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!
This page, you’ll find, is probably going to be your most favorite ever. At least, I hope. Hey, I can dream, right?
The new tutorial page is an accumulation of the Photoshop tutorial videos I’ve managed to complete while engaging in the land of Second Life photograph touch-ups. I figure, if there’s something I don’t know how to do — then there’s likely someone else who doesn’t know how to do it. And believe me, there’s PLENTY I don’t know how to do. So when I figure something out… I want to share. This is my way of doing that.
Don’t worry. I’ll add more as I make them. Hopefully someone, somewhere will find these useful! Enjoy.
It was those words that inspired this original release, “Enlightenment”, this afternoon:
A little about this shot…
In all honesty, I am still in complete and utter awe at just how much this picture has come to mean to me. It’s amazing how three little worlds can inspire so much emotion, so much feeling, so much intensity and so much VISION… that the image that’s swirling in your head just needs to come out and be ALIVE. That’s what I felt while I was making this. It took about two and a half days, and a lot of care and attention to detail, but my GOD, where it’s ended up is better than I could ever have imagined it in my head.
A little about the lotus flower…
The anomaly of the lotus flower is a powerful symbol in Buddhist religion. The flower stands tall and unpolluted in muddy waters. It germinates in the darkness below, emerges above the water, and blossoms into a beautiful flower in bright sunlight. Buddhists use the symbol to refer to the complete purification of the body, soul, and mind even as the roots remain firm in the ground. (read more)
*looks again and sighs in satisfaction*
It’s not even pride I’m feeling right now. It’s utter contentment for the emotion I see before me. The life that pours out to me from this picture, knowing that it came from my heart and soul. It’s such a rare treat to truly see the visions in your head come to life… and this has truly been a vision, a revelation, an enlightenment…
And I am so happy to share it with you.
PS: For those of you that were disappointed by my very first blog post… there actually *are* boobies in this one. LOL!
