Psycho Circus

Roll up! Roll up! 

                           The tattered poster declared...

The Psycho Circus is in town!

Come see the Man who ate his own Foot, the Bearded Lady, and of course... the highlight of our show, you've heard about em, you've read about them, now you can see them in the flesh, and tremble under their gaze... it's The Three!

The small town folk may well have heard about them, notorious as they are. They had made headlines, evaded convictions, escaped the gallows.. and ended up here.

Alyssa, the eldest of The Three, had charm and grace. Her skills lay in flexibility of body and mind, she ensnared the weak with a glance, and bent the most steadfast to her will with a smile. Accused, and found miraculously innocent of several high value confidence tricks, none of the millions that had been 'lost' had ever been found. Rumour has it that she keeps the keys to several safety deposit boxes tucked inside her boots. Don't step too close as you watch her bend and flex before you on the balance balls, that glint in her eye will do you no good...

Bella, the second of The Three, stalked the shadows at the edges of the day, and came into her own as night fell. Her skills lay in dexterity and stealth, she could pick a pocket, and lift your wristwatch with ease. In the darkest of nights, it was rumoured that she could blend into any crowd unseen. When her luck did not hold, and the cold metal of handcuffs graced her delicate wrists, as with her elder sister, she evaded the noose by means fair or foul. Come a little closer, watch her spin on the hanging hoop, but mind your valuables are still with you if you leave...

Celeste, the youngest of The Three, had the air of innocence and sweetness. Her skills lay in beguiling and insinuating herself into the psyche of her victims. She could break your heart with a single tear, and wrench it out just as easily with cruel fingers. The bloodiest of The Three, her freedom may surprise you, warrants and dark suited agents follow in her wake, each trying, unsuccessfully thus far, to connect her to her crimes. Enjoy her skills as she twists and balances on the chair, should you see her again, beware...

This is the [Virtual Props] Psycho Circus Photography Prop; it costs L$900, and the permissions are COPY, MOD, NO TRANS.. There is no notecard associated with this product, just rez and pose! It has 30 Unique poses in 3 pose sets, adjustable with memory for up to 100 avatars, photographer controlled and can be placed into any photo studio prop rezzer. 42 Prims. 

On another note, it's my favourite sim to TP people to, something about sending a TP with the message "Join me in Endless Death" just makes me smile. 

There is a group you can join, signup cost 500L. For that, you get all the poses pictured on the walls as free group gifts (they are many and varied). When wearing the tag, you get money back from purchases in the store, and the store owner from time to time has amazing half price sales for members not to mention chances to buy new props and poses for a limited time on release at lower prices!

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Endless%20Death/27/107/24

Alyssa
Skin :  Plastik  :[P]:-Aleria://Nightbringer's  Breath://Pale Horse (old hunt gift)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/The%20Beautiful%20Machine/115/159/135
Hair : ^;^CaTwA^;^ Amylee Roots/Mystic
http://slurl.com/secondlife/CaTwA/128/121/24
Eyes : REPULSE - Living Dead Eyes (Dilated)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/REPULSE/181/159/1095
Outfit : The Sea Hole - Nicosia Sun Suit - Persimmon
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tails/215/192/21
Boots : .:L&B:. "Elise" Ankle & Knee Boot Sets:PATENT BL :UPDATE 2012
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Gothic%20Clothing%20Obsession/127/128/28

Bella
Skin : *Epic Skins* Dark Elfin Singles {Darkest Moon} [Glo] Cleavage
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Vanima%20Shee/131/81/23
Hair : ^;^CaTwA^;^ Amylee/RavenNight
http://slurl.com/secondlife/CaTwA/128/121/24
Outfit : DeeTaleZ dresses wraped dress red (colour modded darker)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/DeeTaleZ/129/138/35
Pasties : [Plastik]-Bandaids-F-S-Betty
http://slurl.com/secondlife/The%20Beautiful%20Machine/115/159/135

