http://urbandecay.net/blog deconstructed designs for the urban avatar Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:24:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our own Able Whitman has been honored with the Linden Lab Innovation Award for Best Feature! Besides being the scripting wizard who makes all the behind-the-scenes stuff that keeps Urban Decay running smoothly, he's also a talented programmer, hacking away at the Second Life code to make YOUR life better. We're ... http://urbandecay.net/blog/index.php/2007/08/27/ablewinner/ I'm still taking a bit of time off to un-fry my brains from the massive warehouse I designed for Mystikal Faddoul, but soon you will see new things from Urban Decay! I have a nifty old 50's style TV and a shitty old shotgun shack in the works, along with ... http://urbandecay.net/blog/index.php/2007/08/01/new-items-coming-soon/ Recently I was commissioned to build a massive warehouse for Mystikal Faddoul's Mystikal Hair Designs on Bali Hai. While doing custom design work has its own unique set of frustrations, this couldn't have gone any better, thanks to the ease of working with Mystikal to bring her vision to fruition. The ... http://urbandecay.net/blog/index.php/2007/07/27/custom-work-is-hard-but-satisfying/ New from Urban Decay! Old wobbly stool for all your perching pleasure. One wheel missing but that won't stop you from resting your ass. Carved wood seat worn baby smooth by decades of grim librarian backsides. Our stern, splintery schooldesk for the rotten pupil in you. Lid lifts for a place ... http://urbandecay.net/blog/index.php/2007/07/05/old-wobbly-stool-pupils-schoolhouse-desk/ New from Urban Decay! Our rustic, ramshackle barn is the perfect hideout. Looks like every other barn out in the woods! Sagging doors open with a touch. Narrow prim ladder leads to a grim, dusty hayloft. Comes with extra hay bales in 3 shapes. Topped off with a spinning weathercock. http://urbandecay.net/blog/index.php/2007/06/26/rustic-ramshackle-barn/ New from Urban Decay! Our doubly cold, doubly broken bed is a nightmare for orphans sleeping in tandem. Animated with two opposite tossing and turning animation and barely covered by a thin ragged quilt, you'll both spend your nights dreaming of brighter days, if you or your partner can sleep ... http://urbandecay.net/blog/index.php/2007/06/23/orphans-lonely-bed-for-twogrubby-lost-bear/ New from Urban Decay! It's a chair. A shitty, rusty, metal chair with bent legs and broken slats. But it can be YOUR shitty, rusty metal chair with bent legs and broken slats! Chrome and lino set ripped, literally, from the guts of an abandoned diner. Table leaf raises and lowers ... http://urbandecay.net/blog/index.php/2007/06/12/rickety-metal-chair-lino-diner-table-orphans-broken-bed/ Brand new from Urban Decay! Our abandoned train car sits crashed in an empty field, rusted and rotting away. Surrounded by prairie grasses, it's the perfect hide-out or fort. The train car rests upon a grassy knoll, but the two pieces are separate in case you have a better place ... http://urbandecay.net/blog/index.php/2007/06/06/abandoned-train-car/ New from Urban Decay! Our crumbling, official Urban Decay warehouse is a cavernous and roomy place for you to crash, play, sell oranges, or organize a revolution. Modeled after the UD storefront, we paid painstaking attention to detail when crafting this beauty. Front decking is just begging to be placed ... http://urbandecay.net/blog/index.php/2007/06/01/urban-decay-warehouse/ New from Urban Decay! Warm fuzzy stripes in a dingy or bright motif, this is the good-will sweater from heaven, to keep you warm in hell. http://urbandecay.net/blog/index.php/2007/05/12/warm-fuzzy-stripes/