A lot of stuff happened today. I was just going to log in to check on something (can’t even recall what that, but I’m sure I thought it to be important at that time) when Helena suddenly said to me ‘Pack up your stuff, you’re moving’. I was like ‘Oh?!’

I must admit I knew I was going to have to move soon, but I just did not figure ’soon’ would be … well… that soon. *grins* And I also must admit that Helene gave me the choice as to where I wanted to live and in what type of build. But - conservative girl as I am - I chose to just keep the skybox.

So I started packing: the N30, the photosphere, my club lights, the sl boutique vendor, some photobooks, the cushions, the things I’ve build for Snow, Menno’s clock, my bed, some pictures, … . I linked my stairs together and to my first floor and took that into my inventory. And finally I took my walls down. Nothing left to do then sit on the packed stuff and wait for Helena.

So now I live at the Scheherazade sim. Scheherazade 52, 124, 726 (Mature) to be more precise. ;) With that, it’s become way more easy to visit me. Ok, I could hand you over the landmark, but this way it’s way more fun: go to the Paradise Lost and at the entrance you’ll see a Teleportal. Click it and choose ‘3. Vint Labs’. Now just sit on the beam/choose ‘transport’. Et voila, my humble residence. Everything is not back in place yet, but if you’re curious nonetheless, feel free to drop by.

Lovely detail: Rob Danton lives right - well, a few 100 meters - below me. So I can literally ‘drop by’. He kindly requested me not to flush. ;)

Categories: Paradise Lost, Vint Falken
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Welcome To SLFlirt.com!
SLFlirt.com is a unique online dating and personals service created just for the residents of SecondLife. NOW! Find a friend, lover, committed relationship or someone for any reason!

(Just not sign up yet. Read or scroll down first. *grins*)

Edit: There was a small but nice screengrab from SLFlirt.com here, but Mike Manhattan kindly requested me to take it down. More information on this in SLFLirt’s Mike Manhattan doesn’t want to date me anymore!

Aha. Finally, even the most shy Avies amongst us, can find themselves a date. No need to step up to a avatar to ask him/ her if he/she wants to TP somewhere with you and face the chance at rejection. Oh no, you can just find that perfect meta-soulmate on SLFlirt.com.

Although I still need to go on my date with JJ, I was curious nonetheless. So I registered, got the confirmation mail, clicked it and then I was ready to fill out my profile. There the problems started to arrise.

I am a:
Woman! That was still easy.

Seeking a:
Ow. I don’t know if I want a man or a woman. Actually I want a Neko. Ok, preferably a male Neko. But still, I want a Neko. But Neko’s not in the list. :(

Age:
Ok. I think that I’m 5 now. Months, that is. But the most recent date I can pick is 1989. Strange. I would have sworn that the grid did not exist yet at that point in time. Ow, this is so confusing!!!

Country:
Do they mean SIM with that? Devil’s Landing is so not in the list. Must email them to add it!

Body type:
I think I’m average to slender. I did my best not to overdo it on the sliders.

Height:
Vewwy, vewwy tall!

Eyes:
Hmmm. Strangely enough ‘Reflecting’ is not an option there.

Hair:
I don’t get all the color options. My hair says ‘prim ebony’. And my other hairs says ‘ponytails pink prim’. Oh well, it changes with the day anyhow.

Smoking & Drinking:
Socially I think. Only when I’m at the Pardise Lost. Or have something to celebrate.

Living situation:
Friends do visit often. Even when I’m not home. But? What for the homeless Avies? There is no such option that says ’strayhound’ or ‘wherever I feel like rezzing’ or ‘infohub’. But maybe this should say if you own land. Or rent. Or live with both feet steady on the grid, or in a nice skybox like me. Maybe it’s me, but I don’t know a lot of Avies that are living with their parents. Or that have kids.

Social setting:
I assume I’m a flirt. No? I’m a good girl?! Thank you!!! :d

TV watching:
Just not that interesting in SL. Sometimes I watch a video projection, but that’s about it.

Education:
Well, I was going to go to that scripting class, but something else came up. I do not have ‘High school’, ‘college’ or ‘university’ in my inventory. I must use search one of these days and find out what those are!

Employment status and occupation:
I’m a dancer and SL-photographer. So I think that’s self-employed, although if I dance at the club, Helena’s my boss. And that would label me into ‘entertainment/media’. No?

Income:
That’s strange. Is there a currency I don’t know about?! Or is that a typing mistake? They left the ‘L’ out of L$. Let’s say about 1500L$ a week. Multiply that with 56. *chooses 75,000 to 99,000$ from the dropdown menu*

Interests:
I like dancing. And photography. But why can’t I choose another hobby of mine: ‘explore’. And where is ‘playing sploders’. Ow, and building is fun too, but nowhere to be seen in the list. And where can I check ‘hanging around in mature sims’? And ’shopping’? And ‘roleplaying’?

