Short Skirt, Long Jacket

2/23/13

Song by Cake

The song, it is all because of the song.  I love its energy and the fact that he wants a woman with brains, refreshing change in pop music.  So I was thinking modern lab as a theme, and then I scored these Mad Scientist Lab stuff and came across a Dieselpunk picture that inspired me, so there it is.

My crazy ideas are never easy to pull off.  Do you know how many Long Jackets I had to buy before finding the right one?    Do not even let me think about the number of short skirts I looked at.  If I could streamline that part of the process I could be way more efficient. 

Once again Renae had the perfect one in her inventory.  Brat!  She came and helped me do choreo for a while one night which was fun and really inspires me to work towards group numbers.

The other challenge to this act and was the most daunting part of it all was the cars.  I wanted to trade in my MG for a white Chrysler LeBaron.  Well I found these fab cars from Gorgon Motors.  I love them...but…despite saying they were Mod, one of them was not and I could not do the hide object script that I wanted to learn how to use on this act.

I spent an hour at the theater practicing dragging the Rumba Roadster to the stage in the right place.  I contacted the creator told him what I was up to and included some pics.  Since he is not inworld much it took a while but he said that the car was mod, it is just the scripts that were not.  Well, sorry hon, if you cannot erase the scripts out of it and add new ones, well the car itself is no mod.  Another builder friend of mine suggested that sometimes MP has older versions of items that sellers forget to update. 

Oh well precision Roadster placing was the order of the day and I had a lightning ball that I used to mask the switch.  I am not sure if it actually worked for the audience, but things came together in my viewer for the actual performance.

Sexual Healing

2/9/13

Song by Marvin Gaye and covered by Sarah Connor w/ intro of "Zelda's Lullabye"

Dedicated to my very loving and smexy RL partner.

And a big thanks to Susie for letting me have the song, which according to my partner is the only song that would have worked (being a Marvin G. fan provides a strong bias).

I have spent many hours watching my partner play and replay all of the Zelda Games.  Every time the Great Fairy comes in we laugh and joke about what a hussy she is and how she is always flirting with Link in an overly friendly way.  So that is the inspiration for this act.

This is the most of a set that I built from "scratch."  Aside from the rupees, throne, mer eddies, and mesh Triforce symbol I had to find and texture all the sculpts and every thing else.  Which was really a first for me, I am used to finding something close and modding it.  I am looking forward to more building from "scratch." 

The upside to this is that most things were full perm except for the throne and eddies so I got to use a Rez Box for the first time, under the very helpful advice of Sexy Q.

I loved my Navi followers!  Luckily I could put them in the rez box because they were hard to catch and unable to tp through floors and walls. Once I forgot and left a pile of them pounding their little bodies on the ceiling of the studio while I worked on the roof platform, and then the next time I logged in and went to the studio, they swarmed me.  At first I thought I was being griefed.

Yes, The Great Fairy was tall, wingless and wore knee high boots. :-)

Thanks to Magika for having a hair that was similar enough and I think way better.

In case you forgot what she was like (or if you have never had to use her healing powers):

Game screenshots….