New Year virtual life real life crossover
I am still technically on holiday, but as you all know this stuff is so exciting that its hard to keep away. Today I received a real life parcel with a present from Judge Hocho, one of the earliest members of eightbar in Second Life.
Judge had, a while back, created an SL t-shirt for eightbar. He has now turned that into a real one. He very kindly made one for me and one for Algernon and had them shipped over from the US.
UPDATE: Judge did the shirts on cafepress and also has some for our virtual universe community with the logo by Tood Keen. Judge is keen to point out this is a not for profit, but for fun operation. As with Darren’s from a few months ago
Now the intersting thing here is that I now have 2 pieces if clothing in real life that match my main AV look. The leather jacket I converted from my real one back to a virtual one as an early experiment, and I have now become attatched to seeing it on my avatar.
The eightbar tshirt until now only existed as a virtual one. As you can see from the picture the logo is very neat, and I will be proudly wearing this, and a huge thanks and real life rating points to Judge.
Then of course I have my 3d fabjectory print statue of myself.
This affinity we get to some of the virtual assets we have make an interesting point of discussion.
It also highlight the fact that the Second Life for many of us is a very real co-existence.
Just to add to the confusion, I got rainbow six vegas for the xbox 360 for chrimbo. It was a hoot trying to explain to my dad, who was visiting, why exactly I was plugging something that looked like a camera in, and why my 38 weeks pregnant wife was trying to get a decent profile shot of me with it. Luckily the laughing and initial comedy results did not cause a dash to maternity (though any day now).
So I have ended up with less hair, and looking slightly youger if that makes sense, but I am face mapped should any one happen upon the xbox live epredator in Rainbow Six Vegas.
January 4th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
Can’t wait to pick up the t-shirt when I get back to the office (thanks Judge!)
Ian, did someone else stand in for you for that face-mapping picture? I would never have recognised it as being you.
January 4th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
[...] Ian Hughes has now succeeded in further blurring the lines between his real and virtual life by dressing himself in RL with a T-Shirt first made in SecondLife and in SecondLife with a leather jacket first made in Real Life (both of which his Fabjectory figure is wearing). Oh yeah, and he dropped his head into Rainbow Six Vegas as well. [...]
January 4th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
No worries Roo, Ian.
Enjoy! Oh made one for VUC too. ;)
January 5th, 2007 at 9:47 am
So Judge, where’s the rest of the supply? :-)
Ian, I agree with Roo, that face-mapped character is not the best representation I’ve ever seen…
January 5th, 2007 at 10:48 am
Are you sure you didn’t get a photo of Dave C-J mixed in there? :)
January 5th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
The hair is a little swept back from the forehead, I need to play online a bit to earn a hat or something.
March 1st, 2008 at 5:46 pm
[...] Well you have seen eightbar represent itself all over the place. A meta-guild across multiple virtual worlds, a very large Second Life group, Eve corporation, even a Halo 3 clan. We have tshirts virtual and real, custom ferrari’s on Xbox and even been in a book. However our very own Graham spotted that we were missing what can best be described as a gang sign. Last night in Winchester as a night out paid for by Daz (thankyou again Daz, who also pays for the hosting of eightbar.co.uk) this sign was thrown for the first time. It’s fairly self explanatory :-) [...]