Tasche Dash - Day 30 - Looks like we made it to the end...

You know... I sometimes live to regret being impulsive, and making snap decisions about things. Had I known this would take me around 200 hours to do I might have thought differently, what with everything else going on this month, but I got there... The final style is Vincent -


All in all, that makes fifteen mustaches, seven goatees, six full beards, a set of muttons and some whiskers... thirty facial hairstyles, thirty blog posts (28 of them on time... blush) and a serious extension to the beards wing at -dDx-... I hope there's something for you!

I reckon I may be taking a break for a few days, so until I get back, probably with some dreads, I'd imagine, be safe!

Until next time,

Kalli

Tasche Dash - Day 29 - Dundundundun Der Der DUH, Der der DUH, der der DUH...

OK... the penultimate one for you all now... It's a rebuild of a -dD- stalwart in the form of Kerry:


Retextured, improved sculptie beads... Just generally a better job this time.

Anyway - That's today's... tomorrows is the last effectively, but so that you can have a stab at it early, it is out and available now... I'll blog it tomorrow though. ;)

Until then,

Kalli

P.S. In other beard related news I'm sorry to have to report that the Burns store has massively downsized, pending a refit on the remaining 512m parcel. My landlord of four and a half years (and more) is selling up his mainland plots, and gave me first refusal to buy the remnants of the store to keep it going; but the cost of doing so would have upped my tier to way more than the store was returning - I'm sorry I had to let it go, but there you are.

Apologies I didn't provide you all with more warning; but I had 24 hours to make my decision - and that was it, I'm afraid. A small store still stands, but it will not be by any stretch large enough to support -dD- styles; as each vendor is 46 prims - just too much for a space with 117 total.

Tasche Dash - Day 28 - Salsa Verdi

Winding up now... as of writing this I've actually built all the releases - because yes, I have been running this by the seat of my pants. I only decided to start work on this on the 26th of October... so thirty-two builds later (I ditched two for completely different reasons) and so far, twenty eight releases later I'm finally winding it down, and have every intention to go down with a heavy cold on December the first... Still... Nearly finished NaNoWriMo as well... *fnar*

Still style 28 - Giuseppe - a rather traditional full beard, with a sculpted mustache...


Nice eh?

Anyway... Just two more to tint, box and ship out... I'll let you in on one being a pointed goatee, the other being a rebuild of a popular -dD- standby...

Until tomorrow,

Kalli

Tasche Dash - Day 23 - Late again... *fail*

Sorry - this was my bad... put it out fifteen hours ago then got caught up in some RL...

Marti's now live!


I *promise* I'll blog on time tomorrow...

Until then,

Kalli

Tasche Dash - Day 20 - Surrealism FTW!

Late one today - admittedly - RL has been playing a big part this weekend - mores the point I've been trying to claw a little back after a frenetic months to date for numerous reasons - also trying to claw back the word count on the novel as I'm actually behind for once... :S

Anyway - Salvadore!


Hercule on steroids... here it is folks...

Thinking maybe another big beard on the morrow... ;)

Until then,

Kalli

Tasche Dash - Day 19 - Oldschooling it...

OK, I admit this is fairly low prim, but hey - sometimes you have to... ;)

Hercule:


Likely to be similar tomorrow, as I have a fair whack to do in RL - But Monday should be something fun!

Until next time,

Kalli

Tasche Dash - Day 10 - Horseshoes have got to be tossed...

Another tasche for you today - this is the horseshoe shaped Alistair:


Next one'll be out in the early hours (SLT) of tomorrow, rather than mid afternoon, as I have NaNoWriMo related business to attend to right now...Should you be that way inclined, look me up on the site - I'm Little Miss Discord (unsurprisingly ;)

Until tomorrow,

Kalli

Another job to add to the pile...

Another release for you to have a look at - this is Arianrhod - a set of tight scalp hugging braids with an open ponytail...

In other news, it does seem that the images in the blog are indeed shot... I'll fix as soon as I can face it...

Until next time,

Kalli

Slight technical hitch...

I've been performing a little background tidying and switching to a new primary Email address. I've changed a few blog associations as a result and it appears that images are not behaving the way they ought to be.

If this persists I'll re-upload those going back a year or so in due course - prior to that I'm afraid might prove difficult as well as time consuming.

I'm hoping that things settle down, but I guess we'll have to see.

In the meatime, here's a pic of something new I've been working on since Hair Fair - basically I got bored and thought I'd prototype some glasses...

More news in the not too distant future, I'm sure...

