InnerWorld Magazine # 9 in English

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Editor´s Note Ananda Valeeva It's so rewarding and inspiring to show every month how to improve, regardless how high each mountain represents. Challenges and tests arise along the way in our lives, just to conďŹ rm the possible success when there is passion and seriousness in what you do. We are very pleased to conquer in each new edition more readers, friends and people who believe in our work and dedication to the InnerWorld project.

And as choosing subjects is always a fascinating task, there is nothing better than talking about who creates and embodies the fantasy of living a Second Life with fantastic avatars!

The surprises in this issue start with Don Ahmad Hosho on our cover, who created his portrait especially for our magazine. I have no words to

thank you for this kindness and gift, Don. Ahmad Hosho is an unique and special artist, who uses an avatar that is a perfect example of what can be fantastic and artistic in SL. He did an intriguing special interview, which will certainly tease you.

JoseFranco Fisseux is highlighted in "Stamp Award” and he tells us about his fascinating choice of special avatars and his incredible collection.

Find more fantasy, art and architecture in TP to Cetus, and very charming beauty looks in the Fashion editorial of swimwear. What about colorful flowers in the Top 5, that grace your life? The art of Geppex McCaw is always a special gift and a break for fun.

Join us, be enthralled and enjoy it!

Kisses, Ananda Valeeva

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Cover´s Challenge Thereaver Barrymore When Ananda and I decided who would be the new art exhibitor in the InnerWorld Magazine HQ, Don Hosho, and then we decided that Don would be the highlight of the October issue, I just visualized in my mind the ideal cover. A few days before the grand opening of the exhibition, Don and I met to do the photo shooting.

Don Hosho is one, or maybe the most impressive avatar of whole Second Life. I took many pictures of his face, which would make a beautiful cover, but we were presented by the wish of Don Hosho, to illustrate our cover with his self-portrait. Ananda and I got crazy and obviously accepted his oer. I told about the format I need, and just sent the information to him.

Don, Ananda already thanked you in the editor's note, but I would love to enhance the appreciation for having presented us with this more than special cover. Thank you!

And to you all, have a great read!

Kisses, Thereaver Barrymore

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Yabusaka Loon´s Tiny Girl

Since founded by Philip Rosedale in 1999, the Linden Labs, born to create this delightful experience called Second Life, has revolutionized the way we live and interact in 3D worlds.

It is true, especially for the veterans that the avatars have changed and improved a lot. (Which all residents expect).

For those who began their second life recently and see the beautiful human or character avatars populate our virtual world, certainly would be frightened if they saw the look we had when we were born in the mainland.

We were ugly and charm less dolls; and even the furriers, animals, dragons or fairies did not inspire the beauty and fantasy we live today. But, it was what we had and second life was fun enough to conquer more and more residents.

Fortunately, after almost six years of SL, each day brings more impressive

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options for those who want to create their human avatar.

The realistic skins, perfect textures and graceful movements of hair, gestures, animations, dances and poses, give more "humanity� to the avatars and everything that can make our virtual representation more real and beautiful. And it has been a delightful fantasy for many residents of SL, which create the image of their avatar, as a representation of art, expressed in striking photographs or experimental immersive projects, in various forms of digital art.

Moreover, there were always groups of users in SL, which chose an antithesis in their virtual representation and prefer the fantasy, utopia or even a bizarre image to enjoy their

Second Life.

These people justify their choice, as they already know the experience of being a "human" in RL; so, they decided to get radical and deep experience that could not be created in real life. (Maybe one day it will be possible? Hum ... But, that maybe would be more than a crazy "trip" for some)...

It is fascinating to watch, especially in some islands surrounding the cult by fantastic avatars, how much passion, care and elegance of perfect details, are created by very artistic people. They dream, seek perfection in colors, shapes and characters, which take us into unimaginable, perfect and colorful worlds or just

Danieljack Sin´s Alien Crawler

under a bright moonlight mystery.

By the way, soon, in a separate chapter of this daily fantasy, we will celebrate Halloween and its staggering and frightening creations, Sims, creatures/avatars, graveyards, witches, ghosts and all sensational and scary surprises, we love to admire.

Among the best and the most creative designers, Erin Burks and Slade Christensen deserve the highlights.

