[VIRTUAL/INSANITY] SL

[A TASTE OF SECOND LIFE] THE DIRT(Y) Make-Up
Originally uploaded by [VIRTUAL/INSANITY] / Loviathar Hellman

From midnight

[SUPER BARGAIN SATURDAY] NEW RELEASE - THE PHOTOGRAPHER - Keychains
Originally uploaded by [VIRTUAL/INSANITY] / Loviathar Hellman

From midnight

[LA VENTA EVENTA] AUTUMN NAILS
Originally uploaded by [VIRTUAL/INSANITY] / Loviathar Hellman

From tonight at 9PM SLT

Rezlpsa Loc slurl.com/secondlife/Playground/201/66/22
Babycakes slurl.com/secondlife/Tesla%20Isle/129/133/117
N-Creation slurl.com/secondlife/Pure/216/96/3127
[VIRTUAL/INSANITY] slurl.com/secondlife/Bada%20Bing/131/154/36
Redskull slurl.com/secondlife/Zephyr/103/125/1559
A.D.D. Andel! slurl.com/secondlife/Cupcakes/62/157/24
Somnia slurl.com/secondlife/Snatch%20City/205/108/29
Kis Kis (Rebranding to Bastnut) slurl.com/secondlife/Meow/204/55/29
Repulse slurl.com/secondlife/REPULSE/181/159/1094
Loulou&Co slurl.com/secondlife/Loulou/128/161/33
Sparrowtree Studios Poses slurl.com/secondlife/Hallgerda/26/171/21
Quarantine slurl.com/secondlife/Dark%20Tranquility/29/183/25

http://slurl.com/secondlife/22769/110/180/22

With the precious help of Dagmar Haiku, Paco Pooley and Manuel Ormidale, we are for the first time starting an exhibition in Second Life.
We are way more used to RL exhibitions so this will be really something new to us.

The "we", also known as [INSANE/FOCUS], represent us, Loviathar Hellman & Moolfryt Klang and we also are [VIRTUAL/INSANITY]'s owner, main designer & assistant designer.

But what kind of exhibition is this one going to be ?
Since more than five years, Moolfryt Klang (my husband in the real world) and myself have been working on a couple project. We are amateur but passionate photographers, have been investing in professional tools in the aim to create our whole collection of photographies.

This is simply a couple work, a common passion. We travel through Europe with our cameras and other tools and, on the reportage mode, shoot everything that attracts our attention.
We also overwork our pictures by computer in the aim to bring our personal touch to it.
When one shoots, the other one overworks and we blend our work in each other's, to the point that we forget who made what.

We are inspired by nature, geometry, urban culture, architecture, esthetism and ugliness but also by vintage style, some darkness and big controversial themes such as ecology, politics, poverty and religion.

You'll find some pictures taken in France, Belgium and in the United Kingdom at this exhibition.

The art gallery's name is L4A - Lust 4 Art.



We will have a vernissage or opening party on Friday the 25th Nov 2011 at 11AM with DJ Demonica Bade.




For this occasion, we'll try to provide some exclusive gift by [VIRTUAL/INSANITY].

Let's also mention that our pictures and frames are for sale in case anyone would like to bring some home.

You can also have a preview of our work here :
http://www.flickr.com/paranormart

All of our pictures, frames, textures, prims, are submitted to copyright and all right reserved.

SERAPHIM published a blog post about NOVEMBER BREEZE !

You can find it here : http://seraphimsl.com/?p=14941

BTW, Seraphim is a very high quality and dramaless blog about Second Life events. Its bloggers are hyperactive and always ready for good bargains and informations about stores !

Check the blog out ^-^.

PS : thanks to Julie Cardiff for her hard work on that blog.

This item is ours for Jersey Shore's Grenade Free Wednesday.
Next time, I'll write "hand drawn certified" on my item but not this time, I'm way too lazy, sorry.





This one is our item for Woeful Wednesday. It was created by Moolfryt Klang, my assistant designer of husband, a few years ago but still meets a great success and will be appreciated by the Woeful Shoppers, I'm sure of this. WW is at our mainstore.

I'll copy/paste here links to different blogs talking about our event !

http://ximenacachibaches.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/virtualinsanity-november-breeze-event/

[FREE/STUFF] SERAPHIM November Gift
Originally uploaded by [VIRTUAL/INSANITY] / Loviathar Hellman

Exclusive gift for Seraphim Headquarters !
You can get it by just joining the Seraphim group and clicking the poster. A bunch of other designers set up amazing gifts for you !

For those who don't know it yet, Seraphim is a high quality group & blog created to provide you informations about sales & events in Second Life, in all respect.

