Crazy times… Corona still holds the world in its hand and all of us try to do our best to fight it, even if we cannot see yet any success and things seem to get worse and worse. I know it isn’t the fact, but sometimes it feels like it. We are now in our second week without school in Germany. I am a teacher (usually in the mornings I do teach at a school) and I do have a tiny private afternoon tutoring company. Usually I am surrounded by kids all day and in the past I had days where that was quite exhausting. Always having 10 to 60 kids around you from 8 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon didn’t feel always easy but now that I see how it is to have none of them around – it doesn’t feel good either. I am lucky to have the possibility to hold online classes and have some one-on-one tutoring as well, but it doesn’t feel the same. Before the difficulties were the noise in bigger groups, or the kids being distracted by looking outside the window and now… the difficulties have changed. I never thought it could be that hard to explain something like mathematics to a child online only online… you talk a lot more trying to describe everything and if they have to draw triangles with certain length or certain degree angles. Most of them do not have the technical equipment to show you what they did, they usually only can take a snap with their cellphone and send it to me.. and if they spend already like 20 min to do that task and then something went wrong you can start all over again.
Certainly it has a positive side as well – I do not have the distance and the time to drive to school and back in the afternoon and I have the advantage of having an open bowser all the time to find answers I might not know out of the blue for certain questions, so I do not wanna whine or rage about it – I just discover everyday the differences and the different difficulties. Between all that I try to keep my Mom inside and safe – she is over 70 and recently had a brain tumor and chemo after it, so she is in the risk group for that damn virus as well. So my Second Life times at the moment are a little bit more limited and not as regular as I used to be, but I do not want to stop blogging and taking pictures completely as it feels like a little bit of resting time and holiday for my brain when I do that.
The pictures for todays post I already did over a week ago, but I wasn’t able to post work them and write something about yet. So now the Cyber fair by ACCESS sadly is over but I am sure you can find all the goodies in the designers main stores already or soon.
First of all the amazing vinyl ensemble from A&Y called “Phex”, which is a combination of a long sleeved top and short pants with an awesome, realistic looking shine. It is decorated with straps and zippers and with the huge HUD you can change the colors for all different parts including the metals.
All the amazing accessories I as well found at the Cyber Fair, but like I said before I am sure you will find them most likely either already or soon at the designers main stores. The incredible face art done by Nefekalum Tattoos comes in 3 different versions. You can find many different tings in your folder. First of all the 3 different versions of the makeup it self. Black Tears only, Red Smudge only and a full version of both. Furthermore you will find appliers for head and body materials and the belonging erasers. On top of that, since all his tattoos are materials enabled, Sir Skye added a perfect projector (light source) as well, for you to use if you like.
Certainly I did need some cool nails and rings to complete my outfit and it was no question that the “Creature Claws” from CerberusXing were just the perfect choice. They are available in 3 colors (silver, onyx and gold) and rigged for Belleza Jake, Signature Gianni, Maitreya and the female Slink hands.
The smart looking hair style was made by no.match. I love the wild top hair, the shaved sides and the fact that you still have 2 wisps at your ears. Like always for no.match hair styles you have different color packs and a fatpack available. The purchases will include a shaved hairbase as well, but since I do have my own shaved hair base I did not use it for todays post 😉
It was time again to built my own set – I found so many cool things at the Cyber Fair, I just had to. All you can see, from the backdrop over the drinks, food (weed) vending machine and the incredible animals, I collected at the Cyber Fair.
I would like to draw your attention a little bot towards the animals. The “Caged Biter” is available in 3 different colors. You can separate the animal from the cage as you can see in my pictures. The Biter is an animated mesh design and has adorable movements, which make it possible to have some more interactive looking pictures with the different poses or the animal.
I do have an immense fun at the moment with cyber and sci-fi posts as they open a whole new range for pictures and styles to me. We do not know what the fashion or environment will look like in our future, but for me that gives us a lot of room to experiment and the possibility of unending creativity 🙂
Clothing
Outfit: A&Y – “Phex” (Maitreya)
Accessories
Eyepatch: RichB. – “Dex Eyepatch F”
Face Straps: unstable – “Code: WYVERN”
Septum: Astara – “Cthulhu Septum”
Mask: SEKA’s – “HVCKED Mask (no effect)”
Back Attachment: .{PSYCHO:Byts}. – “Feel the Connection – Back Implant”
Rings & Nails: [CX] – “Creature Claws – Onyx” (Maitreya, Bento)
Hair & Makeup
Hair: no.match – “No. Industry”
Faceart 1: Nefekalum Tattoos – “Two Sides of Madness (Black Tears Only)” (BoM)
Faceart2: LuluB! – “Fembot” (BoM, Cyber Fair Gift)
Lipstick: Izzie’s – “LeLutka – Holo Metallic Lipstick 12 (green)” (BoM)
Head, Body & Tattoos
Head: LeLUTKA – “Lake 1.1”
Ears: [Cubic Cherry] – “Altered Ears (glow)”
Skin: Human Glitch – “MNFRM SKIN / MTL GENUS1” (BoM)
Body: Maitreya – “Lara 5.0.2”
Legs: Blah. – “Love.Ai/RoboLegs Black” (Maitreya)
Tattoo: Nefekalum Tattoos – “Organic Decay” (Maitreya, Applier)
Poses, Props & Tools
Poses:
Picture 1: BellePoses: – “NyxV2 2” (Bento, right arm lightly edited)
Picture 2: STUN – “Debora 4” (Bento, lightly edited)
Picture 3: BellePoses: – “NyxV2 7” (Bento)
Picture 4: Foxcity – “Power-1” (Bento)
Set:
Background: The Bearded Guy – “Industrial – The Future” (Gacha, Common)
Machine: # ninety – “Cyber Vending Food [ Weed ]”
Shower: HILTED – “Decontamination Shower – Adult – Silver/Green”
Animals & Cage: HILTED – “Caged Biter – Black/Green/Light”
Chairs: buildworksdecor – “Cyber / Retro Neon Chair White Changeable X”
Food: andika – “cyber sweets Dispenser set”
Model & Photographer
The awesome dress comes from Salt & Pepper. Usually I am not a huge fan of knitted dresses, but the “Alexa” dress is a cool combination of a knitted dress with leather seams and those cute leather sleeves that come out underneath the knitted ones and reach down over the wrists. The dress certainly again has a HUD and you can mix and match the colors of the knitted part and the leather parts. The high turtle neck as well looks like a leather fabric and changes the color together with the sleeves and the leather. The leggings are – believe it or not – an applier! I do have 2 different leggings from lassitude & ennui and both of them look so realistic that I could not believe on the first view that they were just appliers. The folds and wrinkles look so much more than just like a texture… simply awesome. I was at their main store a while ago but sadly I only could find those 2 leggings. If they would have had more I guess I would have bought them all 😉
