The Hiess Experiences Presents at Frank Elite's Tears for Fears is opening up for... The Go- Go's Friday Oct. 7th at 8pm slt

You Don't want to miss out on this amazing show coming to you
This Friday 10/7/16 at 8pm SLT at Frank Elite's

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Franks%20Place%207/132/46/26

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ADELE, RUMOR HAS IT… - Luc Fray Reporting...

It’s amazing how time can pass by quickly. Sometimes you still keep the people you meet. Often, however, you’d lose them. A busy schedule either in RL or SL can do that, but I’m happy to say Adele Bumblefoot belonged in the former rather than the latter category.

Three years ago, I first met her in one of the RP sims I frequent. It had been a very long day for me. I was already sleepy to begin with. I should have gone straight to bed and probably shouldn’t even have logged in in the first place.

I remember I accidentally fell asleep in the middle of our RP and then waking up 6 hours after to realize what just happened. I was horribly, horribly embarrassed. I apologized profusely to her and to our now-common friend, Petunia, who was in the RP too. What made it worse was that they waited, and they were still there standing next to me when I woke up. I felt like kicking myself after that.

Luckily, they took it well. More RP grew from that encounter. I didn’t mind joining plotlines with them as they were talented role-players and possibly two of the best I’ve ever encountered in the grid. They became two of my closest friends in SL. Although our interactions were mainly through IC, they taught me a lot of things OOC too. They were incredibly funny and creative and smart, and I would never forget how they showed kindness to me.

I was going through a lot that time. I was on my own and was just kind of drifting around. I didn’t really have any SL family like most of the people in the game do, but they were the closest thing I could call one.

Although I rarely talk to them these days, when I do manage to find them online, I like to chat with them just to catch up on things. Such was the case a few days back when Adele popped up in my contact list.

Stitched’s Verra Silken Coat* for Maitreya Lara.

Luc Fray: So Adele, how long have you been in Second Life? How did you first find out about it?

Adele Bumblefoot: Now this is going to sound silly but someone told me about Second Life as another game like Sims 2.

Luc Fray: And? *laughs*

Adele Bumblefoot: So I checked it out! It wasn’t Sims 2, apparently, but I explored and found out about role-play communities. Those were weird at first, but I liked medieval stories, so I remained on Second Life anyway! It is nearly 8 years now!

Luc Fray: Wow! Is this the first account you've created? How did you come up with the name?

Adele Bumblefoot: No, this is the third one I think.

Luc Fray:  What happened with the first two?

Adele Bumblefoot: My first account was a fairy; my second account was a drow; then this account was for an elf. I didn’t think of having multiple characters on one account at the time!

I was searching a name database on the internet, and I liked the sound of Adele. Then I chose Bumblefoot from the list of existing last names; I thought it was a bit funny and went with it! Never took myself too seriously, so why not? Then I said, I'll use that as a flaw for my character, so I did. I gave her the trait clumsy or something similar.

Luc Fray:  *laughs* So, you only created accounts for the RP.... Tell me, what were your newbie days like?

Adele Bumblefoot: Fun! Even as a newbie, with prim and flexi hair, it was fun. I was role-playing in a sim called Terabithia back then. People were nice and it felt like a big family.

Luc Fray: Do you still RP there?

Adele Bumblefoot: Naaah. I don’t really RP anymore to begin with. I moved on from Terabithia years ago, went to multiple sims, and expanded on the genres I role-played at. I started with medieval but I also did sci-fi, post-apocalyptic, urban, and star wars, just to name a few.

Davos Doublet* from Stitched.

Luc Fray: It was through role-playing that I met you. *laughs* How do you get ideas for your characters?

Adele Bumblefoot: The Universe. And I observe what everyone else is doing so that I can do the opposite. In a way, it’s my effort to be special, paradoxically by playing very non-special people with very usual traits. Most people go for the extraordinaire. I enjoy playing the everyday people and still getting good stories.

