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  1. Scylla Rhiadra
    "You're a very pretty girl. Why do you hide it under so much makeup?" "You look so pretty when you smile. Why don't you smile more?"
  2. Scylla Rhiadra
    lol, well, that was cringy! I loved the nod to Fragonard's "The Swing" at the end!
  3. Scylla Rhiadra
    Fifteen . . . no, maybe sixteen years ago.
  4. Scylla Rhiadra
    So, this is what I did with that test shot I posted above. This is Cressida again. "See, we fools! Why have I blabbed? Who shall be true to us When we are so unsecret to ourselves?"
  5. Scylla Rhiadra
    You look justifiably horrified! it would be cute . . . probably . . . if it had eyes and a mouth? Maybe? Eeek.
  6. Scylla Rhiadra
    Wow. They're both great, but I love love love the top one!
  7. Scylla Rhiadra
    Minus the "Pretending to be an ally" thing. Mostly. But yeah.
  8. Scylla Rhiadra
    Maybe? I've never been a fan, although there have been occasional moments of brilliance. and this one: Or this:
  9. Scylla Rhiadra
    I didn't love the SNL clip -- I think the basic idea, that there is a kind of unbridled brutality just beneath the surface of British "primness" and class-consciousness, is a good one (although not exactly novel, either), but the execution was predictably and repetitively slapstick. Everyone has different tastes, and that's of course entirely valid, but I personally think Emma Thompson is a pretty amazing woman. She's probably best known, I suppose, for her more recent appearances in blockbusters like the Harry Potter series, but she's a superb Shakespearean actress, and her work in things like Howard's End and Sense and Sensibility is simply wonderful. I think she is also very funny (watch her as Beatrice in Branagh's version of Much Ado about Nothing), but not in a Hugh Laurie / Stephen Frye kind-of-way. She's best at a sort of understated, thin-lipped irony -- which is why I think she's so good in adaptations of Austen. She's also an accomplished writer (she won Academy Awards for both her acting and her screenplay of Sense and Sensibility) and a philanthropist who has championed environmentalism and other progressive causes, both things I also value. I haven't seen Leslie Jones in a lot of things, but what I have seen I certainly didn't hate. She exudes a likeable personality, anyway. But, as I say, YMMV.
  10. Scylla Rhiadra
    Another test shot -- looking in a mirror. (I have a sneaking suspicion my "test shots" may actually be better than my final ones, but if so, please don't tell me!)
  11. Scylla Rhiadra
    I need to find these.
  12. Scylla Rhiadra
    Love, I just need to wander around nearly any club in SL to test that theory.
  13. Scylla Rhiadra
    @Sid Nagy? Comment? Inquiring minds (and boobs) want to know!
  14. Scylla Rhiadra
    Creative with . . . boobs? Really? I've never dated a Dutch guy. What have I been missing?
  15. Scylla Rhiadra
    Yeah, I'd say that on the whole I'm far more likely to skip over an ad that uses an extreme Kupra-type model. Not out of "principle" or anything, but for the simple reason that it's not a look I like, and as a result I'm less likely to be attracted to the outfit, however nice it logically might look on someone with a different body or shape. If it's not eye-catching in a pleasing way (for me), then it's not going to catch my attention. That's one of the weaknesses of advertising, I guess. I've heard rumblings from people that sales generally are down right now in SL. @Coffee Pancake has said that this is her experience right now as well. I don't have enough information to be sure if this is a general slump in the SL economy, or if it is just seasonal or contextual. Is it being reflected in the LindenX I wonder?
  16. Scylla Rhiadra
    The laugh was of course in response to your comment about boobs. Shop and hop. Lots of events. And high summer? Might these explain the sales?
  17. Scylla Rhiadra
    So, occasionally, I'll see an advert for an item that uses a model with large breasts, and it'll look really good on them, and I'll think "I should get that because look at how lovely her large boobs look in it" . . . momentarily forgetting that 1) I don't have large boobs, and 2) I could easily GET large boobs if I wanted to, and don't need to buy a tank top or whatever to achieve the look. Peeve: The power of advertising.
  18. Scylla Rhiadra
    One can't rush genius, dahling. Have a cooler, and sit in the sun for a bit. No need to waste those creative blocks.
  19. Scylla Rhiadra
    This is a REALLY great shot, Danielle! The depth of field and view angle really make it pop and look like it's about to burst into action! (Please don't get hit!)
  20. Scylla Rhiadra
    Thanks Cinn! Yeah, it's definitely supposed to be at least a bit disturbing. Most representations of her death show her almost sleeping -- beautiful, and slightly eroticized, like Millais's famous one. I wanted to focus a bit on the horror of her death.
  21. Scylla Rhiadra
    "The More Deceived" -- my take on Ophelia (from Hamlet).
  22. Scylla Rhiadra
    You'll find a lot of good information in the videos here, most of them by, or commissioned by, LL. Are you looking to upgrade a male or female avatar?
  23. Scylla Rhiadra
    Yes, I was just looking at the gallery actually. I see a few things -- two or three or maybe four dresses, a kind of adorable herbalist cottage, the veil, a few props . . . and of course the whip and elven nipple piercings. (You just know Galadriel had both, right?) Some of the furnishings and props I find rather funny. Beautifully laid out medieval sausages on trenchers (presentation is everything!) and furnishing for a medieval solar re-imagined as 80s suburban. But definitely some stuff I need to check out!
  24. Scylla Rhiadra
    True enough. But I think this one is going to succeed. It's building on an existing, and very popular app, and it is filling a very immediate need. Essentially, they are doing to Twitter what they did to Snapchat when they introduced Instagram Stories. I think this is going to fly, and I think it's going to hurt Twitter. And I still ain't touching it with a barge pole.
  25. Scylla Rhiadra
    So, I posted a (rather different) "test shot" for this earlier, but this is the "close-to-how-I-finally-want-it" version of my Cressida (from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida) pic. It's been a bit of an emotional rollercoaster ride digging in-depth into Shakespeare's women for this series. These are texts that I have been, to greater or lesser degrees, familiar with, but rethinking the way in which they represent women with a view to capturing some aspect of that in an image has been a very different experience and, occasionally, actually a bit upsetting. I am deeply ambivalent about Cressida. On the one hand, she is articulate, intelligent, and frank, and very aware of her position as a woman in a world that sees women as "prizes" to be won, or goods to be exchanged. Her character has traditionally been disparaged by (mostly male) critics because she realizes that, to survive (and not end up like a Desdemona or an Ophelia), she needs to "play the game." She recognizes and acknowledges her own powerlessness, and leverages it to survive. And that, to many, makes her a "whore." Far better, apparently, that she die "honourable," faithful to a man who does nothing to prevent her being handed over to the enemy Greeks. This is my reading of the scene in which Cressida is given to the Greeks in exchange for a prisoner of war; Diomedes, who later becomes her lover, urges her to follow him to the Greek camp. Ulysses (whom I've not shown here) is disgusted by the entire affair, and comments There’s language in her eye, her cheek, her lip; Nay, her foot speaks. Her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body. O, these encounterers, so glib of tongue, That give accosting welcome ere it comes And wide unclasp the tables of their thoughts To every tickling reader! Set them down For sl*ttish spoils of opportunity And daughters of the game. Cressida is indeed "sl*ttish spoils" of war in this scene. I've tried to capture my own ambivalence about her response to this in this image. (The text is from the 1609 edition of the play: it uses the "long s," which looks a bit like an "f.")
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