Destruction

We're leaving Lloyd, so I did what I do: I made a great big mess.

I'll miss you Lloyd.

Lloyd's Last Day

Lloys is a Halloweenie

Lloyd is spooky for the season.

Pig

The Motel

Game by Saturnine Dreams

A new addition to the Starlust, October Rust

A new addition to the Starlust, Pie Hole

Silent Sparrow

Split Pea

Saturnine Dreams

Mr Tentacle

Fashionably Dead

Deco

Fox in the Snow

Schadenfreude's Baba Yaga

Schadenfreude

Lloyd, triumphant

Lloyd's been open during construction (which is still going on, a lot!), but a few things have opened up!

Pig is open again on Lloyd, in the new iglesia de tocino. There's also a flickr group for Pig and assorted relatedness, finally!

Mr. Tentacle is also finally back, in a giant octopus. You can see Herman Melville in the background there, the home of TOSL- which has stayed open and ready the whole time (and I hear there's new stuff as of yesterday!)

fashionably dead is alive and well on Lloyd- especially since Tableau is down for remodelling! Skins are on the upper floor. As is the cat.

fox in the snow, with its art t-shirts, is still in the little cottage, you can see the little ~silentsparrow~ birdhouse behind it.

The Motel has been rebuilt- one floor this time, with a kidney bean shaped pool- the squid floaty still loves to hold you. The back three rooms are taken up by Free*Style, though the motel recently was moved so things had to be sent back, and most of them haven't put their stuff back out yet!

Also in the Motel is Miss Shippe's Studio. Inside you can find facepainting warpaints to adorn your noggin.

The only SMERSH currently in existence is in another motel room. Life is incomplete without a frickin laser shark.

High above Lloyd is Antebellum, safe from the chaos of de/construction, where you can find a great selection of facial hair for your mustache wearing desires.

And, of course, the Schadenfreude Elephant is still standing in his corner of Lloyd, staring out at the sea. (Mostly) unmolested by the doings around him.

(All pictures are unedited but for cropping, taken in a viewer with shadows and depth of field. After 4 months of working on a busted computer, I finally have new hotness that can handle all this, so I've been playing around with it. Still buggy a bit...but new computer doesn't even have Photoshop yet, as my install disks are not where I am.)

Split Pea

Split Pea is the brainchild of Melatonin Hax, she who is one half of Thimbles, the high muckity muck in charge of the Area 408 half of Harold, and the new sim Elliott. A little over a year ago, she branched off from Thimbles into millinery- creating fantastical creations, mostly to be worn upon the head, in room 13 of the motel when it moved to Lloyd.

Eventually this little side project grew beyond the bounds of just a motel room, and moved into, of course, giant peas. Those peas inhabit the space in Lloyd that had been devoted to Thimbles, before the move to the giant thimbles in Floyd, keeping that plot in the family, as it were.

Quite a few head adornments (there are hats- but there are also feathers and vines and bows and glasses and birds) in Split Pea are created to go with things made by other designers- there are hats to go with dresses by Heartattack&Vine, feathers and bows to go with Clawtooth by Clawtooth hair.

Split Pea is located in the southwest corner of Lloyd, a stone's throw from the motel and next to ZsaZsa's bra on Horst.

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!

Smersh and The Golden Oriole

I'm sorry I've been a slacker of a tour guide- I was distracted by getting through the oxfords, finally. Sorry, you haven't gotten rid of me yet!

The two places I would like to show you today are Smersh and The Golden Oriole. Both have impact in Starlustland beyond just their shops- flopsie McArdle of Smersh has contributed a number of little touches all over the sims, from hot dog themed items (mmmmm) to paths to trees to picnic tables and beyond, when flopsie hasn't been off building sims for companies, she's been puttering around the 'Lust here and there. And, of course, the train station on Horst that houses VintageWear, one of her magnificent prefabs.

I've never met the person (or people?) behind the Golden Oriole myself, but they are directly responsible for the absolutely fantastic treehouse that perches high atop Mount Lolita on Floyd, that serves as the communal I (heart) the Starlust clubhouse. We used to have a castle there, but gave them freedom to do whatever they thought was good, and it blew away any expectations we had!

Both places have a lot in common- aside from being right next to each other, they also both do prefabs and gadgets and furniture, and they do it fantastically. Smersh is more modern retro and grunge, the home of the Laser Shark, a hotbed (hotdog) of revolutionary activity, and the place you can get the best damn corndog in Second Life. You can also ponder the existentialist emptiness of being as you wage slave your life away selling Flopdogs. The Golden Oriole excels at steampunk and Victorian delights: beautiful buildings, exquisite weaponry, gorgeously detailed furniture for the upscale abode, and what is certainly the best pith helmet in Second Life I have ever seen.

Smersh and The Golden Oriole are right next to each other on Lloyd, towards Herman Melville from the motel.