Midori - an old japanese city

 

Midori is what you'd call a..typical cntemporary japanese village sim. There's nothing really "new" about this place and you have probably seen a million places like this, while roaming on the grid. What had me stopping for quite some time in this sim is the overall atmosphere and "air" that inhabits the place. 

There's a bunch of typical landmarks, like the shinto temple, the beach, the small alley full of stores and the likes.... but if you stop for a little longer you will notice details. Details like who is the temple dedicated to. Or what is the cook cooking. Or what the children are actually learning at school...


Midori is old, built with the gool ol' prims and all the magic that they used to hide. I find it refreshing, in an epidemic spread of mesh-infinite copy-sims, to see that some people still hae the will and fantasy to create something really original.. and not just an exposition of gatcha prizes.
Clap-clap!

TAXI : http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Midori/62/60/26

Night in the alley

Official truck?

OMG should I eat that? xD

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Amitomo & Haikei

Gravitys Rainbow is a sim where everything is peaceful, dreamy and relaxing. As soon as you teleport in you can feel that dreamy atmosphere that usually permeates good spring/summer days, when you were young and everything was happy.

The Amitomo store

 This place is home to a couple of the most beautiful stores I've seen in a while: Amitomo and Haikei.  The first one sells mostly clothing and a few accessories, awesome quality and the usual pastel-elegant-yound-dollyish-student japanese style.

Haikei's store

 Haikei, on the other side, is home to some of the simpliest yet most beautiful buildings and home props ever. I completely fell in love with this style: white, simple, modernist..yet definitely not cold or impersonal.

Both stores sit on a small island in the middle of what looks like an infinite sea and are surrounded by a few, but powerful, seaside scenes. Definitely worth a visit, even if you're not planning to go shopping!

TAXI :  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Gravitys%20Rainbow/109/120/28

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