It’s a Barbie World isn’t it? All these lovely people full of color and brightness? Fuck this shit. Get your asses down to Alternative Fair running from April 22nd to May 2nd. The fair benefits the charity Nothing But Nets. Alt Fair features some of the best in Gothic, Neko, Grunge, Cyberwear, Punk, Visual Kei, and more. So if you’re tired of standard tanned skin number3272728 with a Truth hair that looks like some of the other stuff from HairBoy and Ye Old BabyDoll Dress. Then drag your fashionably dressed butts there now. Here is your Landmark

Below…stuff that has been purchased by me for happy fun time clothing dress up hour.

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Tags: Alt Fair, Cyber, Goth, Grim Bros., Illusions, Male Fashion, Punk, SiniStyle, Sn@tch

In my continuing quest to find shit to do in Second Life I have discovered that Ivey and Roblem from Sn@tch have opened up a little lounge type club called “The Volcano Room”. So far out of the few clubs I have been to lately it is my favorite. It’s nicely decorated, not too big, not too small, and doesn’t have badly animated pictures of chicks in reverse silicon cowgirl. The music is varied as well. Anything from Goth to mashups and some country thrown in for good measure.

Today however is there Grand Opening. It is also the 70th Birthday of Chuck “I will totally be El Jefe of Texas” Norris. They are planning on having DJ’s from Noon SLT to 1amSLT.

The schedule is as follows:

• 12-2pm: DJ Ylva Korhonen
• 2-4pm: DJ DoomCookie
• 4-6pm: DJ Enzuru Onizuka
• 6-8pm: DJ Julian Battitude
• 8-10pm: DJ Zarabella Ming
• 10pm-1am: DJ Dov Watanabe

They will be having trivia throughout the grand opening in regards to “Our Lord of the Jumping Spinning Side Kick”. Gift Cards to Sn@tch will be rewarded. A good time will be had by all. So I expect to see some of you at The Volcano Room

Tags: Clubs, Events, Second Life, Sn@tch

So, with my return to Second Life I arrived just in time for Linden Homes to be announced. And I thought to myself “Self, it would be good to have a place to unpack shit and take horrible photographs for your blog of doom and hey, it’s only 10 dollars a month. You spend more than that on way sillier things”. And so I stared at the menu to select one and explored the several different options. In the end I chose the Skylight model in the Meadowbrook theme. And things were good…or so I thought.

The Author Standing In front of His Small Abode.

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Tags: Linden Homes, Linden Lab, Mainland, Second Life

It’s been five months since Zindra came online and when I was last there is was completely empty save for the prefab buildings set up by Linden Lab. So I figured five months was enough time for things to get settled and so I landed in Kama City and wasn’t all that surprised by what I found.

The main “station” was still pretty much empty save for some people who thought it’d be a good place to rent a booth. I literally saw maybe 4-5 vendors in the entire complex. There was a nice voice telling me somebody left their lights on though.

Five steps in and we’ve encountered our first horribly built phallic symbol. With a map even. This trip is going to be awesome. I can already tell.

Welcome the Zindra Central Depot. It is here you should go if you want to put up advertisements for all manner of things.  Such as….

Virtual Hookers and the Clubs that house them. Good thing this is the adult continent or else I’d have to see this type of stuff everywhere….oh wait. Nevermind.

This build, though nice confused me. It’s set up like a roman building complete with amphitheater. In it are some helpful(?) words about the BDSM community in Second Life. Hmm new logo idea. “Second Life: Where Everybody Is Apparently Into BDSM”. Moving on.

I will say this. The freebies provided by Linden Lab are actually quite nice. The buildings are pretty well made and somewhat original. If everybody had used them or kind of stuck with the theme then there would have been hope for this place. Another thing….Roads? Really? Number 1: We can’t rez vehicles on them. Number 2: Isn’t it just taking up space, prims, and the scripts causing lag? Number 3: Have the Lindens ever actually tried crossing a sim on foot? Let alone a vehicle?

Welcome to the first actual porn place I found since disembarking. It’s a Peep Show. It was also empty and this and the next picture are pretty much the only safe for work pics I could get of the place. ProTip: Animated Textures with porn scenes and naked chicks in non classy poses? Not.Fucking.Erotic.Or.Sexy. Remember that okay?

I could be wrong. But I remember Show-Biz Pizza used the same font. Who knows? A couple miscellaneous things I noticed in my travels.

• ToySlave Brothel must be raking in the cash, if I threw a stick in any direction I’d hit a giant ad by them with some freebie car making revving sounds
• The word deviant. Look kids, you can not all be deviant. If you are all deviant then you are all normal and somebody else is deviant (From what I saw it’d be the most vanilla person on the planet)
• We need to invent new words to describe the fun stuff. I am afraid that Lush, Luscious, and pretty much everything in the dictionary right now has been plastered too much all over the place.

Another completely empty porn place. Where are the clubs? I was informed there would be a bunch of clubs everywhere. Closest I saw to one was some Erotic Dining place next to Sn@tch. Which….please do not get me started on the whole food + genitals + digital representations thing. Seriously.

I saw this free roaming Class 5 Shape Travesty running around and too a picture. It then started following me but failed to cross the sim line. Which proved that my lag is pretty fast lag. Thank god. If it started the newbie cry of “Sex Nao?” I was going to give it the calling cards of people I don’t like and informing them that while they may play hard to get those people will totally put out if you keep asking them.

I was getting tired of walking so I found their newly implemented public transportation and decided to catch a ride. The first place I went was under water. The controls seemed fairly smooth and it was faster than walking.

And then I remebered that the Lindens don’t actually ever cross sim lines and found myself in the abyss shortly before staring at my desktop.

