Sims Talk: Natasha Una, AL talk, and new Sims 2 Store hairs

[strangetomato]

As you can see by the title, I have a couple of things to talk about.

The first is Natasha Una. She's great. I love her. I have plans to include her in my story as one of my big names in the sim art world. Yesterday, I mentioned to smjoshsims that I was thinking of making a little short piece of writing to introduce her, but that hasn't happened yet. I'm thinking I'll hold off on that and just drop it into an actual chapter now. I did, however, play her lot today, and I have some pics to share.





I was trying to see what I could come up with for grilled cheese sculptures and art objects, and even after only playing around with it for a short time, I can see the potential. This one looks pretty stupid, but it's so rich with meaning. *wink* You have to read the didactic panel to really understand.




But the real gem was this grilled cheese mobile, à la Alexander Calder.

I had Natasha purchase the Mostly Modern Art Gallery in Desiderata Valley, and that's where she sells her work and the work of others. Despite having ACR installed, she has the sex drive of a ball of yarn. Her ACR clock is at -24, she doesn't have the hots for anyone, and she doesn't seem to care. She loves grilled cheese, baby!




Tash: Come to me, my delicious grilled cheese!

I gave her a makeover with an AL hair and outfit. It seemed appropriately arty to me, but a little less like a hippy (or, at least, a more stylish hippy).

Also, please notice the use of the awesome new feature to move items up and down the walls. *grin* VERY cool. When combined with moveobjects, you can actually make things fit on the wall together in ways that were impossible before.




Tash: Behold my grilled cheese, my knee sock that's falling down, and my AWESOME CEILINGS!

You can actually apply any floor tile to the ceiling, which is also very cool. The plain white ceilings are automatically applied beneath a floor tile (wihout the floor tile on the level above, you get no ceiling), but then you can customize to your heart's content. I didn't bother, so there's no example to show you.




Tash: Ahhhh, my tasty, tasty muse.

I love how quickly they eat the grilled cheese when they conjure it. It saves so much time.




Here's her living room, with some redecorating. It's all Maxis content, except for Pixel 's sci-fi paintings. The ability to raise and lower the paintings is a sanity saver for me. Having things hung too high or too low is a major pet peeve of mine (and thankfully, it's impossible to have them tilted), so this makes me happy. There were many paintings that always looked like crap if you had panelling on the wall, but now the problem is easily solved.

Elsewhere in Desiderata Valley, I tested a new Sims 2 Store hair on dancer, Sharon Wirth.






Poppin' and lockin'!

I find it funny that this is supposed to be zombie hair, but I like it better than many of their attempts to make cool hair. It reminds me a little of the femullet that Edie wears. I like it.




I also like the new longer cornrows and braids (I'm not completely sure if I'm sold on the beads, but that could be easily removed). I'm considering this as a future hair for Ophelia, since it continues with the braid theme. I was trying a new look on Johnny too, in the background there.




I'm not sure if I'll change it or have him keep the other one, but this Maxis Dreams hair does sweep to the same side as his other two hairstyles, so it would seem like a natural progression. I do sort of like it on him. I think it works well with the shape of his face.





 

Comments

[silentsteel.livejournal.com]

Yay for Natasha! :D I do like her. ^^ It took me a bit of searching to figure out the ceilings tho. ^^;

That's really nice hair on all three sims - Johnny's gives him a slightly softer, more romantic look than the previous hairdos. It's very flattering. :)

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

Natasha Una is great, one of the best DV characters (there are some cool sims there, the neighbourhood is rather underrated. It should be featured next in Maxis Taste! :)).

Oh, DO WANT the moving-things-on-walls feature and those shelves! Haven't installed AL yet, but yeah, I'm almost more excited about little details like that than the apartments and witches. Also completely unexcited about the butlers. Although the Goths should have one...

The "zombie" hair is cool. I need to get my hands on that. Silly EAxis. Also love that hair on Ophelia. That Maxis Dreams hair is one I didn't download, but this made me change my mind! It looks very good on Johnny. Would fit him as an adult, I think, when he might want to tone down the hair gel just a little bit. :)

[leskuh.livejournal.com]

I lack most EPs so I'm not familiar with Natasha, but she looks rather fun.

I love the new hairs. The dancer one is really cute. And hooray for more braids for Phi! I love that they look sort of feathery and imply lots of thickness, because I imagine Phi with just... a lot of hair.

The one on Johnny is beautiful and he looks so handsome. I swooned a little.

[ikichi.livejournal.com]

I really like how the longer maxis cornrows look (m&f). I have to see if the MATY versions work for me, or I may just be stuck until they mac-ify free time.

So, wait, the ceilings still work on 1 story's and the topmost floor, right? I was a little confused by what you said about needing a floor above.

