Oh nooo not exploring again ................

YES. As I told before Fred isn't back yet (well he wasn't when i wrote this) and all I can do is wander along Second Life. I am feeling sorry for my self, why doesn't anybody love me ................................ The place I popped up makes that feeling even grow. It's Wastelands. And it looks how it sounds. One big dump, streets got broken during the war. You see houses standing in the almighty desert now while they obviously have been builded on the sides of a mighty lake that now has been dried out. It certainly is a deserted piece of the earth. Were people go that have lost their believes in hapiness. The end of the world. Go and wander, see yourself. I love their own description tho they say it with better words then I can:

October Island Wastelands is a 1940's post-apocalyptic nuclear fallout sim. Playing old time radio horror.

Check your insurence before you go because you will never know if you will come out healthy I don't know what they keep in those barrels .....................

Take the one way ticket ...............................

Fun things to do in Second Life

OK now I am really getting weird. Altho ................... I like fishing in RL too. Yes this post is about fishing. Have you ever tried that in SL? 7seas has a great yeah what shall I call it ................. thingie for it. You get a vendor, get bait and a rod (you can even adjust it to what you are wearing at the moment really nice for fashion addicts lol). Now you are ready and here you go.................. fun part is of course to do it with others. But I like doing it on my own too. It's kindof relaxing and it is fun to search for the rare and extraordinairy fishies. Sometimes you get bikini's or whatever. Or the obvious tires. But there are a lot of fun fishies, you can wear them and even give them a name. What about a Shrimpcoctail???

7Seas-website shows their big community and there are even fishinggames and contests and so much more

I digged in my inv for a nice picture that I took at the headquarters, that's where you have to go to get all the stuff. Really you should give it a try its fun relaxing and you make new friends easily (if you like to talk about fish of course) ..................... take the rowboat and have a look.

I found a real Jewel

I found a real Jewel and I advise you to go and have a look at it quickly before it has gone again. IBM is giving people the opportunity to exhibit in SL. This time it is Bryn Oh that picked up the towel. Its the story of the Rabbicorn. As you click the teleporters you wander along the story. Static views with the story in a poem .................. it's excellent. It's marvelous it is ................ I have no words to express what kindof experience this is. You wil have to have a look at it before it has gone again. I don't know untill what date this is running.

Let the story take you ......................................

Sometimes Shopping is wandering too .............

As we have our Flickr-streaming too I always watch what other people do and see. Torley has always something new to tell and this time it was a bout a shop called "Cartoonimals'. I don't have much to say about it. It's just funny and it makes you feel like you are into a roadrunners-toon. Love the stuff. specially the funny hats and the cute slippers and pj's.

Have a look for yourself and run up to ......................................... Cartoonimals.

Maybe some Relaxing helps .................

As I wrote yesterday SL is a bit of a weird place for me atm. Fred isn't around and things have changed majorly here for me. So I need to find back my balance. Beside that I really would like to create something. My fingers are itching and I open up my photoshop a dozen times a day. But everytime I end up staring at it with no inspiration at all. Suddenly I knew what i needed to do. I needed to get some good quality relaxing time. That made me remember this place. The Inspire Space Park. It is a galaxy related sim. It makes you feel like Amstrong and aldrin a bit ................ The meditation and tai chi is such a releaf and truly relaxing. With the music on and the envirement set to midnight it's just perfect. and as I am writing this and look at myself carrying out the slow tai chi movements I feel getting some inner rest and I think it is time for me to open up the templates again ............................................

Want to have a look yourself?? Take the attached launcher ...............................

Easily Bored!!

OK I admit I am easily bored. Fred is on his yearly holiday and I am wand-ering. After been away for 2 weeks too. It's a bit strange to return. SL doesn't seem the same. I know that has other reasons too and I am not gonna forfill your search after drama here so I won't say anything about that. Knowing that I am easily bored it is strange that I always return to the same places. One of those is 'The Lost Gardens Of Apollo" This place is builded by Dane Zander. It's a rather busy visited sim but still you can wander without running into too many people. It's been here since 2005 and I think that's amazing for SL. I have so many LM in my inventory that are no longer the beautifull places that they once were. Some of them have turned into malls or ugly beaches. Don't take me wrong I love the beach. But I am just not so much into the Hawaian Beach thingie. Back to 'Apollo'.

