Organica & The Wilds – Page 13 – Organica, Wilds, and all things Aki

New alpine offerings today!

This is the latest edition of spruce trees to be offered at Organica. Measuring 17 X 15 X 25m out of the box, this detailed tree comes to only 10 LI!

Included are three foliage types (green, frosted, snowy) as well as an optional low resource scripted version which allows you to switch between the three.

This is a great tree for every day or winter landscapes! Pick up your copy today either in-store or on the Marketplace!

This new juniper will be offered at the low price of L$200 this weekend as part of the Neighbourhood weekly event!

It comes with both green and snowy foliage and comes with an optional scripted version which will change between the two. As with the spruce trees, this tree is optimized for use with the Advanced Lighting Model, so be sure to switch that option on in your viewer for the best effect!

Look for it here. I’ll update it to Marketplace after the week is over.

Wilds of Organica at The Arcade Dec 2013!

I’m pleased to announce that my new line of tiny fox avatars will be available starting Dec 1 and running through Dec 31, 2013 at The Arcade!
Each avatar comes with whiskers, customizable eyes, tail control and a full AO. They are offered transfer-only, with the option to exchange for a mod/copy/no transfer edition, which is eligible for free updates.

For full documentation on the avatars, including information on how to exchange/update as well as EULA, please check the Tiny Fox avatar page!

Winter Fair package now available as part of The Neighborhood event!

Hi Folks, It’s been a while since I updated, as I’ve been super busy working on a few client projects over the past couple of months. I took last month off for The Neighborhood, but good news! Available today (although really more like the full weekend, since this blog post is a little late and I want to give everyone a fair shake at picking this item up) is the above winter fair pack, which is a great kit for anyone seeking to add to their outdoor winter display! The pack comes with three booths (one with a counter, one with seating (up to three people) and one empty (ready for displaying your creations)), a wooden bench, ice rink and snow shovel. Everything is mod/copy, although there are some copy-only scripts in the furniture and there is a copy/trans only coffee mug for one of the poses.

This pack is now available at the main store for only $200L for this weekend only, after which the price will return to normal. Please drop by and pick it up if you can!

Free chairs from Organica this week at The Nest!

This week at The Nest, you have a chance to pick up these four hand chairs for free! Just explore The Nest sim and click on the orange sign just outside Organica’s door, here, for information!

They’re 2LI at packaged size. Each chair is mod/copy and contains ten original sits.

The hunt runs from Oct 6 to 15 2013, after which these chairs will be available at both the main store and location at The Nest, as well as on the Marketplace, as a pack of four.

Two new trees released for The Neighborhood

Organica has a couple of new releases this weekend for The Neighborhood – this weekend, because I’m going away and won’t be around until late Sunday night to switch the official non-discounted price on. So if you miss it today or Saturday, you may still have some time on Sunday.

The first item marks the return of dogwood trees to Organica stock. Their predecessors were retired at the end of the renovation sale last month, with no replacement until now.

This item includes four different foliage types each as non-scripted trees and one scripted edition which can change between them all. It’s 11LI at 14x13x13m in size and offered both mod/trans and mod/copy. In-store only until Monday, when the Neighborhood promotion concludes.

This full-bodied offering features detailed foliage in three types as non-scripted trees, as well as one scripted edition to change between them. The tree is 12LI at 18x17x17m in size and offered both mod/trans and mod/copy. In-store only until Monday, when the Neighborhood promotion concludes.

Both of these items are offered at L$200 this weekend only, after which they will be priced in-line with other multi-foliage trees that I have released recently. Both are available now in store here!

Vendor system changes, gift certificates, store credit, redelivery terminal & mesh updates

Vendor System Changes:

Part of the long wait to re-open involved switching over all vendors to a new vendor system which, even though it took a lot of work to set up, should reduce overall time I have to spend on administrative tasks and improve my ability to work on new content.

