Friendly Greetings from Torley's Tiny Bunneh Heaven!

Everybody in SL knows Torley Linden. He who loves pink and green watermelon-y goodness. I had never been to his sim Here Island, and thought it'd be fun. At first I had my own little raincloud, but it soon went away...
Due to the sheer crazy fun of the place!Watermelon monster! YESH!Even the water was filled with things to see...And just when I thought I had found tiny bunny heaven...I REALLY found tiny bunny heaven!!!!

Um...

I can assure you that I am unable to walk on the walls, and my tiny bunny AV isn't wearing suction cups on its feet.

I have no idea how this happened...

Learning is Fun in Raglan

Heading over to Raglan U. for the second part of the machinima class in preparation for the big Raglan Machinima Festival in February...
Daveypup Nirvpaw's goal today was to teach us about basic editing in Movie Maker (since it's free and most of us have it anyway)...
Looking at my fellow tinies in attendance was a lot of fun too. I noticed Bith's rings on her horns. Very chic! I had the pleasure of meeting Bith in RL at the Baltimore Comic Con recently. She was there with her husband, who is an artist, and both of them were very nice!
I noticed zoe Reymont's toilet paper roll and wondered what she had been up to...
And Teal, well...I am probably not going to post it as it was just a godawful test, but my practice machinima that I made was called "Bloodsucking Squirrel." Yup.

Elle in Blue Mars: Golfing & Shade City

Was exploring Blue Mars today and well, let's just say that I need to practice my golf swing...
I also stopped by Shade City and walked around...I don't know if the sky above the main area is really like this or this was just my computer on the blink, but I like it...

Elle in Blue Mars: Grid Rock & Soswaewon Garden

With the latest version of Blue Mars the other day, new areas were added like Grid Rock City...I wandered through the landscape...
And admired the structures. I love when places are brand-spanking new...
Such as another new area: Soswaewon Garden. I can't wait to explore this more. Remember, you're seeing this on my low budget graphic card so what I'm seeing's much rougher, but gives you an idea for folks with older PCs like mine. For those of you with better ones, your mileage will vary!

Raglan Gearing Up for the Machinima Festival

I was so busy groaning about prim feet that I totally forgot to talk about a recent class that I attended in Raglan recently. Tinies (and some biggies) came out to the Raglan U. platform to learn more about using Fraps and making machinima. Daveypup Nirvpaw was brave enough to get us new tiny machinimamakers started in preparation for the Raglan Machinima Festival in February that Chaffro announced. As you can see here, some of us (TEAL) came ready for our close up!

Adventures with Prim Feet aka Die Prim Feet DIE

I have a weakness for beautiful shoes and these were no exception, except for the fact that when I tried them on, they were shoes with prim feet. Now, I have avoided prim feet and shoes with them like the plague, but I was like "Oh well, they're nice shoes, I'll go for it." Don't mind my pose stand (which sinks my toes into it), I just wanted to fit them well and this is the basic skin color for them... I checked the options and there was not a way for me to easily do the color match way of tinting one's feet that I prefer, so I had to toggle dark, light and RGB +/- buttons. To get anything close to my skin color took the following clicks: 24 dark, 8 red+, and 1 blue + and even then it wasn't quite right as my skin has this lovely luminous realistic look that contrasted with the flat look of the feet...
And I'm not even going to talk about the fact that the shoes were no mod with no EZ sizing or way to adjust those cool black bands. Arrrrrrgh...I had to toss them back into my inventory as they're unusable to me. Well, I really did try. Damn! OK, my fashion moment is over, back to exploring and such.

Elle in Blue Mars: Meet & Greet in Beach City

I heard about the Meet & Greet in Blue Mars today and headed over to Beach City. One thing I have noticed about being in beta is that we tend to be pretty spread out under normal circumstances, so I thought it'd be interesting to see what it was like with a bunch of us together at one time. Glenn Sanders, Avatar Reality's Community Director (to my right in the T with the design), was on hand to answer questions...
And as you can see, we had a lot of them! I'll admit that I hope the chat bubbles will be optional as you can see how confusing it can be in crowds. It was good to see another familiar face in there, and this time it was SL's NPIRL arts maven Bettina Tizzy, who is highlighted on my right...Some things discussed was Blue Mars time being Hawaii Standard Time, which is GMT-10 (and where Avatar Reality is based), name tags, fps rates and Blue Mars as a platform for developers. Bettina said something that struck me as hilarious. Someone said how they would IM her inworld (meaning SL), and she said "We ARE inworld!" One of the funniest things was something we did on a whim. Group hug everybody!

Another Year with Phin!

Phin and I have been together ever since he stumbled out of my shop two years ago. We also celebrate being partnered inworld for a year today as well. We went back to the SL Botanical Gardens where we had our first long chat two years ago and were glad to see the chairs were still there. There's a comfort in familiarity, isn't there? Even inworld...
He is very funny, smart and sweet and has become a great friend to me in both lives. Thanks Phin...You are my favorite squirrel...

No Dirndl Dry Cleaning

As we sat on the wall talking in Steeltopia, I joked with Lunar that I could "accidentally" knock him backwards into the bay. He said that if that happened he would be taking me with him. The suspicious look on his face is priceless. After all, tiny ferret me did bite the emperor of Steeltopia earlier.

But mess up my dirndl (I'm dressed for Steelhead's Oktoberfest celebration)? No way!

Tinies Jousting Video

A fun video from Chaffro made for the Lone Star Ranch/Equus as a promo for their jousting system. You can find me around 0:12...

Visiting Syncretia

I am not usually one to pay attention to the main page of my viewer (I have Emerald), but an image on it caught my eye and I followed it to the Syncretia sim...
Owned by NPIRL blogger and SL art maven Alpha Auer, Syncretia is an island of art installations...Such as this one...I recognized Truthseeker Young's "The Singularapture is Near" installation that was originally in the Rezzable Garden of NPIRL Delights...
Hey, where's my treat?!