Jeepers Creepers For Horror Fun!

There are some brilliant Halloween sims in SL and one of the best thought out and detailed locations I have found is Jeepers Creepers at Calas Galadhon. Even the pumpkins heads have an extra streak of evil as you pass them by; they turn to glare menacingly at you as if they have a life of their own!

I went to explore Jeepers Creepers with friend Drax Ember and we set out through the cemetery with its ancient looking tombs. We didn’t get far before we were confronted by ghosts and ghouls appearing out of the mist. Zombies too joined in the chase as we tried to avoid their rotting hands reaching out for us! There is a creepy haunted house as you wander further up the hill and you have to be careful what you touch in there, as Drax found out! he ended up laying prone on the floor with a heavy chair smashed over his head! Be warned don’t look at the baby in the pram in the living room, it’s not a pretty sight! Worst of all for me were the giant spiders scuttling all over the floor! Back in the grounds again, we came a cropper with a bunch of vultures waiting to eat the flesh off of our bones!

There is much more to Jeepers Creepers than you first suspect, there are the caverns below the surface of the sim, which are full of hidden horrors! I thought I had seen giant spiders in the haunted house, but those were nothing compared to the ones waiting for me underground! eeek!! Drax even got caught in a web and struggled for ages trying to get free! I think the whole thing has had a devastating affect on him though, giving him a taste for human remains! As you can see by the main picture, he happily sat down to a banquet of brains and other nasty bits! Not me, I’m a vegetarian, I legged it out of there!

Janey Bracken

Happy Rez Day to Aisling

Our Virtual Trilogy would like to wish Aisling Sinclair a very happy 4th Rez Day! She had a wonderful party with a Merpeople theme! Aisling is a very busy lady, she is Manager for Elements in Design, Advertising & Client Relations Manager for Prim Perfect Magazine and the Designing Worlds TV Show, as well as being a cast member on the Primgraph Magazine's web comic 'Quest for the Golden Prim'. Aisling celebrated with all her friends, Happy Rez Day Aisling and may you have many more!

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Janey Bracken

Celebrate Halloween at Art Box

Halloween will soon be upon us. Frankie Rockett and Violet Sweetwater of Art Box are celebrating the holiday by creating spooky sets where we can really get into the spirit. So far they have made two very different scenes.
The first set is inspired by the work of Russian artist Nikolai Fomin. He has produced artworks related to Russian folklore, including one called “Raven Wing Colour of Hair”. In this scene a young woman is seated in a nest; one raven feeds her and one pulls on her hair.
And what could possibly conjure up terror more effectively than the shower scene from “Psycho”? If you have ever wanted to be a star now is your chance to appear in one of the most iconic movie scenes of all time.

Hibiscus Hastings

The Beautiful Chamber of Many Colours!

There is an amazing art exhibition at the UWA Winthrop sim. Friend Drax Ember had gone to visit it the other night and invited me over to show me one particular exhibit that he had liked. It’s by artist Gingered Alsop and its called The Chamber. I followed Drax inside and we were in a pitch black area with shafts of light beginning to form around us, then the fireworks began! Every three minutes the dazzling light show changes to a new theme and you are bathed in different colours and shapes as the particles dance around the chamber. The colours are so vibrant and the patterns so well thought out that you are stunned at each effect. Later on I asked fellow writer Hibiscus Hastings to come and look and she loved it too. For anyone with a little bit of time, and if they are keen photographers, this is the place to get some unusual shots. Gingered explains on a poster outside that she was inspired by the Particle Laboratory on the Teal sim so she created The Chamber. She says that viewers should look at the display from different areas in the chamber to get the full effects, i.e. from above and below. Gingered has certainly used her skill and imagination to put this wonderful exhibit together. The whole exhibition, which is on 4 floors has some fantastic artworks. I will make sure I go back to look at the other exhibits as they look awesome too!

Janey Bracken

The International Modelling Convention

I was lucky enough to drop in at the rehearsals for the International Modelling Convention tonight and I was privileged to meet the owner Giselle Temple and her partner Midi Aeon, who are putting on this fantastic show starting on the 22 September through till 26 September. For anyone interested in fashion or wanting to get involved with the industry, this is a must, there will be fashion shows and seminars with some of SL’s top fashion houses and modelling agencies. Giselle owns three modelling agencies, the Venus Model Agency, the Spirit Modelling Agency and the Premiere Modelling Agency. Giselle is the founder and owner of the first International Modelling Convention and is also the founder of the 2011 Av in the Mirror Award. Beautiful Giselle is standing next to dj Lee23 Nitely in the picture, who will be playing some awesome music during the Convention. Midi who owns the sim, told me she has been busy building the venue for the show, which looks spectacular. I admired Midi’s gorgeous avatar and she told me she had created it herself. Midi creates her own fashions with Midi Fashion Boutiques and she told me that she also builds planes and boats! So these ladies are very talented indeed and I’m really looking forward to the Convention.

The show starts at 11am (SLT) on the 22nd so get over there early, as I expect the sim will soon become very crowded! This promises to be an extraordinary event, good luck to Giselle and Midi and I would like to thank them for sparing the time to talk to me.

Janey Bracken

Modavia Fashion Week

A very popular event is happening in SL this week and it’s one not to miss if you just love fashion. The Modavia Fashion Week is on and I thought I would go and take a look. I had tried to get over to Modavia a couple of times but found that the sim had always been full, so this time I made sure to get over there early and take my seat to wait for the catwalk shows to begin. The place was soon buzzing with cool looking avatars and it was interesting just to see what the audience were wearing, as most of the people had come ‘dressed to impress’!

The show was hosted by Dahlia Joubert who told us that Modavia Productions had 35 shows lined up to cover 8 days to coincide with the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week taking place in real life in New York. I had managed to attend the 3rd day, so there is still a chance to watch the rest of the week’s shows.

The Modavia show was soon under way with some beautiful designs by Takuya Jinn of GABRIEL who had some stylish and chic outfits for both men and women. I stayed for the second show as well, and the outfits were equally as stunning by CheerNo Destiny and his team of designers.

Adding to the atmosphere of the shows, there was some great music supplied by dj Dena Dana as the wonderful models strutted down the catwalk. Organisers Poptart Lilliehook, Dahlia Joubert and Vixie Rayna are doing a brilliant job to stage this extravaganza of the latest SL designer's collections. Remember get over to Modavia’s early to be sure of a seat, this is the place to be!

Janey Bracken

Tropical Fun at the New Beach Club

You can’t really go wrong on the first night of opening a club if it is full of people having a great time! And so it was last night at the Beach Club at Midnight Sands! I had to get some beach wear on quickly and teleport over there, dj Janis Short was playing some summer specials including the Beach Boys and Mungo Jerry and lots of other nostalgic warm balmy night hits. Hostess Nahiram Vaniva looked after the clubbers and friendly banter carried on all night with the crowd. The setting is beautiful, a beach bar set in golden sands with palm trees and the sparkling ocean nearby. Everyone looked fantastic in their bikinis and other colourful tropical outfits. The music was brilliant, the company was excellent and the atmosphere electric! As the Beach Boys would sing everyone had ‘Fun Fun Fun till her daddy takes the keyboard away’ (oops t-bird, sorry)

Contact Brie Janick, Pink Bachem, Clive Hissop or Cutewillow Carlberg for coming events.

Janey Bracken