To Tp to the headquarters :
slurl.com/secondlife/Depraved%20Nation/96/96/72

NOVEMBER BREEZE EVENT is starting tonight @Bada Bing sim & mall and all of our mall stores are participating ! Loulou&co, Repulse, Ancayi, Sakide, Hysteria, Para Designs, Bubble, Razorblade Jacket, SNG & [VIRTUAL/INSANITY], we all worked hard to provide you a great event, good bargains & exclusive items !

Each store will provide an exclusive new item (sold only at the sim until the end of the event and for a cheaper price than what it should be sold for) and/or older/already existing items for a cheaper price than usual !

I'll provide myself 5 new items sold for half price and a lot of selected items for sale for a cheaper price at the mainstore.

Find the stickers to find the cheaper or new products !

We are happy to participate to two week-end events and those are the occasion to share with you new items & an exclusive one.

Super Bargain Saturday :
this new item will be available for 60L this saturday only !

A Taste of Second Life :
This is an exclusive item created on the theme of heroes. 25L, just a symbolic item.


And from monday, PERFECT WARDROBE is having a new collection !
Theme is black & white !


Let's also mention that on tuesday, our SIM event "November Breeze" is starting. There will be exclusive new items and a sale on older items ! All of our stores are participating ! Check out the list on the poster <3.


There we go ! Have a nice week-end !

Just a quick note about the use of sculpts maps, scripts & programs in Second Life design.

Until a few hours ago, it looked obvious to me that everyone had conscience on the grid that an item released by a store is the result of the work of MORE than one designer.

What does that mean ?
Let's take the example of a necklace.

To make a necklace, you'll use :
1) the basic SL prims created by Linden Labs that you can use as is, mod it or transform as a sculpt, using a sculpt map.
2) this sculpt map, you can create it using a sculpts program like blender for example or purchase it to a sculpts maps store such as Ghanie Lane, Jabberwocky, Xoph or Bejambled. You can also order a customer work to a sculptor. The sculptor will then give you full rights on his creation so you can add it to your creation.
3) textures can be created by yourself using a program like gimp or photoshop, or then again you can eventually purchase it. In the case of clothing, some designers will purchase templates that will help them drawing the general shape of the item they want to create and then will modify it.
4) To script your item for color/texture change, you'll use the help of a scripter if you're not a scripter yourself. You can ask for a custom or buy a premade one.
5) No one can help you at :
A- Texturing your item properly,
B- Grabbing X, Y, Z prims, modifying it, putting it together so that it looks like a necklace,
C- Making your vendor (except if you get a photographer's help),
D- Advertising it.

A finished product is therefore the result of the work of :
- The designer of the store,
- The sculpter,
- The scripter,
- Linden Labs, that provided the media on which we are creating the item, and the basic prims, the tools,
- The person who created the texture or the template,
- Photoshop, Gimp, Blender's creators,
all of that depending on your way to work.


For each product originally created by someone else, you'll pay their work by purchasing it full perm and you'll respect some RULES they are writing themselves. For example, you can't give freebies including full perm sculpts from some sculpt stores.

In [VIRTUAL/INSANITY]'s case,
- All of our textures are custom and created on a PURCHASED photoshop,
- All of our scripts are purchased to scripters, since we don't script ourselves,
- A part of our sculpts are created by ourselves and another part is purchased to more talented people such as the ones named above,

Our products are therefore, as for 99% of the content on SL, the result of the work of more than one person.

Our official position about the use of products in the aim to create a finished product is as is :
When you purchase a product made by [VIRTUAL/INSANITY], you'll pay the work we put in texturing the item, in setting the prims together, in making of it an original product. Your money will cover the charges we are meeting while building.

We are AGAINST the use as is of premade products (business in a box, templates) if there is no quality overwork on top of it.

We are FOR the use of PURCHASED products to other parts as long as these products are, indeed, not stolen, overworked & as long as the designer doesn't try to hide the use of these products.

I'm explaining this in the aim to make things clear, since it seems that this is understood in a wrong way by some residents.

Would no one on the grid use someone else's work, the grid would be empty.

Tomorrow is wednesday and GRENADE FREE WEDNESDAY will be going on at Jersey Shore !
So there we go with this item... This is a 100L bargain :

Also, I released two new items today.


1st one is the first of the new collection of essential nails. Why a new collection ? Just to avoid you to have to purchase too expensive fatpacks if only a few are interesting to you. This pack is AUTUMN.





2nd one is a part of the Heavy Cross collection I started 2 weeks ago. It's a belt ! Check this out.


All of these items are in the new section of the store. The Jersey Shore item will be available for 75L only @Jersey Shore sim though (link on the left).

Thanks for reading.

First thing to know :
we updated our Subscribo-Matic group gift.
If you're a member yet, you can get it by just unsubscribing and resubscribing real quick. Don't forget to resubscribe of course.
If you don't have it yet, please subscribe and you'll get it for free.
Here you go for the poster :

More than half price only tomorrow @Jersey Shore
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Jersey%20Shore/231/46/24