Yoko Ono's avatar, her SL profile
Yoko Ono, the legendary conceptual artist, is appearing in Second Life tomorrow at 3pm Pacific -- details here. It's part of the Imagine Festival celebrating the birthday of her late husband, John Lennon; Chestnut Rau has more info in her events calendar here. (Ms. Ono commissioned a virtual recreation of her Peace Tower in SL last year.) Appropriately enough, Yoko Ono's avatar is also called Yoko Ono, and last I checked, while the Real Life tab of her Second Life profile has a rocking photo of Yoko, her avatar tab is empty. Which may be an oversight, or as I like to think, just Yoko being Yoko. As I remember, she first met John Lennon at a performance art show, where she was pretending to hammer invisible nails. When she asked for a donation, Lennon held out his hand -- and paid her in invisible money.
Yoko avatar image credit: imaginefestival.wordpress.com.
John Lennon lives on, in my head and my heart. Thank you, Yoko, for keeping his memory alive for those who weren't around when simply everything John did assaulted the haters with love and options for a free world.
Posted by: Bettina Tizzy | Saturday, October 09, 2010 at 08:02 AM
Tried to get in but the sim was too crowded. 44 avatars at the time.
Anyone that did get in...Witness any technical difficulties with the performance, or did it go as smooth jelly?
Posted by: Little Lost Linden | Sunday, October 10, 2010 at 04:40 PM
44 avs and the sim was overloaded?
Please........ No wonder SL is MUCH less than a desired venue for most people. Man Yoko, sorry you wasted your time with this archaic junk.
Time to spend time doing better things.
Posted by: II Singh | Monday, October 11, 2010 at 09:40 AM
Also, time for "ll Singh" to spend time doing better things than trolling blogs
Posted by: II Sigh | Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 03:47 AM
no trolling here and very little concern over what coward imposters think...
Time for you to get a life.
Posted by: II Singh | Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 05:13 PM