Celeste
Skin :  : S u g a r : Cry My Heart Out -C- :3:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Depraved%20Nation/139/151/70  (store is on depraved nation sim)
Hair :  ^;^CaTwA^;^ Amylee Roots/Teal
http://slurl.com/secondlife/CaTwA/128/121/24
Outfit : [Plastik]-Strapped-Frozen
http://slurl.com/secondlife/The%20Beautiful%20Machine/115/159/135

Im your dog

It was a beautiful day. Eliza had spend it at the beach. The people there knew her allready. She was that girl with the bone. Thats what they called her. It was wrong. The truth was she was the dog with the bone who looked like a girl. She never talked much the bone was also a good excuse. It was the only which she still had from her first owner. It was in the late 1970ties when they met. Eliza had run away from her mother and the fellow puppies as those always pestered her. And somehow a magician found her. It was the time when people said that they would believe in magic but in truth only believed in powerful drugs. The perfect time for a true magician to live less like an hermit. With her dogmind Eliza wasn't able to understand what really was going on but then her owner transformed her. Maybe because he thought that it would be horrible to see her die so soon as dog years are so much shorter than human years or because of reasons a normal human could not imagine. Changing the shape also changed Eliza. She became smarter but the rites of the humans still were a mystery to her. And some habits she simply couldn't change. She still loved to chew on bones and was as faithful as only a dog could be. Of course it was her master who died first. Some hippies finally found out that the tricks he showed them were real and killed him when he was not willing to abuse his powers. Since then she was alone. With the time she learned to deal with her human body quite well but still she didn't manage not to carry now and then a bone around. 
The Gallery Gift Shop is one of the cutest monthly events in second life. Its a mix of a gallery and a shopping event. Kumaki Glasses Style is one of the stores which take part in it for a long time. For this round of the event they made a bone which is worn between the lips. It has a tag on it which says "Im your dog". The bone is made of non rigged mesh. So are the crowns which are worn around the wrists from DownDownDown. The set is available in a metalic version and one which reminds on water. The outfit is the current groupgift from 22769, a store which besides this also takes part in the Gallery Gift shop. The gift is an alternative looking outfit for guys and girls. It includes a top which can be worn with and without primsleeves, trousers and a belt. The boots come from Duh! and are currently available at the Zombie Popcorn Brand event. They have of course a resizescript and include not only an alphalayer but also invisible prims for those who do not use a viewer which can handle alphas.
The design with the tattoos on it is great and they are even unisex.
The pose on the first picture and the scooter on the second picture are available on the same event. The pose comes from Purple Poses and the scooter from !Bang. The scooter includes six poses. Its a loveply poseprop which has to be rezzed which makes it possible to use for photographers. The only problem I had dealing with it was that I didn't understand the notecard with the posesettings inside of it so I was not able to adjust the poses. But it looks very lovely and I guess with a bit testing it should work to adjust the poses. It is possible to test the scooter in the store.
The Hair from Wasabi Pills is called Lola. It is made of rigged mesh. The set includes it in a boobs and a normal version although its rigged for women so its more a bigger and a not so big boobs version. It also comes with a hud which allows to choose between 15 designs for the scarf and 14 for the bands which hold the braids together.
The skin and the shape come both from Adam and Eve. The shape was a gift there sometime ago and isn't available anymore but the skin still is.  It is called Victoria and the used version is the sunkissed one.
Hair: /Wasabi Pills/ Lola summer Mesh Hair - (250 L$ for colourpack 1500 L$ for fatpack)
Skin: Adam n Eve Skins - Victoria Sunkissed (1800 L$)
Outfit:  22769 ~ casual couture Groupgift May 2012 (0 L$)
Bracelet: DownDownDown_Milkcrown bracelet Metal_(90 L$ Sold at the Gallery Gift Shop)
Bone: kumaki - Bone"I'm your dog" (10 L$ Sold at the Gallery Gift Shop)
Boots: ::::Duh!:: Tattoo Love Ankle Boots - Unisex (25 L$ sold at Zombiepopcorn brand)

Pose 1st pic: Purple Poses ALEXIA (100 L$ for 10 poses sold at Zombiepopcorn brand)
Pose 2nd pic: !bang - mini scooter {black} (250 L$ sold at Zombiepopcorn brand)

The pictures have been taken at Lost Beach.

