Petr on Alts in SecondLife

I have been too preoccupied with other things the last couple of days, but now that I have passed through that cloud let me share a rare gem with ya'll.

This is a definite must-read from the elderly gentleman over in the corner, who has been observing for a long time how alts (i.e. alternate accounts) are sometimes used in SecondLife and now is in the mood to share his astute analysis and wisdom with us all, So listen up and take it all in!

Confessions of a Digital DaddyBear: "Hiding in Plain Sight"

Latin Dancing

Prrrrrr-ai-ai-ai-ai-ai-ai!

Yesterday I visited Big Momma's Ballroom at Pine Valley for some Latin ballroom dancing. As there were even couples when I arrived I brought in one of my alt's, Princess Hedda, to be my dance partner. She arrived barefoot as she had been culling the turnips at home, but we soon got her into some high-heels and the dancing of rumba, cha-cha and jive etc. could commence.

I much prefer dancing with my Tomais, because he takes care of changing the dances - as the natural born multitasker he is.

When Tomais arrived Princess Hedda was sent back to her turnips and I could relax and enjoy the dancing more as I left it to Tomais to deal with the changing of the dances that the bossy DJ Kahvy shouted out.

Early Notice: Alt Avatar Ball - Saturday 7/13/13

The Details

EVENT: Alt Avatar Ball
DATE: Saturday 13 July
TIME: 10am – Noon PDT
PLACE: Club Morpheus, LEA11, Second Life
WHO: You! Come as your alt!
WHAT: Make a notecard with:
Main Avatar Name: eg “SaveMe Oh”
Alt Avatar Name: eg “Vaneeesa Blaylock”
and give your notecard to the host Agnes Sharple.

Then dance, talk, and make your guesses. There'll be prizes for correct guesses and a big prize for whoever makes the most correct guesses!

....
For more information please read I Rez: Alt Avatar Ball

There´s A New Girl In-World

There is a new female avatar is SecondLife and I met her tonight for the first time.

Her name is Butchella DeVille and she is only two days old. She looks wonderful, stunning and really sharp! Exquisite taste always helps in creating an avatar and this girl can rely on one of the best.

Actually she has everything except shoes, which is how you would recognize her creator... smelly, bare feet (Butch has actually progressed to sandals lately. I am happy to say.)

Below you see today's gathering of male avatars with their newly created female alternate accounts (alts).

The amazing thing that happened is that I kept up my usual repeats in chat (sighhhhhhhh good old #01587329 is getting really tiresome), while Lady Cruella didn't repeat at all. As Butch told me, it cannot be my computer or my broadband causing this problem, it must be something else.

From left Butch Diavolo, Lady Cruella (reclining), Butchella and Bock.
Photographer Butch Ciavolo

Friends or Players?

"Three Brothers" (Evander, Ars and Bock) by Evander M.

This picture was taken on December 8, 2007, shortly before Ars and I became an item. Evander M., the photographer, was one of the "Three E´s" that I have mentioned a few times before. At that time he was a good friend of mine and my landlord.

Even if I hadn't seen the date in the properties of the snapshot I would have guessed it was late in 2007, because we are all in hair from Naughty Designs - the only place you could get decent hair from if you had any taste and didn't want to walk around in ugly hair from Badazz.

Evander and his wife ElenaS. M. had a campaign going to expose Ars to my lovely personality as often and as much as possible because they both knew that was infatuated by Ars. I had told Elena and Elena had told Evander - or so we thought at the time. This day Evander had taken me to Ars home in Moa for a visit.

According to the stories Elena and Evander were spreading among all of us in the Sarco Sound group they were a young Dutch couple who had recently been blessed with a wonderful baby boy. Elena was mostly online as she was home with the baby the first months after his birth, while Evander only came in on evenings and night. Suddenly they brought in "their good friend Emile" and started introducing him to us all. Emile was allegedly gay or bi-curious or whatever.

When this happened I heard mention of the word "alt" for the very first time. I think it was Guyke or Ars who explained to me what that meant, even if I really did not understand the concept. It was said that Emile was an alt of Elena created to get even closer to some of us. Somebody called the bluff and it became a funny thing. I am not sure if any of the others at that time believed that Evander and Elena were the same person, but I certainly had no idea until a few months later.

Early in 2008, after Ars and I had moved in together at Southern Charm, "the three E´s" suddenly decided to kill off Elena in her "first life". The young mother was allegedly killed by being run over by a drunk driver when she was out on the town. I was completely devastated over the bad fortune that had befallen my dear friends and the young family. This lasted for a couple of weeks, when we started being reached by rumors that all three of them were the same Dutch man who was playing a game with us.

Somehow some of the tech-savvy of our little group got this confirmed and the uproar over the deceit was total. I was especially upset by the cruelty of letting us believe that Elena had been killed and the commiseration we had shown for Evander during the long weeks that followed that news.

Even if I should have learned a lesson from this, even now I rarely suspect or believe that anyone is using alts to manipulate and play games with me. I just don't want to believe that about my fellow man.

Nakna avatarer i SL 58

När jag igår kväll luftade mitt desperata behov av nya bilder för detta freds- och konstprojekt fick jag omedelbar respons från den underbara Wizanna Hax.

Eftersom Wiz redan har deltagit med bilder på sin huvudsakliga avatar (ibland även kallad "main") skickade hon bilder på sin "alt", den ljuvliga Pandora Arai i en sagolikt vacker iscensättning.

En "alt" är en alternativ avatar som av mycket olika anledningar skapas när man inte tycker att det räcker med den första avatar man har skapat för att uttrycka sig själv och olika sidor av sin personlighet i SL. Vi har tidigare sett oerhört goda och kreativa exempel då detta genom de väldigt publika "Apmellarna", som ju är en hel liten familj av alts.

Jadå, ni är fortfarande välkomna att skicka era bidrag till mig antingen inworld eller till min mejl lundamats@gmail.com