What better way to celebrate a Valentine’s Day preview than to date a adorable Greenie? Forget a romantic evening at the fireplace, a candlelight dinner in a cute restaurant or a moonshine picnic! This Greenie found the ultimate way to get into your heart. Fishing at the sink! It doesn't sound special, does it? But wait, there is more ...

- cute Greenies and Fishies

- slow dance music from DJane Sarlah Maggs

- romantic fireworks

- 7Seas contest with magnificent prizes (Ballerina, Greenie Couple, ...)

Intertessted in? Yes!? Then join us on February 12th, 12-2pm SLT @ Greenies Home.

The other night I went to the Greenie's dance and frolicked with a teal-green tentacle-monster. As we danced, I looked around the crowd and pondered how we all envisioned the concept "futuristic." Everyone looked sexy; that was my first thought. This is Second Life, however, and avatars have to TRY to not be. Sexy aside, I saw a lot of new ideas about shape and structure and fabric. In the future, fabric doesn't have to be cloth, and clothing doesn't have to cover the epidermis; sometimes it's embedded within, sometimes it takes the physical form and twists it entirely. I'd love to see a Galliano show in 3050 (if we cryogenically preserve him or something) -- would he make clothing out of dry ice and foam?

The opposite of the grungy cyberpunk neko dystopia is a sterile, 2001-style future, clean-lined and vaguely modernist, as if it were forever in a 1960s flick. This kind of future is mirrored in the beautifully made skybox from C&D Designs, the Sky Bar. The couches were a cheeky take on Scan Design or Aems, and the small sections of vegetation definitely rang of contact with alien lifeforms. I walked into this skybox expecting company… Then I realized that they were still on Martian time! Not even the drink-serving droid was there to knock me out a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster.

"Boom Boom Pow" Was the name of the first single release of the latest album by the Black Eyed Peas, the visual side of the song the Video was made in a futuristic style. Lightings, neon colors, robot like outfits and dance moves, outta space shots, mostly dark scenes with spotlight. The song and the video were a massive success for the band. I also bought the album. :D Question is why am I telling you about this? It is another perfect example that Rezzable is going with the futuristic trend with their newest Event: 2010 - The Future is Now". Where many great SL designers got inspired to create something special just for this event.

                 Baiastice
            Disconnected
  Destructural Unkleboots

Yesterday I explored the phrase The Future is Now. Today, in the words of Mike Ladd, welcome to the afterfuture. Things aren't very different here. There's just as much pain as there is joy, and we still make short-term decisions with unfortunate long-term effects. The sun won't cool for another million years or so, the earth is adapting to weather extremes brought on by global climate change, and the mystics say that the only places safe from the onslaught of fire and water are the high mountains. Here, we gather, clinging to the few resources we have left, imaginations bent on survival in the human-caused dystopia.

                                                January 2010

                                         The Future Is Arriving

It isn't remotely autumn where my real life body lives. It's still in the 90s outside, and when I listen to internet radio I get weather envy. I try to focus away from it by going somewhere chill and autumnal in Second Life. Today, I trotted my avatar to Octoberville to try my luck at the game. As usual, my attention span was about 30 seconds before I found something shiny and got distracted... But I've heard the game is well worth completing.

Green and orange totally match; or at least they do in October. In this case, I'm wearing a fairy frock from Tomoto with a special edition orange tattoo from Otaku Designs. The skin is perfect and green and new from Cupcakes, part of their Halloween line. The rose hair clip and necklace are especially beautiful -- new creations from Illusions, color-changing for every fairy mood. Back to skipping the stones of Octoberville!

As the leaves change into their autumn hues and chilly breezes nip at our heels, its clear that the fresh, bright seasons of spring and summer have bid us adieu for the year. This does not mean, however, we cannot look fondly back at what they brought us, especially in the realm of fashion-

Plastik makes some of the finest little sheath dresses around with perfectly fitting crotch prims, and MiaSnow's makeups are always brilliantly colored and creative. I'm a complete sucker for Halloween kitsch (like pumpkin-print shirts or what have you) and I still can't believe that Aikea of Plastik actually makes it work in a sexy, interesting way. Combined, the orange and green of it all makes me feel like a pumpkin patch at midnight, never a bad sensation! The little mesh leggings from TheCloset work well with the 80s micro-mini look, as do the pointy Scene-style type flats. The hair is a current favorite freebie from Rotten Toe, out at Zombiefest.

I'm overjoyed that it's October -- so many good things are happening to me this month (like, say, a new job) that it's worth pausing to write about. Happy turn of the year! Now if only Orlando would get cold...