In a painting

Turning around she had to recognize that she was missing most of her shadow. The world was surreal like it was only held together by a few strokes of a brush. Niamath knew what it meant. She had not secured her mind when going to sleep. For some moments she was shocked. Everybody could make mistakes but not her. The pace of her heart started to become faster at least she thats what she thought she was feeling but being caught in a painting meant that she had no controll over her body. Niamath was not able not to appreciate the style of the artist who caught her. The elegance of the style was impressive. But this was the wrong time to admire art. The war of painters was going on now for months. Many had been killed about questions of light, details and even not managing to agree about how to hold a brush could cause a slaughtering. The most effective was was to catch the oponent in a picture and then to simply let their body starve while the mind was not able to escape. Some had become insane in pictures and had been released or had managed to find a way out. But they were not a big help in developing strategies about how to escape out of a picture. As pretty the picture was she knew that it would make her insane having to see it for longer than a day and if that wouldn t happen her body would die within the next four days. It was hard to fight the urge to cry but now knowing how connected her body was still to her mind she didn't want to loose any liquid.  When her hand moved up to her head in the urgent need to stroke over her forehead to keep herself calm she felt the feathers of the collar of her shirt. One moment she recognized that she was standing in a lake of ink. The feeling of hope started to grow in her chest but she knew that she would need something to paint on.
....
The marks never disappeared from her skin. But they were what most people wanted to see when they met Niamath for the first time. Especially the door on her arm fascinated people. It was what they called the opening to peace. She was the first one who had managed to paint herself out of a picture. Knowing this people started to carry a pencil some colours and - if they did not want to be marked  -  some paper into their dreams and they were always able to escape.
The third zombie popcorn brand wave started and Wasabi Pills made a most lovely mesh hair for it. Its a pony tail with some nice braids on the front of the head. The hair fits to many different looks from playful to elegant. The blue top and the pants come from miamai. The pants have been released at Culture Shock which ends today but are also avialable in the Miamai store now. Being made of mesh there are the five standart sizes included in the set as well as an alphalayer. The pants have the typical sophisticated and elegant maimai style. They are available in various colours and prints. The ones in black like on the picture are great to combine them with more colourful clothes as they fit to nearly everything. The top and collar originally belong to the Loue dress in springblue. But they go very well also just as top. On the picture they are worn together with the pants of the dress. The collar is mod. This dress is only available on the marketplace.
The leather belt has been used to give the whole outfit an edge. It comes from bitch, which is a clothing store for mesh items for women by the rustica owner Maxwell Graf. As it is not rigged it is possible to resize the belt.
The poses come from Purple Poses. They belong to the Alexia set which is also only available at the Zombie Popcorn Brand event at the moment.
The pictures have been taken at a sim named China. It looks like being in a traditional japanese/chinese painting. Its a stunning sim and worth a visit.

Hair:  /Wasabi Pills/ Anais Mesh Hair  (250 L$ for colourpack 1500 L$ for fatpack sold at Zombiepopcorn brand)
Top: Miamai_Loue SpringSky (200 L$ only available on the Marketplace)
Belt:bitch - studded mesh belt Leather/Rusty (I fear the belts are not released yet)
Pants: Miamai_Mahvi Pants Black (420 L$)
Poses: Purple Poses ALEXIA (100 L$ for 10 poses sold at Zombiepopcorn brand)

Location: China

Culture Shock

Life in the mall was always hectic, not that bright, shiny, piped in music and crowds of happy people clutching plastic sacks of purchases way of malls from the time before. The malls now were the walkways of the sky, only marginally safer than the rubbish strewn streets far below. Even walking through the better zones you were just as likely to get caught in the crossfire of a laser fight between mall militia and gang members as you were to spot a bargain deal in the high priced stores. Illya had had enough for one night. She worked in one of the darker clubs in the sanctioned bar zone, the kind frequented by the rich kids looking for a thrill, one where their richer parents would hate to think of them being, but which held a much lower death rate than others in the lower levels of the mall. Heading away from the pounding headache of noise created by different genres of music all competing within the confined space she moved quickly towards the blue zone.

