Yeah I really thought Chief D. Rockin would catch me, handcuff me and put me on a public display of humiliation for all my fashion crimes. But no, seems she thinks I’m an exemplary citizen for not committing the ghetto booty crime. Being used as an example of good taste on the SLFP is oh my flattering. Thank you Chief D. Rockin for not handcuffing me. Oh, wait. That would have actually been real fun! Guess I should start hanging out with giant prim boobs not assorted to my skin and wearing a ton of visible from space blang if I want her to catch me and make me feel it good. Will work on that.

While then, read The do and don’t of booty on SecondLife Fashion Police blog.

I got commissioned by Jacek Antonelli of Cuddlefish Junction to make a demo of her Bubble Ride product, so I thought I could as well make it artsy and nice to look at. So I used Windlight to capture this movie, using a mix of presets and custom settings for the sky and water. I then made the final cut and editing using Sony Vegas.

Hope you will enjoy it, especially on this extended downtime day.

High resolution version available here:

WMV Format (60 megs very high res)

Flash Format (high res)

*drumroll!* Sorry for lagging that much, I was too busy to do a decent post announcing the winners for the Boudoir Rouge Photo Contest. Let me first say that this was for fun. And I had a lot of fun. And I was flattered and honored by every submission to this contest. Being your model was symbolically very important to me, it really honored me greatly to have you all doing that for me.

This said, one reason why I hate contests, is that I cannot make everybody win. I was tempted to take the whole L$12000 and split it in 10 parts and shower everyone. But as every contest, the point was to try to encourage talent. To those who didn’t make the cut, don’t feel left out, your work was all so nice it was very painful to have to choose just a few ones. It was in fact so painful that I added a 5th winner and ended up in a split that made me add L$1000 in prize money.

So, in reverse orders, the winners are:

5th PLACE: TIE (L$1000 each) - Jacek Antonelli and Harper Beresford

Jacek’s entry is awesome and got very little processing, all lighting and angles are from inworld lighting, and I like the portrait cut.

Harper’s an awesome inworld photographer. She may not postprocess but she definitely have much talent. The lighting, angle and framing are just perfect. Very good job.

4th PLACE: L$2000 - Cicciuzzo Gausman

I would have favored a larger format for this submission but never mind, it does look awesome. The hazy treatment, the lighting, the angle, the motion blur, the atmospheric is awesome.

3rd PLACE: L$2500 - Vint Falken

I mean…. XD…. Do I really have to comment? Hilarious, charming, flattering. Vint actually never took any studio pictures of me, it’s good if she took one single picture of me ever apart that. But her entry into the matter is spectacular, as she is. When I saw that shot, I laughed for the whole day. I ♥♥♥ that girl.

2nd PLACE: L$2500 - Elease Graves

This is actually my desktop wallpaper. Stunning. The treatment is awesome, and the mix with illustration too. I just want to lick it. Elease always impressed me and she just keeps getting better and better.

1st PLACE: L$5000 - Mylena Aquitaine

Gosh girl! That kicks ass. The whole 4 picture set is outstanding. The lighting, soft ambiance, but especially the angles and her choice to do what I cannot do with Boudoir Rouge, use framings where we cannot see the faces. But she dares doing it, and with delicious results. I picked this one as my favorite but each of them submitted were pure delight. You deserve that 5K up hand Mylena.

I want to wholeheartedly congratulate and thank the other participants to the contest: Amanda Shinji, Véronique Lalonde, Osiris Pfalz, Rheta Shan, I know you girls knows I ♥♥♥ your pictures and I will pay your prize in kisses and ♥♥♥.

OUT OF CONTEST HONORABLE MENTIONS

The following pictures were submitted out of the Boudoir Rouge Photo Contest period but were too outstanding to avoid. There is 3 posts that especially got my attention and that I would like to share.

All winners will get their prize inworld tomorrow night. I am so honored and proud of all of you participating and coming to my humble event to encourage me, your friendship is dear to my heart and I shall honor it. Much ♥♥♥.

Codie

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*

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

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!)

Oh no, not again. Sights.

