6 posts tagged “romana”

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~

 

 

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~

 

long day long night.

spend tons of money at "relics", bought a piano and classical music sheets, curtains, lights, rugs and more.

had a major fallout with carducci, who can seriously kiss my dam ass now. i don't even want to get all into that crap because thats what it is - c r a p.

met up with romana, who gave me a rideable cow, showed me sable's new shop, and some other stuff thats new in philly.

paige is pissed that i sold alex the 256sq land. alex we may need to talk, you re-sell the land to them ( for the same price as i sold it to you, because it was the price i bought it for), i sell you more land. i have to get down in my tier fees anyhow. want 1024sq? let me know, and you get it.

"relics" sim got either attacked or LL is messing up, poor sue stonebender kept appologizing to everyone, for something that was so not her fault. 1/3 rd of their sim got missing/ trashed. regardless, their sim is one of the most beautiful sims i've ever seen - totally breathtaking.

it is 04:35AM, i have to be up in less then 4 hours and take care major rl stuff.

got the house i want in rl, me happy - joy - joy - moving in 1 1/2 weeks.

fixed my beach house up somewhat, its a color faux pas chaos right now. i don't care. this will be my sanctuary.

need more tenants in philly, 3 lofts are open for rent. if anyone reads this - go rent it.

placed a taxi cab into philly - the dump truck had to die.

04:39AM, i type slow, i am tired, i am going to bed.

the end,

gala~

 

no really i am. i am now walking around in sl, like i am a goddess and you all have to kneel in front of me. why?

because i have purchased a new skin tonight! not that there is anything wrong with my 4000L (waaah) skin, no nothing at all. my 'old skin' is way more detailed when it comes to all my body - pixel- parts. looks more realistic as well.

yet the new one, has some enhancement my old one doesn't have, such one kickassery "hairline" which looks so dam natural. my cheekbones are way higher ( close to my rl looks ). and yea really afterall, since i always wear my hair back in rl, i can so relate to that new skin. facial proportions are just way more the real me. of course my pixel skin is naturally prettier then i am in my first life, no fuckin doubt - otherwise naomi campbell would be so totally bancrupt.

anyhow, i love my new ME, yet it takes some time getting used to it. everytime i buy something in sl that changes my looks drastically - i am a little unsure if that was a right decission or not. well, shit it was a better one then my gambling addiction ( yes i gambled again tonight! ).

but lets start with the evening pics in a somewhat order:

 thats ole me on the back of Arcadia's truck, where i pretend i am actually doing some some in sl.

there is my friend/ mentor/ muse and more more more, the amazing romana!

so of course i had to take a pic of us 2, wearing these incredible " philly necklaces" made by no one other but our lovely "sable slade", which now has a vendor up and running with more and more amazing jewlery. everyone has to come by and buy some from her, girly gotta make a living, right? right. her shop is located right across from romana's " wawa " ( i post pic and slurl later ). but check her out regardless. do it!

 

and since romana & myself have the bestest asses in lil/ big/ section 8/ anywhere in philly - here is the living proof:

 

 

drummmroll pleasseee! here is the newly improved ( i hope ) gala - me:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ok ok ok... i stop!

enough of gala me's grill and posing in front of these nasty pissed up section 8 walls.

have i mentioned, that i love the amazing hairline i have there, and the lips, cheekbones and then some?

anyhow i will love myself for the rest of the night.

 

gala, out!

last night - while taking away on a rl phonecall for 2 hrs - romana that sweetheart build that shrine around me - with a neon billboard saying  " i love gala "!

can you fuckin believe this! this is about one of the nicest things ever - anyone has done for me. the thought of her, to do such thing, she pulled up 2 walls, somewhat protecting me from bad karma, outside spirits, placed plants and lamp and everything else around me. mygoodness i was in dam tears here, when i got of the phone and saw what she did!

 

 

romana is such a wonderful and kindhearted person... i can't even say thank you thank you thank you - enough to her.

 

i should have made that pic lighter i guess.. but so dam what - we are chocolata chicas.

gala <3 romana

 

ouria moved out again. but as myg said... she will be back again, with some new guy who will pay her rent, ouria is really cool and she said she loves "Phi" as she calls philly. when i said my good byes to her, i was all sad and stuff, she did her crazy nurse meoko dance again. that girl is so nuts but in a dam cool and funny way. i miss her ass!

ila liqa, ma salama
my tuareg nomad sister ouria

plus she gave me a copy of that toilet i asked her about. i will have to take a pic because i re-made it with blood as pee. ya gonna like it... it has some nice ' functions'.

some more pics, when i was cruising around sl, and one of my stomping grounds is this place, forgot the name, well its a popular place tho.

 

there was this guy, camping in this thing and i could pick up balls and toiletpaper to throw at him, to humiliate his ass. so i did, but i think he was afk... no response came from him.

go there, mouselock and throw some shit at people.

hah!

gala~

 

 

 

i've ment to write about the women of sl on here a while ago. the strong, weak, good and bad bitches. i have been on sl going on a year in july and i've ran into all sorts of females, shemales, and what not.

