Tag: Body Image
Persuasion
Kat just wrote a great post about body identity and stereotypes amongst avatars in SL. It’s funny….
The right question
I need your help. I am putting together a real life performance using Second Life and I…
Extreme Makeover: Virtual Edition
SAINT-ÉTIENNE, LOIRE, 8 August — Here today, at the birthplace of performance artist Orlan, we announce Extreme…
Confession of Faith
Another perspective on recent discussions here on the perception of beauty, the projection of identity and the…
This is my body!!
I have been completely exhausted lately, so haven’t had a chance to post anything. I am so…
Life imitating art, imitating beauty?
What is this power that beauty holds over us? What is beauty anyway? Ok, so this question…
The Bald and The Beautiful
So in April I was sitting at work in a busy ER and I had an ‘aha’…
Timmie Jean Lindsey
HOUSTON, 16 March 1962* — today Timmie Jean Lindsey underwent the world’s first silicone-gel breast implant surgery….
VB Previz #52 – Rubenesque / Anorexic
Not so long ago, barely an instant in geologic time, Kate Moss and “heroin chic” were as…
Randomize, RIP
I’m sure it’s hard to be LL, because everything you do gets relentless hindsight complaints from your…
VB Previz #14 – Two Wear My Skin
In a number of conversations and events recently, the idea of what it means to wear some…