Tides and Feathers

The Fantasy Faire 2012, to benefit Relay for Life and the American Cancer society, is a week of wonders. Starting April 21 and ending April 29 showcases the wonderful variety of SL creativity through products, sims and social spirit. I am honoured to be a part of it also this year and the time dedicated to bring the Tides to its birth was one of the most well spent in My Second Life, as it happens every year with Fantasy Faire. I wish you enjoy your stay and I see you at the rising Tide,

Yours,

Alia

SLurls

TheTides/187/128/44

TheFairelandsJunction/117/127/23

The Tides bring also their civilization of proud plumage, Feathers. The dove edition will benefit RFL for the Faire duration, a messenger of hope. Here's a preview of all the editions currently available:

And there's also a courtesy gift by Wasabi Pills and Fallen Gods Inc. for you at every arrival point of the faire:

And now more about the Tides themselves.... and I dont believe in words in this case, so I hope you will visit the Faire. Untill then, here's a few pictures, some leading also to amazing sl photographers and their streams. But first a video by Thalia:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ciudaddemexico/7097406235/

Cybercherry

When Marx asked me about filming a music spot at Annon I had no idea it will result in such a cool result. The band's music is really great, so glad to be in it. Thanks Marx and Beyond Violet.

Videoclip for the dutch gothic metal band, all band members were recorded in front of a greenscreen the backgrounds are computer generated , taken from virtual places in Second Life.

Beyond Violet - Cybercherry

Directed by Marc Cuppens aka Marx Catteneo.

Regions used are:

Annon, The Gate by Alia Baroque

The Looking Glass by Marcus Inkpen

Lost World by lolmac Shan

Thanks to Lizzy Ames for virtual location scouting.

Fiction Films / handheld machinima 2012.

http://www.marccuppens.nl

Roxane (vocals), John (guitar), Ilona (keys), Chiara (bass) en Merlijn (drums)

http://beyondviolet.nl

Sanity Falls

Yours truly is participating at a new Madpea Hunt to get you insane again...

I think you might like it.

Alia

What's on the flesh carving table this time:

Trailer:

More informations on Hunt:

https://sites.google.com/site/madpeasf/

The Sanity Falls hunt starts at:

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hoshi%20Island/136/130/801

Fallen Gods Inc.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Selidor/240/133/21

Petite Dracos, male

"You made me miss that hair sale...."Mithril said, while cleaning the shovel carefully and throwing a gaze to Inferno which uncaring shifted his weight and threw the black mane on side with a disgusted and cryptic grin "Was it really necessary?".... and Carbon replied "I was called cute."

Male petite dracos are now ready to support their sisters and companions over the Quest to find the ultimate perfect human to kick, and possibly eat it too.

Hope you enjoy,

Alia

At the Temple

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Selidor/240/133/21

or at the Kingdom

http://slurl.com/secondlife/YABU/52/104/23

Male Crystal Petites & Contest

"Higher, Higher" Violet said, pressing her toes on Musk's head while Azure would shift her up with a slight grin from below "You are heavy... And that berry is not going to help!"

Male petite crystals are now ready to support their sisters and companions over the Quest to find the ultimate perfect berry, and possibly eat it.

Hope you enjoy,

Alia

Fallen Gods Inc: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Selidor/240/133/21

There's also a contest running at Petite Kingdom, with the chance to win a petite avatar of your choice, scroll down to know more.

The Petites Boo-Boo Clinic is now open but the doctors are flustered and don't know what to do! The poor little Petites are ailing and the doctors aren't sure how to fix them. Maybe you can help us! We are looking for pictures of your Petite Boo-Boos to help educated our doctors in the care and nursing of Petites.

To enter our Petites Boo-Boo Clinic Contest here is what you need to do:

1. Take a picture of a Petite with an injury (technical issue with Petite Mesh Avatar). This could include, but not be limited to, eye issues, stretched body parts and missing limbs. Be creative and have fun but remember to make copied of all your Petite avatar parts before trying to break yourself.