[dothesmustle.livejournal.com]

I love how quickly they eat the grilled cheese when they conjure it. It saves so much time.

Yesssss! It saved me so much more time to achieve the lifetime want!

I love the grilled cheese furniture. XD

[smjoshsims.livejournal.com]

Remember how I said Great Minds think alike? IT IS CREEPY. I used a hair like that on Johnny, here:



and AHH! Sharon Wirth! I WAS JUST WRITING ABOUT HER. She makes a cameo in my Thornn Legacy, and IT.IS.CREEPY how she's here as well!

Also, I LOVE the makeover you gave Natasha! I LOVE NATASHA! I actually made a hair specifically for her, here:



I love the way she rocks purple. ^__^

And I LOVE the Grilled Cheese Conceptual Art! Gah, you are amazing! :D

[simgarooop.livejournal.com]

Hee! I love her "Grilled Cheese" art! (especially the mobile!). I've never played with the original Natasha Una (just a clone I made for a Little Mermaid poster), but I've read that she's quite a funny character (I guess that's a given with Grilled Cheese sims... I need to try that aspiration one of these days :P).

It took a long, long time to figure out which were the keys that let you move the wall art up and down. My keyboard is in Spanish, so a few keys are in different positions that the English one. For a moment I was afraid my version of AL was messed up. It is a nice feature, indeed!

The zombie hair is very cute! ANd I also like that for once they did something for babies and kids too! I thought the "braids hair" was only for men, though. Phi looks pretty cute with it. And that Maxis Dream's hair has been abused a lot in the past in my computer. It is pretty nice, and not too "girly" IMO.

Ceilings FTW! (though I have no idea how to modify them yet :P)

[hannahspring.livejournal.com]

Natasha! Great! I love her (see my avatar, it's her actually)! I'm so excited you're going to include her.

Anyway, didn't you say Desiderata is boring? :P I'm actually writing a story about that 'hood... it's still not on my site, but should be shortly. I'm waiting for my admin to add a banner. Hope it's going to be done soon! :) And BTW, I had to notice you gave her the same lipstick as I did (or at least it looks similar - HystericalParoxysm, right?).

Question: How did you make that Grilled Cheese to glow like that?

P.S.: Johnny looks amazing with that hair! I think you don't have to change it. :)

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

I love that cornrowed hair! I think I have the zombie hair too but I don't remember... was it for females too? I remember d/l a new one for men that had that sort of anime-type spiky look, but I don't know if I got the same for the girls. I'll have to check.

I thought the new EP enabled moving stuff up and down the walls but darned if I remember how to do it. :P I'll have to look that up (I'm having lots of duh moments today, lol. Meh... it goes along with my writers' block. Uggggh.)

[madame-ugly.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I wonder if the folks at MTS2 will convert the new AL clothes? I'm liking that droopy knee sock one.

I wonder if the multiple stuff on the walls works for the pot holders? I was mega miffed when I tried to sell potholders in the Round Robin family store only to find they have to be put on a wall and you can only put one per section.

Thanks for reminding me about the new ea store stuff.

Off to MATY to gets my free stuff.

[hviw.livejournal.com]

Is johnny's new hair the "Disheveled Hairstyle from Beyond the Grave"?

[birdtooth.livejournal.com]

so did you actually pay for the ea store hair?

or is it, uh, available elsewhere?




p.s. i couldn't sleep last night, so i ended up reading your story until it was time for school. it is probably the best simstory i've read so far and i am kind of nerding out over it.

p.p.s. best line: "i'm dirty on the inside!"

[tanathir.livejournal.com]

A grilled cheese conceptual artist. Awesome. Hey, how does one get a Sim to conjure grilled cheese?

[xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com]

Oh man, the grilled cheese art really had me laughing! So awesome. And her socks! Hehe, you really made her look like the eccentric artist that she's supposed to be.

I really like that Maxis Dreams hair. I used it on my adult Bunker clone in Desiderata Valley and I think I'll use it on him in the future as well. Looks good on Johnny too.

I could never see Ophelia without the braids! Glad to see that there's more maxis hair with them.

[franwi.livejournal.com]

Very cool stuff. I also love the up and down options for wall hangings now. And great hair choices. I really like those options for Johnny and Phi. I don't know who Natasha is, so I'm looking forward to her introduction - she's cute!

[jessicus.livejournal.com]

I love that hair on Phi!

[twistingsims.livejournal.com]

As soon as I saw that hair in CAS, after getting it from MATY, It just had Phi written all over it. I kinda thought you might like it! :D

[mrs-grunt.livejournal.com]

WHOA. Who is Johnny making googly eyes at in the last picture? :P

[80sfiend.livejournal.com]

Oooh I like Johnny and Opheila's hair! I think they look fabulous!! :D Also, yay new characters! :D