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Thank you all for a wonderful year,

Daphne

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I wonder though, the last men's episode we did, #3, gave me lots of troubles too... Maybe it's the topic.  Men are just difficult sometimes.

Hope you will be hearing from us soon,

Daphne

P.S. I should be releasing the latest Second Style StyleCast tonight to help with your Daphne and Tamara addiction.

Paisley commented on what I was wearing so I blogged about it over at Daphne's Random Thoughts.

Until later,

Daphne

[20:08]  Tamara Kirshner: Boo.

[20:08]  Stephen Bentham: o0

[20:09]  Stephen Bentham jumps out of his chair

[20:09]  Tamara Kirshner: Daphne and I may need some pictures of you for our Going Broke website.

[20:09]  Tamara Kirshner: no particular reason

[20:09]  Stephen Bentham: oh noes

[20:09]  Stephen Bentham: no particular reasonnnn

[20:09]  Stephen Bentham looks suspicious

[20:09]  Tamara Kirshner: sort of a "what not to wear" column we're toying with

[20:09]  Stephen Bentham: are you implyinggg somethingggg?

[20:09]  Tamara Kirshner: are you inferring something?????

[20:10]  Stephen Bentham: that I wear things that shouldn't be worn? Like Lederhosen and leopard pants and hedgehog suits and...

[20:10]  Stephen Bentham: I make a good Swirly double

[20:10]  Tamara Kirshner: oh, so you've improved!  that's the fabulous

[20:10]  Stephen Bentham: I know, right?

[20:11]  Tamara Kirshner: so, um pictures

[20:11]  Stephen Bentham: like what kind of pictures

[20:11]  Tamara Kirshner: full perms to Daph so we can publicly ridicule you

[20:11]  Stephen Bentham formulates a nudity policy

[20:11]  Stephen Bentham: oh I see

[20:11]  Tamara Kirshner: yes, we all want to see the bentham mangina

[20:11]  Stephen Bentham: you want me to take pictures wearing things that shouldn't be worn

[20:11]  Stephen Bentham: and give them to you

[20:11]  Tamara Kirshner: and we sell them on ebay

[20:12]  Stephen Bentham: hmm

[20:12]  Stephen Bentham: do I get a percentage of royalties?

[20:12]  Tamara Kirshner: you're assuming someone buys

[20:12]  Tamara Kirshner: poor delusional soul

[20:14]  Stephen Bentham: Well, I guess we could discuss that when it happened

[20:14]  Tamara Kirshner: look, we can find some other schmuck

[20:14]  Stephen Bentham strokes his chin

[20:14]  Stephen Bentham: I'll be your schmuck

[20:14]  Tamara Kirshner: aw, thankies!

[20:14]  Stephen Bentham laughs and laughs

[20:14]  Tamara Kirshner: you do know schmuck is yiddish for penis, right?

[20:14]  Stephen Bentham: yes

[20:14]  Stephen Bentham: um

[20:14]  Stephen Bentham: yes

[20:14]  Stephen Bentham: not in that way

[20:15]  Stephen Bentham: in the more casual useage, like a useful idiot

[20:15]  Tamara Kirshner: okies

[20:15]  Tamara Kirshner: well, pictures and $5000L not to publish this conversation.  howzat?

[20:16]  Stephen Bentham: Publish whatever you'd like, I will not bribe!

[20:16]  Stephen Bentham: hahhaha

[20:16]  Stephen Bentham: but I will get you some pics tomorrowww

[20:16]  Tamara Kirshner: okay, well pics in your favorite outfits by Wednesday?

[20:16]  Stephen Bentham: ok, deal

[20:16]  Tamara Kirshner: thanks!

[20:16]  Stephen Bentham: actual favorites...

[20:17]  Stephen Bentham: or things not to wear

[20:17]  Tamara Kirshner: whatever you like

[20:17]  Stephen Bentham: hmm

[20:17]  Stephen Bentham: that's confusing

[20:17]  Tamara Kirshner: try to look decent, for once

[20:17]  Stephen Bentham doesn't know whether go dress dapper or assclownish

[20:17]  Tamara Kirshner: how about dapper assclown?

