Miscellaneous....unknown artist :(

I really don't like it...pfff...A couple of months I visited an awesome place...but I can't remember the name. I only know it was a exhibition and I think I found it by accident. But still I want to share with you these wonderful impressions ;).

This one fascinates me the most. The reflection on the floor. Awesome idea. If anybody knows this artist, please let me know. I really would love to put a name under these pictures, because the artist deserves it to be mentioned. I bet there are more of his/her work in SL.

Get your motor running....

head out on the highway.....looking for adventure......in whatever comes our way...

Who doesn't know this song? I really got into it, when I visted a place, pls don't shot me! I can't remember it :(  I know, I know,....it is horrible with my brain. Today I found in my inventory a lot of awesome snapshots I took in SL, but I can't remember where I took them....

So I thought to post them under a new topic "miscellaneous"...and maybe some of you can tell me the name of the place ;) Oh! that's an awesome idea!! ;)

Let's talk about it.....

My curiosity brought me to a place called "Golden Gate".

Well, I didn't know, that this place has more to do with beeing gay or whatever. But it caught my attention. Not that I'm gay....hmmm, let me think....hmmm..well no comment at this time. What I wanted to show you is not the awesome Golden Gate Bridge..NO! I found a wonderful, a little bit hidden place to share your feelings. Feelings for beloved ones, which passed away and the reason is AIDS. In these days we all have to think about AIDS, more then ever. It is not the huge "Lifeball" in Vienna, not the tousend of dollars which gets donate, it is the time...The time people needs to get over from a loss of their beloved ones. To get a chance to look forward in their lifes, to see how wonderful life can be, even when you lost someone. Now, death is not any longer a taboo topic. Today, we can talk easier about it as years ago, because time is changing, people are changing. And also we have to face the reality, also one day we all die....Jase Byrne, a builder in the SL universe, created a path of AIDS Quilt Panels.

From people which shows their feelings. As he describes "It is a nice way to get in touch with my feelings." I only saw panels till 2010, so I'm not quite sure, if he still sets them up, but feel free to IM him, I guess someone with such a heart, can't get mad about it.

You can walk thru the forest, a long the little path and you can look what other people created to remember their love ones.

Why I posted this? Because AIDS is every where, not only in the gay area. Everybody can get it! We only can protect ourselfs with beeing carefully....

On my way back I decided to walk over the Golden Gate Bridge and along the street, Treat Kanto stood up some of his pictures. Art in another way, but still fascinating.

I hope you will find some time to walk thru the AIDS Quilt Panels. It is worth, because sometimes silence gives you the power to look forward to conquere life!

PS. Don't get scared of the name "Naughty Boys Beach" :) There isn't anything naughty here...hmm well I didn't see anything naughty ;)

Late, but finally it also caught me

I just figured out how to get "blog on the go" and as you can see I made it thru the long process ;). Maybe it is a good idea, cause my RL got busier and busier and there are some times where it can be very useful to blog on the go.
Especially when I read other blogs and I decide these things are also good to know and whenelse do you come to read other blogs? When I have some minutes for my own ;)
In the future we will see how this will work out, using my Blackerry (BB) instead of my good old laptop, but anyway I guess I wouldn't use it if I would have a touchscreen phone. I would get lost on the letters using by touch or more frustrated, because I would always touch the wrong one ;).
So stay in and read more, but for now there is a MenStuff hunt waiting on me!

At hunts...

you haven't really time to look around to get a deeper look at some places or stores. And oh well, my mind isn't really so good to remember all the places I have been. But I really try hard to remember them. So at the last hunt I found some cute and interesting stores and places and I wanted to go back to them, but guess what?! I didn't know where they are. So I had to tp to each of the spots of the hunt...again. But I found them and of course, I made a new landmark ;).

One of the place and store I want to show you. KOSH* ;) An awesome place to take really good pictures and playing with the windlight settings.

As you can see on this pictures I had my old look...

After I got my new look and finished the MENstuff hunt, I went back to this place and wandered around.

A little bit aside from the store, there stands a cute, good built cabin. It's called "god cabin". For me it's very seldom to see good built things in SL. Maybe I'm too seldom in SL ;). that could be one of the reasons. But anyway, I don't want to hide this cute and romantic cabin....

Ar first I was nervous, because who owns it? Is it ok to look around? Hmmm, well, no one felt distracted, when I walked around an so I got closer to this house.....

I knocked at the door.....no one answered and I was able to open the door.....shall we have a look inside? Just a sneaky one....

Wow, this house felt warm and friendly...cosy....and everything was placed at the right spot....

