Second Life Performance Idea

I think it would be cool and interesting to have the whole class give their avatars zombie skin and have us walk around Second Life as a group. From what I have seen in Second Life, everyone dresses their avatars up to match their fantasies, be it furries, princesses, tall masculine men or other things along those lines. No one that I have seen has a scary avatar and they do not crowd around in a pack or like bodied scary avatars. I think it would cause a cool reaction within Second Life and it would be very interesting to hear what people would say when a horde of zombies invades their club or area.

Create an Object in Second Life

This is the coffee table I made in Second Life. I had never worked with any type of 3D modeling and though I don't think I used it to it's full potential, I had a good time playing around with the tools and orienting myself with the controls. I decided to paint the table with a southwest pattern to spice it up a little bit and complete my first object build in Second Life.

Second Life self-portraiture

Here are a couple pictures of my avatar in Second Life as well as a picture of me taken tonight. I've grown a little bit of facial hair since I took the picture for my Second Life skin, but otherwise I think it's pretty spot on. I spent a lot of time in photoshop trying to get my skin to line up with the avatar and I think it turned out good. I want to work on the skin tone and some other small things when I get time and have my avatar perfect.

Reading Questions February 2nd 2011

Questions based on the reading of http://blog.art21.org/2010/04/21/art-the-avatar-ambiguity-of-identity-in-virtual-3d-worlds/

1. Where are the highest concentrations of Second Life users in the world and what is the most common sex and race of these users?

2. Is Second Life a world of fantasy for most residents or merely an extension of their real lives?