I Wanna Be A Celebrity - Week 2!

Don't miss the exciting second episode of the new reality show filmed entirely in Second Life with real Second Life residents! In this episode, someone get sent home before the games even begin - and you'd be surprised to find out who the ones making that decision are.

Tune in to Metaverse-TV in world to watch it on your television or directly from their website. To read about behind the scenes information from a producer's perspective visit Phaylen's website, beginning next week she will be interviewing each cast member as they are eliminated in an exclusive aftershow podcast!

SL Reality Show "I Wanna Be A Celebrity" Premieres

The last 6 months have been hugely busy for me! And now you know why. “I Wanna Be A Celebrity” premiered on Metaverse Television last night at 10pm EST 7pm Pacific! It was so amazing to sit and watch this thing all together in one piece with those who participated - Last night was an awesome opportunity to reconnect with some of them I hadn’t seen in awhile. This was something new to all of us - while I had
been involved in some context with Reality Shows in Second Life in the past (Big Brother) they just seemed poorly executed and missing a key component - that being the value of peoples character, the insight into their Second Lives. There was nothing intimate about things like Big Brother, we were a monkey on Parade accruing votes to stay in the game… I wanted to do something both unique and contributory to Second Life, and I think, along with an incredible team and cast, we’ve made an insurmountable achievement.

Here is the first episode, and here in High Res -
stay tuned until the very end for the trailer of whats to come this season!

You can watch I Wanna Be A Celebrity Fridays at 10pm EST 7pm SLT (Pacific).

Hey Posers - New shops Open @ Tricenter!

IMAGE Photography and Theatrical poses opens! All animations are - and always will be - 60 Lindens or less. Group poses and Couples poses are 130! Swing by and see some goodness!







AND! The CRUX has been unveiled at the Tricenter! He's cute, not cuddly, and probably stinks, but this new HUD driven Avatar is a MUST HAVE - he talks, he makes gestures AND he sticks out his tongue! You get to customize his colors and modify him to suit your needs.. check him out!

This wickedly curious and mischievous creature is ready and waiting for you!

SLURL to the store! http://slurl.com/secondlife/Zoe/123/48/31

A retirement from design

Well it's been coming for some time now, I'v not been able to find the time to release anything new for quite awhile, and I'm not really finding my heart is there anymore. 6 years ago I began toiling in the Second Life fashion industry, first by making these beastly prim gowns that were the benchmark of fashion for their time - I was the second prim dress maker on the Grid, so our ability to achieve anything truly fashionable was hit or miss - more often miss; but for their time, enough to make you go "Oh, woooow!" And back then everything was an experiment!

My schedule itself has me booked at least until next summer. Between DiVAS and the new Celebrity show, not to mention the shows in development, plus the book I'm writing, and the photography book I'm shooting now, I need to take something off my plate and this is what needs to go.

SO! Here's whats happening for anyone interested - My store remains there. Everything in the store will remain at their last sale price to make the shop a more affordable alternative for newer resident without much money, but who want nice clothes than then the default. Every article in my store will remain $L50 Lindens, forever, come what may.

NOW - Onto "Celebrity"



The newest reality show in Second life is waiting for YOU! Go to this SLURL and drop in your photograph and notecards into a Celebrity Frame for your chance to be one of the 6 contestants! It will be tremendous fun, so go put yourself in the running!

This blog will remain for archival purposes but I can now be found over at http://www.phaylen.com where you can read about my adventures through the metaverse.

Thanks everyone for being so supportive and thoughtful in my Design exploration. I'm not saying I'll never make another thing if the mood moves me in the (far) future.. but my guarantee everything I make will be at a price point that is affordable to all residents at L$50 - as well as being high quality. I hope that makes an appropriate thank you to the residents in the platform who have given me the opportunity to share my creations with them, it has been nothing less than a joyful experience, and I'm very grateful.

Warmly,
Phaylen,

It's bugging me.

You know, I'm going to be honest here, friends. I don't usually integrate myself into the politics of the community of Second Life. I am determined, for the most part to remain neutral and diplomatic about most every topic that makes it's way to my doorstep: Not because I feel my opinion is invalid, or because I feel it lacks weight, but because my opinions concerning things/issues/people not directly related to my Second Life experience are my own, and not for public consumption. If I feel something is remarkable, I say it. If I think someone has a beautiful avatar, I say it. If I think otherwise, I keep it to myself - why? What purpose does it serve to hurt someone's feelings? To belittle another individual enjoying their *own* SL experience? To humiliate or lynch someone whose tastes/opinions/interests/ideals differ than my own is not only needless, but it fosters a hostile, over-dramatic, painful environment. Regardless of that fact that our Avatars are hollow - they are operated by real people; People of every color of the rainbow, people with strengths, people with flaws, people deal with very real challenges in the real world just moments before logging in to "get away." These people, You, myself, every green speck on the grid represents a beautiful diversity that only an environment like Second Life can exemplify with such clarity and truth.

I am disturbed by the influx of negative blogs that have seemed to pop up recently. Blogs intended to tear people down, deconstruct targeted individuals, vilify them and negatively impact their Second Life experience... and this new media fad serves no purpose other than to rally a bunch of Hive minded people to draw the same conclusions and conduct themselves in the same remorseless, unsympathetic fashion.

It seems to have become more popular to be renown as "The great antagonist" than to be a champion of the efforts of our gridmates. It's easy to say "Phaylen, if you don't like these cold blogs, don't read them!" And I don't intend to, most certainly, but I'm most certain I can't be the only human being sitting behind my desk asking myself why... or how someone can ethically justify such behavior. Do we really discredit the power of the internet that much? Do we enjoy the tabloidesque aspect so much so that our own humility has taken a backseat and we enjoy seeing someone stoned to death with words? Is it the fact that we are sitting behind avatars, for the most part anonymously, that makes us believe we don't have to accept accountability for our actions and impact on another person?

Second Life was once about a collaborative experience. It was about celebrating your efforts and the efforts of those with whom you shared the experience with. It was about learning, about discovery, about being awed and certainly, sometimes about being offended, but more than anything about our shared world and what it represented in the greater scheme of things. We are in this together. Our world is not exclusive to us, but our experience is entirely and we control our own destiny in Second Life- why should that privilege be used to create negative, disruptive, hurtful blog posts about a person or people aside from the fact that one simply can. Anyone who has been the target of another individuals agenda understands that the implications and effects don't stop at the log-off screen. The consequences one pays for hanging off your sword are very real. In my own past I've been targeted - AND accused of targeting others in what has fortunately been my only experience with such things. It is so hard when something you love so very much, a world you depend on so much for enjoyment, for relief from day-to-day Real Life trials, becomes ugly and marred by the callous efforts of an influential blogger with Hive minded readers.

To that end, I say to those who don't feel compelled to write about only the things and people they despise, congratulations for remembering the world and it's contents consist of more than just you and yours. To those who communicate solely with the intention of imposing yourself and your negative reactions on another person to cause them strife, embarrassment or humiliation, I believe your talents are grossly misused. It is one thing to be constructive, it is another to exalt yourself as you deliberately and cunningly step on someone else just because you don't particularly enjoy their brand of participation or creation in Second life. Your mother wasn't incorrect when she said, "If you haven't got anything nice to say, don't say it at all."

I'm not so naive that I think we should all run through a field of tulips holding hands. Part of what makes our world so enigmatic and thoroughly addictive is the fact that it is cohabited by hundreds of thousands of other DIFFERENT people. We may not subscribe to or approve of their choices/tastes/expressions/endeavors but that doesn't give any of us grounds to obliterate someone who possesses those differences. We certainly don't have to take to our blogs and celebrate them, we don't have to lie if asked what we think - but what purpose does it serve to step out of our way, out of our experience and into that of another just to wreak havoc on them? Is that what Second Life is about now? Rather than creating and customizing our own unique experience, has it become about affecting that of another persons in a public, hurtful way?

Look, this is my opinion. It's the last I'll share so publicly and indiscriminately because I don't think the weight of my words hold any more value than another writers, and I don't want to risk this blog post being perceived as an attack on any one person or persons out there in the metaverse. It's not. I respect what people choose to do with their efforts, and I'm quite liberal - but somewhere there has to be a line. Somewhere, at some point, someone had to ask why.

~Phaylen

The Glimmer Dress - 50 Linden Sale continues

And ends this week. To close the season I have released "Glimmer." Glimmer is a fun, fashionable dress for any occasion. It comes in three colors, Red, Burgundy and purple. The Burgundy is the X-mas Special Edition and comes with a pair of boots with fur trim.

These have been introduced, along with everything else in the store, for 50 Lindens until Friday and new stock arrives :)

Enjoy ladies! Have a happy Holiday Season.

~Phay

Massive Sale - Everything 50 Lindens

Same as last year, before I roll out the winter line next month, I mark down everything in the store to 50 Lindens for a VERY limited time. Starting today, everything is priced to 50.

SLURL Here: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Zoe/109/41/38