To celebrate Japan's Emperor's Birthday-2-23-2023 yesterday I created a pair of Japanese Shoes for anyone who would like a pair they can be found at Classic Closet at the Monentes Jewelry store. virtual-hg.com:8002:Monentes Jewelry

Hi everyone!
I will be singing at Speakeasy Swinghard today!!
Alternate Metaverse -11:00am
Casual, Fun, Friendly Gathering!
Would love to sing your favorites from 600+ variety song list.
Hugs and hopefully see you soon!!
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Map us at: alternatemetaverse.com:8002:AMV Events

It is not quite springtime with a nip of chill still in the air so I thought I would create a Fur Stole to keep me warm till springtime. If you would like one please find it in the Classic Closet at VHG

if you want to check out the story of yesterday's Corny Safari, here are the links! please share, comment, and follow the blog if you so desire!
big thanks to Nyx, Whirli, and Cite for making us so welcome
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2023/02/key-of-c.html
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2023/02/crescent-roll.html

Camballa has had a remodel.
I hope it will be easier for everyone to find everything now.
Please take the time to look at the conversion and draw a new landmark.
because Caballa not only got a new face but also a new position. I wish you a lot of fun shopping.
Your Karin Becker

The Phantom Rose Mer Nation has a new region - Phantom Rose Medieval! The Underwater Kingdom of Lyonesse, is located on this new 5x5 Medieval/Fantasy region. Hop via the Akrotiri beacon and then use the Mer Portal (medieval) to access via underwater.

The latest Mer area for the Grid: The Underwater Kingdom of Lyonesse! There is a free gift of a shark rider, along with temp-rez shark riders to use on the region. Bring some friends and compete at the Colosseum in Seahorse Chariot races. 6 colors, who will win? You can also use the Colosseum for Mer swim racing, unlimited number of competitors!

Medieval Marketplace and majestic Monastery! The Monastery is truly an outstanding build by Tenshi Engel; from its imposing portcullis entry, thru its many rooms with unique textures and gold highlights, all backed with Byzantine Music, it is worth the trip! Land at the dock and make your way thru the busy Marketplace and over the moat.

Knight's Landing is the welcome area for Phantom Rose Medieval region. Here you will find starter role play outfits, some gifts, important information about the grid and the region, Free region gifts information and map of region. There is a regional teleporter to the main areas, but we encourage you to use a free boat from the docks, to enhance your experience. The Landing has a small medieval fair with dancing and a functional maypole.

COME JOIN ME AT 1:00PM!
Come join me at Pink Moon! Lots of shopping, lots to explore!
Rogue Galaxy, is a seasoned musician/vocalist and must hear performer! The timbre and tone of her voice is unique to the Blues, but she also performs Rock, Jazz, Rockabilly, Pop and more!

When: 1:00pm
Where: PINK MOON
MAP: hop://watersplash.outworldz.net:8002/iEchoes/42/35/28

Many of you know I have a lot of statues in my store, but I didn't set out originally to offer them. A few years ago I wanted one for a build I was doing at the time and found one on the Kitely Market. Wanting to add materials, I replaced the base texture with a marble and realized that all that was left was an amorphous blob that barely resembled the original statue. So I decided to see if there was a better way. The resulting workflow is pictured. I start out with real world scans of famous statues (such as Hebe pictured) that are readily available, and load it into Blender. Since it had 2 million faces, I needed to reduce the complexity to 80,000 faces or less to be able to upload it inworld but still have detail for those who are unable to use higher graphics. You can see the two models side-by-side in Blender. At that point I bake the normals to replace a lot of the details that were lost without increasing the complexity, then upload the less complex model and the new normalmap into opensim. The final photo is the result.

You can see all my statues on my store regions:

Main Store: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Lunaria Emporium - Main Store

Kitely Store: grid.kitely.com:8002:Lunaria Emporium

And many of my items are available on the Kitely Market here: https://www.kitely.com/market?store=13957705

St. Patrick's day will soon be here! I created this prim skirt for those who wish to wear prims. This is two skirts each with 24 panels. I wore it and did not lag but I would not suggest wearing it if you have lots of other attachments too as it will cause your LOD to go up. You can find this in the Monentes Jewelry store in the new Classic Closet section. Please feel free to texture it and use it any way you wish. Free to give, you may also create outfits using this. If you want your name on as the creator there is a little center ball you can edit. That is fine. Many thanks to Copyright (c) 2007 Dalien Talbot, and a few other folks thanks to whom this skirt rezzer script exists: Loop Rez by Ged Larson 2006 I put out a box with the skirt rezzer, scripts and info manual. You can create your own prims for the skirt panels, mine is a cylinder that has been hollowed with a nice path cut. Experiment with your own panels.

Zoree Jupiter Live- Every otherThursday @ 11am- AMV Grid

Zoree Jupiter singing LIVE @ Speakeasy Swinghard! Zoree is
a truly incredible live singer with a wide variety of music and
a voice that ranges from soft, sultry & sexy to ready to rock
your socks! Don't miss her events, every other Thursday, 11am Grid time!
Dress is casual to semi formal.

Come 30 mins early for Cliffs pre show tunes!

