CONTEST CLOSED! It took about 20 minutes to giveaway the 10 FilterCams. Thank you to all the winners and hope you enjoy your FilterCam!

To introduce my new FilterCam product to the public, I am pleased to offer 10 full version upgradable copies of FilterCam 1.02 to the FIRST 10 PEOPLE to send me a notecard inworld. I will account the 10 first by my email logs.

The notecard must be entitled “FilterCam Giveaway” and must contain a short paragraph on what use you will have for it. Ex. Shoot my next machinima, take artistic nude pictures, make a comic book, etc… Send that notecard to CodeBastard Redgrave inworld and I will send the 10 FilterCam units tonight to the lucky winners.

As a winner you are bound to nothing, it’s a gift. Of course, I would totally appreciate to see your creations in the FilterCam Flickr group. The giveaway version is the same as the main version, so you will be able to have all the upgrades and support.

FilterCam is detailed at 1000L so this is a 10K total giveaway.

First come first served!

I need to post positive before going on a rambling about the OpenSpace issue, so I thought I would share something pretty and fun to calm down. Lately I was hanging with Gabby at our new (soon to be closed) little asian inspired retreat we just built, and I fiddled a few fun Windlight settings and I thought I would share them with you lovelies.

Those are instructions for SecondLife viewer on Vista. Location may differ on Macs, Linux and WinXP

1. Download Rouge_Windlight.zip
2. Unzip this ZIP archive directly in:
   C:\Program Files (x86)\SecondLife\app_settings\windlight\skies
3. Restart SecondLife

Of course I won’t explain how to select them from the Windlight menus, this is pretty standard stuff.

I recommend setting your water to red, black or even white for super cool reflection effects!

Here are a few samples:

Rouge 1

Rouge 2

Rouge 3

Rouge 4

Rouge 5

Rouge 6

Since I got my new sim Rouge up and running, I am immediately selling all my remaining mainland on the Strata mainland sim. I have approximately 6000sqm for sale at discount price. Most of it is splitted in 512 right now but I will offer more discount if you want to buy a bigger parcel. There’s also the old Code Red parcel, 5696sqm, odd shape but contiguous.

Please DO NOT hesitate to contact me inworld if you want to negociate, or buy in volume. I will gladly accept a reasonable offer. It really need it to go now, because I can really use that tiers money to pay for Rouge instead.

SLURLS to the parcels for sale:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Strata/241/154/51

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Strata/238/59/51

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Strata/51/41/41

It is with a little pinch in the heart that I did a Return All Objects on the Code Red parcel, as it is more than one year of epic festive awesomeness that goes with this build. So many amazing things happened there, so many amazing people I had the chance to meet there, so many kisses I gave. It’s where Stephen Venkman met his lovely Kimberly Mirabeau. It’s there Marquez Tone played his last set inworld. It’s there I intronized Boudoir Rouge. It’s there I met Gabby for the first time. It’s there I met most of my marvelous anf loyal friends that surrounded my dream life for over a year and a half. It’s there I made love a thousand times, if this pixelized ground could just speak, It would tell so many incredible tales you could not even imagine.

A moment of silence please.

*lowers my head and thinks for a while of the good old times being*

Of course, if I didn’t own the most outstanding sim on the grid, Rouge, I would totally be whining right now. I am not because Rouge holds a hope for a better future, not for myself, for that community I worship and love so much. Rouge is my heart. I want you to take it, to make it your own, to use it for community events, to help it grow as a meeting point, a hangout, a home. I want you sweethearts to live Rouge.

Come gather and catch fishies and have a laugh.  Picnic on Mount Assmore. Make love on every corner of the sim. Dance all day and night with your loved ones. We will organize many regular activities, parties, scavenger hunts, and community events. But I need you lovelies to tell me what I can do to make you feel at home.

Rouge is love. My love for you. Please accept it as a small token of my admiration for you all.

I told you people I would not bother you before crossing another significant milestone on Flickr. The last one was 50K, and now I crossed 75000 views. Thanks to all the people that came to visit my Flickr stream, leaving all of those lovely comments (even if I admit I completely lost track over the replies). Hopefully, I can create more work of love for you sweet people and cross the 100K barrier in no time!

