Cinema Noir

Cinema is an event that goes until the end of this month, that have inspired and themed items from the romance, action/adventure, sci-fi, horror, fantasy/musical, film noir… and…. XXX genres.

I'm mixing and matching some of them... can you tell by this picture which item belong to what genre?

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Welcome to Kittens Heaven Café!

Ohai fellows! Did you missed me? No? Nobody  noticed my absence....

For those that noted... I can explain... bringing some good news. My SL dream come true... this weekend I opened to public my own sim, yes, a brand new sim for you all visit. It is called Kittens Heaven.

There are many places to explore and take pictures. As a SL explorer I know that we love places that allow rezz, because it make a way easier take group pics... so.. my sim allow rezz and run scripts.

You will find a cozy café here. Click on all food and drinks, because many of them are interactive. My pictures are taken on the second floor of this café, were you will find a Bar and a stage with some nice poses on it (that I'm not showing)

This sim is decorated for autumn, I hope you all enjoy it .

Now I need to tell you that some things might change in this blog... I may not explore properly sl for a while, because I kinda fell in love for my place and I want to blog all pretty nooks on it.

Plus, I kinda want to do some studios pictures, now that I have prim enough to do my own and private studio... is what I will do.. eventually ;-)

So I will do some simple LOTD pictures or whatever came into my mind... please don't go away!!!

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Cupcake and Vintage Fair

Cupcake sim has an lovely old Parisian theme, with great buildings, fountains, benches and of course great stores to make you shop until drop.

I made a warmth and sunny windlight for this pictures, and I'm still using Niran's tone mapping. 

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Sunshine Mist and last week of Vintage Fair

Sunshine Mist is a friendly residential sim, but it is also home for Pixel Beam Café. It is a great hangout, with great events, DJs and friendly people.

Plus, it is gorgeous! Came with your friends or your loved one, because this place allow rezz, so enjoy and take your pictures too!

Vintage Fair will close August 29th, so hurry up to grab all this goodies!

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Vintage ... I love it

I am a Vintage lover, and this is the main reason I'm here, to tease you all with Vintage Fair goodies.

As soon as I put my little pixel hands on this bodysuit I imagined an pinup, and this is what was my intention while doing this pics.

I'm styling some new brands for me, Chemistry and Lace. The first one is quite small (yet) and has two mesh hairs, one is this vintage fabulous one.

Lace is one of stores at VF, they have really detailed jewelry, it has a color change hud that customize every single piece of the set, like the color of the beads, the body, eyes, tail and ribbon of the kitties. I'm really impressed.

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Hippie Chic at Dura Dura

Dura Dura is a sim under construction, but it is already stunning.

It is also a home of some great stores like Roly-Poli, Memoir and Dura. Except for Memoir, all stores are in the sky, but the ground is the place where I took the pictures.

I decided to do a boho/hippie chic girl to explore this place..

Almost everything I'm wearing are Vintage Fair exclusive items.

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Devious Pinup

Vintage Fair is my favorite event in SL, I spead my posts between this blog and Chic-Style Guide and Chic Management. Since Chic Style Guide will be off really soon, I will reblog my posts here, so you can check it out anytime!

I decided to make this rock and roll pin-up as  soon as I set my eyes on this amazing dress by Devious Mind.  This dress is mesh and came in standard sizes, but it is a way more curvier then most mesh clothes I see around lately.  And curves are prerogative for pin-ups!

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Common Grounds at Club Road south

Common Grounds is an awesome Café on the Club Road South Sim (part of the really nice sim chain part of The Groove).

This si a cozy and beautiful place to take pics, it has some great furniture with poses and allow rezz, so bring your friends and family to enjoy the lake view. 

Im wearing some cool items from vintage fair. Some people might say I'm not wearing a single vintage item, but I need to remember you all that 80's is already vintage *winks*.

