Showing posts with label sian's future shop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sian's future shop. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

In Which Sian Escapes

The last time she escaped, we found her in the top floor of an abandoned industrial unit, staring out across the ruin of the planet. She had not tried to get out of the restraint, and didn't resist when we approached her and told her it was time to go to the ward. She was largely silent, apart from this statement: "It doesn't matter how far outside you go. You just find another wall." - Dr. Grimslade, Cadigan Psychiatric Hospital

madwoman

Sian wears:
Straitjacket: [Dilly Dolls] Silently Black L$400
Thong: [Abyss] packaged with Pruriency Corsets L$450
Boots: [Abyss] Stompers Black L$200
Skin: [Nuuna's Skins] Black Skin L$300
Head Tattoo: Sian's own work

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

In Which Sian Confesses She Hasn't Actually Seen Tron: Legacy

Sian hasn't seen Tron: Legacy. There. It's said. She's not actually bothered about that. But she loved the design. Sian spent weeks collecting pictures of the rubber-clad blonde Siren Gem, of Olivia Wilde's lovely Quorra, and wondered if there'd be costumes styled on the film in SL.

Silly. Before the film was even released, SL designers — loads and loads of them — had created Tron-themed outfits and Tron-themed sims. There. are. dozens. out there. Here are nine of them. And we're just scratching the surface. Sian didn't review, for instance, the Bare Rose sets (they do one based on the old movie as well as an up-to-date one) or the Karu Karu sets.

In all the pictures, Sian's collars, tattoos, earphones and jewellery are her own; she's wearing Miamai's NoAlpha Lashes 2 (L$150), various makeups by Nuuna, and you can't buy the eyes anymore (sorry). She's wearing the PXL Linda G3 Dark skins, the Pale Lips and Wine Lips variations (L$1000, L$900 for group members) — and in the inset pics, the LionSkins Nova Dark 8 skin.

Sian hardly ever wears hair. She likes being bald. She has a little bit of a thing for being bald. Besides, it tickles when it's windy.

The epic Tron blog #1

Catsuit: [Sassy!] Cyber Siren Military Green (L$0 Dark Future Hunt gift)
Boots: [Neurolab] Activa Black Electro L$650

This is the same outift Sian blogged a few days ago. Sian's only a tiny bit sorry about that. She thought she'd include it for completeness' sake.

Besides, Sian loves this outfit. The textures are beautifully designed, it's obviously inspired by the film rather than just copied, and it's free! But only for a week or two more. Grab it while you can.

The epic Tron blog #2

Catsuit: [Grafosyakuza Shop] Suit Siren Program L$100
Boots: [Neurolab] Activa White Electro L$650

The Marketplace had a hiccup when Sian ordered this, and before she could contact the seller, he'd already given it for free and wouldn't take her money.

This outfit has a lot going for it: the light textures are separate layers, and tintable. It includes sculpted attachments designed to look as much like the Sirens in the film as possible (so if accuracy is your thing, this is your outfit — none of the others are quite as close). It even has a sculpted chest attachment so you don't have the pointy-chest thing going on.

Honestly, the textures aren't quite as polished as some of the more expensive outfits, from bigger shops, but for only L$100 you can't go wrong. Apart from the limited-time-only freebie, this one is cheapest by a mile and has a lot of potential for mixing and matching with the other sets.

The epic Tron blog #3

Outfit: [Elixir] Lightcycle Purple L$400
Boots: as before

Sian thinks that Elixir might have been the first of the bigger stores to do Tron-themed outfits. It was the first one she spotted, anyhow. There are male and female versions of both the LightCycle and Siren (number 4, below) sets in lots of different colours.

They're low-prim, and nicely designed and textured.

The epic Tron blog #4

Outfit (including shoes): [Elixir] Siren L$400

Sian bought this just before Christmas and wore it for a solid month. She loves it a lot.

Cyber cheesecake

The epic Tron blog #5

Outfit: [Eclectic Randomness] White Siren L$450
Winter Ventura's shop is certainly eclectic, everything from adult and BDSM stuff down to robot avatars, toys and even a portaloo. She makes two of these, one white and one black.

As well as a beautifully textured catsuit, the set includes boots, gauntlets and backpack, all nicely sculpted and with HUD-controlled colour-changing glowy bits. And if that's not enough, you get a skin, shape, eyes and hair in half dozen colours, too, meaning that for L$450 you get a complete avatar, everything except the AO.

Oh my, though, thinks Sian, so many prims.

The epic Tron blog #6

Outfit: [Graves] Mainframe Bodysuit black/blue L$440
Shoes: [Graves] Mainframe Boots L$390

Of the complete outfits I'm reviewing here (the Elixir and ER Sirens and the Radia set are the others), this is the most expensive, but let's face it, you're paying for the quality. Beautifully textured, supplied with nice attachments and available separately in all the colours of the rainbow, in catsuit and dress versions for the girls and a catsuit version for the boys.

Buy all of them and you'll be a lot poorer, mind.

Sian particularly likes the neat little glasses with the animated display.