Oh can I dream?

Some people have asked us if Rouge is accessible to group only, I want to state clearly that it is NOT the case. Rouge is completely OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, for anyone that wishes to visit. It is my house, and you are all very welcome to come in there, chill, relax, use the bubble rides and admire the landscape.

Also, I will add more stuff so you can gather and have fun together at Rouge, from 7seas fishing server, to couple poseballs and loungers in numerous secret spots. Hike up the giant butt, take pictures, shop, dance, have fun. I wanted this place created for you all to enjoy. So get your ass there and enjoy it.

Click here to teleport to Rouge right now

Gawd what a party. An incredible night for me and I hope for every one of the 750 unique visitors that hit the Rouge sim in the 15h of partying. I can say that an impressive part of SecondLife’s who’s who got in there that night. I had so many nice and enriching conversations, met many awesome people I never had the chance to meet before, it was simply magical for me.

Of course, after such an epic but rushed event (it was the last moment I could organize such a huge event before vacations), I wanted to give a very warm thank you to everyone that helped organizing the event and everyone that passed by, sometimes up to 4 or 5 times in the night. That was amazing. Thanks to you all from the bottom of my heart, I had the most fun I had in SL in months.

Special super thanks to all the DJs from the digital Digital Nation guys, Nexeus Fatale, Eris Alexander, Amanda Shinji, Nephie Eerie, DJ Azu, you guys were all incredible. And thanks a whole lot to my lovely hosts Queen Coronet and LadyArwen Demina, you girls were amazing.

Thanks to Gabby Panacek my lovely executive assistant for helping to promote the event. Thanks to Ryker Beck for making that awesome portrait of Gabby and Marx for me, I’m still in awe. It’s simply gorgeously beautiful. Thanks to Mairead Fitzgerald for making that beautiful Rouge gown she gave away for free through the night. It’s now on sale at Simply Silks. Thanks to Callie Cline for the nice freebies and for making it so much fun. Thanks to Gorgeous from Juicy for the lovely shooz I gave away. Thanks to Roxette Wise for giving over 60 lovely outfits. Thanks to Alexx Markova for making another 40 pose set for Boudoir Rouge and to celebrate the sim opening. Thanks to Jacek Antonelli for the Rouge Bubble Ride that is already placed on the sim so you can enjoy very special bubble rides. Thanks to Celebrity for letting me hump her, that was delicious.

Thanks to every blogger and journalist that encouraged and promoted the event, and covered the event after it ended. We had amazing press coverage, hundreds of awesome artsy pictures, even 7 videos made during the night. All if this is covered in the updated press review post.

Again, of course I want to state I am immensely grateful to Eshi Otawara for making my dream come true, and to Fallon Kazan for generously donating this sim.

Thanks to Osiris, Jun, Washu, Damien, Marx, Neysa, Erotica, Nadine, Krys, Stephen, Sho, Kimmy, geez I could not possibly thank everyone individually that helped in a way or another, but I thank you all for being such wonderful lovelies with me. I surely don’t deserve so much sweetness, but know that I am blissful, grateful, humbled and honored of it all. Each and every day you people proves me that theres some hope for a better humanity, compassion, generosity and beauty.

I love you all to tiny little bits.

Your red host, Codie

To celebrate the opening of my new Rouge sim, I commissioned my good old pal Alexx Markova for the third of the Boudoir Rouge posesets, containing 40 new poses, labeled Boudoir Rouge Poseset #3. Also, I decided to make a Boudoir Rouge Fatpack containing the 3 released posesets, for a total to 120 poses at a discount price.

All the Boudoir Rouge posesets are available at the new Rouge Boutique, click here to teleport directly to the store.

Until 5AM SLT so come and enjoy! It’s already celebrated like the biggest party of the year! XD You people are amazing I love you all so fucking much. Now get your ass in here and PARTY with us! XD

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rouge/177/32/22

Here is a quick press review of everything I could find for about the Rouge sim opening, press conference and upcoming event.

