The Downtown Falcon

The Time Has Come

2007-04-27T10:55:00.000-07:00

Yayness. This Saturday, May 5th, we will unlock the gates to Downtown, you're all invited to come celebrate with us. It'll be starting at noon SLT and going til Midnight SLT, with awesome DJs, clowns of varying creepiness, jugglers, scavenger hunts and giveaways galore.

Be there, or be stupid!

Seriously, if you don't come, you're an idiot.

But we'll still love you.

the home stretch

2007-03-31T17:33:00.000-07:00

ok, so im like not a writer, or even a speller, but that mean-assed natalie said i had to do a blog. who cares if all the other kids are doing it?

so lets see. this week, i got a dress named after me, my very own evil genius trading card, and we all suffered through thousands of terrible 300 jokes. thanks for the dress marleen. thanks for the card mischief. i dont have any good pics of dt to post, so you just have to live with what ever i feel like posting. like pics of me(see photo).

prim and prim. "prim" prim (prim), PRIM: prim prim *prim*. prim? thats all anyone talks about these days. its really cramping my style as an ace prim hog. i guess though, the project never really gets exciting and dangerous until the prims run out. so weve been trying to do a lot of cleaning up and oh... its boring even writing about it. you get the idea. we did test the new deprimed roads carefully. nat insulted my driving, though i dont know why (see photo). TONIGHT, WE DE-PRIM IN HELL! (reference bad 300 jokes, above)

...and we did get some work done too. abbey, nat and i made an excellent diner. no pics of that. you will have to be surprised. its very nice, trust me. abbey did some lovely subway graffitti, and some great old faded ads on the buildings. the brownstones have changed builders again to um.... everyone. they are the last buildings left to do so we are just gonna have to buckle down get those things done. push got some quality linden bashing time in while treeing the park. why cant you pick what tree, anyway?

after the brownstones, we are down to finishing touches. signage for the subway, the laundrymat, the club... the usual crossing the blahhs, and dotting the whatevers.

groovie. we are in the home stretch and this sim looks fucking amazing. there, i said it. i cant wait to get this place open and inflict the fruits of our labor on the world at large. see yah.

Marching On...And Off.

2007-03-20T16:09:00.000-07:00

-dusts off the blog- Heh, oops. I have been a bad blogger. I apologize. Lots has happened...I think. Um...where to start? I don't know if I can even remember it all. Hm. Oh, Push finished the coolest record store ever. Flops is currently working on a skyscraper...ish building. Abbey is making fancy details like street signs with varying levels of dirt! I don't know why that sentence needed an exclamation point really. It just seemed like that kind of obsessive/anal attention to detail deserved my enthusiasm. You know? Flops gets it.

Anyway, the layout has changed a bit, most drastic is the positional switching of the brownstones and the park. Oh speaking of the brownstones, they are now to be built by Julliette Westerburg, [Yeah, that one, Tres Blah fame.]

Hum, I guess thats it for now, time for pictures. Yay:

Oh, eh, if you hear anything about a prim limit problem...just ignore it. It's all vicious rumors, rumors and LIES I say!

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Rational thought is now defunct

2007-03-06T08:42:00.000-08:00

Alright so its been a while since I've updated here, yes I know. Its been a busy couple of weeks and I haven't had much time but I've gotta say downtown is progressing very well. Flopsie, Abbey and Nat have been doing an amazing job on the subway system, and it looks pretty much finished from what I can see. Texturing is coming along on the rest of the buildings and they're pretty much almost done which I guess just leaves all the detailing work to do. Hmm I don't really know what else to say since I'm not exactly sure whats been goin on. So I'll leave you with some inspirational pics that I took while in New York.

Yada, yada, yada...

2007-02-23T11:58:00.000-08:00

Well, I wont lie, this week has been a bit odd. I'm not sure what caused the weirdness but everyone, including myself, seems slightly off. Maybe we're getting a little burnt out. I'm sure its nothing a few hours of shooting each other wont cure. I hope.

Anyway, subway work continues, texturing, yada, yada, yada...

Hey, if you read this thing, let us know, leave a comment, stroke our fragile egos, something, anything?

Sorry, what's that?

You cant?

You're b-..?

Oh I see.

No, I understand.

No, really, it's fine. Go wash your hair.

I'll call you later?

Hello?

Bitches.

Arrr, slacker sky pirates of the world unite.

2007-02-17T12:08:00.000-08:00

A battle-- a fierce battle --took place in the skies and streets of Downtown yesterday. Push and I hopped in our Jolly Roger hotair balloon [made by Finn McCellan, incase you hope to have your own sky pirate battle] and began to nuke a little tour group. It may have been overkill to use nukes against 4 or 5 people, but it sure was fun. Atleast, it was fun, until our balloon was wedged into Chinatown like a...something...wedged into...something else. Yeah. Anyway, then we battled on foot for awhile with Abbey and flopsie. It's amazing we get anything done really.

Lets see, what else happened... Oh, I finally caught up with Trevor, he's been a bit busy in rl. I asked about the missing buildings and it turns out he did save copies. So that's good, though I cant get them to line up the right way now...cause I'm a 'tard. Also, he'll be gone for a week on a trip to Boston and New York City, but he promised to bring back lots of pictures and anecdotes.

In other news, flopsie has made an awesome factory-looking building, which will actually be a cafe. Abbey continues to make Chinatown one of the coolest spots in the city. And flopsie and I are working on the subway, I'm excited about it.

Okay. That's all for today, my ability to focus is gone.

What the shit!