Luc Fray: What kind of role-player are you and what usually gets you interested in a scene?

Adele Bumblefoot: I don’t know how to label myself, but I enjoy scenes that leave me wondering. So, for the most part, I don’t want to know more than I need to know, and I want to find out more as the story progresses; otherwise it’s not too exciting, right? I think that’s the most interesting thing in a scene for me, the thrill of discovering and having all the questions the reader/player wants answered but can’t have the answers yet.

Luc Fray: I understand that some players have limits; what are yours? What usually turns you off a scene?

Adele Bumblefoot: That depends on the scene, but usually I am not okay with my character getting killed—unless my character has killed some other character, of course, then that's only fair!

Luc Fray: Are you currently active in the RP world right now? And which sims are you frequenting?

Adele Bumblefoot: I am really not active in RP right now, but when I get some time, I check out sims, usually medieval ones or Game of Thrones ones.

Luc Fray: You mentioned earlier that your career in SL is on its third year. How did you start out in the business?

Adele Bumblefoot: It started out like a hobby. I first gave Blender a go 4 years ago, so around summer 2012, but I didn’t have an easy time with it. I was trying to make a mermaid tail, but it was really hard for me. Almost precisely one year after that, summer 2013, I tried Maya instead, though that time I didn’t try to make anything particular. I just dabbled and then it went on from there.

EPOS hairs in display at Adele’s main store (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/AMERICAN%20BAZAAR/31/62/1994).

Luc Fray: Tell us something about EPOS, Stitched, and Daire.

Adele Bumblefoot: EPOS is the mesh body brand and the hair brand. I created it as a separate brand from Stitched later on since it has to do with a different field. Daire is the brand of furniture (whenever I feel like making something like that!) and, of course, Stitched is my main thing, where I make clothes and shoes and accessories, mostly for medieval and fantasy! All my brands—but primarily Stitched—are focused on creating products that are customizable and easy to mix and match. They are products that people ask for. I really love fulfilling my customers’ wishes and that’s why I often get contacted to customize some of my releases with special patterns or colors or some role-play sigil for their characters and such, which I honestly love. People being happy with what I make is my primary source of inspiration.

Luc Fray: *grins* I’m glad to hear that you’re one of those kinds of creators. Which one usually takes up most of your time? Do you do everything for your store? Like managing the financial aspect, making builds, making textures, marketing, etc.?

Adele Bumblefoot: I manage everything, yes. Each product I make is my own—from the mesh to the textures to the advertisement pictures (save for a few times when I have other, more talented people help me out with that!). But if you are asking which one of all these activities takes up the most time, I would say, depending on the item, it could be rigging or it could be texturing. If the item is a clothing piece for a mesh body, the rigging needs a lot of work to grow and shrink and bend like the body it is meant for. Otherwise, the texturing, I’d say. My favorite part is meshing, starting with a box and making it something different every time.

Adele’s meshing for an armor*.

Luc Fray: How do you get ideas and inspiration for your creations? Do you have like a favorite book or movie or TV series that just lights the bulb up? How do you improve your craft?

Adele Bumblefoot: I usually get inspiration from TV series, movies, books, actual history, and whatever sources for real outfits that existed in our past I can find. I collect those in a Pinterest board, so that once I find something I like, I always have it there for later use. Now for the improvement, that’s something that comes natural for me, cause I always want to make this other new shiny thing (which is usually harder than what I've done up to that point), so I have to find new ways to work, or more efficient ones, or try new software to see what it can offer me in my pipeline.

Luc Fray: Art inspiring art. What’s next then for the very wonderful Adele Bumblefoot? Any plans for the future?

Adele Bumblefoot:  Right now, I am finishing up the details of my main store—which I’ve built all by myself—and finishing with making all the purchases easier, installing scripted vendors, gift cards, redelivery terminals, and all that but, from October 4th onwards, I’m releasing products again in some sale events, gacha events, and the like, so I’m back into production! In 2017, I have plans on expanding on another field too, but that’s a secret for now, you’ll have to wait and see!

