NMC Campus Observer

Fashion Parade: Fashioning the Avatar

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Oct 20, 2006 06:25pm

The second part of SLATENIGHT sessions was a brief “fashion” show with commentary by Danielle Damone and Anya Ixchel. The individuals who volunteered to go up on stage answered questions about their choice of representation and interactions in Second Life.

Among the furry avs paraded was this reporter as well as the very very hairy, Seb Basiat:

Danielle Damone asks Seb Basiat a few questions about his fur.

Asked about his avatar, Seb wrote:

I had been looking at furry avvie because I was hoping to see how I could get a completely new set of interactionfrom people that I ran into tried being a furry for a while but it wasn’t me… I found that furries often get treated poorly by human avvies. so when I saw this avvie which was outside of the normal furry archetype. I fell in love with the avvie and liked its dramatic nature.

Anya showed off her “granny” av and Danielle had the full body tattoo and wings. Tasrill Sieyes a real avatar artist surprised us all with a giant statue-like avatar that know one knew was even there– quoted:

I was inspired to make them when I realized that I could literally be anything. Not simply human or something anthropomorphic like furries or robots but anything I could imagine. I could be art not simply make art.

Tasrill Sieyes amazing avatar (photo credit to Danielle, thanks!)

And lastly, we got to see a bit of the winged and green skin look of In Kenzo:

In Kenzo in wings

In also showed a steel skeleton look as well, “This is death, good for Camp Darfur tours, purchased off the rack, L$300L.”

In Kenzo sporting a skeleton av

Listen in to the podcast for more from the fashion parade…

Fashion Parade: Fashioning the Avatar

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