Showing posts with label Drizz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drizz. Show all posts

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Avatar Appearance

I rezzed in SecondLife on March 11, 2007.
Noob male avatar in 2007 (not Bock)
Bock, May 2007
Bock (center), September 2007 (with cousin Drizz McMillan & my Ars before he was mine)
Bock, June 2008 (Photography by Ika Cioc)
Bock, January 2009 (Photography by Ika Cioc)
Bock, 2010 (with Ars)
Bock, 2012
Bock, 2013 (with distant cousin Butch Diavolo)

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Sweet Memories (Updated)

Drizz, I and Ars (Photo by Drizz McMillan) 
All of my gestures got deactivated recently - some would say "Thank God" and Ars would have been one of them - but due to that unfortunate happening I struck gold in my Inventory today.

Looking for a gesture I got from Mr and Mrs Twine-DeSantis-McMillan (sirhc and Vampi, to those of us who love them) I typed in "bock2" in the search field of my Inventory and lo and behold, not only did the missing gesture turn up but these three pictures also. They were taken way back on July 26, 2007.

In the pictures you see me as a brunette with my cousin Drizz McMillan with the Mohawk and my sweet Ars. Unfortunately I was not given them with full rights, so I had to use my snipping tool to copy them.

That brown hair was my first SecondLife hair ever, I still remember how good I thought I looked and how happy I was for it.

At this point in time Ars was of course not "my Ars" yet, that wouldn't be until a few months later, but I was already madly infatuated with him and had started stalking him to all his Euro-sets. I never thought I would have a chance with him though, because he was always surrounded by hordes and droves of stunning looking guys.

As you most likely can see, it wasn't for his looks that I chose him (they improved over time though, as we all did), but for his warm, kind and loving personality, his jawline, his wonderful voice and his happy, mad, wild and  contagious laughter. All the bling he is wearing makes me suspect he had dressed up for some bling-bling theme at a club. He usually never wore that much jewelry.

It shames me to admit, that I - possibly - finally got Ars full attention through both my persistence and with a little guile and deceit.

My powers of observation have never been strong. One day ElenaSanoraly Milena told me that Ars was pissed because he had a new skin for a week and no one seemed to notice or comment about it. That evening at the Sarco Sound Grounds I asked in local chat - in my most innocent way, "There is something different about you lately, Ars. I cannot put my finger on it. Did you get a new skin?". Ars was elated when everyone started complimenting him on his great choice.

From then on. I was always very observant of any slight changes in my babe´s appearances, because it always made him so happy when I noticed.
I and Drizz (Photo by Drizz McMillan)
Drizz and I (Photo by Drizz McMillan) 

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Fourth Day of Second Pride

As I already told you in the previous post I unfortunately missed Butch´s set at Pride. That was going to be the centerpiece of my post about Second Pride today I had decided, well here come "plan B".

When I got to the party area yesterday there was an event running sponsored by GayZone (a German club in SecondLife), the DJ was Wuzz Minotaur.

As I used to visit Gay Zone Germany a lot when I knew Drizz I looked around to see if there were any familiar names and faces in the crowd. Would you actually believe it, there was not a single friend of mine there. Where have all my Germans gone?

I spotted a few familiar faces though, people from the present and previous boards of SecondLife, like Nanaki Raymaker and Zack Premminger, and two bloggers that I have never actually met in-world earlier, Ziggy Starsmith (with the blog Ziggy on the Edge) and Jeff Ellsworth (with the blog Jeff Ellsworth - Witnessing A Second Life).

Ziggy and his sidekick Larz
Jeff Ellsworth - working from the sidelines
The music was good but the crowd was mainly silent, except for a short dialog I had with some members of a group I quickly named "The quadruplets". They were dancing in sync of course!

The quadruplets to the left and to the right Nanaki Raymaker

There was a handsome guy named Handsome and a bitchy little bugger named AngelOf. This is our short conversation, I have deleted the surnames. 

[14:29]  Bock: ...and I must say, you ARE Handsome ;)
[14:29]  Handsome: I know Bock - hehehe
[14:29]  AngelOf: --o.0-- HeheHe *o*
[14:29]  Bock: pffft it comes easy in SL ;)
[14:30]  AngelOf: its not shown at you 
[14:30]  Bock: haha thanks
[14:30]  Handsome: not as easy - look around Bock - lol

Soon after that the quadruplets left without goodbyes, or not that I noticed. 

