AndroGenius

Wicca Merlin

July 2012

HOPE FOR EMILIA GUESTS June Dion Tatanka Kaligawa Nevery Lorakeet

Dear honoured media / agency owner,

we are sure you are aware of the devast-ing earthquakes hitting the north of Italy these last months.

The first earthquake, registering magni-tude 6.1, struck in the Emilia-Romagna region, on 20 May 2012.Two aftershocks of magnitude 5.2 oc-curred few hours after the main event and seven people were killed.

Nine days later, on May 29, a magni-tude 5.9 earthquake struck the same area causing an additional eighteen deaths and widespread damage, particularly to buildings already weakened by the 20 May earthquake.And again on June 3, 4 and 6 after-shakes

struck the region, causing panic between people, who still don’t know if this incu-bus is going to continue...The damages of these earthquakes are terrible: 26 people died and thousands are homeless, living in tents.The whole economy of the country was brought to its knees.

WHAT IS HOPE FOR EMILIA?

Hope For Emilia is an exciting event that will last from July 22 to August 9, 2012 and will include a Summer Fashion Fair, kick-off fashion shows, an art expo and entertaiment events to fundraise for the victims of earthquake in Emilia (Italy).

HOPE FOR EMILIA Summer Fashion Fair July 22nd - August 9th, 2012

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------AN INVITE TO MEDIA AND FASHION AGENCIES OWNERS

TRANSPARENCY OF TRANSACTIONS

hopeforemilia Resident is the new ava-tar created for this event. All transactions will go through this account and all trans-action history will be publicized on Hope For Emilia blog:

http://hopeforemilia.wordpress.com/

All transaction history, participating cre-ator names, raised amounts, schedules, and anything else related to the event, will be located on this blog.100% of donations will be donated to the victims of the earthquake in Emilia (Italy), and all of the transactions will be released to the public.

“THE DAMAGES OF THESE EARTHQUAKES

ARE TERRIBLE: 26 PEOPLE

DIED AND THOUSANDS ARE HOMELESS, LIVING

IN TENTS”

SIM INFORMATION

Thalia Heckroth has kindly donated the use of a sim for Hope For Emilia event and we are extremely grateful for her generous donation.A landmark will be provided in coming weeks.

HOW IS THE SPONSORSHIP WORK-ING?

Sponsoring Hope For Emilia means help-ing us to advertise the event through group notices and articles on blogs and magazines.

If you accept to sponsor the event we will list your name as sponsor in all our press releases, advertising material, djs and events, blog and images.We will also have one of your magazine kiosks on our sim for the whole duration of the event.

We are not asking for donations, however you are welcome to donate if you wish.100% of the funds raised will be donated to victims of the earthquake through the bank account opened by Emilia-Romag-na region:http://www.regione.emilia-romagna.it/terremoto/la-raccolta-fondi-della-re-gione-come-donare

If you wish to donate you can do it send-ing money directly to our account hope-foremilia Resident.

FOR MORE INFORMATION. WHO-CAN I ASK?

Feel free to IM Anna Sapphire

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

Hope For Emilia Team Founder:Anna Sapphire

Team Members:Arialee Miles Carley Benazzi Daniele Eberhardt Kay Fairey Xandrah Sciavo

NOTE FROM EDITOR Greetings Everyone , Here new issue of androgenius magazine , it s alot of hard work, fun for me to put it togetherand also big challenge to keep it updated and in progress , i hope you enjoy it

CONTENT I First would like to invite you join the charity event leaded by anna sapphire HOPE FOR EMILIA to help if you can This month i get very expectionnel guests ,

SUPERMODEL Wicca Merlin

VERY TALENTED DESIGNERS ; June Dion Barerose Tatanka Kaligawa : Mea culpa

Nevery Lorakeet : LPD

SOMES NEW RELEASES FROM :

Tres Beau

Styles By Danielle

THANK YOU FOR DESIGNERS AND EVERYONE WHO SUPPORT AND BELIVE ON MY MODEST WORK

I WISH FOR ALL OF YOU THE BEST

TYMONALEXANDER RESIDENT

Greetings Miss Wicca Merlin , It’s Honor for me to get you us guest in My Modest Magazine , thank you for accepting the in-vite .

The honor is mine :) Thanks a lot for giving me that opportunity!

So can you please introduce your self? Who is Wicca Merlin as person and as a model?

