Style: a prevailing mode of expression

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Today's post is dedicated to the fabulous creations of Digit Darkes. Many of you got to know her brand by now as she been around quite a while. She also took part on several Rezzable Events like Digital Alchemy and the first edition of Black Swan. I never made it a secret that I am a huge fan of her since the 1st hour, so is Lokum and asked me to give it a go on a blog about my favorite dresses of Digit Darkes. Totally fell in love with this idea as I'm quite impressed how she keeps getting better with each release and on top of that, what is possible nowadays in SL, in terms of designing and building.

As a newer Rezzable blogger, I've heard lots of excited talk about the upcoming Swansong fashion event, but I didn't actually know much about it. It was just a place that had clothes for sale, right? I was told that I had to go see what all the fuss was about for myself, with a foot planted firmly on my butt by Lokum and Winter. So I dressed myself in my favourite dress from the previous Black Swan show "Winter Magic" - the Florencia by Ghanima Uriza of ++Blue Blood++ and the Wrapped Hair which Helena Stringer made, and I went on an odyssey of the avian kind.

SL is much like playing digital barbies in a lot of ways.  We can buy tons of outfits, shapes, and hair.  We can setup dream houses and fly around in jets.  My inventory is chock full of accessories.  So many shoes, jewels, and outfits that would make a seven year old green with envy.  Even with all that loot, I was fighting the weekend blah.  My friends were uber busy, I had conquered the hair fair lag, been to SL6B, the RL weather was lousy, and there was nothing on the TV.  So in an effort to shake things up, it was time for another experiment: a significant and drastic change.  Enter December Immortal Barbie...I mean avatar. 




Welcome to the first of what I hope will be many tutorials to come. Seeing as how this is the question I get asked the most, I thought it only fitting to begin this weekly blogging with a green screen removal tutorial.You will need three things for this lesson:

1. A snapshot taken on a greenscreen (you may download the one I will be working on, or you may set up your own green screen - instructions below - and take one for yourself to work on).

2. Photoshop or GIMP.

3. Patience.

Ready? Great! Let's get started. First, let's learn how to create our own in-world green screen. For those of you who would like to skip ahead, I have provided two seperate tutorials in this post - one will teach you how to remove the green screen in Photoshop, the other will explain the process in GIMP. Please select which you'd like to read: Photoshop | GIMP.

Setting up your own, one prim green screen in world; step-by-step:

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With thanks to Uma Ceawlin for styling and modeling

Today's metaverse style takes a turn away from Lolita and into something called "FRUiTs", a brand of fashion named after the magazine that documented its rise. Shoichi Aoki, the photographer who founded the magazine, said that FRUiTs style is inspired by everyday streetwear in Japan. He started the magazine after he noticed that Japanese fashion began to turn away from clothing that was strictly inspired by the West. FRUiTs fashion mixed Japanese geta and other clothing elements into Western-wear, especially in the shopping district Harajuku (made known to Westerners several years ago by Gwen Stefani's Harajuku Lovers line).

Metaverse Style: Fruits



I have to admit that water sims interested me, specially places like euphoria realm in REZ by Yuki Aabye. These kind of places make me think about post-apocalyptic scenarios that fascinate me the same way that steampunk fascinates me.

Post-apocalyptic fiction is set in a world or civilization after the end of civilization either through nuclear war, plague, or some other major world disaster. The scenarios are agrarian, non-technological future world or a world where few elements of technology remain. Steampunk fiction occurs in an era or world where steam power is still widely used but electricity is not yet widespread. These worlds can show you what the world would be like if steam power was the main power used or worlds that would rely heavily on steam power technology.

Unless you are living under an unfashionably large rock, you'd have heard that the final Black Swan by Rezzable event is approaching fast, set to kick off on the 27th of July until the 17th of August. We've named it Swansong, and set a theme of "Elements - Fire, Water, Earth and Air." Now... I knew that these shows were popular, but it's stunned us at just how overwhelmingly positive the response has been.  This is from both by designers wanting to join in, and the public eager to be dazzled. And trust me, we won't be letting anyone down. For this show, we've welcomed back a lot of the wonderful creators that have worked with us on previous events. And I've also been able to use my spooky vampire powers to go head hunting, and boy, you won't believe some of the names that are joining us. Read on after the cut for a sneak preview - of sorts...

Black Swan Buzz

Rebel Hope and Rezzable have done many projects in the past. The Wishbringer  outfit which was part of the Fashion Inspired by Black Swan was a great big success. Fire Goddess idea started from this wonderful ensemble and turned it one sexy hot outfit all designed around the Mary Mayhem model by the talented great designer Rebel Hope.