A Week of Movies! (Day One)

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Well, as I mentioned in a prior post, I’m in this FLICKR group called “A Week of Pictures“.  Each month, a theme is decided upon and the members all post photos for either a week or a weekend.  The theme for May is MOVIES and the group is posting their entries starting today.  Now, movies are not really my thing as I rarely see one, but I’d expect that the rest of the group will post amazing photos.  They are all very creative and capable so it is a joy to see what any one of them comes up with.

I thought I’d share my submissions here with you starting today.  My Day One photo was fun to put together.  I have had an EVE avatar from the movie “Wall.E” for ages and pull her out now and then for a zip around.  I thought … oh I can do a photo about that movie, but…I need a Wall.E too!  So off I went to search and found one that my alt, Soleil, could use.  My original intent was to do photos of the two characters in world, but I realized that the scale of the avatars was off, so I had to separate them.  So off Eve went to find a crumbling, destroyed city… yeah, that wasn’t easy but I found a backdrop on a role-play sim and then added some effects.  Then for Wall.E, it was off to New York for a city scene for him as well.  Both of these are my takes on scenes from the movie.  Then I put the two of them together for my simple version of another scene… It was definitely fun, and challenged me at the same time!

Now… what will be my next movie to re-create in some way?!?

~Sunshine

Alabama Tornado Disaster Relief Event

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Brutus Martinek, an awesome creator in Second Life (owner of Pididdle) sent out a notice a few weeks ago asking for help with a fundraiser she wanted to hold benefiting the Red Cross targeted for the victims of the Tornadoes that swept across Alabama in April. Brutus was suggesting fundraising in the form of an SL yard sale and sales by creators. Because I have RL connections to the areas that were most damaged, I wanted to help out and be involved. I knew that I could find items in my mess of an inventory, so that was one way, but I also wanted to offer something new for sale too. Now, I have never taken part in such an event as a “creator” but thought, what the heck, someone might buy one of my pieces for their SL home and that would benefit this great cause! So…I created four pieces and these are now available along with many other GREAT things at The Alabama Tornado Relief Fundraiser will begins today, May 18th, 2pm slt.

100% of proceeds will go to the mid-Alabama Red Cross Chapter. Receipts will be made public.

Along with content creators donating their items, there will also be a yard sale area, southern style too!

The stores involved include:
.synt.
Shades of October
duh!
Gnarlic Plimpton
LoQ
PIDIDDLE
*deviant girls*
Baffle!
[Acide!]
[ Lucky #7 ]
dfo!
PHRESH
iPOKE
VIVE9
Petal’s Place
* RezIpsa Loc *
WhAtEvR
La Blaq
bellballs
modd.g
A.D.D. Andel!
Rozena
Sol Existence Gallery
Bounce
GiGi’s Attic
Boutique Giada
Epic
Aphotic Gloom
BOOM
Slash Me Poses
Adore&Abhor

Take a moment and stop by the Travis sim…you never know what treasures you might find and at the same time, you will be supporting the Red Cross in their efforts to help the victims of this horrible act of nature.

Thank you ❤
Sunshine

A Week of Motion!

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If you have visited my blog before or taken the time to scroll through my Flickr photostream, you’ll be aware that Second Life photography is a fun hobby for me.  I enjoy capturing scenes, themes, creations, etc.  I am a member of this really cool Flickr group that picks a theme a month, and for one week… the members publish photos illustrating the theme.  The first month I joined on the late side and really didn’t know what to expect.  The theme was weather and in SL, that could be anything.  I was lucky to be able to come up with four photos, but I got the hang of it.  For this month, the theme has been Motion and all the members have posted some amazing photos!!  What I’ve also found in being part of this group… some of the most kind, interested, fun and complimentary people who I’ve encountered in a long time.  It has been a fun week getting to know a few better through their photos and comments.  I look forward to the months to follow for sure!

In the meantime… I decided that I’d also share my Week of Motion with you here:

Week of Motion Day One

Week of Motion Day Two

Week of Motion Day Three

Week of Motion Day Four (photo 1)

Week of Motion Day Four (photo 2)

Week of Motion Day Five

Week of Motion Day Six (part one)

Week of Motion Day Six (part two)

Week of Motion Day Seven

Week of Motion Bonus Day 🙂

Thank you to the “One Week of Pictures” Group in Flickr for accepting my request to become a member, and for all the kind, thoughtful, fun comments and faves you bestowed upon me… but mostly, thank you for sharing such inspiring photos this week.  I look forward to many more beautiful, crazy, fun, creative, amazing photos in the future months…

‘tnt (’til next time)

Sunshine