Carl's Corner :)

Hehe I take the lazy approach and ask the question where I guess I could have looked it up

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Beliria wrote: **Points at Ron** It's all his fault!! **coughs**

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Carl wrote: English - Beef wellington yum

Carl eats meat! I'm telling Zerin.

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StevieJ wrote: Nothing could be worse than those 1000 year old eggs that are a delicacy in China.....

wouldn't they be all dried out?

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Carl wrote: Steaks by numbers

LOL!

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Beliria wrote: you meant for Carl

I was hoping everyone would look.

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Beliria wrote: I really like this one

That's now one of my favorites too. Thanks for taking a look and for the link.

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Carl wrote: I was looking at your SL products

Where are they?

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Beliria wrote: I'll go explore and take some pictures of cool areas..

That's something I would be interested in seeing. The only SL I have seen was on an IBM commercial.

Happy birthday ahimsa!

Here (Eanger Irving Couse – 'The Captive') is another one from another gallery in the same museum I liked. Not my usual style but I was taken in by the story. I think it does a wonderful job of depicting the complexity and gravity of clashing cultures. The nuance may be lost on the English and Australians since you guys do not have a history of oppressing native populations.

The color is way off on this image. Here is another one, the color is even more off on it, but at least you can make out the blood on her arms.


In reality the painting is probably 3 meters across.

Thanks for the wb's Beliria and Carl. I was exhausted after the trip but I'm sure it was much worse for my brother.

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Carl wrote: You are kidding aren't you

Of course. I added the wink but I think I use it so much that it has lost its effect.

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Carl wrote: This isn't my particular art taste

I tried to keep an open mind about each gallery. I found something that was my favorite in each one. There was a statue by Frederic Remington that was unbelievable. It makes modeling in Maya seem easier.

Hi Ron!

Is the woman in that painting dead?

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ronviers wrote: Quote Carl wrote: You are kidding aren't you Of course. I added the wink but I think I use it so much that it has lost its effect.

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Beliria wrote: and the Wink, jumped up and down and waved at me..

I guess I'm a bit slow on the sarcasm

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ahimsa wrote: Is the woman in that painting dead?

No. She was released 30 days later.

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Beliria wrote: Hey Ron, interesting story that goes with that painting, just looked it up. http://www.batguano.com/bgma/couse.html

From the story:
"When he saw her he decided that he would like the novelty of having a white woman for a wife."
This is a gross oversimplification of the reality of the situation, the attitude of chief Five Crows and the subject of the painting - obviously written by someone that had bought in to the "wild west" narrative American history and decided to push it.

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Beliria wrote: the pictures I currently have of Second life on my computer are stock related, for stuff I made and sell in my store.

and the store is inside of SL? I have considered visiting SL but I reckoned that with my dial-up connection the experience would be ruined. I am also concerned that it might be fun and I do not want to get distracted right now.

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Beliria wrote: sarcasm doesn't travel well across the world time zones

This is very true. In reality I can make people laugh but on the internet I end up just pissing people off.

Thanks to both of you for the answer. I even read the story.

Anyone else get an email from someone from SL wanting to do a freebie section with our textures? She is asking permission.

lol, I did Ahimsa. Well I got two, someone else that uses FF in here got a message which they posted in a group I'm in, in Second life mentioning that email too.

Kinda wondering how he/she's going to fund the upload fee's for the said textures to start with. 1 texture is 10L$ so 100 of them textures is 1000L$ and 1000L$ is around 4 American dollars.

Yes they have asked permission ref the filters but I bet there's a load of the textures at texture houses for sale anyway. Now I know about FF, I think I'll be watching what which texture houses sell.

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ahimsa wrote: Anyone else get an email from someone from SL wanting to do a freebie section with our textures?

No one ever asks to use my textures. I would be very happy for someone to use them. Hear that everone! Use my textures! You don't even have to ask or give me credit. In fact, you have my written permission to claim them as your own!

Dibs on Ron's balls! I claim copyright on those spherical wonders!

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ahimsa wrote: Dibs on Ron's balls!

It feels great to have someone with dibs on my balls!

