I’m a couple of days late on this, but… what the hell, right?
As I’m sure most of you have read by now, SHINE is a seasonal Second Life fashion fundraiser for Medecins Sans Frontieres (or Doctors Without Borders). Similar to Relay for Life, SHINE will be accepting donations within Second Life until January 1, 2008. How do you donate, you ask? Well… in one of the best ways possible, of course!
The above *positively stunning* dress, made by Nicky Ree, is one of what should prove to be several Second Life fashion designer products put up for grabs in the name of SHINE. All proceeds (that is, 100%) made from these releases will go toward the SHINE fundraiser. Like Nicky’s dress, I’m sure many of these products will be limited editions as well — there are only about 30 of this dress left for grabs at Nicky’s main store! At $1500L, it can be yours for a good cause. And it’s AWFULLY pretty, too. Be sure to keep your eyes peeled for the SHINE logo! I can’t wait to see what other fashion designers from around the grid will come up with.
A little more about SHINE and Doctors Without Borders:
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an independent international medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural or man-made disasters, or exclusion from health care in more than 70 countries.
In addition to purchasing special limited editions of apparel from the grid and/or donating to the scattered donation boxes you will find, you may also send lindens directly to Shine Dreamscape in order to make a donation to the SHINE fundraiser. Designers that would like to contribute or are in need of a donation box may IM Alaska Metropolitan.
Again, this spectacular donation opportunity will be over with by January 8, 2007. Let’s all pitch in and help make the world shine a little brighter for the less fortunate this holiday season.
The next tutorial in my ever-growing list of tutorials… This one will teach you how to use Avimator to make custom poses for your avatar. Keep in mind I said poses… not animations. :P
It’s about 15 minutes long and around 45mbs, so it might take a little while to download depending on your connection speed… but it goes over the basics of using Avimator to make poses for Second Life. Forgive me for being a little flustered in it… lots of stuff going on tonight. :P If you’re confused or have questions, feel free to Flickr mail me or IM me or email me at rykerbeck@gmail.com. I’ll do my best to help you out, if I can.
Hope you guys enjoy! :) <3
Woo! It’s been a long few days. After spending the weekend in Colorado visiting my sister, I’m glad to finally be home at my comp, filling you guys in on all the cool shit I happen to come across. The latest? A MALE fashion contest.
ASpiRE! Magazine and Apex High Studio (I believe) are holding a winter male fashion contest with grand prize being 1 Fashion show in Second Life, performed by ASpiRE! on ASpiRE Isle and sponsored by Nexeus Fatale on December 15th, 2007. Now, I LOVE Nexeus Fatale. Really. I do. And they’re awesome when it comes to fashion shows… just so ya know.
More on the contest, culled from the ASpiRE! blog:
This contest was created not to just promote male fashion, but to help place more of an emphasis of male fashion in Second Life. This contest is the first in a seasonal contest meant to advertise the best, most creative new male fashion line for the upcoming season.
Prizes for this contest are:
* 1 Fashion show in Second Life, performed by ASpiRE! on ASpiRE Isle and sponsored by Nexeus Fatale on December 15th, 2007
* 3 issues of free full page advertising in the ASpiRE! Magazine
* 1 fashion launch party at your location in Second Life provided by apex-high studio.
This contest has two phases, the submission phase and the call-back phase. The submission phase is open to any Second Life designer that has 1 line of male clothing (5 or more male clothing pieces) and will start that from November 5th, 2007 to November 26th, 2007.
The second phase, the call-back phase, will happen between November 27th and December 2nd, 2007, where the top five submissions will be called back for a final review.Contest Entry: To enter into the contest, each participant must submit 2 outfits. An outfit is defined by at least a shirt and pants, additional but not necessary items can include jackets, undershirts, underwear, jewelry, hats, glasses, gloves, shoes, socks, skirts and any additional prim attachment necessary. Submissions must take place in the form of an image of each outfit submitted to winterfashioncontest @ apexhighstudio . com. No more than 3 imagines per outfit can be submitted. All submission images may not be heavily altered by Photoshop or any other graphical program; cropping, adding text, and resizing are allowed.
Submissions must be in by: November 27th, 2007
For more information, check out the ASpiRE! Magazine blog post for the contest.
Hi everyone!
I realize it’s been… all of 24 hours since I last wrote, but I swear I have a good reason!!! Aside from being suddenly stricken with the plague, that is (damn the cold weather).
I’ve been doing some work compiling a few things for the blog. Links, resources, and what not. You know. USEFUL shit, and not just the constant rambling of a Second Life junkie, namely moi. So here’s what I’ve been up to:
This is a page where I’ll be keeping an ongoing list of all of my favorite fonts and photoshop brushes. You can view them and download them from this page. If you’re at all interested in seeing the things I use on a near-daily basis, this would be the place to look!
This is the page I hope will become the most useful on this blog. It is a compiled list of all the links I currently have for various reasons (SL tutorials, general tutorials, art websites, photoshop filters and brushes websites, font websites, etc). I will be adding to it consistently, as I’m always looking for new and exciting material. *such a junkie* If you have anything you’d like to add, or find a dead link somewhere, please don’t hesitate to drop a comment on that page! Hopefully, with some work, it’ll be a good resource for many one day.
Whew! That was a lot of work, and it’s no where near done… but damn, I’m excited to be sharing the wealth!
Next up… a compiled links page of all Second Life related blogs/websites I can manage to round up, conveniently organized into corresponding categories (fashion blogs, designer blogs, Second Life news, Second Life bloggers, etc, etc…). This is a work in progress, but I hope to have it up soon!
