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Got it! Your avatar has to stand close to the picture with the soundfile.Then you will hear it. the files are short, eight seconds, but people nowadays don't have the time and patience to listen to longer clips anyway 🙂

Belgian Death metal: Amenra with De Evenmens (The sometimes human being). Extremely powerfull, but also oddly poetic.

HEIDEVOLK - Als De Dood Weer Naar Ons Lacht (Heath People - When Death Smiles At Us Again - Dutch metal 🙂 )

Heilung - Anoana (live) Vikings! This Scandinavian-German band is so overwhelming live.

Camille - Home is where it HURTS (live)

Camille - Je ne mâche pas mes mots (I don't mince my words) - You can rotate the video 360 degrees 🙂

And so I wanted to put a small sound file in the film posters with a tiny fragment of the films, but the scripts won't play unfortunately! Very odd, if I place the posters in the middle of the room they do play but it's a weird sight. I've tried everything, up to setting all the walls to 'no shape'. I always do that when I can't walk through a door, which I often solve by setting the doorframe to 'no shape'. But anyway, i was so wild about setting everything to 'no shape' there that i fell through the floor so i fixed everything again. Anyway, do you guys ever have a situation where a sound script works on one wall of the room but not on the other? And how did you guys possibly fix that? Never a dull moment in SL! 🙂

Now I had a cinema room in my movie theatre but I was still missing something... You know, one of those dark windows where the film projector is behind. And of course a person operating the projector! The cinema room is small, so no space to build a booth in it so that had to be stuck against the back of the building and I made with Photoshop a texture of the wallpaper with a hole in it for the projection port window. Poor littele technician! He must stand behind that window in that tiny cubicle operating the projector day and night! Those dummies have a tough life! I don't understand why an action committee by and for SL dummies has not yet been set up to stand up for their rights! Outrageous how we (and I too) treat them!

Apocalyptica feat. Nina Hagen - Seemann (live)

OOMPH! feat. Nina Hagen - Fieber (feever)

Kovacs - Mata Hari (Live at Royal Theatre Carré)

Kovacs & Till Lindemann (Rammstein) - Child Of Sin

When decorating Delamar movie theatre, I also thought of examples in RL. And then not so much in terms of furnishing but in terms of atmosphere: intimate cosy cinemas. Near me in the centre of Utrecht you have Louis Hartlooper and Springhaver. And in Amsterdam of course, you have the city's oldest film house The Movies which - like Delamar movie theatre in Canal city - is situated in an Amsterdam town house.

Your pictures are so atmospheric. Especially the lighting is perfect.

I decided to remove the small orangery next to the rainbow club and put back more park-like surroundings in Canal city. That provided some extra prims. I had in the back of my mind for ages the idea of making a small cinema in one of the canal houses and now that was possible. But the prims were limited so I had to work economically! I always think then: what are the most important things when I think of 'cinema?' What makes a cinema (apart from a movie screen) a cinema? Clichés are allowed, they actually help. First of all: a ticket boat. So I removed the lower facade and made a new one with a ticket booth in it. Personally, I am not a popcorn lover, so if people will forgive me, I skipped that cliche. And then: atmosphere. Warm colours, red carpets and film posters with gold frames (from Dutch movies in this case). It should give a sense of going out and some luxury. But not the luxury of expensive mansions, but the luxury of the people, consumer luxury, tinsel. Because film is working-class entertainment, but it also comes with a sense of grandeur. It has become a small neighbourhood cinema with a few of these elements in it: a foyer with film posters, a bar and finally the cinema room.

Bloemengracht (Flower canal) at night. Tattoo shop, movie theatre, bakery and cheese shop.

Love that lamp!

It's a movie with a totally different background, but the lighting, the colours and your looks remind me of Faye Dunaway in Bonny and Clyde.

Sitting on the famous Rietveld chair (designed in 1918) from Dutch furniture designer and architect Gerrit Rietveld (1888 – 1964).

And this American guy is so lucky to have this appartement in a real four centuries old Amsterdam canal house. I could not afford it but a friend of mine does, a French singer, who has a whole Amsterdam canal house so I can visit such a house from time to time. Want to know how that looks like? Like this:

While I was decorating Canal city, I did research and read stories about Amsterdam canal houses. There is one story that surpassed others in obscurity. On the Amstel at number 216 stands a beautiful city palace with a dark past: the House with the Bloodstains. So called because the outer walls of the house show the centuries-old graffiti that former mayor Coenraad van Beuningen chalked on the walls there with his own blood. He also draws a boat and Hebrew and Kabbalistic symbols. He eventually collapses unconscious and wakes up the next day in his own house, chained by his servants. The former mayor, once rich and powerful has gone mad after he lost his fortune through speculation and his marriage broke down. He spent the rest of his life like a wild animal tied to chains, locked in a blinded room and regularly beaten by his guard. He died in 1693: insane, abused, destitute and forgotten.

The tattoo artist Henk Schiffmacher (left picture) is now retired but he is legendary!

Geat pic, like you are in a movie!

Canal city interiors: The tattoo shop. On the wall two pictures. One of Amsterdam's famous and legendary tattoo king Henk Schiffmacher and his wife and of renowned tattoo artist Claudia Fedorovici.

Canal city interiors De kazerij (The cheesery)