Linda Kindt: Artist, Blogger, Cosplayer, Gamer – Hyvää syntymäpäivää!
Please find a collection of 42 poster pictures, 11 frescos and 18 murals available as pictures for your Sims 3 game.
The poster pictures use a mesh with many thanks by Yarona at Sims Modeli, the frescos use a mesh by Dyokabb at Sims Angels and the wall sized murals use a mesh which comes once again with many thanks from Helen-Sims, so you do not need any stuff packs for this to work – it’s all base game friendly.
To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should show up.
Enjoy!
Linda Kindt aka Isriana aka Iribel is a Finnish literature student, who in her spare time produces wonderful artwork.
In line with her other interests in cosplay and computer games, she also does hilarious cartoons poking fun at games and gamers, particularly the Elder Scrolls series, that truly deserve a wider audience – so if you are a Skyrim player, spread the word!
Here’s an example.
This was you as well the first time you encountered foxes in Skyrim, eh? – and bet you still risk your life recklessly to defend any foxes you see in danger from being killed by big bully bears and trolls (quite right too)!
Linda does artwork commissions as well, so if you would like any of ther wonderful pieces gracing your walls in real life, get in touch with her at her Deviantart accounts and help a poor student to fund her way through university and the next Skyrim add-on!
Oh, and…
Hyvää syntymäpäivää!
Happy D B Cooper Weekend!
A collection of five T-shirts featuring various motifs connected with the mysterious Dan Cooper, aka D B Cooper.
Will fit Teen, Young Adult and Adults.
All items are recolourable, but the logos aren’t.
As there’s no Teen Male hooded top with the basic pack, there’s a Teen Male Tracksuit top instead.
Please also find a collection of ten poster pictures for your Sims 3 game.
The poster pictures use a mesh with many thanks by Yarona at Sims Modeli, so you do not need any stuff packs for this to work – it’s all base game friendly.
To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should show up.
Enjoy!
Happy D B Cooper Weekend!
Dan Cooper aka D B Cooper remains one of the United States of America’s greatest unsolved mysteries and a favourite of conspiracy theorists.
On Thanksgiving Eve, 24th November 1971, a Boeing 727 flying from Portland to Seattle was hijacked by a man dressed in business attire claiming that he had a bomb in his briefcase and demanding $200 000, four parachutes, and for the jet to be given enough fuel to reach Mexico City. Despite hijacking the jet, he insisted on paying for the drinks he bought during the flight.
All passengers were released at Seattle and the jet flew on with only Cooper and the crew on board. It was assumed that Cooper was going to make the crew jump and fly the jet himself.
Instead he jumped from the back of the plane, less than half an hour after take off, taking the money, the briefcase and three of the parachutes. Despite the jet being followed by two USAF Delta Dart fighters and a converted Shooting Star, no one saw Cooper jump out – it was a pitch black stormy night.
Although the FBI concluded Cooper jumped to his certain death, to this day no trace of Cooper has ever been found, only a small bundle of the money in a local river under suspicious circumstances many years later – suggesting it was possibly planted to give the impression Cooper had not survived the jump.
Despite an array of suspects the case remains unsolved, the only hijacker in history that ‘got away with it.’
Some believe Cooper may have had reasons other than financial for the hijacking, the most outrageous being he was a CIA operative gone ‘rogue’ who committed the act as a parting shot to his former employers who frequently paid ‘freedom fighters’ in enemy states to conduct hijackings for political ends.
Whatever the truth, Cooper’s actions led to the creation of the Cooper Vane device in aircraft to prevent exit doors from being openable whilst in flight, and also the town of Ariel in Cowlitz County, Washington (near to where Cooper had jumped) still holds an annual convention to the D B Cooper mystery on the weekend following Thanksgiving.
Electric Light Orchestra, Move And Wizzard
A collection of nine T-shirts featuring various motifs from the artwork of the Brummie three-in-one band over the years.
Will fit Teen, Young Adult and Adults.
