Just When You Thought Nothing Would Surprise You Anymore...

...then you discover a place like "Citysphere". A city build on the outside of a small planetoid-like, well - sphere.
So if you ever wanted to know how it feels like living on a world with some 200 meters diameter, Citysphere is the right place for you. I grant you a quite unique Experience!

Citysphere as seen from - above?

It looks quite normal so far. As long your angle is not much off you dont really notice the spheric shape. This is btw one of the very few occasions you see me and Emma together without her kneeling. We are both using one of the City's vehicles to move around. Yes we are actually sitting while standing ;-)

Its getting more sloped - it can be pretty hard to move the camera somehow into a useable position...

...pictures like this however make it worth the effort.

To prevent you from falling off the edge of the world (great song btw.) when leaving the starting location, you can rezz a vehicle by clicking the ground. I strongly recommend using Mouselook when moving because the 3rd person perspective gets very quickly very messed up - but thats actually part of the fun!

The installation is made in a quite cute futuristic comic style. Billboards with hidden messages as seen in John Carpenter's They Live ("OBEY", "REPRODUCE", "CONFORM" etc.)  add a nicely dystopic and subversive feel to it. Great!

Are these glasses or handcuffs? Or am I biased?

Seems its actually both ;-)

The building quality however lacks some accuracy and details. I really would have loved to have more spots for sitting or even a "Club Sloped" ;-)
But its unique concept outweighs these minor flaws: Its crazy, it works and its really something innovative!

At the south pole: We were never a normal family...

I mostly used the windlight setting "[TOR] Lydian dinosaurs" for the pictures which works well with the latent cyberpunk atmosphere of the place. The original skysetting is a bit too foggy for my taste. There is a very handy site which lists many (if not all) windlight skysettings with preview pictures here.


I am really excited about Citysphere and I see quite the potential in the idea of spheric worlds in SL. Ok, there are some quirks with the camera handling but that can surely be fixed. And who knows, perhaps Citysphere will be the start of a whole community inhabiting spheric worlds...

You can find more info about its Creators on their Blog and here is your ticket to Citysphere!

New Steampunk Clocks and Bed Released!

The expanding of my range of Steampunk furniture goes on. The start does a really fantastic design which I am very proud of:

Steampunk Clock III

It offers a stunning level of detail. With lots of animated parts! All clocks are of course fully functional with daylight saving option and compatibility with all time zones - and the prices are hard to beat ;-)

Steampunk Clock

Steampunk Clock II

Another fabulous item is the new Steampunk Bed with 600 Animations and a fantastic, classy look!

Steampunk Bed

You can find all items at the Drow Science Store at the Marketplace. More items are coming soon!

Many New Steampunk Items Released - A "Global" Approach!

The new year starts with some major additions to my Steampunk-line! For the start I released a new Steampunk Laptop with improved textures and several new Globes - including floating and even holographic ones! All items are optimized for minimum land impact (prim count). You will be surprised how little prims they take!

Steampunk Laptop II

Steampunk Globe III

Steampunk Globe IV

Steampunk Globe V

Steampunk Globe VI

Steampunk Globe VII

I also adapted the idea in some more modern looking variants:

Floating Globe

Floating Globe Silver Edition

After being in full flight building round Globes I was kidding about making globes with different shapes. This turned into a classical recreation of the world as featured in a popular series of fantasy-novels taking place at a "flat" world ;-)

Flatworld Globe

Then I found why making a globe at all? Well at least a physical one. So I created holographic globes suiting for all kinds of Sci-fi or Cyberpunk environment.

Hologlobe I

Hologlobe II

Hologlobe III

I think I could have called this post just as well "Variations on Globe". It was simply so much fun to build them all and the ideas literally came out of the blue - I was hardly able to keep up with them!


More new releases for a steampunky and futuristic 2013 are coming soon!

The End of The World - Or Just A Badly Dressed Guy?