Luc Fray: *laughs* And that concludes our interview. Thank you so much for your time, Adele! It was lovely talking to you again.

Achilles mesh body. More information can be checked on her website: www.adelebumblefoot.com .

*Images are taken from Adele’s Flickr Account with her permission. https://www.flickr.com/photos/secondlife_photography

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GRAND OPENING OF DIRTY CHAPS SALOON! October 4th!! 6pm slt

DJ Nat will be rocking the tunes and taking requests.

Bullriding contest starts at 8pm with a 1000linden

going to the high score!

Our bike track is open, with a raffle for a motorcycle

come join the fun!!

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Shocking%20Blue/217/103/24

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CALLING ALL PHOTOGRAPHERS! Submit your best photo of the theme Blossoms of Hope for a chance to win prizes!

The MSABC 2016 Photo Contest is sponsored by .Glitter, {Nantra}, and Spice it up!

All photos will be put up for silent auction to raise funds for Making Strides Against Breast Cancer in SL.. MSABC raises money for cancer research through The American Cancer Society..

1st Prize L$4,000 in gift cards and lindens
2nd Prize L$2,750 in gift cards and lindens
3rd Prize L$1,500 in gift cards and lindens

+ winners will be posted on our website and Facebook page

Photography Contest will run from Oct. 1 to Oct. 23 and is open to all Second Life residents

To enter the Photo Contest, take your best pictures with our chosen theme "Blossoms of Hope" and add it to our flickr group

Rules :

♦ Photo cannot show privates or nipples (pasties may be used). We ask for tastefully done photos with no explicit scenes.

♦ Size must be 1600 x 1200 and full perms

♦ One entry per avatar

♦ Photo should reflect the theme of "Blossoms of Hope"

♦ Photo editing is allowed

♦ Upload your entry in the flickr group :www.flickr.com/groups/makingstrideswalk-secondlife

♦ Send one full perm copy of photo in world to Leala Spire

♦ Photos will be on display and up for silent auction from October 23rd - 29th to raise funds for Making Strides Against Breast Cancer in SL

♦ Include "MSABC 2016" in the title of your photo

♦ Winners will be notified on the 30th October

Help us make Strides against Breast Cancer.  We Are So looking Forward to your submissions.  Contact Leala Spire or Sandie Loxingly if you need more information.

Good luck!

About Making Strides Against Breast Cancer:

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer or MSABC is the largest network of breast cancer awareness events in the nation, uniting more than 300 communities to finish the fight. Every breast cancer walk and event is an incredible and inspiring opportunity to honor those who have battled breast cancer, raise awareness about what we can do to reduce our breast cancer risk, and race money to help the American Cancer Society fight the disease with research, information, services, and access to mammograms for women who need them.

About The American Cancer Society:

For more than 100 years, the American Cancer Society (ACS) has worked relentlessly to save lives and create a world with less cancer and more birthdays. Together with millions of our supporters worldwide, we help people stay well, help people get well, find cures, and fight back against cancer.

For more information please visit the sites below:

https://makingstridessecondlife.org/

http://makingstrides.acsevents.org/

http://www.cancer.org/

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Contacts:
Leala Spire or Sandie Loxingly

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SWARM OF DECOR 3

In a few days, the 3rd annual Swarm of Decor Hunt created by Earth Nirvana will open. With 23 designers bringing you the best in home & garden decor for only $7L, this hunt is sure to be a hit. From October 3rd until closing 12 midnight slt, October 24th hunters will have the opportunity to grab some great gifts and vote for their favorite hunt designer. The winning designer will receive $500L!

Check out a few of the fabulous gifts up for grabs.

Harambee Gwassi-Kenya Charity Shop (Loredana Loring)

Halloween Delights & Christmas Delights (Joell Jurgis)

StoraxTree (Kate McLaglen)

Elysium (Aleida Rhode)

Whimsical Happenings (Earth Nirvana)

Dragon Magick Wares (Dragonia DeCuir)

De Baza (sphynx soleil)

See https://4stores2behunted.wordpress.com/ for the full designer listing, locations, hints & poll. May the best creator win!