They have surprised us with their amazing Liquid Heat Island dedicated to Halloween. And what amazes all is the degree of detachment of them to create something wonderful, which soon will be replaced by another subject, as they like to homage different holidays. It brings some reflection on what a true artist is and how much they love what they do, even when it is ephemeral. It is the simple act of donation. I'm anxious to see what these fantastic builders will create this year.

Second Life is that mix of dream, reality, aspirations and achievements, and we are surprised every day by the figures and impressive environments, that amaze by its beauty and wealth. An enchanted forest can be inhabited by fairies, gnomes, dragons and beautiful

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animals ... Another version can oer more sinister and cyber Goths environments worlds, like a Matrix involving our minds ... or even a lovely deep sea and its colorful creatures that greet lovely mermaids.

We have many resources to develop these wonderful images and "wear" the characters depending on our mood. But, we owe this pleasure and adventure to the great talent of these dreamer artists who do not limit their creativity to

Erin Burks Creation

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Mermaid, Alice Biondi´s avatar

human images. Every day we can find new, light, scripts, actions, flexibility and amazing movements... and the beauty of this experience, is to wonder about what will be the next revolution.

Many avatars of this futuristic and utopian range or the ones of pure fantasy are faithful representation of successful movies and games. We can be a character of the Matrix or Tomb Raider, or represent our idols, singers and musicians like Elvis, Hendrix, Marley, Bono Vox, or we can be a legend like Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn or Angelina Jolie and many others who have always fascinated us. After all, we see every day how the creators of skins and shapes and everything that can transform a human avatar as close to reality as possible, have improved their skills in making them better.

Bono Vox - DarkDharma Daguerre Exclusive Creation. This avatar isn´t avaible for purshase

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But, some think … We can also go beyond and become a character like Mario Bros, Cartoons like the Simpsons, Hello Kitty or some Disney characters. We can be a Sci Fi character or even a robot, monster, vampire, a mythical sea creature or a perfect animal, as a tiger, bird, butterfly ... a dragon, furry or mermaid ... How about being a fairy, gnome, or a samurai as the Japanese movies or anime?

There is no limit for the emotions and fantasies a resident decides to live by creating an avatar. Of course you can be a very stylish human avatar, which could even use perfume, (if we could smell the aroma), if it is your mood today. But, if tomorrow or at the end of this article you feel like flying as a beautiful butterfly or facing the perils

Harry Gleeson´s Maggie Simpson

and fighting like a cyber robot?

You can do it!

We see beautiful creations in SL and Damien Fate is one amazing artist of fantastic avatars. He creates the perfect shape and details for his mystic super heroes. And he is not limited to this as he also creates tiny avatars and offers more delightful surprises, including

interactive menus, multiple scripts and gestures to make up the characters and make your experience the best ever dreamed. And speaking in Tiny avatars, bankinha Papp is an example of designer that enchants people from 8 to 80. She is herself a tiny avatar, a doll that makes you want to take home and that inspired the creation of a group of people, who chose to be tiny avatars, the "Tiny Labs”.

Bankinha created the Tiny Farm, which is a beautiful mini farm, where everything is miniature and invites us to spend hours exploring the charms of her beautiful and colorful creations. After writing about this fascinating subject and finished this article, I was informed that the LL decided to play hard on the issue of copyright in SL and that may profoundly affect the wonderful and talented artists and their characters. We still don’t know exactly how it will be, but we hope that creators and LL will find the best way to not allow this fantasy, the magic of being in SL and choose to be the character of your dreams to die, and certainly still respecting copyrights.

Well, the world of fantasy has no boundaries, rules or judgments, and there is nothing better than a virtual world like Second Life, for you to explore and be delighted by so many Fantastic avatars!

Be human, a bird, robot or even an animated furniture... The important, after all, is having fun and how much it pleases you.Start now your adventure...

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Furia Freeloader´s Furious Imperial Storm Trooper

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Stamp Award JoseFranco Fisseux A veteran in our virtual world, he chose to live the fantasy to the extreme and explore the creative potential of SL. JoseFranco is among those who look for quality content and embody the fantastic avatars of our metaverse . He tells us how he started his SL and his opinion about virtual worlds.

