Hobbys, Habbits, Handouts and the importance of Snow Angels

Yea, so ...anyway.
After going three days sans about 10,0000 items missing from my inventory, (OUCH my sides, * throws up hand, holds ribs, laughs hysterically), I decided that I should probably really start to consider planning on coming up with a plan to aproach thinking about cleaning out my inventory...


Yaknow, taking it seriously, or at the very least, thinking about it.

The problem with being an artist in Second Life is, very simply put, There are just way too many different colored crayons in the box, way more than there are hours in the day, so to tear myself away from doing, or learning something creative to do something as mundane as clean up my inventory, go through my transferables and box up last years "Interesting things" catagorize, organize and ready them for thier spot on Freebie Island, is a Saturday moring/ afternoon/ evening, that I'm not particularly looking forward to.

My pallet has expanded. I remeber when I discovered how AWESOME it was to play with pre fabs, and how the first Gull Gallery that I built on Shawnee Preserve, morphed itself, many times over, to include such things as scripted walls that cycled thru a series of ever improved upon textures, and mega prims that when later asembled, took the place of five or six regular prims and afforded me even more prim.
They became more uniform when I learned how to line them up by using the XYZ coordinates in Edit, and then later, found themselves to have more depth and dimension with the optimized textures made seamless, and reloaded onto the grid in the form of png. and tga's 256x256.

Ahhhh, memories. Well, actually, I don't have to remember, cause most of it, if not all, is still sitiing in my inventory, old 1017x 522 jpeg's and all. (if you're an Adobe or psp geek, that line is actually pretty funny:).


As I pull out my new toys, like AV Painter, and Sculpt studio, and cascade my SL viewer, ( my builder's viewer), with my Laptop's browser so I can read the hodgebodged of forum posts, blogs and take in the various tutorials availble on these topics, I play with the idea of downloading Blender or Maya or....
and think about where those new skills might lead me and how much more junk I'll have in my inventory as a result.

Yaknow, actually, as I'm writing this, I realize that my SL inventory is in fact a portfolio and an extremely important tool that I NEED on my journey to becoming a better content provider in SL.
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Yea, I gotta clean it out, ~ Next Saturday, I'm definately doing that!