2. Create a name for and description of you injury.

3. Describe how to fix your injury.

4. Take all this information and place it on a notecard. Title the notecard Petites Boo-Boo Contest [your name].

5. Drop your notecard in the Orange flower at the Petite Avatar Kingdom.

6. The Petites Boo-Boo Clinic Contest will run from March 13 - 27 @ midnight SLT.

7. You are welcome to use photoshop on your pictures; however, this is not a photoshop contest. It is about your creativity in coming up with and documenting an injury that affects Petites.

8. Prizes will be awarded for the best Petite injury submissions as judged by our select panel of doctors. Prizes will include your choice of one Petite Avatar by any creator. Also all participating will receive a special gift just for entering.

Please remember this Contest is all in fun. It's intent is to help educate people about the types of Petite Boo-Boos there are and how to fix them. It is not our intention to make fun of anyone with real life medical issues.

If you have any questions, please feel free to IM Elizabeth Tinsley.

Have fun and remember sticks and stone may break your bones but relogging fixes everything!

Shuri's dreamscapes

Another month, another journey. This time with Shuri.

Selidor Art Gallery: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Selidor/142/51/29

See what Tamzin has to say:

Hello Everyone!

I would like to invite you to the come along and meet Shuri Dreamscape, the newest artist to show their work at the Selidor Art Gallery. Her work will be on display from 13th March - 13th April 2012 and she will be at the gallery for you to meet in person 13th March @ 2pm SLT

Come along, bring your friends and enjoy the art.

Tamzin Xigalia

Selidorian gallery manager

Shuri's Flickr;

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shuri_/

Petites, male.

Male Petite Elves released, and they have a New Kingdom too. We rebuilt it with a more spacious area and petite friendly sized, with a chilling area and clear layout, we hope you'll enjoy. I also wish to thank deeply here Elizabeth, Sharni and Marcus for their essential help and managing to make the reopening and male release smooth, fun and busy this weekend. Yabu unfortunately couldn't make it for the opening, but he was with us anyway the whole time as we watch his little creatures. Here's the slurl if you wish to visit: http://slurl.com/secondlife/YABU/62/62/2

Give those guys some sugar.

I got a lot of questions lately concerning my creations, some having the impression I am not doing anymore skins, or builds, or what I always did in those 4 years and more, well fact is the petites did keep me busy, not only being something I have to follow constantly in its development but also as a new challenge on texturing, not allowing me to use the work I already did but having to recreate all skins from 0, not to mention the Kingdom reopening and collaborative efforts the whole petite idea requires. Being in a team work finally is something great and refreshing for a lot of us labrats, but also takes time off from the creation time itself.

Also, as a few of you know already, I tend to work constantly on multiple projects to keep my creative interest alive; if I focus too much on one type of creation only I feel stagnant and stuck.

Soon there will be our yearly Fantasy Faire too so am preparing many things for it together with the build of the Tides sim for the Faire and a new release, and joining this... some very long term creations that are builds and furniture I never rush over, skinlines, tattoos, all in My pocket waiting that sparkle of attention to make them breath and alive.

I hope you'll enjoy what's next and to not disappoint you, till then.... enjoy a smaller world,

Yours,

Alia

Petite Royale

Dear little Fallen critters,

I can be absolutely annoying when it comes to refinement; unnerving in My infinite research for new solutions and improvement; absolutely inconsistent in personal choice over makeups and character design; totally futile when it comes on writing notecards in an understandable non arcaic english...

...but I still hope you will enjoy this new Petite Royale and the new Hud driven Makeups.

Yours,

Alia

Do not forget that makeup huds are sold separately and you need already the petite avatar from Fallen Gods Inc.

To enable your petite for new huds or just check what's new, just use the redelivery terminal at the Temple or wait for the automated redelivery to receive the 1.2 Update

SLURLS:

Fallen Gods Inc.: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Selidor/240/133/21

Petites Kingdom at Yabusaka: http://slurl.com/secondlife/YABU/34/194/2

And this is what kept on My mind the whole time I worked on Royale, since the moment I started to use it as just a name to differ from the usual petites to when I chose actually to use it as official :

Wistful Mactavish at the Selidor Art Gallery

Thank you so much Tamzin for helping Me over the Gallery management. Here's Tam's invite:

Hello all,

I would like to invite you to meet the newest artist showing their work at the Selidor Art Gallery, Wistful Mactavish. Her work will be on display from 11th Feb - 11th March 2012 and she will be at the gallery for you to meet in person 11th Feb @ 12noon SLT. Come along, sip the wine and enjoy the art and surroundings of Selidor.

