The opening was a very great success and an absolute delight to me, despite the Lindens having DB issues, overall that was probably the best event I have ever thrown at Code Red. Everyone was delightful and so sweet. This is a party I will always remember. Thanks to everyone that made this event possible. The sim was jam packed full all the time of the event, for the first 4 hours it was very hard to get in, my sim being a Mainland sim, we had 40 avatars in most of the time. The contest went awesome too, apart asset servers not collaborating at the beginning and preventing me from wearing other props, for the remaining time it went okay.

I would ♥♥♥ to thank Amanda for playing the insane tunes, you girl rawked! I would like to thank Anna Tretiak again for providing the Photostage system for the contest. I want to thank Tesla so much too for providing an extra 2000L I will give out to a 4th photo contest winner and she also gave a free pair of shooz to every invitee. I would also like to thanks Bettina Tizzy of NPIRL very warmly for featuring me on a very elogious article and for spamming her group.

Also, a very special thank you to Roxette Wise, who blew my mind by giving me a copy of a new lingerie set she made and named after my humble self! That totally blew my mind because not only she’s the first to design an outfit inspired of me and named after me, but it is also of an amazing detail and quality, it is outstanding. I saw that set and it’s an instant favourite, and it is so much me! She made it in 2 colors, Red/white and Red/black and you can get it SLURL here.

Here’s a back picture of the outfit, borrowed from Amanda’s submissions for the contest:

The contest is still accepting submissions to my Flickr fan group until tomorrow night at 9PM. Here is a lovely shot by Elease Graves that submitted this picture for the Boudoir Rouge photo contest:

Another key moment of my night was to have the rare occasion to see and chat with my dear Vint Falken, who was not in a very good mood to start with. But that filled my heart with joy when she told me that she was smiling before going to bed. I’m just so glad I could cheer her up a little, I felt really touched I could be helpful to her, her that is so dear to me. Vint, extra big huggles to you sweetheart. I’m always there if you need me. Much ♥♥♥ to you.

That was so sweet, and heartwarming to see you all there, I’m speechless of the turnout, and of the honor you all made me. You people prove to me every time how deeply caring, admirable, and good friends you are. Thanks for supporting me and my work, especially in the worse times. I feel so deeply honored to know and be cared for by people of your quality. I highly appreciate, and humbly bow to your greatness. All of you talented and lovely friends, you mean everything to me. Forever, I shall cherish you all.

♥♥♥. Much ♥♥♥.
Codie

Sunday 30th of March at 11AM SLT, I will have the pleasure to be your host for the Grand Boudoir Rouge collection opening. DJ Amanda Shinji will be entertaining our guests and many surprises and gifts will punctuate the party, it promises to be kind of epic.

There will be over 20 exclusive pieces for sale during the party. Those special pieces will be sold in one unique exemplary, with copy and mod permissions, allowing the new owner to copy it and also resize it very large. Once they are gone, they are gone. I am not going to sell other copies with the same permissions. The other copies will be of fixed sized so those exclusives are one chance to get the portrait you want and be able to resize it the way you want.

The contest should start 1h after the beginning of the party. All pieces must be submitted via Flickr and posted to the Codie’s Redhawtness fangroup. I will then choose the 3 winners and give 5000L to the first winner, and 2500L to each 2nd and 3rd winners. People will have until Monday 30th at 9PM SLT to submit their work.
During the contest, photographers should try and do quickly to allow others the chance to participate. There is no rules apart I must stay on place. You can provide clothes and dress me up like you want, or I can dress from my large inventory, or you can pose me nude. You can make me take the poses you want, as long as you can transfer it to me and I can put it in the posestand.

The Photostage photography rig is graciously provided by Ananke Media Systems, thanks to Ana Tretiak for providing the system.

A very special big shout thanks to my dear Raul Crimson, that was in charge of creating the new Boudoir Rouge decoration at Code Red. I ♥♥♥ Raul.
It was long to prepare, and I really hope you will enjoy it as much as I know I will.

