Morphing furniture with more options than there are days in the week

"Have you seen Jennifer Hana's morphing latex living room set?" asked fashion writer and NPIRLer Iris Ophelia. "Nine prims, and it has high quality animated sit poses, of course," she added.

I had not, but Iris soon remedied that situation when she teleported me over to see this wonder that was rezzed in her own studio.


Iris demonstrated the sit poses and they were good

Furniture is not a regularly featured topic on this blog, but this... this is the sort of thing that warms the cockles of my digital heart. For that matter, I can't imagine that it would fail to interest Tracie Rozhon, House and Home reporter for the New York Times. Really, what New Yorker wouldn't appreciate having this many options - ten of them! - with just one furniture set, to squeeze out the best use of their tight square footage?



I'm looking forward to the day when Jennifer will be able to use more inviting textures for this line of sculpty chairs. Here's a quick and dirty video I threw together so that you could see all the possibilities. I like the ones at the end best.



Jennifer Hana (rez: 8/4/2006) is Japanese and has a bold, clean, luxe design vocabulary.



There are many branches of her Sculptix shops throughout the grid. The Sculptmix: Transformable L Sofa with 10 variations is available by teleporting from here. I like her store at Cocoloco - which she also developed, best (teleport directly from here).


Cocoloco... an earlier NPIRL build

The Perils of Mixed Realities events - as experienced by Hamlet Au

Last Thursday, and in the company of my friends and NPIRLers Pavig Lok and Flea Bussy, I teleported into a recreation of a penthouse in Manhattan. The event - a mixed realities party on the occasion of the Real Life and Second Life® book signing of Wagner James Au's (aka Hamlet Au) The Making of Second Life.



Hamlet was in New York city, in the company of Iris Ophelia, to speak at a Fashion Institute of Technology event. In fact, Iris gave the keynote address on the Institute's Technology Day. Go Iris! As an aside, there's a girl who's inventory I'd like to raid any old day of the week.

Since Hamlet was already in the Big Apple, the opportunity to throw a Real Life media bash in his honor was... um... low-hanging fruit, so his publisher - HarperCollins - did just that.


Falk Bergman, Hamlet Au, KallfuNahuel Matador, oh-dear-I-didn't-get-her-name- but-she-was-very-nice, and Flea Bussy

I've never attended a mixed realities event on the Real Life end, and I tend to get engrossed with the people around me - in any life - so I can well sympathize with Hamlet who was torn between attending to his guests in Manhattan, as well as the avatars who were present at the pixelated penthouse. I understand that there was a balcony that he kept heading for, during which time he would leave us avatars to our own devices, and his white-suited self would slip into "away."



Fortunately for him, Iris - who was also present in both worlds - would stand up and jiggle his mouse now and then to bring him back to life - but there was really nothing she could do short of operating his avatar - in the face of the onslaught of tricks that some of us (I'm not naming names) pulled on the poor man.


The lovely Iris Ophelia kept coming to Hamlet's rescue

Various lamp shades were placed on his head, a skirt wrapped around his waist, garbage bags rested at his feet, and cockroaches the size of Saint Bernard doggies visited him.



I stashed my photographic records of these horrors (lol) away, thinking they would never see the light of day, but then Kit Meredith blogged about it and, good sport that he is, Hamlet did, too.

It is a concern, isn't it? Those of us who inhabit virtual worlds must live two lives, and it gets even more complicated when we have to be present - and darling, witty and engaged - in two places at once.