Torrid Midnight has put out two completely awesome pose sets - one titled, “Vain” (perfect for so many, no?) - and a great “Benchwarmer” set with scripted bench and multiple poses.

Along with shamelessly collecting hair, shoes, and skins, poses are probably my other guilty pleasure. If you’re a blogger, photographer, model, etc., it’s probably the most important “accessory” you have, and pose choice totally matters IMHO. Torpants has never steered us wrong - and offers some of the most well-crafted poses at awfully reasonable prices.

My favorites from the Vain pack, which contains 10 poses - all various levels of diva-dom

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I am leaving for vacation today - off to visit someone very dear to me. I’ll be back at the weekend, but until then, I’ll leave you with a couple new releases from artilleri and cute poses from Grapevine by Grazia Horwitz. If you haven’t been by to check out her poses and shapes, make it a point to visit.

Have a great week!

Skin ~ PC Spring 2008
Hair ~ Kin Liya
Eyes ~ Glanz
Tops, Skirt ~ artilleri
Jeans ~ Nylon Outfitters
Shoes ~ Shiny Things, Maitreya
Bangles ~ Earthones
Necklace ~ Savvy?

…discontent with the road system and its lack of consideration for non-vehicular traffic. If you’re willing to take the risk, do it. (From Lyra’s NEW blog).

But what is Jaywalk? It’s Lyra Muse’s new shop and label of course. You can find Jaywalk at Lithium City - which is the newest addition to the new Quad. Not only can you get well-heeled, you can loiter in the grittiness at the Quicky Mart, which is totally what I do. I mean, there are Slurpees there!

Lyra is holding her grand opening on March 31 (where she’ll be giving away awesome prizes like a $10,000L gift card!), but her shop is actually open now so update your landmarks and check it out today. She’s kept many of our favorites for sale, and added new colors to her much loved “Liah” and “Melisande” boots. These babies are optimized for Windlight technology and are - in my opinion - the best leather boots around.

Also used in this post are several poses just released from AnaLu!

Visit Jaywalk! (and don’t forget to check out the Live Nudes Dominus Shadow while you’re there)

Skin ~ Canimal Essence Grace…essence of Ambrosia
Hair ~ Aden Brooke and ETD Strength III (RFL Limited Edition)
Jackets ~ Armidi Limited Unisex Moto Leather Jackets
Jeans ~ Celestial Studios Black Destroyed Wash
Boots ~ Jaywalk Liah and Melisande of course

I talked not so long ago about the wide variety of poses available these days in SL. Ana Lutetia, widely known the same we all know for her rapid blogging of the newest of the new releases and rich Flickr photo stream - has recently opened her own pose shop, with model poses for both men and women. The shop is appropriately called AnaLu and you can find it here (as well as several other outposts - check Ana’s picks).

I am definitely picky about the poses I use in this blog because I try to show clothing, skins and other avatar-based accessories in ways that best display them without diverting focus. The focus should be the fashion, not what the avatar is doing (IMHO).

At AnaLu, you’ll find multiple series of male and female poses - available as both singles and packs, and all with copy permissions (also critical and a total mystery why someone would release no copy poses). I believe Ana now has nearly 150 poses in her growing selection, including some cute sits as well as offbeat, less “modelesque” poses.

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