archangel969

Tres chique! Just like Marcello and Sylvia from la Dolce vita :-)

It is! And it's so masterfull done I am totally inspired by this. If you take this iconic scene: it's seems almost a dream or surreal while there are no surreal things happening. It is full of eroticism while nothing really happens. Only a real master can do such things. I have seen the movie I guess five or six times in my life and every time the movie seems different and I see scenes I have seem to have forgotten. But I am a Fellini fan (and also Visconti fan if you talk about Italian movies). La dolce vita also gave the world a new word: pararazzo. The main character Marcello, a gossip journalist, refers to his collegue as 'Paparazzo.' After that gossip journalists are often called paparazzi.

Yes that's her! I was referring to the iconic fountain scene from Fellini's La dolce vita, so this one:

I wanted to play Anita Ekberg from La Dolce Vita, but I only got an enormous bump on my head 🙂

Taking a dip in the fontaine du Triton. Ouch!

Yes, you are right about the downside of one-sided transparant screens because of the effect when you see the flat corner on the far side. You think you are doing the right thing but it looks odd in reality.

As with many things, it's not only the product, it's also what you do with it and how you combine things, that's the whole thing.

For spring/summer I have these: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Summer-Trees-Privacy-Screen-2-Land-Divider/2035966 https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/DQ-PRIVACY-SCREENS-FOREST-HEDGE-1-COPYMODTILEABLE/6435622 I combine them (to avoid having the same picture of trees around your land) and I colour them a little to make them match with the enchanted forest trees from Skye. What I also do is combine one and three dimensional trees and have them as to say, woven into each other, so it looks as if they are all part of the same forest (and also in colour). To get a nice depth in your land I stick to the following: one-dimensional at the border (like the trees on the privacy screens), then come the simple three-dimensional trees (like Skye's enchanted trees) and more towards the foreground I put more complex-dimensional trees and objects.

I was revisiting my land Dutch estate today. And yes, a new view. It's not that a neighbour sets up buildings that are a bit high, they are HUGE. I wonder if it's really necessary to build that high so the neighbours view is spoiled? (and yes, I contacted the neighbour several times). I guess it's fair to say that the buildings of the neighbour are not really complimenting the atmosphere. So if you ask the question: 'Why use privacy screens? This is the answer. Living in some parts of Mainland with high building, walls etc next to you, forces you to do that. Although I guess there is no privacy screen that can compete with this kind of high buildings. * Oh, and my privacy screens (always invisible at the neighbours side) are the trees at the background. Before the privacy screen trees I place three dimensional trees, also woven into the privacy screen a bit, so it looks like both are part of a forest background. * Anyway, this forum question inspirated me to this rant, sorry for that! But don't worry I keep on laughing. (Second) Life is to good to stay grumpy. I am a person that goes for solutions. If this is going on another month I also take Dutch estate up in the air, just like the park.

Since I have been on the internet decades ago, forums were like this: partly very helpfull with people who answer questions seriously and partly people who want to chat socially. Of course, there are other places for that, but for as long as I have been experiencing forums, they also have that social function. And where there are people, there are groups, that too I know from before, not only from the SL forums. I have experienced quarrels and near-wars on forums in which worse things were said than I have ever read here. Having grown older and wiser, I only look for the places in the forums where I feel at home, where I feel taken seriously and where I get serious answers to questions I have, where I can give answers to serious questions myself but where I also meet residents I like and have a good time with.

Erasmus park is now in the destination guide. https://secondlife.com/destination/erasmus-park And part of the 'editors picks: https://secondlife.com/destinations/editor

Some more Erasmus park pics. The one in the conservatory is me meditating on a giant water lily also known as Victoria amazonica. It is the largest water lily in the world. The old botanical garden in Utrecht, my RL residence, has also one, I guess several botanical gardens in the world. It was originally from Nomad, but now only available as gacha.

This looks absolutely fabulous!

De Staat - Running Backwards Into The Future

Oh privacy screens! Tell me about that. I have lived in Mainland for some years now and am under no illusion that if I want to keep my land beautiful in terms of atmosphere it can be done without privacy screens. I can make an endless list of what people all put up in the neighbourhood: towering buildings, Miles high ugly walls Work in progress fences, with sharp colours yellow-black low-hanging buildings that no privacy screen can match etc. I have now made a public park in mainland, but I took the whole park to the sky. Why? That was after a neighbour suddenly put up a mile-high wall next to it. When I asked if this wall was temporary and when it would be gone, she replied: 'This is the land divider, honey.' LOL Well, it's best to laugh about it. Dutch estate is still on the ground in Mainland, but I sometimes dare not even go there myself. Maybe I'm too precise about it; maybe you shouldn't be precise in Mainland. But if you ask why people use privacy screens (and I can indeed deploy them in a nice way, just contact me if you want to know how), here's the answer. Attached is the neighbour's wall before the park went up and my land Dutch estate versus neighbours' buildings. The third picture is my land WITH privacy screens (who are always invisible at the heighbours side. Could you tell what are the privacy screens ? 😉 A neighbour's 'work in progress.' If this is temporarily, okay. People like to build in the sky to keep the overview. I understand. But this took half a year with all these houses hanging in the air. Under construction 'This is the land divider, honey.' Dutch estate with privacy screens

Oh this is funny! You know when you get a message that the region you are in is going to restart? And you get that earthquake shakes? But my park is in two regions (mullhal and Custer). So I moved to the other side. Suddenly I saw the other part of the park disappearing. Never seen that, because I never had land in two regions. A bit surrealistic!

Interesting question! I didn't realise that the colour orange only became distinctively called that way after the fruit arrived in Europe and Western languages began referring to the shade as “orange.” I read that before it was known as orange, the colour was called just 'red' or yellow-red.

Erasmus park: view at the teadome and Erasmus orangerie & pavillon,

Oh that's a hell of a gorgeous BBQ. I don't have that great body of yours but for you I share a pic for which I have to dig deep into my Flickr archives. Indeed, in recent years I have been wearing purely suits. I found sexy clothes like jockstripes too much of a distraction from what I was doing in SL in recent years (an interview cycle, setting up public sims). And as a novelist, I know that a clear and unified image, also in style, is most effective. But yes, just an exception for now :-).

I love the black. Funny that colour can do so much. I would try all sorts of colours that go with warm red hair, so warm colours. I onces did colour analysis and then it turned out I should wear hard cool colours (dark hair, light skin call for pronounced contrasts). Wam hair colours could ask for warm colours. I also remember that redheads are the only ones who can wear turquoise without looking like they are suffering from a serious disease :-).

And some spaghetti western inspired Italian is also getting me in the mood.

And of course Matia Bazar suits my Italian mood also perfectly:

And this is the version Bob Sinclair made of the same song, it is used in the movie La Grande Belezza from Paolo Sorrentino.

Okay, this is a bit cheesy, but sometimes I LOVE cheesy. So here is Raffaella Carrà, I love her! I am in an Italian mood today 🙂.

People sometimes ask me: which suppliers do you use for your land? I would then love to give them a list. No problem. But that is only part of the 'secret' of setting up a sim. The biggest part of the secret is: combining and... diversity. Preferably don't use one kind of trees when you make a forest or a park, for example, but different species, you have those in RL too. The same goes for flowers and grasses in meadows and banks. If I really need to save on prims, I sometimes just take the crown of one kind of tree and place it in the other kind so you get the effect of a diverse forest. So, diversity is not only important in society for living together, but also when you design a landscape 🙂