Updates

It's been a few weeks!
I know and I do feel awful about the lack of an update or flickr image on my part. Unfortunately right after my travels I fell ill and have just been in bed mostly. My head has simply been thick with fog so I do apologise but will post soon!

<3

The Travelfish : Back Soon

Away till end March.

On a blogging haitus due to travel and other such malarky. Will resume when I get back!
Meanwhile - rolls credits :

さよなら
 See you soon! Meanwhile :
Bunny-airy carries bunny clutch by Pure Poison and sports really cute H O S H I candy tail from Cubic Cherry (out exclusive at We love RP)

Whole bunch of goodies from past arcade and chapter four including grumpy cat ofcourse!

Ballet Heels from Azoury which actually almost fit doll coco feet! (piercing legs only)
anc brain headphones (one of my favourite things!)
Hair is a new release from Calico Hair - Rosalie (comes with rose hair accessories)
Pose ( Zibska Hedgewig) comes from Grafica by the talented Alyx Aerallo

Background airplane taken at maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Tierra%20de%20Fuego/128/16... thanks to Cait's piccy on her cool stream See you all soon

The Fashion Fish : LOTD! <- wow rare thing!

Fashion is a dictatorship Part 1

Fashion is a dictatorship Part 2

Creds.

Fashflash :

SORGO Akira /Black (TMD - current)

COCO BandeauBikini (Mesh top/bottom) Group Gift)

Zenith Leather trapper hat (Black)(TMD past)

Azoury - Shiva Heels (Carmin)- just gorgeous

RO - Paragon Sash - Burning Red (TMD - current)

Props  :

[MA] Mp5 Machine gun (Mesh Addiction Free on Marketplace https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/154973)

[NikotiN] Cuba_ Premium (TMD past)

Avatar : 

JD MyFeet

Glam Affair Giselle Cosmetics Face Details (Light)

Glam Affair Luria Skin 03/Eyebrow Shape 04

Dead Apples Striking Eyes - Ice (TMD - current)

Hebenonstache S (Gift)

Boon Hairpiece JOPE57

Animation : 

Grafica Pose (Dita 04) Funnily! <3

Posertry Pose (Couture Crawl)

The Art Fish : Duality

Just an aside, I'm very honoured to have been invited both by {anc} and Pure Poison to blog for them.
This recent partnership has led to the inspiration of a number of new images as follows :

{anc} or art named capering by anc aki, is participating in The Arcade which is the MUST go to event of the Gachaholic calendar . The parasol in this image is one of several prizes to be got from {anc}'s Butterfly's Dream Gacha Coincidentally the dress Dita Doll wears in this image , created by Pure Poison is also another participant in this event!
The mechanical butterflies in this image come from an Arcade edition past gacha by LWL (insect collection)

Also another gacha from {anc} - I love the surreal things that anc's Aki comes up with , such as these chocolate making chairs which I've upsized in world for this image. This and the spoon can be got from {anc} Lapin edition gachas

This image celebrates pure joy and whimsy. Created using the penny farthing I got from the Victorian round of Genre
as well as an Arcade gacha prize from Boogers .  The gorgeous red hat which was an accent must for this image comes from Pure Poison's Misaki Couture Hat and an {anc} Lapin (0) also makes its appearance.

And finally,  just a simple portrait shot for my Chocolate Alice in Lapin Land series of images. The beautiful collar worn by Dita Doll here is from Kreao of Cubic Cherry who is also another power house of designing. They also just get better and better with every new release! Also seen here is Lapin (09) from anc together with spoon from same gacha set. I love the details and texturing! The rabbit ears that Dita Doll wears come from an Arcade past edition gacha by Halogen Magic

The Art Fish : Shape of my heart

Shape of my heart

Details

Sometimes the problem... (or perhaps the word isn't a problem as much as it is sometimes a rather difficult challenge)

Starts again.

Sometimes the challenge I have with blogging and making images in sl is to create an image that does the works of someone-else some justice. Because their work is so amazing, I don't want to make it look horrible with my own efforts - thus it can take some time to come up with an idea.

Shape of my heart is a dress that Finesmith released specially for the Love is in the air event (organised by Gizza) which was set to coincide with Valentines. Whilst messing around with trying to get a good capture on this amazing dress, I found that in certain angles, the wings of this creation actually formed a heart and that is what I set out to attempt to illustrate.

Shape of my heart inspiration.
I noticed that in some angles, you could get the wings to form a <3 shape.
To try to maximise this idea, I created this pose specially for this shoot.

Often times my own real life photography features in my virtual art.
This is an image I took of one of those amazing sky days and used in the end image.

Fashion Notes :
Shape of my heart by FINESMITH for Love is in the air event.
Full ensemble includes dress though for my shot, I styled this differently using
Noir Body Scarf from 22769 - one of my favourite pieces of wardrobe out of TGGS event
Worn alongside shoes from 21 shoe event by Culprit's Koikoi 
NJ wears Glam Affair's Luria Skin.

