Arithmomania

ONE! One vampire fanboi paying tribute to a fallen colleague! 

TWO! My two children loved you as well! 

THREE! Three generations all around the world whose lives you touched.

Ah ah ah ahhhhhhhh!

Rest thee well, Jerry Nelson. We can't count the ways you'll be missed.

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Gaga Gala

Okay - if you've ever even looked at my blog, my flickr, my plurkline or even just said hello to me in passing; you'll know one thing.

I love Lady Gaga.

Oh yes - I really am that mainstream and I'm completely unashamed of it. I've never pretended to be cool, just... cold.

I have a problem though. I'm finally getting to see her in concert this Saturday night - omg omg omg - and it hit me hard the other day. WHAT THE HELL AM I GOING TO WEAR? It's easy for me as Winter - he has flaming bras, polar bear coats and kermit jackets up the ying yang -  but not so much for the poor bastard whose head he has taken over. I have been seriously eyeing off everything in the house and office this week wondering if there's any way I could turn it into couture. My cat just doesn't feel safe any more.

Luckily... I can just get on my baddest Monster self right here. 





I've willfully and somewhat guiltily deconstructed the Cascade dress from Epoque that was only available at the Blur installation two years ago, and edited what's left of it to match my glasses from Chic Zafari. Obviously you can no longer buy this item - sorry! - but the Warrior hair that I'm wearing also from Epoque is part of the current sale, all hairs half price.




On my bottom half it's all Ladies Who Lunch. Faint Paulse also gets it, and I'm wearing her mesh Laurella pants and Troopa boots. Finishing up my Little Monster Mash I'm in Damon skin from Tableau Vivant, Poker gloves from CheerNo, lipstick from Sorry.Asia and the Famous Lady ring from LaGyo.





Actually after posting this I may have some inspiration after all. Time to raid the kid's lego box!

Once Upon A Dream

Just a few tastes of the new; some assorted luciousness that found it's way into my life this weekend.





The new Cachet Hair from LeLutKa, meant for girls... I guess. Does anyone else remember when this brand used to be called Cachet? This comes in three styles, but the one that made me stop in my tracks was this pony, mesh heaven rigged to move with you.

Also, I now happily own this Maelle Shoulder Jewellery from Indy & Co. It comes in three different configurations of chains, and in a fullbright option. The earrings from from Pididdle; I have had these for a long time but they needed to be worn with this.





From the epic Fairy Tales in 2012 event - these 2 lusts. This Damon skin by Tableau Vivant. It's chalky and creamy all at the same time and comes in six makeups - I decided to not wear the vampy one, can you believe it? 





Oh look; what a surprise. Winter's in a skirt again.  Could you blame me though? I have long admired Irie Campese of So Many Styles' aesthetic, but I've never been able to buy her clothes. I saw this haunting item at the Fairy Tales sim, and decided on a whim to try it on. I don't think I'll ever take it off, and it was a dream to shoot. Look at the way it moves!


I had been hoping that someone would make some really kickass male boots - Puss, hello? - but  I can hold out until the next year. It will take me that long to pick out all of these glass splinters from between my toes anyway.


DAMNIT, when's it gonna be MY turn to be a Princess?

Perspective

I like to think that after almost 6 years in SL I'm fairly well travelled. However today my partner Eve asked me if I'd been to 2 Fish yet, I hadn't. Should we go now?  "Great!" said the ignorant vainpyre "I love Dr Suess!"

It wasn't Dr Seuss.

I was very unprepared.

After arriving and having a quick look around and delighting in the whimsical build "The Inevitability of Fate" I complimented the creator Rose Borchovski on how amazing it was. We mentioned my photos for a moment and I blithely commented back how I hoped I could do it justice. Eve and I wandered the sim, jumping on poseballs and snapping pictures. Then she asked if I had the sound on. I hadn't until then, so I did. And that's when everything snapped into place, and made shocking sense.





I still took a few of my substandard photos which I'm posting here, tiling issues and all. But I also turned off photographer eye and absorbed what was happening, the tale that was being told. It's interactive in that there are poses in all the installations so you become part of the history, plus there are triggers that when you walk through them, they hand you props and items to wear. There was more than one spot that was overwhelming and I came very close to having to leave. I have never been affected by a sim in Second Life like I have this one.











 I don't want to talk about it too much as I feel it's better off experienced rather than read about on my shallow fashion blog.  But you should go, you really should. Just be prepared to be challenged and leave yourself time to think. I myself took away from it a new perspective, and a reminder of what's important. You can also see Eve's view on the installation here.


Thank you, Rose Borchovski.




P.S. this post is dedicated to Craig, with best wishes for your recovery.

Ruthedless.

