The sim owner/creator, Livio Korobase, said hello to me, as he’d seen me wondering around and obviously setting up shots, I must have been there for at least half an hour at that stage. We got chatting, and I told him how much I loved this fish… and he gave me one! Totally made my day…

… I spent at least another half hour, here, setting up shots, and waiting for favourable cloud formations. Even stood in the rain to get some good shots…