• Rouge on NPIRL (awesome article!)
• Harper Beresford on Rouge
• Analu on Rouge
• Bluebell Fashions
• Jessyka Richard
• Gabby Panacek on Rouge
• SLInworldToday
• Tina’s Universum (swedish)
• Crap Mariner on Rouge
• Nadine Nozaki on Rouge
• Eladrienne Laval on Rouge
• GoSpeed Racer on Rouge
• Jun Kuroda on Rouge
• Jun Kuroda on Rouge (part 2)
• Chestnut Rau on Rouge
• Dinee Ghia on Rouge
• Ryker Beck on Rouge
• Queen Coronet on Rouge
• Gabby Panacek on Rouge (dressing up)
• Zoe Connoly and Vidal Tripsa on Rouge (video)
• Kippie Friendkin on Rouge
• GetaSecondlife on Rouge (portuguese)
• ArminasX on Rouge
• Jezabell Barbosa on Rouge
• Dakota Blackmountain on Rouge
• SLNN on Rouge
• GoSpeed Racer on Rouge (part 2)
• Crap Mariner on Rouge (part 2)
• Veyron Supercharge on Rouge
• Second Russia on Rouge (russian)
• Jordyn Carnell on Rouge
• Queen Coronet on Rouge
• Rezzable on Rouge
• ArminasX Rouge post-launch event analysis (excellent)
• New World Notes Hamlet Au about the Rouge Analysis (see previous link too)
• Isadora Graves on Rouge
• Jessyka Richards on Rouge
• Shopping Cart Disco mentions Rouge
• Avastar Weekend Roundup about Rouge
• FlipperPA Peregrine on Rouge
• Best Of SL Magazine (jump to page 144)

Videos:

• Video by Crap Mariner
• Video by Nika Dreamskape
• Video by Dizzy Banjo
• Video by Vidal Tripsa
• Video by Osiris Pfalz
• ScarlettCast talks about Rouge

Audio:

• DJ Init Hubble set for Rouge opening

Others:

• Rouge Sim Map by Ryker Beck (this is AWESOME!)
• Rouge Sim Flickr group

Special mention of Eshi’s struggle not to get deported, please read the last news on her blog here, and please act. Write your congressman, speak out about it, and spread the information.

I will update this post with more as it comes in. The press conference was a huge success and I hope to see you all at Rouge tomorrow at 2PM. Codie is exhausted but so damn happy. I wish to thank all of you. Much love.

As stated in the previous post, my new sim, Rouge, will open it’s doors with a smashing epic party this Saturday on the 5th of July 2008. Party starts at 2PM SLT and will end up late in the night. You are of course all invited, my dear friends. Let’s crash that sim repeatedly in the memory of good old times.

Since this is heading to be huge, I may have to lock the sim to group only during the party. I strongly suggest to everyone to get a CodeRed VIP group membership by simply contacting me inworld.

I will post the exact location on the day of the event.
DJ Lineup (may change and more will be added):

• 2PM-3PM - DJ Azufr3
• 3PM-5PM - Digital Francis
• 5PM-7PM - Nexeus Fatale
• 7PM-9PM - Amanda Shinji
• 9PM-11PM - Init Hubble
• 11PM-1AM - Eris Alexander
• 1AM-3AM - DJ Goodes Bade
• 3AM-5AM - Artec Amat
• 5AM-7AM - Nephie Eerie - Stella Errans

Sponsors (will offer free gifts to the invitees):

• Tesla
• Casa del Shai
• Juicy
• Bluebell Productions
• Mairead Fitzgerald
• Callie Cline
• Alexx Markova

Designers are invited to sponsor this event. Contact me inworld if you can provide transferable gift boxes for our invitees.

Many many many thanks to everyone that made all of this possible. First to Eshi Otawara, my building heroine. To Fallon Kazan for being amazingly generous and give me that sim for almost nothing. To Mairead Fitzgerald for making a gorgeous gown that will be given for free. To Alexx Markova for making a new 40 poses Boudoir Rouge poseset that will be put on sale on the opening day to finance the sim. To all the generous DJs and sponsors that accepted my invite. To all the blogging and press community for making much noise about this sim. To all my adorable friends and lovers, and I won’t name any of you in fear of forgetting anyone. Your friendships mean everything to me, I cherish you all, for being so generous, supportive, open minded and delightful people. I love you all.