Until next time,

Kalli

It's here... Hair Fair 2011

Yes - it's that time of year once more. So without further ado - the reveal:

Lola - based loosely on Lulu from Final Fantasy X - A set of flexible braids on our new Urchin hairbase

Charlie - a ponytail with braided sides and floppy front - a softer variant on Stampede. Intended to be male, but works well on the girls - to the point that its the one I've been wearing for weeks :$

The original Urchin style that gave rise to the rest - Lotta is a short-ish, braided pony in the style of our old Laetitia do. This one, like the others, incorporates a few flexi braids for added life

Lilith - longer and fuller than Lotta - with the falls on the chest attach so that they don't spend their lives clipping through your shoulders. Really happy with this one, although a little disappointed that the animation of the pec attach points doesn't seem to allow hair to be mounted to it and still move with the body reliably... oh well... I'll keep trying... (sorry Jeela!)

In the words of Monty Python - And now for something completely different. Yes - this is inspired by Michelle Laine's headdress from the Katy Perry ET video. Somebody had to, and since it's braided, who better than me? Skin and face gems available from Nuuna's. She put it together especially for me - Thanks girl - you rock! :))

Discord Designs can be found on the Osmium sim (Hair Fair 4). Best way to find us, land anywhere and head South West. We're the last booth you hit before landing up in the water...

Doors open to the public on the 2nd of July, and demos going out to the -dDx- subscribeo and Hair Fair Demo group later today.

See you at Hair Fair!

Kalli

Garden City Relief Effort

Earlier on this week, a strong earthquake hit the New Zealand town of Christchurch for the second time in six months. At the time of writing, 144 people have been confirmed dead and over 200 are still missing. One of the greatest things about Second Life is the speed the community comes together to help; and sure enough - a fundraiser for the New Zealand Red Cross has already been organised (by Shelly Toonie of Moonshine), bringing together a wide variety of highly talented designers from across the grid (oh... and Discord Designs) offering special products with 100% of all sales going directly to support the relief work in Christchurch.


According to the Garden City Relief Blog, confirmed stores so far include...

** KMADD (Maddox Dupont)
** Exile (Kavar Cleanslate)
** Stellar (Lexi Morgan)
** Puriangi Designs (Hibiscus Flossberg)
** MOOD (Jori Watler)
** Clutter (Kat Alderson)
** Zoe’s Garden (Adele Rhiadra)
** Tacky Star (Aura Falta)
** Kouse’s Sanctum (Kouse Singh)
** POSEUR (Melanie774 Kidd)
** [Insatiable Fashions] (AliannaMarie Gossipgirl)
** ’No Strings Attached’ (Milli Santos)
** Crackberry (jemima Clowes)
** Snowpaws (Carrie Snowpaw)
** DCNY (Anessa Stine)
** Gesticulate (Gidge Uriza & Elusyve Jewell)
** Shine (Brandy Rasmuson)
** Discord Designs (Kallisti Burns)
** [elikatira] (Elikapeka Tiramisu)
** Spyralle (Kerryth Tarantal)
** Vanitas Vesture (SarahTheRed Aurbierre)
** Absolution (Aurora Deischer)
** Evie’s Closet (Evangeline Miles)
** [Acide!] (Acide Innovia)
** Park Place Home Decor (DeAnn Dufaux)
** aDORKable Poses (Adorkable Peapod)
** Evaki Clothing Boutique (Taury Barbee)
** NSFW Brand (Stormy Wilde)
** GOS (Gospel Voom)
** * AR – Kidz * (Anjelika Rexen)
** Fab.Pony (Tatianna Faulkes)

Product details? Check out the Flickr Group for more pictures and other details... but here's the -dDx- offering. Not one style, but FOUR - recolors of some of our most recent braids - so something for guys and girls:


Eris, Teagan, Tarica and Casey - now out for the following week in the LE colors - Milk Chocolate Raven Black, Ash Blonde and Discord Red. Each pack is 180L, or there's a four-style fattie for 475L - with ALL proceeds going to the New Zealand Red Cross.

Available at Copely Square until March the 5th. Please give generously - and you really do want to see some of the other things on offer...

Until next time,

Kalli

From chaos comes an opportunity...

Apologies to the feeds picking this one up - this is pretty heavily text based.

So I've been working by bony behind off these last couple of weeks, but have nothing new to show for it, release-wise... why? Well, I received a notecard from my landlord who has been suffering with the land slowdown in SL to the extent that he's looking at cutting losses and (potentially) abandoning land...

