Birds Like It

Song by Tape Five (here) or embedded below
I used the shorter album version, but for obvious reasons I like this logo/vid better. *wink*

"I just got to tell you baby, while we're standing here,
anytime that your're around me - all the birds appear..."

It was a stunningly beautiful fall afternoon, when the rain stopped and the blue skies forced a brilliant rainbow over my drive home from work. I had Tape Five in the CD player and this song just said, DO ME! ;)  So I did!

A Mardi Gras act, that was on some sort of float, had been on my mind since last year, but its look was eluding me. First I researched the oldest Mardi Gras floats and they were inspiring. But having just seen Catching Fire, I was still buzzed about the costuming for the citizens of The Capital.  Oversize flowers and animals with a futuristic color scheme won out.  I wanted to have some platforms and such on the float, but once I started doing the dance, it became obvious that we needed space to dance.

I was working on a Harpy themed costume, and when I announced to the group that was the direction I was going in, SexyS saved us all a whole lot of bank by offering up her collection of really awesome Harpyia outfits from !Devious Minds! for The Fantasy Gacha Faire. And a flock of Harpyia was recruited, or hatched, as the case may be.

Choreographing group numbers with the Group Formations HUD from Spot On is a dream come true.  My alts had to dance their asses off on this one, and spend hours just standing on their movers, but for the triplets, my Solid Blaze Dancers, that is what they were made for. *grin*  A little work in progress shot...

The night of the show, the set did not rez right (the pics above with only blue sky background).  That is a super frustrating thing when it all goes just fine at home and rehearsal, and then not on the night of.  But the sheer awesomeness of this flock made a set fail unnoticeable.  In fact, since I was so distracted by juggling 7 other people and not wanting to cam about and make myself crash, I did not notice until I saw the pics from that night.

The act was performed a second time at Burnal Equinox, a month later.  After many larger than me tech troubles, the act went off with out a hitch back at our home theater and the set parts were all in their right place.  I am sorry for my lousy pic taking and cutting some folks off.  Taking pics while performing and having a screen full of huds and windows tends to make less than ideal framing. *sigh*  I also did not want to take snaps while performing and get out of synch, but we look damn good in our perching poses. 

Me and "my" Shadow ;)

The act itself was dedicated to a certain bird I know, Jasmin, though she did not get to see the shows due to RL complications.  Thanks to SexyS Quintessa, Shadow Tarber, Gamma Infinity, Meegan Danitz, Diawa Bellic, Jill Mackenzie & Aubreya Joszepe. You all were stunningly beautiful and it was great to fly with you!