Heather Zapatero

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Do You Wanna Date My Avatar

Auction Report #1

Last Saturday the day finally arrived for the 1st of my 10 weekly auctions of my avatar. The story is here:
http://vaneeesa.com/2011/01/05/previz-do-you-wanna-date-my-avatar/

I’d been afraid (no ego here! 🙂 that there wouldn’t be any bidding at all, but in fact there was a lot. The first bid was L$200 from Ironyca Rae, and the winning bid finally was L$2,200 from Trill Zapatero (hence my new last name (thank you mommy) I used to be Heather Atcheson. Plus, our awesome auctioneer Sledge Roffo not only conducted an exciting auction, he even decided to match the winning bid! So we wound up donating L$4,400 to the Afghanistan Museum of Second Life.

It’s been a great Heather Zapatero week… I’m thinking of running away so I don’t have to go back in the Maurizio Cattelan Artist Crate and let one of Vaneeesa’s other (more boring) altvatars have a week. So bogus. The things I do for the dead girl. No one should ask this much of a little kid. Oh well, this too, I shall endure.

Please come tomorrow and bid lots of Lindens on meeeee! And when you win, PLEASE don’t pick one of the other, lame, altvatars, pick meeeee! I want to live!!!

I honestly think Gina behaved or “performed” as a different persona in this body. And really, that makes a lot of sense. Wouldn’t Silvio Berlusconi feel and perform differently if he lived in Anna Nicole Smith’s body? What experience would she have if Paris Hilton lived in Venus Williams’ body?

And while I truly believe she “performed” or “existed” or “was instantiated” differently… certainly I also projected different perceptions onto her. Seeing the younger person I undoubtedly did see and hear and perceive her differently.

For sure Virtual Worlds are great for saying “Hi I’m a business person, or an educator, etc etc, and this is my FL Name and that’s linked to this VW identity… great… but what an opportunity VWs represent to present and experience an inner you that’s never had the chance to be. Gracie Kendal said (paraphrasing poorly, I’m sure) that she’d never really felt fully like who she thought she was, until she entered Second Life.

OMG – that’s my inner Vaneeesa doing philosophy, isn’t it!? Bleeech! F-that! Let’s play!!!

Do You Wanna Date My Avatar

Auction #1 – Saturday 12 Feb 2011
10am SLT / 6pm GMT, Biscuit Bay, An Li, Second Life

Auctioneer: Sledge Roffo
Winning Bidder: Trill Zapatero
Merchandise: Heather Zapatero

Other Attendees:
Agnes Sharple
Fross Maruti
Gina Broono
Gina the Younger
Ironyca Rae
Jennifer Roundfield
Pixel Reanimator
Trilby Minotaur
Ush Underwood
Van Caerndow

Thanks for playin with me you guys – it was such a fun week – it was so nice to be alive…

— Heather