Lovely Roxette Wise tagged me with yet-another-blog-meme, this time about books. Okay since I’m a good sport, let’s do this:

The Book Meme

1. Pick up the nearest book. (of at least 123 pages)
2. Open book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences
5. Tag five people!

(Goes and fetch the closest book…) Oh fuck. Which is a very old edition of Linux Unleashed. From 1995. Ugh. You really asked for it, this promises to be very dull. It came with Slackware 2.2.0 BTW. Yes, I’m that old.

So on page 123…

Notational Conventions Used to Describe Linux Commands

There is a set of accepted notational conventions used to describe, in a concise and consistent way, the correct syntax for any given Linux command. This specifies what options or parameters you must use, what options or parameters you can use or not use, and so on. Sometimes this set of conventions is used to give a complete and exhaustive listing of a command’s syntax, showing every possible command and parameter.

There, that’s even 4 sentences if we count the title.

Now the victims. Ugh. Sorry guys. I’m not tagging anyone this time, this brings too much hate. *grins*

Yeah I hope you appreciate the geek joke. So here is one of my favorite recipe. I know avatars don’t eat, but I have to feed that meatbag or she will die. So before she starves to death, here’s how to make CodiePasta, for approx 4 people. Be warned, it is deeleeshous but it’s rich!

Ingredients:

• 900 grams of pasta (spaghettis, linguinis, whatever) cooked and drained
• 1 package of pre-made basil pesto (about 200g)
• 1/4 cup (about 60ml) of pure virgin olive oil
• 200g of sliced ham or 100g of proscuitto
• 1 cup (250ml) of salted cashews
• Optional: parmigiano regiano to taste

That’s it for the ingredients!

Preparation:

• Cook the pastas, drain them and put a little olive oil and mix, to prevent them from sticking together
• In a large pan, grease it with a little bit of olive oil, and grill the cashews just 2-3 minutes constantly shaking the pan to prevent the cashews from burning
• Add minced ham or proscuitto. Cut it in tiny bits and throw that in the pan.
• Let cook for 1 minute, shaking constantly
• Add the pesto and olive oil (and grated parmigiano cheese to taste)
• Mix and cover, and let it simmer for 2-3 minutes
• Voila!

You could mix the garnishing with the pasta and heat it together, or just add a large spoonful of the mix on a plate of pasta.

Hope you will enjoy!

First, a huge gigantic round of thanks to all of those who submitted a logo for that funny little contest. All the entries were very good, and all of them mean a lot to me, just that you took some of your precious time to make something for me. I am touched an honored, and found out a lovely trait about me in every and each logo designed by you guys. Much, much ♥♥♥ to you all, you so totally made my day/week, and what the hell, you guys made my whole year.

Here are the contenders:

So, here’s the winners, in invert order.

*DRUMROLLS!*

3RD WINNER: STEPHEN VENKMAN

The only thing not good about this logo is that its not a monogram. Apart that, well it is quite me! Steph took a very nice capture of me to represent on this logo, a closed eye shot, my favourite kind. Stephen wins a complete set of Dramavatar stuff, including 78 pairs of eyes and shirts.

2ND WINNER: OPENSOURCE OBSCURE

This is a very nice monogram. Very nice idea too. Many people told me it was their favourite. With maybe slight modifications, this could become my secondary logo, like a watermark or a seal. Very good work, Opensource. Opensource wins a MachinimaCam, and all Dramavatar Stuff.

1ST WINNER: RYKER BECK

Okay before you go and think I favourited Ryker because she’s a sweetheart, think again. This logo has all characteristics I was looking at. It’s red, hawt, and me. I think I’m going to ask for a few little modifications, but basically, it’s perfect. Elegant, simple, classy, clever, a little naughty. Rings any bell? I can see that to sign my work, I can see that like a crown on my website, my first reaction was: wow! fucking awesome! Congrats Ryker, you totally deserve that win. Ryker will get $L4000, MachinimaCam, and all Dramavatar stuff.

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

As I said, and I will repeat, ALL works submitted were awesome and all of them have something touching and significant. All entries were so cool that I decided that everyone will get a little gift from me, as a thank you. I ♥♥♥ you all, thank you very much for participating.

Codie