18 posts tagged “section 8”

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~

 

 

yes, i think the time has come dear section 8'rs, i will sell my beloved philly.

i'm never there, nor do i have the time to maintain the rentals. and i know most of you guys, are just so sweet and keeping the lofts as a favour and friendship thingy torwards me. i've seen you guys bought half of topgol, and i think it is really time - that i pay my dues and sell it as well.

i am going to let you all know in my blog before hand, because i don't want to send out a silly group notice and slap you all in the face with the news.

i talked to myg and romana about 2 month ago, regarding the state of philly and told you ladies, that i will make a decission by the end of april. well its end of may, and i have to sell it. i simply can't afford it anymore.

but i would truly like, for someone to buy that land, who is already in philly and would keep the theme of philly going.

this project was a very sentimental project which created philly, with romana's ideas and her teaching me on how to build and how to place a city layout.

friendships were made, and i will never ever forget the beginning footsteps of our philly. how we created the NOW most beautiful community project co-op, like the topgol mainland sim. the sim, aside the casino bastard monkeys is just plain breathtaking. the garden, matthew has created, dianne's backpart is freakin amazing. the barber, pwn shop, wawa shop, watertower.......beautiful and then some.

but time has come, all things will come to an end and this is my time. i am not doing this lightheartly...i really don't. i love this place. the fun we had there.

but life goes on... i've read myg's blog and see the wonderful storylines and friendships that have been build. which is amazing and will always be a topgol thing!

no one can beat that.

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i will sell everything as is, with the lofts, aside a few signs that i would like to take with me, to where?

i don't know. i am just thrifting throughout SL right now. my boathhouse ocean land is still not finished but it is my lil safe heaven away from the sl and perhaps rl madness. sanctuary, place of my own...day dreaming and just reflecting on who knows what.

man this all is not easy.. i always wanted something of my own and i had it, and now i am pulling the plug.

well.......it will be up for about 2 more weeks, i paid my tierfees today, or maybe 3 weeks, since these trolls gonna charge me again for a whole month.

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btw, anyone seen romana? i miss her so much!

 

gala~

 

want it?

 

 

 

 

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~

 

i don't get it, how can someone that was so cool and funny as johnny once was - how can he have a best friend, now on sl as well, by the name of "cemetary slade"? that dude is so off the rocker.

a few days ago,  that clownface dropped into philly like mork from ork. he is about as annoying as a kid wth adhd. showing off his firey guitar, his head explode crap, the most idiotic emotes (must have been freebies...) and well yea, no one was really paying him much attention after his 3rd sentence.

philly people are smart chaps, each and everyone of them. and the majority has major patience when it comes to new peoples, they are nice and polite, they greet the most trashcanned face noob like he is a VIP. i have to give it to the section 8'rs and the WEI peoples - they just rock!

but patience has never been a virtue of mine, and when you are a dumbass, you are a dumbass, and there is no if's and but's.

cemetary dude drove into philly with some bike, who he think he is - the dude from " born to be wild"?

now generally speaking i don't have a problem with people showing off their new posessions. but there are ways and ways.

he started a lil drama on vox here, before he even entered SL. and i did tell him to slow down when he first get into sl and not to act like an ass, because your name gets around. you may want to start a little business on sl or who knows what else. and people wont take you serious because of your past history.

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anyhow, some people think i am the ueber bish on sl.

but also these very same people, don't have to deal with 10+ people/ tenants on a daily basis. tenants wants things as darker floors, window here or there, an explanation on how to use prims in a loft. they want certain people to stay away from the place because of some former debates, an ex lover or husband/ wife. there are so many things that someone who owns virtual land has to do and take care off. it's not an easy ride.

sure i've chosen this role to become a virtual landlady. it was my choice. but just as in rl, you don't know what comes up to you til you are in the very exact position of taking care a property and its citizens. which also means, dealing with the daily dose of griefers. people who drop endless prims on the property, either because they are just ignorant or some as in "cemetary slade's" case out of spite. with the lame " excuse " : "i'm just checking everything out, i am still new"!

now fuck YOU!

