The relationships we form in Second Life can at times seem to be a revolving door ushering ‘friends’ in and out quickly some easily forgotten, however, Maxwell Graf, would take a lifetime to forget. Maxwell Graf is the talented mind behind Rustica Furnishings. Maxwell has been a plurk friend for ages, but when we ran into each other one night in world I almost tackled him for an interview. He rattled my nerves by suggesting a live interview – no notecards just a conversation between two people who loved prims and Second Life. What I later learned after spending an evening on a personal tour of his latest creation is that Maxwell likes the extraordinary and his attitude is far from mundane. I have not had so much fun getting to know some-
one in SL in a very long time. Max’s latest creation is contained within a beautiful sky dome, but this is no ordinary dome the sky scenes change as well as the water reflects in the small stream below. This fully mesh house is the first as Rustica it was a massive learning project that took three months to create and it is only fifty prims instead of the 250 the home would normally be if regular prims were used to build it. This new home will also be available in a petite version! Max was a great teacher while I have this magazine I have zero building skill, but he patient explained and showed me elements of what it takes to complete a project of this size. I gained an even greater respect for designers as he explained that the mesh home was done with “procedural textures. This