All items are recolourable, but the logos aren’t.
Please also find a collection of Twelve poster pictures available as pictures for your Sims 3 game.
The poster pictures use a mesh with many thanks by Yarona at Sims Modeli, so you do not need any stuff packs for this to work – it’s all base game friendly.
To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should show up.
Enjoy!
The Move was a psychedelic band that launched two equally successful side projects – the art rock Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) and the glam rock Wizzard.
ELO outlasted both the parent and the other side project to be one of the world’s biggest selling bands of all time.
It Bites (‘Calling All The Heroes’ And ‘Cartoon Graveyard’)
A collection of seven T-shirts featuring various motifs from their artwork over the years.
Will fit Teen, Young Adult and Adults.
All items are recolourable, but the logos aren’t.
Please also find a collection of eight poster pictures and six murals available as pictures for your Sims 3 game.
The poster pictures use a mesh with many thanks by Yarona at Sims Modeli and the wall sized murals use a mesh which comes once again with many thanks from Helen-Sims, so you do not need any stuff packs for this to work – it’s all base game friendly.
To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should show up.
Enjoy!
It Bites are one of the odder stories of pop music history, but what else could anyone expect from a band formed in Egremont, Cumbria: famous for the Crab Fair where the world ‘gurning’ championships are held for whoever can pull the ugliest face.
The band consisted of a hippy, a punk, a progressive rock fan and pretty boy guitar maestro Francis Dunnery who wanted to be mainstream pop stars. Despite their second single ‘Calling All The Heroes’ being a major hit in June 1986, they didn’t have strong enough follow up songs, and their punky-prog (or ‘pronk’) with 80s funk soup was too much for many to take.
Further singles like ‘Kiss Like Judas’ saw the band creep in a more hard rock direction, until by 1989’s album ‘Eat Me In St Louis’ they were the darlings of not only Kerrang! magazine but the rock section of ITV’s The Chart Show, the most important UK music show at that time.
The band also gained attention because of a musical instrument Francis Dunnery had invented called a Tapboard, made from strapping two stringed guitar necks together and ‘tapping’ the strings, producing a novel staccato medieval sound. The instrument was later adopted by some in the jazz-fusion enthusiast community.
But despite being a popular support act and the singles ‘Still Too Young To Remember’ and ‘Sister Sarah’ receiving heavy play on MTV, nowhere did these translate into record sales. The machismo element of the hard rock and prog rock fan world never ‘forgave’ them for ‘Calling All The Heroes’ – a ‘girls’ song, even though Dunnery was much in demand as a session musician for rock icons Yes and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin (Dunnery was later offered the post of replacing the departing Phil Collins in Genesis, only for Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks to change their minds).
Frustration at their inability to be accepted, in-fighting led to Dunnery going solo as well as becoming a farmer in the USA, and the band dissolved.
In 2003, the band tried to reform, but with Dunnery based in the USA and the others in Cumbria, it was little more than a hobby band. After three years of going nowhere, the others sacked Dunnery (much to their remaining fans dismay) and replaced him with John Mitchell – not only a diehard It Bites fan since childhood, but a multi-instrumentalist, record producer and sound engineer. This proved crucial in giving the band’s music a more solid structure.
(There was also some amusement at Mitchell’s similarity in looks to Jean Jacques Burnel, sparking mischievous music festival rumours it was the Stranglers lead singer under a pseudonym!)
The predictions that any lingering chance the band had of success vanished with sacking Dunnery were refuted in staggering fashion, as their new album ‘The Tall Ships’ (2010) made them the new toast of the prog-rock world that had disowned them two decades previously. The follow up ‘Map Of The Past’ (2012) became the first It Bites record to mainstream chart in the UK for 21 years and was pipped only by Rush’s ‘Clockwork Angels’ for Classic Rock‘s Prog Album Of The Year.
The single ‘Cartoon Graveyard’ from ‘Map Of The Past’ will be released on 9th December 2012.