As a result, however, old gift certificates will no longer work automatically with any vendor in the store. If you still have credit in a gift card using the old system (it’s green, not blue), please IM me directly to set up credit for your avatar in the new system! Purchasing gift cards will also be different moving forward. The gift card vendor is now located in the vestibule, on the left-hand side. To use it, simply left-click and follow the directions. You will be able to purchase gift cards in denominations of L$250, 500, 1000, 2000 or you can create a card with any denomination of your choosing. To redeem credit, simply wear the gift card and click the redemption kiosk, also located in the vestibule on the left, just below the gift card vendor.

All customers will also now accrue store credit at a rate of 2% on every purchase. To use store credit, simply left-click the vendor you wish to buy from and click ‘Use Credit’ prior to purchasing.

The new vendor system also allows for redelivery via web-interface. If your purchase was made prior to September 6, you should be able to get the terminal to show the purchase and redeliver it, provided the item is mod/copy. For all other purchases (no-copy or purchased prior to Sept 6), please contact me (Aki Shichiroji) directly, with transaction record.

Mesh Updates to many ground cover items:

In addition to all the new items and festivities this week, many updates were made to ground-cover field items, such that mesh options have been made available alongside older sculpted ones. Towards those ends, all new purchases marked ‘Now with mesh!’ should contain the updated field items applied to mesh shapes. For existing purchasers of these items, please contact me directly, stating which of the following list you purchased (please specify individual colours and/or fatpacks). After verifying this data with existing records, I’ll be able to put together a custom update package for you. *Please note! This mesh update is currently only available in-store, due to excessive workload surrounding new content for the store renovation. I’ll be switching marketplace copies of these items over some time between a few days to a week after the opening. If you purchased any of the below items via Marketplace and did not receive mesh shapes along with the sculpt shapes, please contact me directly and I’ll be happy to upgrade your purchase.

Apologies – automatic deliveries of these updates are not available due to the number of items which would individually need to be sent out.

Ground Cover field-style items which were updated from sculpt to mesh:

Trillium

White Ash

Spring Wheat

Dried Wheat

Horsetail Reed

Ferns

Cattails 1

Lily of the Valley

Tulips

Lupine Flowers

Tiger Lilies

Grass 3

Organica re-opens officially tomorrow! New items, new store-wide hunt!

Re-opening day is almost here – just a few hours away!

As I mentioned in a previous post, I’m very pleased to announce that Winston Ackland will be performing at the Organica open air stage at 12PM SLT.

In addition to this, quite a number of new items have been added to the store as part of the opening, along with a store-wide hunt, which gives you the chance of procuring your very own copy of the following item! To grab this item for free, visit the Organica store and seek out a possible six clue-givers (you can see what they look like in-store) which will each give you a single word, which is a part of a sentence. Piece together the sentence and put it in the right order, then click on the Hunt kiosk to input your answer! If you’re correct, you’ll be given a copy of the Country Bed (black and white edition). This hunt will run for one week (until MIDNIGHT, Sept 21 2013), after which the black & white bed won’t be available any more.

This is a classic, country-styled king sized cuddle bed, containing various single and couples poses. The bed features all original animations, AvSitter compatability, detailed textures and Materials optimization. Beds available for purchase are available in two treatments – Gingham and Antique White wood. Four bed-spreads are available for each wood style, including white, green, blue and quilt. Beds are offered seperately or as fatpacks. Available mod/copy. *Black & White edition is a hunt-only item!*

It’s been more than a year since a new item was added to this species line and given developments in mesh and viewers in general, an update has been well overdue. This moderately large tree features large, wide maple leaves, four different foliage options, scripted and unscripted versions, and as usual, efficiently modelled mesh. The tree is 18LI at packaged size (19x16x19m) but can be easily resized to suit size and prim needs. Offered both mod/copy and mod/transfer.

I’m always after a suitably old-growth tree ‘look’ and the oaks are often my outlet for this expression. In this case, this large tree (packaged at 21x23x29m) comes in at 23LI and includes three foliage options, again available scripted & unscripted. Offered both mod/copy and mod/transfer.

