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When you look up the word shopping, in more words or less, articles in one form or another describe the only shoppers on the planet as women. There is a disregard for the male shopper, probably because statistics found that women shop more, according to Optinmonster. Female shoppers make up 72% of the shopping market, while male shoppers bring up the rear at 68%. While this gap is not significant, it does show that men shop less than women, but the keyword is that they do shop. According to Zoovu, men may shop less because their reasoning behind the habit is different from women; Men shop for the item's functionality while women are purported to shop for the thrill of the hunt and the joy shopping brings. While this statistical data may be valid or invalid, I believe there is a shift in the male thinking regarding the habit of shopping. And, to cater to the more fashion-forward male that enjoys leisurely shopping for the thrill, here are a few locations on the SL grid that caters to a discerning male fashion palette.
I took to the pavement, coming across the MENS DEPT event in-world, spotting Semller, a store I knew from a past iteration. Semller is a Secondlife store well known for its trendy footwear located in-world and on the marketplace. Semller provides trendy, high-quality footwear, from boots to sneakers and clothing, to the fashionable male avatar that enjoys quality. While they do not cater to just male shoppers, they provide footwear the male shopper likes. In fact, on my visit to the store in-world, there were twice as many male shoppers as there were female shoppers. The only downside is that the creator of the brand has only made it available for legacy male and female; eBody; Belleza male and female; Gianni; and unrigged/resizable, with the latter option in the list being available for those whose mesh form the shoe does not have a size for.
An image of the sizes that Semller caters to
The only clothing item in the Semller store in-world
A showcase of some of the shoe styles sold at Semller
In-world URL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bali/230/30/1001
Marketplace URL: Second Life Marketplace - Semller by semller
Facebook URL: Semller - Home | Facebook
Flickr URL: semller | Flickr
Group URL: https://my.secondlife.com/groups/abeeb204-12fd-27aa-febe-8f14a668aba7
In a group chat a day or two ago, a question about which store was best for male fashion was posted, and one name thrown around a bit was Cold Ash, so I decided to explore the store to see why it had come highly recommended. I dropped in and could immediately see that the store's content is high quality with fantastic attention to detail. For the most part, they cater to the most popular male mesh forms, I presume, and they have a decent selection of clothing for every occasion. The store was pretty much a ghost town when I dropped in; however, if I were a male avatar, I would often drop into Cold Ash to add to my clothing collection.
The storefront for Cold Ash
The entrance of Cold Ash
An aisle in the Cold Ash store
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/coldashsl
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/coldashsl
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coldashsl
Plurk: https://www.plurk.com/ColdAsh
Twitter: https://twitter.com/coldashsl
In-world URL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cold%20Ash/172/198/35
Marketplace URL: Second Life Marketplace - Cold Ash by ColdAsh
Nothing in this world, or the real world, is sexier than the skin you are in. I do not care how fancy or qualitative the clothing that one wears; what matters most is the skin that the clothing is hiding underneath looks. With the demands for photorealistic and premium quality skins on the rise, more and more creators are investing more time and energy into creating skins that mimic real life. The meticulous placement of shadows and highlights to the mindful chiseling of the fine lines, wrinkles, and pores provides numerous options for quality skins. One creator of quality skin, Stray Dog, has gotten the attention of many male avatar users. The brand's name is misleading as there is nothing shabby or low quality about the brand's content. Stray Dog provides skin for all of the top male mesh forms, and they cater to all of the top mesh head brands. The best thing about the company, in my opinion, is that they provide their skin tone RGB codes to ensure that all of your attachments blend seamlessly. There are many options for mesh head skins that span every ethnicity.
Stray Dog Entrance
Some of Stray Dog’s BOM options
Some of Stray Dog’s more enormous collection
In-world URL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Heavens%20Touch/96/191/22
Group URL: secondlife:///app/group/c26611b9-f30c-7993-98c0-262d872f73e9/about
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gac_akina/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mynameisgac
Marketplace: Second Life Marketplace - STRAY DOG by Gac Akina
There is a theory that in the coming year's many essential items in the world economy will become (almost) free. Free food, clothes, housing, medicine, energy, education. Maybe even free transport, free computers, free holidays, free cosmetic surgery. An age of plenty is coming for everyone.
Will that happen? How will it happen? Will increasing technology and increasing knowledge mean that the cost of keeping 20 billion humans alive and happy will become marginal? Do you find it hard to believe in the Age of Abundance in a world where people still starve to death?
What will it be like to live in such a world, if it does happen? Come to GeekSpeak at noon SLT on Saturday and discuss our hopefully very near future. Bring all your stuff!
IM Vulcan Viper, who teaches a meditation class every Wednesday in the GeekSpeak auditorium, if you have ideas for new subjects.
