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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008This past weekend I spent some time touring around the gorgeous new Aspire Isle. If you didn’t already know, the original Aspire team, Trina Noland and Bianca Darling turned over the business to Kristianne Matfield, Bender Hamer, and Babyhoney Bailey. This trio of Second Life entrepreneurs took the controversial step of asking their models [...]
What men and women want out of online friendships
Saturday, October 20th, 2007Have you ever visited the Daedalus Project? It’s run by a researcher at Stanford University named Nick Yee. Nick runs online surveys about behavior patterns exhibited by players of massively-multiplayer online games. It’s generally more focused on games like World or Warcarft, but from time to time, Second Life creeps into a survey or [...]
No Anorexia Second Life
Thursday, September 27th, 2007RL master photographer Oliviero Toscani, who has been responsible for Benetton campaigns (remember the Aids ads?), has been shocking the Milan people with his No Anorexia billboard for the rather unknown brand No.l.Ita during the fashion week. In Italy as of this year, the models will have to present a medical attest that states their [...]
A modest rant about inventory
Monday, June 18th, 2007I know that I’m not exactly the “typical case” when it comes to having inventory concerns, so maybe that earns this post a whopping boulder sized grain of salt, but I also know that a lot of other “high volume shoppers” in Second Life have many of these same issues, so let this at least [...]
In the wake of CopyBot
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006The position of the editorial staff of Second Style has not changed since the last time this came up:
The editors of Second Style Magazine do not support or condone the use of any third party software to reuse or modify Second Life content whether for commercial or personal use unless explicit permission to do so [...]
The heart of a doll is in us all
Saturday, October 21st, 2006It’s been on the tip of everyone’s tongue, but remained unspoken. It’s been a dancing phantom in the back of designers’ minds. We saw signs of her emerging as early as when Stitched Doll Skin peeked her head out from between the boxes of casual clothing at Luxe. But it wasn’t until late September, when [...]
Princess for less than a day
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006Do not refresh your browser. This is not a mistake. Yes, it is Choice you see decked out in a period gown. And no, it wasn’t horrible. In fact, it felt apprpriate to walk around a place like Tusk, or Castle Bran (seen here), decked out in crinoline and lace.
The gown I’m wearing is called [...]
Update: Oh DAZZLE, We Hardly Knew Ye
Friday, September 29th, 2006Update [CT]: This is your very last weekend to pick up the L$100 Dazzle goodness. If you’ve been procrastinating or waiting for a paycheck or something else — shop now or forever regret it later.
On Saturday night, I happened to be online around 10:30 SLT. Roslin was trying to find DAZZLE. But somehow the sim [...]
Regarding texture ripping
Monday, September 11th, 2006The editors of Second Style Magazine do not support or condone the use of any third party texture ripping software to reuse or modify Second Life textures whether for commercial or personal use unless explicit permission to do so from the original creator(s) has been given.
With respect to recent events, Second Style Magazine and this [...]
The uneasy tension of being Barbie
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006Via Second Life Insider, I came across the brand new SLATE (Second Life Arts & Total Entertainment) magazine. One of the articles in the inaugural issue is Fantasies of Femininity. The article deals with — what is for some — an uneasy tension between “a beauty ideal in pixels” and how it relates to feminist [...]
Update: Panache textures stolen!
Saturday, August 26th, 2006Update 2: Karina’s name has been fixed. Also, she gave approximately L$7,000 to Zyrra. Zyrra says she will be putting it to good use — probably on money trees for newbies.
Update: Zyrra tells me that the hairs have been removed from the store and the creator admitted she stole the textures. Also, I hope [...]
My Other Self is an Ass-kicking Supermodel
Thursday, August 24th, 2006Lisa Galarneau writing at Terra Nova, a blog that follows MMOs from a research/academic perspective has been thinking about female gamer’s attitudes toward their avatars. The title of her blog post is the same one I used here — just because it tickled me. She adds the aside, “I swear, I need this bumper sticker.” [...]
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