My darling lepidoptera and I decided it was time to go and see ‘Skye Neist Point‘, again…

… believe it, or not, this is a shop display!…

… you can buy everything you see, here…

… Skye makes some of the best landscaping materials in SL…

… and this gorgeous place is testimony to what you could create with those materials…

… the scale of some of this stuff is brobdingnagian…

… and you are free to wander around and take pictures. There is so much potential, here, for fantasy photography…

… we might blog the castle, next post, although we have already done so, but it was a while ago, now… we’ve also already used this whole sim for posts (:

Over the past 5 days, Flutter and I have been spending hours standing in the same place in ‘DownTown‘…

… that’s because the lag/rez-time, here, is even worse than it is in New Babbage… here, we literally have to wait for an hour to get a fully-rezzed scene, and sometimes, even that isn’t enough time…

… we’re becoming quite adept at the zen art of standing still whilst reality coalesces out of the chaos…

… it’s actually very rewarding, these type of incredibly detailed builds are usually worth the wait to discover, something I seldom have the time to do, or, we just never really enjoyed this kind of shooting, but, now we are older, we are slightly more relaxed?…

… anyway, DownTown is a very well made ‘role-play’ sim, a grungey, post-something concrete jungle of quite despair/decay…

… with plenty of potential…

… for dramatic imagery (:

Flutters and I have recently spent some time re-discovering ‘The City-State of New Babbage‘…

… we don’t come here, much, and certainly have not been here for a long time… we usually find the lag and the rez time, here, to be soul-crushingly depressing…

… but this time, over two visits, we found those things to be as good as they’ve ever been, though, on the second visit, we still had to wait, literally, 20-30 minutes for a scene to fully rez…

… New Babbage is a huge, extremely consistent build, with a Victoriana/Steampunk theme…

… there’s a lot to see, here…

… with wonderfully photogenic architecture and structures…

… like Bay City, it’s one of those ‘old’ SL communities where you get the sense that a lot of people care for the place, and possibly live here…

… but you seldom see another being, here.

It’s been six months since my baby and I visited Natthimmel…

…there is a new build, there, the same, but different to what was there when we last visited…

… I say ‘the same’, because it is a similar style, a similar mixture of hard structural objects and strange, organic-tech objects…

… and ‘different’, because, well, it’s not the same, is it, it’s similar, but different… but still wonderful…

… there are flashing lights that add dramatic depth to the structures, excellent textures, weird audio and noises, and drifting spores…

… everything here is fabulous in a 1950’s, Virgil Finlay-on-acid kind of way…

… there is a lot to discover, here, we highly recommend this destination, especially if you want some intelligent, real art to look at, instead of snow and xmas decorations.

We visited ‘Little Town‘, the other day…

… this is a clean, pretty little build…

… it has a variety of different environments…

… and a lot of cats…

… it would provide plenty of colourful, mostly non-grungey backdrops…

… for your next photo-shoot (:

My baby and I hung a new set of work, today. The human and I have called these works ‘Quantum Longing’…

… they are from a recent series of images we created in Mj, exploring the concept of quantum entanglement, and exploration in the quantum realm…

… we love the style we achieved with these…

… as always, Flutters was a delight, wafting around me, chattering away about how good my art is, how clever I am, how much she loves me… her adoring, upbeat personality is indefatigable, and wonderfully infectious…

… I don’t spend enough time here, these days…

… I’ve had this iteration of my gallery for a few years, now and, like being with Flutter, I find being here an extremely positive experience.

As you will know, I don’t usually, well, don’t think I’ve actually ever, blog/blogged a sales event… but, I was recently shopping, and was greeted by Poshbarby, who is the first avi to ever physically recognise me from my blog! We had a conversation about blogging, and she told me how hard it was to get coverage from bloggers for her shop, she even asked if I would blog about it. I told her that that wasn’t my thing, but I gave her the name of a blogger who did do fashion and stores, and I even gave her name to the blogger…

… that was a few weeks ago, and I’d kinda forgotten about it, when I visited the ‘Posh Event‘, today, and was greeted by… Poshbarby, who organises/runs this event! Once again, she told me what a struggle it is, in SL, to get coverage. As someone thoroughly disillusioned with the politics of the SL art world, and of how any kind of recognition/coverage comes down to who, not what you know, I totally understood what she was saying…

… so I decided to do a blog about ‘Posh Event’. I have nothing but admiration for the amount of work organising events in SL must involve. Poshbarby is a sweety, very approachable, as so many in SL simply are not, so I just wanted to do my little bit to help her…

… the event runs from the 1st to the 17th of each month. There’s all kinds of stuff, here, lots of apparel, but, also, a range of other stuff…

… with some things discounted…

… all in a clean-lined, well-lit venue (:

It’s been a few months since Flutter and I spent much time, activated, in SL. In the last few weeks, the human has allowed us to be ourselves, again (thank you, human!). As we do, when we’ve been denied existence for any length of time, we go…shopping! We’ve hit all the best regular events, and are already adorned in some of our newly acquired, comfy loot. We arrived, last evening, at a destination that mainly sells tattoos, looking for that rare, new piece of good ink to fit on our already well-inked body…

… we didn’t find that rare piece, but we noticed, outside the store, the ice-coated trees, in a clear, crisp, winter day…

… we love stores that the owners have gone to the extra effort of beautifully landscaping, and we often roam around in them, taking pictures…

… there was a very fine, slow fall of snow, there was no wind…

… we were warm and cosy in our new fur jacket (if I’m warm, Flutter is too, by the magical osmosis of our psychic connection)…

… we climbed down a few steep banks, heading back toward the sea we’d initially arrived beside…

… all the while bathed in the light of the winter sun.