The Prometheus II Is here!

I know some of you have been waiting for this release quite a while - too long actually. But real-life had quite a word in that matter and while I'd have loved to see it released at a much earlier date, that was just not possible.

But the long waiting is now over and I can honestly say that the Prometheus-Class II is by far the best ship I ever built. While it shares the same basic layout the old Prometheus-Class has (including 3 decks, elevator and a segmented bridge section), the new ship makes much more use of its space and looks also much more streamlined - and yes: a little bit more aggressive too^^

I also gave it two optional engine variants. Steam engines and dieselpunk-inspired radial engines in the style of the 1930s - and I think they both look very good in it!

Oh and the best thing of all: there is a flyable version too!

Here some specifications:

Dimensions:

• Length with landing strip retracted: 44.60 m
• Length with landing strip extended: 68 m
• Width: 30.10 m
• Height: 16.50 m

Enough blablah - lets have some pictures. They say more than a thousand words anyway:

The Prometheus-Class II is now available on the Marketplace! I decided to put it on a promotional price for the first week - so better get it as long its cheap!^^

Femdom Hunt VI

Good news for kinky freebie hunters: The 6th Femdom Hunt is coming closer! It is a gridwide BDSM and fetish related gift-hunt, hosted by Z&A Productions (no hunting submissives, sorry folks!^^).

Femdom Hunt VI

Antony does such a great job with designing the ads each year - lets have a look on the past ones:

The Femdom Hunt V, 2014, slightly influenced by a game about stealing motorized vehicles. Very slightly.

The Femdom Hunt 4, 2013: I think we can speak of a recurring theme here.

2011: I think there has been a year when there were actually two Femdom Hunts. Might been this one. Please note the teutonic-style typeface: The font of order and obedience!^^. Also nice are the roses hinting the bdsm triskelion.

The Femdom Hunt will go from October 16th till November 1st and - as every year - some of the most known BDSM-related stores and sims will participate. Bad idea to miss it!

You can grab more info at:

The Femdom Hunt Blog

and of course on the

Z&A Productions Blog

The Steam Awakens

Just posting this here because... because!

And before you wonder: no, the Prometheus refit hasn't been shelved, as this picture may suggest. To the contrary actually. More news very soon...

The Blogging World just got a tad more kinky - Meyonia has a Blog now too!

The lovely Becky Orellana will keep you in touch with the latest gossip rumours news about Meyonia - and there is a lot to write about.

Meyonia, Main Plaza, Drow with bare butt.

Meyonia is a lovely little tropical micro state/banana republic (except they don't export bananas) and a pretty vibrant place. It is also pretty laid back with a more than subtle erotic undertone - and there is always something going on!

Meyonia's reporter and blogger Becky!

Currently the upcoming presidential elections are a big topic there. And frankly, much more entertaining than the elections in the USA next year! The latest reports are that the maids are on strike - with possibly negative consequences for one of the candidates...

I bet you are curious about whats going on in Meyonia now. Have a look at their Blog and feel free to visit the place!

The Aeronaut Express - August 2015 Edition

Never Drift, the city of the floating isles, is not only the home of the Cog and Kraken Pub and a pretty mad Professor, it is also the home of the Aeronaut Express, a monthly magazine for steampunks, airship-pilots and dashing explorers.

Jack Tracker 99, from Sprokit & Kogg Publishers is the editor and writer of the Aeronaut Express - and he does a fantastic job. Each magazine contains a colourful mixture: News, coverage of past and upcoming Aeronautical events (ever heard the name Lawnchair Larry? if not, you missed something!), for example the famous Airship Regattas, infos about aviation/steampunk sims, recent air-kraken activity and much more. SL and RL builders will also apprechiate the freebie textures and the occasional DIY guide.

Subscribing to the Aeronaut Express is free. You can find the subscribers at various places on the grid. For example at the Cog and Kraken Pub in Never Drift.

Lets Go Psychedelic! II

Its weird, its unsettling, its silly fun - and I couldn't resist to make more! I think the visual impact of Google's "machine-dream-pictures" hits you the hardest on the most common motives. The contrast between normal and - well - not normal makes it simply jump into your face ;-)

While this is a pretty weird effect of the company tinkering with neuronal networks, its of course only a side-product of their AI-research. But it kind of shows you where the direction is going at and how powerful that stuff already is. Just as humans can recognize a few dots and lines organized in a certain way as a "face" (like at the end of the paragraph above), they are teaching their machines to do the same: recognize and interpret patterns.
If nothing else, it tells us at least a bit about how the human mind works. How it recognizes things like faces faces and what exactly happens when this pattern-interpreting runs a bit out of control (like when dreaming or hallucinating).

This time I added also some brief description under the original files. So you get some background information to the photo, but without distracting you from the impression the modified (or "weirdified") picture.

Ok, enough rambling and theorizing lets get you some creeps!

This landscape shot was taken at SL12B. Its actually a 32x32 parcel!

One of the buildings at the Elven Village at Dark Wishes.

A ruin at Dark Wishes.

Prof. Wickentower's clank-workers in his old airship workshop

A - already - pretty crazy art-installation at SL12B.

My Dream Generator, already the name is simply suiting.

The DJ Stage at SL12B

Tessie, the mascot of Tesla Island, home of Unzipped.

No, I was not hunting that dinosaur. Its just sleeping!

New Babbage at sunset.

Lets Go Psychedelic!

Since Google was giving its neural networks LSD a few weeks ago, I was desperately waiting for a way to make my own pictures of that kind (without having to deal with some hardcore coding that is). Today I stumbled over this lovely little link and well - best see for yourself.
My selection contains pictures taken roughly in the last 8 months or so. Beneath every weirdo-version is the regular one for comparison (and to settle your shaken minds again!). I hope you enjoy them.