2007-02-14T14:50:00.000-08:00

Okay, so I logged on, I procrastinated, I hung some lanterns in chinatown, I procrastinated some more, and then did a quick fly around to see what else needed to be done. Upon reaching the eastern block of the main road, I made a most unsettling discovery. Dun dun DUN. A building was missing! And across the street, another lay in ruins! Well, fuck. How did this happen? I really have no idea. I assume it was an accident, though noone has claimed the blame for it. A mystery, indeed. Oh well. I'm hoping Trevor has a copy of the missing and broken buildings, but he hasnt been on yet today...so, we'll see.

Edit: Oh and Happy Valentine's Day. May your chocolate fill the void.

We Smell Like Progress

2007-02-03T21:09:00.000-08:00

Alright, so it's been about a month since we ordered the sim and I thought it'd be nice to have a little recap. Unfortunately, I suck at recaps. So instead, you're going to get a jumbled mess of thoughts. And sentence fragments. Lucky you.

Well, we started off strong and finished the main road buildings in only a few days. After that initial burst of excitement, things started to slow down. We got distracted often, by things like dominoes and cameras. Some days, we did nothing for the sim at all.
I will admit that this was mostly my fault. I procrastinate very well. But that's why it's great to work with friends. Trevor expressed his concerns in a way that any good friend would. With a gun. And once our other friends joined in, our excitement went right back up and work went quicker. Which brings us to now I suppose.
So where are we? Let's seeeee. Brownstones, which will be available to rent, are being built by the lovely Argyle Gadsby. Push and Abbey are continuing to texture the buildings. Trevor, Barry, flopsie, and I are working on other details, such as the city park.

Hey, maybe I don't suck at recaps after all. Well, you be the judge. I'm sick of writing now. Have some pictures:

Mmm, texturrrres.

2007-01-30T11:41:00.000-08:00

Top: Interior of main street shop by Pushbutton
Bottom: Exterior of Chinatown building by Abbey

So, now that mostly everything large is built, it's time to start texturing. Fortunately, we have awesome friends. Pushbutton Skolnick and Abbey Underall offered to help texture the buildings. And Flopsie McArdle has donated several lovely items, including a garbage can which may or may not contain used condoms. Generosity at its finest.

Polkadots or random spots

2007-01-28T18:04:00.000-08:00

Those are some snazzy pictures eh. Anywho, what else has been going on in Downtown you might ask...well it seems like we all have a mild case of ADD and are having difficulty focusing. I blame Nat's new camera for this current distraction. But it is pretty damn cool and she does take some awesome shots. You can checkout our profiles in SL to see. I think we spent most of yesterday wasting time getting cool pictures of everyone. I did finish building a couple more buildings, the Mechanic's Garage and the Pawn Shop but there is still much to do.

I've always wanted to light a match on the heel of my shoe.

Time For a Few Oohs and Aahs.

2007-01-27T13:24:00.000-08:00

The top picture is of the model we made of the main road before we began the actual construction. The picture below is of the actual street and untextured buildings. I just thought it was cool how they match pretty well and decided to share. Enjoy.

PS. I'm a total slacker but I'll try harder.

Hard is the Fall

2007-01-22T05:44:00.000-08:00

So I tried making the skyscraper yesterday and man those things are bloody tall. I'm still having trouble coming up with a decent front entrance design. Its looking a little plain at the moment. So if anyone has any ideas or inspiration I'd be extremely grateful. I'm going to have to put a little more work into perfecting it today. Or maybe I'll move on to the parking garage.

And then things started to take shape

2007-01-20T19:09:00.000-08:00

Alright so it looks like I need to learn how to be more current with updating a blog. This is my first time keeping a blog actually so you'll have to bare with me. So its been what like a week since we last updated? Hmm what has happened since then. Well a lot of building. We've got the basic shells of most of the buildings done. The main road, and chinatown are lookin great. Work has started on our brownstone houses and they're lookin pretty fancy. There's still a tonne of work to do and we've been having a bit of a ADD problem so things have slowed down a bit. That's about it for now. I'll get back to ya sooner next time I promise.

A City is Born.

2007-01-12T09:03:00.000-08:00

Ta dah, we've got the sim! Huzzah! Yay for us. Viva la Downtown and all that. Yeah.

Anyway...once the sim arrived, we layed out the plans, which you cannot see yet. And then we began our work. Our first step was to lay down the roads. Then we started to build the shops and managed to get pretty far with it.

Buuut...we have short attention spans and somehow ended up playing with giant dominoes. We made a huge course, which Trevor ruined because he is a spaz.

Back to work!

Introduction to the Construction

2007-01-01T10:39:00.000-08:00

Hey all, welcome to The Downtown Falcon blog! I'm Trevor Turner [creator of Young Urban] and I'm here to introduce the Downtown project. Well, it all started when my friend, Natalie Defiant [creator of Happy Junk], had this vision. Albeit she has multiple visions and ideas per day, but this one actually turned out to be good. (Kidding kidding they're all great).

So picture this: a downtown sim, reminiscent of New York City's lower east side, with shopping, entertainment, homes, and plenty of places to just hang out. Colourful graffiti and signs juxtaposed against the blahness of a concrete jungle. Nat says she wants it to look like a vintage photograph. I'm not sure what she means, but it sounds cool, eh?

Anyway, that's our mission, to build a realistic downtown sim which will have all the newest and best fashion and tons of places to explore. We've decided to use this blog to document the project. That way, you can see our progress and maybe even shout out some ideas.

Natalie and her friend Gage have placed the sim order. In about two weeks time, work will officially begin. Wish us luck!