After a while I felt comfortable enough to take a seat in front of the warm fire....it wasn't really cold outside, but it also couldn't be a waste of time ;)

I couldn't resist and so I found out who I should give credit for such a wonderful work...The creator of this cabin is Kayle Matzerath, builder and co-owner of Garden of Dreams 1 and 2, If you want to see more of his skills, feel free to join his store ;) You will find a lot of romantic stuff for lovers, including poses and animation. Besides you can tp to different spots, like a dance area with a piano,  a forest themed area, where you will find his creations and where you can try them out.

If you aren't the type to sit in front of a warm fireplace, feel free to rest at this lovely made gazebo....

I need a rest after the long walks around this wonderful sim at one of Fang Roffo created chair ;)

Things are changing...

After a longer break from SL, I decided to sneak back for only an hour or so, I thought...But then after I figured out there were a new hunt out there, I stayed a little bit longer ;). The MENstuff hunt had cost me my last nervs pfff...a lot of these gifts where placed so good. Sometimes I wanted to give up, but the homepage of MENstuff inspired me to go ahead and to catch all gifts.

I also decided to change my look. After over 1 year of SL absence, my avi needed a general service...like you know you bring your vehicle to a body shop and the next time you pick it up, everything looks like new ;) awesome! I needed the same!! And Maverick Design gave it to me!

Doesn't it look cool! Independent?! Awesome?! Maybe a little bit sexy?! Good! Because this were my intention ;).

SKIN: LAQ ~ Emmett 05 - [Cocoa] Defined skin (Hairbase)

SHAPE: Trick Shape-Maverick Design

EYEBROWS: Trick Eyebrows-Maverick Design

EYES: [ND]Paris EyesII Blue Sky ringer

HAIR: Gritty Kitty: Owen - black

The Shape and the eyebrows are from the MENstuff hunt....I saw this gift and I wanted it! No matter what this look were made for me ;)

I saw this new skin by Maverick Design and so I manifested, I want to look like this guy. After some running around and desperate searching I found the hunt gift, opened it and got my "make me sexy" plan. The first hard thing were to get the skin. I had to go to LAQ, a full lag sim and it took me around half an hour to get to see the pictures and to find the right skin. Pfff. AND then!!!! I thought I can risk to click on it and to click the pay button and then I thought I would get my skin, but WTF!? I waited and waited, nothing happened! After a while i gave it up and looked for the customer service.

The product I bought is not in my inventory:

Please log in at www.secondlife.com and go to your transactions history. Find the purchase of the lost item. Copy and paste it into a notecard, and send the notecard to Mallory Cowen. Your lost purchase will be delivered as soon as we do our daily check on the transactions.

I did what they said. I searched for Mallory Cowen to pass her my notecard with all my information. At her profile I found this:

I am not available via IM or notecard,
Please visit our support website:
[ www.laqroki.com ]

I thought I'm dreaming! This can't be true! Are they kidding?! They own such a huge store and business and no one can give me support? I was angry, because after over one year I spent Lindens on a skin I really wanted. Not in a few days or never. I wanted it NOW!!! So I looked up for the other owner, Winter DiPrima, and sent him an upset IM and a notecard. And the same IM and notecard I sent to Mallory Cowen.

On the next day I got an email, which told me I got offered an object in SL and later at home I got my new skin ;) Well I'm a nice and friendly person and so I sent a thank you IM, but I didn't get any response. Oh well, I will survive this skin odyssey. But still I don't understand such a customer service. It seems they are making a lot of Lindens with their store and so I guess they don't need to invest anything in their customer service.

But the outcoming of this shopping hell.....I got my skin ;).

TATTOO: *kARNAL rAGE* - Celtic Heart Tattoo 2

NECKLACE: ::GB::black bead necklace MENS

BELT: [NC+]-Belt11-[Black-Vintage]

BARCELET: ::GB::crest bracelet Black_M

The necklace were a group gift from Gabriel and I think I bought the bracelet. Can't remember it, I'm sorry guys.

So now I can't wait when the next men hunt starts! Ok well, I have a lot of hunt gifts in my inventory and I should start to sort them and to show you my favorites ;)

What an amazing skybox...

After over 1 year and a laptop death I decided to try again SL and wow! Things have changed. My old landmarks doesn't really work anymore and a new SL viewer. I barley remember this one, but I tried hard to decline it. But now with my new laptop I can sneak into SL and can explorer SL new. Art hasn't changed. It is still a hobby. I love to find new interesting places and to play around with the environment editor and when I don't like something I erase it with Photoshop 7.

And I still check the SL marketplace. Today I found something which made me breathless! I'm sure this one exists for long, but today finally I found it too ;).

[what next] Coastal Loft Skybox Furnished

Awesome skybox!! I wish I would have a place to set it up in SL. And bw. I wish I would have so much Lindens to buy it :(. This skybox is great! I love it! Well done! I'm not so into SL homes or so, but this one wow!

Here some pics to get an idea about what I'm talking ;). Well, I guess I have to start saving some Lindens ;). I want this one!

Good luck! ;)