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Serenity

June 24, 2025

Today I will be subjecting you to another video experiment. That is, shorter snippets cut together and with a voice-over added afterwards. In some ways it is easier than just filming and talking at the same time, but in other ways it is not. And I really need to do something about the zooming and panning…

Anyway, this is not about my trials with video in SL but about the latest releases from Dutchie and Landscapes Unlimited, with bonus appearances by Wasabi (new cute hair with a little shell ornament) and alaskametro (new FREE skin at the SL22B Shop & Hop). Dig into the video first and then you’ll get some added detail and credits below, as well as some bonus images.

Dutchie’s Yoga Mat features 61 solo yoga animations, 6 flowing sequences, including one with 57 animations, and 11 color options. It uses PBR materials for realistic detail and the animations use Bento hand poses and subtle facial expressions.  There is also a Friends, Class and Solo Pack which includes 5 differebt marts: Solo, Duo, Trio, Four, and Class (up to 7 avatars). 

The Emmental Solid Sky Landscape by Landscapes Unlimited includes four layouts, all with square flat areas for building and with four seasons each. The landscape covers a whole region, including 1,5 x 1,5 km off-sim sculpted parts. It uses PBR materials (but has legacy textures too) and includes two resolutions. The water is animated and several different options can be selected via the menu.  It is currently sold at a 50% discount (until June 30th).

Dive Into Dutchie’s Pool

March 21, 2025

Dutchie’s Swimming Pool is the latest creation from Froukje Hoorenbeek. Suitable as a luxurious addition to your Second Life home or as part of a spa, this pool offers beautiful PBR-textures and top notch animations, including custom swimming and diving animations. Naturally, I had to dive in and explore the options, and you can see some of the results in the video.

As I note in the video, there is a PG and an Adult version, with the Adult supporting Aeros and Physics Cock for automatic tilting as well as being Lovense Sex Toy compatible. I also mentioned the additional tiles available to landscape around the pool, but I forgot to note that there are also two landscape surrounds with cut-outs for the pool, so that you can more easily use it on land where you can’t landscape. My setup is in the sky and I used one of the surrounds to create a little hill around the pool.

Lounging in Style

January 28, 2025

For Midnight Order, Grasshopper Street takes you back to the early 20th century with a daring lounging set in silk tulle and satin and a matching turban that is sold separately. The texture huds include both pre-set textures and further tinting abilities. The Zelda pumps are an earlier release, but matched well in style and colour to the lounging set.

For lounging, I am using the Ladies Chaise from the Swan Lake series by DICTATORSHOP, a very opulent line of furnishings with a nice selection of animations. This version of the chaise has single animations, PG couple animations and Adult couple (MF) animations. The matching dressing screen can be glimpsed in the mirror, which is the Ornate Mirror from Dutchie.

The beautiful pale skin is Nar Mattaru’s Hela, worn on Kaya.

Dutchie’s Femdom Chair

December 06, 2024

The latest release from Dutchie may look modest but appearances are deceiving. This rustic chair offers 30 MF couple animations for BDSM roleplay across four menus: interrogate, tease, take and aftercare.  The chair is AV-sitter experience enabled and compatible boh with the RL Lovense sextoys and the Aeros and the Physics Cock in Second Life. It has Bento animations for hands and faces and optional RLV functionality. To allow the chair to fit in easily with your existing decor, it offers 11 different texture options and of course it uses PBR for maximal texture realism.

I decided to setup the chair in the Waterland House from Dutchie which I have decorated almost entirely with various other releases from Dutchie, such as the Modular Kitchen that also features in the video. Freyja is wearing new lingerie from Alaskametro for the SL Christmas Expo and both Ran and Freyja are wearing the latest Wasabi hair, Snow Bunny, which as you can see works very well on a male avatar too.

Below the video you will find some photos as well, teasing the adult animations, as well as the credits with slurls.