Map us at: alternatemetaverse.com:8002:AMV Events

Icky Thump Live @ Inner City Dance Club- Saturday 1pm

Inner City Dance Club brings you British Singer / Guitarist Icky Thump (icky Flux in SL)
A Blues man by heart playing a mix of songs, putting his unique twist on them armed only with his guitar, stompbox and strong "Dylan-esque" vocals.
Icky will whisk you to the land of Delta blues, moving your body & soul, leaving you wanting more.
Every other Saturday 1-2pm - An hour of Music, Fun & Friends On the AMV Events Region

alterenatemetaverse.com:8002:AMV Events (213, 109, 35)

Joao Frazao Live-ArtSpeak Cafe' every other Thursday 11am -12n

Joao Frazao Live beautiful, sensual Ukulele Music, Guitar & Vocals @ArtSpeak Cafe', Thursday @ 11 am, AMV Events, AMV Grid. He has spent the last 25 years playing, recording & promoting Portuguese folk music all over the world, his own shows & as a session musician for several main stream Portuguese artists. Relax, dance and enjoy the beauty of Joao's uniquely joyful sounds!

Joao's Website http://www.joaofrazao.net
MAP alternatemetaverse.com:8002:AMV Events/1011/448/30

Mavenn Live @ The ArtSpeak Cafe' Thursday 10-11am Blues & Soul

The Incredible Mavenn Live Performs LIVE at The ArtSpeak Cafe'
every other Thursday @ 10am. Mavenn is a great blues and soul
vocalist! My personal favorites are her covers of Beth Heart, Melody Gardot
and the list goes on and on! Join us just before Joao takes the stage.
Mavenn Live - 10-11 AM Grid time
Joao Frazao - 11 AM -12noon Grid time

alternatemetaverse.com:8002:AMV Events/1011/448/30

The New Alternate Metaverse Cafe' at AMV Welcome
Fine foods, snacks, desserts- 15 varieties of pie and the best Coffees in the metaverse! Aloria Asana is your hostess & Manager. Make new Friends, or sit and clean out your inventory over a hot cup of cappucino!

DJ Maia Antarras's events on Wednesday will now be on her beautiful home region, Satori. Catch her Wednesdays 5-7 PM for an Electro dance party that will having you dancing in the stars!

alternatemetaverse.com:8002:Satori

Karaoke at AMV's Got Talent Wednesdays 1-3p @ Softly

A Karaoke event for all musical tastes, in the style of RL Karaoke clubs.
Music is streamed real time to a wide screen TV via your MEDIA PLAYER & Sang In VOICE. Most songs have scrolling texts with color visual prompts, others may just have texts. Some may have backup singers or "Low" vocals, some not. 5000- songs and growing- 2 hours of fun for all!
Host Crystal - Karaoke DJ is Cataplexia

alternatemetaverse.com:8002:Softly (383, 131, 21)

I tapped an alt to experiment with the Open Sim take on Reborn... I have tested Reborn in SL via demos (also with an alt), and I don't recall it cracking 300k in the complexity rating. So... Ok, great for photos, but I'd pass on it if you want to go clubbing on the dance floor, especially a crowded one. Most people won't be able to see your Reborn creations... you will be a gray doll to many. For now, it's best to stick with Decadence, Athena or one of the curvy Ruth2 mods.

(BTW, this ensemble is 600,000 on the complexity scale!)

After much thought, I have a rough layout on the new area. Some regions may move slightly, but this is the plan. The new grid’s name is friends-grid

I have decided I wanted to give the 4 of you a special present…..but I really do not want to fight or argue.

This is the amount of land I am getting whether you accept your gift or not.

The next thing I want to mention is I believe and support creativity……but sometimes creativity is limited by the size of your canvas. Imagine being able to put up mountains that are 1-2 sims big…..or a lake that is 4 sims! Imagine being able to drive in high gear! These things are stupid impossible unless you have a decent size canvas.

Well, December and Christmas was pretty rough with all that happened with Hidden Dreams. You four stayed with me and have been active and involved. For that, I thank you!

Because of this, I am sending your Christmas a little early. You each will have a 4x4 to build, create, experiment, bulldoze and start over! I have put tentative names and themes on the map.

Before anyone says “omg, I cannot ever work with that much”, I want you to pause…..and realize what you could do:

F1 tracks for me to beat Pin’s ass

A fantasy area involving mountains and lakes without space issues

Mad max driving like a bat out of hell over the outback

Maybe a sci fi landscape

The bottom line…..you all have some serious canvas to be creative. Realize also that you may want water around or on your region, that can take up space. Use graph paper and plan it out.

Now, I also want to point out something. We are not on a time schedule….. we are not trying to have this done by May 1. In my opinion, this is probably 12 months, some areas earlier, some later. You may want to plan for two months, and you might build on day 1. I don’t care.

If anyone is worried about me not having space, I have about 82 sims to work on…..that should keep me busy for a few days.

Also, I do own 5-10 raw terrain files (islands). If interested, ask and I can show you some examples and you can decide if it would help.

I want to support creativity!

I hope this gift will be accepted in the spirit in which it is being given…..the spirit of friendship!