Madness (The Nutty Boys)
A collection of four T-shirts featuring various motifs from their artwork over the years.
Will fit Teen, Young Adult and Adults.
All items are recolourable, but the logos aren’t.
Please also find a collection of five poster pictures available as pictures for your Sims 3 game.
The poster pictures use a mesh with many thanks by Yarona at Sims Modeli, so you do not need any stuff packs for this to work – it’s all base game friendly.
To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should show up.
Enjoy!
Message For Everyone In The Path Of The ‘Frankenstorm’
Good luck.
The Jam (Plus Paul Weller’s ‘Whaam!’ Guitar And A Mod Scooter)
A collection of eleven T-shirts and a set of hooded tops featuring various motifs from the Jam’s artwork over the years.
Will fit Teen, Young Adult and Adults.
All items are recolourable, but the logos aren’t.
As there’s no Teen Male hooded top with the basic pack, there’s a Teen Male Tracksuit top instead.
Please also find a collection of ten poster pictures for your Sims 3 game, using a mesh with many thanks by Yarona at Sims Modeli, so you do not need any stuff packs for this to work – it’s all base game friendly.
Please also find enclosed a scooter ‘Modded’ with Union Jack livery – you will need the Sims 3 Fast Lane stuff pack for this to work.
Finally, please find an electric guitar redone with the Roy Lichtenstein ‘Whaam!’ design on it (as used on one of Paul Weller’s Rickenbackers), you will need the Design And High Tech stuff pack (called High End Loft in the US and elsewhere) for this to work. This can be recoloured except for the design and the neck.
To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should show up.
Enjoy!
Ultimate Play The Game (A Sims 3 Tribute To The Isometric Pioneers)
To commemorate the greatest pioneers of computer gaming of all time, Tim and Chris Stamper, whose Ashby Computers & Graphics Ltd (better known as Ultimate: Play The Game) revolutionised home computer games, in particular setting the standard for all future isometric game and thus ultimately (excuse the pun!) the Sims series.
A collection of nine t-shirts, twelve poster pictures, twelve murals, twelve large CB rugs and twelve ‘legacy’ rugs featuring various motifs from their artwork over the years, all available to enjoy in your Sims 3 game.
T-shirts will fit Teen, Young Adult and Adults.
All items are recolourable, but the logos aren’t.
The poster pictures use a mesh with many thanks by Yarona at Sims Modeli, the large rugs use a mesh created with many thanks from Baufive at b5 Studio, and the smaller ‘legacy’ rugs use a mesh by Cliosims3, soyou do not need any stuff packs for any of these to work – it’s all base game friendly.
Finally, please also find some arcade games done in the liveries of Ultimate’s classic games (as the Stamper brothers came from the arcade game programming industry to revolutionise home computer gaming, it’s sort of apt). Remember that you must have the Late Night Expansion Pack for these to work!
To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should show up.
Enjoy!
Happy Birthday To Jazz-Hands – Year Two Complete
There’s been a lot of talk about people leaving the Sims community, blogs and websites like Missing Studios or Jud Hudson from Sims Programs moving onto other games because the game is ‘boring’, ‘old hat’, or ‘not what it used to be’, all that crap.
The same stuff you will remember hearing from Aarin and her disciples Chyla, Subucni, Sabsyrina, Mcrashlee, Livebybooks, VintageLydia, and all of the rest of that lot who ‘moved on’ to other things in 2010 leaving our namesake to sink…
…and came sneaking back in various guises in 2011 or 2012, when their latest ‘this is where it is at’ proved just another fad.
(Which they failed to stick out either)
If you don’t stick at anything, and have to follow whatever the leader or the herd says is ‘in’ for your kicks, you’ll always spend your life growing quickly bored.
Better to be disciplined than a disciple.
When will Jazz-Hands give up on Simming?
