LINK DRESS 2 PEARL, GOLD, SILVER by Yeti Voom

As we build the new BOINGO store for July 1 we’re adding some colors to existing pieces based on all your requests...

Have fun!
-Jeela



Here is a new Link Dress 2 in almost white PEARL (Pure white causes lots of color problems in SL) so you can go behave like a Devil, while looking like an Angel.


We got a lot of requests for this but we hand paint everything and I wanted to make sure it was just right. Submitted for your approval, and available in the main store..
The Boingo Link Dress 2- GOLD & SILVER.

(Oh btw… the stain on the hip is NOT a stain! This fabric is metallic and it’s a reflection! All painted to make it look real, just like a metallic dress in RL would.)

I have a minor obsession with shopping and visit art galleries in larger cities. (Someone I know very well said it was the understatement of the year…) But I love to take a stroll down the streets and have a look at shop windows to see how they have decorated to get the clothes to look their best. I also love to sit in front of a painting or a sculpture and just think about how the artist was thinking when He/She created it.

I have been thinking a lot about fashion in general lately. I was reading a blog the other day and this blogger had a strong opinion about fashion not being art. She said fashion is fashion and art is art. She also said there is a huge difference and that anyone that really have seen any kind of art and compared those or even had a thought it’s on the same page is an imbecile. Why she was thinking like this didn’t really come up to the surface.

I had to think… Is fashion art? Can art be made into fashion? Does it have anything at all to do with each other? Can one be influenced by the other? Music and fashion definitely are… So if music and fashion goes hand in hand then why can’t fashion and art? How did this subject get into her head in the first place? For me it was obvious! Of course fashion is art! When I look at a dress, RL or SL, and know how much work that’s behind it and all the sketches it took to get it right or how it, just like a painting, comes to life in the mind, heart and dreams of the designer I cant but help thinking… FASHION IS ART!!! And that is my opinion.

So let’s say for a second that fashion is art… another question. Can you compare RL fashion to SL fashion? I mean… in SL you can wear clothes and things not possible in RL. Like our wonderful Link dress 2 for example. I know for sure my tits wouldn’t stay behind this fabric! If it could be made in RL (or is it already?) would it stand a chance at the New York fashion Week? I have no idea. In august I’m attending the Stockholm Fashion Week. Then I will try to see if there is anything like the Link cocktail dress and if there is… I WILL BUY IT!!

Here is your chance to pick up one real piece of artwork…
Link Dress in PEARL, GOLD or SILVER for $575 L each
(The collection is intricately cut and constructed as usual.)You will kick ass at any opening of an exhibition or cocktail party in this dress.

Boingo is about being different.

Take a walk on the wild side Multiversers!

//Yeti – the imbecile

POLAR LATIN DRESS by Yeti Voom

I can’t remember how many times Jeela said “It didn’t look like this in Photoshop…”

I think it's time that you see an example of what she means.

Everytime you change a picture and save it as a .jpeg some pixels are taken away or how I shall explain it. So imagine this… Jeela made the left side with no distortion. I got it, had to make some changes before I saved it at least 2 times to get it like this. In between we lost some pixels’ in the process. Now… if you don’t have a graphic card like Jeela does in her Mac… well I sure don’t… then think how she sees this everytime she downloads some clothing into Second Life.























Jeela told me she tried to make the stones in this dress look like plastic. I think it looks like the Lapis Lazuli. Imagine some golden strokes and this dress is worth a fortune!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapis_Lazuli















Lapis lazuli is used to reduce fever and to treat blood diseases. It reinforces the vision, if worn regularly. Lapis lazuli is an uplifting spiritual rock and a good meditation stone. It helps against depression. It strengthens the ties of love and loyalty between couples. It opens up your spirituality. Lapis lazuli is a protection stone and gives you courage. Lapis lazuli can be used on the throat chakra and third eye.






















Who wouldn’t love to have a stone like this on your dress when you go out dancing? And start counting the ones on this dress… 1,2,3,4,5,6… You will be happy, have the sight of a hawk, no fever, your hubby will adore you and stay loyal though out the night, it will protect you and give you courage!! And above all… with this numerous of stones around the throat you will keep talking your inner truth all week long!!!

YOU will be the queen of any dance floor!!









Couldn’t help but taking a picture in our AYA Goth skin! When I was out dancing like this I felt like the witch in the Narnia Chronicles.



//Yeti – the snow queen of Lapis Lazuli!

NEW LINK DRESS 2 by Yeti Voom

Jeela did it again!

The link dress 2 is finally 4…
Black and red and here are the 2 new ones in blue and green.

