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Maureen Boccaccio
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Join date: 28 Feb 2008
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09-19-2009 19:48
That is how I found Total Betty, by something you posted. I'd never heard of them before and now, have them in my 'Landmarks visited often' file. Thank you for the sales and places you let us know about, Lil. I love when Lil fills us in on the good stuff we can find.  |
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Maureen Boccaccio
TWJKFA
Join date: 28 Feb 2008
Posts: 14,484
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09-19-2009 19:49
Ahhh - glad to see most folks are still here. RL has been crazy. It looks like I missed a lot. I would have enjoyed the wearing gray (or grey) day. Oh well . . . I have not read the four days of thread I missed other than in patches. I hope everyone is at peace and well. Now I'm off to try my idea of building SL models for RL paintings. "See" you in group IM.  *waves to Weston, then scritches him behind his puppy ears* Good to see you. Hope your idea works out! Sounds very interesting. |
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Maureen Boccaccio
TWJKFA
Join date: 28 Feb 2008
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09-19-2009 19:50
 Lexxi....you take such amazing pics. Thank you for sharing them with us. |
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Maureen Boccaccio
TWJKFA
Join date: 28 Feb 2008
Posts: 14,484
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09-19-2009 19:50
 Arrrrrr!! Ye look to be the rose among the thorns, me hearty. |
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Maureen Boccaccio
TWJKFA
Join date: 28 Feb 2008
Posts: 14,484
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09-19-2009 19:51
Cool, Crazod - thanks! |
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Maureen Boccaccio
TWJKFA
Join date: 28 Feb 2008
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09-19-2009 19:53
Can you believe they did not set the pose balls to fit us? Like any one cares if the bride and groom match up   We cut loose on the dance floor though.   That, thankfully, is not the bride and groom behind us. =>.<= Mistress gave the bride away. She's a RL friend of ours. I kept crashing so didn't get any shots during the ceremony. =V.V=  Oh, this looks as if it was a wonderful and very special event. You both look gorgeous. *smiles* |
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Kaimi Kyomoon
Kah-EE-mee
Join date: 30 Nov 2006
Posts: 5,664
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09-19-2009 21:42
 It was a blast! The weather was perfect; sunny; about 70-75 degrees (F), not humid...and just the right number of visitors wandering through the build. Listened to some great musicians, did some shopping, saw some jousting, and greatly enjoyed the costumes many people were wearing today. _____________________
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Weston Graves
Werebeagle
Join date: 24 Mar 2007
Posts: 2,059
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09-19-2009 23:45
It was a blast! The weather was perfect; sunny; about 70-75 degrees (F), not humid...and just the right number of visitors wandering through the build. Listened to some great musicians, did some shopping, saw some jousting, and greatly enjoyed the costumes many people were wearing today. Huzzah! (Through the "build" you say?) |
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Weston Graves
Werebeagle
Join date: 24 Mar 2007
Posts: 2,059
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09-20-2009 00:36
[Long geeky post warning in effect until further notice.]