Code Red Lounge SLURL

One of the most panicking idea about the new Linden Labs guidelines is that thousands of bloggers may now have to remove infringing contents from their blog. But if you own a Wordpress self-hosted blog (maybe even a Wordpress.Com blog), NO NOT PANIC! Ubernyms is a very slick way of mass rewriting your blog without sweat.

Legal things better left to lawyers as far as I’m concerned, this article is NOT about HOW to make your blog compliant to the new policy. IANAL and I have no idea yet of all the legal implications. This article will focus on the technical aspect of installing Ubernyms and not on the legal aspects. For that you will have to read Linden Lab’s policies throughly, personally I don’t even know how it will affect bloggers. LL ain’t very good at communicating important decisions like that anyways, but that is another subject completely.

NOTE: Ubernyms may not be compatible with all Wordpress plugins. I heard it conflicted with other plugins. I CANNOT offer support for any aspect of it, as I do not develop Ubernyms. Consider this a primer to the matter, no more.

STEP 1 : Installing Ubernyms

This is the most tricky part, since the installation can be different on one host or another. So I cannot explain all of it, but will try to give it a shot.

Basically installation consists of:

1. Download Ubernyms for the right version of Wordpress
2. Put that .ZIP file into your /wp-content/plugins directory and unzip it on the server OR unzip the file locally and put the folder and all of it’s content in the /wp-content/plugins/ directory through FTP
3. Activate the plugin in your Plugins section of your Wordpress blog administration panel
4. INSTALL SignpostMarv Ubernym patch that fixes a bug with the HTML characters and UTF-8/accented characters. Go there and download the ubernyms-2.7.php.txt file and rename it to ubernyms.php. Then upload it via FTP in the Ubernyms plugin directory, and overwrite the old one.

STEP 2 : Configuring Ubernyms

Once installed, Ubernyms is delicious cake. And you must eat it.

1. Go into the Plugins section, and click on Ubernyms Configuration
2. Leave the upper configuration as is, it is usually defaulting a decent configuration
3. What is of utter interest for this case is the Replace Text option. Take a free slot under “Add new acronyms” and select Replace Text.
4. Enter a term in the Text field, and the replacement term in Definition

For example, let’s say that you want to replace the acronym “SL” for “SL ™”, you would have to put “SL” in the Text field and “SL ™” in the Description field (you should use the HTML code for the trademark sign in this case). SignpostMarv issued a patch fixing a problem with this, thanks to him for the leet patchage!

This plugin can replace any expression in your entire blog in a second, not only for replacements, you can link to internal or external URLs, replace acronyms by full length expressions, and so on. It’s the blogger’s best friend, you can take my word on that.

Hope this will calm down some lovely people I know that got very stressed up with their blog infringing on Linden Labs trademarks, thinking it would be required to correct every article posted by hand. This plugin removes much of the job. It still needs to be proven if it is really necessary. <3

Theres a lot of rambling going on about the Lindens enforcing their trademarks. I won’t get in the hype before having all the details, but let’s say it’s nearly impossible to enforce now that it’s spread everywhere. I won’t do like my crazy adorable GF Rheta Shan and purge my blog of every mention of the trademarks. Tho, that was insanely funny, I will wait for a Cease & Desist letter to put on my wall before I do that.

To add more humorous flavor to the debate, let me give you a tweaked up version of my favorite song, by Crass. The original is called “Do they owe us a living?” and my version is called “Do they owe us a SL?”. So put the pitchforks down and cheer up for a bit.

Original song here.

Original lyrics here.

DO THEY OWE US A SL?

Fuck the corporate minded, here’s something I want to say,
About the state of SL, the way it treats us today.
Inworld they give you shit, drop you in the pit,
You try, you try, you try to login, but you can’t because they’ve fucked you about.
Then you’re a prime example of how they must not be,
This is just a sample of what they’ve done to you and me.

Do they owe us a SL?
Of course they do, of course they do.
Owe us a SL?
Of course they do, of course they do.
Owe us a SL?
OF COURSE THEY FUCKING DO.