Wicca Merlin... basically she is the same person then my real me that sits behind the pixels. Wicca always was kinda “rebel” as she never was running with the mainstream. As I started modeling, I was taught how to walk runways, how to style and what the business is aiming for. I always wanted to be different, even in RL I was the little rebel girl at school with colored hair and weird clothing... kinda punk style. I wanted to use SL for that what I never could do RL with styling and devel-oping looks. The job as a model helps a lot with that as you actually can show them to an audience while you walk the runway. SL gives us the possibility to go crazy and do things that maybe in RL never would work so it is kinda “live your fantasies” for me :)In SL as well I can live a side of me, that in RL never came through that much. Wicca seems to be a very strong woman, that knows what she wants. She has self esteem but still she is very sensitive. She likes to help where ever she can and still does not loose herself about that. Since I started modeling one of many goals always was to archive something for myself. I was not always sure what and took every step

I was allowed to. My focus never was on con-tests, i liked fashion shows, print work and blogging way more as a contest winner makes not yet a good model ( a good photographer can make every avatar looking great and it does not say any about runway abilities) and as well it only is a promotion boost for me, that you have to use for your constant work and not just to sit on it and wait till it bears fruit.In the end Wicca is a very lucky girl that she may do what she likes and being supported by so many lovely people, designers and friends :) When you get first time in sl what was your reaction, and what drove you to modeling ?

As Wicca entered Second Life, she was not even thinking about modeling. The rea-son was the music. The real person behind Wicca is a 34 years old female musician. So the first reason why I joined SL, was to take the chance to meet people from all over the world and get foreign music and traditions known. After some times of hanging out in clubs and meeting all kind of people, I did what the most people in SL did... I started taking part in different role plays. But that became boring after some time and i needed a challenge for myself. I met an old friend of mine at a shoe store and she told me she started modeling. ... Modeling...the more i thought about it the more i liked that idea. I asked about modeling a lot and found out, that a few of my old friends started a mod-eling career andI begun looking into it.

Interview with Miss wicca Merlin

I started at the JCNY Model Fest in 2008 and from there I took classes at some of the most well-known SL modeling academys that time. From there I was really lucky and I got chanc-es, to prove that I am serious with what I am trying. I got accepted and invited in some of the best SL model agencys, created my own blog (http://wiccamerlin.wordpress.com/), formed SL Art Couture with Tatanka Kali-gawa and now I am running a group called “A Star is Born” with Kay Fairey, that features and helps aspiring, promising new models, which we got recommended from various model academys all over the grid.For me it became kinda passion to help the new and aspiring models who rarely get a chance in the highly challenging fashion business, that gets more and more run by popular names and faces only. If we do not get fresh faces the SL fashion business i am afraid it will become boring some-when ;) For where it will going to I have no clue yet, but I am not thinking about to retire yet ;)

With no doubt you have a very impressive , and excellent sense of fashion , How can you define your style ,

I never thought ro define my style as I try to cover various styles for modeling it self. For my private stylings I have my roots in the avant garde/haute couture style I guess. Basi-cally I would like to call my style the “Wicca” style as I am not trying to copy anything, more to use impressions and ideas from different styles and combine them to what I like. Sometimes I like the very high fashion, next day I feel more straight and casual and on the following day L feel like doing fantasy stylings. For me there is no boarder... I just wanna always try to be me anyways which style I am aiming for. With that it can be that you find me in a formal gown with part wise shaved hair on my head and some heavy tattoos as well you can find the cute casual Wicca, wearing a super sweet dress and some

weird shoes and hair maybe *grins* So every outfit I am doing ends up with a little “Wicca Edge” somewhere and if it is just a tiny little detail, that just I know and see ;)

What would be you advice to new models who just get start in modeling , what most important things can be the keys for a suc-cessful career .

The most important for me to tell to aspir-ing models is, that they shall be stay true to themselves. Any advice, any order can be revised but in the end they have to decide on their own what they want. It does not make any sense to copy someone as this person already exists and does not need a double. Only with the power and the self esteem to be yourself you can find your corner of the fashion industry. I have one sentence in ger-man... I am not sure if it makes sense if I try to translate it, but thats basically that what I try to tell all my students in SL. “Never try to jump on a running train... be the leader of the next, new one!”You should take every advice that you can get but as well try to learn the difference about quality and quantity criticism. Follow your-self, stay true to yourself so that you can look into the mirror every morning without the thought you sold yourself for your success :)Believe in you and them people can start be-lieve in you as well :)

Thank you so much it was a real pleaser To have you

I thank you a lot Tymon Alexander for the opportunity to talk to you for your wonder-ful magazine. The idea and the look of your magazine is very unique and I feel very hon-ored that you want me to be part of the next issue :)

Greetings Mr Tatanka Kaligawa it’s a such honor to have you as a guest in my modest magazine , thank you .

Can you please introduce your self, who are you as person and also as designer ,

Im quite the same Guy in Rl as in Sl I don’t make big differences. And I don’t play Roles in here. Im just me. Im hopefully a nice guy hehe but better ask that the people who know me hehe.