One such island he was - well, is - looking to clear is Synchronicity... the one I've been based on since February 2007. Initially he offered it to me, but I wouldn't know what to do with it all... and as it happened, a better offer - and certainly a cheaper offer came my way.

OK - long story short, on the 8th of March, Discord Designs closes on Synchronicity; with a new main store (by then already) live on Moonsong - directly next door to Studio Sidhe. In fact, its in the same parcel as the old Moonsong Caves where I had a satellite - so if you've got that landmark, you're already a shoe in!

New shop construction is under way, including a totally new look for -dDx- lines, the streamlining and in some cases, retinting of old -dD- ones to bring you a much more cohesive, and wholly less random shopping experience. A sneak peak? OK...



The new build includes dedicated areas for -dDx- and -dD- hairs, a beards area and another side project of mine for miscellaneous bits and bobs that's called "The Topiary Garden"... For all of you that have searched my marketplace listings with the adult filter disabled are probably smiling to yourselves about now...

*ahem*... AAAANYWAY...

More details to follow in the next couple of days...

Until next time,

Kalli

Loose words and tangents...

I'm on Plurk, as most of you will already know; and I also have the rather annoying habit of trawling the web for store mentions... So when my Google-Fu led me to a post where a certain blogger was asking whether or not to use my hair (Taylor) for some reason, I had to jump on and mention that the style is over two years old now.

I've been looking at the long braids for a while and wondering how I was going to get to rework them, with the new sculpts being SHORTER than the 2.0s they replaced... well... in true tradition, after a moment's madness and hours of work, I came up with the sixty nine (yes... you heard) sculpt maps that comprise the (bare bones of) the 3.1 Braids system. and they go together MUCH better than the 2.0s... and probably better still than the 3.0s so this works for me.

So to that end, may I introduce the SIX opening styles using the 3.1 braid sculpts... Casey, Eris, Tarica, Rosa, Teagan and Eliza:







Now live at the main store... and as you can see, not only have I reworked the braids, I've tweaked the vendor imagery a little. Softer text boxes, only a solo image (from a good angle, of course) and shadows; because... well... you can REALLY see how sculpted braids come into their own when shadows are enabled.

If you like 'em; they're all live in the main store right now. Come see for yourself.

Until next time,

Kalli

Four by Four

Alice turns four this week... So do I... so we're giving stuff away!


what we've actually said in the notecard that's gone live to all group members is:

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Announcing the Discord Designs 4x4 event at the Discord Designs Main Store:

December 6th marks my 4th Rezday in SL... December 9th marks Alice Hoyer's 4th Rezday

Seeing as we can never agree on the music to play at a joint party, we have decided to go a little silly instore and run not one, but four separate events over the four days between the 6th and 9th (inclusive of course)... hence 4x4!


Event 1) - PRIZE DRAW TO WIN ALL -dDx- HAIRSTYLES INSTORE

Come into the store and buy any -dDx- hairstyle to stand a chance of winning the rest of the range. Every day we'll be awarding one lucky person who buys a -dDx- hairstyle the fatpacks of all our -dDx- hairstyles instore.... yes... ALL of them

We'll be collating all daily purchases and selecting the winner randomly (using a random number generator); so the more you spend, the greater chance you have of winning!

One collection will be awarded every day, so do come back if you're unlucky at first!


Event 2) - PRIZE DRAW TO WIN ALL -dDx- BEARDS INSTORE

Come into the store and buy any -dDx- beard or mustache to stand a chance of winning the rest of the range. Every day we'll be awarding one lucky person who buys a -dDx- beard or mustache the fatpacks of all our -dDx- beards and mustaches instore.... yes... ALL of them

We'll be collating all daily purchases and selecting the winner randomly (using a random number generator); so the more you spend, the greater chance you have of winning!

One collection will be awarded every day (on the following day), so do come back if you're unlucky at first!


Event 3) - Discord Designs Flickr Competition -
Get the chance to help design a style and have it named after you (or someone else)

Buy a -dD- or -dDx- hairstyle, beard or mustache... Take a photo of yourself in it, and post it to the Discord Designs Flickr group:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/discorddesigns

...before midnight SLT on the 18th of December. We'll then go through all the entries, and pick the one we like the most, who will then get a hairstyle, beard or mustache named after them instore (or named after a friend, if preferred), have a hand in the design specification of it. They will also receive the fatpack of the completed style as it goes live. We'll also award three runner up prizes: a fatpack of their choice.


