Seraphim went to the current cyber fair, today. She was blown away…

… by the venue build…

… it really looked and felt like the future…

… straight out of BladeRunner, filtered through…

… DisneyLand (:

Seraphim loves it when she finds a random space that makes a good backdrop for photography…

… she was at an event, the other day, and she noticed, across the way, another space that had been set up for an upcoming event…

… that had lovely, retro colours…

… and interesting shapes…

… but was entirely empty. She couldn’t help shooting off a few rolls of film…

… of herself…

… looking fairly elegant.

Decades ago, before anyone had made a famous film based on a Philip K. Dick book, Seri’s human was an avid Philip K. Dick reader. If you’ve ever actually read one of his books, you’ll know the man was in a league of his own for ideas and character development. Although classed as scifi, his writing was more like surrealist writing, often quite dreamlike. There was often a dark humour, too…

… one such story was called ‘The Zap Gun’. In it, America is the most powerful nation on the planet, because it has the eponymous zap gun, a weapon so formidable, every other nation just gives up competing. Then, aliens invade Earth, and are unstoppably advanced with their weaponry… naturally, the rest of the world looks to America to save their bottoms…

… except… there IS no zap gun, it was all a hugely successful marketing job, fooling the world there was a super-weapon that didn’t actually exist. The Americans have to scramble to save face, as well as the planet. They come up with a handheld, physical game, that has a little guy stuck in a maze in it, a maze he cannot get out of. The little guy in the game somehow emits something that makes anyone, human or not, who plays the game, feel enormous empathy for him… they have to get him out of the maze. The humans beam the game into the alien space ship, and it’s game over for the aliens…

… Seraphim thinks that’s what’s at play with her new telly. The kitties in it aren’t even stuck, they look perfectly happy… but they aren’t actually doing anything, except looking really, really cute… Seri can’t stop adoring them.

Seraphim visited Walsh County, today. It is obviously a trendy destination, as it was crawling with people, and she couldn’t get much in the way of the kind of empty-landscape images the place so obviously lends itself to. Seraphim, whose human spent it’s childhood around top-dressers (crop dusters) and the culture of top-dressing pilots, found it amusing that the paddocks were being buzzed by a four-seater, family tourer-type plane, trailing fertiliser dust, the type of plane that would simply never be used as a top-dressing machine… except, of course, in SL (:

Seraphim decided to grow some horns, this morning. She found herself a peaceful place, and concentrated on what she wanted…

… and these beautiful horns sprang from her head, complete with filigreed ornamentation…

… she felt a bit woozy, afterward…

… but that feeling soon went away.

Yesterday, Seraphim acquired this super-cute ‘Mushroom Village’…

… she was visiting a store called ‘Ever Green‘, for the first time, and saw this straight after she arrived, and was instantly smitten with it…

… it’s a tiny, animated village…

… adorable little critters do adorable things… a dog chases a cat, a sheep goes for a blast on a skateboard, a frog rides a duck…

… when the windmill stops spinning, an owl flies out of a tree, and restarts it, by landing on the highest vane, and causing it to slowly rotate downwards… then the owl flies off to another tree…

… Seraphim thinks it’s one of the most delightful things she’s ever seen in SL.

Seraphim was on the third floor of her new home, decorating one of the rooms in a deliberately minimalist way. She decided to go downstairs. The third floor is the last place she’s really focused on, since she bought her new home, a few months back, now. It is all quite spartan, compared to the two floors beneath it…

… some rooms are almost empty…

… as you approach the stairs, more decoration becomes the norm…

… and as you descend the beautiful, red marble stairs, you descend into a world of art and decoration…

… into the home of a dedicated collector…

… of SL arts and crafts.

Seraphim visited Gallery No.8, the other day…

… a bright, spacious gallery, filled with colourful kaleidoscopic images…

… Seraphim used to make similar kinds of work, and still finds this type of image interesting…

… there’s a little shop that seemed to be selling SL, as well as RL, products…

… there were some cosy little galleries, upstairs, which had different styles of art by the same artist who made the kaleidoscopic ones…

… Seraphim was smitten with one, and now she has her own.

Seraphim was in a frivolous mood, this morning. She decided to go to Katat0nik, somewhere she’s not been for a long time, but one of her all-time fave SL creators, from way back. After looking to see what was new, she found a gacha she’d not seen/noticed, before… it was for ‘Happy Kitty Dolls’. There were 3 ‘rares’, one of which was red, and was the one she liked most. She put in L$50… and won the red rare! First shot! This often happens to her, but it’s still, always, an absolute delight when it does! With her new happy kitty snuggled in the crook of her arm, she decided to go shopping, another thing she’s neglected, lately…

… she checked the sales and went and bought some excellent, cheap hair, two, to be precise, one with a ‘cat’ beanie, and the fabulous ‘big’ hair she has on, above. She decided she needed a gold tiara to match her mood, so bought one of those, too! Then she took her kitty pal to The Coasters Club…

… a sim with wonderful, minimal scenery, and wide, shallow, empty ocean vistas…

… ‘please don’t drop me…’ her kitty meowed…

… ‘I absolutely will not, sweetheart’ she replied…

… when they got home, her new kitty instantly adopted one of Seri’s mannequins as his new safe place.

Seraphim visited the Peace Is A Choice Gallery, last evening…

… there are lots of sculptures, both kinetic and static…

… lots of particle effects…

… some more interactive than others in their behaviour…

… but it was this photo ‘Trilby The Pixie’ that Seri had come here for. She’d seen it in a post on Annie Oh’s destination guide, and been instantly smitten…

… now, Trilby The Pixie smiles her blissful smile on the wall, upstairs at Seri’s place (: