iliveisl

we have added a new one today!

it’s easy to see the reason: privacy and personal space. as avatars, we typically do not view the world through our eyes (mouselook) but from the default above and back camera angle.  this means buildings typically have tall ceilings and more space is required outside.

a property lot of 4,096 square metres is about an acre in size, yet it is not unusual to see homes that nearly cover this standard size parcel.  irl that would be a huge home. so a region divided into 16 parcels of 4,096 each is pretty normal (not at iliveisl, we like free space between lots for a sense of privacy and to allow landscaping to maintain a cohesive feel throughout the estate).

if that same region would have 16 “normal” homes on it, it would seem very crowded, however irl, a 16 acre neighborhood with 16 homes would be somewhat luxurious.

so OpenSpaces fulfill that sense of space and we only allow three lots of 4096 on each, thus giving a lot of space to residents.  we also keep the number down since an OpenSpace does not have the resources of a normal sim.

tierTPflickr, originally uploaded by iliveiSL.

another sim added, it truly is about the residents :)

Enercraig Vesper?  well the “ener” is thanks to Sunny and Leoj one late Tuesday night at the land store checkout and a craig, or crag, is a hill or outcropping left as a glacier erodes softer rock around it.  Vesper is latin for evening and eventually became our word “west”, thus Ener Crag West for this region’s name.

landscaping has begun even before the building is complete.

dunno if “2.6″ is catchy as a building name, but that is what it’s called :)

it’s fun to make buildings that are somewhat based in the “possible” mixed with the improbable

it is hard to break free of wanting to create architecture that is partly based in rl principles. suppose it has to do in part with creating structures that “feel” somewhat real even in a world where anything goes.

as a juxtaposition to this, just across the street is a steampunk gazebo that floats in the sky =D

holy cow! the start of our tallest building, it harkens back to the era in Manhattan when the size of a business was measured by the size of it’s building.

what a romantic era, the Chrysler Building with it’s massive gargoyles, the Empire State Building with it’s zeppelin docking tower.

yes, it was built for trans-atlantic zeppelins to dock. pretty friggin’ amazing and steampunk almost realized. imagine the Manhattan skyline with zeppelins! wow, it gives me chills! :)

and there will be a zeppelin docking here . . .

first off how cool is that for a name of a magazine on SL?  but more importantly, how great is it that Geoff Quinnell ranked nice press for his event.  despite sl having a few “minor” issues (hmm, TP failure, profile failure, derrr), Geoff and his gang pulled off a nice festival.

learn more here, hope yours truly gets invited to the next (i don’t crash parties isl), i sure would pass the word on to anyone i know online (doh! 295 friends in the list)  o_O

Very cool place Festival Field is and the details in it place are incredible.  you want to see great tents?  holy smokes, Geoff is a master with textures (and imagination)  ^_^

tierCentre_005, originally uploaded by iliveiSL.

our Tier Centre is up and running, and provides a social plave as well. :)

A second ad for the next issue of Prim Perfect. Ener Hax did a wonderful job on terraforming and landscaping.

lol, a skerry is a glacially formed island :)

New ad for Prim Perfect July Issue :)

meAndBunny, originally uploaded by iliveiSL.

one sculpted prim, that is amazing :)

sim plan 152, originally uploaded by iliveiSL.

Getting more detailed and this was created for the new central Tier Centre to facilitate tier payments for residents.