"I started out of curiosity. I was always eager for new technologies and when I heard about the expansion of SL in 2006, I created my avatar and went to the semi-immersive platform. I had funny situations as a noob, since I spent little time online. Today I see that virtual worlds offer incredible potential and facilities in many spheres. However, there are technical limitations such as the number of avatars in an event, for example, but I believe they will find solutions to most problems. Many areas can benefit from the platform, such as art, business, science, music and much more. The possibilities are fascinating. See, I had even the pleasure of hearing the beautiful voice of the singer/songwriter, no less beautiful, Marcela Biasi and so many others, right here in one corner of my home studio. " When asked about his opinion regarding the many people who use SL to live the fantasy of perfection as a human avatar and why JoseFranco chose the fantasy to the extreme in his performers avatars, he said - "Good question, let me think a moment . Well, I think on several factors: the fact that my cousin and God father, a puppeteer out in RL, lived - during my childhood a long time in our house in the cozy town of Contenda, metropolitan region of

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Curitiba. That was a very productive time for CauĂŞ (his artistic name) and his art. Now, for me, it was a big party XD. I feel a bit like that in SL, as a puppeteer and a big kid as I play with my avatars. I think it is also because I love my RL, even when it is not so perfect! I like my p h y s i c a l , psychological and spiritual traits as well. I do not seek an escape in SL of possible external or inner factors, that perhaps I may be distressing or any other compensation. I am just looking for entertainment, knowledge and good friends. Ah... and collecting avatars; a collection that

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becomes a more colorful picture of our culture and costumes each day. " He has one of the largest collections of avatars in SL and tells us about his interest in collecting fantastic avatars - "I started it because of the natural interest in these fantastic creations. One day I realized that the number of folders containing avatars was higher than the clothes and beautiful skins. To the misfortune of some virtual flirts, I spent almost all my lindens to buy them. After realizing the amazing number of avatars I already had and my stubborn attitude in acquiring new

ones, I decided to change my inventory in a large collection.

Ananda, I plan to be one of the biggest collectors of avatars in SL, to the delight of creators and their pockets. LOL But, I do not have the biggest collection. I know at least one person - also in love with this art which already has more than 600 avatars in his inventory! And surely, there must be others. " I wondered how many avatars he has bought and about him creating a museum to show those amazing creatures. I also asked him to speak about a few, as he has so many JoseFranco said - "I stopped counting them when the collection became the 450 avatars, so the amount I spent to buy them does not weigh much in my mind XP. I think I have a number near to 550. I will count it again to know better, for sure. I've thought to turn my collection into an avatar´s museum, and even heard this

suggestion of a good friend, but due to technical difficulties - I would like to expose them in 3D and absolute lack of time, I gave up the idea for while. Some avatars have a peculiar history.

Like a great dragon, perhaps, my first important purchase. The race Storm Dragon.

What beautiful "creatures" are native to the Isle of Wyrms or IoW. They are very rare and available only at the equinoxes and solstices of the year and few in number, by lot and they give preference to existing owners. I had three days of anguish. Lol But, I was finally, lucky.

Like any collector I have my own preferences and among them, a collection composed of six avatars created by Damien Fate gives me much pleasure. I do not mean cute Loco Pocos, but the great summons that are forgotten in a corner of the store Mirada, under semi-freebie prices. Another cool thing is seeing people's reactions when I use avatars with great charismatic appeal or I decide to have fun, like the invasion of Rome and Sparta for a certain avatar character Obelix." - He told us in his passion for the subject.

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Regarding the question of how JoseFranco see who lives through a fantasy virtual world as the SL and if he would venture to analyze the reasons for this as a poetic flight or permission to live the dream, his comments were very relevant and make us think ... - "Ananda, I am not biased. I see them with good eyes, everybody who tries to give a voice to their longings and desires, often secret and repressed in real life. But, always all that under some limits, because I believe that the balance and mutual consent provide strong clues about them. Within the human variety, I see that the motivations expected to achieve that have the same importance. Of course, the desire for perfection and giving way to sexual impulses may be at the top of the list. Maybe we should use SL to leverage our strengths and virtues, why not? It would be good huh ... I'm only concerned about the excessive number of kids, often below 10 years

