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

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.