April 26th Par-tay!

As usual - a huge success. I saw a lot of new people. I think Phelan said we had about 30 people dancing on the beach at any given time. I think that is fanstastic, especially since we couldn't send out any group messages or IMs. **pouts**

I have to say I am a little perturbed about the name of the beach though. What was wrong with my name? I did some serious research, and put a lot of thought into it. Brat Beach! Granted it should be named after me, of course, but that fits the profile of most of us there. **pouts some more** Seriously I did come up with some great names, which for some reason known only to the powers that be - ahem, Flynn -cough, cough Phelan, cough - were not deemed worthy. Well that is just fine, I will keep them to myslef and when I am fabulously wealthy and buy my own island, I will use one of them, and everyone will love it, and love me for it! Little too much? probably

Anyway, back to the party! Because there were so many new people I have to actually use notes to keep track of who was there. Luckily we are all a very distinctive bunch, and hopefully I get the right name to the right person.

The always stylish Kiana Foxley

Kimmy Leroux, Frost Silverstar and ? (sorry)

The beautiful Lira Laval

Quintus Menges, you can't beat the Running Man

Ramus Overlord, I have got to have one of those puppies!

OMG the moves! That's my bro, Requiem Theriac

Sweet Sierra Sugar - and somehow I didn't get Thor is this shot, Damn! They were so cute, matching outfits and all!

My oh-so-cute baby sis, Tabby -- be nice to her guys, or you will have to answer to me!

TopDawg and Jade Marie - gotta love synchronized couples dancing. That is an Olympic Event, isn't it?

Hedonism Surfer Teammate, Vincent Oliver

I somehow managed not to get a specific shot of Alex (okay I don't have any where he isn't asleep). Thor (what was I thinking? - and I missed the whole naming announcement prize convocation, even though I was on stage), Flynn (I see him all the time, wasnt even thinking about pictures of him), or myself (the big what was I thinking - I looked amazing! New outfit and everything!)

C'ya at the beach!

My Friends List is back

thank gawd! I was feeling so sad, no friends. **sniff**

Kahuna Beach

nuff said

Surf Boards

BTW, the new Surf Boards are available and on the beach. Go check them out, and then buy one, or two. Heck buy them all! You never know what you will be in the mood for.

Stupid SL Update

Won't let us send out group notices, group IMs are irratic, and my friends list has vanished.

Tomorrow (that's Thursday night) we have out weekly beach party. Featured is the big reveal of Hedon Beach's new and official name! I know something you don't know. Hee hee.

Anyway the party starts at 5pm SLT, but you are welcome anytime!

My Board

Just wanted to show my new board. This is the Heather Goodliffe Epic Board with SamyJo design. SamyJo did a gorgeous job with the multistipe wood and Hibiscus inlay. It is just beautiful. This board along with the other 8 designs should be available very soon at Hedonism Beach. We will let you know as soon as they are. Until then you can see them in world in the Vendor area of the beach or posted below.

Reaction Bikinis

It is high time to review some swimear and I really want to show off these bikinis I picked up from Reaction. Who doesn't like a beautiful bikini? Girls want to buy them, guys want to... wonder what is under them. I originally went to check out Reaction because a friend had on a really cool ankle thingy (do you call it an anklet if it is on a guy?). Anklets seem to be in such short supply in SL, when I saw his I headed straight over. Took me forever to find the darn thing, but there it was on the checkout counter. Really, how was I supposed to know to look there? Counters are just decoration in SL, I have never actually seen anyone behind one. I looked at every durn poster in the place trying to find a piece of jewelry.



This is the Coco Bikini Set and comes with the board shorts. How cool is that? I love how the suits are cut. The top is just perfect and shows off the boobs in the best possible way, and not in an over obvious way. The bottom is skimpy without feeling naked. Hell I just feel sexy in it!



The next two are Green Bikini set and Orange Bikini set. I know tres original. However, it makes things much easier to find when you have an inventory and bikini folder the size of mine. I am torn as to which one I like more. Green is always a great color for redheads, but I do so love orange. I guess I will just have to eeny-meeny them. All bikini sets are L$140 and the board shorts are included. A true bargain.

