Five buys boots! To Joe Stravinsky!

Five has to admit that spending money for Five, this poor, poor artist is the most difficult thing there is. Living without much money is not at all a problem. Certainly not in Second Life. ACtually it is very good: you learn to make everything yourself and to help yourself. Usually this is fine for Five. Of course Five’s clothes, shoes, hair are either giveaways, second hand, or badly made!

But then Five walked around in the desert, actually Five worked in the desert…on high heels. That was hilarious really. So Five made some poorly shoe shapes and textures to be able to do the work, programming and testing the game of searching gold. See the last blog, or use this teleportation.

But this situation was untenable. Visitors complained: who is this…..poor thing. So friends got together, searched their wallets for loose money, and finally collected enough to be able to send Five on a mission. Buy yourself some decent shoes for in the desert!

A terrible quest was started: what shoes for in a desert? Boots. But search SL on boots, and see for yourself that there is not that much around in the shops. It had to be cowboy boots, because the setting is a desert, Indian country. Some entries can be found for boots. But the things offered were rather poor. Search again! Strange enough, there are a few shops to be found, for cowboy hats, gear, boots, and longcoats. These will be listed at the end of this blog. Five was not thrilled to spend the money which was given to her. What to do, already lot's of time was lost!
But suddenly Five strolled in the shop of Joe Stravinsky “Heart’s Desire”.

In this shops Five was amazed by the imaginative shoes and boots on offer, Five really thought these designs were made by somebody with a talent for these kind of thing.

Shoe making is a specialty in Second Life. The feet of the avatars are awful; you have to hide those small monsters at the end of your legs using a combination of visible and invisible prims. In the edit mode you can perceive the complexity of the construction, quickly running into 30 or more objects being put together.

Of course if there are suddenly so many good boots on offer, it becomes difficult to choose! This is going to take long! Five called Armoe Lipo in for help. Actually he paid Five a pair of boots! Thank you Armoe! (Without him, Five would still be around on high heels in the desert.)

With the help of Armoe, Five decided to take the Red Venom. Actually Armoe advised dark colors, so Five took the opposite, red ones, sorry: this is Five!

And Five was so pleased about the new boots, immediately a IM was sent to the designer, Joe Stravinsky. Five wanted to know more about him! Is he a shoemaker, a designer? How do you become a talented builder of objects in SL?

He was prepared to talk to me! Joe Stravinsky is a very modest person in a very fierce avatar.

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[8:53] Five: how do you get your ideas for the shoes? it is quite special to make them, it is clear that you have a great feeling for these things

[8:53] Joe Stravinsky: well
[8:54] Joe Stravinsky: this is a nice story hope you like it
[8:54] Five: please tell us?
[8:54] Joe Stravinsky: well i had been playing for a few months
[8:55] Joe Stravinsky: just building any like castle and furniture
[8:55] Joe Stravinsky: then one in jan 2005 i met my SL wife Heart wishbringer
[8:55] Joe Stravinsky: we got know each other fell in love and got married on Jan 31
[8:56] Five: in SL?
[8:57] Joe Stravinsky: yes
[8:59] Five: but .... the design and the shoes?
[9:00] Joe Stravinsky: well Heart said to me Joe thee are no good shoes on SL do you think you could make me a pair
[9:02] Joe Stravinsky: i wanted to open a furniture shop
[9:02] Joe Stravinsky: i did and sold one candle stick
[9:02] Five: lol!
[9:03] Joe Stravinsky: it was Heart that said Joe make shoes you are really goood at that
[9:03] Joe Stravinsky: so we opened Hearts Desire named after heart

[9:02] Five: And how do you imagine the boots? Where are your ideas coming from?
[9:04] Joe Stravinsky: and my shoes and boots are from my imagination and dreams
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Isn’t it true that when something “really good” is made, always love is involved? His sweetheart Heart asked him for shoes…he dreamt about them and made the shoes. He isn’t a special designer of shoes in RL at all. He got on with shoes, made his shop, now you understand the name: “Heart’s desire”! His specialty is developed and nurtured in SL. This made Five wonder again. Indeed it is the people Like Joe Stravinsky who are constructing this world, the dedicated people, not the commercially interested professionals, not the land speculators. It is still the wonderful time in SL at the moment of constructing and experimenting with something, before the professionals come in and make it a dull commercial place, like television, websites, and most of the movies.

That is why you can buy shoes from people like Joe Stravinsky for 350 L$, shoes in which he probable has put days of work, getting the shapes and textures right!

The story about the shoes doesn’t end here…Five was invited to do some beta testing in another part of SL, but Five couldn’t teleport in….that was strange! Then it daunted Five that maybe it had something to do with the boots. And yes….half naked Five was teleported through. Five never wondered about the class 3 sims, the older ones. But being “loaded” with prims on feet and hair, you become too heavy to be teleported to the older sims. LOL!

A list fo the shops Five visited:
Hearts desire, this is Joe's alright!
Wild Horses Saloon, much to be seen here!
Cafe Ca, lot's and lot's
Anthony77777 Bandit, what's the name of this shop?