i could have reported his ass for strategly placing rockets on my plot and his ass could have been of SL right now! this is considered " griefing " - are you reading me slade? yes and it was not the first time, it was the 3rd time he left his shit cluttered up on my land!

and the last time, it was over 103 prims - all over section 8, and he also placed those on romana's land. kotone and sable told me about it in email, that there is lots of stuff in the middle of philly. and yes low and behold, it was slade's shit. you don't DO that - period! so now he complains that he is " banned " from my parcels! you know 1 + 1 is still 2.

and to be honest, i just don't feel like dealing with half baked nut cases who think they know shit, yet they don't nothing. let me come to your landand drop 100+ prims. set your land on fire, grief you, send griefers to you, make your " sl experience " an online prim war. how would you like that cabron?!

 

every land owner has pretty much the same rules as i do, no griefing, no shooting, no ueber laggy shit, gadgets, emotes, annoying flashing signs in a rental area. doesn't matter what kind of sim it is. even the roleplaying sims... shit they have very strict rules. and i do understand. because we all pay a lot of money to have something, not just a rental place but also a community for everyone who wants to come here and either rp or meet like minded people. or just to hang out for the hangout sakes.

and we are successfull like that. there is now another more ghettofied part to section 8, which is part residental/ part market/ part ghetto/ hood and (rp crime infested)... look up the word "roleplay", it will open a whole new door to the ignorantis of sl.

i pay $50 a month to have philly's section 8 up and running. yes there are days where i am just moody as hell, but i usually try to stay away then from the chatting and yapping because i have this straight up in your face attitude. and most north americans just can't deal with conflicts.

but conflicts and tensions will rise every and anywhere in sl and rl. it is part of our human nature. on some days i deal with those better then on other days. i am not going to grin in your face and be nicety nice - when i truly think you're an idiot. what the hell for? i don't, can't and wont play this pretend - a -  good - mood - game.

i am very much human behind this monitor and i am not going to get gray hair over a virtual reality.

anyhow... i guess i made my point, right? right.

nuff said,

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!

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i think it's been two days ago, since this happend, maybe only a day , hell who knows. i was bored, myg, alex the philly heads all left or were not on, i can't remember the details.

i went to the " fitzgerald hotel" in big philly. walked into one of these private open sex rooms and there was that rather terrible noob looking female and some wanna be wangsta dude getting it on. i sat down in a chair and thought fuck it... ima watch noob pixel sex. the female inivited me but i of course declined.  like what making my 4500L skin dirty like that... naww i don't think so. and their simulated sex convo didn't even made me raise an eyebrow. all boring, ok.

the chic stopped doing him, and he eventually put on his gangzta gear. when i said to him; you should buy her something nice for sucking your dick; he wouldnt have it, because as he claimed he worked so hard for is money, blaa blaa and not giving it to a noob bla blaa...and i said, if you don't buy her none, i will tell everyone that you have a iddy biddy dick, he said he made his thing smaller so it wont come out of her head. ok that made sense to me.

but i stil wanted him to buy her a gift! was it any of my bizness? of course not, but i decided to make it my biz. no one was on, and i just felt like fuckin with people. so we argued...well i still don't call it arguing because these people on sl don't know the delicate difference between arguing and debating and well just verbal stuff.

the noob chic thanked me few timesf for standing up for her, i gave her a passport skin i so despite but still better then what se had and a gala shape i made myself. and she really looked so much better.

anyhow dude got on my nerves, so i sat him on fire and made him dance hin the air. eventually i was a bit ticked offf, no push .. so i couldn't kill him. the idiot was really getting on my nerves now. i called one of my gangsta friends and told him to just kill the bastard.

and harry sure did, zapped him right out of the zone.

we went to the hood then and that bub must have been looking all over the place for me, because he came to the hood, at first trying to talk with some halfbaked sense. i am not having it... middle of his typing...i freezed him, then freezed again.

blaa the name calling started from the dutsc fool, and really i was long done with im. my attention span lasts 20 minutes at he most if i start some drama. but then i am done with it, because you bore me.

