Sim Hopping

This will be a regular feature on the blog.  I love to sim hop.  This involves typing in a random word into the map and looking at sims.  I avoid residences and private sims; anything divided up into four quadrants--unless it looks interesting.  :)  Today's word was mist.  Sometimes the sim I find is next to a sim with the word mist in it, as this sim was.

Fish by In Yan, Butterflies by Yooma Mayo @ http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/DHSL02/131/128/21

This was quite an interesting sim--the terrain below the fish is made out of a plethora of mesh--squares of mesh placed close together.  In Yan teaches at Digital Hollywood Graduate School in Tokyo, Japan.  These fish--and a few others that are a BEAUTIFUL silvery white--seem to glide over the terrain with ease.

That got me thinking about the word silver.  I typed Silver into the map and landed on Silver Forest, the home and inworld photography studio of Kai Stoller.  Her house is made by Apple Fall, who owns a furniture store by that name.  I'll be heading there next.

Kai Stoller's home and Studio @ http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Diamonds%20and%20Pearls/40/202/2002

On Kai's sim there are four islands.  The house is on one.  On another island is a playable Candyland board made by Gracie Paperdoll.  :)

Apple Fall is an awesome mesh furniture store--and they sell prefabs as well.  If you go to the back of the store and teleport to the workshop, they're having a 50% off sale there.

The workshop is also for sale...imagine my surprise when I read on the wall that it was inspired by Howl's Moving Castle, one of my FAVORITE movies.  :)

You just never know what you'll find in Second Life.  :)