I was out exploring the new SIM where Jeela and I are going to build the new headquarters. Standing there a girl came up to me…

Here’s the following conversation…

Chat Range Notifier 0.32: Kaden A has entered chat range
Yeti Voom: Hello
Kaden A: hi
Yeti Voom: how are u?
Kaden A: good urself
Yeti Voom: im great
Yeti Voom: how did u end up here on this new empty plot?
Kaden A: well i used to have a landmark for a skybox that isnt there and i fell here
Kaden A: u?
Yeti Voom: we are gonna build a store here
Kaden A: i see.
Kaden A: i see.
Kaden A accepted your inventory offer.
Yeti Voom: that is the LM to Boingo our store
Kaden A: very neat.
Yeti Voom: i hope to see u here when its all set
Kaden A: we will see.
Yeti Voom: yes we will
Yeti Voom: have a great day!
Kaden A: so u walk around all sl in that or do you have normal clothes too?
Yeti Voom: hahaha
Yeti Voom: of cos i do and this is normal right?
Kaden A: ok well bye.
Yeti Voom: bye bye
Chat Range Notifier 0.32: Kaden A has left chat range

I thought the girl was joking! Apparently not….

BoingO is about the unusual things in life. We will always try to design something odd, something useful in a new way. Things that work in SL but might not in RL.

And in the meantime, be unusual!

- Jeela Juran and Yeti Voom

SPITFIRE LATIN DRESS by Yeti Voom

Group Notice From: Jeela Juran

Here is the second in our series of latin dance dresses... the flame-inspired SPITFIRE.

We adjusted the flexi settings so this dress looks amazing while moving and still holds its shape standing still... just stay away from flamable things... you've been warned!

In store and Xstreets even as we speak!

Love,
Jeela and Yeti













"You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain
Too much love drives a man insane
You broke my will, oh what a thrill
Goodness gracious great balls of fire"
Jerry Lee Lewis

This is where it started! Jeela get an idea and make a sketch and out comes the most amazing things like this dress! Taken from the element of fire!
Jeela and I just hope you will enjoy wearing it as much as we love making them.

Perfect for that hot special date or just for a great night out with the girls!

//Goodness gracious Yeti’s on fire…

NIGHTSONG LATIN DRESS by Yeti Voom

I have a dream!

Famous words from a great human being!

Another great person had another kind of dream….

Group Notice From: Jeela Juran

I had a dream a few nights ago that I was in a Dancesport competition... the pro ballroom dancing world... all these fantastic clothes they wear swirling around the bright lights of the dance floor...

I woke up and started in painting around 6am... by 4pm I had the majority of this Nightsong Latin Dress completed. Added matching gloves and a few more strands of pearls on the hip, tested the skirt flow and tweaked the flexi settings for more elegance while dancing and voila.

Try it out....

-Jeela & Yeti

From what I understand, there will be an entire suite of Latin dresses. Here is the first one and Jeela called it Nightsong. For me this dress represents the element of water. I see it floating around my legs and make me feel like I’m in the flow and winning the competition!!

Who would not want to go out dancing in this elegant, yet sexy and dared dress?

Coming up next:
The sister of Johnny Storm!

//Yeti, dancing Queen young and sweet only 17…

HOLOGRAM BIKINI by Yeti Voom

Some weeks ago I sat with my darling by the sea on the rocks, one of the first warm days of spring in Sweden, when he asked me if I ever thought of SL things IRL. “What do you mean?” I said. “You of all know how much I think about Boingo and all things I have to do in SL when I get home from RL work.” This was not what he meant at all. “No, I mean… do you ever wish you could fly or put an AO on or do you ever wake up and get confused when you are not in your house at Voomderland?” he said. I had to think for a few minutes meantime I zipped on my coffee and rolled my hair between my fingers and then I answered… “No, not anymore but in the beginning about 2 years ago I did a lot. I kind of mixed the worlds up a bit”

I got a mail from an SL friend where he told me that one day when he was talking to his boss in her office he suddenly found himself walking around in her room just like his avatar does! He laughed!! And all of you who have seen the AO from AKEYO know what I mean.

Do we really get into our roles as the avatars so much that we become like them?
There is a saying in SL that SL is SL and RL is RL. Now is that really so? Do you ever mix the worlds? Or look for the pink/blue ball before you sit or go to bed? Hahaha…

I never got that far but what I do miss in RL is my huge inventory!!! Just think about all the clothes I got from Boingo. Not to mention all the skins!! All 342 of them or do we have more? Just click on pink lips and I’m ready to go. Or my favourite…ANU Mithrill!! I wish Jeela could make that in our natural series with the small beauty mark.

