Derek’s SL Report (English Edition)

Good men’s shoes are hard to find in Second Life (SL). Although there are a lot of freebies around, to find a nice-looking pair of sneakers or even a realistic-looking pair of leather shoes takes a lot of effort as well as money.

A recommended place to start your shopping trip is CasualT’s. Go up to the first floor but get a free group membership first for your group discounts.

I own a pair of black leather lace-up shoes. Prices for Cas’ Shoes range from 199 to 249 L $.

A tad more expensive are leather shoes at Shiny Things in Shiny Falls: 300 L $. Sandals sell for 250 L $, boots range from 300 – 500 L $.

One of my favorite shoes here are the black Flare Oxfords.

At ! Made Men …

I got a nice pair of Wingtip Shoes for 450 L $ to go with my grey double-breasted suit.

Very realistic but also very expensive shoes at 600 L $ a pair are sold at FNKY Cake.

Still saving money to get a nice pair of Styles - Penny Black here.

Last but not least a special tip: At KangarOOs …

you can get some great Sneakers Black DUDE (or grey, red, white, denim coloured) for 195 L $ …

as well as a pair of freebie KangarOOs Classics - Flexgrip Men’s that alone are worth the visit.

BTW: They have them for women as well! Enjoy your walks and dancing in SL in good shoes.

CU soon!

Summer is the season of fireworks – not only in real life (RL).

On July 4th, Marin, Skyler, and I went to one of the numerous fireworks displays in Second Life (SL).

While we watched the roof-launched spectacle …

the aroma of roasted pig and other goodies to eat made our mouths water - in RL too!

But that was not the only pyrotechnical experience in SL in the past weeks that I have had the opportunity to enjoy. On June 29th I photographed the Grand Palace Shopping & Event Area opening in Nightwish.

After ball room dancing and a beautiful (and enlightening) live concert by Juel Resistance …

the evening entered its final party stage with an almost hour long, amazing fireworks performance.

The sky literally turned into a spawning ground for all kinds of strange fire flowers …

and alien lifeforms.

The after-fireworks party outside was quite spectacular, too, on its own merits:

Bubbles, balloons, …

and booze turning this into a somewhat surreal experience.

CU at the next fireworks!

Things change a lot in Second Life (SL) and much has happened in the past weeks. But there is one thing one can be sure of: Sooner or later Seraphine Khorana will again be presenting an exciting fashion show.

June’s “Summer Romance Fashion Show” provided me with the opportunity to take a lot of photographs of beautiful as well as beautifully dressed girls.

With Seraphine having edited some of my pictures, I decided to exhibit them in a freebie building turned ad-hoc gallery which I had found in my inventory.

I put five to six photographs into each of the six frames with the display set to change every 30 seconds.

The location was an experiment, too: At 768 meters altitude on a temporary sky-platform it might seem somewhat unconventional.

Sadly, though not quite unexpectedly, it got deleted before all of my friends and readers could take a closer look.

CU at the next show!

Last weekend marked a big event for SL’s “Act Up Theatre Group”. Their “Potpourri of One Acts” was performed during the Second Pride 2007 Festival and, despite some minor problems with sound streaming, all three shows were a great success.

Now we, the SL audience, finally know all about how our beloved virtual world came into being and what 80s fan-favourites Beavis and Butthead are doing nowadays.

“Genesis”, the story about the creation of Second Life, tells it all: why humans with cat ears and cat tails are running around in our new world, how furries and tinies were created, and why tech support is the Linden gods’ final gift to us users.

After an interesting monologue by Lauren Weyland on the hazards of SL sex and poseballs in general, there came another highlight:

“One Little Indian Boi”, a crime noir pulp fiction mixture inspired in equal parts by ordinary SL kinkiness, Inspector Clouseau, Tex Avery’s Droopy, and the Village People of YMCA fame, enlightened us about the potential risks of using a seemingly harmless eXCITE Sex Toy.

But never fear, the culprit was apprehended and himself accidentally disintegrated by his fiendish contraption. We won’t give away who it was but hey, hint: Look what the play is called!

After all these very SL related plays and monologues came a play appealing to more sophisticated users in SL. “The Thinkerer”, a new take on Aesop’s fable “The Tortoise and the Hare”, told a short but very entertaining tale about the value of finding a moral in doing one of those very senseless human things we all love to watch: racing!

The shows concluded with lots of applause once the audience located the F2 key on their keyboards. I was asked to thank all those who attended and especially those who contributed generously into the tip jar and thus laid the groundwork for more shows to be produced in the upcoming months. You were a great audience!

See you at the next show!