Soul Evolution at Burning Life

Haven’t really been up to much lately, I’ve been in a little (ok long) creative slump, BUT I did want to let you know of one thing that I have worked on.

My partner Liz Gealach has a build up at Burning life called Soul Evolution and I did the animations for it. Liz had asked for something joyful and leapy without the bounds of gravity. So I made up five little animations for her.

Please stop buy Soul Evolutions and check out the build (Up til November 1) it really is a lot of fun and a nice place to sit and think.

From the notecard:

Soul Evolution
by Liz Gealach

This creation or area to reflect is a 3D interpretation of reincarnation and the evolution of my soul.

I believe that each person must use their time on earth to learn or enlighten their soul. Once we move on we have a brief time to reflect and gain awareness of what we learned so we can then in turn use that knowledge in our next lifetime. “Soul Evolution” is a reflection of that time we have between lives … a time we can see the knowledge we have gained and share it with other souls.

Please come inside and walk through time. Reflect on what your soul has learned and what it may be learning right now. Sit on a small colored disc to rejoice in your souls evolution. Hope, Forgiveness, Generosity, and Compassion are all journey’s of learning our soul must take to truly understand and experience the ultimate knowledge of LOVE.

SLurl:Soul Evolution – Rabbithole Burning Life

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A Bestest Friend’s Celebration of Love

This past week in one of my bestest friends in SL had a wedding, well a Celebration of Love. It was a great event with friends, music, dancing and tears of joy. I think it was a beautiful event. I’ll post some pictures later on, I still need to get the photos to the happy couple, so it would be wrong to give you all a look before they got to see them

I had been to a few weddings in world, ones of people I knew and then ones of friends of friends.The one thing that made this one different for me personally is that my friend asked me to take some pictures, to which I said yes of course. I would have anyway, but now I had a mission and a shot list. I have photographed a few wedding in real life, well just enough to know that I don’t really want to do them for a living. Even with that experience, I thought “oh this would be a fun way to give back to them” and happily clicked away during the ceremony and the following reception.

As I was going through the photos, I started thinking about how photographing virtual weddings are in ways similar and also very different. So here’s a little list I made up…

At a real life wedding, you never have to worry if the couple and guests are fully rezzed in each shot
At a virtual wedding if you don’t like where the sun is in a shot you can move it, unless the couple have decided on a windlight setting
You can get amazing angles without ever leaving your seat or blocking any other persons view at a virtual wedding.
At either wedding, someone will dance into that amazing candid you were framing up.
The only crashes you have to worry about in a real life wedding is from drunk party guests.
The a fore mentioned drunk guest won’t be bumping your camera in a SL wedding.
Pose balls…might make RL wedding photography easier.
Forgetting to “/1 hide” the unused pose balls during the first dance
Two words that make RL wedding photography better…Motor drives!
and the thing that is absolutely the same in rl and virtual weddings… If you ask me to do shoot your wedding and I say yes… then you are someone special to me

Photo Info:

Skin: Gala Acorn— [Light] Sunny-Umbra 1
Hair: TRUTH— Ana – Copper
Hat: LeLutka— AUDREY Hat Black
Glasses: FNKY!— Luna Glasses White
Dress: Musashi-Do— Waving Heart (Night Passion)
Shoes: Maitreya Gold— Esprit-Xtd Noir
Necklace and Earrings: Evangeline— Coal
Bracelet: Zaara— Pallav Clear Bracelet
Cameras: [Lyndz-Matic]— L1 (in development…let me know if you are interested in one and maybe I’ll finally finish them )
Gazebo: custom by Parker McTeague
Location: Sky meadow in Thistle designed by Liz Gealach

Pose play

Smoke’m if you got them…

• Pose: [Lyndz-Matic] Smoke Break
• Skin: BEBAE Coral *Cara Group Gift
• Hair: (CS) Moderno Devyn Hair
• Jacket: COCO Jacket and Shirt
• Pants: League Woodstock Jeans Ice Blue
• Boots: Tesla Kensington Boots
• Glasses: Role Optic Clara
• Cigarette: [E3D] Diorama Pink Death
• Location: S.I.C. 49

A night in neo Kowloon

• Pose: [Lyndz-Matic] ANTM 8.5
• Skin: Redgrave Leona 03 Deep Tan
• Hair: T&S Hair Ashley
• Hat: [LeLutka] Audrey Hat
• Glasses: FNKY! Luna Glasses
• Jacket: +grasp+ Leather Jacket women’s
• Dress: [LeLutka] QI dess Green
• Boots: J’s Thigh High Boots
• Location: Kowloon

New New New

New blog Lyndz-Matic, where I will keep you all up to date with what’s going on with the poses and all that stuff at the shop.

New Poses, I have 15 new poses that are out, they aren’t at the main shop at Thistle yet. They are at the …

New shop at Elliot on the Starlust sims.

So here we are… a new beginning with a focused vision.

99 plus1

…that’s what I got when I counted poses in the shop last night. 99 individual poses and 1 two person poseball set… oh and a Toaster.

Is that a lot? Is it enough to really think that I am in the pose business? Sure I need more group poses, maybe 5? 10? But then again there are shops that just sell individual poses so why should I have to have a certain number of poses to consider my shop a business. I mean I devote time to making poses and I put them out for sale so really that is a business right?

But what about all the other stuff that it takes to make a business: blogs, promotion, advertising, socializing. I’ve been very lax on that. Heck I have had a stand alone store since May? and have I mentioned it, Ok I haven’t made many blog posts lately, but I think that should have been blog worthy. Also 99 poses plus the two person pose and I have only posted photos of maybe a third of them. That is the thing about poses, while you have to take pictures of your finished build build before you box it up and set it for sale. Poses, well, you just drop in the pose vendor. Because everyone needs to see how they work on them. Sure I would do them when I would sell pose sets but then I got hung up on picking the right outfit for the pose shoot, but now I realized I should just wear something that doesn’t block the pose. no skirts or big attachments, let the fashion bloggers pick their outfits

So in the effort to start running a business I have taken a few steps and from some of them I have been pleased with the results.

1. 1 I have secured the lyndzmatic.wordpress.com blog and will start posting stuff about Lyndz-Matic updates there. This blog will continue to be random ramblings.
2. 2 I have started sending out poses to bloggers and people who’s photos I like on flickr (if you join the [Lyndz-Matic] flickr group I’ll send you some I’m working on now and then)
3. 3 I am working on ads to run in a fashion magazine and on websites

Will it help get my name out there?

It already has. I was invited to open a shop on the new Starlust Elliot sim Yay

So I am making progress.