I don’t know if the rambling mess that was my last post actually flushed out my Writer’s Block or if the fact that it rained and I finally got a full night sleep cured my blahs, but I was feeling much more in the mood to explore and take pictures today.

I was browsing the Destination Guide and came across an entry for Meta-Body.

In this new project, Meilo Minotaur and CapCat Ragu invite you to rethink your bodies through your avatars, making available all kinds of skins, shapes, body parts, clothes, etc.

That sounded promising, and I really liked the avatar shown on the ad so I went over to see it for myself.  To my surprise, this and all the other Meta-Body avatars were absolutely free.

As soon as I arrived I realized I’d heard of this before, in fact I’ve seen some of these avatars, but I never did get around to visiting it myself.  I must have lost the landmark in my big bucket list of things to do and see so I was quite happy to have discovered this again.   The notecard for the Meta-Body project describes it better than I could.

The virtual experience of the body is not exactly an experience of the flesh. These sensations, albeit having a physical sensorial aspect, continue to be experienced in our bodies behind the screen, not in our avatar body. The virtual body is a metaphorical body, all language, therefore open to experimentation and possibility.

In this new project, Meilo Minotaur and CapCat Ragu invite us, once again, to rethink our bodies through our avatars, (Read more...)

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