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Silver Rose and Vintage Fair

Silver Rose is a sim where you can find Tony Tas Town, an old city with French look, a theater with burlesque dancers. 

The theme is  1920 buildings, with a church, some homes and stores.

I really loved this sim to take some pictures with more Vintage Fair goodies!

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New York City and Vintage Fair Preview

New York sim is not just an Urban place, it is a mix of residential and commercial place, that have a small sample of  the RL city with same name. It has Soho's houses, Apartments, stylish shops like on 5th avenue. They even have a website, check it out for more info about this sim lifestyle.

It is a really nice place to take shots, since it allow rezz objects and run scripts.

Choose a dark Windlights, because the local lights are really amazing.

I keep testing the Tone Mapping and SSAO tools from Niran's viewer. I used some blur and liquidify on this pictures, but I didn't edited the color filters at all.If you doubt an raw shot can be like this, check out my sl feeds, were direct pictures from sl are posted.

When you activate the tone mapping, all windlights  get messed up, so I might create an separate download for windlights with the default numbers of tone mapping, exposure and more.

I mess with them too, editing it like I would do in PS.

Now, lets talk about my favorite event in the whole SL, the Vintage Fair. The 3 sims will be open to public on august 4th. So, until there you can have more info at Chic Management or see some previews at Chic Style Guide, were  I'm proudly an official Vintage Fair Blogger, you can see  other VF preview made  by me here.  

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Gibson

Gibson the home of Nexus Prime - Cyberpunk City of the Future. It looks like a futuristic church on the ground level, but if you fly for the shafts, or cam around, you will find this really charming bar/restaurant that remembers me some vintage art deco, but full of red neon lights.

My tests with tone mapping on Nirans viewer continue! I almost didn't edit it on PS, so this contrast, exposure and saturation are exactly the same as the raw shot.

Cool right?

I may say that it made my brand new skin from Glam Affair  look really great, but it messed up with the streaks of my Alice Project hair.

By the way, this hair is available at Hair fair, that ends tomorrow, so hurry up!

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Pixel dreams and One Voice

Pixel dream is a lovely creation by the Owner of Pixel Mode. At the land point you need to choose the store or T-Town, the name of this installation at ground level.

It is a nice country farm.. .sort of.

It is pretty, well built and textured.

Im testing some features on nirans viewer, like gamma correction and tone mapping and SSAO Option, I think it turned my pics a little weird, with some blue spots, and made shadows blue... weird, but here is the result, I would love comment on this subject.

Well, there are a couple hours before one voice ends. Go there ! Hurry! And thanks a lot for all of you that supported Gala and all creators standing with then against hypocrite thief s.

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The New Yorker and One Voice

The New Yorker is a sim dedicated obviously to NY, there is an stunning park and an art gallery, called Gallery of Pain.

There is some disturbing and beauty walking hand in hand here.

The other part of this post... is about One Voice, a fund raiser to help Gala Phoenix to defense herself in jury against Hush owner. 

If you have no ideia what Im talking about, check this site.

This is not a fund raiser for a person, but against injustice. A person create in SL, make success and suddenly a thief file a DMCA against you, all your items are removed from sl, what is your bread bringer job... and in a country that isn't yours.

How many creators could be attacked like this for scrupulous person?

So this is not an event to help one creator, but an event to show the strength of the SL community against theft.

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Love is Blind

Fluid is an event focused in props and poses, with rotation each two weeks. This round the overall theme is "That's Risque".  It's broken down into 3 sub-categories: Burlesque, S&M, and Voyeurism & Exhibitionism.

I usually don't do studio pics, but is kinda nice work with it times to times.

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Boroka

Boroka is a dark rp sim, full of creatures of the night. A decay village is surrounded by a dark forest and a swamp.

Is amazing how the textures are well made, you need to use a dark windlight to enjoy all this wicked beauty.

My evil witch look is made for many items from Fairy Tale event, organized by Glam Affair team. If you didn't went to fairy tale.. you should!

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