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age, that hang around there. And people who spend ten, fifteen hours a day online in unproductive and even alienating SL activities. " Our collector of fantastic avatars tries, within the wide range of designers and stores he likes, to quote a few names and gives us a lesson. - "There is the outstanding work led by Flea Bussy avatar and the other "children". I believe the creations of Grendel's Children store, where prices are very attractive, can offer incredible options around a fantastic range of 1000 avatars; the avatar Verkin Raven, of Seawolf, with its fabulous European dragons, the best of SL now; my new friend Rippe Winkler and his formidable avatars of monkey, including the giant gorilla Koko Mongo; Yoa Ogee and his frenetic creativity; Lazrith Fardel, of Red Eye Shop, with its hellish creations. The quality of work by Jennyfer Ultsch, also stands out;

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Leben Schnabel and his wonderful collection of Instinct Wolf / WOLFESS; Wanders Nowhere, which reduced the pace of his creations, but produced great avatars who still can be found for sale; the funny and high quality Avatars created by Racush Cheeky and Toki Cure of the Wraith Wal Krugman Designs; jakkalas Dingo of Wherehouse Avatars; Malluch Hecht with his zany creation found in Mutation Industries; Daryth Kennedy of Isle of Wyrms; Furia Freeloader with its vast collection under the theme Star Wars; Elieser Tandino and its predators. And many others ... the list is long, it is better to stop here. "indeed, my dear... I imagine the size of your list. : P When asked about other activities and skills in SL besides collecting avatars, JoseFranco said - "Now my activities are quite modest. I have several large projects in my RL and even loging almost everyday, I spend

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little time there and in part to find avatars and to know about new releases. I enjoy chatting with friends, I attend auditions, musical performances and art galleries. And I intend soon, to venture into the art of creating avatars. For this, I already use Blender, Gimp and some other programs tool. I already managed to create some effects with particles very basic - and I thank the avatar Jopsy Pendragon, the maintainer of the educational space Particle Laboratory. But, I need to greatly improve my knowledge of LSL, to get a good tablet and thus gather the necessary conditions to give life to my future creations. I have also created some machinima. It was a natural way, as several of the key processes involved in editing and postproduction are to my knowledge for years in RL, including the area of the recorded music industry. I do not use SL as a life simulator, as another life.

Many can crucify me, but games like

The Sims never attracted me. I use SL, as a tool and enhancer. So, my second life is only an extension of my first life, just having some news. ".

JoseFranco tells us what he would like to find in SL in the near future and if there is any avatar that would be a dream come true. - "Maybe I am a little naive, but I would like to see a

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definitive solution to the problem of illegal copying. In early 2008, when this awful practice reached its peak, the escape by the creators of content was massive. SL seems to have lost it´s breath and the usual flurry of news gave way to calmer waters.

I would also like to see the import of 3D meshes improved in most common formats in the market - it seems that it is already planned by Linden Lab and the upgrade for capabilities of geometric SL; I think it is still very limited.

Ananda, yes, there is an avatar I covet and still is not part of my collection. But, it is just because the work has not been finalized yet and it is not available. It is the next creation of Kazuhiro Aridian, who has always allied his work with creativity and quality in the exact measurement; but this time, from what I saw in the studio, it will raise the level close to perfection. Ananda, of course, I already postponed the purchase of an avatar by the absolute lack of resources in-world, but after saving a little, I always got it. "

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"I want to take this opportunity to put myself fully available to all who want to know my great collection of avatars or for some other reason whatsoever, will need it. For this, just contact me in-world.�

Thank you for this trip to the world of the fantastic avatars, JoseFranco.

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Hair: Zoe - Peroxides Pack by Maitreya Shape: Customized Skin: 06 Pale Skin - Jennifer - Brown by Redgrave Suit: G08 Zip Catsuit by Graves Cracked: Cracked Doll Layer by LPP Clockwork: Doll Clockwork by LPP Leg and Arm: Damaged Sexadoll Torso by LPP Boots: BAX Ankle Boots Black Patent by Bax Boots

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Ahmad Hosho, best known as Don Hosho is a multi talented artist and has a very interesting personality to be discovered. He is our special interview and the fantastic cover, which he kindly created specially for this Issue.

