Style card:
"Look of the year", because I’m perfectly happy to run around in the same outfit for more than a few hours, unlike some other people I could name… 
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Style Card:
- shoes: Maitreya Gold Aequus Golden
- dress: Mimikri Seduction olive
- necklace / earrings: Alienbear Design Natasja gold
- bracelet: Zaara Nizam Bajubandh (armband) *white*
- hair: MADesigns Hair Swedish Blonde Akami SBL III
- nails: TBP Square Tip Prim Nails
Model / Photographer: Moriko Inshan
In my last little rant I talked about how old, well-known shops disappear all of a sudden…
The total opposite seems to be Nyte’n'Day. Yesterday I saw a "new releases from Nyte’n'Day" on a blog, and went over there to have a look… and I have to say, I was awed.
Last time I went to N&D they had this small place in a skybox, and were doing a huge "everything 50% off" sale (which usually is the writing on the wall, as far as shops in SL go)…
Now, they have a full sim, and they didn’t "waste" store floor space for landscaping at all. The place is huge, and full of nice stuff, too!
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These days a lot of stores either disappear, or go mainstream…
An example for going mainstream is Curious Kitties Deviant Kitties. The owner now has a new shop called ploom, and with every product announcement comes this distinctive “Seen that already” feeling… What happened to the time when Curious Kitties was unique, and distinctive? The hairstyles from D:K were definitely identifiable as “typically DK”. The hairstyles that come out of ploom are more like “is that truth, or ploom, or maitreya, or whatever?”
An example for disappearing completely is Nadeshiko Soul. They used to sell absolutely amazing kimonos, and their mini kimonos were unique. Same was true for Samurai Soul, the men’s line from NS. Now the owner seems to concentrate on Bijoux, their “normal clothes” line. And while the designs from Bijoux are definitely pretty, and definitely worth their money, they are just “more of the same”…
why do shops give up their unique selling points so easily?
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There is one thing that I really like most about Second Life…
There are so many creative and imaginative people around.
Here’s a picture of a place that I came across today, that totally speaks to the point.
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I got a notecard in SL where someone talks about being in blue mars instead of SL…
here are a few quotes…
Blue Mars brags advanced graphics, no lag and mesh orientated content (this means the clothes are fabulous).
And here’s a picture of those fabulous clothes:
Is it just me or is that a really sad joke?
And don’t get me started about "fabulous graphics" in general. My laptop runs SL in ultimate and Blue mars looks like I have dirty, grey glasses on while running SL at minimum.
"no lag"… of course not, with no users…
Anyways, BM needs another 5 years to mature. And even then it won’t be competition for "real" virtual worlds like SL and others, simply because of the missing "your world, your imagination" principle… in BM only people who can afford their own sim can create their own world.
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In a previous post I might have failed to express my point clearly enough, leading to some people believeing that I was accusing a certain store of running rigged contests.
That was not my intention.
Thankfully, I got some more facts about the MoM 100K raffles that basically turn my previous post into a piece of shit pretty good example of bad blogging 
I’ll say it again and more clearly:
It was not my intention to accuse Ministry of Motion of anything.
To the best of my knowledge their contest is true and fair, the top winners are listed on their flickr site, with pictures.
Thankfully there are still stores with integrity and business sense around. MoM is one of them.
Edit: Aug 01, 2010
The winners have been announced:
1st Place winner, Teren Aridian,
2nd place: Honey Cardozo
3rd place: Umma Nitely
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This just in:
The object ‘**WIN L$100,000!! & collect your NEW FREE dance animation**’ in Second Life has offered you inventory.
Log in to accept or decline this inventory.
= **WIN L$100,000!! & collect your NEW FREE dance animation** is owned by Nomasha Syaka
Makes me wonder… Ministry Of Motion is doing these "Raffles" quite regularly. If I’m not totally mistaken, monthly.
That would amount to 1.200.000 L$ per year that is given away… or in real money, 375 us$ per month.
Now lets see, what are the terms to enter the raffle…
Kind of reminds me of two other events that went quite strangely…
… the sintimacy photo contest, first prize supposed to be one million linden dollars, the announcement of winner was postponed several times, and I don’t think there HAS been a winner so far.
… the paper.doll logo contest, design a store logo to enter, first prize 5000L in cash and the complete summer collection, not one single peep about the contest has been published after the initial announcement. And the deadline is 4 months past now.
Not to mention any number of "best in …" contests where the winner just happened to be one of the employees of the club / the girlfriend of the DJ / the wife of the host…
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I’ve been following seven different men’s fashion blogs for about two weeks now…
… and it has almost convinced me that “men’s fashion” in Second Life basically means “gay vampire teen elves”.
Someone prove me wrong please.
Seriously… there are so many awesome designers out there, making such awesome stuff for women in so many different styles… why does men’s fashion have to be uniformly ugly, with only a very few notable exceptions (and even those exceptions are becoming pretty boring by now since they are all just repetitions of the same thing)?
I mean… how many different tuxes and “good suits”, how many different sneakers and jeans, how many different t-shirts does a guy need?
In SL, where clothes don’t wear out? One of each, with the single exception of t-shirts from T Junction maybe 
And when a guy as those “one of each”, what is left?
Not much unless you want to look as if you’re wearing a costume.
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