Event 4) - LIMITED EDITIION COLOR PACKS in MOBVENDS


Four mobvends, containing fourpacks of limited edition colors of four recent releases have been sequestered in the main store. Usually 180L each (aside from the beards which would otherwise be 90L) they have been set to drop in price to as low as 4L apiece. After the 9th, these colorways will no longer be available, so make sure you grab them while you still can.

Hope to see you instore!

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Now what we haven't said are the hair packs are for Omri, Donna, Colleen and Olaf; and all are in Discord Red, Milk Chocolate, Ash Blonde and Raven Black.

So get involved... tell your friends, distribute liberally..!

Until next time,

Kalli

Made with someone in mind...

OK... I've thrown together another style - it came to me pretty much out of the blue; and it also occurred to me that it might appeal to a certain someone who's been a friend since Hair Fair 2008... the same person who helped me with my first copybotting issue... and the person who introduced me to Plurk: Shelly Toonie of Moonshine.

Woman... you are evil... but in a good way - :P

Why this style? Well... Of the ones I've made in the past, she's made the most use of Paige - a style from January 2009 which comprises a loose back with a tied up section on the crown. I always intended to remake Paige because - well - I think I can do better now. So with that in mind - this is Shelly.


The top shown is one of Moonshine's Dulcet ones, just out of interest... ;)

Colorchange hair accessories (scripted if you feel like it) and fully moddable; it's live now in Synchronicity. Four-packs are 180L each.... 12 packs are 360L and include a bonus color each: Milk Chocolate in the Darks, Ash Blonde in the lights and Raven Black in the unnaturals. The fatpack is 720L; and features a total of forty color combinations - the same as above, plus Discord Red.

So now you know! Come and have a go!

Until next time,

Kalli

Variations on a theme (not by Paganini)

Greetings one and all to the 301st Discord Designs update... Never really thought I'd get here but... there you go.

Stuff to add - I've made a couple of short braided affairs that I threw out in the wee small hours local time. These themselves have a lot of similarity to the old Kaiba style from way back.

If asked, I've always said that if I could have only made one style I sell - it would have been Kaiba. Unisex, short, braided, and just a little out of the ordinary. Discord Designs to a tee, one might say.

Ryu was an attempt at recreating this in time for HF09... and after HF10 came Omri; which if anything was potentially another stab at a kaiba replacement, but was a little too rigid; maybe...

Now comes Brandon:

OK... Now I may have got it... sculptie fluffy bits, short braids and long messy ends. When I took the pic of my avatar (on the left) I had to stop and stare for a moment. In short - I like it. More than I should otherwise admit.

The other new one out today is a rework - well, retake on Nox. This is another relatively popular unisex braid dating back to a couple of months after the Kaiba appearance in January 2009. Initially designed as male, but failing to be exclusive; it's slightly longer, loose and forward on the right, dragged back on the left. I've called it Lux - Latin for Light, as Nox was Latin for dark.


So there you go... Both currently live at the main store, and in time, doubtlessly, will be populated to the satellites.

Come have a go.

Until next time,

Kalli

Today I shall wear purple...

Recently the media has been full of stories of young LGBT people committing suicide as the result of relentless bullying in high schools across the USA. To highlight the problem, to campaign both for the cessation of this hateful bullying, and to empower those going through it with the message that "it gets better", October the 20th has been designated "Wear Purple Day".

I will admit to feeling close to the issue on this one... back in the nineties I went through years of bullying at school, but eventually got through the other side, embraced who I was and discovered that yes - it did indeed get better.

I want to spread the word about this campaign, so I'm making an offer to you all... Join me.

For the next 24 hours, all -dDx- hair, dreads and braids - even the Nethead cables in purple have been discounted to 1L a pack in our primary satellite locations - so you too can wear purple and spread the word.

The discounted hair is available from the -dDx- satellite store on Second Style Island, in the Moonsong Caves and in the Vertigo Shopping centre on Medallion; just to the left of the club entrance. Check out the latest post in the subscribeomatic in any store for the list of SLURLS.

So come by... grab yourself some purple hair for a Linden... and spread the word.

Until next time,

Kalli

One more sleep...

Yes ladies and gentlemen - Hair Fair 2010 is as good as upon us. The designers' party wrapped about four hours ago, the bloggers are touring the booths today (in fact one has already blogged a new style of mine - Thanks Phoenix, you beat me to it!) and as of tomorrow it all goes live...


