Impressive display of digital flesh after the break - obviously not safe for work, unless you work at or somesuch, in which case it's research.įirst, contestants were put through their paces around the city, on animation pose balls set up for that purpose. The Grand Prize winner was Vivienne Graves, for reasons you'll see after below first runner up was Molly Montale, who wore her nudity like a geopolitical metaphor (oh yes!) Second runner up was Ford Roffo, who got all simian up in it. Leaving a little something to the imagination feels more revealing than running around starkers." And when fellow judge Rodion Resistance asked her if she felt more naked in lingerie, than if she was just fully nude, she said this: "Oddly, yes.
"anted to be something a little different," she told us. But the contest was also about how people relate to their avatar in a shared virtual space- as Fei put it in her opening remarks, "between realities that penetrate dreams and dreams that project onto realities between visible and invisible, between you and me." Or to put it another way: How do you feel when your avatar is naked, and people are looking at it, and what does that say about you?ĭuring the question and answer period for the contestants, for example, Storm Vayandar (above) told us she consciously chose a curvier female avatar shape, than is common in Second Life.
On the surface, "Naked Idol" was pretty much like "American Idol", except instead of singing old pop songs, people showed off new digital skins. Last weekend about a dozen nude avatars competed in RMB City, the ongoing art project of my friend Cao Fei (known as China Tracy in SL).
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