It is an avatar of Second Life created by a real life graphics designer & illustrator from Egypt. He used to draw comics, and as he says ”Ahmad Hosho is my character and rl is not mixed with my sl”.

Among his wonderful creations as a builder is the romantic, stunning and unforgettable “Cuore di Amore”, hundreds of stunning portraits, tiny avatars and so much more. He is also a fashion and industrial designer and one of the founders of Second Life Painting. He is especially identified with the subject of the post modern second life women and at least half his works homage second life ladies.

His portraits are based paintings/illustrations and the reactions facing them are always surprising as everybody loves his art.

At first, he planned to bring his second life art to real life scene and for this, learned about many possibilities

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in-world, but he abandoned this project and became the first classical painter of second life. Don Hosho won the first prize in windlight contest judged by Torley Linden, and also won the Louis Landon cover contest.

Don Hosho explains that since he joined SL, he made a clear philosophy for himself and it is very interesting to hear about that – he said - “Ahmad Hosho is a virtual/fictional character, who has no exist in rl. He is to me, like a character I created in novel and I decide what he does. I never considered second life as a game, but as an imaginary world. I used to write stories in rl and when Internet came and I learned about chats, I used to chat with my characters on old chat clients to give them a life, and learn how they communicate.

When I started second life, I found by time I could create a personality that can live inside second life at first place.

I refused to paint by real life traditional mediums too, as an example, because I thought a virtual pixeled world, should be painted by pixeled medium... and here was the first digital painting of and for second life. I tried it in many ways, but i am not sure if I succeeded”.

InnerWorld: Is there any special meaning for this avatar name?

Don Ahmad Hosho: I like Ahmad because it is a name, which I liked in Egypt, but it is not originally an Egyptian name, it is an Arabic name, which even came to Arabs by Islam. It means much praised, one of many names of the prophet Muhammad. Also, "Ahmad" is a famous name for romantic heroes in Egyptians movies. Egypt is considered the Hollywood of middle east. Hosho, on other hand, is an African instrument and when I was registering in second life, Hosho was one of the second names they offered. So, I liked how it has an African origin.

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InnerWorld: What do you think about using a 3D World as a tool to express Art? Don Ahmad Hosho: I thought, at first, it is out the online future and this is why I stayed in second life. I think it is a good tool for design and technical wise. In 2006 many people considered sl as a game, but in 2007 many changed their opinion, after the famous chung ( if i recall her name ) . People saw the news when she made those millions in 2007, and the BBC announced that. So, people started to come... and a lot of business were opened. A lot of rl brand names in the fashion design field arrived to second life, but the technical limitations these days didn´t help and some brands like Armani, closed later.Regarding Art the photos were not that popular that time, but some people were already photo shooting in-world. For myself, I found second life would be a good start for a good painting of life scenes.

But, if I talk in a conceptual wise, remember that you are reading the imagination of another person, who built her/his avatar the way s/he imagined, and that makes the idea of the painting a great mix between fiction and reality. Another advantage of sl is that it gives you the perspective, so you don´t have to imagine it, which is a hard part of any drawing. And now what are the disadvantages?

Well... you are not painting from nature, however the fact that people are standing wherever they wish and worn what they dreamed to wear... and do what they please, makes the scene having part of reality. It is not all real, but this is the degree of this art, it is not going to be placed beside Picasso´s or Leonardo Da Vinci's paintings. It is contemporary art... and it has it's own personality and identity. But, it needs to grow more than that, and to have a better existence in

real life media, from my personal point of view.

InnerWorld: What inspired you to create your amazing avatar? It is really unique!

Don Ahmad Hosho: After winning the first place in the windlight contest in Koinup, which was judged by Torley Linden, I decided to enter the orange contest. It was a contest that held by orange island, and they were asking for a picture of a real feeling. I decided to make a picture of someone who had a realistic facial expression, and indeed I wanted to show second life a quality they didn´t see before, by bringing a second life avatar to look realistic. So, I decided to use the classic paintings rules of realism, not the photography.

As I don't believe of something called sl photography anyway, it is just a nice name we give to our digital art – but,

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second life photography is a digital art and c r a f t s m a n s h i p, which requires for it to work with illustrations rules.

