Princess Teddy

Tuesday, April 03, 20073:14 AM

Basically this week, I'll be starting to build the conference rooms. As each room has a theme, the first room is 'Monochrome', and the second is 'Hinamatsuri'. The general concept of the conference rooms is to locate them where people can'r eavesdrop (delibrate or not) on the conversation going on inside the rooms. So Gab and I carried out tests which might lead people to think we're lunatics. Basically, we'll both talk gibberish while either one of us is walking outside the area to find out what's the 'chat range'. Then we'll think of ways to obstruct people from venturing into the range. Another concept we have thought of, is to allow participants of the conference privacy from the outside world. Therefore we have chosen opaque wall textures for the outside. But we don't want guests to feel claustrophobic so we have added translucent textures in the room, windows so to speak.

First up: Monochrome.

This room isn't totally black and white as the name suggests. But the main colors are, of course, black and white. I added splashes of greens, reds and blues to tone down the stark contrast of the room abit. Hopefully no one feels nauseous like I did initially when I built a totally black and white room.

Here's a preview:

If you notice, I've put up photographs of sights and scenes in Singapore

Hinamatsuri - Doll Festival/Girl's Day

Here's an excerpt from wiki, for those interested.

"The Japanese Doll Festival (雛祭り, Hina-matsuri), or Girls' Day, is held March 3, the third day of the third month. Platforms with a red cloth (緋毛氈, hi-mōsen) are used to display a set of ornamental dolls (雛人形, hina-ningyo) representing the Emperor, Empress, attendants, and musicians in traditional court dress of the Heian period.

The custom of displaying dolls began during the Heian period. Formerly, people believed the dolls possessed the power to contain bad spirits, and would thus protect the owner.
Hinamatsuri traces its origins to an ancient Japanese custom called (雛流し, Hina-nagashi, lit. doll floating), in which paper dolls are put into a boat and sent down a river to the sea, supposedly taking troubles or bad spirits with them."

Right, in our version, we won't be putting up emperor dolls. Instead, VIPs are going to be seated where the Emperor and Emperess dolls sat. I've also added frames of Kimono and Japanese fans on the wall to make the room look less bare.

VIP Seats

Besides building these 2 rooms, I've also built our very own SL-Island:: laptops. These guys currently goes to our blog, and our client's website. Their functionalties will improve in future, but the current functions will suffice for now.

IT-savvy penguin

And then I also did some reserach on what to add to our bare landscape. And did I also mention I'm attempting to build same themed garden/backyards/exhibit grounds for the conference rooms?

I've always liked the concept of Ferris wheels and wind mills. Might build one for part 2 of our project...

A Ferris Wheel in Harajuku

And also, if it's not too difficult, I'd like to try building one of these...

Japanese Garden in Kanda(?)

The sparkly white particle effect belongs to me. I attached a ghost light emitter on my penguin suit just for fun... Makes eveerything look prettier too... =3

Yesterday (I think), me and Gab were helping Hao fix his Elevator from Hell. Basically it moves so fast, our avatars were practically running on air. But it was fun. Somehow, his unstable works seem more fun than the stablised version...

Here's a snapshot of our crash test:

Penguin(Me), Lord Death(Gab) and Hamtaro(Hao)

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