[20:17]  Stephen Bentham: well, decent can mean different things

[20:17]  Stephen Bentham: dapper assclown, gotcha

[20:17]  Tamara Kirshner: fabutastic

[20:17]  Stephen Bentham: freaking sweet

[20:17]  Tamara Kirshner: just remember, /bling off

[20:18]  Stephen Bentham: [20:15]  Caliah Lyon disassociates herself from said idiot

[20:18]  Stephen Bentham: I'll try x.x

[20:18]  Stephen Bentham: sooo tempting

[20:18]  Tamara Kirshner: ooh!  we've never ruined a partnership before!

[20:18]  Stephen Bentham: lmfao

[20:19]  Stephen Bentham salutes and searchs for dapper yet asshattish outfits

[20:19]  Stephen Bentham: *searches, even

[20:20]  Tamara Kirshner: no, no, no

[20:20]  Tamara Kirshner: assclown, not asshat

[20:20]  Stephen Bentham: oh

[20:20]  Stephen Bentham: right

[20:20]  Stephen Bentham: k

Listen and hear if we mentioned your favorites.  Let us know if there were others we should have looked at.

http://stylecast.secondstyle.com

Remember, Stylecast will only be on the Going Broke feed for it's first month, after that, it will be available exclusively at the Stylecast site and on iTunes.

~D~

Remember, Stylecast will only be on the Going Broke feed for it's first month, after that, it will be available exclusively at the Stylecast site and on iTunes.

~D~

Remember, Stylecast will only be on the Going Broke feed for it's first month, after that, it will be available exclusively at the Stylecast site and on iTunes.

~D~

Remember, Stylecast will only be on the Going Broke feed for it's first month, after that, it will be available exclusively at the Stylecast site and on iTunes.

~T~

After visiting with Shai, Daphne and I headed over to Creamshop on Koenji for some much needed retail therapy.  From there, we headed over to Silver Rose Designs in Shengri La where Daph picked up an "Alice in Wonderland" inspired dress and I drooled over dresses that looked like cakes.  Finally, we headed over to Violet Voltaire on Vodou to accessorize our finds.

Before leaving you, we announce our fourth Avatar of Style, Mr. Menno Ophelia.  Unless Mr. O sends us a snap or two, or twelve for our personal collections, you'll just have to imagine the hawtness!

For more details on the shops we visited, including pictures and SLurls, see the entries below.  As always, music on our show is from the Podsafe Music Network at music.podshow.com.  Please subscribe to our show on iTunes and join our group for folders of landmarks to the stores we visit (and the occasional giftie!).

As a little teaser, go to stylecast.seconstyle.com and check out what's brewing up over there!

In this episode, Daphne and I don't tell you where to buy skin, shapes and hair, but how to buy them.  These are things that can be confusing, and often result in unused, expensive items that taunt you from your inventory.

While we can't guarantee perfect results, if you follow the steps we've laid out, you are about a bazillion times more likely to be happy with your skin, shape and hair, and yes, look great naked (except for the guys b/c we don't discuss where to buy bits -- hey, that's another show!).

Daphne and I were also lucky enough to attend SLCC in Chicago last month and we talk about some of the amazing people that we met and now miss.

By the way, we've got another project brewing!  Keep your eyes and ears open for more details in the near future.

Where from in RL: Texas currently live in California

RL line of work: SL is my RL baby!

Time in SL: um, Been on since late 2003, if that's what you are asking, also I am almost constantly on but not always on as Etainnnn....

 What do you design/make?  Boots, outfits to go with said boots, fetish gear of all sorts, occasionally furniture but not often. We have plans to expand into bold new areas soon so look for that ...

 if pressed... silks, gorean equipment, weapons and  items geared to support dark rp areas of SL

How long have you done this?  Seriously for about a year, unseriously for about another year. I hope to do it for quite some time to come.

There are people who tell you they started because they were making things for themselves and then people asked to buy them so they selflessly opened a store to give out the things the public was demanding out of of a noble sense of altruism.

I'm not one of those people. I started the store because Linden Labs cut my stipend, so i had the find a way to get more lindens. I wasn't willing to buy too many lindens so I had to start up a store. My first products were whatever was laying around in my inventory that I thought I could reasonably pawn off on some poor sucker. And the rest is history.

