Atmosphere

Shopping is buying atmosphere. We are not buying because we need an article. We are buying because we lack atmosphere, mood, feeling, warmth, compassion.
The shops don’t offer articles, they offer something they think is this 'lacking' atmosphere.
This idea of shopping for…having a great time, was discovered, or invented between 1850 and 1900. Shops were paying more and more attention to the design of the shop, the way to present, the effect of lights and color.
Malls exists mainly because of this, a continuous display of atmosphere without worries, where everything is fine, where everything is possible, oops, buyable.

If this is true for RL, than certainly it is true for SL. In fact you don’t even buy something, when you buy it, you only buy shape, colour and light! An idea, that’s what you have bought. Ideas are in the mind. Indeed the mind is the centre of these ideas, the mind is only working with ideas, mind-sets, even the image of the body is only 'in the mind'.
All of course when the belly is satisfied, lol!
Ok then in SL everything is a bit more primitive then RL, more cartoon like. Most SL shops don’t worry too much about atmosphere.
But there are a few fashion lines which have to carry along there mood, and they do! The gothic, the punk. So 5 likes to search out these places. Here it is where the high design, the neat, the clear is attacked, made a fool of. Filth is around, rust, dustbins, graffiti. But all, well again, all as an idea....
Why is it 5 always ends up in these places, not wanting to be ‘nicely dressed’. How can 5 know, even the mind is an idea of the mind…
Follow 5:

!Kalico Kreations! Neko, Emo, Goth, Punk, Hair, Clothes
Situated high up in the air, beautifully arranged buildings, even a bit out of balance.
5 bought super boots here, Chernobyl boots! Real terrible boots! 5 loves this kind of imagery.
By the way in the basement are lurking monsters….don’t forget to wander around!

On the ground:
!Punk-iT!
Here too, under construction 5 supposes, very much this sought after atmosphere, not really a lot of stuff to buy. It is a bow, which has only an inner side, from within you think you are in a big town, sky scrapers and all, but if the camera wanders further out….
Really a great place for practicing your wide angle with CTRL 8
This is fun too: litter is flying around in small gusts of wind…..

Also high up in the air:
*THE PSYCHOBILLS BUNKER* PUNK GOTH ROCK ROCKABILLY ALTERNATIVE
A nice bunker, high in the sky, made with a lot of love for the ‘underground’. Nice paradox. There is a ‘high dive’ into a tank with green water.
Look at the image of the windowpane, still having the bottle in it, which went right through it!
Under construction too, some nice boots, 5 bought here a ‘Skull waistcoat’, better in german: ‘totenkopf weste’…

Death, the last idea...