So my main modelling agency Avenue asked me if I'd teach a masterclass - their words, not mine! - on styling.

I wrote and presented my hour long lecture, and within that time I made the class do evil, unforgiveable things. Sure they had a purpose behind them, but it was also great for the lulz. You haven't lived until you've made a class full of weeping models go back to Ruth status. But of course the pressure was on for me to look like some fierce and fabulous GOD OF FASHION. And this is what I wore. I added a hat at the last minute after I took these pics... but I'm happy to leave it off for this post.







Because you should always start with the basics... and if sequinned chartreuse hotpants aren't a staple for any wardrobe? I don't know what is.


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   WHAT WINTER IS WEARING. 

Hair - Whisky in White by LoQ
Skin - Ryan in Tone 02 by Tableau Vivant
Makeup - Lips in Homicidal by Pekka, Eyes in Mai Line by Boom
Jacket - Vega Mesh Jacket in Black by [sYs]
Hotpants - Shorts in Sequins Gold by Chic Zafari
Ring - Be Careful in Silver by LaGyo
Tights - Nemore in Black by Miamai

My Turn!

O.
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So like there's this Whore Couture Festival that's just opened, right? And I was super excited to see it, coz slutwear is usually so under represented on the feeds. I mean like, no one blogs it everrrrr. And I had been just bursting to let my inner manwhore out, I mean I'm usually totally demure and frigid and stuffs.* So I was all like I wanna join in too!





Can you believe that I already owned everything in this post apart from my tongue and facial decoration? You can? I don't know if I really got the look down right though; I'm sadfacing pretty hardcore about that, you'd be able to tell from my super downturned lips if I had closed them in the past year or so. I just couldn't get my thighs to spread more than a foot apart like the other bloggers.





Kiss kiss?


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So Bouncer Criss and I dared each other on plurk to out slut each other. Or something, I was too busy hunting the feeds for that vagina lollipop to pay any real attention. Watch his blog, I'm sure he'll blow mine efforts out of the water soon. And seriously - the Whore Couture Fair does seem to have some pretty fun stuff out. I'm not judging, swear - just having fun.




*Just ignore what the Alura Times was saying about me. That was so NOT me on the floor underneath Monica, Takeshi and Rusch.

Kiwiswede

Just a quick one today, as I believe I have found the best facial hair in either world. Better even than the whiskers on Oscar Page's Mom. 





It's from Birth. This is the new Thor skin. And this design is named Maori. I can't imagine how long this would take me to do.





And it would be a damn sight messier if I ever attempted it. The Thor skins feature a really interesting range of scrub, and come with different muscle tone and bodyhair options. I made sure that I wore the furriest for this blogpost to entice Elusyve back inworld.




Eyes are from Fashism, hair from No.07,  jacket and pants from LaPointe and Bastchild. They have a far better waistline than this really, but Monica demands that every man that comes close has to edit their waistband to just above ball level.

Glam Reaper

....guest starring the amazing Grazia Horwitz. Who was not only lovely enough to answer my stricken plea for photography help on plurk - by taking these glorious pictures - but she also took the skin challenge that I flung at her. "Modern Death with a palette of black and gold." And she didn't just take it, she ran right over the top of my styling attempts with it.




At least she got my best side in this pic. And I'm shirtless - AGAIN - because she flat out insisted upon it.




Because occasionally, even Death takes a holiday.


What We Wore For The Danse Macabre

Grazia

Hair - 99 Elephants Krima b1
Hairbase- 99 Elephants shaved black T0
Skin - Ellivu female skin by Nuuna
Eyes - Repulse rage eyes
Eye make up - Grixdale Eyesore
Collar - Cheerno Lory scarf
Top - Whippet & Buck Cole boatneck top black
Dress - LeLutka Shutter dress
Coat - Bare Rose Black Duster Lady
Fishnets - Erratic fishnets wide
Boots - Lapointe & Bastchild Stiletto knee boots
Nails - PixelMode sculpted nails


Winter

Hair - Rebel in Black VII by MADesigns
Hairbase - Mist in Black by White Widow
Skin - Ellivu Male Skin by +Nuuna+
Eyes - Sunrise Eyes in Black by Fashism
Lashes - Deity Lashes in Colour 2 by Deity
Jacket - Military Cardigan in Black by *Coco*
Necklace - Butterfly Skull in Gold by R.icielli
Ring - Blak Diamond Stud Skull by NSD
Nails - Short Male Nails in Palette2 by Mandala
Pants - Juka Leggings in Goldfish by Miamai
Boots - Sidewinder in Black by Similar

The Iceman Goeth

As I mentioned in my previous post, I was doing the pageant thing for BOSL's Mr Virtual World 2011. I totally loved it, and I'm both sad and a bit glad it's over. Booo for the only fashion challenges now being ones I give myself "Hmmmm..... does this prim crotch make my ass look big or not?" but it's also kind of nice not having to stay up till 5am on weekends. Don't get me wrong, I still totally do that but I just don't HAVE to.





