This morning, I got an email, and noticed that on the side of it were some links to "sponsor sites." These sites were related to SecondLife, so I thought I would see what Gmail was spamming my emails with.



One of them was a texture store--selling textures at the rate of USD$20 for 5--can you imagine?--and some of the others were other stuff for SL that I'll have to check out later. One of the sites that I did check out was one called, "Timothy Horrigan, Metaversalist." I thought it was like some kind of new church or something, so I figured I'd better see what this one was about.



This is the pic of Mr. Horrigan's actual website. I assume this is his RL picture, with SL avatar Tammy Nowotny in the background.



Mr. Horrigan is a veritable powerhouse of SLervices--you name it, he does it. In addition to his impressively large roster of inworld talents, I noticed the "and much much more!" at the end of the list. Did I finally find my SLvengali??? Like myself, he is both a builder and a writer. I lost interest in his writing after one paragraph, so I figured I'd better stick to checking out his construction projects.



It's a good thing that Mr. Horrigan is available for avatar styling, otherwise people might not be able to achieve this type of look.



I thought there was supposed to be an actual building housing this freebie texture store. Maybe it hadn't actually rezzed yet. Maybe he suffers from bad lag due to Tammy's high avatar rendering cost. I could almost kick myself when I think of the huge amount of time, effort, and money I have spent on my texture collection, and here's our SLvengali giving away his own personal collection for free.



Of course, no multi-conglomerate would be complete without several locations. Here's another store that apparently didn't rez in time for the shot again, housing yet another impressive collection of textures.




What can you build with such a texture collection? I think this stunning beach house is the answer. At least Tammy let the building fully rez before taking the pic. She must have taken a nap while waiting for all the prims to show up.



Finally, no builder's portfolio would be complete without some kind of monumental structure. Here, "The Boss" is virtually deified with a shrine called "Brucehenge."