Its December 21st and surely everyone wonders what might happen on this date. Will the world end? And if it does: How will it happen?
I have exclusive - and pretty shocking - footage from the Japanese capitol Tokyo showing us that the end is currently happening!!!

Taffzilla rampaging in Tokyo!

Oooh wait... thats actually Taffy!
If you wonder what happened to this poor fella: it might be that this outfit went somehow into his #RLV folder and somehow got attached in some way...

Building the city skyline around him was a pretty simple but fun copy-and-paste job. And the results are really fabulous.

Taffzilla in daylight. Please note the slippers!

I think he was stepping on an investment banker or two.

Coming soon: Taffzilla in widescreen!

Approaching his role with the seriousness it deserves, Taffzilla spent lots of time rehearsing with the instructional videos of his idols:

Click me!

and me!

From all the world-end-scenarios the uprise of Taffzilla is the one I would definitely prefer. I'm sure however that the Mayas simply ran out of paper when writing down their calendar ;-)

I wish every Drow, Human and whatever else a merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

The Great And Seedy Zindra Bike Tour - Part 12

Perhaps I should change the name to Pony-Tour, since lately I definitely prefer the happy clip-clop of pony-hooves the deep growling of a bike engine. And this even despite not liking real horses at all!
Pony-girls are just much more pleasant: sexy, less smelly, shiny latex-covered curves, a nice amount of straps and buckles to manipulate and they are certainly more clever than every horse I have met!

After having the role of the pony last time, this episode sees me in the drivers seat again with Emma and Luvia pulling.

Emma-Pony

Luv-Pony

As usual the tour continues where we stopped last time and after a short cross-country intermezzo I spotted something which was either bad building or massive soil erosion:

If you are not sure if you are in RL or SL: views like this should help you tell.

Once you made it inside though it looks not that terrible. The ponies did wait nicely outside of course.

Purple pony! Taffy joins in.

 The cart has of course room for several passengers:

Always a little scary to see an adjacent sim disappearing. Let's hope no drows or ponies were on it as it went down.

We didn't came far as Tony (Taffy + Pony = Tony) had a little issue we had to fix on the road. He needed a bigger plug for his tail:

"Let Dr. Some have a look..."

"Don't squirm so much, Tony!"

On the road! Emma and Luvia pulling proudly.

Unlike most of the mainland areas in SL this part of Zindra looks quite acceptable if not stylish.

It really wasnt a monotonous ride. There was even a monorail!

And so many photo opportunities.

Which are good for so many different angles.

Smile for the camera, Tony!

Now this store ad looks ace, or ass?

The secret of good photography is finding interesting perspectives.

This looks quite like the Mall in Washington D.C.

I also picked up a passenger.

Lovely designed landscape. You won't notice its actually the seedy Zindra-continent...

If there weren't a reminder here and there ;-)

One last photo of our three happy ponies!

Quite extensive post this time as the tour was really pleasant and fun! The Route this time did lead straight from Raelma to Wenderley, where I found a parcel where I can rezz a cart for continiuing the ride. The route is really worth taking a look!

Switching Aftermath

Going through my snapshots-folder I found to my delight that I have taken more pictures during switching than I was aware of.

The following selection gives a nice overview about the activities of the recent (almost) 2 weeks of my holiday:

Some on all 4s: Petplay had a prominent role.

At Dark Wishes: Emma even made mittens for me :-)

Part of petplay is of course extensive cuddeling. Well for us at least.

I was a very happy pet!

We also had our share of exploring. Here with a Zeppelin at the shores of Bay City. If you look close you can see me falling off from the ship in lag!

Two stranded aviators, or: how really tough and serious D/s looks like.

Another nice activity: Posh dancing at The Rose Theater, one of SL's finest concert venues.

It is important for me to point out that for me BDSM and especially D/s isnt something to happen only in dark dungeons or bedrooms. Its a lifestyle and mindset. Something which simply happens and is present at any time and any place. Trust plays a big role. And of course empathy.