It's a PG rated sim. And the rules are strict. I am gratefull for that because I think that provides people rest and tranquility. I visit this place since a long time, on and off, and I have never been harrased by anybody. But maybe I just scare people off ....................................

They provide guided tours in 9 different languages. I never took one, I prefere to be suprised by what I see. And there is a lot to see believe me. I turn my view to midnight and with the music on it takes you away. I love to wander here all alone. It's not a place were you need to go with your loved one ........................... it's just breathtaking on it's own special way.

Take the SLurl and visit 'The Lost Gardens Of Apollo'.....................................

Exploring Second Life

Have you ever been to the Kowloon sim???? It's like you are lost in Far East City. not that I have been ever there but still I think they look like this. Some people will say it looks like some grungy game but I don't even know those names either ....................... So it's just an honost opinioun about what I saw. The place is best to be viewed in midnight of course. Fred and I wandered along the place and ended up in playing hide and seek there and it was totally awesome. Altho I cheeted bigtime by searching for him with the map locator :)

just go and have a look it's nice to have this in SL :)

-InSync- TinCan

We finally were able to finish our own project. Because we have been busy so much working fro TLE Educational Network our building was getting less attention. And although we like to build for TLE we also like to make our own things. Frederic and I have a kindof strange way to start with new projects. We start to look around the web at RL pictures. At RL buildings that inspire us. We are sending urls over to each other and slowly it starts to grow in our heads. The -InSync- TinCan is an inspiration on a building but rather more on a tincan that is rolling on it's side. The textures make that imagination even more complete. Next to that we have been able to use animated textures aswell. They are so much fun to make. The -InSync- TinCan is a 5 floor building. The hallway has a nice dark and welcoming feeling. Next floor has a small mezanine. The third floor is dominated by the two big turning gears on both sides of the windows. They are animated and give the room something majestic. The 4th floor is almost as big as the 3rd and leads up to the roofroom. this one has two big sliding, stained glass doors/windows wich can be opened by a mouseclick. It can be your terras under the shining stars. The TinCan has all handmade textures and scripts. Due to our smart way of using textures and building skills the primusage is very low.

This is our place inworld where you even are able to rez our TinCan and all the other projects we builded sofar...........................

And we are also available on XStreet .........................

Design Tutorial: Were To Find Recourses

To make either logo's or textures for your buildings or to make any other graphic-design you will need to have recourses. First thing you will need to know is that you need to be aware of any copyinfignement. You are only allowed to use any photo's of the web if they especially give permissions to allow you to use it. There are of course also the 'payed' websites wich provide a wide range of photo's video's and vectors. But as SL ins't a very big recourse of money right away you can start to search for free photo's out there. And since I am from Holland I have a nose for free stuff. We never pay to much even worse we try to get it for free.

There are several different things you can use within either textures or logo's or your other designs. Since one year I am also trying to make a living of making webdesigns so I became a memeber of the glossy 'WebDesigner'. Each month they provide a cd with nice content you are free to use. Fonts, brushes, photo's, gradients, shapes you name it and they give it. But since not everyone is buying this I will provide some of my resources. I am a user of photoshop so that is what my resources provide me.

* One of my great providers is 'LadyOak', after you made an account (very easy) you can get the greatest shapes, brushes, excellent gradients and all kind of styles. You will need to have a look at their site because it is really great.

*Since it's beginning long time ago 'Obsedian Dawn' has become one of the biggest recourses with photoshop brushes I have ever seen. They are really great! some of them are even wonderfull and stunning.

* Because Frederic builds the most incredible buildings we often need some very specific textures. And because I don't like that fact that we would use any SL free textures (nor will I pay for anytexture) I will have to make them myself. I use various sources for those. But only completely legal ones. For the Haunted House I used colorlovers. There you can make wonderfull patterns yourself with the colors you like. it's a great recourse in anyway.

*As a LogoMaker I often need a nice font to make it complete. Sometimes it takes sometime to find the thing you are excactly looking for. 1001 Free fonts has a lot of different styles. easily downgraded by style or by name. The majority of fonts on this website are freeware, but a small percentage are shareware so if you decide to keep any shareware fonts please register them. Registration information can be found on the readme.txt file attached

Just remember in any case that there are so many recources out there but always stay within the rules and don't use things people don't want to share. It's not legal and it's no fun!!!