Don’t want me anymore, cos I threw it on the floor.
Used to call me sweet thing, I’m nobody’s plaything,
And now that I am different, ‘d ♥♥♥ to bust my head,
You’d ♥♥♥ to see me logout, ‘d ♥♥♥ to see me dead.

Do they owe us a SL?
Of course they do, of course they do.
Owe us a SL?
Of course they do, of course they do.
Owe us a SL?
OF COURSE THEY FUCKING DO.

The SL that is owed to me I’m never going to get,
They’ve buggered this brave new world up, up to their necks in dept.
They’d give you a banhammer for something you ain’t done,
They’ll make you an epitomy of everything that’s wrong.

Do they owe us a SL?
Of course they do, of course they do.
Owe us a SL?
Of course they do, of course they do.
Owe us a SL?
OF COURSE THEY FUCKING DO.

Don’t take any notice of what the public think,
They’re so hyped up with WoW., they just don’t want to think.
They’ll use you as a target for demands and for advice,
When you don’t want to hear it they’ll say you’re broadly offensive.

Do they owe us a SL?
Of course they do, of course they do.
Owe us a SL?
Of course they do, of course they do.
Owe us a SL?
OF COURSE THEY FUCKING DO.

——————–

Sorry for that lame attempt at humor but I couldn’t resist. It does share a part of truth, toward the fact that LL may be a business, which I have nothing against, we still are investors and citizens of this brave new world. I have a very high level of tolerance usually and I especially feel for the Lindens, as I do practically the same job. But sometimes, the administrative decisions are taken without consideration of the backlash effects on our population. As much as I’m a Linden fangirl, some of those decisions are really hard to backup and swallow. Some of us, even the more moderate of SLitizens, will sometimes need to vent it out a little. And I prefer doing it the smart ass sarcastic way. *smiles*

I’m very proud to announce the grand opening of the Boudoir Rouge exposition at Code Red Gallery, Sunday March 30th at 11AM SLT. Amanda Shinji will DJ to rock the place and many little activities and prizes and surprises will be offered during the party.

To celebrate the opening of that most special of series, I had the idea of playing role inversion. On that day, I will be available for a straight 3h, standing on a posestand and available to anyone as a model. I will provide poses, dress up like you want for the shot, you will be the photographer and I will be your piece of clay.

You will then be able to post the pictures into a special Flickr group. I will select 3 winners, first winner will get L$5000 and second/third winners will get L$2500 each.

Theme of the night: red lingerie. Guys can come in red boxers. Lingerie is not mandatory, if your uncomfortable to hang in your undies, wear something red.

The event will be happening at Code Red Lounge / Gallery. Bring your friends!

I wish I could do a real movie out of this. But now that I have your attention, I thought you could have fun watching this little 2 minutes video of yours truely photoshopping a Boudoir Rouge series picture, specifically a picture of Alidar Moxie.

It’s 1h of work compressed into a 2 minutes clip. Original was about 1,6 gigs.

Enjoy!

What an awesome time I had at SL4B last year. It’s where I met some awesome people like Stephen Venkman and his lovely wife Kimberly Mirabeau, among a ton of other interesting characters. It’s where I created my Art Monolith, and this was one of the most memorable time I ever had in SL.

Now, lovely great lady of arts Shoshana Epsilon, which is also the Art Director for SL5B, asked me if I could help organizing and selecting artists for this year’s SecondLife Birthday, and of course I gladly accepted.

Read more on SL5B website

Yes, as sad as it makes me, I must finish this series one day. So, the official list on display on the official Boudoir Rouge page is now the final list, and I won’t add anymore names to it. I am STILL keeping a secret reserve list but I cannot guarantee any of them to get in the series, as my schedule is getting absolutely insane.

So, if I still know how to count, there is still 31 women which are still to be photographed, and their processed shot included in the regular Boudoir Rouge series. About half of them already accepted my invitation. But I still didn’t get any official response from a few of them, so I am reposting that part of the “unanswered” list.