And now let’s see what I want to know about the avie of my dreams. Is he human, neko, furry, a dragon, a gorean slavetrader, … ? Does he like to hang out in mature or PG sims? Does he pay for escort services? What are his ‘appearance’, ‘building’ and ‘behaviour’ ratings? Does he has a partner on file? Is he willing to put me as a partner on file. What are his online times? Does he have a job as ’securtiy’, is he a scripter (that would be neat!), or is he just more a ‘camping’ person? Does he have his payment info on file? What’s his favorite SIM? Does he have a decent graphics card? Download limits? Is he using the normal client or first look? Does he speak Typonese fluently like I do? What are his goals in SecondLife? Having fun or gaining quick wealth? Does he have alts?

Why aren’t all those questions answered?! If you promote something as ‘a dating service for second life residents’, you must take into account that we are not exactly the same as our human counterparts. We look different (and change appearance often). We can be female or male, whatever we feel like. We dream in wireframe. Our interests are different. If not, just call it ‘yet another dating service for IRL peepz, targetting people that play SecondLife, just because I’ve read somewhere that that’s the next hype and I can make money from it.’

Some other slick features I’ve become rather tired of by now: ‘rate my picture’, guestbook, blog, pictures and videos. Videos? That should be ‘machinima’, no?

Please take the ‘SL’ out of your domain name. Don’t see why it should be there!

Categories: Opinion, Rant, SL Web Resources
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The title says it all, but I’m going to repeat it here anyway. On March, 25th at 12:00PM SLT time, the Caffeine Nude Art Gallery opens.

The gallery will be showing (and selling) some - obviously nude art - works from Kriss Lehman - know for her beautiful Neko-portraits and stunning nudes -, Dakota Buck - who has recently upon general demand taken up SL photography again -, Raul Crimson - the curator of the Caffeine Nude Art Gallery and reknown for his nude ‘w00t!’ selfportraits -, Rob Fairymeadow - the little I’ve seen from Rob has put me to silence because of it’s serene beauty - and yours truelly.

Feel free to drop by! No special attire needed, but surely enough, if you all want to dress up especially for me, I won’t protest. Ow, the theme is ‘Nude’. *grins*

Categories: Art, Photography, Second Life, Vint Falken, Work
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when you lost your virginity and wonder why it isn’t returned to your inventory.

when you wake up in the morning and wonder where you last logged out.

when you tap complete strangers on the street with your right hand expecting to find out information about them without them knowing. (philosophy_rebel)

when you change the time on your watch to SLT.

when you start to purrrrr when someone gives you a compliment.

when you threaten to orbit that annoying salesman trespassing on your land.

when you call the idiots that keep bumping into you when you’re on a busy pavement griefers.

when you want to hover your camera around to see if you have something stuck between your teeth. (Xhyra Graf)

when you want to buy a new house and it’s not standing in 1 minute.

when you are at the pub and don’t dance because you can’t find the danceball.

when you sitting on a chair at a public place and expect to get money for that.

when you walk up to that beautiful lady and as her what her rates are.

toss a roll of toiletpaper at your head. (Brentzooka)

when you see a lovely lady in a club, you give her some money and ask her for her notecard.

when you wish the irl grid would come down for maintenance. (Grizzy Griswold)

when you tell your boss you couldn’t get to work in time because the TP system was not working, again.

when you want to mouse-look-move-sun.

when you groan about the prospect of having to actually go to another room to get something like a change of clothes.

when you start to tell a friend a story and they interrupt you to ask “Wait, this is Second Life you’re talking about, right?” (the lovely October Hush)

when you say ‘WB’ when someone returns from the toilet. (Hail IRC! ;))

when you are at a club and tell your best friend that guy would be totally hawt, if he’d only invest in some decent dancing animations.

when you are at the same club and you wish you had the minimap to find your way to the bathroom.

when you mentally dissect RL items into their prim equivalents. (Marianne McCan)

when you wish you could right-click a RL item to find out who made it. (Marianne McCan)

when you say ’slash me goes to the bathroom’ to your friends.

when you start calling anyone who doesn’t have a fashion sense ‘n00b’ (from Dragorlard)

when you don’t want to eat that poor watermelon because it reminds you of Torley.

when you are shocked that you actually have to pay for drugs.

when you are asked to go out for a drink and you reply: ‘In SL or RL?’

when you walk into a clothes shop and ask if their stuff is copyable or tranferable.

when you buy a sofa and ask how much prims it has.

when you suddenly wake up in the middle of the street with a cage around you.

when you want to scratch your ears and suddenly discover they are not on the top of your head.

when you when looking at a woman wonder if she’s male.

