Have you created any custom avatars that are based on specific real world celebrities/public figures? I'd love to consider them for a New World Notes feature I'm working on about avatar appearance and recognition. Send a screenshot to me via e-mail to hamlet at secondlife dot com, or as a Flickr/Koinup/YouTube/etc. screenshot link to me in-world (Hamlet Au) or via Plurk (Hamlet_Au) or Twitter (SLHamlet). (Full credit given to each avatar creator featured, of course.)
Which celebrity inspired the avatar above? Move your mouse over the image to see. She's one of many celebrity avatars created by Candy Bijoux, interviewed in my NWN post on virtual infidelity, "Your Cheating Heart".
Update, 4/11: Important -- for this series, I'm looking for avatars intentionally customized to resemble a RL celebrity, not avatars said to resemble one after the fact.
There was a gig in SL by comedian Jimmy Carr some time back. Don't know who created the avatar, but there's some pics here....
http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=jimmy+carr+gaynor+gritzi&m=text
Posted by: Gaynor Gritzi | Thursday, April 09, 2009 at 05:31 AM