DollyRock ~ Kate Stockholm’s April 12 12 12 Tour Stop !

DollyRock Photo Competition

In association with the lovely people at photoLIFE, DollyRock is delighted to announce that they will be hosting the April stop off on Kate’s 12 12 12 Tour and this means, yes – we’re holding a fabulous Flickr photo competition. 

Prizes:
First prize is an amazing PhotoLIFE studio (value 8,000L) presented by the face of PhotoLIFE Kate Stockholm
PLUS 2,000L cash PLUS your winning photo displayed at DollyRock main store.

Second prize is 1,000L cash PLUS your photo displayed at DollyRock main store.

Third prize is 500L cash PLUS your photo displayed at DollyRock main store.

A few simple
Rules

1. Photos will be accepted from 1st April until midnight SLT on 30th April and must be uploaded to the DollyRock PhotoLIFE April 2009 photo competition group on Flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/aprilcomp/
Entries that are sent by IM or notecard will not be considered.

2.No nudity allowed.
3.All avatars in the photos must be wearing outfits from DollyRock.
4.Feel free to post process your pics.
5.There is a limit of 5 pictures per week per person.

Entries will be judged by a panel of creative cohorts headed up by Cherry Cheevers of DollyRock and the prizewinners will be announced during the first week of May.

Time’s fun when you’re having flies.

Kate Stockholm

With thanks to Kermit the Frog… My friends were talking the other day about clocks. I found it amazing that the 12-hour clock is the same pretty much everywhere in the world. Even in odd, remote cultures like Italy. Why do people who can’t agree on anything else agree on time?

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. Douglas Adams

Passage of time was first measured by shadows. This only worked during daylight. And it wasn’t very exact. The amount of daylight varied with weather and time of year. Ancient egyptians measured how long it took to transition from day to night (dusk). It was discovered it took the same amount of time to go from night to day (dawn). They called the interval an “hour”. They also figured out there were 24 of them in a day (and 365 days in a year, but that’s another story).

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. Groucho Marx

The Babylonians adopted this 24 hour day concept but needed more precision for their astrological observations. Since they had a base-60 counting system (don’t ask), they divided the hour into 60
minutes and a minute into 60 seconds. Modern positioning of stars today is still notated in hours:minutes:seconds. We have the Romans to thank for the completely illogical double 12 hour system.
Certainly one of the major confusions is noon and midnight. How exactly noon can be 12AM and midnight 12PM… I will never know. 

I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time. Marilyn Monroe

Northern Europe, where all work on mechanizing and making time pieces portible occured, used either Roman numerals or a new numeric system which had some really spiffy properties like “zero” and positional notation. It came from the Hindus through the middle east via trade. The word “clock” itself comes from the french/celtic/dutch word for “bell”.

Well, you know know as much about clocks as I do. I hope you enjoyed reading this little article as much as I enjoyed writing it. Please feel free to leave comments and corrections.

RFL Clothing Fair ’09 Photo Contest Winners

Recently photoLIFE had the awesome opportunity to participate in the RFL photo Contest during the RFL Clothing Fair. We were pleased and honored to be part of this event for this very important cause.

We awarded one photoLIFE Photography Studio V2.0 to Elusyve Jewell

for her photo RFL Clothing Fair 2009 (2)

and one to Ran Garrigus for his photo Pirate Lord Nelson .

Congratulations to the winners !!!!  We are looking forward to seeing the great photos you will be taking with your new photoLIFE Studios! You can view thier photos here http://www.flickr.com/groups/slclothingfair09photocontest/ as well as all the entries for the Fair.

Please visit the Second Life Relay for Life Clothing Fair blog spot here http://slrflclothingfair.blogspot.com/

All of the photos that were entered were so very fabulous and creative that I was very glad that I was not the one doing the choosing of winners !

Malt and Spork Celebrate thier Grand Open of the Malt Sim

And I missed it, well most of it anyhow, But there is alot to share.

This dress for example….Dahlia – Monza from Malts After 5ive Collection is absolutely beautiful and comes 2 ways to wear go all red or mix n match. Dahlia comes in all layers and in solid or in black lace accents.

 

Also there is a sim wide hunt going on at Malt with tons of great finds. Boxes stuffed full @ 50L , some containing the newest release. So grab this limo and head over to this beautiful new sim and grab some great buys, a couple free gifts from the show and enjoy.

Malt

Guess Who is at Sways !!!

Thats right , the Easter Bunny and he dropped baskets all over the sim !

Find 10 and win an awesome prize! A few awesome prizes actually.

Like this wonderful bonnet!

And thats all I’m going to tell you ! Get the hunting gear out and head over to Sways, you will not be disappointed!

Oh ok ! One more

Hurry !!

Certified photoLIFE Photographer Trixee Trotter Presents Her Gallery Gallery Open

We are so excited and so pleased to partner with  and host Trixee of  Timeless Photography Studios. Trixee did my shots for the Face of photoLIFE contest. I love her work and I loved her sense of detail and adventure when shooting and mostly she made me look awesome !!!

Please join us on Saturday March 21st 6PM SLT at the photoLIFE store on the brand new Opium Sim. We look forward to seeing you and celebrating Trixee and fabulous photography in Second Life !

You are invited to the grand re-opening of Spork at Malt Sim!

 

I will be there hosting ! I’m so excited to be apart of this ! Come over and enjoy and celebrate and party afterwards!!