And then I began wondering. What exactly was the purpose of Zindra? Was it so that all the bad porn builds could  be locked into one place? Was it for ease of the SL experience? Then I remembered what the Lindens kept double speaking about. It was to prevent minors (Who should not be on SL) from seeing Adult Content. Did it make the regular mainland look better? Not by a long shot. Did it make everything easier to find? Hardly.

So I have to ask, after five months. Was it worth it? What was and still is the point?

ZombieFest 09 was a success! With that in mind the Hot for Zombies group wishes to continue with that good work and are currently planning a Christmas Event. We do however need your help

We need content creators to donate items to be sold. All proceeds will once again go to the International Red Cross.

And now, because I am a lazy bastard. I am going to copypaste from the notecard that Putrid Gloom made.

It will be a magical holiday village dedicated to celebrating the winter holiday season, but with blood, guts and gore!

We will have different magical lands that you can volunteer to build! Prim limits will be set and you will be allowed to have a prim advertising your shop, sim or group on SL.

We will also have happy holiday shops where you can donate an item for sale. This will be FUN, think scary holiday trees, vampire-esque Christmas gowns, antlers with skulls on them , cozy winter cottages of doooooooom!

We will now also have a blog where we will list content creators with a slurl to your sl shop, interview some of you, pimp you out.

We will have a scary holiday ball, caroling, a sled mountain and all sorts of creepy fun winter themed junk.

These plans are all subject to change, as we are in the early stages of planning, however this is the general gameplan.

If you are interested in taking part contact either Gattina Dumpling Horrid Twine, or Putrid Gloom by notecard.

So get to making stuff lest we eat your brains.

Tags: Hot for Zombie

The big event for the weekend ZombieFest is winding down. You can still show up currently and pick up custom content. All proceeds benefit the International Red Cross. And during this weekend I’ve picked up some great stuff that I am going to show you.

Reek put out a Max Romper this weekend. It comes with hair from TinyBird and a rompus animation from Redd Columbia. I was wondering how to shoot it for a blog post and then I found the lovely Horrid Twine’s store called Horribaubles. She had several things for sale at ZombieFest and this is one of them. I guess when the rompus ended Max couldn’t take it.

The tub is also from Horridbaubles and it is full of awesome and yes this means you should go forth and purchase it immediately along with the rest of Horrid Twine’s twisted little collection.

Wild Dan is wearing:

Skin – Fire Seraph Beard – Signature

Hair – Max Chocolate for Hood – Tiny Bird

Outfit – Rumpus Romper – Reek

Come see Iris and myself DJ On Saturday! Hell, come down all weekend all proceeds go towards the  Red Cross

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So last night I finally decided to go visit the jewelry fair. I generally have low expectations when it comes to fairs/expo’s/etc in Second Life but this one was the most….”unique”?

Lemme see here…..giant stretched textures….megaprim walls……awesome.

Okay, I get the maze concept based on the seasons they were going for. But I have to be totally honest and say….it’s bullshit. First off, anything maze like in Second Life is going to insta-fail due to the fact the client itself blows like a college chick during Fleet Week. Secondly the textures on the GIANT MEGAPRIM WALLS….is A: photosourced and B: Too Stretched. After awhile it all blends into one.

The booth actually did not look all that spectacular. To me personally it had the whole medieval flea market vibe and there was tons (and I mean tons) of completely wasted space.

This is the view from the air, hopefully you can see what I am referring too. The space being used wasn’t efficiently used. You figure the smallest stuff in Second Life (jewlery) would be much less space intensive and would be designed in a much better way. In theory you could have fit three times the number of merchants that ended up being displayed.

There were no Lindens there when I showed up. I found this sign near the “Dunk a Linden” booth. Usually when people do these expos and fairs it’s for either A: some type of charity or B: so everybody can make a fat lot of money. The charity (Oxfam) was not as displayed as I personally feel it should have been.  Here is the thing though, I think at this point there are so many fairs and expos going on somebody should just say fuck it and open up a mall. Seriously, you throw a stick and it’s a fair.

Despite how bad Jewelry Fair was, it was not the worst thing I came across during my travels last night. The two things that had me absolutely shocked were things I actually would not expect to see.

Do you see that? That is a fucking Guild marking. Some genius in Second Life said “Forsooth, I have an excellent idea! Let us bring back and archaic system of elitism and rock it outeth with a fancy logo”. I can only imagine how this works out in Second Life. I mean the corruption alone in who gets to be a member would be comedy gold for us observers for months alone. What are the requirements? Who judges your stuff? Do I get a nifty tshirt? If it is like a Traditional Guild System what is the percentage of my profits that I have to pay the guild? More importantly, what are the benefits? Do you ensure me that my products will not be stolen? Will you advertise for me? Will you muscle out the competition? Seriously, why the fuck would you even have this in Second Life? Why would you need to? Kids, SCA is down the hall and to the right. Go do that guild bullshit over there.

Oh look, a pay to learn fashion and design school? This is like one of those late night learn to draw at the fancy e-college commercials isn’t it? There are plenty of free resources available both inworld and on the internet on these topics. Please people, start looking at them and maybe asking your friends questions. This whole “You pay we teach you shit you can get online for free” thing reeks of some pseudo Art-Institute scam. Most of the blame is not even on these people. It’s on the users who think they have to pay to learn something. Stop it. Google exists for a reason besides porn (not really but we’re optimists here in Dancien-Land).

So let’s recap shall we?

Jewelry Fair – One of the most poorly designed and executed fairs in Second Life

Guild System – For WoW people. Leave it the fuck there

Career Institute for Fashion and Design – Charging People for shit they can learn for free.

Did I miss anything?