Oh and the ankle doo-hicky? Man sized. As you can see in the photo it looks like a loose shackle on me. Something else I am going to have to create. I need to see if it is transferable, maybe Flynn will like it. For the record it was L$70. I did however pick up a cute necklace, and you know me, I am all over a cute beachy necklace. It is also pictured above and was a well earned L$95.

Reaction is at AlterNation 95, 173, 38

2nd SL Surf Competition Results and After Party

What an amazing event!! We all showed up, with minimal prim and left our scripts behind. Can I say, there were a lot of bald heads and duck walking that day. But it worked. The lag was definitely less this time.

Only in SL would I ever dream of being able to compete in a Surfing Competition, and not making a complete fool of myself. As it was I think I did pretty well for my first competition and limited experience on these waves. I achieved my goal of at least scoring some points. Here are the results as posted if Namiko's website (www.namikosurf.com):

Finalists
1. Frankie Miles (Surf Chix Team Rider)
2. Requiem Theriac (Hedonistic Surf Team)
3. Seano Osumi (Namiko Team Rider)
4. AlexSurfer Hirons (BillabongTeam Pro)
Semi Finalists
5. Malcolm Sydney (Namiko Team Rider)
6. Thor Bishop (Namiko Team Rider)
7. Eield Decosta
8. Flynn Sheridan (Hedonistic Surf Team)
9. Valent1ne Apogee (Namiko Team Rider)
10. Creed Lisle
Quarter Finalists
11. Pablitin Couffer and Vincent Olivier (Hedonistic Surf Team)
12. JD Snook (Namiko Team Rider) and Aries Ashton (Namiko Team Rider)
13. Kimmy Leroux and Tabby Babii (Hedonistic Surf Team)
14. Polysilox Apogee (Surf Chix Team Rider)
15. Gypsie Summers
16. Cierra Theriac (Hedonistic Surf Team)
17. Gerran Voss (Namiko Team Rider), Warren Barthelmess, kiddd Ikarus (Namiko Team Rider)
http://blog.namikosurf.com/

I didn't finish last. Hurrah! I am not going to even check to see if Gerran, Warren and Kidd were able to compete. I am going to just be happy with not finishing last. If I remember right, I got 12 points. Not too bad, especially considering that we didn't even know that our heat had started until a minute and a half into it. I received a souvenir surfboard, the one I used in the competition, and a L$50 gift certificate from Namiko. Not sure what I will do with that since I already own every suit Keala has ever made. **Cierra double checks her inventory** I need to ask her to make some cute little board shorts.

Great job by all of the Hedon Team! Flynn made it to the Semi-Finals. Vince, Tabby and I were able to compete well. We just gave up the perfect ride to someone else in out heat. Aren't we givers?

Super congrats to my SL Bro and teammate Requiem Theriac for his second place finish! Congrats to everyone for their jobs well done, especially those of you who have been so friendly and welcoming to me. You know who you are ;)

Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures, of the competition. But when you check out Namiko's site, you can also see photos taken by Ramus Overlord, their team photographer.

Here are my pictures taken during the competition and at the after party held at Hedon Beach (send your name suggestions on a notecard in-world to Flynn Sheridan before April 22).

From the competition:


And the after party. Only question - Who invited the sheep?


And then then everyones clothes magically disappeared -damn that SL- while we were surfing! I see a new marketing campaign: Hedonism Beach-Home of SL's only clothing optional Ssurf spot. And after we heroically we danced on:

Honestly, Flynn and I were not the only ones naked - the other pictures were, well, not suitable for publication.

Tabby's New Board

As stated in an earlier post -and since you are a faithful reader, you remember- the new SamyJo design boards are complete. Some of us have been privileged enough - okay, we whined and begged loud enough - to get advance boards. Here is Tabby and her new prized Turtle Woodie Board:

Thursday Night Party

As always we had a blast. Phelan was there to DJ and inspite of his begging and pleading we all kept our clothes on.
Bailey
Our fearless leader, Flynn
Tabby, Hedonstic Surfer Babe extroidonaire
Alex and Gypsie debating the merits of surfing after a large party
See you next week!

Reducing Lag According to Malcolm

I decided to split my last post in two... This is wonderful information and advice about how to reduce lag while surfing. I am sure it will help in any lag-ful situtation. I received it in a notecard from Keala Mimistrobell this morning in preparation for tomorrow's surf competition. It was posted to their website and written by Malcolm Sydney:

Reducing Lag for surfing
April 11th, 2007

The following are some suggestions to help you reduce lag with surfing during surf competitons:

1. Detach all items that use scripts (AO’s, jewelry with bling, wings, etc.). Spectators can do this too to help.
2. Turn off streaming audio and video if on.
3. Change your group title to none.
4. Change your preferences (you may not need to do all of these, just the ones you can live with):
1. General tab
1. Change ‘Show Names’ to ‘Never’ (you can turn this back on when you finish surfing)
2. Select ‘Hide My Name On My Screen’
3. Select ‘Hide My Group Title’
2. Network tab
1. Set your Disk Cache Size (MB) to less than 500 MB.
2. Click ‘Clear Cache’ and relog.
3. Graphics Detail tab
1. Deselect ‘Enable Bumpmapping and Shiny’
2. Deselect ‘Enable Ripple Water’
3. Select ‘Normal’ for ‘Avatar Rendering’
4. Select ‘Sun and moon only’
5. Select ‘Low’ for ‘Terrain Detail’
6. Move the slide bar for ‘Object Mesh’, ‘Flexible Mesh’, ‘Tree Mesh’, and ‘Avatar Mesh’ to the far left.
4. Adv. Graphics tab
1. Deselect ‘Anisotropic Filtering (slower when enabled)’
5. Audio & Video tab (I don’t recommend doing this)
1. Move all the slide bars to the far left. Remember to move these back after you surf.

– compiled for your surfing pleasure, by Malcolm, the King of Lag.

Just to be really clear, I didn't write this. Give credit where it is due, it was written by Malcom and can also be found here: http://blog.namikosurf.com/2007/04/
Go down to Reducing Lag for surfing

I hope this is helpful to you... Cie

Surf Contest - April 14

I am so excited about Saturday's Surf Competition. I got my heat placement this morning. First heat, thank god! I can get it over with and then enjoy the rest of the competition. And I am in great company for the first heat as well. Very happy about that!

Namiko sent out the notices for the competition, and has provided the shirts for the competitors. Mine is orange. I was a little nervous when I saw orange, but it is actually a rust/brown, so it is not too bad. I did have to go buy a new bikini however. I did not have anything that would go with it. Found something cute at ETD, that I think will match perfectly. **Sigh** The trials of being a girl. Now, however will I wear my hair?

Other information for the competition from Keala (I have selected information from a notecard sent to the competitors):

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INFO FOR COMPETITORS: Namiko EPIC Surf Contest at Weather Channel Island
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Landmark for Moana'Ina Beach:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Weather/2/157/26
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Rules and Scoring (these are different from the last contest at Chi)
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Women and men will compete all together — no division based on gender.
COMPETITORS WILL WEAR COLOR-CODED RASHGUARDS to assist the judges during the competition.
ONE PERSON PER WAVE
HEATS ARE TIMED. Each heat will last for 10 (TEN) minutes.
Scoring will be based on 1) length of ride, 2) tricks, 3) style, 4) technical execution (like hitting the wave at the right spot, right timing).
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Surfboard/Equipment/Attachments
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-Detach all HUDs, flight enhancers, and AOs ('detach', not just 'turn off'). No other attachments, other than prim hair and minimal jewelry, if any. No bling, please.
-No additional animations to be used at this contest.
-We will supply boards at the comp for you to use on the day.
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Feedback & Questions
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For more information or questions contact:
Keala Mimistrobell (IM in-world or keala.mimistrobell@gmail.com)


And finally - the After Party will be held at Hedon Beach. I hope to see you all there!

New Board Designs

Hedonistic Isles has combined the talents of SamyJo Ah and Heather Goodliffe to put out a new line of surfboards available exclusively on the beach on Hedonism XII. I don't know about you, but I am all a-quiver. These are sah-weet! The Flameboards are smokin', the Girlie boards are hot, the Rage board is... well, I don't know what the Rage board is, but I am sure someone will tell me. And the wood boards, ahhh the wood boards, are simply beautiful. All the boards should be available very soon.

These are the new Epic boards of Heather's and work on all the new upgraded waves and have the newer scripts.

The worst part is... which one do I pick? Blue is a great color for me, and the Hibiscus Wood is very nice. But then, I am partial to turtles... Ah screw it, give me one of each. ;)

Thursday, Thursday, Thursday!!

Hey guys and girls!
It is that time of the week again.
Party at the beach!!!

Hedonism Beach is hosting a Surf and Beach Party every Thursday during the month of April. We are showing off the best new surf spot, with the most awesome pipeline in SL!

Come out and surf, explore, listen to tunes, hang out with old friends and make some new ones. Surf, sun, sand, beautiful babes, and hot dudes. What more could we ask?

And don't forgot the name the beach contest is going on. "Hedon Beach", needs a name! We are having a contest to name the home of SL's best surf beach. The winning name chosen will receive a generous prize package. Entries are due April 22nd and the winner will be named at April 26th at the Beach Naming Party

Name the Beach

Hedonsim Beach is having a name the Beach contest.
I guess Hedonism Beach just isn't very exciting name.

Hedonistic Isles is having a contest to name
"Hedon Beach", home of SL's best surf beach.
The winning name chosen will receive a generous
prize package.

Contest submissions end April 22th, the Winner
will be announced on April 26th at the
Beach Naming Party!

Attached notecard:

Hedonistic Isles is having a contest to
name "Hedon Beach", home of SL's best
surf beach. The winning name chosen
will receive a generous prize package.
The rules of the naming contest are simple,
1). Name will have a polynesian
theme/background/meaning;
2). Name will have a hedonistic
theme/background/meaning;
3). Name will have an association to surfing.
That's it! Entries should be
be explained in a short paragraph,
or in bullets, how it applies to the 3 rules.

All entries should be placed on a notecard and
placed in Flynn Sheridan's Inventory Drop Box
found on his profile.

Contest submissions end April 22th,
the Winner will be announced on April 26th
at the Beach Naming Party!

Think exotic and original!

2nd SL Surf Competition

I am so stoked!! I got this yesterday from Keala Mimistrobell:

Namiko Surf Co. is hosting the next surf competition at the brand new
Weather Channel island on Saturday, April 14th at 1 pm SLT/PST.

Send an IM to Keala Mimistrobell or an email to
keala.mimistrobell@gmail.com if you want to compete in this first big
wave surf event!!

More details to follow on the blog and through group notices.

I have entered my first surf competition! I need to head out to the
Weather Channel Sim and start practicing... I have only surfed at
Hedonism so far, and I hear the pipe is a little different. I hope I don't
embarass myself. LOL.

Hedonism Surf and Beach Party

I got this notice today (okay, so I already knew
about it):

Hedonism Beach is going to be hosting a
Surf and Beach Party every Thursday during
the month of April.  We want to introduce
all the surfing scene to our beach, and
show off the best new surf spot, with
the most awesome pipeline in SL!

Come out  and surf, explore, listen to turnes,
hang out with old friends and make some new ones.
Hedonism's own Phelan James will be the DJ, 
sending out the Good Vibrations. 

Surf, sun, sand, beautiful babes, and hot dudes.

If it is anything like last weeks party, a good time is
guaranteed.  I am prejudiced towards Hedonism Beach,
but for good reason.  Hedonism Beach, the waves,
and the people who hang out there are awesome!
I wouldn't work and play there if it wasn't.