Dunk!

The crowd goes wild as I sink another!

Shirt: ARTEMIS MEN Group Gift  Blogged very recently by Yves
Shorts: Mr. Hunter  Group Gift
Shoes: Python Flyman Red (also blogged by Yves last week.)

To An End

Drowsy is closing March 31. The sim was designed and built by BettiePage Voyager and went through a number of incarnations. For a while it was a beautiful but mysterious village full of charming spots to hang out in. Lately it has been a sweet rural scene with  decaying remains of buildings with strange gatherings in the woods and under the water. BettiePage is one of the most skilled, imaginative and quirky designers I have come across in sl. As a parting gesture BettiePage has a small hunt of twenty books containing tiny dioramas, odd creatures and antique cans of food. I don't know why the SIM is closing or what BettiePage's plans are but I will miss visiting Drowsy and would like to thank her for sharing her amazing work.

Menswear Fashion Week is also ending  so pop over if you want to grab this mesh sweater and some shiny new shoes.

Drowsy

Sweater: Zenith  MFW

Shoes: StarChild Designs  MFW

Pants: Connor's  Group Gift

Look Of The Day 2012-03-30

Just a quick throw-together, lol. I'm having lots of issues with the new Firestorm release which won't even auto-update when taking pictures. Anyone so inclined, please file a JIRA.

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Hair: .:EMO-tions.. * ERIC* black (Group Gift) 

Skin: TELLAQ - Chris (MM Prize, blogged before) 

Glasses: DSM 2.0 #037 Kumaki Glasses Style (blogged before) 

Tattoo: :Wicked Tattoos: - Born Evil Tattoo (rotating new MM Prize) 

T-Shirt: ARTEMIS - MEN GroupGift - Vneck Shirt 

Pants: ARTEMIS - MEN GIFT /halfPants (Dollarbie @ MWFW) 

Boots: .:TWA:. Skylar Boots -Beige Leather- (not free)

Pekas Designs at MWFW

Pekas Designs has released some very excellent clothes for the MWFW event. Here are 3 of them , but you can check out more HERE.

Outfit - Pekas Aquarius (250L)

Outfit - Pekas Fire and Blood (250L)

Outfit - Pekas OOSW (250L)

Boots - Pekas Asventure Boots

Jonatan, Drake, and Rune

Hooray! New Items from Delirium Style! 

Complete Outfit - Delirium Style Jonatan (325)

You can also buy individually the mesh shirt in 6 colors (Purple, Grey, Green, Brown, Blue, and Black) and 5 sizes (XS, S, M, L, XL). It's worth 70L each. The trackers  too are available in 4 colors (white, black, blue, and green) and can be grabbed from the vendors for only 120L.

Outfit - Delirium Style Rune (325L)

Outfit - Delirium Style Drake (300L)

Month End

Lot's of hunts wrapping up and new group gifts appearing. The shirt is from a hunt at Lash-Ware and the pants are part of the new group gift at GizzA. Mr. Hunter is setting up a store directly across from Lash-Ware and if you peek in you can scoop these loafers from Loordes of London for 1/2 price! Lots of other deals and goodies are on their way.

Shirt: Lash-Ware  Depraved Spring Madness Hunt (includes shorts)
Pants: GizzA  April Group Gift  (includes a shirt)
Shoes: Loordes of London Tate Loafer (50L)  at Mr. Hunter The Den

Look Of The Day 2012-03-29

Today I picked up this new outfit at :SZD:. Enjoy!

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Outfit (incl. Tattoo & Jewelry): :SZD: Gently Mad ( Man Outfit ) Group Gift

Beach Side

Is it time to swim?

Skin: NousVous  Group Gift

Love is a Battle Scar, Love is a Shiny Car!

Hat: LUXUS  Skater Cap

Shirt: FA Creations Menswear Fashion Week

Pants: Hipnose  Group Gift

Car: ZMO Autoworks Classic 43S GT Marketplace

Pants: Just Because  Group Gift

Shirt: Legal Insanity  Group Gift

Hair: Atro Patena  Subscribe Gift

Car: Pixlights Factory  Ferrari F-430  

Have a Seat

While you're at Pixlights Factory picking up your Ferrari why not take a load off with this fine selection of chairs?

