Reel Expression

I don’t usually do this. I try to read reviews of my poses and send out personal thank you’s to the bloggers in question, but I know I miss quite a bit. I’m just not in the know anymore in that scene. Honestly, the only ones I see anymore are the ones I’m told about. I just have a lot on my plate these days with trying to balance SL, RL and making stuff.

Because of SL’s dichotomy of creativity = personal I try not to comment publicly on the basis of hurt feelings. If I comment on 1 I should comment on all. Then there comes a post when you just can’t not say anything. A review of your stuff that is so comprehensive of the details that are generally over looked but what you actually spend the most time on. It can make your day/week/month/year.

Creating items in SL is inherently depressing. Most of the time you spend pouring all of yourself into your work hoping someone somewhere will also find value in it. And generally you are all by yourself in front of a computer for countless hours at a time. So reading anything about your stuff (especially in a positive light) makes our days brighter.

So I thank you bloggers.

Cheers
Luth

Rebuilt the sim again. Above is the new map. The separate sections now boutiques instead of everything in a mega box of doom.

I also have cut the scripts down by 1/2 with putting the couples poses into vendors instead of all those poseballs laying about. It’s helped with the lag quite a bit.

Cheers
Luth

Posting this early cause I’m already running late for drinks with a friend. Don’t think I’ll be back in time…

Really busy with getting another pose set ready for Shoe Fair on Sunday. Right after I released the stairs set, Caer Balogh mentioned that tomorrow is my 2,000th day in SL. So I decided to have another by 1 get 1 free sale.

For the entire day - ending on Saturday 21 November @ midnight SLT - buy 1 pose, get 1 free. EVERYTHING in the store.

Rules:
1. Must purchase before midnight SLT on Saturday 21 November 2009
2. Send a notecard with what you purchased and what you want - must be of equal or lesser value.
3. This is for EVERYTHING. boxed and single items - pose sets, prop pose sets, and couples poses, single poses, AOs, Prefabs, ect.

I will be handing them out on Monday.

Main Store Taxi

Hi all. Just a quick note to let you know I’m sponsoring the above event.

You can find more information here: MODAVIA ANNUAL FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR CONTEST.

121 Random Poses:
Months ago I sat down for 3 days to see how many poses I could do in that time period. I mainlined tea, hardly talked to anyone (ok that’s kind of typical) and went through more jolt gum than is probably healthy. Sometimes I like to push myself just to see what I can do. It keeps things interesting. I averaged about 30-50 a day, as there a bunch of sitting ones that took longer than the standing ones.

Today I put all of them in the discount section for L$50 each and L$4800 for the set. Does that make up for not releasing anything for months?

- All of them are from source photos
- Some of the sources are previously used
- Some of them had been scrapped because I couldn’t work out the kinks
- Some had been scrapped before just well.. because I didn’t like it.
- The only tweaking to them was fixing major breaks and balance issues, so they are lower quality than my usual.
- I couldn’t use previously made poses as a starting point
- I couldn’t use my excel cheat sheet

Pro Posers Hunt:
So I have some free (previously unreleased) poses out for this hunt. It ends on the 30th.

In other news:
You may or may not know that prior to working full time in SL, I was a film editor. Part of my moving back to the States was to venture back that direction. I missed editing. A lot. I love making poses, but it’s not editing. It’s not telling a story with pictures, at least not like editing is.

I have this love/hate relationship with both SL and the film industry that I’m not going to bore you with here. SL was a nice break from it, but it’s time for me to go back. I’ve been spending the past few months relearning old stuff, figuring out what’s changed since I left, setting up my online reel and getting ready to put myself out there again. About a month ago, I got a job editing a feature length documentary and I’ve been knee deep in it since. Contract negotiation, production meetings, and other such nonsense that I still haven’t touched a bit of film. Hell, I haven’t even opened Avid.

What does that mean for Reel Expression? A lot less releases and slower customer service response time. I try and log in often, but sometimes I just can’t. I still have pose ideas bouncing around my head screaming to get out, but I’m working on them very slowly. I’m also working on a sim rebuild and attaching it to my dear friend Aems Case’s sim.

So no, I’m not rage quitting. You can’t get rid of me that easily.

Cheers
Luth