17 February 2008

New Find: SiniStyle Design

Today while exploring Second Life, I stumbled upon a "Haunted House", but it was apparently not haunted anymore. While looking around the outside of the house, I came across this sculpture of "Death".

Being impressed by the design of this item, I decided to see who the creator was and if he/she had any more interesting builds. You can do the same right clicking an item, selecting "More->More->Inspect" and then while the root object is selected, select "See Creator Profile".


The creator of this object is Krius Misfit who is almost 2 years old within Second Life. According to his profile, his blog of new products at http://sinistyledesign.blogspot.com and he also has a MySpace page. His picks and Classified (Paid L$666 for the listing) both reference his main store location at http://slurl.com/secondlife/SiniStyle/74/92/33

Teleporting to the main store greets you with a gothic house and some interesting music selections. The lighting really sets the environment and mood quite well.

The yard sports some trees from Straylight courteously of resident Kriss Lehmann which is the *best* place I've found to buy scuplty trees.

Entering the building leads to a a shopping area with several wearable items, including choke collars, bloody skins, knee pads, respirators, belts, bracelets, a couple sculpty hats, shirts, trench coats, boots and pants.


SiniStyle Design's offers a store card that one can purchase and use instead of L$ balance. I'm assuming this is used to give someone a card to return to the store and make purchases. This is a pretty novel ideal and I'm guessing it's easier to implement than a "buy-as-a-gift" system.









Exploring the SiniStyle island, I found where you could buy the graveyard set for L$800 with copy permissions. This is good for anyone preparing for a gothic environment or Halloween.

Now that the adventure is done, what's next?

13 January 2008

SecondLife Apprentice Mentor

On the 8th of January, I was accepted into the SecondLife Apprentice Mentor program and this morning I completed my orientation. The orientation was under an hour and most of it was "common sense".

I received a package with several notes with information on how to help new residents and policies related to being a Mentor Volunteer. Simon Kline hosted the event as a Mentor Coach and was very through, offered answers to every question and ensure the class stayed on topic and on time.

With the completion of the orientation, I look forward to helping new residents gather a foothold in the world much to the pleasure of their Users.

There is a cheesy video available from YouTube over the "Tao of Volunteers"




Below are additional pictures of residents that attended the Apprenticeship meeting: