Starlust's 1st Annual Flickr Contest has begun!

Show us your best photos in the Starlust sims and you can win BIG!



The day has finally arrived! The first ever Starlust Flickr photo competition has begun, and will run through July 24th! Take your best photos in any/several/all of the seven active Starlust sims, and you can win incredible prizes (literally THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of Linden worth of merchandise from our vendors in every sim!). Also, everyone who participates will receive a gift pack just for entering!

Information and official rules are listed below! Best of luck everyone!

Prizes:

• Seven lucky winners will receive gift bags FILLED with exclusive prizes and gift cards from Starlust vendors!

• Winning submissions will be chosen by a select panel of judges and displayed indefinitely on billboards throughout the Starlust sims!

Contest Rules:

• All photographs must be taken within the Starlust sims! (Floyd, Lloyd, Herman Melville, Horst, Harold, Eugene, & Bill).

• Photo Dimensions: (recommended but not required) 1024x512 (length 2x width!)
  

• You must be wearing or showcasing items (at least 3!) purchased in the sim in which your picture is taken.

• You may submit up to three photos per sim. Currently there are 7 active sims-- two are new (Eugene and Bill) -- so you can have a maximum of 21 photo submissions!

• These photos must be posted to the official Starlust Flickr page!
  

• All contest submissions must be named: "CONTEST - Your Name - Sim". So for example, if I posted a picture taken in Harold, my entry would be titled "CONTEST - Averie Larnia - Harold"

• Please also include relevant tags: i.e. sim the photo is representing, designer names, etc.

• In the description of your photo, please include credits for the products you are wearing/displaying. i.e. store name and item names.

• Post processing is not required but encouraged!

• Deadline to submit entries to Flickr site: July 24th

• Winners will be announced on August 1st!

Links to the Starlust Sims

Lloyd: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lloyd/93/71/23
Floyd: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Floyd/35/59/25
Herman Melville: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Herman%20Melville/171/62/59
Horst: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Horst/219/212/46
Harold: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Harold/173/65/23
Eugene: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eugene/168/74/25
Bill: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bill/131/195/43

Special Delivery! <3 The Starlust Motel

A very disgruntled and exhausted-looking postal messenger asked me to deliver this postcard to you. He mumbled something about.. workhorse.. slave labor.. stingy money mongrels.. some other expletives I wouldn't dare repeat, and then he wandered off. Wonder what that was all about! Anyways, here's your mail! It looked important...


The message on the reverse side reads:

Coming..... July 1st-- Stay tuned for more info!

Starlust Residentials

Did you know the Starlust has a few residential spots?

(The Emerald viewer rocks in a multitude of ways, including the temp upload feature and the ability to set perms of things in the contents of objects en masse, and it also actually lets me turn on Atmospheric Shaders! I have to use them very sparingly and only for photos...but look! Actual pretty water!)

Nestled in the mountains above Area 408, there are a select few unique buildings for residences, overseen by our lovely Melatonin Hax. It's a pretty fantastic view from up there, looking over all of Starlustland (if you can up your draw distance! I keep mine super low except for photos, so I'm always even more amazed when I can see things).

We do request that visitors to Starlustland be respectful to those who choose to keep homes here, however we have been blessed with never having any problems to speak with so far, because, let's face it, the people who hang out at the Starlust are awesome.

Catty Campground

The part of Harold you enter from Horst, the other half of Stein's section to Dogtown, is Catty Campground. Stein created this fabulous bright tents that await your desire to camp out under the stars, sitting around the campfires telling scary stories (I set up random poses in a number of the rocks surrounding the fires, because I'm obsessed with sit trapping. It's a sickness).

There is, of course, also a public shower, so while you're roughing it, at least you have some of the amenities. Filth is just _so_ unfashionable, you know. Be careful you don't slip at the entrance, there's a bit of a puddle that hasn't been cleaned up yet.

The gravel roads through the campground lead to Dogtown and to Area 408, with tents set back a bit from the road, but still within easy walking distance. After all, you wouldn't want to be _too_ inconvenienced while camping.

In the showers:
Boycut, with assorted underthings for boys, and girls who like their underthings with more coverage

Currently camping out:
Zanzo, with cute japanese inspired printed clothing and shoes
CoCo, with cartoony animal pillows and sofas
SLink with ladies clothing, and shoes with sculpted feet and sculpted bare feet
Miu, with sweet girls clothing
duh, with ladies footwear and t-shirts
Republica, with clean lined furniture
Sugar Puss, with sweet girl shapes
(nova), with colourful women's wardrobe staples
Tiny Bird, with lovely hair for ladies
SD Wears, with alternative clothing
lessthanthree, with fun t-shirts and heans
Golden Delish, with fun and fanciful poses
Rock Candy, with skins and hair for men

Area 408

When Mel and Stein decided to split Harold, Area 408 (known as Anchor City before, uh, its little problem), was what Mel decided to do for her half. Guerilla Gobo (of Heartattack & Vine, which just a couple of nights ago moved its mainstore to Horst) and Garbage Prototype (of Random Fashions, of which there is an outlet in the motel) are the geniuses who helped her make her vision a reality.

Area 408 is what remains of Anchor City after a bit of an altercation, shall we say, which kinda sorta had a little bit to do with giant bombs like the one in the playground. There was just a teeeeny tiny problem with impulse control. It's a distressed city with broken buildings to peek into to find hidden gems.

Some of those gems are above eyelevel- with a few shops being located in the second story, as well as other details that inspire walking around looking up, like a total tourist.

I fear that my pictures really don't do Area 408 justice- not that my pictures really do anywhere justice, but the true beauty of the sunlight peeking through the floating fallout is something I cannot share with you, as my poor pokey computer barely lets me turn settings up to be able to see much, and refuses to have anything to do with glow and other such fancy effects.

Currently squatting in Area 408/Anchor City:

Tacky Star, with unusual eyes
SD Wears, with alternative clothing
Jeepers Creepers, with men's shoes
Petit Ange, with dresses, jewelry, shoes, and eyes
House of Voodoo, with spooky skull encrusted hats
anuenue, with sweet casuals for girls
Fab.Pony, with hip clothes for girls
House of Munster, with fun spooky hair
Psyche & B-Fly, with jewelry and skins
...:::[SP]:::..., with grungy furniture and prefabs
She's So Unusual Shoes, with, well, unusual shoes
Cupcakes & Poetry, with more tasty cupcakes than poetry
The mainstore of Hoot, with adorable t-shirts, eyes, jewelry, and things for the home
The mainstore of The Cat Eye Boutique, with cute eyewear
Store with No Name, with clothing and accessories
indie., with skins, clothes, and an assortment of undies
MnM Design, with animals and plants, including the giant sparrow at the pond and that ubiquitous kitty sofa
Liquid Candy & Skinzor, with alternative skins, clothing, and accessories
Imagen, with lovely skins
standard, with modern decor furnishings
Lazy Places, with hooved and pawed digigrade boots, adorable interactive foodstuffs, and anime inspired poses
Broccoli, with imaginative lamps and wall decor
SaLsA, with pointless necessities and clothing
Dark Mouse, with intricate and playful jewelry
Bliensen + MaiTai, with adorable jewelry and accessories
The headquarters of My Life on the D-List, where you can subscribe for in world updates
Lost & Alone, with antique eccentricities
MichaMi, with chic womenswear
Ellabella, with interesting facial piercings
Capalini Cottages, with adorable prefabs
Shape'ly Shape Shack, with shapes for ladies of all sizes
Warhead, with rocking clothing for men and women

p.s. I'll get you back for that post making me all teary eyed, Apatia Hammerer!

Dogtown

Dogtown has a lot to do with why the Starlust Motel never opened on Neverdie. When the Starlust was expanding, Apatia ran off and found this sim with two large plots of land for sale (buying one...and then I think she may have waited a whole two hours before grabbing the other), making an L shape around a corner (a bit larger than a quarter of the sim) that was taken by a sex therapy castle...or something. We never did attend a session, we just peeked in and visited the hidden dungeon. It was a pretty posh castle though, and had some lovely grounds.

However, we spent our time building the new Starlust (the motel had its back broken to turn the other way at Neverdie- it was at the corner of the L, against the mountain separating us, as well as getting the second story and expanding in size), and before we got around to be ready for an opening (partly, I freely admit, due to me! I can be slow building at times), we started having a lot more interest in people joining us, starting to outstrip our ability to fill in that space, as well as Dogtown becoming homeless. Thus, it was decided, that we would instead move to a full sim, with Dogtown taking up the sexcastle corner. It was a bit of a rush moving in, as I recall, as we wanted to try to open soon!

Marsellus, the owner of Dogtown, eventually became unable to spend as much time in SL, and passed Dogtown to Stein. She started expanding Dogtown a little in that corner, shoving a few more builds in where she could, but it was obvious that she needed more space to go much further. Melatonin and Stein decided that the perfect solution to this, as well as other factors that all coalesced at once, was to split a sim- thus was Harold born (well, envisioned, he was a hard birth that one, showed up almost a week late, with a great deal of fighting. He knew he was so anticipated, he wanted to make us wait).

About a quarter of Harold, around half of Stein's half, is new Dogtown. It's a bit wilder build now, more colourful (and don't forget to pet the gators), and has grown to take up a bit of dry land, as well as the floating sections.

The current Dogtown denizens are:

In the freestanding (and freefloating) buildings:
Penny Dreadful Arcade- the mainstore of a quirky pose shop, with interesting poses inspired by movies and music videos
Inorite- the mainstore of a hair shop, with fun and edgy hair for girls
blitzed- jeans, tees, animated prim eyes, and grungy accessories
oi-ei- animated action poses, including a great dive and swim
Stinkeye- fun and funny accessories for your Second Life
Boudoir Rouge and Mechanized Life- the Boudoir Rouge project and poses, and assorted useful scripted gadgets
WOT?- skin, hair, and assorted randomness
Urban Bomb Unit- home to the infinitely customizable Pornstar sneakers
Ducknipple- fun clothing and accessories
ShortBus- wacky randomness

In the loading dock:
LaGyo- bright poppy plastic jewelry, including some very fitting sea themed sets
Donna Flora- casual and formal dresses for women
uncle wiggly- boho clothing and housewares
mocha- pretty Japanese clothing, tattoos, skyboxes, and textures
Kunstkammer- recycled and new jewelry and assorted things
Loser Designs- imperfect by nature skins, shapes, and eyes, and accessories
Acid & Mala Designs- edgy clothing for men and women
NSD- clothing and jewelry for men and women

In the Longhouse:
Nova- clothing, shoes, hats, and belts, for women
Subacultcha- goods for outfitting a Rockabilly house and individual
Riddle- casual girl clothing
YourSkin & YourShape- skins and shapes for beautiful women
Nala- an assortment of eyewear
Bittersweet- the goods and service to celebrate SLove...and the lack thereof

In the cargo containers:
Bounce- vampire skins, neko and kitsune accessories, and clothing
Miasma- clothing, jewelry, and neko accessories
Sweet Leonard- neko parts, jewelry, and boots
busted- modern furniture
Rahz- Italian clothing
{JK}- alternative clothing, hair, and jewelry

In the offices:
Spaded- workshirts, pants, and unusual skins
Tango New York- women's clothing and heels
Jawbreakers Gestures- assorted gestures

Mere hours now!

9am, Harold, Starlust. Be there.


SugarPuss, (NOVA), PixelDust, SDWears, lessthan<3, Golden Delish, RockCandy, Boycut, MIU, SLink, CoCo, Yamazaro, DUH, Republica, Bounce, Miasma, Busted, OiEi, Warhead, Riddle, Yourskin & Yourshape, Nala, Bittersweet, Stinkeye, BoudoirRouge, MechanizedLife, WOT?, UBU, Ducknipple, 141, Inorite, PDA, Clawtooth by Clawtooth, LaGyo, DonnaFlora, Uncle Wiggily, Mocha, Kunstkrammer, Loser Designs, Acid & Mala, Naith Smit Designs, The Cat Eye Boutique Mainstore, =Hoot= Mainstore, Petit Ange, House of Voodoo, Tacky Star, SD Wears - the Dark Side, SD, anuenue, Fab Pony, [ B - Fly ], House of Munster, She's So Unusual Shoes, Cupcakes & Poetry, Store with No Name, MnM Design, Skinzor, Imagen, standard, Broccoli, Salsa, Lazy Places, Bliensen + Mai, indie., Dark Mouse, Lost and Alone, MichaMi, SL on d-list HQ, Ellabella, The Shape'ly Shape Shack, capalini cottages, & Warhead

New Dogtown

Catty Campground

Anchor City/Area 408

Its Coming....

Thank you Garbage for the pix!