• When you point out camping area’s at a brand boot at a real life festival. (As in campers, not as in ‘tent and sleep’.)
• When you can’t have sex without the appropriate poseballs. (Zoe Connolly)
• When you walk up to a woman and ask her where she bought her great skin. (Tiessa Montgolfier)
• When you are constantly frustrated at not being able to zoom and rotate on firefox, your TV, in your backyard, while driving… (Alexander Burgess)
• When you refer to your clothes wardrobe as your inventory. (Shockwave Plasma)
• When you wonder why there are no furries on the streets. (Shockwave Plasma)
• When you are surprised your genitals don’t detach. (Shockwave Plasma)
• When you walk into a good friend and say /hug (persons name) and waits still she/he accept. (Bloodhex)
• When you say ao off when you gonna sit on the dinertable. (Bloodhex)
• When you start to use alt+0 and alt+8 as zoom commands in Photoshop. (Chloe Streeter)
• When you constantly threaten to shoot people. In First Life.
• When you complain about the lag in a traffic jam. (Max Malick)
• When you almost think of de-rezzing your car at the mall when you can’t find a parking space. (Stellaarbandid)
• When you stop buying art supplies. (Siyu Suen)
• When you accidently tell someone in real life that you have to go and rez dinner now. (Phoenixa Sol)
• When you mistake a hungover blurriness for textures Z-fighting each other. (Kisa Naumova)
• When you refer to changing clothes in First Life as ‘editing appearance’. (Gislain Knibber)

Any more? Just right click ‘comments’ and choose ‘edit’. Ow… wait…

A last one: You know you’re addicted to SL if you are browsing through some old photographs, find this one and assume this can not be -just- coincidence! ;)

Tags: second life, sladdiction
Categories: Rant, Second Life
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Flickr adjusted it’s (mean! mean! mean!) Nipsa-policy into one of filtered content. Basically we now need to decide that if SL snapshots we upload are screenshots or CGI/art/Illustration/other_non-photographic _images. The official Flickr forum thread can be found here. People that were Nipsad before, still need to ask for a review by Flickr staff to get their account restoreds, though!

My (simple) view:

Most of them are screenshots. If you take the time to do some thinking about composition, the poses, lightning and such it might pass as CGI. But art? I would label less then 1% of screenshots in the pool - be it edited or unedited ones - as art.

You have an opinion!? The SecondLife Flickr Group’s forum has it’s own thread about the content filtering.

Categories: Flickr, Photography, SL Web Resources
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Danii Noel is a sexy lady with an awesome collection of boots in her inventory and our newest employee at the Paradise Lost and the Hacienda. Right click and save as for 1280 by 1024 desktop wallpaper goodness. ;)

Categories: Paradise Lost, Photography, Photoshop, Portrait, Work
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Actually ‘new toy’ says it better then ‘investement’, but the latter sounds more Pro. ;)

I assume I’ll be mainly using it to get a decent - most of the time white - background but I’m bound to go back to Kyoot to buy the industrial textures too.

Fitting it in my skybox was rather tricky. But it stands and after some hard labour of pushing this giant mass of photography goodness around, it does not even intersect my first floor’s floor anymore. :d

More information on the photosphere can be found at it’s creator Saeya’s blog: Kyoot Army - Tales from the Front Lines.

Short overview:

• Only 10 prims
• Only 1500 l$
• More background, thus less moving your model around.
• Less fancy options than the N30, but we don’t use those anyway! Ok, except for the dancing pole. ;)

Categories: Photography
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If any other people selling on SLB get contacted by Terry Roffo, you’re warned:

Terry Roffo: hi. I bought your reflecting eyes at SL Boutique a few days ago, but somehow I managed to get it twice so now I am $100 in the hole at SLB. I sent them an email explaining and asking what can be done about it but they have not replied. Can you help? thanks (Saved Fri Mar 23 05:23:39 2007)

[1:14] Vint Falken: Which is totally impossible, because my reflecting eyes cost ‘only’ 0L$. And twice 0 L$ is still 0 L$. Please take your little scam somewhere else, preferably off my grid! Idiot! Besides, you can’t even have a negative saldo at SLB.

Ok. I know. It’s only 100 L$. But that’s a lot of camping hours for some Avies. That and I hate it when people try to rip me off and do such a bad job at that. ;)

Categories: Rant
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W00t, ‘our’ Arahan Claveau - those on Flickr will definitely know him - got mentioned on Channel4.com’s microsite about SecondLife.

And silly me was thinking Steve Miller was nothing but a hawt cyborg showing off his cute butt whilst pretending to be a gay gangster that is constantly snapshotting good looking girls in nazi uniforms, if he’s not - totally undressed - taking us to all sorts of interesting places on the grid.

Mr Claveau, could you please give us the SLurl to the ‘Sick Cat’ installation? Somehow Channel4 links are rather messed up. (Just tried, not working in IE either.)

Ok, the Sick Cat installation is old news and demolished, but a new one arrised and it’s called ‘the Super Fun Happy Club’. Do check it out.

Categories: Art, Flickr, Links, SL Web Resources
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After SLtree.com there is now also SLHotSpots.com as a SecondLife SLurl directory. Just like sltree.com it also includes some SL web resources, just look at the right side of the home page. The submit button is only fit for submitting SLurls though. I’d drop them an email to tell them about my *coughs* utterly famous *coughs* blog that they forgot to mention in the ‘forums & blogs’ directory, but no contact information to be found.

Remind me to remind Helena to submit the Paradise Lost, definitely the hottest spot and club on the whole grid! ;)

Categories: Links, SL Web Resources
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