Showing posts with label Creativity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Creativity. Show all posts

Kitsch

March 31, 2024
We used to have this picture here called "aÄŸlayan çocuk" - "the crying child" - that was very popular among truck drivers and long distance bus drivers. A sepia toned portrait of a small sad boy with huge ey…
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Forsaken

March 24, 2024
Last summer I went to a huge flea market. Everything one can imagine piled up row after row - from old computers to clothes, lots of shoes for some reason, bicycles, all sorts of household appliances... And toys. So many t…
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It is you that makes the picture!

January 05, 2024
And not some artificial stupdity! Well, let me give credit where credit is due: What this is, is an immensely capable image search engine that has been combined with an image processing platform that is a master at recognizin…
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FutureScape? BlahScape more like...

May 01, 2021
This thing - it is so ugly, so badly designed, so without any awareness of visual impact or drama or creativity that I do not even want to show pictures of it because they will sully the overall appearance of my blog. And I do pa…
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Back to the fancy stuff

September 01, 2019
So, I have spent most of last month playing around with casual wear for avatars. Which is all very well and good up to a certain point, but after a while boredom does set in. I usually wait to stumble upon something to give me a…
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Dress-up Games

August 07, 2019
I have been in SL more of late. Finally managed to make the transition to the mesh body and the mesh head for Alpha. Wasn't easy to do, I still miss the scurrilous little face that the classic avi used to have and that, for …
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Finally - a smart phone

June 30, 2019
For years I had a Blackberry. Something like 15 years. And then in the end the battery gave out and because it is such an old model it could no longer be replaced. At least not here in Turkey where HRH has banned Blackberry phon…
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The big alpha.tribe update

April 16, 2019
I did not want to switch over to a mesh avatar for a very long time. I have had the Alpha shape and skin for years and I have really identified with Alpha, in that appearance. She looks like me. Or rather she looked like I looke…
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Mesh Dramatics

March 02, 2019
One of my most cherished possessions in Second Life is a huge collection of dramatic poses created by Heidi Dahlseveen , which she very generously gave me many years ago.
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Kokopelli

February 26, 2019
I love it when a software gives me ideas. And Sculptris does so. While I am playing around with the clay suddenly it looks like something and...
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Produsage

February 03, 2019
There is this, in my view terribly misplaced, myth that while using off the shelf software is an unavoidable evil, everything that gets built inside that software should be made by you. Painstakingly. Path by path. Or writing th…
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So, as predicted...

December 20, 2018
I have had a whale of a time making things for the imaginary alpha.tribe RL store. No idea what this store is supposed to be all about at this at point - they seem to be selling everything.
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Curio

December 04, 2018
Curio is playing into my 'minimalist and yet narrative' obsession in a way that the others aren't. Here, the 'tale' is in the steampunk textures with which I clothed the basic prims - mostly cubes actually. A…
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Scrounging around for minimalist stuff

November 30, 2018
I am still preoccupied with my building stuff in SL. How to improve on it, how to bring myself up to scratch. The complex mesh stuff is really not for me. So, maybe taking the minimalist route I was talking about before is a goo…
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The Symmetry book

November 26, 2018
Thinking of things I could do next, I keep coming back to graphic design. I made these pages a year ago for a project that was later published as an insert in a Turkish art magazine. We did not use this set but something else en…
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So - what next?

November 06, 2018
During these past few years that I was away from virtual worlds, it wasn't just making things in virtual worlds that I lost interest in. I lost interest in making things - period.* What has been happening recently however is…
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Self Evaluation in SL

November 06, 2018
The new island is more or less done. It looks OK, but it is nothing like what I achieved with Fool's Gold in 2015. The dark sky level is probably the best part visually speaking, and the ground level seems to work, if not en…
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Midnight Wastes

November 01, 2018
I have gone back up to the towers that I had started to build a few weeks ago. But, like most of what I do, things did not go quite as planned and I ended up adding things that I had not thought of when I was first thinking abou…
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The crazy cat lady parlor

October 29, 2018
A while ago Eupalinos Ugajin gave me the sofa as a gift. And I was so delighted that I immediately rushed out to get the matching arm chair and put together a special parlor for cat lovers on the island.
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I have decided to build a playground

October 28, 2018
From the sky tower city, which I am leaving alone for now, I have moved to ground level to put together an amusement park of sorts. Ferris Wheel, carousel, bumper cars, some rides and a shooting gallery. Or rather a grab-a-duck …
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