This year the fair is supporting Wigs For Kids, an organisation that provides hairpieces free to children undergoing chemotherapy, or who suffer from conditions (such as alopecia or trichotillomania) that result in hair loss. More details of the work they do can be found on their website - linked above.

This year, -dD- is throwing up three styles (a drop on the usual five I've managed before - but RL is as RL does and I have recently taken a close to three week hiatus from SL to actually go on a reasonable length holiday for the first time in nigh on seven years... mea culpa :S

First off is Ariadne - a braided ponytail style unlike any other I have instore:


It makes use of the new style braids I flashed earlier with the releases of Astrid and Trine, is available in braids only and "hair in between" (as shown in the picture). More of this sort of thing will be following soon, I imagine.

Next up is Jeela - an anime-inspired short style that a long time collaborator, Jeela Juran, wanted to get her hands on. As such, I capitulated, built it and let her model it for me... :D


She seems to like it at least... so that's all that matters(!) It makes use of some rather novel sculpts to create some whacky lines, but it works... Don't believe me? Try the demo!

Last up - the men's offering (and yes initially I was aiming for some more beards as well, but they've been pipelined due to time constraints)... a new-style dreaded affair - Don.


This baby is Rush on steroids... I reworked the dread textures to give them a little more life with this one so it should be more appealing and look a little less flat than Sawyer and Aeshna - which I will probably go back and retexture now... The thick locks are tied at the back by a couple of long knotted locks to create an elaborate pony. There's some flex in there too and some loose strands where required to break up the lines. I like it, and I hope the model (Ahmad 'Don' Hosho) does too... Got to say, he looks good in it.

Seeing as the three styles are so disparate, I was hard pressed to select one to make the charity style this year - so they ALL are. What's more, the charity cut on the larger packs is greater than the smaller ones - just to tempt you to donate more for what is a worthy cause. 4-packs are 50% cut to Wigs For Kids, the tonepacks are 60% and the fatpacks are 75%. Furthermore, the dollarbie throws all proceeds into the charity pot.

Now - I know some of you may think this a little pointless; but last year I did the same thing and raised close to $10 from dollarbie sales alone - that's close to 2500 of them sold during the run of the fair, which all added to the grand total. Every little helps, no matter *how* little that may be. I know that many in my group (and so therefore many of you reading this) do not have payment info on file and you don't buy in currency. I also know that earning money to spend in SL takes a hell of a long time to amass the sum needed to to buy a full price item, particularly a fatpack - so here's an avenue to contribute without having to spend what in some cases is six hours or more to earn the cash to get a colour pack. Not that I'll be stopping you from doing that either, of course... Also last year's script accepted overpayments for items - not tried it with this year's yet, but that's always another idea!

So there you have it. Hair Fair 2010 and the stuff I'm throwing out for it (with a sprinkle of soapboxing). I hope there's something there to tickle your fancy and get you going!

Until next time,

Kalli

Three weeks late?

Um... well... got me a minute now to add something here about latest developments. I've launched the Hawkeye braided mohican, redrawn my store advertising (with plenty of advice from the irrepressable Alice Hoyer) and have started work on some new hair textures with the intention to create something that actually works low-prim, and looks a little more realistic than my current batch allow me to do.


Also working on a long set of braids that hopefully will be finished shortly - but for the meantime, its a lot of little jobs that are keeping me on my toes and away from the bigger picture - like updating the blog when I throw something out...

Mea culpa...

Until next time,

Kalli

I'm not dead... (I'm in Pittsburg)

"I don't want you to worry - I'm OK...
Just Didn't want you seeing me this way.
We tried to talk about it but we didn't understand
We never really talked much anyway"

OK... scuse me... Frank Black references aside (including the post title) but since November things have been very RL-centric for me... well... not quite... Took November (and a few days of December) out to write a novel... my fifth NaNoWriMo... and then had some stuff to do relating to RL and other machinations associated with it... then I was ill for a while... then there was the whole festive season to contend with... and... and... and...

Well... I'm sure you know how it goes - we've all been there. Basically SL had to take a back seat for a while; but I've had the opportunity to work on a few bits and pieces so now at least I can share a photo of some upcoming prototypes - a suite of three braided pigtails that I'm tentatively naming Antonia, Polly and Martha.

Pics or it didn't happen I hear you cry? OK...


Wondering whether to throw them out now... or add a couple of extra styles - something for the guys and maybe another set of braids (yes I know... it's been ages) first to cover my bases and not flit over any part of the ol' client base (because I love you all equally!)...

Still... watch this space as things are moving again...

Until next time, which with any luck won't be in March...

Kalli