yee dutch boy was in full effect, while i yapped with my friends in philly. i let him talk, my no reponses had him so going..it was so wonderful.

here is his whole im talk from dork boy, while i yapped with the philly crew :

[19:18]  Donky Spijkers: Listen.. what is this all about anyway?
[19:19]  Donky Spijkers: you see.. I am a generous guy but I don't give things to people I just met
[19:19]  Donky Spijkers: I worked hard for my money too!
[19:20]  Donky Spijkers: and I aint giving that away just because..
[19:20]  Donky Spijkers: she waned to do what we did so why don't she have to buy me clothes?
[19:26]  Donky Spijkers: I don't care what you say
[19:28]  Donky Spijkers: kutmof
[19:28]  Donky Spijkers: you can't beat me.. that's why you ehjected me
[19:29]  Donky Spijkers: you can never beat me
[19:29]  Donky Spijkers: my will is stronger then yours
[19:29]  Donky Spijkers: and my brains are better developed then yours
[19:29]  Donky Spijkers: you aint worth it no more
[19:29]  Donky Spijkers: I thought maybe is is okay to talk with but you are just trailertrash
[19:30]  Donky Spijkers: and you are german so don't blame yourself
[19:30]  Donky Spijkers: probably you talk shit because you never had shit
[19:30]  Donky Spijkers: and that's why I will always be the winner
[19:31]  Donky Spijkers: and your quietness is the proof of me being right about it:)
[19:32]  Donky Spijkers: so have a nice day:)
[19:33]  Donky Spijkers: we will not and I repeat not meet again because you just aint worth it
[19:33]  Donky Spijkers: goodbye

 

 

 

so many things to do, so little time or how does that it go?

i had a effin blast with myg last night, we danced to thriller and some cosmische sphaeren musik. i did NOT took a pic of my " cakehead - diana - fuckin - ross - aka - i - am - really - SLASH - wig"!

but we breakdanced, zombiedanced to thriller and it was just so dam peaceful. laughing and giggling. and did we dance! we should be so hired by all these barbie clubs, and let our knotty dreads, and freshly paved autobahn dark hair, fall on their pink dancefloors! here is the beautiful mygdala:

 

dam straight - we rocked the casbah aka philly! it was lovely and myg gave me an nice good night ending like this. because pretty much after she left, well no wait, the johnny was there as well - him and i talked, somewhat over the wall. yes we can " wall talk "..., and you can't.

yea let me break, stop, hammertime here for a second! i've met romana's tenant named ' blvd ochs'. first what a dumb ass name! so righteously i can call her a cow, right? right.

that cow was leeching in front of myg's loft with her emo boyfriend and some chinese kimono dude from nc who message me saying " kaa gaarr garrr < -- no i am saying that, but you know when someone has a retarded giggle sound? - he sounded like that to me in my mind", so he said, while i was talking about toothless people give the best blowjobs, because they wont bite, unless they use their jaws to crack macademia nuts, but in that case i was only talking about being gawdam toothless, and sucking a dick, for crying out loud!

anywaaay while i layed my knowledge about bj's on these kidz - the dude messaged me and said " SL is such a crazy place, so many weird people"!

dood, doooooooood!?! he did not know who he was talking too.

oh and the bullochs chic, had a little attitude with me. you know... it is not a good time right now, to even slightly fuck with me, and specially not coming from an OCHS!

she said some like " well you must have never had the right partner who likes his "wienie ( <--she said that ) to be biten"

whaat! what! what was she trying to say, that i can NOT give a complimentary good bj? that i am basicly the sucks?

oh no she didn't!

not including she made fun of my demo hair cake box! how dare she!

i said to her, lookey here, no man unless he is some bdsm tool want his dick biten! then she said she always bites her mans dick and takes chunks out if it.............bitch please...........

i did however reminded her that i am the bish that owns this plot... and err...it didn't impress her! dude,that heffa and company will have to buy passes to get on my shit. 50L an hour for leeching!

anyhow, i gotta go, rl is calling - but i want all of you to breakdance to this song below! crank those speakers up!

gala~