Well summer is just around the corner, at least on the north hemisphere, and soon it will be time for Beach 2009! Then I wish I had the Boingo HOLOGRAM BIKINI! Hmmm… what to wear at the beach today? The red one? But… the blue one is great and the black shows my butt best and the violet is cool with this sun tan and the white is glowing in the sun and… and… and… Nahhh, I’ll take the orange one to show off!!! Anyhow… the small strings won’t leave these gross white marks on my body cos they are so thin. Ohhhh… just think about all these contests I’m going to win in RL!! Bummer… SL I mean!!

TIME TO GO GRAB HOLOGRAMS!!!

//Yeti, the Boingo Beach Bitch 2009!!

Boingo @ Xstreet

We have been busy here...

We now have the entire Boingo inventory on Xstreetsl.com so you can use that to send gifts to your secret lovers!

Does the love never end!
No it doesnt...

-Jeela & Yeti

SHEER THRILLS DRESS by Yeti Voom

In one of our regular Tuesday meetings Jeela told me she made a dress. I called it sheer thrills dress she said and put it on. Yep! It was really sheer and amazing!

One thing I learned these past years in SL and with Jeela is how different we see things her and me. It could be culture, our family values or just something else I really don’t know. But when it comes to nudity she is really American and I am really Swedish. To be really honest I might be a bit more open minded than Swedes are generally and Jeela is more open minded than most Americans. Jeela even laughs and say “You are sooo Swedish Yeti!” when we speak about these things. Where I think, hey lets make it skimpier, she holds back and then sometimes it’s just the opposite. In a country where so many movies are made with nude scenes, and “little brother Sweden” follows the great US, you think you should meet a lot of free thinkers about nudity… no? Jeela is not prude but she has to explain to me from time to time how the Americans think. Does it sound like the Swedes are running naked on the streets all the time? We are certainly not but in a way maybe not as prude as other parts of the world.

I can see all the IM’s I’m going to get now from people in SL. LOL
Well it’s my experience… RIGHT?

We talked about if we needed this dress in variants of translucency and decided to make 4 different dresses. For those who like it really sheer but don’t dare to wear it with nothing underneath Jeela made a gorgeous bra and panties and she also made stockings. All the details that look like lace is hand painted. Yes every single little dot. No photos here! She also made it tintable and modifiable so you can change it over and over in any colour you like for the evening. Pst… wanna know a secret?? The darker you make it the more sheer it gets!

I personally like the white solid with the bra, panties, gloves and stockings. It makes me think of a wedding underneath the cherry trees in full bloom a warm evening in the sunset. But… all sheer in black with nothing underneath in a hot steamy club at 3 pm is cool too.












As usual I went out in SL to see if I got any reaction on this dress and I can tell you I did! I was wearing the white dress not too sheer and with the underwear. Some of you think I got reactions from men huh? Not in this case. This was a totally unexpected reaction from my side. LOL! I’m not going to tell you where I was but I can tell you I was in a store. I knew what I came for and went straight in to grab what I needed. When I came there I said Hi to the shop assistant. It’s important for me to do that. So many days I have been standing at Boingo rearranging things or adding a vendor with my tag on and people come in and don’t even say hi. How hard can it be?

Well I got in said Hi and went for the things. The girl was very kind to me and talked in open chat. Suddenly I got an IM from her. She told me I looked lovely in my… hmmm… underwear… but asked me to think about the other customers and then kindly asked me to put clothes on. I must have sounded like a nutcase when I answered her. “Its not underwear it’s a dress”. Then I started laughing in front of my computer. I didn’t laugh at her but at my own reaction. What Jeela and I discussed was a dress. It never struck my mind it looked like I was out shopping only in my underwear! I grabbed the stuff, apologized, gave her an LM to our store and left. I still haven’t even told Jeela about this cos I felt like a fool. I never see my avatar Yeti as myself, I mean as the woman behind Yeti. For me Yeti is pixels and only that and I am never shy or embarrassed even if Yeti naked. She is my creation and I only use her as a tool in SL and in her you meet my personality. But I see it as a compliment that Jeela made such great skins it looks real even if she didn’t use any photos but hand painted it all from scratch.

If you want to use this dress as a petticoat, bustier or chemise under your evening gown please do. It comes in all layers.













I’ll say it again. Click on this picture and look at all the details. Jeela painted it all and don’t it look great?!























//Yeti, the demure shopoholic…

Other sites about Boingo

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Here’s 3 great blogs!

ENJOY!!

Purely Visual

SasyPants

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- Jeela & Yeti

BOINGO LEATHER BIKINI by Yeti Voom

Here follows the exact conversation between Jeela and I before the leather bikinis were made.