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ahimsa wrote: You have to pay to upload freebies? What about if you have a store there? Do you have to pay for every item you have in your store?

Yep costs to upload textures, animations, music/sound clips etc. Kind of. Selling them I make a picture of the product which I then upload and put on a box with the said product inside. Most of my builds take anything from 3 hours to a few months to build, not including the time it sometimes takes me to create a texture.

There's a lot of money passes through hands everyday in SL.

You can live in second life for free but someone along the line pays. But to run a store that person will be paying rent (either to a private estate owner in SL, or directly to the Lindens). Then there is the uploading costs for the textures. So my thought's would be whats the catch? Would the FF textures be for free while they sell other textures? Are they planning on making a full free store? Is the free textures a plan to get people into the store so they buy other products?

Granted there are probably people like that person in Shutterstock in second life making money from the preset textures on this site, or even trying it out for free and getting extra textures that way.

And no as of yet I haven't uploaded any FF textures into Second life. If I do it would most likely be from Ron's...*coughs* I mean my filters.. hehe

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ronviers wrote: Have you considered modeling in 3d? Ahimsa and I are learning to model.

I downloaded Daz 3d the other day.. got to try and figure it out, that and FF keeps calling my name..

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ahimsa wrote: Dibs on Ron's balls!

One each?

Which 3d packages do you use then?

I have Carrara Pro 6, but I haven't installed it yet so I have no idea what's in there. I just know that people who hang out at DAZ and use it seem to really love it and it renders much better than Poser and Bryce.

The SL freebie email is from someone who goes there and must know that the freebies will end up costing her to upload. Maybe she plans to do a website where people can go to get the freebies that isn't at the SL site.

Ron, your balls would make an interesting calendar too. Maybe you could set up a Cafe Express site with them...no costs to you and you might make enough to buy Maya.

Actually, her last email to me said that she is thinking of charging a $1 SL money "donation" on each of the "freebies". In other words, she wants our permission to sell our textures as "freebies".

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ahimsa wrote: Actually, her last email to me said that she is thinking of charging a $1 SL money "donation" on each of the "freebies". In other words, she wants our permission to sell our textures as "freebies".

Never got that message, but my definition of freebie is that its free 100%. I hate that in SL with so called free gifts that they charge 1L$ for. Yes I know 1L$ is peanuts but on the other side if 2,000 plus people buy the so called freebie thats 2,000L$ plus in the pocket for the person selling them.

Much better to do a freebie texture selling with a donation pot next or near to them so it gives people the option to donate.

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Carl wrote: I have given her permission to give away not sell and only inside SL, again we can't stop her anyway she wants to use them

I think the reason she's asking is if people are already selling the textures in SL they may do a take down request of her, saying the said textures are theirs etc.

Least this way if she asks the original creators and they say yes you can, she can turn around and say did you get permission first? etc.. well thats my theory.. probably totally wrong but, I'm only right 55.95% of the time .

Ref: fridge magnet dog, hehe... kinda reminds me of my friends cat. She (the cat) when she wanted in used to spread eagle on the front door and meow like mad.

Good thing it was a wooden front door and not a upvc one.

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ahimsa wrote: I have Carrara Pro 6,

Ooo had a peek has a one month trial, might give it a go when I get the hang of Daz3d. Is it a bit like Daz3d and Bryce mixed together?

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Ooo had a peek has a one month trial, might give it a go when I get the hang of Daz3d. Is it a bit like Daz3d and Bryce mixed together?

I honestly don't know. I paid $48 for the pro version last month. It was in my cart at $176 and when I went to pay it had dropped to $48. It's still on sale in the bundle for around $195. The bundle has Bryce, Hex, and some other stuff along with the pro version of Carrara.

So do you think I should let her do them as freebies and maybe suggest the donation thing only if people want to donate like you said?

Beliria, could you use this link to get to the sale price? http://home.arcor.de/isabella_nanette/sites/links.htm It's a link that goes through my site to DAZ. Thanks

Not that it changes anything but I didn't agree they could sell them, were any of mine for sale or as freebies - maybe Conniekat agreed - oh well whatever

I've sent her an email to clarify

people never fail to disappoint