Tamzin Xigalia

Selidorian gallery manager

Art Gallery Slurl:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Selidor/142/51/29

Wistful Mactavish flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wistfulmactavish/

Ankle Biters

petites

Hello little critters, to thank you for getting so in many, before I build those traps and cages, am sending you a simple courtesy outfit. A cross gift with Fallen Gods group where you can get the outfit for your normal sized avatar, in disguise.

Fallens

Dear Fallen, fullsized, girls, here's a small gift to forgive My late dedication exclusively to petite critters, a cross gift with the newborn petite group where you can catch the small sized outfits.

P.S.

Dear Fallen, huge sized boys, am working on new stuff to survive cute tiny pastel overdose, so expect more "Sinful" evil somewhere soon.

Now, if you'll excuse Me, I have alive panda puppies to roast for dinner.

Hope you enjoy ;)

Yours,

Alia

the evil mood song

the quiet mood song

Who'll love Aladdin Sane?

Yes, I know I am late for his birthday, and no news for veteran fallens, that I am a big Bowie fan. But I thought this hunt can be a wonderful way to share and also celebrate this amazing musician and incredible personality, poet and artist.

About "Where is the Concert?" Hunt

Visit the hunt website for a list of all participating locations, information and hints too!

Hunt Website: slconcerthunt.blogspot.com

Although the Hunt can be started from any of the 52 locations,

Mankind Tracer & The Follow's venues are the 2 getting started locations:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Esoterica/234/164/23

Petites

Do you believe in fairies?

Imps? Small strange creatures that look exactly as you?

Well I didn't untill I started this join venture with Yabusaka, and the result are petites.

We chose to call them petites, to not limit the idea of those avatars to only fairies but also to any kind of interesting race and character you wish, that finally can be of the right size. To start with and see how the idea is perceived by you, I chose to make 3 starter packs that include also the outfits, you can see each pack specs on those panel pics:

I warmly suggest (so warmly, that it gets hot) that you try the demos provided to see if you own a capable mesh viewer and have no issues in enjoying them, and please read the important note in the demo folder, for mesh troubleshooting and other very important things you must know.

Petites also come with two HUDS, one for tinting your skin as ever you wish, another for many options as: face expressions, alpha hiding of body parts, fullbright, glow and metal, and you get 3 hand poses you can combine for a natural flowing look. All of the 3 tones in each pack include PG body options and 3 makeups.

We hope more creators will join the petite team to make pretty small things for those creatures, but for now I can assure you Mochi from Pink Fuel has her hands on, as Elizabeth from Frippery and Sharni from the Looking Glass, and Cerberus from G-Field made an awesome set of fairy outfits you can arrange with Wasabi Pills Orion rigged mesh hair, adapted specifically for petites, all this to not mention Yabusaka's own full avatar with a special g-field outfit tone included.

Hope you enjoy them as I did working on them.

I will soon work on a fairy trap and cage, if you get too many,

Alia

SLURLS:

Petites Kingdom at Yabusaka: http://slurl.com/secondlife/YABU/34/194/2

Fallen Gods Inc.: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Selidor/240/133/21

TAO

The Tao special option lays not much in the skin itself, but more in the tattoo layers that not only can be applied over the skins included in this product, but also over any of your skins. They work best with second generation Fallen Gods skins, but they are versatile to any customization you choose. The idea is to bring a wider range of half skins in the future by first seeing how this idea is perceived with the original Tao tones as first.

Hope you Enjoy,

Alia

Always at the Temple (slurl).

More previews

A personal note:

I have no idea from where the tao idea came and why, but I found the whole seams and body bumps screwing it all challenging. Pretty aware is something not for every day use, am figuring out if it actually can become something more of a tao, for your RP uses or else.

Will see.