To be honest with you when I get to your store, the music the building and the amaz-ing creations, I was feeling like I travel to an other universe, where every single dress turns to an art piece, telling a story. Here my question... where those inspirations come from ?How do you define the uni-verse that you design for? Since i was young i adore fantasy and SI-FI movies, which inspire me a lot as well i like to travel and a lot of influences of different cultures are to recognize in my creations. I think its a combination of both. The Uni-verse i create for? a funny question:) well i guess its the universe of imagination, a fashion universe which is unlimited in its variety.

If you would not be a designer in sl, do you see your self doing another job? What

Tatanka Kaligawa Designer and Owner of MEA CULPA

Greetings Mr Tatanka Kaligawa it’s a such honor to have you as a guest in my modest magazine , thank you .

Can you please introduce your self, who are you as person and also as designer ,

Im quite the same Guy in Rl as in Sl I don’t make big differences. And I don’t play Roles in here. Im just me. Im hopefully a nice guy hehe but better ask that the people who know me hehe.

To be honest with you when I get to your store, the music the building and the amaz-ing creations, I was feeling like I travel to an other universe, where every single dress turns to an art piece, telling a story. Here my question... where those inspirations come from ?How do you define the uni-verse that you design for? Since i was young i adore fantasy and SI-FI movies, which inspire me a lot as well i like to travel and a lot of influences of different cultures are to recognize in my creations. I think its a combination of both. The Uni-verse i create for? a funny question:) well i guess its the universe of imagination, a fashion universe which is unlimited in its variety.

If you would not be a designer in sl, do you see your self doing another job? What

would it be?

well i love to create things i love to draw i love to paint etc. I work in Graphic design for many years although it was never my primary job.

What’s your own definition of fashion?

Fashion is the freedom of expression for every single person... I think fashion is not a thing someone can defineFashion is kind of art. no matter what you create or what you wear as a women or a man you always will have some who love and some who hate it..so it is something what polarizes and this is what i like in it.

I notice there is huge focus on female fashion , but not as equal as male one. Is it cause less inspiring? Or is there any other reason?

The main reason is that i started with fe-male clothes so there is much more time invested in the female section than in the male one which i started only a few month ago.

What can we wish for you in the future ?maybe stay healthy and go on :P

Thank you very much

Hello June Dion Than you for accepting this inter-viewHere the questions :

Can you please introduce your self , who are you ? when you start design .

My name is June Dion in Second Life, In Real life I'm from Tokyo, Japan. I started designing a little while after starting SL, it was late 2005. I did not do any design work before that, but did have experience using Photo shop, so I decided to try to make clothing.At first, I was in a Tiny Avatar's mall. I didn't know what is tiny avatar at this time, so The vendor house was to small to enter, I ended up putting items on front of house like the windows, roof and ect. But I figured out I am on a premium account, so then i got 512m store and moved to there.

Every time i go to your shop i get so amazed by the multi cultural design and fashion , my question is where this inspirations comes from .

Since Im Japanese, Japanese cultural outfits come from in my mind, but for other outfits I get ideas from people or friends who I've met in second life from all over the world.I also get some requests from customers. Sometime I check web pages to learn about there culture, and get inspiration.It is fun to mix two or more cultures like interna-tional marriage.

JUNE DION DESIGNER AND OWNER

OF BARE ROSE

Hello June Dion Than you for accepting this inter-viewHere the questions :

Can you please introduce your self , who are you ? when you start design .

My name is June Dion in Second Life, In Real life I'm from Tokyo, Japan. I started designing a little while after starting SL, it was late 2005. I did not do any design work before that, but did have experience using Photo shop, so I decided to try to make clothing.At first, I was in a Tiny Avatar's mall. I didn't know what is tiny avatar at this time, so The vendor house was to small to enter, I ended up putting items on front of house like the windows, roof and ect. But I figured out I am on a premium account, so then i got 512m store and moved to there.

Every time i go to your shop i get so amazed by the multi cultural design and fashion , my question is where this inspirations comes from .

Since Im Japanese, Japanese cultural outfits come from in my mind, but for other outfits I get ideas from people or friends who I've met in second life from all over the world.I also get some requests from customers. Sometime I check web pages to learn about there culture, and get inspiration.It is fun to mix two or more cultures like interna-tional marriage.

-Can you please tell us some about your brand Bare Brose what's it about , do you work alone , or you are working with others team .?

For design and prim work, working alone. Sometime I ask a friend for help for scripts and ani-mations that Im not so good at. Also we have staff to help with blogging, customer relationship and problems, web database, store helper, mall manager, notices, ect., because of them, I can concentrate on designing. Thanks to all of them.

Bare rose is very successful already what can we wish for you , in the future, ?

