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

Lax or sorely lacking...?

OK - I suck and have left this WAY too long. Yes I have been working, and updates have been coming, but I've not blogged them because I either simply couldn't log into Blogger or I was otherwise predisposed.

Anyway, I'm posting now as there's a new one out today - Celene


This one features a mix of sculpted and flexi braids for what I believe is the first time. If it sells I'll look at developing more along these lines - so do come by and give it a try. It's on the practically-ubiquitous Turtle base again... but recent releases haven't been.







So these half dozen are on the new Skunk hairbase - allowing for some fun with straight cornrows - we've got Freija, a Jordan replacement and featuring a long loose drop and a bandana (colour-change, of course), Stampede - a mohawk with braids up the sides, Briannon - a Paige replacement with a little flick, Devon - a set of cornrows with tails (to replace Deshaun), Anansi, a set of rows without the tails (as a Sol replacement) and Mackenzie - like Shelly but braided instead of just tied.

And if that wasn't enough, finally there's Karina - initially built for the Little Big Shop event, that's now for sale in the main store and is a loose floaty ponytail.


...and by popular demand, a prim version of the turtle hairbase for those who want to use the tatt layer for something else:


OK... so that's you guys up to speed on the last seven weeks of releases. I *promise* it won't be so long next time, because if it is, I'll be announcing my Hair Fair releases on the last day of the show... don't want that now, do we...?

Anyway,

Until next time,

Kalli

No fooling - just releases...

Since I last blogged, I've knocked together three new ones for you to take a look at - John, Loki and Sascha.

John has been out around a week now - but its taken me a while to get to blog. This was actually the requested style by Garnet Neutron, who's photo of her partner StrayDog Loxley was a prizewinner in the Discord Designs Flickr competition just before Christmas. Short, sensible and wavy with just a few loose hairs. I like this one because, unlike any of the others,the primary bulk of this one was created out of world and imported in. New developments and long may they continue.

Loki is a replacement for the ever popular, but now Discontinued Odin style. A ponytail with braided elements. While this one works well on men aiming for that Norse look (waving at you Viking RPers out there now...) my petite female av looks lovely in it... and then there's Sascha:

Relatively short, swept back mini-pomp with a little flick over the back. Conversely this one was intended for the girls, but George, my ever suffering Male shape that I use for modelling (seen above in Loki, just FYI) certainly looks respectable in Sascha...

Either way, all three are now up for your inspection, so do drop by, have a gander and see if I'm joking with you regarding the unisex accessibility of these ones!

Until next time,

Kalli

Relocation, fundraising and development

Hi all - two... well, nearly three weeks away from the blog while everything shifts.

We're now based on Moonsong - Synchronicity has gone and the range in Moonsong is increasing as I retint old -dD- lines and add more stuff.

The inaugural new release at Moonsong was a set of flexi braids in the style of the EFB01 - called Alana:


Part of the retexturing gave rise to the discovery of the apocryphal 7th geometrics style - the sideburns - which, of course, have been launched.


The next release wasn't even at Moonsong, but instead part of the Pacific Crisis Fundraiser; organised in the wake of the Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami last week. The style at that event, Ren, will only be available during the run of the event, so if dreads and a headscarf are your thing, you're going to want to brave the (surprisingly low) lag and get your hands on it.


And finally... new beard - five months in the offing for those who've seen it on Flickr. Vlad is out now and marks a paradigm shift in our prim beard developments.


So come by and check it out... but DO visit the PCF fundraiser and grab some remarkable stuff from over 400 creators.

Until next time,

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

Peer pressure will win every time you try to fight it

A quick note this one...

It was meant to be a limited group gift, but sales of the associated dollarbies are still spiralling on the Marketplace... So I've relented to persistent requests and made the "rest" collection of the EFB01 available on the SL Marketplace, for the price of a regular hair box... minus two Lindens, of course.


Not grabbed it yet? Now's your chance!

Until next time,

Kalli

A change of tack(iness)

I make hair, right? Well...

I've always been somewhat in awe of those who do things on the grid that I can't... or more strictly don't... I've also managed to obtain a pretty serious collection of slightly leftfield clothing; as you might have noticed from some of my vendor shots.

Well... the justification, four years ago (god... really?!) in starting a hair business was that I was spending too much on hair? Well, now it makes sense that I look at clothing - specifically 'shiny' clothing - seeing as I've finally got myself in a position where I'm more comfortable with GIMP.



This is my first foray into clothes since a previously aborted attempt during HF08, when I needed a break from making hair after prepping for the event. Back then I was using ten year old imaging software - now at least I've been dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century.

The wrap shirts are available exclusively on the Marketplace for just 120L the lot until I decide how I'm going to pursue this line of investigation.

On a secondary note, with these in mind, along with a few other product lines, I have created the dDxXx blog for covering stuff that I cannot throw up on the feeds. There's little up there now... that's really a placeholder for me to act on later... ;)

Well... I better get back to moving the dDx shop stock onto Marketplace...

Until next time,

Kalli

2011 arrives with a new set of dreads

So here we are... I was supposed to be launching a beard but due to some software issues at this end (read crashing and wiping of files) I've lost a glob of the textures I made... but ah well... They'll get there soon...

In the meantime I got into a conversation that led to an idea being bandied about that I had to do something with... the result is Khafre; which I must confess I'm kinda happy with, bearing in mind the turnaround time!


OK... it has a girl in the shot... well... me... but it works on guys too, like most of my dreads.

Hope you like it - and it's live now...

Until next time,

Kalli