Second Life Male Style and Fashion

Was something about styling which came into my mind after brief dialog with Viola Leigh the creator of so much nice stuff from Redgrave. I was thinking about styling and what kind of job a stylist have in SL. Apart from styling certain magazines and collections, a styling work in SL is pretty much useless. I mean we could be working for, let’s suppose a guy who wants a fast track tol look a like or something and which is smart enough to know that he cannot get it done by itself. Or maybe a fast track to a enterprise look. That mean about 1% about the total grid and I am pretty much sure that is less that 1% nowadays. In fact what stoke me was why did I waited so much to feature these Athlete Sneakers and why they did stayed in my inventory for such a long time. The answer is: I didn’t found something good enough to match almost exactly the level of realism of the shoes, and in the same grey tones. I would like to think that this look is a sportier asian look but since I am not part of that culture I wouldn’t know. Let’s call it maybe car tuning mechanic or whatever…

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Wearing:

Pants: F*cked Up Pants by Tonk Tomcat of TonkTastik

Tanktop: TonkTastic – Tanktop (Fine Gray) by Tonk Tomcat of TonkTastik

Footwear: [*RG*] Athlete Sneakers -Black/Gr-of Redgrave

Cap: Gritty Kitty: BLACK Comrad

Wanting to announce the new late spring collection which is in works right now at Emery. This time Sejordan is putting some more emphasis on male products. The suit featured is by far one of his best products. It keeps following the same hard edge of the hand drawn 80’s fashion.

By definition 80’s are the times when business suits entered the fashion world. The common, male and female suits, was the emphasis on big shoulders, at that time was fashionable and after all the colors were dark ones implying power and elitism and also brought to usage the pink and warm toned shirts. It was a difficult time just by remebering how many influences had upon us and fashion world TV series like Dynasty and Dallas. That also brought us the arrival of the yuppie fashion and oh god what that left us with. We don’t even want to remember the famous shell suits and the vivid colors of the headbands.

The excellence of the 80’s is brought to us by Emery and they have more to come in the following days. The material used is nicely fold the ray lighting is excellent the texture is high quality.

Also in this post I am using some new poses from a new animator, Rogan Diesel of Dieselworks

Wearing:

Suit: Emery – Suit

Shirt: Emery – Shirt Checked Red

Shoes: Redgrave – Black Leather Boots

Poses: Dieselworks – Baasha set

This is a response to the latest post on thslrevolution blog regarding some advices Valiant Westland is making towards a more “competitive” SL in the middle of the whole virtual worlds market. His first idea was an incredible and blatant rant against opensource, clearly without any kind of ideea that even the wordpress he is using is opensource. Dear mr Westland, I suggest you to get you head stuck out of the windows centric world. The first argument: after the SL client was opensource allowing every user with enough skills to understand what is going on to commit changes in the main trunks the SL client progressed in every way, not because LL didnt had enough programers but because they were simply out missing the scenery. When the client was opensourced a majority of fixes, improvement stability issues and don’t forget features users were always requesting found their way in the client. So before your rant you should be aware that there is only ONE trunk and different compilers for different platforms. That allows us, the opensource crowd to help your XP client be more stable, faster and with more features. So the competitive suicide you are talking about is nothing else but a try to make it better, yes through opensource. How much the SL client progressed after its openourcing, how many users were able to compile their own patches in their clients and make it available to the world ? Read here in the wiki more and you maybe will understand.

I don’t even want to know how better are going to be developed the simulator software in a opensourced model.

But, let’s go further and talk about inworld messaging. The actual inworld messaging is based on SMTP and using yes opensource servers. What mr Westland is talking is a pure another ideea form his windows centric world called Exchange. I am asking other exchange advanced users around, how many times did it crashed, how many times did you missed the simplicity of a postfix 15 minutes implementation and yes how many months took to implement exchange and first how much the implementation of that impacted the users and their busineses. We are not talking about the money cause exchange is advertised to be free, FOR those who are purchasing a coporate licencing. Or wait this is not corporate because the clients are suposed to be outsiders of LL that is going to add another 75 usd to the membership and ban free users to use it once again.

What about real document creation, am I missing the point or this is a virtual world ? Am i missing the fact that this SL client is not a Word? Do we need to have text manipulation tools in SL. The big corporations using SL are using separate application for that. I suggest simply using Openoffice and Gimp. Which are by the way programs used by the bigest lingerie producer in SL yes, Insolence.

Community calendars, the vast majority of the modeling agencies I am part of are already using google docs for sharing info and dates.

Robust presence, aren’t we loosing steam ? Yes I know! The presence server is a long discussed issue in SL developing and jira communities. With the opensourcing of that things are going to go better. The main issue seems to be the outsourcing of the databases behind the LL servers.

SMS and email integration, let’s look around ? How many of the users are wanting to be brought out of their beds to answer a customer support issues sent to their blackberries in the middle of the night just because in the other half of the world is daytime.

Mesh content support, that is not going to happen. Just use sculpties as everybody else is.

The conclusion is that the post is a meaningless rant over some features that a small group might be using.

The secret is an enterprise will not ever want to use SL for business purposes if they are not in the possibility of controlling at least the simulator software and the connection to the main grid. Any IT team will deny without a real control. To outsource a SIM to LL is expensive. Instead of the LL should have to open up the grid to new connections. I can host at any time simulator servers in one of my datacenters at half the cost of LL does it already, and I dont have to be sensitive to Amazonaws issues.

I have to say that I really like theslrevolution posts, they are raising real and interesting issues so yes I am little bit disapointed because of the latest post.