Counting beans is so relaxing.

Ignore your friends' rude remarks about this chair; just chill.

Anywhere is a good place to catch a few zeds.

Sleek but sleepy; you can stretch out on this one too.

Black/brown shirts/pants: FA Creations on the Group Gift Path

Plaid Shirt: Hipnose  Group Gift

Chairs: Pixlights Factory  moving van

Look Of The Day 2012-03-27

Introducing the new line of mesh products from Gabriel. The Dollarbie T-Shirts come in 3 different sizes so should fit easily but try the demo of the pay items first to see how much change (e.g. reduction of body fat, smaller sized muscles) to your shape might be necessary.

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Hair: Alli&Ali Designs - Wayne Hair Dark Honey (Group Present) 

T-Shirt: Gabriel ::GB::MESH V-neck T 5colorSET (Group Tag Dollarbie) 

Right 

Prim Chin Beard: .:EMO-tions:. *LENNART* beard -black (Group Gift, blogged before) 

T-Shirt: Gabriel ::GB::MESH loose Long sleeve Tshirt & Body belt(brown) [new release, not free, the t-shirt and belt can also be bought separately in different colours & combinations]

Midnight at Tellaq

Over half way there already. TP to lockdown!

Fighting Fire with Water

Sorry I've not been posting much. I got a little distracted at people fighting. Had that sudden urge again to drop in and say something to them like, "Cookie, anyone?" 

Dunno if it's going to be helpful. I mean, the last time I said something like that was when there were two chicks fighting in one of the groups I'm in. Yes, yes. I know it's a mortal sin to break off a girl fight, but it was clear that there wasn't going to be any mud wrestling or any sort like that involve any time soon. They were just talking and arguing, and making everyone tense and uncomfortable. 

Soooo you know... I just did the first thing that came to mind. 

I yelled out,"Boobies!"

There was peace afterwards.

People forgot about the argument and started talking about breasts, which in my opinion is a far far FAR better topic. *happy face*

With that in mind, head over to Death Row Designs and hit this MM board. 

How does that connect to the introduction, you ask? Beats me, but you're going to get cool boots if you're going to hop on this taxi. 

Maritime Look Of The Day 2012-03-26

I may have been skipper only for a day but at least I got something to hang in the family gallery.

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Here's your taxi to sf design! 

Hair & Cap: sf design greek cap and black hair set (not free) 

Blazer: sf design blazer black mens - monday mania sales item (25 L$ only today) 

Pants: sf design male mesh pants - white (not free)

Lucky Chair Of The Day 2012-03-26

This Lucky Chair contains multiple outfits for your role playing. 

Here's your taxi! 

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Outfit: - MysticHope - Leave Male Red (random LC Prize)

MM Board Of The Day 2012-03-26

This one comes by special request and looks interesting. Let's lock it, guys! 

Here's your taxi! 

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Mesh Look Of The Day 2012-03-26

Vowing to defend the city!

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Outfit: S.I.C_ProtectiveClothing (Group Gift)

Sword: S.I.C_SW0187_S.I.C.C.S_FreeVersion (Dollarbie, activate your group tag)

Look Of The Day 2012-03-25

After yesterday's party I definitely need a lot of coffee today. And could someone please dim those lights, jeez!

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Hair: .:EMO-tions:. * BYRON * /black (not free) 

Prim Chin Beard: .:EMO-tions:. *LENNART* beard -black (Group Gift) 

Outfit: Lash-Ware Depraved Spring Madness 2.0 hunt prize

Lash-Ware Sale

Everything at Lash-Ware  (LW) is 10L or less this weekend. 

Tank: LW   Basic Tanks fat pack

Sweater: *ARAI* Long T Pocket   Marketplace

Pants: LW G.I. Lash Brown

Shoes: Cafe*Amie Group Gift

Jacket/Tank: LW Leather Race Jacket combo

Pants: LW Navy Nights Denim

Hair: *amato* self_trim Black

Jacket: LW  G.I. Lash Blazer

Shirt/Pants: LW Cool Days

Look Of The Day 2012-03-23

Zeus had made it a point to visit each Menswear Fashion Week in person ...