• Tateru Nino
• Aimee Weber
• Jennyfur Peregrine
• Tyffany Flintoff
• Etain Peregrine
• Amelia Book
• Sue Stonebender
• Jade Lily
• Torley Linden (female, of course)
• Saeya Nyanda
• Roisin Hotaling
• Catherine Omega
• Mia Linden
• Kate Linden
• Nethermind Bliss

If you know those people, and think they are not aware they are targeted for the Boudoir Series, feel free to mention it to them. But no pressure! This series has been entirely based on the fact those girls were cordially invited suiting to their comfort. But also by the fact that they read it somewhere and all came to me to schedule their shoot by themselves.

I will STILL take requests for an eventual second series of Boudoir Rouge, but I CANNOT GUARANTEE anyone being in there, or even me making a second series. This project have been intensive, high on emotion and time consuming. But believe me, I regret nothing. It gave me the exceptional opportunity to meet some of the most brilliant, sweetest and loveliest women in SecondLife, and for that I will be eternally grateful to them.

But, all delightful things must have an end, to my great sadness. To all women avatars of SecondLife, to those who I couldn’t include of the series because of the lack of time and energy, I salute you all. You would ALL have deserved a place in my humble series, because you are all outstanding human beings.

With all my ♥♥♥, and a bit of sadness in my heart, I therefore declare the Boudoir Rouge series will be terminated and put to an end as soon as the remaining women on the official Boudoir Rouge hitlist get their photoshoot and their picture published.

Very soon, I will announce the official launch of the Boudoir Rouge series at Code Red Lounge, and it will be punctuated with lots of fun things and activities. Stay tuned!

Sincerely yours.

♥♥♥,

Codie

You read well. According to the latest issue of The Avastar, matching with International Women’s Day on the 8th of March, I am SecondLife’s Top Sweetie, at least according to the ordering. In any order, I am named in the Top 10 most influential girl in SecondLife. A quite flattering denomination really, being sided in that Top 10 with people like Tateru Nino, Callie Cline, Nebulosus Severine and even Anshe Chung. ♥♥♥ or hate her she is still the biggest businesswomen in SL. Again, very honored, and very flattered, even if I don’t think I’m all that sugarcoated.

But as I read the article, something slightly shocked me. I hate pointing fingers or doing personal attacks, it’s not my style. And anyways, it acted as a wake up call because she’s probably not the only one to think like that. Again maybe it’s me that is retrograde but I jumped 3 feet high. Again I won’t name anyone, just read the article and see for yourself.

Here is a citation:

“I think a man is better in a powerful position like boss of a company or in politics. I think a great woman knows how to stand behind her man and raise him up when needed.”

Sorry. Whuuuuuuut? She didn’t say what I think she did, did she? Am I stuck in the 70s or is she stuck in the 40s? Believe me I’m no radical feminist, but I have been raised by a moderate feminist, and one thing my mom made me aspire to was gender equality. And, just a thought like that, does a gay women need to follow her man too?

I mean…Is it just me, or does anyone else finds that idea morally wrong and objectionable? Did the women fought that hard for equal rights (which we all know is far from the case) so that some women today take all of this for granted and decides to live in the past? Is it somewhat normal that I can’t seem to agree with that statement?

Discuss.

How cute is that. How never dreamed of riding a bubble? Well this is the perfect occasion as Jacek Antonelli AKA Cuddlefish launches her new product, the Bubble Ride, a clear bubble vehicle launcher. You herd right! One touch on the bubble launcher and it pops you a new bubble, you click on the bubble and you ride it! You pretty much go with the wind but the bubble has controls that allows you to change direction and go upwards/downwards. Of course it doesn’t turn on a dime but hey! It’s awesome and it’s beautiful and not possible in real life. And it’s awesome fun.

Click here for more information on the event, straight from Cuddlefish Junction webpage.

Furthermore, as of sheer vanity, just check who’s on this Cuddlefish Junction poster, floating delightfully. I is purring in delight. ^^

(image borrowed shamelessly from Cuddlefish Junction website but I’m sure Momma Cuddlefish will forgive me (gropes! gropes!)