Pandemonium @ Legion

June 9, 2011 / Sunshine / Leave a comment

Today, I found another jewel of a sim via the Showcase Search feature in Second Life. Under the “Haunted” section, the first listing is Pandenomium @ Legion. The description for the listing was intriguing enough to entice me to visit. Showcase describes this location with this statement: “A cold chill whispers through the decrepit huts and sinister formations of this island, lonely paths leading deeper into the forest for those who dare”.

I hit the teleport button and I was transported, soon finding my avatar rezzing within a creepy world… the description is very accurate. I accepted the windlight change via my Phoenix viewer and the environment surrounding me became even more mysterious.

As I walked along the path and found the abandoned huts, I realized that there were eyes watching me as well. A robotic eyeball fluttered about as another larger robot with a huge eye just turned and surveyed the land. As you walk through the sim, you can imagine a breeze wrapping around you yet you’d wonder if it were only a breeze. The sounds will draw you in further as you moved into the dark forested land… what might you find around the corner?

Pandemonium @ Legion was built with wonderful detail by P4NDOR4 Quintessa. I’d recommend visiting…and immersing yourself into the darkness of this awesome build.

Out of Africa (Week of Movies, Day 4)

June 1, 2011 / Sunshine / Leave a comment

As I was reviewing possible movies for my photos, it dawned on me that one awesome sim that could be used as a backdrop is Maurice Messmer’s Cap Estel. I blogged about this beautifully created sim in March and it has been on showcase for quite some time too. Maurice always does amazing things with his sim creations. So thinking of that backdrop, the most natural selection for a movie would be “Out of Africa”…a movie released in 1985 starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. The movie is about Danish author, Karen Blixen, who moves to Africa and sets up a plantation with her husband, and then meets Robert Redford’s character and realizes her true love. The scenery is amazing in the movie as is the acting. I decided that I could produce an interpretation of a scene or two at Maurice’s sim.

After finding just the right outfit at BlakOpal Designs, I headed right over to Cap Estel to start snapping photos. Once captured, into Photoshop I went (again). I added an airplane and completed some editing to enhance the features of the photo…and voila…I was done:

See you soon,

Sunshine

Credits:

Sim Location: Cap Estel by Maurice Messmer
Outfit: Safari Expedition by BlakOpal Designs
Boots: Ziggy by Tesla
Hair: Alison by Truth in Sangria
Pose: SS-Beach Babe PR4 by [LAP] (edited a tiny bit with Animare HUD)
Texture: Heavens by Distressed Jewell
Airplane: from here

Stealing Beauty…(Week of Movies, Day 3)

June 1, 2011June 1, 2011 / Sunshine / Leave a comment

Day three of the Week of Movies theme for our Week of Pictures Flickr group… I am posting today’s photo late because I was struggling with some parts of it, but I think I’m happy now. This movie, “Stealing Beauty“, was released in 1996 and stars Liv Tyler as Lucy, a girl sent to Italy after her mom commits suicide. She is on a quest to find herself, and the scene that I chose to capture was as she was in the tub writing… The poem “I wait, I wait, so patiently. I’m quiet as a cup. I hope you will come and rattle me. Quick! Come wake me up.” says it all.

Putting the photo together presented some challenges… I had the slipper tub from Alchemy’s Attic, but needed to find a pose depicting the pose. Well I found the table writing animation from Sylva’s Animation Factory and then using Animare Pose HUD, I was able to fit into the tub somewhat naturally. I wanted hair that looked somewhat combed back and wet…and found that at Boon due to suggestions on Plurk. I created the writing plank and note along with the floor. Snapped up some photos and then off to Photoshop. Here I added the pen and the background textures. The wall and view from the window are from the Flickr stream of JoesSistah (who has so many awesome textures). After some additional layering and editing, I’m fairly happy with how this one came out. So without further ado… I present the photo for day three, inspired by the movie “Stealing Beauty”: