Spot Changer

 Tess IMed only this morning on the important subject of Mikil Tiki. It appears that, although she has not yet had the pleasure of meeting that multi-formed avi, she has developed a degree of admiration for her polyglot, multi-hued ways. Tessa is essentially white bread with occasional forays into nougat and she is quite overwhelmed by those who have the ability to turn purple or brindle at will. And apart from her native Sicilian, and the Latin which she took at college, only Englysshe trips from her tongue. Well, actually, a little French

" - Frenssh she spake full fayre and fetisly,

After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe,

For Frenssh of Paris was to hir unknowe."

 So immediately when Mikil expressed some interest in learning about this look, Tess was straight on the IM with suggestions of one's removing oneself from one's donkey or somesuch.

So, Mikil, here it all is.

The hair's really lovely. it's Tukinowaguma Blackheat cloth. It comes in red and black colors, each with a choice of camouflage, leopard, reptile or zebra ribbon. The spoilsports have taken big game hunting away from us so we'll just have to be satisfied with Tukinowaguma.

Once again from the land of VirtualNippon and all that implies in terms of design and price. Tessa speculates that there are several totally separate economies in SL because that is the only thing which would explain the pricing discrepancies between Jap sims and the rest of SL.To be brief, Jap means cheaper. But certainly not poorer quality. None of the above can explain why the Japanese quality and design is so much better. We're prepared to wade through any amount of anime cute and Hello Kitty! crap to get to the many design jewels to be found in cyber Nippon.

Plus and minus scores on the glasses which are Rodeo Drive from Second Eyes Optical.

On the plus side they look great and make Tess feel like she's super cool and executive. On the minus side, the textures are decidedly spotty. They appear to be hand drawn and suffer from aliassed jagged edges which necessitated quite a bit of time with the blur brush on 3 pixels to get the effect shown in the piccy. Also we don't like the HUD which comes with the glasses and requires a PhD to operate. Complicated should at least have usable results Look at the Solar HUDs which are as complicated as an American tax form but have terrific results.

The Jacket is a real gem.It''s the Winter Jacket black from FDD Creations. FDD appears to specialise in just about everything but clothes. They have prefabs, skyboxes, log cabins ....... and tucked in a corner just a few clothes of which this is one. Wonderfully textured and sculpted with scripted resizing. Don't miss it.