Newest in the line of streetlamps produced by Organica, these lamps can be viewed throughout the exterior of the new shop. 2LI as packaged, with some flexibility for further prim reduction. Each lamp is scripted to check for region time of day and turns on at night. Five colours are offered in the set and they are mod/copy.

To promote the new shop design after a month of downtime, these items will only be available in-store for the following week, after which they will be posted to Marketplace. In the mean time, you are invited to participate in the festivities on Saturday (live music at 12PM) as well as this week (the store-wide hunt)!

Winston Ackland to perform at Organica’s re-opening party!

Winston Ackland

Alongside the store-opening, store-wide hunt and new items to be released (full details in a forthcoming post), I’m pleased to announce that Winston Ackland will be performing at 12PM SLT on Saturday, Sept 14 2013 to help celebrate the store re-opening! Join us at here at the Organica open-air stage!

[box] Premier Second Life live performer and real life music professional, Winston Ackland provides smiles with his clever original works and quirky adaptations of obscure covers. Somehow, it all makes sense as audiences relax in a comfortable atmosphere and enjoy innovative songs crafted from a blend of rock, bossa nova, jazz and lounge. Winston is able to connect with in-world audiences like no other.

Simply put, Winston Ackland is a musical party with old friends you haven’t met yet.

Winston left the SL music community in April of 2010 to pursue creating home goods inworld and he and SL/RL wife, Sesi Ackland, had great success with Little Boxes. Sesi and Winston closed the pixel doors of Little Boxes in the summer of 2012 and logged off for nearly a year.

Accomplished RL musician for over 20 years. December of 08, RL and SL merged when Winston’s cover of “Lithium” hit the big screen in 20th Century Fox Films blockbuster hit, “Marley and Me”.. and again in the summer of 2012, when Winston’s cover of “Psycho Killer” was featured in Oliver Stone’s “Savages”.

Website: http://www.myspace.com/winstonackland

http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/BruceLash

http://www.brucelash.bandcamp.com/

Winston’s groundbreaking music video, “All the Little Fishies” is a Second Life Showcase Machinima feature. It can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72C5IdTw4B0

Winston in the press:
New World Newsfeed: Leading Second Life Musician To Be Featured in Owen Wilson/Jennifer Anniston’s *Marley & Me*(via New World Notes)
Dream With “Fishies”: Real Life Mysteries Explored in a Machinima Music Video Set in the Metaverse(via New World Notes)
Appearance on Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe [/box]

General news + Re-opening date announced!

Organica officially re-opens to all on September 14 2013 and the amazing Winston Ackland will be performing from 12-1PM to help celebrate the re-opening festivities! Come by to explore all the new little nooks and crannies, have a gander at the new things I’ll be releasing and just in general chill out!

New items and activities will be announced as the re-opening nears.

As an additional reminder, be sure to drop by Organica’s location at The Nest before midnight today (Sat Sept 7 2013 – the end of The Nest’s Labour Day Sale) to take advantage of some great discounts on items in-store!

The Neighborhood – September release + other news!

So for those who’ve been asking, yes, the Organica main store is still officially closed for renovations. Organica will, however, be participating in this Saturday’s run of The Neighborhood and visitors can pick up my item upon TP in.

This month, pick up this set of seven snack items which would be perfect in any kitchen or restaurant. They are a continuation of the Late Night Munchies theme I started last month and are a great add-on to the set.

Three ice-cream flavours are included, plus pretzels, frites, curry fish balls and takoyaki – all great snack foods for yourself or shared between friends! Each item in this set is 1 LI, with the exception of the pretzel plate, however you should be able to de-link the pretzels at 1LI each if you so choose.

The whole set is mod/copy and offered at an introductory price of L$200 this Saturday, only at the Organica main store!

Additionally, be sure to drop by Organica’s location at The Nest Sept 1 thru 7th for some deep discounts as part of the sim-wide Labour Day Sale!