What to Wear in Second Life If You Like What Not to Wear and Socialverse
Last night's episode of TLC's hit show What Not to Wear had SL fashionistas in a tizzy. Though Second Life was slightly shrouded under the fabricated name of "Planet Stiletto", it was immediately recognizable as SL to anyone in the know. But the reality of Second Life isn't very far from the made-for-reality-TV Planet Stiletto. It's a playground for the style-savvy to express themselves-- a world where utterly flawless fashion is attainable for a few dollars during a lazy Saturday afternoon at home. Of course there is a LOT more to Second Life than just fashion, but if you're going to go exploring you might as well do it in style!
So I've got a few shopping tips for anyone looking to get started in Planet Stiletto -- I mean, Second Life -- especially if you're a virtual world newbie. Keep reading to find out how!
In the Bay Area This Friday? Come See Linden Lab's Peter Gray Rock It With The Butterfly Knives!
The spokesman for Second Life has a Socialverse Appsecond life: Peter Gray, head of PR for Linden Lab, is also lead guitar for The Butterfly Knives, a Bay Area combo in the Rock/Post Punk/Indie Rock school. (Above at right, that's him axing the hell out of it.) Give their tracks a listen here, they're pretty kicking -- reminds me a bit of Live, or Alice in Chains. And on July 20, they're hitting it at the Stork Club in Oakland -- here's the event info.
Can't make it to Oakland? Wonder if they'll do a gig in Second Life (hint hint). I've embedded some Butterfly rock below -- give a listen. Warning: May provoke head-banging.
Second Life style makes its debut in the cable TV show What Not to Wear, today at 9pm (8pm Central), the reality show where two dubiously well-dressed hosts tell their less photogenic inferiors how to dress, with their latest target for gentle cruelty and rehabilitation being Victoria, who's obsessed with Second Life (which the hosts just keep calling "the virtual world".) The SL side of the production was done by Socialverse longtime SL designer Damien Fate, along with Paul Jannicola and Kerria Seabrooke of Dimension 11, who did a lot of SL machinima for CSI and other major media productions which incorporated SL during its hype years. Damien can't say much about the show right now, but he can say this: "For the most part I am limited to saying yes I and others worked on it... and Stacy London is wearing coldLogic clothing. Which she picked out herself." So at least the hostess of What Not to Wear knows what to wear in SL.
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