June 18, 2009

Meta Makeover (Wherein Salome Ummms)

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual. ~ Edward Tufte

I participated in another episode of Designing Worlds / Meta Makeover this past Tuesday where I made over a rental pod located in the Extropia SIM. It occurs to me that letting people know when these types of things are happening ahead of time (or at the time) might be the primary purpose of having a blog and twitter account, but c’est la vie.

If you want to watch the episode, hear me babble incoherently about make-believe decor amid charming Brit accents and mutter “umm” enough times to make my high school debate teacher facepalm, CLICK HERE.

I mention most of the things I purchased for the design in the episode, but for those keeping track at home:

Cel EdmanPixel Lab – Full perm sculpties / Soji Walls
Logan BauerArctic Garden – Full-Perm Flowers
Snowy Hoobinoo - epiSTEMS – Whale Tail, Flower/Plant Sculptures)
soror NishiNishi Gallery – Plant Sculptures
Doris Pfeffer* Fairy Dreams * – Full Perm Books
Dendre BenelliDendre’s Sculpties – Full Perm Open Book

Filed under: SL - Building,SL - Business,Virtual Living by Salome at 11:57 AM

Early Muppet Marketing

Kermit: This guy’s lost.
Waiter: Maybe he sould try Hare Krishna.
Kermit: Good grief, it’s a running gag.
~ The Muppet Movie (via Jack Burns & Jerry Juhl)

You know, I really think I preferred when marketing was flat-out shameless. It was funnier. It also had muppet murder:

Filed under: Nifty Interwebs Stuff,Teh Funny by Salome at 10:09 AM
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