I've been asked why did I choose Iceland and not my native Australia? Well come on, look at me. I burn walking past an open window, there's no way I'd survive for more then five minutes in the outback. I thought I'd leave the whole Akubra hat/Drizabone jacket/knifey spoony gig to someone who looked a bit less dayglo than I do. Plus if I was to go out in public at night time here dressed in my signature white on white with extra white then I'd have several beer bottles smashed over my head.





I wasn't one of the top five - congrats to Jax Aster of USA! - but I think I still managed to contribute something, even if it was just making the announcers choke when I started my bootie pop in the swimsuit section. Complete with real hand drawn wedgie and epic schlong shading on the thong. Can you believe that several hours beforehand I was looking classy and relatively normal in a wetsuit until I started talking to Jori Watler?




For the Formalwear section, I wanted to stay true to my chosen land. Some research turned up a bloody marvel - an Israeli/Australian designer who now lives in Iceland named Sruli Recht. He works with materials native to the region - horse and reindeer leather, the wool of stillborn lambs, whole seagull carcasses and... umm... minke whale foreskin. I took his aesthetic to my poor beleagered employer and friend, Monica Outlander of Miamai and she created this wonder of a coat. Which will be released later on. Yep, I bet you hate it when I do that. Don't think this means I'll stop though.


At the end of it all I had a damn good time, and learnt a lot of things - espesh from the mindblowing styling skills of my competitors - as well as making some new friends. Plus it was cool to see how far I could get just by being me, pale loud goofy clumsy ME. Now pardon me all, I have to go get the pliers out and try drag my fangs back down into place.


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What Winter Is Wearing

National
Hair - Magnus in White by Wasabi Pills
Skin - Brent in Light by CheerNo (worn throughout)
Eyes - Sunlight eyes in Azure by Fashism (Same brand of eyes worn throughout)
Outfit - Nordic in White by N.A.M.E (I freakin' LOVE this store, you need to go see it.)
Boots - Fur Trimmed Boots in Grey by LightStar
Axe - Velde's Skull Splitter Axe by Azora


Swimwear
Hair - Arianrhod in Pearl by Discord Designs (Thank you so much Kallisti!)
Tattoos - Loiuse by Tiki Tattoo
Necklace - Sharkstooth Necklace by Josef
Thong - Quezban in Red by Tori Toricelli
Feet - Jolie Pied Pivoting Male Feet by SLink


Formalwear
Hair - Soldier Boy in White by Shag
Coat - Valur Jacket by Miamai (not yet released)
Pants - Fur Trimmed Pants in Black by LightStar
Boots - Fur Trimmed Boots in Black by LightStar







My buttcrack gets it's starring moment at 00:30:20 if you want to see the madness for yourself...

Le Voleur De Paon

So I'm one of the 20 male models in SL currently trying to prove that they are really really really ridiculously good looking in the BOSL Mr Virtual World 2011 competition - yep, I'm Mr Iceland of course. (Transylvania was voted out of contention by the Russian judges... curse them.) I'm loving it so far - style challenges every other week WOOOOOO! - and this time it was avant garde. Which if you know me at all is really the only way I bother getting dressed in SL...





I spent several days trying to make something all spikedy and geometric, and you will see this at a later date - swear. But things evolved as they often do when your fairy godmother Monica is a bit of a creative genius, and I ended up looking as if I'd made good on my promise last month to molest Frolic's peacocks. It's okay - it's a far more fulfilling life for them as FASHION anyway.











What I'm loving on in this post - the cape is called Magus, it's by Miamai and it's not out yet sorreeeeee but the Lenoire hair is, and it's available at Hair Fair until the 15th of July. Be aware that I've modded it a fair bit though, there's meant to be some girly stuff on top. I'm still mad about my Vincent skin from Tableau Vivant, this is the January tone and I also got my Claw Pants from there too. Nuuna Nitely makes wonderful bold makeups and I'm layering several of them here, most of them from her new Version 8 makeup pack. My Taped Guts are from Sinistyle and the Sequinned Leggings are from Fishy Strawberry. Just out of view - the huge and inventive stream of cursewords from when I crashed two minutes before showtime.



I have no idea what the end results of the styling competition were, they may have announced it but I was too busy trying to untangle Winter Junior from the sequinned tights. It's also a mad giggle watching the audience wake up when the very blindingly pale man appears on the runway after the Costa Rican guy and tries to convince them that dead with shitloads of guyliner can be beautiful too.