Archive for the ‘CheckingOut’ Category

Checking Out… Tableau

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Tableau is one of those little boutique shopping sims that make shopping away from strip mall sims such a joy. It’s beautiful, offbeat, fun, and its shops are just a joy to poke around in.
Designers and builders featured here range from artist Toast Bard, the eclectic Nylon Pinkney, freebies goldmine Forseti Svarog, builder Ingrid Ingersoll, [...]

Checking Out… Liquid Heat

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

Did a spot of Foo navigation in Second Life (where I type random words into Search and teep to the first available hit I get, whatever it is), when I came across Liquid Heat.

Hmm, pirates, castles, and mystical elvish ruins. It’s not Tahiti as I know it, but you gotta go with your Foo.
So the [...]

Checking Out… Virtual Starry Night

Monday, April 28th, 2008

A year ago, Robbie Dingo posted an extraordinary clip called “Watch the World(s)”, in which he recreated Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night as a 3-dimensional landscape in Second Life. Alas, nothing remains of that wonderful build but the video.

Virtual Starry Night (Vincent’s Second Life) presents you with the next best thing. Visit the hospital gardens, [...]

Checking Out… Laqroki (formerly Rac)

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Rac had a nice looking sim before, but the new improved model is sleek and open and rezzes faster. And so shiny! You feel like you have arrived at the Grand Central of Skin and Hair City, and that’s no accident of design.
Laqroki is so new that you can almost smell the plastic wrapping, but [...]

Checking Out… The Rezzable Gallery

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

I like exploring, and I like galleries, so when I discovered that there was an entire Rezzable sim that was one big gallery, I just had to check it out.

Well, the entry point is pretty. I do feel a bit like I’m inside an android’s guts. When I got bored with watching each individual ring [...]


 

 

 

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