• Kitely.,  Nara Malone,  Nara Malone's Books,  Nara's Nook Contest,  Nara's Worlds,  Snatch Me

    Catch-Up Week

    Jolie and Waster in the Swamp Hey it’s Jolie again. This is catch-up week in the contest. Thanks to all of those already here and working hard to find Nara. This week’s feature world is the Quarterz Swamp. It may sound and look intimidating, but it’s really quite beautiful. To encourage you all to give it a try, we’re going to give anyone who logs into the world a thousand points. Yup, just log in and you’ll be in the drawing for the Nook Color. Spend five or more minutes inworld and you’ll be in this week’s gift card drawing. If you’ve already made the points you need to get…

  • #Opensim,  animals,  Animation,  baby whale,  Blue Whale Project,  Creative Inspiration,  Ferd Frederix,  Linda Kellie,  Nara's Nook Contest,  Virtual Worlds,  whale watching

    My Baby Blue Whale: I’m in love

    This is what I love about virtual worlds like Second Life and Kitely. I can’t think of an easier way to put myself in a character’s head when it comes to experiences I’ve never personally had.Now while it’s true that the virtual experience isn’t quite the same as actually standing on an ice floe getting sprayed by a baby whale I’m trying to teach to swim, it has that quality of wonder. It gets me close enough that my imagination can take me the rest of the way, and when I imagine scenes, the picture in my head doesn’t come close depicting what this animation did. Moving beyond putting an…

  • contest,  Kitely.,  Nara Malone,  Nara's Nook Contest,  shopping,  Virtual Worlds

    Extreme Makover Tutorial

    Here’s the shopping video I promised. It’s a little hard to read these menus so, I’ll talk you through what happens. We start with Lilly in the hall outside the gift shop. Most of the items you all would be interested in are on the wall directly opposite the entrance. There are plenty of things you aren’t ready to learn about yet. We’ll stick to avatars and clothes. Avatars, for our purposes consist of a shape, hair, eyes, and skin. Lilly wants you to see a noticeable makeover, so she left-clicks the picture of a male avatar. The card comes up asking if she wants to keep that object and…