In addition to our regular, Mesh , and sculpted clothing , I also started designing clothing for Yabu-saka Mesh Petite avatars, And Yabusaka Mesh Baby avatars. Also if we can get people to second life who don't already know about it yet. There is Internet and search, if people are looking for their interest, then people might find our outfits. and if it the outfit pulls interest for them, then they might find out about SL. I want to meet such a people in SL in the future, So I just keep working to get better and more tal-ented in my designs. and I will always try think of new interesting designs.

Thank you very much :) -June Dion

Greetings Thank you so much accepting be part of the mag-azine it's a such honor .

Can you please introduce your self ,who are you , how did you get start second life adventure us designer.

I discovered Second Life in 2009, and I was totally fascinated by it from the first days!I had never been in contact with a virtual reality like this before and my first impression was that I stood in front of something amazing that could give me a lot of opportunities to express my self and having fun!I started to explore this world discovering a large number of good artists in there, and I immediately felt the need to be part of this somehow.I started my SL as a photographer, I wanted to tell what I was seeing and feeling through my pictures, both in real life and second life.For this reason I started to learn using photoshop and other softwares such as Poser and Daz Studio to create my own poses for my pictures and illustrations.I was very satisfied but I thought that maybe I might try to do not only the poses but also all the clothes and costumes and accessories that I needed in my shots, so I started and...I have never ever stopped.This is the the way my adventure as designer has began.

I see in your stores you design , skins , clothings , make -ups , accessories . where your inspirations comes from ?

I am fashion addicted in both of my two lives, and I think that art and fashion are the same thing.My efforts are all aimed in exalting at best the elegance and feminine that every woman have got, this is my first purpose and this is what I do when I design skins or clothes.I always follow my interior inspiration and my idea of beau-ty.

Nevery Lorakeet

LPD

OWNER DESIGNER

Greetings Thank you so much accepting be part of the mag-azine it's a such honor .

Can you please introduce your self ,who are you , how did you get start second life adventure us designer.

I discovered Second Life in 2009, and I was totally fascinated by it from the first days!I had never been in contact with a virtual reality like this before and my first impression was that I stood in front of something amazing that could give me a lot of opportunities to express my self and having fun!I started to explore this world discovering a large number of good artists in there, and I immediately felt the need to be part of this somehow.I started my SL as a photographer, I wanted to tell what I was seeing and feeling through my pictures, both in real life and second life.For this reason I started to learn using photoshop and other softwares such as Poser and Daz Studio to create my own poses for my pictures and illustrations.I was very satisfied but I thought that maybe I might try to do not only the poses but also all the clothes and costumes and accessories that I needed in my shots, so I started and...I have never ever stopped.This is the the way my adventure as designer has began.

I see in your stores you design , skins , clothings , make -ups , accessories . where your inspirations comes from ?

I am fashion addicted in both of my two lives, and I think that art and fashion are the same thing.My efforts are all aimed in exalting at best the elegance and feminine that every woman have got, this is my first purpose and this is what I do when I design skins or clothes.I always follow my interior inspiration and my idea of beau-ty.

I am often influenced also by art and by real life fashion, I love the great Designers like Dior, Chanel, McQueen, but also other innovative new brands that propose chic casual wearing.I love the blend between real life and second life fashion, and between art and fashion in general.Moreover, like in real life, I often love to change style, I like studying and exploring different fields: from casual wearing to boho-chic wearing, from hippy style to high fashion and artistic products.

How did you discover designing talent in your self , you have a such impressive details in your work , did you learned design from really life ?

Well, I think I discovered my talent in the moment I started to feel really satisfied from my creations: when you create something and you are the first one who loves to wear it, it's the moment you can think "ok, I'm doing a good work here and I'm good in doing it".

Anyway, it's never enough for me, so I always try to do bet-ter!

What can we wish for you for the future ?

Now, my own wish for the future is to continue to do a good job like I'm doing now, I wish to grow up with my brand because I love what I do.I wish to continue in feeling so satisfied in expressing my imagination and I wish to continue in giving to who will chose to wear my creations a moment of happiness and fun, because fashion is also this.

*LpD* - *Carmen* Dress Stripe (Shirt Layer)*Les Petits Details* - 60’ Socks Holes *NERO* 1*LpD* - *City Life* Bag Brown No Pins*LpD* - *City Style* Boots Brown *LpD* Skins - *Alice* Petal (Lashes) Breast 1 (Darker)^;^CaTwA^;^ Yona Roots/Chestnut

*LpD* - *OldBoy* Boots Black *LpD* - *Sailor* Pants W&B MESH *LpD* - *Boho Girl* Jacket Black HAIR Me-I = Bill Humanoid

DANIELLE Little Black

Dress

Tres Beau “Militia”

Tres Beau “Sabyn”, Red

DANIELLE Spring

Dream Aqua

BOY GIRL STYLE