It was quieter here, the stores mostly winding down in the small hours of the morning, a few, not staffed 24 hours, were shuttered and dark. Smiling to herself as she passed by a couple getting hot and heavy in the shadows she walked on, not disturbing them, her boot heels clicking alternately on concrete and metal gratings, no fine marble down here. Pausing in front of a store window, she checked her reflection in the glass, as a blue light glowed, scanning her head to foot. With a soft hiss the glass panel slid back and to the side, allowing her to step on through. As she emerged again, hair teased high, the piercings replaced on her face. The skimpy work outfit discarded, she was now wrapped in black web, each thread woven with care, fine as silk, harder than steel. She was ready to greet the friends who awaited her, ready to start her own night out in the darkest depths the mall and the streets beyond had to offer.

Culture Shock is back! The “Culture Shock” event in May 2012 (May 4th – May 26th) is a large and important event in Second Life fashion culture. Celebrating trends and trendsetters within our business, and incorporating music and art, all with reflections of our own personal first life cultures depicted in our creations. It is brought to you by CHIC Management (www.chic-management.com) and sponsored by Modavia Productions.

174 store are showcasing their products, including a minimum of 1 new and exclusive item each – contributing 50 – 100% of their profit to charity. While you are there - be sure to check out the amazing artworks decorating the walls on the ousides of many stores.

The charity chosen is Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) and is an independent humanitarian medical aid organisation. Committed to providing medical aid where it is most needed, regardless of race, religion, politics or gender and also to raising awareness of the plight of the people they help.

You can find the sim here...

http://slurl.com/secondlife/CHIC/136/131/6

Image 1

Dress :  [*RD*]*Sugar & Cyanide Dress-Black*  150L  50% Profits to Médecins Sans Frontières. 3 Different versions in pack, some more revealing than others, here wearing 'cleaned out' version with pasties.
Hair : ::Exile:: Groove Theory: Blacks -  250L (5 colour pack) 50% Profits to Médecins Sans Frontières. Mesh hair, comes with alpha layer for hiding any pesky bits of head that could show through, as I was also wearing boots that needed an alpha layer - Id suggest using any black hairbase.

Image 2

Outfit, Piercing and Additional hair : ~plank couture~ horoscopae - Leo ad Widowa  Arachniae  250L  50% Médecins Sans Frontières. This outfit also comes with two skirt versions - not shown here, one static, and one animated.

"Further along the Path" at LEA2 - Free of Words

Words… spoken in various languages, reaching out like feelers, looking for another fellow human to touch, to establish contact with. Words… reaching out like tentacles, wrapped around fellow humans, slowly suffocating them. Words… but did she need words so desperately in order to relate? She was slowly moving her fingers now, observing them, discovering the message they were sending out… and her eyes, her face, each and every muscle in her body was talking by now, chattering without speaking, the new kind of message softly filtrating through apparently solid boundaries. She was free of words… and she was smiling. She was free. Irrevocably free.

Today, Friday May 18^th at 1 PM SLT a new art installation, “Further along the Path”, will open to the public at LEA2. The organiser and originator of the project is a household name in the world of SL art, Bryn Oh. In order to know more about the participating artists and the concept, please read her blog entry here: http://brynoh.blogspot.com/2012/05/while-ago-wonderful-group-of-artists.html

Elif Ayiter aka Alpha Auer, the “chief” of Alpha Tribe, is one of the contributing artists. She offers the magnificent “Asemic” avatar as a free gift... and whoever has ever owned or even seen an Alpha Tribe avie in SL will certainly rush to LEA2. Visit “Further along the Path”, allow yourself to be involved... listen, watch, think, enjoy.


Avatar: Alpha Tribe "Asemic" in male and female versions - a free gift at LEA2.
Pose: No Strings Attached "Fred Astaire" - not available any more. 

