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House of London: IRL
March 22, 2010
London Dailey has started a real-life shop! Currently, it stocks a small selection of handbags, t-shirts, and accessories. I caught up with her and snagged a short interview about her addition of real life creation from Second Life creation. Tenshi: Â Why a RL shop? London: I wanted to expand really and try something new. Also, [...]
Trace Osterham’s Two Three Six Five Project
March 13, 2010
The Two Three Six Five project is a project Trace has created to showcase the RL/SL blend, one person a day, for a full year. It’s really interesting to be able to glimpse into Second Lifers’ thoughts outside of the virtual world even for one blog post. From Trace: Humans have a fear of things [...]
Time-Lapse Clothing Creation in SL
February 22, 2010
*~CH~* Pin-Up Girl- Valentine by Claire Harford (second life resident) From the video: This is not meant to be a “tutorial” with step-by-step instructions on how to go about replicating the design. It’s more like a showcase of just how much work and fiddling goes in to designs. I am a big fan of time [...]
RL Gifts for your SL Sweetheart from an SL Creator
December 8, 2009
…got that? Okay, good. If you are in need to get a gift for that special someone, you should consider checking out Violet Voltaire’s RL line of jewelry, aptly named “Violet Voltaire”. Each piece is made by her, by hand, and is pretty much guaranteed to be unique every time.
E-Social
September 4, 2009
There once was a time on the Grid where every time you turned around, there was a social event that didn’t scream “free sex” in the title. Long gone are those days, for as of recently, every time I look for something fun and whimsical with good music and company, I’m bombarded with “FREE SEX, [...]
RL vs SL: How The Market Varies
August 31, 2009
I spent some time this week talking to a friend and well known designer in SL, pointing out some key differences between real life marketing and Second Life marketing. I was a bit surprised to realize how many differences I kept coming up with through our conversation. For instance: – The average amount of time [...]
Malicious Maligners
July 27, 2009
It’s become fairly apparent to the content creation community as a whole that there are certain designers out there who have begun filing DMCAs simply to eliminate the competition. One designer has at least two self-filed, known cases of such thing against her – one has long since passed, the other is still coming to [...]
NYP: Playing Dead
July 13, 2009
In a recent post on the New York Post, they covered the online phenomena of “pseudocide” – faking death via the internet. There have been quite a few cases of this in Second Life, and unfortunately the new aspect from simply online pseudocide is that people pass money around in Second Life like water – [...]
Pro-Prozac: Relief Hunt?
July 10, 2009
Is it okay to make jokes about other people’s illnesses in the spirit of a business marketing promotion? Dear Lemania, I’ve shopped at your stores for more than a year and I’ve always admired your passion and your artistic vision. However, I’m somewhat saddened and disturbed by the fact that you’re having a Prozac Hunt [...]
Happy Fourth!
July 4, 2009
Hey kids! It’s the Fourth of July! Happy Independence Day to you Americans! We love all you international sorts too, but SCD is an American-based blog and so we’re going to celebrate our own birthday while mackin’ on George Washington for making it happen. That being said, some of you seriously need to click the [...]
Aussies Banned from Second Life?
June 25, 2009
From Inquisitr.com: The Australian Minister for Censorship has today confirmed what I’ve been reporting for nearly two years: online adult games including Second Life will be banned in Australia. A spokesman for Censorship Minister Stephen “Goebbels†Conroy confirmed to Fairfax newspapers that “under the filtering plan, it will be extended to downloadable games, flash-based web [...]
Our Beloved Mijn
June 7, 2009
What. In. The. Everloving. Hell. From the above linked website: Mijn Schatje, (…) is a successful artist who makes a living based off the images she creates. Prints of her work retail for over a thousand dollars, she’s made deals with Sony Playstation and Fornarina Clothing, and large-scale statues have been created based on her [...]
“Models are nothing but glorified hangers.”
May 23, 2009
Antonia Marat as a Gracie Girl “Meh? I will say this tho, if I were to hold a similar contest for Artilleri, I would probably ask for curvy models because that is what I feel fits the brand. She is doing the same. Just with different preferences.†– Antonia Marat Models + glorified + hangers [...]
Aspire Disappears; Seven Months Later, Still Nothing
April 13, 2009
So, I’m still catching up on what the heck happened in Second Life while I was busy battling RL drama. Apparently, Aspire Isle disappeared in September. Why am I just now looking into this? A co-designer sent me this notecard: Hi Tenshi, I know of you through DIS group and through reading your blog. We [...]
The Knee-Jerk DMCA and Ramifications
September 12, 2008
Consumer Responsibility
June 12, 2008
“You mean you’d choose to be fat?” : body image in a virtual world
June 3, 2008
Marissa Racecourse has been working on this experiment for a good long while. Her completed presentation was eventually used in the real life, and now is your chance to read her research. I’m proud to say that Marissa used Shopping Cart Disco as some of her source material. Great job, Marissa! A short teaser: It’s [...]
Thinspo: Pro-Ana in SL
May 29, 2008
Shopper Ethics
May 27, 2008
Although on my mind right now is people who blog about their own alt-shops while toting other people’s stuff in order to gain more sales on the same “review” blog (*coughyesimeanyouthankgodwedontdothatshitatscdcough*) I’d like to take a moment to talk about Shopper Ethics. WHAT is wrong with the freebie hunters these days? Have they just gone [...]
Fashion: Piracy, copying, and why you should care
April 11, 2008
“Bulletproof Babyphat 2″ on sale at SLExchange I’ve noticed a lot of confusion about this particular subject – consistently. I am going to present my opinion about the subject and “where the line is” in hopes that it might help all of you evolve your own ideas about copying and inspiration from another designer, whether [...]
Linden Lab: Your world? Whut? It’s ours now, bish.
April 3, 2008
Snapzilla (slpics.com) photograph by Torley Linden, uploaded 03/27/2008 I’m pretty spittingly ashamed of Linden Lab this evening. Quite disgusted, put off… you name a synonym for the phrase, “God, what a bunch of pricks” – that describes my mood right about now. FlipperPA Peregrine contacted Linden Lab via email and the reply he received is [...]
LAST CALL: All done!
March 23, 2008
Content Creation: A Hairy Jungle for the Newbies
February 26, 2008
Laynie Link, SCD Archive 05/31/2007 You know, being a part of the fashion community in SL has always appeared clique-ish to the most timid of people, even if that isn’t the truth. New designers had to have some sort of balls to bother to drop review copies and make friends, but now… Theft? Harassment? It’s [...]
Chapeau Tres Mignon on the BBC News Wire
January 10, 2008
SCD stock image; Mariya Nesiote in Chapeau, 6-23-2007 Congrats on the press, Megg! (Kriss Lehman is also mentioned, under a misspelled name) THE BBC NEWS! Holy crap! Logging on for Christmas cheer Alison Swersky Business Reporter, BBC News, Second Life Like many retailers, Chapeau Tres Mignon started preparing for the Christmas shopping frenzy in mid-November. [...]