How has your product evolved?
Its been a trial and error process. I originally started doing furniture but I quickly figured out it just doesn't sell well. Or else my furniture was just really bad. or a combination of the two. On a whim I tried to do some boots. I had always been curiou sabout how the invisible prims worked so it was more to satisfy my curiosity. They sold better than the rest of my stuff put together so again I quickly figured out this was the way to go. I continue to experiment and try to go in new directions with each product release. Hopefully I have achieved that. I never want to get stale.

Where do you see your SL work going?
See above.

This is something I have struggled with for a long time. What is the endgame for SL businesses? I'm hesitant to keep all my eggs in one basket in just SL. I am interested in expanding to other worlds like SL, the only problem being nothing is out yet that competes with it. However if there was I would be there in a heartbeat. I'm interested in getting into more and more scripting and offering more functionality with my products, and expanding into new markets and demographics.

What skills have you mastered during your time in SL?
IM bar juggling, that's a handy skill. I think I'm pretty good at manipulating prims.

Where can people go to see and buy your work?

 Go to Indigo!

Can you give us a price range?
I try to keep it within the range of newbies. 200 to 300 for a full set and I usually offer pieces for sale separately for 25L to 150L or so depending on the piece.

I also admire the girls at Curious and Deviant Kitties, Gritty Kitty, Sinistyle. I love the sort of grunge kitty look that a few designers are mastering.. I wish I could do it myself but its just not quite my style. A couple of hot japanese designers I always keep an eye on is Kru and Tohru.  both their work is great but a little pricey for me. Old school when I was starting out I had a huge huge huge thing for Nomine and I still check her place at least once a week. Her old stuff still maintains its quality even against brand new releases and shes very affordable so new people coming in try out Nomine, its fantabulous.

Do you consider anyone to be a major influence?
Well outside of SL probably the single greatest influence would be Michael Manning, an american fetish artist and author. You can check out his astounding work at www.thespidergarden.net.  Anime is also a huge influence on me though I'm not sure its as obvious in my designs.

Who would you like us to feature?
I'd love to see more on the grungey kitty types, their work is so amazing and detailed and vibrant. Its also a look I think is fairly unique to SL, or maybe I'm just too sheltered fashionwise. Gritty Kitty, Sinistyle, anyone from the Block or Koreshan Point. Wow. they blow me away every time I go through there. Bastards.

On Tamara:  hair -- Winsome I by Naughty; skin -- Tete a Pied Redhead Mai; Boots -- Slouchy boots in red by Rosemary Galbraith; outfit -- Roslin outfit by Dakota Buck

Note:  Ms. Galbraith gave Tamara a pair of the Slouchy boots in mustard.  They retail for $300L a pair or $1500L for all colors in her store.

 On Daphne:  Glasses: Nico Creations - Jaded; Hair: Calico Creations - Amy; Jacket: Silent Sparrow - Dreary Jacket; Necklace: Goth1Co - Victorian Choker

 Pictured:  Juin outfit and Juin skins by Roslin Petion and CJ Carnot

What do you design/make? I am rather eccentric...I do it all, or rather try to. To varying degrees of success or suckage. I started out making cyberpunk armour and accessories just for fun, then turned to Neko skins, clothing, boots, and now I have like 5 or 6 brand names and more varying styles and work than I know what to do with. My latest venture is back to my personal roots in gothic wear clothing and skins. I own Boneflower Designs, Broken, Jungle Voodoo, Cyberpunk Apocalypse, The Heart of a Doll, and a few others. :3

How long have you done this? I have been doing this sort of work professionally for about 6 years, though I only started a business in Second Life after quiting my previous job working on a MMORPG about two years ago.

Why did you start? I have always been an artist, like my mother, and my grandfather. Growing up it was one of my main forms of expression, along with my writing. I am deaf, so my art was a major form of getting the inner me out to the world in pictures instead of with words. I worked corporate design and marketing for years before I took a chance and tried for a job with a game company. It was great to marry my love of art with my love of video games. later after finding SL it was a dream come true. I could work from home, be my own boss, and still what I love best in an environment less removed from my customers than traditional game design.

How has your product evolved? I am always growing and evolving I hope. In many ways, SL has challenged my skills more than any work I have done before. I have freedom here to do what I feel inspired to do, and that has let me explore myself in a way the corporate world didn't. I continue to learn new tricks and methods every day, and I hope that process never stops for me. SL has also challenged me to grow in areas not my strong place, such as scripting for my prod