•✿•••••✿•••••✿•••✿•••••✿ I'M IN VEGAS BABY! (3RD Return Engagement!) •••✿••Ѡho: A м в я σ ѕ ι α •••✿••Ѡhat: Live Vocalist •••✿••Ѡhҽrҽ:in the Viva Las Vegas! Variety Show (Highlife Destinations) •••✿••Ѡhҽn: Saturday, April 16th @ 7PM slt •••✿••Aƚƚιɾҽ: Vegas Chic ↓ ↓ ↓ TICKETS! ↓ ↓ ↓ https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Las-Vegas-Live-Show-April-16th/23264827 •••✿•••••✿•••••✿•••••✿•••••✿•••••✿•••••✿•• This is your ticket to Highlife Destinations Live Las Vegas show! Shows are every other Saturday starting March 5th and will feature showgirls, an amazing host, and live acts such as dancers and singers. It will really be a spectacular event! Showtime is 7PM SLT. Once purchased, your name will be added to our list. Landmarks/Teleports will go out between 6:30-6:45PM SLT. Las Vegas is an ADULT sim. We do not allow child avi's. They must be in adult form. Please keep scripts to a MINIMUM. This helps us to provide a lag-free show for everyone. Las Vegas is a private resort destination owned by Highlife Destinations (creators of Timor Isles @ Bali, Winter in New York, Ibiza and The Poconos Ski Resort). Las Vegas features beautiful, themed hotels (and a motel!) tons of sights and attractions, RP add-ons and free activities. •✿•••••✿•••••✿•••✿•••••✿•••••✿•••✿•••••✿•••••✿••
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A contest for ALL stylish women
If you’re interested in the very best in treatment, services, roleplay, and luxury attention, contact us at The Lotus Birthing Spa. We’d love to take care of your pregnancy from beginning to end. “Because you and your baby deserve the very best”. Contact: Tia Kimagawa Larsson, OB or Shon Larsson, MT for a consultation. https://www.facebook.com/The-Lotus-Birthing-Spa-101891782501140/ https://theblazin1fm.wixsite.com/the-lotus-birthing-s
Art Korner Blog & Gallery Show Featuring Monique Beebe and Traci Ultsch
Opening Party: April 13th 12-2pm SLT
With Daddio Dow streaming the tunes.
A new art exhibition featuring the work of Monique Beebe and Traci Ultsch kicks off on April 13th with an Opening Party from noon to 2:00 SLT at the Art Korner Blog and Gallery. The Art Korner show is a two-person display of work by Monique Beebe and her artistic soulmate, Traci. These two exceptional Second Life artists have had four shows together thus far. This will be there fifth show together.
The opening promises to be a lot of fun because Moni and Traci are hilarious together:
Monique: we are good at openings
Traci: really I’m just her alt, used to explore the seedy parts of SL
Monique: pinch your butt
Traci: haha, you did invite me here, I blame you
Monique: yes I did
Traci: be funny if we are both Moni’s alts
Fynn: hahahaha
Monique: yep I like to talk to myself and pinch my butt
Monique and Traci. Photo By Fynn.
Their humorous interactions aside, they are serious artists. Monique began making images in Second Life in 2015, developing her skills over time she found her brilliance and inventiveness. In a notecard she gave me it says, “She uses pure photomontage. She does not use photography as a replacement for painting but uses the medium as an independent form of imagination.” And imagination and technique are clearly evident in her unique style.
Her series of 12 pieces show the many faces of Monique. Titled, “Still Waters Run Deep,” we have a study in emotional hieroglyphics. Intense with broken darkness, her work reflects her emotions at any given point in time. Rich in multiple techniques, Monique uses several photo apps and PhotoShop to create the visual virtuosity found in her creations. The way she plays with balance and imbalance with intense emotion via close-up imagery is her message. In fact, PhotoShop is her favorite program for editing pictures. She also knows her way around with photo apps.
Look. By Monique.
She says she is her own worst critic. She needs to be “okay” with what is created. She can make 100 images and only one will be just right. The lighting, the angle, the right “look,” all must add up to the right emotion in her imagery. Her use of close-ups is for their emotional value, the facial expression, the eyes, the hair, the shadows, and more, all contributing to feelings associated with anger, depression, anxiety, trust, or lack thereof. “I want viewers to think what is behind it,” she told me. The interplay of balance and stress as her subject dances between the tension points of compositional framing adds to the feeling of her work. Indeed, Monique is an expert with close-up facial imagery and has done many profile images for her friends and acquaintances in SL.
Women. By Monique.
Her work is equally balanced between excellent graphical techniques and excellent avatar design. Moni is art herself, though she would never admit this. And so is Traci. Both avatars are studies in excellent and unique avatar design. Moni uses herself as a model for most of her images. A study in patience, style, beauty, and the transformative powers of Second Life avatar changeability, I am always awed by her look and fashion sense. In combination with the complexity of her image-making creativity, Monique’s art is thought-provoking and emotionally stimulating. But she hates exhibiting by herself and likes to exhibit with Traci. They met through a mutual friend. “I just ride her fame,” Traci told me in her modest, humorous way.
