5 posts tagged “alex”

someone go and make ps easier to use. this is 2007!

and there is no need for graphic programs to be so complicated, to the point where some people even take exepnsive community college classes, to figure this blending/ alpha/ handraw bla bla shits out.

make that shit easier!

i've studied art in rl, and graduated with a bachelors degree many moons ago. but i tell you what, we had no dam fancy progs, we did everything by hand. drawing and sculpting, collages, even graphic design. and the "in thing" to do was stupid airbrush. i remember many days i had the airbrush paints all over my hair and clothes and looked like a walking piece of art on my way home in the "Strassenbahn".

some people had the nerve to  suggest i should bring my rl art into sl........NOT!

everyone steals from everyone and i'll be damned if my art lands on some creditfarmers freebie box, ok mr lee?

so, sl is becoming a struggle just like rl. you try to make some cool... boom - next minute, someone outdo's you, by stealing your ideas and make it better then yours. i see this everywhere in sl.

yea man, i love to explore, and how many times have we seen people trying to create a sim or area like " Loch Newchurch's Missing Milestone ". she to me is still the mastress of all the creations, including "Arcadia Asylum".

her art is seen all over sl, her barrels, boxes, crates, dumptrucks, taxi's, little but kickass signs that speak for itself and we all adore. i almost tend to believe that " stroker serpentine " ( the sexgen bed/ mattress maker ),his nasty dirty awesome sex matress that can be bought for 1000L's at his Eros Sim, may was a extended idea from Arcadia's filthy matress's

but i am not gonna say " i am sure he did...", because i don't know for sure. but i suppose we all do copy some ideas from one and make something we think is more original, but yet in the back of our minds, we know... hell i didn't had the orginal idea...so n' so had it.

i am at fault too, in a way. when i've created " section 8", i wanted something more real looking in sl, and the feedback was overwhelming. i had tenants that had been in sl since 2005... moving into my lil dirty lofts. and that was a huge compliment to me, that someone so " old " would move into my hood.

nevertheless, i am very very happy that " Alexander Burgess and Mygdala March ", took over where i left off and make Philly even more better, with the amazing help and cityplanner and running candidate for 2008 of " Romana Wei ", who was my mentor when it came to building and lay'outing and understanding the alligning of block to blocks.

if it wouldn't had been for her (Romana Wei), i probably stil would still dabble in being a frustrated club host working for 30L/hour. or perhaps shot everyone in the progress of being the always upbeat annoying hostess. well no wait... i was a kickass hostess, another sl woman showed me the real robes by the name of " Alicia Mounier ". she hired me to work at the club called " Catacombs ", and i finally made some money, hosting events for 500L's/ 2 hours.

anyhow, these days are so over now.

i am trying and not being to good at it, to make clothes.

one of the hardest things to do in sl. really i have so much more respect for designers who actually make their own shit, have their own ideas on what would look good on our AV's.

now don't get me wrong..*grins*, i have all the ideas in the world, but the actual making of it. to sit on a piece of camisole or shirt for 2 hours in ps and then sell it for hmm 40L's, if that much, seems to be nothing, compared to the work someone puts into these fashion items.

i guess you have to love the actual creation more then the fact of making tons of money of it and become another " anshe chung". which may never happen by only making fashion.

now there are good and big artists in sl, but as i told a friend in sl the other day... sl changes, times changes, rl changes. people that come into the world are not as naive and stupid anymore . ( well ok ok... maybe 20% of them are actually worth some ).

people want good shit and want it now and want it the least expensive. it is the fast lane world we live in. rl or sl... if i want some in sl and i can't find it - it frustrates me. for instance... aprons! i've not seen any kinds of homley looking, dirty cooking aprons with old retro textures, dirty spots on them and so on. most things, even nurses items are all in the "costume shops" and has a sexual naughty effect to it. just like some sleezy b - porn, where men can live and wank off their fantasies of a naughty nurse.

i really don't know whats sexy about a nurse. really i don't. ( from a woman's point of view, that is )

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anyhow, back to me, gala me.

i want to make clothes, kickass tops and camis, tee's, but so far i am only down to ren and stimpy, art is Olive, and a banana that says Shuddup, family guy and three pair of jeans made off the LL template which sucks ass.

i want lowrise jeans! someone give me a lowrise jeans template and a dirty tanktop template or the alpha texture, yea gimme a alpha texture, so i can make some out if it. damit.

consider it as a donation to the gala? yes?

i am such an artist!

but i am working on it.

that's why i am not advertizing much of the shop yet, because i am almost embarassed about the sillyness i have for sale there. but now one thing is for sure, my tee's are perfect, no dam missing alphas, no dam silly outlines - they are perfect. now if i would only know how to make them more old looking... the faded worn shirt look. because mine look freakin " tide clean ". i want DIRT!

ok rant over, donate to me and make me a happy gala. i want to taste the rainbow too.

the end,

gala~

 

 

sl can be a serious " coitus interruptus ".

no really, i had a wonderful night with ston and then i get sucked into sue stonebender's sim and the green sim went from blue to gray goo and blaa i was gone, crashed.

tonight was a rare night for the gala. because i didn't do jack shit as in working, re- texturing other peoples crazy shit. i actually enjoyed my sl and took some nonpaid leave, and went on a explorer's tour with the charming ston.

we started out at his lil land, where we played ringle rangle rosie for a second and then landed in his hammock, when ston suddenly decided to kiss my 'dejavu' 500L boots. i'm not gonna lie, i thought its dam sexy to have some saliva on those boots of mine..which are not just made for walking.

and we continued. i've told ston about some amazing builds i've seen in sl, one in particular, called " ivillage", build by the infamous sl builder " barnesworth anubis". we tp'd over there and my heart skipped! wtf... the building has been moved, the top designer furnitures are gone. we looked at a almost empty house and nothing was there anymore but a few linden plants. i was so dissapointed.