I'm finally done for now at puttering with using SL as a sketch pad for an illustration. I wanted to do a traditional space art piece, and I didn't want to do it completely in a 3d rendering program. I wanted to have a physical painting to show after it's done. I asked a few questions with the grad students and profs in the astronomy department at Purgatory U where I work. Some of them are researching brown dwarfs or failed stars, objects 14 or more times the size of Jupiter, massive enough to glow dimly with their own internal heat, but not massive enough to have started the nuclear fusion to become a true star. Though I know they form out of accretion discs, I asked the astronomy folks if these objects could have more delicate rings like those of Saturn, and if so could the rings be lit by the dim glow from the *inside* (which I think would look pretty cool if seen from a nearby planet or orbiting moon). I was answered by some humming and hawing which I took to mean yes. Knowing rings are pretty hard to draw precisely (most space artists have used plastic oval templates in the past), I thought Second Life would be an easy 3D program to model the brown dwarf and rings and quickly get an idea of how it might look. I could then blow up the final snapshot using software called Poster and transfer it to the illustration board - no giant plastic templates or arcane oval compass contraptions required.  The actual illustration will have much much more detail. This is just a small quick sketch, but I think the idea is going to work. I'll have to go back and copy the rings and give the the copies a 7 degree rotation to help smooth out the too obvious little flat sides that make up the rings. Cylinders and discs in SL are really 24 sided polygons, and it shows, but I think I can work around that. The point of this long boring geeky post is that, besides being a 3D virtual community, chat room, RP game, dating service, sexual fantasy service, social experiment, performance venue, virtual art medium, and popular thesis subject, Second Life may have lots of other uses too! [Long geeky post warning expired.] |
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23rdDjin Negulesco
Unfinished Build Master
Join date: 30 May 2007
Posts: 661
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09-20-2009 00:44
Mistress gave the bride away. She's a RL friend of ours. I kept crashing so didn't get any shots during the ceremony. =V.V= oh? a wedding crasher, eh... (congratuSLations...) _____________________
"What am I in the eyes of most people--a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person--somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then--even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart." -Vincent van Gogh
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Pserendipity Daniels
Assume sarcasm as default
Join date: 21 Dec 2006
Posts: 8,839
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09-20-2009 00:56
While we were waiting for the wedding to start (wow, that's a lot of 'w' words) I took the opportunity to get in a snapshot of Clover and I in some spiffy duds Pep ( . . . nor would I want to. )_____________________
Hypocrite lecteur, — mon semblable, — mon frère!
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Pserendipity Daniels
Assume sarcasm as default
Join date: 21 Dec 2006
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09-20-2009 00:58
We cut loose on the dance floor though. That, thankfully, is not the bride and groom behind us. =>.<= Pep (Or is a proverbial hedge involved?) _____________________
Hypocrite lecteur, — mon semblable, — mon frère!
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Pserendipity Daniels
Assume sarcasm as default
Join date: 21 Dec 2006
Posts: 8,839
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09-20-2009 00:59
Mistress gave the bride away. She's a RL friend of ours. I kept crashing so didn't get any shots during the ceremony. =V.V= Pep (Heads you lose. )_____________________
Hypocrite lecteur, — mon semblable, — mon frère!
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Pserendipity Daniels
Assume sarcasm as default
Join date: 21 Dec 2006
Posts: 8,839
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09-20-2009 01:02
 Pep (It looks like you have nipples on them.  )_____________________
Hypocrite lecteur, — mon semblable, — mon frère!
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3Ring Binder
always smile
Join date: 8 Mar 2007
Posts: 15,028
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09-20-2009 02:42
The point of this long boring geeky post is that, besides being a 3D virtual community, chat room, RP game, dating service, sexual fantasy service, social experiment, performance venue, virtual art medium, and popular thesis subject, Second Life may have lots of other uses too! /me agrees. and i can't wait to see the finished product. sounds cool! _____________________
it was fun while it lasted.
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3Ring Binder
always smile
Join date: 8 Mar 2007
Posts: 15,028
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09-20-2009 02:49
Well, ye lads and lasses, fare thee well. I'm off to the Maryland Renaissance Festival for the day! i remember going to the renaissance faire once. a few memories stand out from it, including watching ppl in costume sit at a super loooooooooong table and eating a meal 'family style', those people gnawing on whole turkey legs and eating moist foods with no utensils (it was pretty sloppy looking), artichokes dipped in mayonnaise, and getting food poisoning. oh, and some sort of parade like ceremony in which "the queen" was carried in some sort of traveling basket to the meal table,and peasant type folk praising her and bowing before her as she went by. i did not bow. she was not my queen. LOL _____________________
it was fun while it lasted.
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3Ring Binder
always smile
Join date: 8 Mar 2007
Posts: 15,028
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09-20-2009 02:51
I do so because many ladies in this thread like the bargains I find. I get nothing from it other than the satisfaction of helping someone maybe find something they like for free or cheap. Friends share fun stuff that they think someone else might like. i love your updates on sales and just other good finds in general. _____________________
it was fun while it lasted.
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3Ring Binder
always smile
Join date: 8 Mar 2007
Posts: 15,028
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09-20-2009 02:53
Feeling overall a bit grey  really pretty. reminds me of a b&w photo that someone added color to only select parts. _____________________
it was fun while it lasted.