We will kick off the afternoon with a fashion show featuring the newest designs of Spork and Malt at 1:00 pm on March 21st.  Spork will host an after-party from 2 – 4 pm in their new location after the show with CC Manen spinning all your requests. Enjoy the show and come dancing. We promise you’ll have a great time! Hope to see you there.

Your Spork Team xoxox

The RFL Fundraising / photoLIFE Sponsor

 

The RFL Fundraising season is now on its way.  This gives us an opportunity to have an amazing fundraiser as part of the fair .

So…Its time for the first annual Clothing Fair RFL Photo contest!

Category name: RFL exclusive style (both categories: Male and Female)

Goal: Mix and Match the exclusive items available from the  RFL-kiosks during the Clothing Fair to create a composite style.
Each Item must be purchased from the fair.
The look must include items from at least 3 different designers.
The person must add on the description of the photo the reference of store name and item name for each RFL-item that comprise the final look, so other people can buy them if they wish  have the same look.
HAVE FUN!
Mix and Match
Prizes will be given to the Best Male and Best Female COMPOSITE. This event is sponsored by the designers of the fair and photoLIfe. Each winner will recieve a brand new photoLIfe Studio plus a wonderful gift bag from the designers.

Just some basic rules to remember…1. all photos must be PG rated…absolutely NO nudity…2. May be post processed. We want your best work … .3. Focus of the photo must be a of RFL outfits purchased at the fair…4. No more then three entries  per person…5.Have fun!

Upload your entry to http://www.flickr.com/groups/slclothingfair09photocontest/

Contest Runs from 10am slt March 16, 2009 till 6pm slt March 22, 2009 .  Winners will be announced at Party  at 6pm-8pm  slt on March 23 on the Entertainment sim at the Fair. season is now on its way.  This gives us an opportunity to have an amazing fundraiser as part of the fair .

So…Its time for the first annual Clothing Fair RFL Photo contest!

Category name: RFL exclusive style (both categories: Male and Female)

Goal: Mix and Match the exclusive items available from the  RFL-kiosks during the Clothing Fair to create a composite style.
Each Item must be purchased from the fair.
The look must include items from at least 3 different designers.
The person must add on the description of the photo the reference of store name and item name for each RFL-item that comprise the final look, so other people can buy them if they wish  have the same look.
HAVE FUN!
Mix and Match
Prizes will be given to the Best Male and Best Female COMPOSITE. This event is sponsored by the designers of the fair and photoLIfe. Each winner will recieve a brand new photoLIfe Studio plus a wonderful gift bag from the designers.

Just some basic rules to remember…1. all photos must be PG rated…absolutely NO nudity…2. May be post processed. We want your best work … .3. Focus of the photo must be a of RFL outfits purchased at the fair…4. No more then three entries  per person…5.Have fun!

Upload your entry to http://www.flickr.com/groups/slclothingfair09photocontest/

Contest Runs from 10am slt March 16, 2009 till 6pm slt March 22, 2009 .  Winners will be announced at Party  at 6pm-8pm  slt on March 23 on the Entertainment sim at the Fair.

One of my favorites from TMRHE from ~flirt~

I love jewelry, I love simple beauty and this necklace and earrings ~flirt~ added to The Most Random Hunt Ever is just fabulous!  Quickly became my favs so much so I’ve found myself  searching my inventory for outfits to suit the jewelry instead of the other way around !

I wish pictures did it justice , it sparkles and shines its girly and delicate. If you took part in the hunt I’m sure you’ve found it, if you have not unpacked from the hunt do it now ! You’re gonna love these! Pop over to ~flirt~ , there are matching bracelets and rings for this set called Bloom.

While I’m here let me talk for a minute about about style, or better said …things that never go out of style. Things we buy and wear often, things we may have tucked away in the closet and come across looking for *gez I have nothing to wear!* I did that this morning and popped open my Last Call folder and I found this ….

Dahlia … what always impressed me it that I’ve never had to *adjust prims* to fit me, the clothes were always perfect for me right out of the box. The styles, the colors the fold the wrinkles the shades and shading, timeless classic tasteful awesome clothes ! I’m pretty sure you’re not going to find Last Call items any more since it is closed, creator Ginny Talamasca, who I never met passed away November of ’07 I became a Second Life resident  in December of ’07. Before her partners , family and friends closed Last Calls doors forever I purchased a closet full of Ginny’s creations ! I loved them then and I love them now. 

As a matter of fact the very 1st fashion contest I ever entered in Second Life  was for Wonderhair , now known as Lamora , and I wore this outfit for the photographs taken by Velvet Flytrap of  The Velvet Authority ! See Velvets flickr here .

This is the photo, laffs I was still a *newb* but Velvet created magic !

Btw, this hair is still one of my favorites, awesome casual look!

All poses are from my LAP AO  called New Female AO, my favorite AO in a folder of many !

The Fight Starts Today!

Come on up to OFA’s mock boxing arena , built by the very talented Jill Mackenzie, and enjoy our male models as they show you some of the clothing for men that can be found on the grid. And you don’t want to miss the sexy OFA ring girls either!

We’re looking for your opinions. Come and rate the designers based on what you see with your own eyes, let us know what you think! Each round will have a winner, picked by you and we’ll publish those results later because inquiring minds what to know where the best clothing for men can be found on the grid.

We’d like to thank our sponsors for their generosity in helping to make this production a reality. SLURL’s attached to the logos! Brought to you by:

Also sponsored by Just for Him Clothing Collection. Thank you!