Genre: Art Deco

There was so much awesome design and style in the 20th Century. I’ve been falling in and out of love with Art Deco all my life … mostly “in” for quite a while now. So it was with great excitement that I stumbled last year upon a fractal that morphed, as I worked with it, from looking vaguely like the Starship Enterprise to something that looked like an architectural detail from the movie “Metropolis.” I made dozens and dozens of parameter sets, thinking “I have to find a way to use these!”

And now I have! Genre is open for the new round and the theme is Art Deco. And I’ve been making a lot of lighting and learning to make mesh and so…

Spyralle Inspiration Mesh Art Deco Sconces

The hardest part was choosing a reasonable number of images to fit into the prim allowance for the event. I had to settle for five, and I’ll have to extend the series and find other cool things to do with these images. Guess which one is my favorite…

The wallpaper is a repeating design built from an old Fractint fractal, originally neon green and very toned down here. People think of fractals as being all swirly and complex. I’ve always been drawn to the geometric, graphic ones and made hundreds over the years. I’ve been able to use a bunch of them in a big project just completed. Stay tuned!

And go to Genre for your Deco fix! The location is new; it’s moved to Analog Dog.

 

Silk Road 4

When I moved to our new sim not long ago, the first thing on the ground was this. Imagine a mountain pass, coming to the inn at the end of a long day’s journey…

Spyralle Banner Gate – Silk Road

Free for the month of June in the Silk Road Hunt.

Summer May Come

Or it may not. Where I am, there was snow a month ago, and the days remain cold and wet. I go to a beach sometimes in the virtual lands, where I can pretend I feel toasty warm and experiment with Windlight. I found one that made everything look like one of those intensely lit afternoons on Kauai, just before sunset, with the rainclouds clearing away. It has the enigmatically romantic title [TOR] SUNSET Brouhatta Charme. You have to aim your camera more or less toward the sun or everything is brutally washed out by the light.

On the beach at sunset wearing “I Heart U” from Spyralle

Spyralle’s newest mesh dress “I <3 U” is available exclusively at the Summer Fashion Festival. More colors coming soon!

Spyralle I Heart U Sundress Color #1

The pattern is trimmed from the a mirrored fractal in my Botanica series. The heart is an artifact of the reflection. I hope to re-issue the Botanica::Heart skirts in a mesh version soon, but first, there will be sweet dresses for warm summer days.

There is a dollarbie gift for you at the event from Spyralle – a never released color of our Harlequin Butterfly top, made from a spirited Julia fractal. The previously released colors are still at Spyralle main store. You’ll find the top with our demos in the ice cream cone in front of the Spyralle booth at the Festival.

Spyralle Butterfly Top – LemonLime

I Heart U
Hair: Truth Teddy in Dune w/Roots
Skin: Curio Lustre Shimmer 2 in Acorn Dark with Freckles
Eyes: IKON Sunrise Celtic Green
Hat: Sur+
Poses: Tea Soup

LemonLime
Hair: Truth Teddy in Jupiter w/Roots
Skin: Curio Lustre Shimmer 2 in Acorn Dark with Freckles
Eyes: IKON Sunrise Celtic Green
Shorts: Zaara Mitra in Black
Pose: Everglow Model 452

Genre: Sci-Fi

We are all alien.

Sensory Enhancement Modules #415 – Spyralle

Let us celebrate our differences and love our individuality. Explore the Other at this month’s Genre event. The theme is Sci-fi. The creations are out of this world.

Spyralle Sensory Enhancement Module 415a Mask

Spyralle Sensory Enhancement Module 415b Headpiece

This project began as an attempt to create feathers from a very old Fractint image of mine, circa October, 1999. The 256 color palette of this old open-source DOS program, plus some of the error-forgiving hacks built into the code, allowed for certain accidental effects I have not been able to duplicate in more advanced fractal generating software. In this case, it was a glittering iridescence in feather strands. I harvested the thread areas and built feathers, almost literally barb by barb. And then I ended up putting the texture on tentacles.

The mask is derived from one of my Fractal-a-day images of 2012. It happened to be in the same color range as the feathers, so combining them was natural. A detail of the same image provided the glowing blue of the nautilus shell. The pearls are a happy product of some of the most simple flames you can create with Apophysis. I love the unexpectedness of the chartreuse. And I love the word, chartreuse.

Who says the future must be grey and mechanical, all terror and explosions? Why couldn’t it be gentle and whimsical and full of color, with gardens and windmills and bicycles? And pretty things to wear. In colors like violet and aquamarine and chartreuse…

Top: Spyralle Heliconia (not available at present; returning soon)
Hair: Amacci hairbase
Skin: Alas, I did not write it down, but it is Curio.
Eyes: IKON Sunrise

Dreaming the Dark

Let us celebrate our differences.

For the benefit of the Sophie Lancaster Foundation, Spyralle brings you the Dark Side of Thornweaver. And we were never very far from that, were we?

Spyralle Thornweaver Nightmare – the Wings

Spyralle Thornweaver Basic – Nightmare

Spyralle Thornweaver Deluxe – Nightmare

Exclusively at the World Goth Fair in Second Life.

Skin: Curio Jewel Rose Tones – Moonbeam Light Black Diamond
Hair: Evelyn from Truth in Raven
Eyes: IKON Sunrise Eyes – Silver & Rust

Thornweaver

Thorns make the web. The membrane is built of soap bubbles and memories of sunsets.

Spyralle Thornweaver Wings – Dusk

Four colors. The yellow is for Hope. Thornweaver in Yellow benefits Relay for Life this season.

Spyralle Thornweaver Wings – Yellow

 

Spyralle Thornweaver Wings – Palest Pink

Wings came first, then the dresses. First, they were partly opaque and mostly sheer, and then I made bright all-opaque versions and subtle all-sheer versions.

Spyralle Thornweaver Wings – Purple

Then, skirts, softer and lighter than feathers, built a little randomly, because we need to dance as much as we need to fly.

Spyralle Thornweaver Deluxe – Yellow

The deluxe set comes with all three versions of the dress and three variations of the skirt. The basic version includes the original dress and skirt. The wings are separate because the gentlemen will wish to wear them too.

Spyralle Thornweaver Basic – Purple

During the Faire only, I have included appliers for Lola’s Tangos in the outfit. After the Faire these will be available separately.

 

 

 

Floriade

Alas, I got buried in stuff and completely missed the boat on blogging my other recent release. I want you to see it anyway, because I love it. It reminds me of the soft, sweet peasant dresses from the 70′s, a variety of Retro that nobody seems to remember. Tie dye and bellbottoms, yes, but there was so much more that was so interesting and now so forgotten.

Spyralle Floriade Peasant Dress – Hydrangea – Sales benefit Relay For Life

Floriade Hydrangea is now back at Spyralle, still donating to Relay for Life.

Spyralle Floriade Lily Peasant Dress

The hair is Virginie from Truth. The skin is Fall from Curio. The pose is from Olive Juice, no longer available.

Spyralle Floriade Rose

Spyralle Floriade Lupine

At Spyralle you will also find Apple, Aster, Iris and Wisteria. Here is Freesia, a gift to members of Spyralle Studio for a limited time:

Spyralle Floriade Freesia