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Hair: .:EMO-tions:. * ZEUS * hair /grey (not free)

Beard: .:EMO-tions:. * ZEUS BEARD * /grey (not free)

Outfit: sf design - ewan outfit grey (Menswear Fashion Week release, not free) 

but the constant attention, the demands for autographs and the barrage of flash lights made him weary. Therefore, he decided to cut his beard, cut and dye his hair, dress more flamboyantly and finally get some serious shopping done.

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Hair: Alli&Ali Designs - A&A Jerome Hair Dark Silver (SL Marketplace Promo, blogged before) 

Glasses: [KASA] "Matilda" (blogged before) 

Outfit: sf design - ewan outfit tan (Menswear Fashion Week release, not free)

Blend no Spend

A quiet day, just wandering around looking at nothing in particular.

Hair: Alli&Ali Designs - As  just  blogged by Yves A&A Jones Hair Dark Copper SLMarketplace
Shoes: Energie  Pomps Black    7 pairs of shoes on the gift wall.
Shirt: So What TFUH#27 Hint at the landing
Pants: Mango  Group Gift

Look Of The Day 2012-03-22

I wonder when they will shoot a remake of “The Godfather”.

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Hair: Alli&Ali Designs - A&A Jones Hair Dark Copper (free on SLMarketplace) 

Jacket: >>>Poison<<< - Rising sun jacket_red_unisex (MM Prize) 

Tattoo: :Wicked Tattoos: - Pure Tattoo (rotating MM Prize) 

Jeans: Anymore - Ripper jeans (Group Gift) 

It'd be right up my alley! Know what I'm saying?

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Poses: Diesel Works - Baseball Bat

Prizes worth 22,000 L$ await the Winners of our Photo Contest

Fashion + Freebies for Men (FFforM) is holding its first Photo Contest from March 15th till April 15th, 2012 with a  

=>      Grand Prize of 10,000 L$ in Cash sponsored by Gabriel      <=

going to the winner and two more cash prizes as well as numerous gift cards going to the runners-up.

Who can participate? Everybody who is older than March 1st, 2012 and never blogged for FFforM. If you are a girl you can use your male alt or take a photograph of your boyfriend.

What do we expect from you? We want you to create a blog posting consisting of one picture (full body shot or containing at least one full body shot if you are showing multiple poses) and a style card. We have designed a notecard for you to fill out so that you won't overlook anything. Join our group “Fashion Freebies for Men“ (copy this link into SL public chat --> secondlife:///app/group/554e1976-3389-178e-9d9d-cbe15a49982b/about < -- and click it to join). Then download the notecard from group notices. It will also tell you where to send the completed form.

What should your blog posting be about? Show us your favourite male look! To make matters more challenging for you, every item you use for your look must be from a different designer. 

Where will your blog posting be published? We will upload all pictures/style cards to this Photo Gallery  (we put a clickable link to it in the sidebar). If you do not see your entry pop up there 5 days after sending it to us we recommend that you resend it because it may have gotten lost somehow. All entries qualifying for a prize will be posted on the blog as well. 

What else should you consider? Keep your picture PG = no nudity! You can wear any freebie or pay item you like but don't use copybotted items or we have to disqualify you. Also, it would be great if most of your items on the style card are still available for other readers to get. 

What size should the picture have? Whether you decide to take a simple photo or to use insert pictures to highlight details or to merge two images into one, your final picture should ideally be square size. Small deviations don't matter but the more rectangular it is the more distorted it will be when we upload it for publication to the Photo Gallery. Read here how to take square size pictures in SL if you don't want to resize your picture manually afterwards. 

Should you post-edit your picture? Putting some finishing touches to your picture is often useful. Since all texture details of your outfit should be nicely visible, a lack of brightness and/or sharpness can be corrected this way. Still, to get the best working material to start with make sure that your graphics settings in SL (check under edit, preferences) are set to High or Ultra before you take the picture! 

