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Creepiest IP Infringement Ever

It was recently brought to my attention that there is a serial IP infringer running rampant in IMVU. For some really, really, strange reason, this "developer" is selling t-shirts with photos of my SL avatar pasted on them.  Photos it seems were ripped right off this blog.

Looks like most of them were taken from my hair fair posts.  Which you can see HERE and HERE.

The reasoning behind this is totally lost on me.  I seriously doubt anyone in SL would even want a shirt with my face on it. I suspect she's sold a grand total of ZERO of them. Which sort of makes the whole thing all the weirder.  Stalker much?

As if that weren't weird and bad enough, she's also used another photo off this blog as her logo on a number of her products.  Check out this sexy number (and the shirt's pretty risque too):
View my original image HERE.

Here's the catalog listing for a shirt with my Typepad profile photo pasted on it (which can be seen at the top right of the main page of this blog.

While browsing "her" catalog, I found a number of other suspicious items including these eyes:

Which look an awful lot like these ones Twiddler made ages ago:

IMVU developers take note. You may want to inspect the catalog of rosaliadepp to see if anything there looks familiar to you too.  Second Life developers might want to cruise the catalog too to see if anything has been "borrowed" from inside SL rather than just from this blog.

http://www.imvu.com/catalog/index.php?manufacturers_id=5213148

Rosaliadepp, you may want to take notice that this behavior is illegal, ethically and culturally unacceptable, and just plain CREEPY.

There are at least 3 people (including myself) who will be filing DMCA takedowns with IMVU.

Now I'm off to enjoy the rest of my summer.

The Queen in IMVU

So I took advantage of the SL downtime (grrrr!) to translate this costume for IMVU.  I hadn't really planned on doing much for IMVU Halloween and then I found this great mesh by KittenKat who I've known since the good old days of There. I think it turned out pretty well, and you gotta admit the IMVU avatarts are just ADORABLE! Especially when sporting the Queen of Halloween ensemble. ;)

This set has 5 pieces: dress, skintone, spiderweb face paint, crown.  Two versions of the dress are available. One with the collar for that uber dramatic look and one without it that works better with long hair.

Pimp Your Blog!

There are so many blogs for the various virtual world's I'm involved in lately, I just can't keep up! Nevertheless, I try and read a few every day. But I know there's gotta be tons more out there that I don't know about. Sooo....

If you have a blog/website that deals with fashion/style/etc. for Second Life or IMVU and would like a link featured on this page, please leave me a comment here or email me with your URL and maybe a short description of what you cover. If the site is suitable, I'll be happy to toss a link on starley.com for you and would love it if you felt compelled to return the favor. ;)

New skintones for IMVU!

I finally sucked it up, sat down and redid the body skins for all 11 IMVU skintones. I removed the figleaves, added cleavage, some body shading, a belly ring and a french manicure.  I drew the line at genitalia, as the avatars are so cute and the IMVU population so young, the idea just gives me the heebie jeebies. I will be gradually going through my old skintones and updating them with the enhanced versions.  Please comment here or on my avatar page if there's a certain makeup you'd like done sooner rather than later.

I started out with a brand new makeup (for IMVU anyway), but it's actually based on one of my SL skins, which you can view here. Thanks to PyschicAdvisor for the suggestion!

IMVU Cyber Boy

The corresponding boy stuff is done.  No outfit for the guys though. I don't like painting guy stuff because I don't wear it when I'm done, so what's the point?  Maybe Twid will take pity on you males. ;)

IMVU Cyber Punk

A bunch of new stuff for you IMVUers. If you're unaware, Taunt is a collaborative project between Twiddler and myself. Twid has been slowly mastering the 3dsMax, and I gotta say he keeps impressing me! Even though I yell at him a lot, he's steadily getting better and better. (Hugs, Twid!)

This time he gave me all kinds of new goodies to paint. The mohawk above is my favorite. And as you can see, based on my SL Tribal Hawk. We found the braid too hard to do without going major high poly count, so we left it out.

He also made these kickass cyber goggles, which are my favorite! I love how the avatar turned out when we put everything together.  The set also has a complete outfit all in once piece with pants, vinyl bra, fishnet top, armwarmers and black fingernails.  Twid made a very nice mesh for it with about a C cup and rounder buns.  We secretly call her Booty Judy™.

And last but not least, my favorite thing from this set is the boots!  They're hand painted and modelled after my favorite RL Frye Boots, but snazzed up a bit more.  If someone could please make these for me in SL, I'll be your best friend forever!

Click here to shop the Taunt products.

Also be sure to check out taunt.com for all the latest Taunt info, plus great tutorials by Twid!