And meanwhile...

 

The Art Fish : Spoilers

Peanuts on demand offered as prize...

What I enjoy about the Sl Flickr community is that there is usually always something challenging to participate in to spur your own creativity forward. Quite often all this effort is without gratis with the organiser being personally out of pocket.

I like [ContraptioN] though oddly, I missed the announcement of this contest, only catching it rather much later when I was pursuing the individual streams of persons on my Flickr contact list.

What's great about this particular contest is that it sets out to combine the aural with the visual and that is something which I find an interesting process in itself. 

A list of music is provided to choose from and I ended up always coming back to :

Being that it's the first time I'd ever heard of this tune (or Iron Sky for the matter), I'm quite grateful for the new experience! I have no idea just how the music (from Kaiti Kink Ensemble) relates to the film of the same title, save that the band had a lot of positive feedback from fans.

Iron Sky on the other hand, is a film that comes across as a spoof 

"The Nazis set up a secret base on the dark side of the moon in 1945 where they hide out and plan to return to power in 2018." - IMDB

What I do love is a good 'ole surreal sci fi flick and this seems to be ticking all of those boxes. The music certainly adds to the drama - with the huge orchestrations and sentimental lyrics; a good 'visual' choon to get into.

I love the really distinct pronunciation of the word " Iron" in the song - which differs greatly from my pedestrian experience of it which sounds more akin to this

Art and Music are quite a personal and subjective experience - influenced by the beholder and laden with derivative meanings. So whilst I may have had my own reasons and motivations of putting together the outfits and creating this composition, they don't really matter all that much in the end.

So here are a few production notes :

One of several RAW takes for the image which was later composited together
with a background I created from a view out of an airplane window and a starry sky

Cue Drama - My Final Image created specially for this challenge

Cue Drama Up Close -  This isn't the same image zoomed in , but rather an entirely different composition
meant to detail the relationship between the two figures. 

Photo Credits :

DA

[ContraptioN] *ocean* Maritime Division Uniform Sweater (from Steam Hunt 6 I think - yeah total SL ho-arder)

[ContraptioN] Wainright Glasses (from TMD current round)

Tee*fy Epoch Legend Unleash The beast Belt Body Suit (from Epoch - a while ago)

*LE* MattiePitt Steampunk Wings (from Genre)

CPD Prof Grieferschock's Auto Cauterizing Glove (from FutureWave)

AZE Voice Modulator (from FutureWave)

AZOURY Succubus Heels (Nougat) + JD My Feet Tip Toe

[INK] Hair - Against : Baige (from TMD previous round)

NJ

Zibska  - Dagmar Outfit ~ Vapour (From Future Wave)

ZIbska  - Asrid Headpiece (Version1 of 2)

ISD DarkNet F White Hair  (for L$1 demo and promo version from Future Wave)

DRD Mechanical Fairy Wings - Steam Wings Iron 

ieQED Hand Spike - (from The Surreal Complex - Art Section)

*Illusions* Sylph ears

Prop : 

Flat Iron Sculpty - From MP : 

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/RE-Old-Flat-Iron-One-Prim-Metal-Clothes-Iron-Decoration/3431453

Pose :
Del May - One part of Fair Weather Kiss
Posertry -  Sit help 1

Events LM's of current rounds ( These are time sensitive and only accurate at time of writing)

Futurewave (Feb 15th - 23rd)
Taxi : http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cursed/37/171/968

Website : http://cursedfuturewave.wordpress.com/

Genre (Feb 15th - Mar 15th)
Taxi : http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Analog%20Dog%20Hair/31/218/3072

Website : http://genreinsl.wordpress.com/

Fantasy Gacha Carnival (Feb 1st - 28th)

Taxi : http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Acerbus%20Silva/46/66/53

Website: http://fantasygacha.wix.com/carnival

The Surreal Complex (Ends Mar 2nd) 

Taxi : http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Jack%20and%20Jones/207/115/1997

Website : http://havendalesl.wordpress.com/

The Men's Department 

Taxi : http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Pea/126/64/23

Website : http://themensdeptsl.wordpress.com/

The Fashion Fish : Azoury

Nebraska Oddfish Jones and Dew

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Sometimes I'll have one of those days where I'm frustrated by my ineptitude at being able to capture an idea of a feeling. This is one such day and it's all a little struggling to come through.

Bag Holder

Azoury : Triangle Bag and Necklace for  The Love Fair

Be that as it may, I'm thrilled to be able to feature Azoury designs as a sponsor for my blog and images.

Fashion Notes :

They:

Azoury Triangle Bag & Azoury Necklace for The Love Fair 

Him : 

^ Swallow Skin (Manu Amber) from TMD Feb 2014 - This one's truly gorgeous and has that  sort of elegant androgyny about it.

[Ink] JiJi Coal Hair also TMD

Her : 

Glam Affair's Luria Skin from Arcade 

.Shi Daleth Wrap and Hair