I had then to create a realistic look ing avatar, but had no enough time to make a realistic skin, as it takes 22 hours of work; so, I decided to use a skin by the best skin artist in technical and realistic Afro skins, which is Chip Midnight ( You see his talent in custom skins basically, not in his retail store ). And as Chip didn´t make a good shape for his type of quality skins, I decided to use a resource, which describes the African race features and then, I cracked a shape for the skin, made eyes, and

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styled the Nubian steam punk style for this avatar. The process of creating this avatar is documented in complete details in Koinup. However, i didn´t win the contest .

InnerWorld: Have you developed any new skill because or in SL? Don Ahmad Hosho: Yes, my 3D skills, as I never liked making 3D art, and SL pushed me to do it. I have learned a lot in design as well and communication skills too. Lol .I had the luck to live with rl experts in fields of IT and design related stuff, like Bibi Book, Barney, and Kimba. I never forget the days when me and Kimba were brainstorming great ideas.

I also have learned a lot by working with these real life great minds on sl projects, and from GNE, the real life ergonomics expert; a lot of things in ergonomics I didn´t learn even in my college. I have learned a lot of IT stuff from them too and by an indirect way, it was like an University to me at some point of my second life. The best I have learned there was to learn

"how to learn' ... and to learn how virtual world can be very serious.

InnerWorld: Do you believe SL could go further and offer more great tools for creators?

Don Ahmad Hosho: It needs a lot of work, firstly second life material should be all copyrighted only, because a lot of creators are not creating anything; they just copy real life, clothes mostly are bought because of rendering quality, but NOT because of the originality in design. And if second life found a way to district this part, beside the theft content too, which is not just about someone stealing other skins from a sl builder; it is about those who really go to Google and get non licensed photos and art and make stuff from them. As well, if builders learn how to optimize buildings for use, second life is not the source of lag, the lag comes by less knowledge about building. If all that happened, you would find at least 80% of sl big names shops would be closed.

And briefly : the community needs to get serious about art.

SL will give more tools too, like this one http://changingworldsbuildingdreams.com/linden-laboffically-announces-mesh-support-in-second-life-at-slcc

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It is very useful for creators as an instance.

InnerWorld: Many wonderful creators left SL for good. What do you think about copyrights?

Don Ahmad Hosho: Talking more regarding copyrights, it is basically on the textures on avatars. It is easy to steal them in sl and there are a lot of people who are stealing them and making money in black markets. In the past a maďŹ a was specialized in that, and I heard they were hacking machines of artists too and ďŹ nding ways to sneak over linden labs bans. I had my go with these people already, and still am for the worst nightmares for those who steals textures. But, let's face it too, internet is not protected.. and what linden lab will do anyway?

They are a good team of IT experts may be, but they are not all texture artists to

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see the theft. I mean, that mafia was taking the skin of RAC in past and placing the lips of other skin on it, and slap the nose of another theft skin from another, until it changed the skin completely.

It is the fact that this is about people too, people should learn to identify the skin and clothes and get it when it is faked. The people shopping culture is very important here. If they understand how to determine the difference between a skin and another in more practical way, they should question every skin artist about his creation.. skin artists too should share their techniques, like Chip Midnight does. I am not saying they give us the kitchen secrets, but they need to show us some steps of making skins. It is part of their publicity and I like how Chip Midnight was showing the work in progress of this skin.

If you like a brand name, you need to see at least a blog or 2 of the artist, showing work in progress of his skins, or anything like that, which creates trust. And as we all got things for free in sl when we were new and sl knowledge for free too, and still get them, we need to share some free stuff. It was nice of Eloh to make free skins templates too as well. I should know the artist and know how s/he creates stuff. Then, I can tell you some brands I trust like LeLutka, Chip Midnight, Robin Wood, Muism and so on. I have an idea of how each brand of them develops their content and it is a reason that can make me decide to buy a product..

InnerWorld: You have so many wonderful creations, but could you name which one or some of your favorites, and what kind of art would you like to mix?