The epic Tron blog #7

Bodysuit: [sYs] Spectral Catsuit white/khrome L$280
Boots: as before

More loosely inspired than the other outfits, Sian especially likes the translucent panels on this set - look how you can see Sian's tattoos through the arm panel.

The epic Tron blog #8

Outfit: [Xeno Cyber Wear] Radia L$600
Nipple Tape: from [Graves] G222 Crossfire White

Sian doesn't play computer games (well, apart from that one you might know about), but understands that this is inspired loosely on a character in the computer game they made at the same time as the film.

The skirt is all sculpted prims, and the outfit includes an alpha layer that makes you disappear from the bum down. However, because it's attached to your pelvis, if you walk it swings from side to side and might look silly if your AO is not compatible. Sian solved the problem by putting a hip-fixer script in the dress and making a walk in her AO so she glides about in an eerie sort of way (you should IM Sian in-world if you have this set and want the scripts and anims she made. But say "please," because a little bit of politeness costs nothing). Sian also changed the colour of the glowy bits.

Despite its shortcomings, the concept of this outfit is marvellous and there really isn't anything like it in Second Life.

The set also includes body tattoos, which Sian is not wearing, because she is wearing her own tattoos. You can see them in this picture, though (and yes, Sian recycles poses. She's not made of Lindens):

Iso

The epic Tron blog #9

Catsuit: [sYs] Spectron Catsuit L$280
Boots: as before

Similar to the other outfit from sYs, Sian likes this one a bit more, if only because it gives the illusion of being shiny and rubbery and glowy at the same time.

Do we get a verdict?
Which one does Sian like best?

Sian loves the Graves Mainframe set (no. 6) but really doesn't feel it goes well with anything else. It's all or nothing, that one. Having said that, why would you want to mix it?

Sian thinks the Radia set is amazing and unique, but she had to put a lot of work into modifying it before she was happy with it.

The sYs sets are cheap and nicely done, and the GrafosYakuza set (#2) has those wonderful tintable light layers (which is an idea more people should have taken up) and nice attachments (it's the only one with that little battery pack thing that Gem has at the base of her spine, and the only one with a chest leveller attachment).

The Sassy! set is gorgeous and free, but green isn't really Sian's colour, and if you're not lucky enough to find it before it's gone, that's tough, really. The Elixir Lightcycle set has that cool helmet and goes with loads of stuff, but again, Sian didn't feel it suited her.

The Eclectic Randomness set is complete, exceptional value and beautifully designed, but in the end Sian is undecided between that and the Elixir Siren set for its beautiful, sleek simplicity.

In future, Sian's probably going to combine the Grafosyakuza set, the ER set and the Elixir set to create a sort of platonically perfect Siren.

You'll know when she does.

Monday, May 23, 2011

In Which Sian is Undiplomatic

The crew at Valhalla Station have an ambivalent relationship with the representative of the Kurzweil Emissariate. On the one hand, the cybernetically augmented Ambassador is an alien beauty, plastic perfection from the one colony where the transhuman ideal was reached.

U n d i p l o m a t i c 2

On the other hand, she's an ice-cold pain in the arse. Nothing's ever right. None of these people are her equals. And she can't understand why you can't just mindwipe the service staff — they're all so inefficient.

U n d i p l o m a t i c 3

Most of all, she can't understand why these unaugmented near-animals wouldn't want their planets to be Randian utopias like hers, where the ruling classes live in neurally-linked bliss and they program the workers to be the obedient cogs in the machine they should be. She tries to explain why it's the best way and the station personnel all seem to think it's ghastly. Idiots.

The military personnel, ancillary staff and other emissaries all think she's the Worst. Ambassador. Ever. But they still check her out.

U n d i p l o m a t i c 1

Valhalla Station is Sian's roleplay venue of choice. It's pretty new, part of Lagrange Point, recently featured in the Destination Guide. Because it's new, the roles are inchoate and open to interpretation (and there aren't any furries there yet). Not as set in stone as some space RPs, not as sleazy as others, Sian recommends putting on your best space fatigues and joining in.

Outfit:
Catsuit: [Sassy!] Cybernetic Siren Military Green (L$0 Dark Future Hunt gift)
Boots: [Neurolab] Activa Black Electro L$650
Lipstick: [Nuuna's Skins] Dark Black lips, from Skittles skin bundle L$300
Eyeshadow: [Nuuna's Skins] Smokey from Tattoo Makeups 2 L$300

Visit Valhalla Station!

[Note: In other news, Sian's having trouble with Dagmar's Gender Switch challenge, for the simple reason she cannot find a decent non-white male skin for L$0. Any suugestions?]

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

In Which Sian Goes Replicant

This is Sian. She's sort of new here.

Leezu! 1

Mostly, Sian wants to look like the future, and usually ends up looking shiny and glossy but when our cybernetic heroine fell hard for a harlequin recently — and where can you say that other than in Second Life? — she wanted to soften her look a bit.

Leezu! 3: Margo

And that's how Sian discovered Leezu Baxter's store, and fell in love with Leezu!'s (the exclamation mark is part of the name) strange, frilly yet timeless designs. She never looks quite ordinary in these clothes, and to her surprise and her sad clown sweetheart's delight, Sian came out looking like a replicant from a non-existent remake of Blade Runner, or a secretary from the Haus of Gaga.