Surprise in the morning

The sound of the waves was calming but none the less the feeling of dew on her skin wasn't something Martha enjoyed. For some moments she curled together trying to hide her bare feet deeper in the wide pants she was wearing. After some more minutes of uncalm sleep she realized that she was at the wrong place. This was definitly not her or Phil's home. Slowly she pushed herself up. The pain in her head made her regret this. But while pressing her eyes together she forced herself to get on her feet. It wasn't a big surprise that the rest of her body did ache as well. The veil was something which surprised her. There was dirt on it so Martha supposed that she had used it as cushion or blanket. Not that this was important. She was wearing a veil, didn't remember what had happened during the night it was clear that it finding out what happened in the night would be way less fun than those things she forgot.
Miamai's latest relase is a wonderful brideswear collection. Of course it is outstanding,especially the Marlene Outfits. This consits of elegant meshtrousers (in standard sizes) with a frilled top and a big veil and also fitting upper sleeves. The upper part of the veil and the sleeves are made of unrigged mesh so its possible to resize them. The lower part of the veil is made of flexi prim which allows it to move.
The red hair comes from Wasabi Pills. It's the Dragon Hair which is very versatile.
Purple Pose released a set of pinup poses. The pose on the first picture belongs to those.
Adornotropia, the sim where the picture have been taken is not officially open yet. But it is allready possible to visit it. If you have a chance to do so take a ride in the rollercoster.

Outfit: Miamai_WeddingCollection2012_Marlene White (1400 L$)
Hair: /Wasabi Pills/ Dragon Mesh Hair (1500 L$ for fatpack 250 L$ colourpack)
1st. Pose:PURPLE POSES - Pin Up Poses (sold at Perfect Wardrobe)

Location: Adornotropia

NSA4 Hunt - Forgotten Doll

She couldn’t recall the name of her owner any more. She remembered that the girl had worn nice frilly starched dresses, Nanny had carefully curled her blond hair every morning so that the corkscrew locks would tumble down on her shoulders, and she had had a pair of big blue innocent eyes. But her name....? Mabel? Victoria? Abigail? Gertrude? Maybe it was Mabel... or was it Maude? All this had happened more than a hundred years ago, after all.

Mabel-or-Maude was a rich and happy child and she used to adore her lovely doll. “She’s almost like a living girl! Look, Nanny! She can move her arms and legs, and her eyes open and close!” – and she gave the doll a hug, or she went to comb its soft, natural hair. All was so idyllic... until one day, when everything suddenly changed. Mabel-or-Maude and her nanny went for a walk but only Nanny came back and she was crying, then everybody in the house was crying, too... then they packed in big trunks everything Mabel-or-Maude had ever owned, including her beloved dolly.

Ever since that day her life had been silence. Now and then she could hear some rumbling noise or maybe some steps in the attic of the huge abandoned house... but soon everything became silent again and all she could do was remembering and waiting... and remembering again.

Doll shape and skin: [dirty.little.secret] “Dolly” – Face Your Phobia Hunt prize (1 L$). The hunt is on until May 31^st.

Outfit: Grim Bros “Flutterby Darlin’” – No Strings Attached 4 Hunt gift (0 L$). It’s a lovely dolly dress that includes the butterfly attachments on the head, shoulders and arms – but this is not everything. Cutea Benelli has shown her customary generousness again and put the petite version of the outfit in the gift box as well. The hunt is on until May 31^st, so go and pay a visit to Grim Bros!

Hair: Laqroki “Camellia” in Black – freebie in the shop (0 L$).

Makeup: Acid and Mala “Maiko Doll” – it’s a previous hunt gift, now the pack containing six makeup versions is available for 60 L$.

Eyes: Avatar Bizarre “Anime Eyes” in Mica – previous Lucky Chair prize currently available for 35 L$.

Shoes: this pair of black mary janes has been sitting in my inventory for years, and now it seems their creator is not in SL any more. All I can tell you that they’re still pretty. :)

Poses: HelaMiyo “Puppet” - the pack contains five poses with a resizeable marionette prop not shown here (200 L$).

The pictures were taken at Noctis, a haunted ship-cum-furniture shop. :)