Saturday 13 April 2013

The Good Life

A new outfit featuring new Dura hair, a Hoorenbeek sweater/shirt combo that looks good - but requires an Avatar rebuild every time I put it on to stop my eyeballs bulging out new Habano khakis from Hoorenbeek and samples for review of new shoes from Jeepers for Men.

The shoes are a nice saddleback brown pair called Connery Maroon, not yet up on Marketplace.  They are a quality pair of casuals with a good smoothly processing resizer script.




Hair: Dura Boy 41, Dark Brown
  Skin: Christen Medium by Evian  
 
Shape: Self made
  3D Prim Full Beard by Jaryth's Barbershop  
Tintable Masculine Eyebrows by Jaryth's Barbershop
Eddesign - Complete body hair type 1
Letis Tattoo :: Sirius :: 
[ hoorenbeek ] Mesh Pants - Habano
[ hoorenbeek ] Sweater - Mesh - Black - S
[ hoorenbeek ] Ansor Watch - Large - Black
Connery - Maroon - Review sample from Jeepers Shoes for Men

Thursday 11 April 2013

Look good in Leather

I've been waiting semi-patiently for the Lapointe and Bastchild open leather jacket for quite a while.  Regular readers of this blog already know of my gushing fondness for L&B's high standard of quality beautiful original templates and lovely texture options and this new product is another triumph.

Leather jacket fans were dependent on stiff sculpts and careful resizing for many years.  After mesh came along my L&B sculpted leathers were about the only sculpted prim clothes I would still sometimes drag out of the darker corners of my bulging inventory.  It says something that I would get people asking me 'where I got that great mesh leather' when they were actually looking at a sculpt item.

But even with high quality sculpts you were still spending hours if you were finicky carefully sizing, stretching and positioning to try to downplay the essentially stiff and static nature of prim attachments to create the illusion of a stretching, dynamic, three dimensional piece of clothing.  Unlike some die-hards who resisted mesh I was a grateful early adopter not least because my determination to shape and position prim components had started to border on OCD.

Of course mesh comes with its own challenges:  getting items that match your body shape - or adjusting that body shape to match what was available, that long uncomfortable period before mesh capable viewers became the norm where half the people or more that you met thought you had an invisible body with a weird egg shaped object floating where your torso should be and of course, cheap ass templates with minor texture variations flogged by every designer who wanted to claim he was a mesh designer.

But L&B create their own exclusive mesh templates and textures.  They are expensive but worth it.

MENS S'Wear MESH "Classic" Black Leather Jacket w/HUD
 HB - Pocket Bandana Pack  MENS "Biker Classic Fit" in Black Distressed Leather Boots
  Hair: Dura Boy 1, Dark Brown
  Skin: Christen Medium by Evian  
Shape: Self made 3D Prim Full Beard by Jaryth's Barbershop Tintable Masculine Eyebrows by Jaryth's Barbershop Eddesign - Complete body hair type 1 Letis Tattoo :: Sirius ::  Necklace: Silver 5 Bead and Leather Cord Necklace by Culture Fine Jewelry for Men

Wednesday 3 April 2013

Lost Treasure of the Inca Warrior

Second Life isn't really a game but you can play games in it.  One of the best game makers in SL is MadPea Games, creators of such recent in-world hits as Room 326 and most recently The Lost Treasure of the Inca Warrior.

A friend and I recently played it, questing through a mysterious cave full clues, gems and deathtraps.  To play you buy an add on HUD that guides you through the immersive story with prizes from inworld vendors including clothes, temples and full avatars.

My pictures from our adventure were posted on Madpea's flickerstream with one of them winning pic of the day.