Leezu! 4

Sian doesn't think that Leezu Baxter intended her clothes to be futuristic and cyberpunk (and actually, they go just as nicely with Sian's witchy look) , but the combination of frills and futuristic stylings, Louis XIV meets cyberpunk, makes for a striking and interesting look.

Leezu! 5: Jeanne Van Dark

Stylecard:

All Photos:

Trousers: [Leezu!] Britpants /silver
Shoes: [Leezu!] La Vivien /blacks (no, really — the white shoes are in the black shoes pack)
Skin: [PXL] Linda G3 Pale Lips (1-3), Wine Lips (4)
Eyes: [Senasy Cybernetics] rotating cyber eyes (no longer available)
Eye Makeup: [Nuuna] Tattoo Layer Eye Makeup 2 (Upper Lid)
Other jewellery and accessories: Model's own (but you can buy the tattoos and earphones here)

First Picture:
[Leezu!] Maria Jacket /champagne

Second Picture:
Top: [Leezu!] Margo Jacket /silver

Third Picture:
Top: [Leezu!] Venus Jacket /mauve

Fourth picture:
Top/chaps: [Leezu!] Jeanne Van Dark /snow
Nipple tape: from [Graves] G222 Crossfire White

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Electro bunny

She was the ultimate weapon. Trained, deathly and supercute. Everybody who saw her supposed she would be one of those strange anime fans. They supposed she would be a cosplayers. Often people asked her where her ears would come from. She always pretended that it would be a secret she would not want to share so that her outfit would stay unique. And it was the truth her ears were a secret. They allowed her to recognize much more of the world than a normal human. The technique was new and even she had no clue how it worked but the ones who had transformed her into a killerbunny all knew that she behaved so well because of the implanted controll in the ears.
electro bunny
Blue blood made this cute dollie dress. It is available in several colours and could be worn also as lingerie. It comes with cute stockings. The skirt has an intresting cut. The top could also be worn without the bra and the sleves are sculpted and mod so its possible to make them smaller. The white gloves let the outfit look more elegant. The ears and headphones are from sian's future shop. The ones on the picture are the supercharged ones which are also included in the normal set.
Blue blood tahiti dress

Dresses:
+++BB+++ Tahiti WG BLUE (300 L$)
+++BB+++ Tahiti WG B&W (300 L$)
Fatpack with 5 Colours 750 L$ for members of the blue blood group - joining fee is 50 L$
Earphones: sian's retro sci-fi earphones set (150 L$)

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Spacepilots

They had been traveling for a month, now they were back at one of the maintransport stations. Of course they were two it always needed two women to fly the spaceships. The world population had grown massivly in the 21th and 22nd century. The lack in food caused riots and chaos. Desperate science fiction fans sent out calls for help into the space and were surprised when getting an answer. The answer contained detailed construction plans for spaceships. Nobody knew anything about the race which sent the answer, if the builders of the ships had known that they were dealing with vermin technology the following tragic events maybe would not have happend. It was seeable from the plans that the spaceships needed two pilots and that it would also be possible to transport more people with them. But when the first four spaceships were tested the seven male pilots became insane. Only the woman who had replaced the eight one who had gotten an allergic reaction from a bee-sting came back in her normal state of mind.
entering the resting zone
After that some more men tried to fly the ships but all of them became insane so that at the end only women flew the ships. Men had only the chance to be passenger. After the fist humans had been transported to other planets by women the society started to change. Women were more important than they used to be. The pilots started to develop close relathionships to each and their spaceship. For that they wore special collars and implants. After a while they realized that they became much older than normal humans. But none of the pilots ever managed to get pregnant after her first flight.
Resting
I got to know Sian Pearl because of flickr. She commented some of my pictures there so I had a look at her flickr stream and was stunned by her pictures and the beauty and uniqueness of her avatar. A month ago she sent me a message to ask me something about an item I blogged so we started to talk and she sent me the amazing cyberpunk accessories she built. At the moment she sells two sets on the marketplace. The choker with the gautlets and the tattoo with the prim jewels are sold as one set and several versions of the headphones in an other one. The items are mod so it was no problem to make the choker smaller. When touching it beams appear around the choker and wristlets. I did not need much time to adjust the gems so that they were placed correctly on their places on the tattoo (the tattoo comes on the tattoo layer).
The earphones come in several versions. I like it that there are versions of only the right or the left one included. They also come and with particles which look like electricity.

Choker, wristlets, gems and tattoo: sian's cyberpunk accessory set (250 L$)
Earphones: sian's retro sci-fi earphones set (150 L$)
Outfits:
Sian:
Thong: belongs to ELIXIR Queria Set- WHITE (400 L$)
Stockings: belong to + ezura + Acha Cyber Latex Bodysuit *White Set (488 L$)
Dagmar:
Bodysuit: + ezura + DIGI Cyber Latex ex-11-03 *Silver (488$)
Boots: + ezura + DIGI Boots Cyber Latex ex-11-03 *Silver (388$)

The pictures have been taken at Insilico.