Haily Farber’s Search For Spiritual Truth With Foamy The Squirrel As Part Of A Nutritious Breakfast
‘Good evening. It has come to my attention that tonight’s download concerns items pertaining to that most marvellous creation of 21st century, the comic strip and cartoon Neurotically Yours by Jonathan Ian Mathers.’
‘I know what some of you out there are thinking already, yeah so wut, anuthur load of t-shirts, posters, murals and shiz from those Jazz-Hands wackjobs. Well this isn’t just another download for your game. This is important. So important, it may just save your life.’
‘Foamy is the greatest living being in the history of civilisation. Without Foamy, you are nothing! Since you’re not Foamy, you ARE nothing! The only way for you to atone for your lack of Foaminess is to sign over all your worldly possessions and your body to the Foamy Card Cult and agree to allow him to do whatever unspeakable things your Lord and Squirrely Master deems fit to do with your unworthy carcass.’
‘Every ideology, philosophy and religion in the history of the world has brought ultimately nothing but ignorance, regression and misery to all lifeforms with their empty promises and false teachings. This is the inevitable failing of any system of belief that does not have centre to its core the signing over of yourself body, mind, soul and especially bank account and all real estate to Foamy.’
‘Only through Foamy can you be saved. Only through Foamy can you find everlasting bliss in the catharsis of his Squirrely Wrath. Foamy rants for you daily about the f**king stupidity, lame-assery and nut-suckery of everyone and why a nuclear holocaust and a billion pandemics are too good for us, so you may know his Will and be at peace. Only through Foamy can you be taken to a creamy-cheese-cheesy cream paradise for all eternity. Or at least he can, with all your money and the profits from your real estate and selling your carcasses for scientific experiments after pimping them to Anchovie for ten bucks for whatever deprativity he sees fit (five bucks surcharge if an ultra-depravity).’
‘Anyone who fails to accept Foamy as their Lord and Master will incur his Squirrely wrath, and furthurmore I will come round to your house and fist-f**k you in your f**king f**kface with your own severed limbs! Got that?’
‘If you realise that deep down you are unworthy to bring Foamy into your life and should probably just go and fling yourself in the bathtub with the toaster plugged in (unless you’ve some other weird plans with the toaster in the bathtub if you’re Anchovie), you can still atone for your biological deformity that makes you unable to comprehend his awesomecreamycheeseness by buying his cereal.’
‘Here is Hazel Tyneham to demonstrate why Neurotically Cereals is the cornerstone of a nutritious breakfast.’
‘Sorry? Haily, did you say something?’
‘You’re going to demonstrate why Neurotically Cereals is the cornerstone of a nutritious breakfast.’
‘Am I?’
‘It takes the milk and bowl out from the fridge. It puts the cereal in the bowl, or it gets the hose again!’
‘Hmmph! It takes the bowl of Figwit and goes elsewhere to have one’s breakfast in peace whilst Haily’s having one of her funny turns!’
‘Bitch! You wait until I get you in the showers later!’
‘Oh wait, here’s Willow who is going to help instead. ‘It takes the milk and bowl out from the fridge. It puts the cereal in the bowl…’
‘No it doesn’t, you giglet!’
‘Put the cereal in the f**king bowl! Wait! Come back! It’s got nine essential drugs and medicated babies heads, and there’s a free Porn Tart inside every box!’
‘Cease your vexations, for even if I wanted to eat that kibble there’s nothing left in any of the boxes as you use them for midnight snacks whilst watching The Snuff Channel, you uerteþ pipkin!’
‘Er, which is proof why Neurotically Cereals should be part of your daily diet as it’s made me the Simmie I am today!’
‘If that doesn’t put them off, nothing will!’
‘Can it, Willow – or you’ll be farting Figwit flakes and milk for the rest of the week!’
‘So dear Simmers, please download the Neurotically Yours Sims 3 custom content pack of t-shirts, hooded tops, poster pictures, murals and breakfast cereal and give your Simmies a treat they will love and cherish forever. Or be unable to walk properly and sit down at all for a month. Remember, I only do it because I love you!’
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