I am still wondering if the AngelOf guy really meant to be abusive (not all Germans are good at foreign languages) with his remark to me and how he got into the conversation in the first place. 

Pffft I am being too touchy, lets drop it! But I am so going to ask my BIL to take me out for a total makeover a.s.a.p. Who wants to be abused like this in public chat ever again! 

Well I became friends with Ziggy and thats the main thing to remember about this evening, not that snotty little two year old. 

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Sweet Memories - UPDATED

YMCA-dance 2007 (Jerrod 1st from left, Drizz 3rd, me 4th, the female DJ 5th and Andrey 6th)
Today I read an interview with Jerrod Rodenberger which was published on the Gay Archipelago Blogs yesterday. You can read the full interview here: VIP Interview Jerrod Rodenberger by Hunter.

Jerrod is an old friend from my earliest days in SecondLife. We met on the friendly and caring Boots Gay Beach which was a safe haven and school for everyone, but gay noobs in particular.

At Boots Beach we partied, but we were also thought the basics of how SecondLife works and all the do´s and dont´s; What settings to use to get a more beautiful life. Where to shop for anything you needed. How to build. How to fit clothes and hair. How to script (advanced classes which I did not take I am sorry to admit today) and yes a few also got lessons in good manners and etiquette if it was needed. In short we got a run through everything that is needed for any fashion conscious gay man or boy in-world. I should think the closest comparison to what Boots Beach did for us would be to say it was like a Swiss Finishing School for young women.

Jerrod Rodenberger
In the interview Jerrod reminds me of a wonderful and funny evening we shared once when we were following Ars around the gay clubs of SecondLife.

That was way back in the days when people still talked in local chat, so suddenly someone commented on that a few of us looked like different characters in the Village People. Then someone said we should do the YMCA-dance and handed out the dance animation. I do not remember who the female DJ was but she started playing the song for us over and over again until we finally gave a reasonably synced rendition (it was my fault of course that it took awhile, but they were all very patient with me).

I laughed so hard my stomach ached and we all had a wonderful time. It was one of those truly magical moments in SecondLife when everything sort of connects, everyone is included and love of mankind reigns supreme.

Sadly I could not find the pictures when I did a quick search of my Inventory, but I have probably just not labeled them correctly.

Thanks for reminding me, Jerrod, and thanks so much for that great picture, I will treasure it!

Monday, October 25, 2010

Today Was Ars Rezday

October 25th, 2006, was the first day the avatar named Ars Northmead rezzed into SecondLife. Today would have been his fourth rezday.

As many of you already know Doug, the man behind the avatar, passed away on March 12th, 2010, after a battle with double pneumonia, so Ars will never again rez into SecondLife.

Ars was the most loving, caring and tender man I have ever known in any world. He was also among the most intelligent, warmhearted, creative, fiercely loyal, humorous, pig headed and stubborn men in both worlds. Hell I could throw all the positive adjectives in the dictionary at you, and some of the negative also - of course.  

But I am not impartial concerning Ars and never will be.

When I first came to SecondLife, I very soon received a few advances for partnering, setting up house together and what have you. People told me they loved me after an hour´s conversation, or four days acquaintanceship or - in the slow cases - three weeks.

I thought to myself, "What is wrong with these people? What the f**k are they talking about? I am never ever going there, they are crazy!" All that skepticism ended when I got to know Ars.

I remember the first time I noticed him, long before - well, a few months before - I ever dared speak to him personally. It was at the Devil Inside Club. The DI was at the time "the only" club to be for most of the gay men in SecondLife. I was shown to this club in the summer of 1997 by a friend named Drizz McMillan, who has since left SecondLife. 

Ars was wearing the cutest hat, which was what first caught my eye. After awhile I understood he was the DJ and I heard his voice and laughter - and I was charmed senseless.  

This was when my "Stalking Ars-period" started. I joined the "sarco sound group" and actually went to any and every set the DJ´s in that group ever played that were possible in my time zone. That finally ended when Ars and I started talking with each other. Then I was caught - forever. 

I have been rummaging through my overladen inventory for pictures of Ars. I found several hundred, here I would like to share a few with you all.