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3Ring Binder
always smile
Join date: 8 Mar 2007
Posts: 15,028
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09-20-2009 02:56
Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day All!  /me waits for Johnny Depp to enter the scene... nice shot, Elora. you look totally the kyoot. .oO(wanted to say something about wooden peg legs and booty, but couldn't quite form the phrase at this late/early hour...) _____________________
it was fun while it lasted.
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3Ring Binder
always smile
Join date: 8 Mar 2007
Posts: 15,028
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09-20-2009 03:06
Hugs. It's getting yourself back that's important. yes. yesterday, i realized how i've been robbed of myself. i had no idea how low my stbx would stoop. it makes me question my entire marriage from the git-go and how i was fraudulently mislead. i have been so naive. i may never trust another soul on this earth again. it has me questioning everything. _____________________
it was fun while it lasted.
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Rioko Bamaisin
Unstable Princess
Join date: 16 Aug 2007
Posts: 4,668
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09-20-2009 03:45
Pep,didn't your mother ever teach you if you can't say something nice say nothing at all? Why are you so bent on hurting people's feelings? Don't make me glare. I feel sick and don't have it in me this morning.
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3Ring Binder
always smile
Join date: 8 Mar 2007
Posts: 15,028
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09-20-2009 04:22
super cool! and......... helloooooooooooooooo Johnny! we've been waiting for you. _____________________
it was fun while it lasted.
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3Ring Binder
always smile
Join date: 8 Mar 2007
Posts: 15,028
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09-20-2009 04:22
Pep,didn't your mother ever teach you if you can't say something nice say nothing at all? Why are you so bent on hurting people's feelings? Don't make me glare. I feel sick and don't have it in me this morning.  i hope you feel better soon, Rio._____________________
it was fun while it lasted.
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3Ring Binder
always smile
Join date: 8 Mar 2007
Posts: 15,028
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09-20-2009 04:26
all the wedding pics were great, but i especially love this pic. i can feel the love. _____________________
it was fun while it lasted.
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Joshooah Lovenkraft
Just Joshin'
Join date: 28 Dec 2007
Posts: 1,376
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09-20-2009 07:19
[Long geeky post warning in effect until further notice.] I'm finally done for now at puttering with using SL as a sketch pad for an illustration. I wanted to do a traditional space art piece, and I didn't want to do it completely in a 3d rendering program. I wanted to have a physical painting to show after it's done. I asked a few questions with the grad students and profs in the astronomy department at Purgatory U where I work. Some of them are researching brown dwarfs or failed stars, objects 14 or more times the size of Jupiter, massive enough to glow dimly with their own internal heat, but not massive enough to have started the nuclear fusion to become a true star. Though I know they form out of accretion discs, I asked the astronomy folks if these objects could have more delicate rings like those of Saturn, and if so could the rings be lit by the dim glow from the *inside* (which I think would look pretty cool if seen from a nearby planet or orbiting moon). I was answered by some humming and hawing which I took to mean yes. Knowing rings are pretty hard to draw precisely (most space artists have used plastic oval templates in the past), I thought Second Life would be an easy 3D program to model the brown dwarf and rings and quickly get an idea of how it might look. I could then blow up the final snapshot using software called Poster and transfer it to the illustration board - no giant plastic templates or arcane oval compass contraptions required. The actual illustration will have much much more detail. This is just a small quick sketch, but I think the idea is going to work. I'll have to go back and copy the rings and give the the copies a 7 degree rotation to help smooth out the too obvious little flat sides that make up the rings. Cylinders and discs in SL are really 24 sided polygons, and it shows, but I think I can work around that. The point of this long boring geeky post is that, besides being a 3D virtual community, chat room, RP game, dating service, sexual fantasy service, social experiment, performance venue, virtual art medium, and popular thesis subject, Second Life may have lots of other uses too! [Long geeky post warning expired.] The melding of technology and art has always been a fascinating subject for me. I love seeing how people are creative with the use of new mediums to pursue their craft. Nifty explanation of the process you're undertaking Weston and looking forward to seeing how it progresses! _____________________
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