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  1. Favorite film music 2 Amarcord - Gary Cooper from Nino Rota
  2. Favorite film music 1 A single man - Drowning from Abel Korzeniowski
  3. Framed photos of playwrights and actors hang in the lobby of Delamar theatre, Erasmus park. Without wanting to be super woke - such a portrait gallery is not complete without enough female playwrights. And there are! And to my regret, I did not know them all: Lorraine Vivian Hansberry, Susan Keating Glaspell, lady Daphne du Maurier, a wealth of talent! Hanging alongside Shakespeare, Brecht and Oscar Wilde.
  4. Really dig this picture, so beautiful! I am an eager reader, also of old literature, but I didn't read Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. But I will soon!
  5. Oh this one is cute, a fallen asleep adorable jockey on the carriage's luggage rack. I also like the colours done in this picture!
  6. What a lovely thing to say! Appreciated.
  7. And my apologies if I have let this topic stray from the actual path! It was about - especially ugly - privacy screens and whether it is necessary to use them. Living in the 'wild west' of Mainland, I gave some reasons why sometimes privacy screens are necessary: to mask the view of objects from neighbours that don't fit your land's theme. And sometimes neighbours put up not only tall buildings but also miles of high walls or they let whole blocks of houses hanging in the sky while furnishing, not for days, but half a year. In those cases, privacy screens can help. But in my opinion, that is definitely an emergency measure. Many privacy screens are indeed ugly, but I also pointed out how best to integrate them with 3d objects to still make it look nice.
  8. Oh dear, now I have to blush, I just really enjoy doing it! And yes, it is definitely a matter of taste. And it's also what Marianne Little says: sometimes a certain neighbour's style just doesn't suit your land. My neighbour's land is not really ugly, it's just a big city-like style and I have a country style, which clashes. Then again, even on Mainland, you could be quite considerate of your neighbours by, for instance, not putting high skyscrapers too close to the border and/or wondering whether a mile-high wall is really necessary to put up.
  9. When I was interviewed by Elric and Saffia with video for Desigining worlds, Elric was filming on my land, and then Saffia said: 'Don't take too wide shots, Elric, this is Mainland! 😂
  10. Yes, thanks, I use them a lot, both derendering and lowering the draw distance. But my land is open to public, so I can derender, but also my visitors have to do a lot of things if I don't want them to see the skyscapers and walls from the neighbours. I can't remember I saw instructions while visiting other sims: 'please, derender the garbage of the neighbours 😄. Lowering the draw distance works, but my neighbour had set up walls and skyscapers very near the border, so if I approach that border I see them anyway. And also for this counts: my land is meant for visitors to enjoy. I don't like to tire them with all kinds of instructions so as not to confront them with the neighbours' horizon pollution. One solution is: going to the sky, which I did with my public park. Dutch estate is still on the ground, but I think it's better later this year to also take Dutch estate to sky level.
  11. Those cloudscapes in black and white always remind me of the 1937 portrait of film director Luchino Visconti (Death in Venice, Ludwig, The damned) by Horst P. Horst. A reproduction of it still hangs in my study (a friend thought I looked like Visconti and I love his films).
  12. Haha, thanks for the surveillance Bruce Wayne and Selena Kyle! People who have known me for a long time must be laughing that I am now making family-friendly parks, what? Such a dirty minded person like you? But it's true, though in Waterland I did have a set of handcuffs/wall rings ready in the sheds and also in Dutch estate (cellar of villa Utrecht and severall bedrooms) I have indoor adult and SM furniture. But so far the park is family friendly you could say, although there is no playground for children. I did buy those by the way, but they didn't fit anywhere anymore. I bought all sorts of things for the park: even a circus tent and a carousel! I didn't use those either in the end, but well, I'm sure they'll come in handy some day. Like many, my inventory is bulging :-).
  13. Two men leaning by the statue of Bacchus.
  14. Two men leaning by the statue of Bacchus.
  15. Oh yes! Definately. But I was especially reminded when Siri and Bill shared pictures as batman and catwoman, then I immediately thought of this.
  16. They don't have such a neat landing point, and I hate it when I come to a sim where I land somewehere under the ground and you have to find a seat or something to get anywhere where at least you can move around nicely. It is the finishing touch that is not unimportant. But okay, the city is great! This is a better one: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/hakone/161/223/1212
  17. Oh, great you've been there, I thought it was like a steampunk art deco adventure book, those buildings are also aSO amazing, I was nearly going to turn my park into a steampunk-park because of it, but nevertheless I sticked to my initial plan :-).
  18. Oh yes that's a really masterful made sim! Thanks!
  19. This is 'the making of' the Sissy-Ludwig-style photo of the ladies in crinoline at Liberty bay. Basically just as you write stories and assemble your characters based on all sorts of people you know, the ladies are composed. I pasted the body of the left lady under that of the right lady (otherwise she was in her underskirt 🙂 and I gave the left lady the middle dress. Sometimes it's fun to play a bit of Frankenstein! LOL.
  20. I suddenly thought: I want Ciroline dresses! Setting: boardwalk by Liberty harbour, Erasmus park. The statue is Mercury and Psyche by Dutch sculptor Adriaen de Vries from 1593. The original is in the Louvre, Paris.
  21. That's what you get when you are too tired to read a book after a day's work: I then start fiddling with Photoshop and SL 🙂 I continued with the black-and-white theme, but this is more 'Ludwig' than 'La dolce vita' in terms of the time/dress. I suddenly thought: I want Ciroline dresses! Setting: boardwalk by Liberty harbour, Erasmus park. The statue is Mercury and Psyche by Dutch sculptor Adriaen de Vries from 1593. The original is in the Louvre, Paris.
  22. LOVE your wings! Prettier and bigger than mine, I also have an angel wings tattoo on my back. I took that one, also in SL, after a character in one of my novels who also has a similar tattoo.
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