Thanks for participating in our contest and good luck! Here's an overview of the prizes awaiting the winners: 

1. Prize - 10,000 L$ in cash generously sponsored by Gabriel - Fashion & Accessories 

2. Prize -   1,500 L$ in cash sponsored by Fashion + Freebies for Men

3. Prize -   1,000 L$ in cash sponsored by Fashion + Freebies for Men

the remaining prizes value (about) 500 L$ each and will be randomly distributed among the places 4 - 22. The following designers were so kind to support us. You can visit their stores by clicking the links provided: 

:Wicked Tattoos: -  4 x a 500 L$ store card 

Kumaki Glasses Style - 2 x free choice of a pair of glasses from their store 

sf design - avatar clothing - 2 x a 500 L$ voucher 

Alli+Ali Designs - Hair for Men & Women - 2 x free choice of a hairstyle from their store 

MayCreations  - biker boots & biker outfits - 2 x a 500 L$ giftcard 

.:EMO-tions:. - Hair & Clothing - 2 x a giftbox value 500 L$ 

Death row Designs - quality clothing, boots, roleplay - 3 x 500 L$ Gift Bag 

Vero Modero - Fashion for Men & Women - 2 x free choice of an outfit set for the winner and his girlfriend from their store
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And last, here's the inevitable Legal Mumbo Jumbo. 

Please read the following Disclaimer carefully!!

By participating in our photo contest (i.e. sending us the Notecard you downloaded from group notices) 

you declare ... 
- that your avatar has been created before March 1st 2012,
- that it is your only entry into this photo contest (Remember: All your alts are considered to be the same account!),
- that you took the attached picture yourself,
- that you own the copyright to it,
- that it was never published before and
- that you now transfer the copyright to Yves Firlan and Fashion + Freebies for Men (FFforM) to use the picture with your Style Card at their discretion.
You also declare that you accept that any decision by the jury is final and cannot be contested.
Since we are not in a position to totally supervise these obligations being fulfilled, we cannot take any liability for infringement.

Laundry Day etc.

Laundry Day. See you there.

Underthings...tum-b-ling.

Hair: **Pocket Mirrors**  Eric Group Gift
Shirt: =ShirtShop= MHH #33  Hint -"Remember to Flush"Remember to flush
Laundry tub and rack: *Zinnias* CJSFH -Hint at the landing point

Satyr

Skin: JStyle Danny Claro (Group Gift; Other gifts available too)

Ears: Next Gen Elf Ears (There are free masks in their Marketplace store too, check them out for yourself. They are wonderfully made.) 

Look Of The Day 2012-03-20

Some days I feel like living in a box.

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Glasses: [KASA] "Matilda" 

Cardigan & Hoodie: Upper Man *UM* Red Bot Sweat (Group Gift) 

Pants: :..SANTO..: P_C_Jeans__LIGHT_BLUE (new location)

Shoes: Python_Flyman_I_Red

The Pelican Can

Who can take a rainbow, wrap it in a sigh

Soak it in the sun and make a groovy lemon pie

The Pelican, the Pelican can

The Pelican can 'cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste..

What??? it's not the Pelican? it's  the Candy Man? 

Ok, excuse me, I 'm going to check those lyrics. 

BRB

Hair and Beard: EMO-tions  Till Hair, Lennart Beard   Group Gifts
Shirt: Winterwood Designs  DSM Hunt #38
Skin: Lavie  Group Gift blogged previously by Yves

Toy Soldiers

Yes I did spend endless hours preparing for elaborate imaginary battles.

Army: Pri-pat-cho **KSG** Army Set Box

Shirt: !Funk Freenote Skulls Tee  Beauty and the Freak Hunt look for the skull with a flower cap

Look Of The Day 2012-03-18

Seems like I got lost on my way home from the party yesterday. Don't ask me how! And yes, that's an elephant's ass behind me.

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Skin: LaVie - Damiani Group Gift (1 L$, Attention: joining fee!) 

Necklace: Chop Zuey - Men's Gift - Luck Irish Necklace (group gift, available till next Tuesday, Attention: joining fee!) 

