Sometimes SL events are like watching paint dry. Wait for things to rez. More people arrive. More waiting for them to rez. There's the lag, there's the series of comments and asides that scroll across the screen, and the "we want the show" feeling.
On Saturday afternoon, Vaneeesa Blaylock and 26 young ladies performed Miss Blaylock's VB03 - Veinticinco Mujeres, in the gazebo of Oxbridge Village. The idea seemed to be that larger women - described as "beautiful, Rubenesque women" are "as refreshing as they are powerful and graceful," in Miss Blaylock's words on her Journal. Fair enough, most women in SL are impossibly skinny. These women were in Oxbridge Village to celebrate the diverse body types of women by showing up wearing nothing but a pair of shoes. Two small problems and one big problem: first, not everyone got the memo and wore bikinis, lingerie, or accessories. No big deal, as we all got the message. Second, the "performance" seemed to involve the ladies just standing there. For more than a half-hour. These avatars are second life representations of real people but they tend to all look alike. I thought she wanted to represent different shapes of the female body but these avatars all look alike, big breasts, skinny bodies, long legs, thereby, defeating her stated purpose. If Ms. Blaylock is trying to represent many form of the female body, her technical efforts have failed. Personally, I thought her work was ugly because of all these naked women and I didn't understand what was meant.
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