Eat The Menu

22 November 2013

Song by The Sugarcubes (here)

"I'm just a maid

But yes to food, is yes to life"

Yes! Yes! 
As I have come to realize each run at the theater is a beautiful mix of songs that I had planned on from the beginning and ones that smack me up side the head one day and say "Do me!" Well this one was planned, but I put it off because I was not prepared for the technical complexity involved in the set. I also had to be on the schedule for a group dance. This was my first! I have used back up dancers before but never a full on group act beginning to end. 

Luckily this coincided with the recent release is Spot On's Formations HUD. So I bought yet another toy. *grins* And I have to say I love it!  No dancing pics, because coordinating this took all my focus.

Thanks to Chewie for figuring out how to make 10 plates of sushi go around the belt in the right way, without you, I would have thrown up my hands, flung raw fish all over my skybox, and smashed my designer ring.

And thanks to Jess, for being her silly self and inspiring the posers to be mermaids and not just naked women with strategically placed sushi.  I loved that touch!

And thanks to Chewie, Zahra, Deb, BabyPea, and Jess for wearing their outfits so well and coming along for the ride. Much fun and love to you all!

Left of Center

8 November 2013

Song by Suzanne Vega (here)

"If you want me you can find me

Left of center off of the strip

In the outskirts and in the fringes

In the corner out of the grip"

Once again, there was a concept crisis. I knew I was not ready to do the act that was next in line in my season's agenda, so I looked around to see what I could manage. A trip to the roller skating rink of my youth emerged. 

 I had done an 80's hunt a while back and got some really cool clothes. I did buy the skates, since the ones I had were just not cool enough.  As a former derby girl, I am very particular about my skates.

I worked damn hard on this one and bought a lot of skating anims. It was a different type of choreo and synching with the mover was as challenge. But a fun one, I just wish I had those moves when I was a young rink rat.

The best part of the set came from Ender's inventory.  The creator had long since disappeared, so I could not buy my own, and had to use him as an alt to get it there. But it worked out quite well.

Hanging in the arcade would have been a wholely different scene in this outfit.