A couple of days ago, I saw this blog post and thought to myself, that is one gorgeous male avatar. I liked his Nico skin from Birth a lot, and also the AJ hairstyle from Exile is really awesome.. and I shamefully, dusted off one of my male avs and copied his look! 😀 I’m not terribly original with my male av, but I wanted to challenge myself and make a complete male av this time, with ao, too!
So thank you, Mister Klaber, for the inspiration.
When I’ve dressed up my male av in the past (for vendor ads), I’ve always looked at Bronson Twine’s blog for the latest in menswear. I found this yummy Redgrave shirt from one of his posts, and headed to RG for more goodies. I bought the Polo Shirt, Pants and Sneakers at RG and finished off the look with a new Ultimate Cigarette from Hermony. I’ve decided that my av is a smoker, but he’s trying to quit. It looks cool on him, though! I have a really old cigarette from FKNY, and now Gogo wants a new ciggy too.
My Plurk and Flickr friends have all said that this looks like boy Lady Gaga or a woman in drag! Hmmmmm…. I want to make him manlier, I just don’t know how. I think Oz (that’s his name) is ok with being smaller than most men on the grid.
Overall, I’m happy with this look and my next one might be tackling beachwear! Cos he does hang out at Juicy, after all.
I really don’t want to out my alt’s name, but I’ve had people pose as bloggers for JuicyBomb before, sooo… all you need to know is his name is Oz, and hes 3+ years old. He’ll never approach any designers cos he does not blog here and will never ask for review copies.
Note: On the first picture, I noticed the collar wasn’t positioned right after I had already cropped the images! 🙁 Sorry for the obvious fashion fail! Oz is not a very good fashionista.
THANK YOU for posting this, I’m actually in a dire need of a name change, but I don’t want to rebuy everything I love on ANOTHER account all over..
yw! if you want this to happen, vote!
Linden Labs already agreed to return the last names with some extra benefids (not shure what these might be).
For some information go to http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/12/second-life-last-names-to-return-soon.html
But please keep voting on the Jira. Don’t give them an option to change there minds again.
Totally voting, thanks for posting this Gogo!
Hey there. Wanted to let you know that someone posted on the ANSWER forum a couple of days ago and pasted in a note from a Linden saying that last names will be coming (finally? hopefully? who knows?) . Here is the post:
http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Avatar/Why-do-i-see-Players-with-last-names-other-then-resident-that/qaq-p/1300779
Thanks a lot for sharing, I hope they agree on doing this cause it would be really helpful! 😉
I am not sure what to think about it.
On the one hand, I can see how this is awesome and benefits anyone who doesn’t like their name anymore. I personally know a lot of people who nowadays regret their choice and would love to change, but don’t want to make a new account.
On the other hand, there already are SO many weirdos out there who use alts to harass people, to wash their name clean to get rid of a deserved (bad) reputation etc. If I was into SL relationships, I’d personally not be delighted to find out that the John Doe I met a couple of months ago is in fact that one creepy ex bf I tried to get away from year ago. I somehow don’t think those should be supported all too much.
Voted! Love my name but I am sure there are others who may wish to change theirs. Fwiw, I made a JIRA to take followers off your profile and I would appreciate any votes. https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/WEB-4346
Oh Angela, thank you for posting that. That is excellent news!
“. . . started by a resident name Sexing Oh.” OMG I laughed out loud. Poor Sexing! I would want to change my name too.
I’ll go vote just for Sexing, as well as all the people from the Resident family.
*still laughing – wooooo, I’m loopy from no sleep during the holidays*
I used to know a Wetty Oh when i was a newbie, the Oh name is an old one.
Personally i am against the ability to change your name unless there is a full history of it in your profile with no ability to hide it.
Last names definitely , the loss of those just proved the lab had no idea about in world culture, in my opinion.
I don’t see why, it would be just like creating an alt, except you get to keep all your stuff. With an alt you would have to completely start over, as far as inventory goes. We get to change our names in RL, why not SL 🙂