@revpaperboy Well, if you ever want to hijack the stream on my land in Steelhead St Helens, lemme know. Rooftop dancefloor has a nice view. in reply to revpaperboy->
Here's all the products I have listed on the Marketplace, newest first. Should be 3 pages. http://t.co/qjVekT4zHk->
@revpaperboy I miss my comrades, any Party business this weekend? ->
@revpaperboy Is your stream up all the time? I need to get it into my various listenting devices ->
So here I am inworld, trying to listen to a live webcast of Britain’s “The Thursday Night Show” which this week includes a live webcast from a club in Brighton, UK… and Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer is going to play at about 9pm-ish GMT (UK time).
Unfortunately the inworld browser doesn’t care for the (very fun) Flash plugins for chat and images, so I have it up on Media on a Prim, sort of, but have to listen and watch on a “normal” browser.
Still, this Thursday Night Show thing is a lot of fun, very international, and normally it’s DJ’s from all over with very eclectic music. People log in and chat from all over the world. Meanwhile, they display art too – tonight’s artist is Rachel Polsom, with some nice character sketches. Also a few photos of Mr B himself just to tease. I was hoping for actual video, but it’s just going to be the live stream, and occasional photos and images.
In fact this popped up: I think it’s from within the venue, of the previous band, Dream Themes – who were a lot of fun with their TV theme quiz show act, and a stand in drummer.
And now we’re all happily anticipating the amazing Mr. B, the Gentleman Rhymer. His banjolele is tuned up, his moustache is waxed, and our host, DJ Voice of Doom, is keeping the stream happy with a pretty eclectic mix of tunes while he sets up. I never knew that someone did a dance remix of “Let My People Go,” with Louis Armstrong, but it sounds pretty good. Same for cuts from Louis Prima and Scott Joplin – old jazz layered over club beats sounds… great, actually.
Meanwhile, I’m dancing with my steam-powered jetpack – because I can, you know.
And at last, the headliner plays – great live set with audience participation. The live chat is just as fun, full of people from all over the world. There’s little red dots all over Europe, North and South America, and Down Under.
It was a lot of fun listening to Krypton Radio tonight, in spite of some technical glitches. They’re going to get to do an interview with Bruce Boxleitner (yes, yes, Captain Sheridan and Tron and all). He has a new project coming out sometime, a Steampunk one at that, and fan friendly as well: Lantern City.
Well, this looks like exactly the kind of thing I’d like to watch:
The new Steampunk show Lantern City, from executive producer Bruce Boxleitner, is an exciting foray into fan-inspired and fan-created television. It combines first-rate storytelling, innovative production design, and a rich world that fans will fall in love with. Even though it will blend great science fiction with dynamic storylines, at its heart the show asks two questions: how far would you go to be with the person you love and what lengths would you go to in order to survive?
Lantern City highlights the steampunk genre to create a one-of-a-kind television experience. Other properties have had Steampunk elements, but this is the first mainstream television show to proudly wear the label of Steampunk. Current fans of the subgenre will not be disappointed and it will attract a much wider audience to the long neglected world of Steampunk. The show is unique in that it allows viewers to be involved in the process – a first for any television show.
So I’ve signed up to the forum and will check back for updates, it looks intriguing. I’ve been aware of the project for a while, and I even twittered back and forth with whoever is behind @LanternCity. They’ve been going to a lot of cons and making a lot of new fan friends.
In other totally unrelated news, I got 3 more scripted folding screens made (yes, from a kit, but hey) and fixed perms on the first one. Curse you, perms issues! The thing I have to remember is to set everything globally to “modify and copy” and then tweak the folding script to “no modify, no transfer” since there’s no reason for a customer to mess with it.
And after all that, and after laughing at the silly stuff Krypton’s Gary Da Baum and Steelhead’s Willow Leafstorm were playing on the music stream, I threw on some pixel duds and went to the Friday night dance.
It got a little weird, but what else is new?
At this week’s Friday Night Dance, the theme was supposed to be “Monty Python” because Krypton Radio was going to do set on that, hosted by our own Marshal Fuzzball Ortega (Gary Da Baum). I was listening via aetheric connection at the time because I was working on my screens. But the Fuzz had technical issues, so another of our Steelhead DJs (also a Krypton staffer) took over for a while with an equally demented set. It was fun hearing the shout-outs to Steelhead, though. Finally, I finished up and put on something Victorian so I could enter the ball saying “Shot off? Completely?!?” but the music was already on to another theme by then. Still, it wasn’t too late for more dead parrot jokes.
Our benevolent despot, TotalLunar Eclipse, hosted the ball in a brand new castle currently sitting in the newly emerged Steelhead City sim. Some of the old stores have come back with brand new makeovers; this castle is for public events and general mayhem.
For example, Lunar put out the ceremonial Steelhead trout cannon, which anyone could fire. The trout were about a meter and a half long and were temporary objects that persisted for about 3 minutes, so they built up pretty fast. I didn’t get any good shots of those, but there are some visible here:
After that, I went off taking pictures under a rather moody Windlight setting – Misty Day? at sunset.