J: Hi Yeti! We need more bikinis.
Y: Ok! What u have in mind?
J: I was thinking of leather bikinis in burnt and midnight and in black. What do you think?
Y: Sounds great! Cool! Let’s make them.
J: Anything else?
Y: Yeah… make them in the Fiero Bikini style.
J: Ok! TPD!
Y: BB

TPD means Tack Puss Doink…
Jeela’s way of saying bye to me. LOL

Some times are faster than others…

All this time I asked Jeela for a pink leather outfit.
She refuses every time.
NO YETI I WILL NOT MAKE LEATHER IN PINK!

I have changed my mind….

How about a dark wine-colored collection?!!

I will haunt her to make it.. or at least all in black…

//Yeti, Tack Puss Doink!

LORD, HERE COMES THE HOOD by Yeti Voom

When the HOOD calls
You have no home, you have no walls
In the thunder crash
You're a thousand minds, within a flash
Don't be afraid to cry at what you see
The actors gone, there's only you and me.

Lord, here comes the HOOD
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent
in any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.

Peter Gabriel made a song about our hoods… cool huh?

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Jeela wanted to make hoods for Boingo in our leather style and was looking for a sculptor to make it for us. We wanted a really good one that kept the same quality as Jeela’s creations so she sent her sketches to a few ppl and we were hoping for someone to help us out.



We didn’t speak about them for a while and one day she said… “I found the sculptor for the hoods, JanderSunStar Vendetta and Kallisti Burns at Discord Designs are going to make the hair to go with it”. I was thrilled and wanted to see them as soon as they were done.

I liked them the second I saw them! Yeti has rather large breasts so to fit the hair I had to move the hood forward and then I saw the edge of the hood. Jeela said she had a little something for that and told me to wait ‘til they were finished. So we discussed textures instead and Jeela had an idea about blending the midnight and the burnt textures on the hoods. I thought she was joking at first but the more she spoke about it I realized she wasn’t. I don’t think they match and in my eyes that looked… not so good. Jeela was sad and mumbled about how much she worked so they would fit together. I told her to do both so ppl could choose. “That would be an awful bunch of vendors in the stores”, Jeela said and so the hoods were only made in one texture each.

I have tried to get used to it and in this blog I am mixing them. I am glad to be proven wrong so if you find it irresistible I’m sure Jeela will make a special hood just for you!

Kallisti made 5 great different hair styles in so many different colours. If you click on the hood you will get a menu for resizing and textures for the hair. I also know that you can buy these hair styles at Discord Design if you want to wear them without the hood.
http://discorddesigns.blogspot.com/2009/03/revolution-has-not-been-televised.html

Here’s a picture of all the colours.

I think our store should have the look of many different faces and styles on the vendors. When Jeela makes a vendor it’s easier for her to use her own avatar just as it is for me when I take the photos for this blog. But we want the store to look alive so after a meeting when she did the Hair color matrix picture she sent me this mail.

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From: "Jeela Juran" Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 8:32 PM

To: "Yeti" <yeti.voom@live.se>

Subject: Boingo Hood Hair color selector poster

Yeti,

This sign will go next to the hood vendors to show people all the hair colors and get them excited.

I followed your directions and changed the face shape and skins and eyes on each one.
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It's great Jeela!!!I love this pic!!

Puss Yeti
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And as no surprise I think the men can wear this too. And do you remember the little something Jeela asked me to wait for? See the collar? Mmm… Yeti like!!

This is the text from the notecard that follows when you buy a hood.

You are now the proud owner of a BOINGO Scripted Hood! How cool is that!

There are a number of features built into this hood and they are easy to access.

CLICK ONCE on the HOOD to access the MENU.

YOU have 2 options:

APPEARANCE & SIZE

APPEARANCE allows you to choose the hair texture you desire. There are 12 choices. Try them all till you find the one you like.

SIZE allows you to resize the HOOD without having to EDIT. Using these buttons keeps the HOOD centered on your head.

The Hood also has been designed to cast a soft shadow over the upper part of the face to look more realistic.

The SHOULDER DRAPE comes in 2 styles: Hood Down, & FULL. The Hood Down style looks like the hood is pulled back behind you. The FULL style is a drape that wraps all around your shoulders giving the hood a nice base.

ENJOY this exciting BOINGO accessory. And please let us know what you think!

Send notecards to Yeti Voom or Jeela Juran!

Big Love to you!
Yeti and Jeela

CREDITS:
Design: Jeela Juran & Yeti Voom
Sculpting: Jandersunstar Vendetta
Hair : Kallisti Burns

// Yeti, singing... LORD, HERE COMES THE HOOD...