some guy was there and he couldn't see the build neither ( i was trying to blame it on the lag first - negative tho ). anyway the guy asked me if i have seen the bookshop, and my standard answer to any sort of question is "NO". so he said follow me, ston and me flew through the air and landed at the bookshop. also created by barnesworth. and doooh, yes i've been there, seen this kickass place. we chatted a lil bit, the three of us. ston was being silly or stoned as most of the time and gave me a copy of his armed, helmet wearing, pirate flag carrying, chain-joint-smoking-parrot. which i now wear with ueber pride.

i've told ston i needed some books for "alex's pwn shop", because alex needs some items to give to all these noobs or not so noobs. ston suggested to take " em all ". but no no... i am picky. i don't want to kick someones braincells with retarded dean r koontz never ending horror stories, nor the " how to be a good husband" clichee books.

i picked some nice ones out, including a classic read. i managed to message alex and told him i would like to give these books to his pwn shop funds, to slap some knowledge into the heads of those non literal av's of sl.he smiled and lol'd for a second. i hope these are some real reads and not just picture books. let me know alex, or i will file a free copy complaint with the bookstore owner.

while at the bookstore, ston and me talked about pirates - a passion we both share, so i jumped into my freebie canimal piratey matey outfit and then we went on from old time pirates, parrots to johnny the wonderful depp ( "depp" btw... in bavarian slang means " tard, idiot ")

and wowowowaaa, ston the amazing frenchman who seems to have clothes for every dam occasion, went into skin shifting and stood in front of me as a " johnny depp". don't believe me? the look at this pic, heffa. i aint lying.

the dreadlocks were gone and exchanged for this carbon copy of zee johnny. isn't he just amazing?

yet i do like ston more as the OG ston, the dreadz with the fuzzy beard and the funny attitude. just like that, on our first date pic, where we sat on his land, prior to dancing the night away.

anyhow... as i've mentiond above, we went exploring tonight, and landed at the "relic sim". one of my favorite places. the sim is so dam prettyful and you can smell the work that sue and baron put into the sim. from the tiny details to the big picture. it is just one amazing and breathtaking place.

as we explored the pirate ship and did a prim count.. all of a sudden i get a strange IM, saying " myg <3 gala "!

and something about the ship we all were on. i was puzzled, i thought who in the world knows that love slogan that myg and i have had since the beginning of " philly's section -8 " days.

it was the evil agent as you can read in myg's blog. his name was wrath paine .

and he im'd meee?

to be continued.....

gala~

 

so strange, a month or so ago, my heart was all the way in philly, meeting the new people that came there, new tenants, the nightly chats with myg, sable, romana and alex. the gossip on the streets of philadelphia.

but now, i can't even explain it, how and why...but all has changed. myg has become a sl celebrity blogtress writer, sable has her own shop making the best jewelry ever, alex is working on his barbershop and romana is still romana but she is running for the presidental election of 2008.

we all yapped last night for a little bit on myg's new watertower overlooking philly, but for some reason...i felt there is something different. myg didn't talk to much, alex looked like the sl version of mr rogers, and romana was being romana, just sweet as always. alex placed a bench on top of the water tower and we all sat there like pigeons with nothing much to say.

times, things, people change.

i felt like i am not really a part of this philly anymore. everyone has found a purpose a place in sl. the former wild vixen myg is hardcore business and she is good at it. romana was featured on that smear magazine of sl herald. i can't stand these herald people. bunch of kids writing about nothing or gossiping about top notch designers in sl. more like a myspace popularity smear- zin, then anything else.

and me? i am working on my beach house, my sanctuary, which is more and more becoming a carbon copy of my sl/ rl me. from color blinding moroccan ambiente to the dark piano with classical music, yea all a part of me. my hoodness does show in my furnishing tho.

as beautiful the place is... i see a pattern again, which i am going back too, meaning i walk back to my sl solitude, the same way...when i first started coming to this world.

 my friendslist is shrinking, because i don't have nothing in common nor do i ever talk to these people from month's ago. so i delete away.

and last but not least, i have to sell lots of my land. because the tierfee is killing me, and as it stands right now, i am not doing much with " philly section 8 " anyhow.

the tenants are still there, myg, sable, alex and kotone, but i sense this all will come to an end as well. because everyone has now some land and is using their sl talents in some other way then just yapping the night away. the occasional nooblets have stopped coming by, or maybe i am just not there, when they arrive.

i am not complaining, no... just a reality check about this virtual world.

i miss the old philly, before everyone explored their talents and hung around philly. the nights where i endlessly worked on the city to make it better, more hood'ish, more north philadelphia, more badlands.... has come to an halt.

i am not giving up the main part of philly - yet, but perhaps one day i will.

everything is everything and in the end it is nothing.

gala~

 

great party, great people, a kick ass dj and myg was sooo happy and glowing all troughout the night.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i don't think i ever posted a pic of that mr burgess on here. when i tried to add some brightness to the pic in ps, auuuii, the man blinded me with his scary paleness, so i scaled him down with less contrast - but hell he is stil one bright muthascruncha!

 

and btw.....i told alex a while back, that he looks so much like the monk from the " da vinci code" , alex said he never watched that movie. dude! read the book/ watch the flic!

alex? are you a very religious guy that doesn't believe that there are really some bible scriptures missing? read here

that the roman catholic church is an very controverse organistation. read here

ever read that book " Der Pfaffen Spiegel "? i think i have read it when i was around 15 yrs old or maybe even younger - yes i was brought up in a such a bohemian- freethinkers- are- dangerous lifestyle and wouldn't change a thing about it.

 

ok i went off the sl track... but it's a good one.

the end,

gala~