The Odd Fish : New year, new renewals, new adventures!

2016!
I'm hopeful for the new year and what it might bring - which is as good a place to start as any.  Meanwhile over on flickr, I've been happily regular in my picture making as follows :

Nest

Bunny Hunny

Glittering Cloud

Ink

I'm really grateful for being able to blog for shiny shabby and most of my latest images reflect this. I find that being a blogger also helps push my own creativity as I try to interpret and portray the various creations from the event in a personally fulfilling way.

Recently on flickr I joined a group called " Flickr is my blog" and I'm finding this to be quite true. I tend to use blogging as a means to elaborate on thoughts and ideas more than anythingelse. Who knows though ;-) another new year in the life of this blog :-)

The Odd Fish : Why D harts F

Mesh for me!

One of the many reasons why I miss this woman.... sighs.

The Odd Fish : So much to do...

Once Upon a Bath-time

I have quite a bit of news this year and feel terribly guilty for allowing the blog component of my journalistic endeavours to go amiss. I chose today to catch up because over in RL it's a particular day to wake up ponder-some and in the mood to tidy house.

First order of business is some new names that  I need to add to my blog sponsor roll as follows :

Roquai Poses

Although I do create my own poses, I also enjoy using the creations of others in my work and the above image (Once Upon a Bath-time) as well as the following (Creatur) have been created using poses crafted by this designer.

Creatur uses Roquai Pose - Jump 2

ieQED

ieQED by Sigi Faust is also another avant garde fashion brand that designs shoes, accents and accessories.

Sexy Shoes - features ieQED's Puff Mule in Red

Clash 1 - where part of Mikel's outfit consist of ieQED Dragon Pauldrons

L.Warwick Handmade Shoes

Whilst relatively new on the scene, L.Warwick creates some simple but striking shoes for the Slink Avatar enhancement range.

Big Bad Red and the Wolfinator - with platforms (Siren in Ruby) by Lindsey Warwick

Big Bad Red and the Wolfinator aftermath

The Kissing Fish : We have history...

Shelter

Where blokes are concerned,  Angel is one of those pretty long suffering ones that I consider myself privileged to know. This image totally didn't start out like this :-). That was several hours and many wardrobe changes after it first started looking a bit more like this :

A quick screen capture in which I drew a quick bossy art directiony scribble

I'm blogging more these days, trying to get into a habit of sharing my thoughts and providing more insight into the sort of thinking and work that goes into creating my Flickr images.

I hope you have enjoyed this little amusing snippet and that you have a wonderful and creative day.

xx
D

The Odd Fashion Fish : Details and things...

Finally returning you to your usual programming...

Details

The above :
I really love and admire Zibska's fashion ideas even more so after finishing this nail guard idea that I've been working on the past week. She's a genuine powerhouse of creative vision that continues to inspire me in my image making.

Details :

Peter's poses : Ballerina 6

Zibska Luna Noir at Zibska's Zenshi location 

Goth1c0 Leather Bondage Mask

Lily Nail Guard Charcoal available at Typhoon Haiyan Fundraiser from 22nd Nov - 8th Dec

I'm a creature of habit... a fact that I'm noticing more as I sprint past a few more rez-days...
So forgive me for not updating this blog or my flickr stream as often as I perhaps should do - particularly when I am being creative. I tend to become a sort of building hermit and don't really emerge out of my shell until I have fashioned my malformed ideas into an actual semblance I can tolerate!
I have indeed been quite busy trying to script up and finish a sum total of 60 nails [2+2 x (9x2) x 3 + (3 x 2) - 12 + (9 x2 again) - It went something like that... ], not including the sets I had to discard due to silly errors on my tired part.

I really am grateful that my collection of quirky art nail guard designs have been so well received on flickr as well as in my personal inbox. Thank you all so much for the support and kind comments.

My biggest concern is for those who may find my creations disappointing because they do not fit. I really have tried to be as explicit as possible about the sizes that are available and the fact that the nails are not modifiable in their gacha version for many reasons.

A fully modifiable (but non transferable) version of nails is also sold at the event as a limited edition exclusive.

Lily Nail Guard " Sunshine after the rain"
This version is copy/modify and comes in two parts for each hand.

I have made these things especially for this event which is close to my heart because my childhood memories are filled with Filipino acquaintances. Whilst we have lost touch over the years, I fondly remember and genuinely hope they are all well.

Lastly.

Thank you to my fellow bloggers who have dropped notes to me this week offering blogging services. 

Actually, I'm not really sure I have any products to offer  as I do not really think of myself as a serious content creator or retailer in SL. What I do need though are fellow geekettes and guinea pigs. So if you don't mind being spammed by my experiments, are brilliant at scripting in LSL, can make magic happen with Blender or C4D - lets make beautiful digital noise together!

Being the people pleaser that I am - I have made a freebie!

It's absolutely yours to claim just for visiting the Typhoon Haiyan Fundraiser and my lil vendors.

Some facts about Typhoon Haiyan.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-24899006

Source : UN Report 

11.5 million people are affected

2.5 million people in need of food aid

544,606 people displaced

130,074 houses destroyed

1,215 evacuation centres set up

Something interesting you might like to know :

http://www.shelterbox.org/

Shelterbox provide emergency shelter and lifesaving supplies for families around the world who are affected by disasters, at the time when they need it the most.

One box costs £590.

Thank you for helping.

Dita.