The Story of Stuff

Greetings all!

As you might now, I’ve been doing “monthly round-up” posts for a while now, and lately I noticed they contain more YouTube clips than anything else.

And I hardly post every YouTube clip I’ld like to. As a result of having to select only 1 or 2 or my personal favourites in an entire month, my bookmarks are getting stuffed with one YouTube link (of a clip that didn’t make it into the post) after the other.

So, as from now on, I won’t be including YouTube clips in those monthly round-ups, to allow room to cover other (non-YouTube related) finds.
Instead, they’ll have their own posts…
These will not necessarily become weekly posts, it will depend on how much clips I personally find interesting enough to both share as remember myself. Yup, you read that right, I’ll be using these posts as an alternative way to bookmark YouTube clips, because I wouldn’t mind ridding all clips out of my bookmark list. I’ld prefer to keep the browser list for other urls.

I still might post links to the separate YouTube posts in that monthly round-up though…

So let’s start with what I decided not to post, but did find very enjoyable, these last couple months (in other words you might see some dated, but still fancy clips below).

An interesting slap in the face of how over-consumation slowly brings the entire globe down… Message received I’ld say!

AniMusic

It’s all digital and the 2 below are my personal favourites!

JK wedding entrance dance

This already proved to be one of the YouTube hits of 2009, and I still love it!

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Greetings all!

I got word from my friend Troy that he remodelled his store to a water pavilion, and he’s searching potential renters to occupy the free space.

After checking how much space he still has available I’ld say he has about half a sim up for grabs, and from what I understood he’ld prefer it if he could rent it all off to just one person, but he has no problems to split the space up into smaller parcels if that’s more into what you are looking for.

Now, his store is the classy and original Mission Home Store, specialized in Art’s & Crafts style furniture and decorations on top of several architectural structures with an Art-Deco or Ottoman flair (Ottoman as in a specific Turkish architectural style, not that thing you place your feet on while you watch TV).

There are several stores who have an item or two in this particular style, but MHS is the only store on the grid with a specific core focus on this particular type of design, so you know you’ll be in great company.

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As for the surroundings: like I mentioned above Troy’s remodelled store became a water pavillion, guarded by 2 Art Deco statues.
There’s also a tiny island with lamp posts that resemble dragonblood trees, an artsy humanoid shape with a grated box for a head, together with some other creations of Troy scattered around.

The (only) neighbouring sim has a small dock in Troy’s signature Art’s & Crafts style and behind it lies the Builders Brewery flagship store and education centre.

For those of you into architecture, a bell might really be profoundly ringing inside your head right now, as both Troy and the people behind the Builders Brewery also played a part in the realisation of the Frank Lloyd Wright Virtual Museum.

But of course, words and the occasional picture can only do so much, the best thing you can do is simply to go check it out for yourselves.

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So, perhaps the area between these two established stores could be your potential new home location, or flagship / satellite store, your very own artsy space… the only thing I doubt is an option is a club.

For more information concerning the exact amount of land and prims available, as well as prices, go ahead and contact Troy Vogel.

MegaPrim.sl

At the end of every month (or the start of a new one) I do a small post with 5 clips or links to stuff that I’ve recently found worth following up or sharing with others… or in some cases were just too unusual to forget I ever came across it.
Here’s what I stumbled upon in January 2010.

Like the site name tells us, this is a site that houses megaprims for SL®. Now most of you will know that megaprims can be really handy, if only you can find one in a perfect size for what you want to use it. This is a tricky thing despite many megaprim packs available.
What’s the interesting part of this site offers you ask? Well, you can actually enter dimensions for the XYZ axis (either with minor size permutations or none at all, I suggest leaving it at the default 2 meters) and the site will search it’s database for it, and hand you a list of the megaprims it’s found.
Once you’ve made up your mind on which of the given results you want to receive, just enter your avatar name (not sure but it might be case sensitive), go in-world and open the local chat box to click your confirmation url and voila > you’re 1 megaprim richer in exactly the size you wanted it!

The Advertising Slogan Generator

Ok picture yourself in a situation where you need to think of a good old-fashioned slogan for some product, but it’s just not hitting you.
Well, now there’s the Slogan Generator! All you do is enter a word on the left, and you’ll be presented with endless varieties of giddy slogans!
Best of course if you enter your very own (screen)name, that’ll certainly provide some brief entertainment!

Some YouTube pretties

The song isn’t bad, but what really got me liking this was the transitions between “every day life” and a more colorful artsy-comic “drawn life”… Don’t you sometimes wish life held more of these type of switches on moments that matter?

There are quite a lot of safe sex ads for TV and internet around, but this one is perhaps one of the most fun and “artistic” I’ve come across ever!
PS > as the preview frame suggests, it’s kinda NSFW, but hey, we’re all adults who prefer to play it safe, right?

NaughtyMachinima.com

Totally NSFW because it’s quite simple: a place with completely uncensored and X-rated clips derived from a digital platform… that’s really all there is to say to it.

“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”

I know I usually fetch my time waster poison at ArmorGames, but I came across Fat Rat Games recently, where this nifty shooting range game is hosted.

In this case, your targets are logos of popular Social Networking sites, ready to claim your office hour attention!

The facts are these:

• Don’t shoot at coworkers, nor the boss
• your only weapon is a stapler, keep a track of available staples in the upper right corner, refilling is automatically but takes 2 seconds
• the stapler does have a “RapidFire” (possible hint towards RapidShare?) function that sometimes becomes available, shooting multiple staples at once, but only untill the current deck of staples runs out
• at first you’ll get easy targets, who only come and chat you up, but after a while your targets start tossing stuff at you (FaceBook, Twitter birds, etc…), hit you in the face (Second Life® hand logo) or send a beam of information towards ya (Google logo), draining your HP (or perhaps it’s Stamina, just think of it as their way to state that “resistance is futile”)
• if you can’t keep them away from your desk sufficiently enough, you end up FIRED!
• the Google logo is “the King” > there’s only one but it always disappears into the cubicles of the office floor, and you only win the game when you managed to vaporize him it