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Demo Videos

Sunday, August 31st, 2008
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I often receive requests from customers who want to see a product demonstrated before they purchase it. While I don’t mind demonstrating a product, I’m not always on-line and, even when I am, I’m not always available at that moment. So I have put together a series of product demo videos to illustrate those products […]

Happy Missile On Help Island

Friday, August 1st, 2008
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I have been very honored to have Blue Linden decide that he liked the Happy Missile so much that he has installed it on Help Island (the original Help Island where all first-time Second Lifers go after the tutorial island). Now when new people first start out in Second Life, they will have a chance […]

Avatar Rendering Cost

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
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Starting with version 1.20 of the Second Life viewer, there is now an option to help you track the Avatar Rendering Cost of your avatars and others. You can find it in the menu under Advanced->Rendering->Info Displays->Avatar Rendering Cost. This new feature causes numbers to float over each avatar’s head, giving a rough measurement of […]

Happy Missile Video

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
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Crap Mariner has put together another video blog, this time featuring Curio Obscura’s Happy Missile at What Is This Crap?: Edloe is not a signatory of the Nonproliferation Treaty, you know…

Super Fun Cannon Video

Monday, July 14th, 2008
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Crap Mariner put together a terrific video of the Super Fun Cannon in use at What Is This Crap?: Some men like to hear, to hear the cannonball a-roarin’

Curio Obscura Main Shop has a New Look!

Sunday, June 1st, 2008
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With Rendervisions Isle getting a new look, it was time to give the shop a new look to match. Come and see the newly redesigned Curio Obscura main shop!

Stolen Clockwork Skin

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
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It was recently brought to my attention that someone has swiped the textures for my Clockwork Automaton Lady skin. Someone who received the textures as a “free skin” through MSN chat recognized it when she saw it on a mannequin at Chakra Nova and immediately contacted me. I got a copy of the textures from […]

Clockwork Automaton Lady appears in Twlight Magazine

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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Hinata Ivory created a gorgeous photo piece which features my Clockwork Automaton Lady skin about a month ago. Now, that photo appears on the first several pages of the first issue of Twilight Magazine in an interview with the photographer.

Girl Genius

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
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Today, in real life, I met Phil and Kaja Foglio who make the wonderful steam-tech sci-fi adventure comic Girl Genius. I didn’t discover Girl Genius myself until people in Second Life started telling me that my work reminded them of Girl Genius but Phil, through his illustrative work in Robert Asprin’s Myth Adventures series, was […]

Curio Obscura appears in Vain, Inc.

Friday, May 2nd, 2008
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Released today, the SL fashion and lifestyle magazine Vain, Inc., Issue 9 featured an article on fancy furniture and, on page 36, the model posing in front of a very nice bed is wearing Curio Obscura’s Clockwork Edwardian Dress and Hat! This marks Curio Obscura’s first appearance in a Second Life magazine! Yay, me! I […]