It all looks like much fun to be had – but it’s also something that can be experienced in Second Life. 2-gramophone decks? We has them.
Rideable dinosaurs? Check. This is just my 2-seater pterodactyl, nothing special. I saw some wearable tyrannosaurus avatars the other day where your lifeless AV body hangs from the gaping jaws of a hungry T-rex, no biggie.
Oh, goodie!! The fish-flinger cannons are still rezzed out at the castle ballroom, I can demonstrate!
So like I said, it got a little weird at the end, but was a lot of fun.
Another arty one – this one is a processed photo of myself wearing a spring kimono at a really beautiful Japanese-themed sim that had a magnificent “cherry-blossom-viewing” festival a couple of years ago. It’s been treated to look a bit like an old painting, layered on a gold abstract background.
Animated folding MESH room divider screen adds Asian style and modern flair to any room. Touch to fold screen to the side, touch again to open. The screen panels are one retexturable face, as are the wood frames and the hinges. Keep a backup copy if you retexture (remember to retexture the folded screen too).
This is a photo shot several years ago at a Japanese themed sim with a beautiful display of cherry blossoms, which has been processed in an impressionistic style.
I hope you enjoy this product as much as I did in creating it, from an original kit by Sea Warcliffe and script by Tapple Gao
The item shows "no modify" in inventory, but is copy and modify when rezzed out.
Animated folding MESH room divider screen adds Asian style and modern flair to any room. Touch to fold screen to the side, touch again to open. The screen panels are one retexturable face, as are the wood frames and the hinges. Keep a backup copy if you retexture (remember to retexture the folded screen too).
I have included the screen panel image in case you retexture and wish to revert the original design.
I hope you enjoy this product as much as I did in creating it, from an original kit by Sea Warcliffe and script by Tapple Gao
Item shows no modify in inventory due to a perms issue with a script, it is copy and modify when rezzed out.
Animated folding MESH room divider screen adds Asian style and modern flair to any room. Touch to fold screen to the side, touch again to open. The screen panels are one retexturable face, as are the wood frames and the hinges. Keep a backup copy if you retexture (remember to retexture the folded screen too).
I have included the screen panel image in case you retexture and wish to revert the original design.
I hope you enjoy this product as much as I did in creating it, from an original kit by Sea Warcliffe and script by Tapple Gao
The screen is copy and modify when rezzed out, only a script is no modify.
Oh, hey, I made a thing here. Actually, two things.
Thing One is a pinky purpley mesh blocky thing. After reading through some really helpful TEXT and STILL PICTURE tutorials from Tufts University last night, I sat down and made a random shape via extrusions at lunch, in about 15 minutes start to finish. Woo. And then I assigned a material to it and uploaded to my standalone grid, using Kokua because Firestorm-OS crashed to desktop.
And hey, IT WORKED. What a bumblefrack it was, though. Sorry that it’s disturblingly blocky and unnatural, yet evocative of a certain much-mocked object (rhymes with “ploppy bong”). It just worked out that way.
So then tonight, I fought and snarled and tussled with a very rough model of Kipling Rock that’s been sitting on my hard drive for months while I found other things to do. So just as a test, I did a little rough modeling on it, playing with tools and mostly losing them and not being able to find them again. And then I spent about… 3 hours or more trying to assign a material, assign a texture (slot) to the material, open and apply a texture, and then, I DON’T KNOW, SCREW AROUND WITH ASS AND ELBOWS until somehow I got the texture to apply on the 3D model. Uh, yay if only I knew what I’d done (other than the “lightbulb” moment when I realized which button the “Viewport Shading > Texture” button was, and which header the button was on, no it was not on the top header, that was a duplicate window that was mostly hidden, you goof).
I struggled with the UV-Unwrap thing, not knowing what I was doing and not really following the well-written and illustrated instructions from KatsBits and Blender.org.
Well, hell, it’s a rock, but I made it and in fact, the texture on it is a tileable one I made today too. Not very good, very badly done, didn’t bother to mark seams, just slapped the sucker on there without trying to figure out shadows. My glacial progress continues, much like the journey this rock made tumbling downslope over the millennia until it ended up in the Clackamas River, being used as a handy fishing platform by Rudyard Kipling.
And now, it’s 2am and I’m going to bed. I’ll save my rant about inworld Blender class instructors who refuse to conduct classes in text, refuse to give out class notes, and refuse to give desktop-share links to people who arrive late, yet repeat their classes only once. I’m not an auditory learner, I’m a textual learner. Pictures are helpful, but I have to go back again and again to get some of the little tricks and quick shortcuts, because I miss them so easily if I’m trying to take notes AND watch the screen.
Oops, I ranted.
Anyway, there’s the rock, sitting in a little river with a boat nearby and some fishing stuff – it’s just to prove to myself that I can doooo eeeet. Now I can start to refine the thing, make the physics model better, figure out better texture mapping, and Dhughan can put down his little parkland in time for Spring.