In general, Traci doesn’t like talking about SL art, only her own work because, as she says, “I tend to upset people.” And really, isn’t that the point of art, to piss off some people? At least in my opinion, art as little meaning unless it does. Her part of the exhibit is called “Hell Is Other People.” It concerns the idea that people have a need to be seen to feel they exist. Most of her subjects are obscured in some way.
Unlike Monique, who uses herself primarily as a subject for her imagery, Traci is in only one of hers. On Flickr she does more self-portraits, but she deletes everything every week or so. She doesn’t show her work twice either. As she told me, “I dislike my work after a while, lol.”
Crash. By Traci.
She usually does more abstract stuff or landscapes. Portraits were a change for her, but she doesn’t ask people to pose. She takes photos as they do whatever they are doing and their choice of AO and the like, all adds to the person. Her photos are then layered with silhouettes from the area the photos were taken in over and around them, then some freehand drawing to add a few bits. Most are made up of a few different shots. A few other techniques such as printing the photos and hand drawing on them, scanning, and cutting them up help contribute to her unique style.
She assists in running Eskol, the SL group, “Specialized in experimental music and art.” Traci is multi-talented in the arts arena. Having seen one of the recent audio-visual shows, one would get a good idea for her visual and musical talents. This non-mainstream group and space, take you for an experience that SL was made for. Join the group and receive notices for upcoming shows. Traci told me, “sl art really works when you look at people like adwehe and other light/sound artists like jade and cherry manga. Wonderful.”
Crash (2). By Traci.
Speaking of her current work that will be shown at Art Korner, she says, “stuff like my portraits is just rl thinking in sl....too lazy, but it's odd, the way people think in rl terms when doing sl art, "well you can fit 9 images in this space . . . ” god forbid if you don’t have your art nice and tidy and up against the wall, in a virtual world we can fly in and be furry animals... but we still need to 'hang' art.
Traci: I’m guilty myself
Fynn: what would you do instead?
Traci: I don’t have an answer... but I think we all need to start thinking more about what sl can do with art, or at least how we experience it.
Go to the show and the Opening Party on April 13th. It’ll be fuuuUUUUUUUuuuuuuunnnnnnnn.
You can find more of Moni’s work on her Flickr page:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/moniquebeebe/
You can find more of Traci’s work on her Flickr page:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/190734658@N07/
Lupus Awareness Fashion Showcase and Fair is an annual event hosted by the sorors of Sigma Upsilon Nu, SL Sorority, and The Red Door Models. During the month of May, our mission is to educate and raise awareness and funds for both Lupus Awareness of America and the Lupus Awareness of the UK.
With DNA editing we can improve the way our bodies function. With robotic enhancements, we will be able to do things no human can do. Where will all these new powers take us?
Is it possible to be perfect? Or will there always be trade-offs? Should some enhancements be against the law? Who will decide for the children?
Will humanity split into different species? The rich will be enhanced and the poor will remain normal perhaps? Will we see eugenics wars?
Join us in GeekSpeak at noon SLT on Saturday to explore what it will mean to be more than human. Bring all your humans. And robots are welcome.
Hop on over to the MadPea Easter Egg Farm for thirteen days of egg smashing madness! Each day you'll break, smash, and pulverize eggs for a fantastic prize! By visiting daily, you'll be able to collect 13 seasonal prizes and be awarded MadPea achievements! The Easter Egg Farm runs from April 6th through April 18th. Join the fun now! http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/MadPea/120/53/3603
Check out the How to Play for more info! http://www.madpeagames.com/easter-egg-farm-2022/
PaganFest SL is the combined effort of multiple sims and groups to present a weekend full of ritual, Pagan education, art, and fun, and to promote online unity amongst the various Magickal people and communities in the virtual world of Secondlife.
This year's Groups and Sims are Westwytch, Covenstead, Nox Obscura, Rungardvik, Sacred Cauldron, and Wild Moon!
This year's host is Covenstead with a visitor center at their Paganfest Event Platform:
Website: https://paganfestsl.wixsite.com/2022
TELEPORT: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Covenstead/162/112/1477
You can access the event calendar directly at:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=paganfestsl@gmail.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles
And you can join the group to keep up with how the event is progressing:
Just type PaganFestSL into group search.
Contact: PaganfestSL@gmail.com
or Ainsley Weatherwax in world.
Thank you so much, we look forward to having you be a part of our event!
Make an AO Class. Saturday 9th April 7am. Class taught in voice in Swindlehurst Classroom. Basic Building Class- Make a Rezzer. Saturday 9th April 9am. Class taught in voice in Main Sandbox.
Uber: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Helping%20Haven%20Gateway/48/57/26 Web: http://helpinghaven.weebly.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Helping-Haven-Gateway-462982330380897/
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