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Please welcome the GizzA - Andrea Vested Suits. An all time classic for the ladies that will never go out of fashion.

Sharply tailored around your frame the GizzA - Andrea Vested Suits accentuate your feminine form and with the countless color options for the jacket, vest, shirt and tie which are accessible via the texture changer HUD. The trousers are a single color.

For fitting, GizzA - Andrea Vested Suits come in the 5 standard SL mesh sizes as well as Slink Physique and Hourglass.

Main-store: 

http://slurl.com/secondlife/GizzA%20Creations/128/129/72

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The Sexiest Halloween Ever - Win up to 5000 Lindens (and more) for Halloween 2016!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Fashion Loft
https://www.facebook.com/thefashionloftsl/


--October 2, 2016--- The Fashion Loft (TFL) is proud to host our first contest! We are looking for the sexiest avatars on the grid - do you think you have what it takes to win? The contest will take place on October 15th at 1pm SLT. Contest entries must be submitted via mailbox by October 8th at 12pm SLT. The mailbox can be found at Model's Haven:  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Playa%20de%20Amadores/107/192/22

The Fashion Loft started over 4 years ago as The Creative Loft in Second Life fashion. It was a team of models, teachers, stylists, and fashionistas that loved to help models learn the basics of modeling. They also specialized in producing fashion shows for several prominent designers in SL. Now, TFL intends to do the same under a new banner and team.

Participants will be asked to style a sexy Halloween-themed outfit using at least one item from our list of sponsors: Aleutia, Athena Couture, Dot-BE, Finale Couture, Ghee, Heth Haute Couture, Lulu, Milk Tea, Nomiki's Creations, Selene Creations, Sweet Tea Couture, and TentatioN. 

Special thanks to our media and other sponsors: AIM, ELLY Models, ENVY Magazine, Kent Photography, ModeLS Magazine, PURE Fashion & Modeling Academy, The Manor Suites, and Visionaire Institute.

The first place winner will win 5000 Lindens, a double page spread in 2 magazines, gift cards totaling over 5000 Lindens, and more. For a full list of prizes for the top 3 winners and details on how to enter, please visit https://www.facebook.com/thefashionloftsl/. Contact either Red Jess (redtess69) or Moni (monica.querrien) for any questions on the contest.

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Crowning glory - Lacy Muircastle reporting...

Glorious locks, shining tresses, Rapunzel, Goldilocks… Throughout history, and in fairy tales and legends, a woman’s hair has been seen as a manifestation of her femininity and desirability. (Sorry guys.)

Many of us have a love hate relationship with our hair. Our hairstyle is one of the most noticeable aspects of our look. It can show off our personalities and highlight our face and in Second Life we can change it on a whim.

In RL our hair obsession is a multi-billion dollar industry, including hair dyes, styling products, wigs, celebrity hairdressers and hairstyle magazines. The endless media ‘reports’ on celebrities ‘new do’s” fuel the idea of forever changing your ‘look’.  Luckily in SL it’s easy peasy to make a change and we are spoiled for choice.  We can even be a redhead one day and a blonde the next with no worries that our hair will fall out due to constant colour changes.

So let’s talk about colour … Many stereotypes are associated with our natural hair colour: blondes are dumb, redheads have fiery tempers and brunettes are attractive. While we believe these to be assumptions, it’s no secret that people often create a first impression about one based on their hair colour. Research has now proven that many of these stereotypes can sometimes have very real effects.

Scientifically, hair Colour is formed by a substance called melanin produced at the root of the hair bulb by groups of specialised cells called melanocytes. Melanin itself consists of two types: the ratio of these two types creates the hair colour in each individual.

Let’s look at colour types and personality traits generally associated with them.