Don Ahmad Hosho: I don´t prefer

any of my creations, but i like the latest art, because it was getting inspired by deviantARTists and it was a way to me to communicate with them in deviantART, like a neo-style of who I tried to get inspired by his traditional art in a digital art format. I have 2 pieces, which were heavily inspired in a way from a deviantart too, this is neo innov and he joined flickr later after me . He became my friend since that portrait I made inspired by him. I forced myself to get inspired since Mademoiselle Sura Abismo, and Mr. Frolic Mills paintings, as before that I was original in everything. The reason came with my

joining to deviantART. It is a famous culture in deviantART photo manipulation world, to get inspired by each others and I am proud that some of most famous deviants added my art to their favorites. The heavier inspiration I got was from neo-inno and roadioarts.

I would like to mix an art I haven´t done yet: fashion with painting. I had several tries, but I didn´t continue that as I still haven´t gotten my hands over the tools, as my ideas are facing big technical limitations from sl.

Don Hosho´s Mademoiselle Sura Abismo

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InnerWorld: If you could start your SL today, as your first day.

Would you change anything?

Don Ahmad Hosho: Yes. I already have this idea and may do that trying to delete Ahmad Hosho one day and make a new avatar, which represents my rl itself. That would be to use sl as a designer and if that happens, then I believe I may will put all Ahmad Hosho stuff in a museum for a period of fiction and learning stuff and then, I will open my virtual design office. Of course it will not die, but will just be placed in the museum where other characters I created are done. You will see the rest of my characters too, which are done in a different medium. The decision is not taken yet, as I still need to meet some other designers and prepare a project for sl. Even knowing it is just something I wonder and not a decision, what I am sure of is that I will shock my rl

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design society.

InnerWorld: How evaluate your SL?

would

you

Don Ahmad Hosho: it was good in 2006 - 2007. I learned a lot from the society I was. It even pushed me in my rl career to get a RL international

Don Hosho´s Mr. Frolic Mills

design award. But, I am not so happy with my sl in 2009 in general, as sl is not having the same community it had. Now, there are a lot of internet junkies in sl, and the old society from where I got so many friends has left sl mainly.

Regarding the prices of his art, he told me: - “You can write in your magazine I am the most expensive artist anyway, as I don´t want to do business; so I keep the rates high. And when I hear an expensive price than mine, then I get it higher.

However, my prices are met by some clients some how.” - (Gosh, I haven´t asked Don Hosho yet about his rates, but, I will take a deep breath and will do it soon.) :P Thank you very much. It was really amazing, dear Don Ahmad Hosho!

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Tp to Cetus Turn the sound on, open your eyes widely and prepare yourself for an amazing tour to explore a new building form in the virtual world.

Light shades of blues and the inviting water covering your feet are the first elements to welcome you to this unique Sim, which is completely dedicated to the art of an Architecture of vanguard. Many water jumpers explode around you splashing refreshing thousands bubbles. It is just a bit of what is waiting for you.

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This first view of an ample welcome hall is fantastic and the utopian atmosphere is completed by some “heavenly” sculptures of wings created by Bryn Oh.

Modern buildings “live” in perfect harmony side by side with a classic temple rainbow, which reminds me of a futurist Parthenon and made me wonder if DB Bailey, its builder and RL Architect, called David Denton, wanted to go beyond all possibilities of shapes, shades, colors and concepts to create this wonderful Sim, together with some of the best artists of SL. It is also his studio, where he can express more skills as Urban Planner, Artist and Designer.

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Everything is surrounded by water and you can see the buildings “sprouting” like cybernetic virtual flowers, and nothing can surprise more than the elegant lines, angles or curves we can find everywhere. Just explore around and enjoy the fantastic design and unusual architecture.

Sometimes I had the sensation I was inside a new dimension of amber color and lights, that took me to a dream of orange trees that were a beautiful frame for more art, colors and unique shapes. Only in Cetus you

can find together an incredible pagoda, made by very subtle lines by Patch Thibaud, a 3D Sculpted Buddha by Zino March, a futuristic mixed oriental tea and meditation room by DB Bailey and many different styles of other buildings. It is like a futuristic dream of blues and oranges.

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I guarantee Cetus is a MUST to visit right now. Don´t waste any time!

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Location: Cetus , Cetus (194, 155, 20) You can also visit his website at: http://www.daviddenton.com

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My special thanks to JoseFranco Fisseux, for this wonderful suggestion of TP.

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