Jacket: sf design - baseball jacket mens green (tomorrow's monday mania sale item) 

Outfit & Belt: MENstuff Lounge Gift - [TF]Tamiron Forge 

Ring: *:CPD:*: Biker Dude (Dollarbie) 

Shoes: ! Twisted 32 of 170 ! ~Kennedy's~

Fashion For Life Finds

More items from Fashion for Life 2012. 

Skin and Boxers - Heartsick Idira 6 from Random Freebie Box of Joy (0L) 

Vest - Schoen Down Vest with Hood (50L Hunt item)

Shirt -  Schoen Score tee (free FFL 2012 gift)

Skin - Heartsick Ritsu 6 (group gift; 10L join fee)

Jacket and Knit Top - Schoen Robin Spin ( Got this for 55L last Friday, but it's back now to 280L)

Fray. Luc Fray.

If you've gone to the Volta sim at FFL 2012, Styles of Edo is a must-visit. Four of their Fashion for Life tuxes are down to 300L$. I got the Step Lapel one and wore it with SF's past dress shoes group gift, Edmund. Speaking of which, I also grabbed SF Design's rancher boots that were put up for 55L last Friday's sale. It's not there anymore, but check out how beautifully-made the pair is.

The skin I'm wearing is Heartsick's group gift Ritsu. Actually, I got this as a hunt item in FFL, so I had to pay a small fee. But if you've joined Heartsick's group, you can take it from the notices for free. I don't mind paying 50L though. Heartsick's skins are awesome and the small price would help cancer research anyway. 

Tuxedo - Styles of Edo Step Lapel (300L)

Skin - Heartsick Ritsu 9 (Group Gift; Join fee is 10L)

Boots -  SF Design Rancher Boots Black (55L)

Cafe Time

Thinking about my order, cortado, americano, latte, macchiato, galao, or just some joe straight up.

Clothes/Boots: Ydea Style  Group Gift

Skin: (Red) Sand  Marketplace

Depraved Spring Madness 2.0

The Depraved Spring Madness 2.0 Hunt kicked off on the 15th, and runs until April 15th. A lot of stuff for the guys to get in this hunt!

Shirt: Starting Location Razorblade Jacket

Skin: DSM 2.0 #67 EnvyMe
Belt: DSM 2.0 #93 Shey Fashion
Jeans: DSM 2.0 #121 Kamrek Creations (comes with a green beanie)
Eyes: DSM 2.0 #7 REPULSE
Face Tattoo: DSM 2.0 #25 AQ Creations

Shirt + Pants: DSM 2.0 #104 Caladesi Island Co.
Tattoo: DSM 2.0 #96 Atooly
Gauged Ears: DSM 2.0 #145 SOVI3T
Necklace: DSM 2.0 #10 VIRTUAL/INSANITY
Hat: DSM 2.0 #108 Bedlam
Bench: DSM 2.0 #1 L'aize Dayz

Pants: DSM 2.0 #16 V&M Inc.

Ears: DSM 2.0 #22 Scrub

Sweater: DSM 2.0 #79 B!IASTA

Backpack: DSM 2.0 #113 FreakyDesign

Mouthie: DSM 2.0 #6 *Epic* 

Bench: DSM 2.0 #109 PC Pixel Creations

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Outfit: DSM 2.0 #50 Simple Designs

Glasses: DSM 2.0 #37 Kumaki Glasses Style

Right

Outfit: DSM 2.0 #9 Rispetto Designs

Skin: DSM 2.0 #127 SEPHORA

Left

Outfit: DSM 2.0 #44 Kennedy's

Nose Piercing: DSM 2.0 #65 Cheeky

Hat: DSM 2.0 #108 Bedlam

Right

Outfit: DSM 2.0 #55 Lash-Ware

Hat: DSM 2.0 #36 Loordes of London

Left

Shirt: DSM 2.0 #103 DROP

Pants: DSM 2.0 #66 22769 Casual Couture

Eyes: DSM 2.0 #39 Birth

Right

Outfit: DSM 2.0 #35 Pekas

Piercing: DSM 2.0 #12 House of EyeZ

Hat: DSM 2.0 #31 [AsYLUM]

Tattoo: DSM 2.0 #27 Endless Pain Tattoos