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

I apologize to my faithful readers (they sure aren’t right now) but a massive server borkage led me to suspend my bloggage because of database corruption issues. I hope it will help that I did a clean upgrade to WordPress 2.6.1 and cleaned the most crappy plugins, upgraded the ones I kept. Flushed Ubernyms since the upgrade requires a bit more job and I’m pretty lazy nowdays, with the job kicking my ass and things moving faster than I imagined.

I’m pursuing Boudoir Rouge, I made a few very interesting shoots, 5 I guess, and I’m working on more to come. I have a tremendous documentation and updating job to do, tons of scripting, more marketing, and so on. Codie is gonna need to get busy with everything soon. I may slack on my regular tasks a bit for a while so bear with me, but I will keep this blog busy because theres a few huge things coming on for you lovelies.

I love you sweethearts, thanks for all the amazing support, all my loved ones. I worship you people like you have no idea.

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

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.

Therese Carfagno interviewed me and wrote this lovely article on SLNN. I was interviewed at the Chouchou sim, then we took a ride to Code Red for a few picture. Thank you Therese, that is an awesome job, and you never misquoted me once. Much love!

After much success with the Boudoir Rouge poseset, and needing more poses to finish the series, I decided to custom order another 40 poses set from Alexx Markova. They are also now for sale, for your own enjoyment.

~~ The Boudoir Rouge Poseset #2 ~~
~~ The Official Poseset for the Boudoir Rouge photo series
~~ From CodeBastard Redgrave

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THE STORY

This 40 poses set has been custom designed for the Boudoir Rouge photo series created by artist and photographer CodeBastard Redgrave.

You can see the Boudoir Rouge series on Flickr here:
http://flickr.com/photos/cbredgrave/sets/72157603777971430/

For more information visit the Boudoir Rouge homepage:
http://codebastard.com/boudoir-rouge/

They have been created by Alexx Markova on special order. 40 new poses have been custom made by Alexx for the remaining of the Boudoir Rouge series. This set focuses mainly on back shot poses, lingerie and intimate poses, as well as more classic pinup and boudoir style poses.

One important thing about those poses is they have been created and ajusted to fit my own avatar shape which is more curvy than the average woman shapes, making them fit for the round women as well as thinner ones.

I throughly reviewed, tested and made correction requests to avoid any limb or finger collision, cause as little articulation deformation as possible, and minimize clothing glitches as much as possible. With such tough revision cycle, I wanted to insure that I would have poses which requires less postprocessing.

This poseset is the product of a close collaboration with Alexx Markova and myself for all aspects of the process. Alexx did the all the execution and I helped him review and correct the poses for better photography usage. Of course I’m proud of having the opportunity to bring you this very special poseset.

I really hope you will enjoy those poses as much as I enjoyed working with them.

Very yours,

Codie <3

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This set contains the following series of poses:

Behind: Attention, Attitude, Coy, Distracted, Flirtatious, Kneeling, Listening, Queen, Sofa, Undoing

Classic: Abandon, Determination, Fey, Fireside, Flying, Frolic, Offering, Ravished, Vargas, Waiting

Seduction: Anticipation, Betty, Coiled, Heel, Inspection, Needing, Pounced, Seeking, Silk, Stocking

Sensuality: Coltish, Demure, Expecting, Extravagant, Lounging, Playful, Pride, Primping, Resigned, Rocking

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The Boudoir Rouge posesets are available here:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Strata/30/43/41

Pool is closed for the Boudoir Rouge photo contest submissions. I will choose the winners and send the prizes tomorrow, as I is too tired. To see all the entries, check the Codie’s Redhawtness Flickr fan group.

Thank you so much to those who participated, all entries touched me to the deepest point. I’m so grateful that you people even took the time to participate, because I know it surely wasn’t for the meager prize money. You all took the time to picture me, and made me beautiful through your own eyes. This was for me the whole point of it, inverting the role I played as the photographer behind Boudoir Rouge, and making myself feel like a worthy model. To those who thought I was worth it, I lay on you millions of kisses and huggles. Love you.

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 love 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 love 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.

Love. Much love.
Codie

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!