98% were everyday faces, nothing that would stick with me longer then 5 min of sl time, if that much.

i used to be a hostess for two clubs in sl. learned the helluva lot about human behaviour in a virtual reality.

as for females. its somewhat like i feel about them in rl. most of them are dmb ass bitches galore. i have so nothing in common with these chics who pretend to a barbie in a barbie's world and post endless pics in their profile picks and retarded quotations about their adopted sl family. the whole dam family tree!

anyhow, what i wanted to say about women... its came to my mind last night while hanging with mygdala and romana in philly's tattletales. i invited one of my oldest friends to the club " alicia"! i luv that girl, she is one dam creative, two kickass looking by not looking stupid, and last but not least one smart ass cookie. i remember days i sat there and juts uuhh'd and ahh'd at her creations. alicia can make about anything, incl kicking flesh piercing, shirts, houses, hosting, building. but thats all aside the point. what i really dig and like about women like alicia is her strength and attitude, the IDGAF, the whatver attitude. this friendship has lasted for so long, i was pretty much a noob cake in my retarded passport skin when i met alicia and she liked my attitude and hired me to become a hostess packing 500L/2hrs. it was so good to see her last night.

there is romana, my mentor, my - wake - up - gala- you - can - do - it friend. i adore romana, who showed me any and everything along the way on how to build. she is so dam kickass, she can be the all sexy vixen and then next all hardcore business and at the same moment making 4 colored icecubes in rl to go with her drink. romana loves about everyone. i never heard her saying.. i don't like that bitch, or actually ever heard her cursing? nah i don't think she ever did used a cussword. romana and me we can all about building and putting our minds together for any projects that just pop into our minds and then fool off by having virtual pet puppys that we adore and play with like they really do exist.

one thing hit me tho last night. i am sometimes so dam self absorbed and insensitive to other peoples needs or worries. ( yes i really am.. ) last night, romana mentioned that she had no one asking her out, or going on a date with her in sl!?! in sl... and romana dateless??! oh hell no.

romana loves sex and companionship and i did a quick thinking to make romana better then she already is, with some pixelized add ons. meaning lets go SHOPPING! romana admitted she had been wearing the same ole stuff for a month. because all she did was - worked her ass off on helping others and creating a huge part of philly, helping anyone wherever she can -and she has not done anything for herself - her sl soul. so we went shopping!

i asked romana " how much can you spend, where she replied " 1 millll lindens! ". oh it was on! we went to "wrong", and got the cutests little outfits, which look so freaking amazing on her! i mean she is was glowing inside and out. just like we do in rl when we treat our souls with some retail therapy.

she needed good kickers, and i just couldn't see romana in some neko platons. no that woman needs some heels! sable, one of my tenants. ( who is a lil shy when she doesn't know someone, but a sweetheart once you get to know her a lil better)

sable is known in philly to be one of the best dressed woman there, and not in a show off - look what i have - attitude. she is very quiet but everytime i see her - it feels like this is a sl red carpet and she just shines with her amazing taste in clothes and the overall ways she carries herself. sooo.. sable had these kickers on that made me so oooh and aaaah. totally sexy boots with lots of metal on it, silver spikes, high heels that left me googoo eying. romana came along and joined in the chat and said the same thing to sable " i love your boots "! i asked her prior to that where she's gotten these from and she told me from "hearts desire" - freakin a kickery shoe shop.

romana was pretty much done by getting herself all these clothes, she spend a good dime at "wrong" incl miniskirt, pink latex pants and tops, fishnets, bracers - woaaa! but needed boots.. and i was so set on seeing romana in these heels, sable had on. so we went to hearts desire and boooooooy romana went crazy shopping. i am not sure how many boots she bought, but there was a helluva lot of clicking going on. then mind you, she said ' ok gala we have to get your boots', because i was already im'ng myg and wanted to show her the new and amazing romana. myg was pretty exited saying.."yess bring here over - we are at johnny's deli ". so but well.. romana insisted on buying boots for me. she asked me which one i liked... man... lol- i swear i am not into girl and girl dress alike thing - but these boots were just to dam sexy! and i starred... romana said" the black ones right'?... "yes i said", and a sec later i had these boots in my inventory! i about lost my dam mind... those boots are sooooooooooo sexy and soooooooooo 350L!romana didn't care tho.. she loves making people feel good.. in any possible way. and my i walked my new boots and silently singing " these boots are made for walking " (no not the jessica simpson version - naaaw the OG one by nancy sinatra!) here are some pics the before and after romana! ( oh btw..she got a cool ass AO  as well... man she looks soo sooo beautiful! )

 

and after our shopping trip - voila!

 

dude she kicks so ass! what a beautiful and talented woman! hands down!

 

and there is mygdala! my newest friend in sl! this woman is in many way so much like me, its scary. we crack up on the same things ( regarding the lovely nut "ourialove") among so many other things. she is smart as hell and has one razorsharp humour that just slaps you right into your face ( read her blog on here and you know will either get it or not ). what i really really like about myg is her writing, her mind, her strongness mixed with emotional outbursts, her patience with people, tact, whackyness and everything else that makes the perfect woman!

 

 

yet there are some things i don't understand about myg. as it can be read in her blog. her and alex are a rl couple in a commited relationship and they both play their fantasies out on sl. which is think is freakin cool - but i don't think i could that. i would be to dam jelous- having my man sitting there, possibly aroused and banging rp'ng with some chic. but it works for myg and alex just wonderful. this is something that i truly admire. you must be beyond the point of jealousy and the mine mine mine attitude to tolerate this virtual game play. its so foreign to me that she can do that- and i like things that i can't really figure out, because its beyond my thinking capacity. its makes myg so much more interesting. she has an virtual aura around her that seems like total kick ass chic combined with a always ready to do some crazy stuff ( like making her self 10 ft tall, next to you, hah! ) but also some sensitivity i feel that is somewhere deep inside her.

 

 

myg is all woman - she fusses, cusses, is dropdead beautiful and still very mysterious to me. but whenever myg signs on to sl or writes here.. i feel like she is letting me somehow into her world, mixed with some underlaying rl emotions that you will only get - when you really read her.

i sometimes try to look beyond her av eyes and look at the world from her perspective. and its a cool ass trip.

 

the end,

gala~