Red Hair…

Contrary to the belief that red hair colour was given to us by Neanderthals; science has shown that it’s a result of mutation of a gene in chromosome 16. Red hair has even been represented in various artworks including that of Michelangelo.  It’s said that in Europe red hair is valued and respected. Statistics say that nearly 10% people in Scotland and England have red hair. Around the world red heads are bullied or teased with words like “ginger” which can be psychologically damaging for the recipient.

Personality traits associated with red hair:

Mysterious, romantic, passionate, alluring and fiery.  Other traits attributed to redheads are - explosive, bad tempered, opinionated, seductive or sexually promiscuous.

Blonde hair…

Naturally occurring blonde hair very rare.  It occurs naturally in northern Europe (Scandinavia) and America. Unusually  it’s also been seen in nearly 5 to 10% of the indigenous population of the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific where the inhabitants predominantly have very dark skin. Until recently it was assumed that blonde hair was a result of gene flow, a trait passed on by ancient traders and travellers who visited different countries, centuries ago. Today it’s been established that a single gene is responsible for it.  The people of the Solomon Islands attribute their blonde hair colour to a diet rich in fish, and sun exposure.

Personality traits associated with blonde hair:

Females with blonde hair are generally thought of as high maintenance.  A survey has shown that the divorce rate is also higher in this category. Blonde hair is perceived to be feminine, youthful, naive and obedient and more fun.  Apparently gentlemen do tend to prefer blondes.

Brunette…

Predominantly seen in Asia, South America and Africa, this hair colour is considered exotic in Europe just like blondes and redheads are in the rest of the world. A study conducted on a woman who visited a nightclub on three different occasions, changing her hair colour from red, to blonde and then brunette. The result was that most men said that they found her most appealing, attractive, approachable, dependable and “seemingly better at relationships” as a brunette.

Personality traits associated with brunette hair colour:

The majority of Nobel Prize winners are brunettes. They are thought of as very hard working people. They are supposedly more serious and tend to form long term relationships.

Black hair…

Just as men prefer blondes, women are known to prefer men with dark hair. Deep, introspective and meditative, this personality type is serious and melancholic.

Personality traits associated with black hair colour:

Black haired people are thought to be interested in religion, poetry and spirituality. They are serious and self-centred but also tend to suffer from self-doubt. They make great psychologists, therapists etc.

Allegedly in RL, if you colour your hair with a shade other than your natural hair colour, it will more than likely influence your behaviour and after a while you will even adopt the stereotypes associated with said colour.

My avatar has always been brunette, and I’m brunette in RL. I’ve always felt that I don’t have the right attitude to be blonde.  What are your opinions on hair colour and what it says about you and your avatar?

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Playmates Magazines October Issue Is Out Now!

This is our 8th annual special Halloween Issue.  

Dedicated to one of our favorite holidays. The Playmates models take you over to the dark side in a wicked pictorial and we interviewed Voodoo High Priestess Dark Shadow about the occult, evil spirits and different forms of witchcraft.  

Plus, we have a list of SL and real life spells and potions. also some scary story's about deranged SL residents and lots of spooky tales, poems and articles.  

Get your free copy at Playmates Magazine Headquarters or use the link below...If You Dare...Boo!

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Playmates-Magazine-October-2016-Issue/10009536

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The 4th Annual Rock Your Rack fundraiser event is now open!

 62 Fashion Designers, 22 2D and 3D artists, 12 DJ's, 9 Live Musical Artists, 4 tribute concerts, 9 Fashion Shows, a 10L Hunt, 7Seas Fishing tournaments and silent auctions all await you at this year's event supporting the National Breast Cancer Foundation.   Visit the event through October 16th and shop the amazing designer exclusives and one-of-a-kind items, browse the art show and dance the night away at a musical event.  It's the happening place to be this fall where we raise funds for a very worthy cause.  Visit our website for all the details and schedules  http://rockyourrack.wordpress.com and see how you can help make a difference. 

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