Comments on: Avatar As Art http://angelaathomas.com/2007/02/09/avatar-as-art/ Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:54:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: hallie jones http://angelaathomas.com/2007/02/09/avatar-as-art/#comment-19402 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:50:29 +0000 http://angelaathomas.com/2007/02/09/avatar-as-art/#comment-19402 Hi Angela. I just stumbled across your site by accident and find what you’re writing about to be very important and interesting!

My friend and I recently had a discussion about the avatar as art last week. I prompted this conversation because I turned my myspace avatar into a super-sized avatar (how very american of me). My friend said that my avatar was “epic” and she coined it “ava-terrorism” because I have been proudly boasting about the fact that my super-sized avatar is screwing up the default myspace page layouts.

you can check it out at this link:
http://www.myspace.com/halliedj

thanks for making all your work public! I’m going to forward your site to some friends.

]]> By: Turn That Darn Blog On » CogDogBlog http://angelaathomas.com/2007/02/09/avatar-as-art/#comment-41 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 05:49:22 +0000 http://angelaathomas.com/2007/02/09/avatar-as-art/#comment-41 [...] back to the blogs, I got to SL colleague Angela Thomas’s new blog where my eye was caught by what looked like a photo of an avatar in a gallery, and through an exchange fo comments, she turned me on to dumpr.net, a fab slick web tool that [...]

]]> By: ailsa http://angelaathomas.com/2007/02/09/avatar-as-art/#comment-32 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:34:33 +0000 http://angelaathomas.com/2007/02/09/avatar-as-art/#comment-32 Hi, glad I tripped over your blog today (thanks Alan for the path). I teach communication skills for health professionals while doing a doctorate on how IT applications are both shaped and shaping us. I am adding you to my links as I am interested in exploration of art as a medium for performing more than words alone can.

]]> By: Angela Thomas http://angelaathomas.com/2007/02/09/avatar-as-art/#comment-31 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:16:15 +0000 http://angelaathomas.com/2007/02/09/avatar-as-art/#comment-31 *laughs* I like it very much :)

]]> By: Alan http://angelaathomas.com/2007/02/09/avatar-as-art/#comment-30 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:02:59 +0000 http://angelaathomas.com/2007/02/09/avatar-as-art/#comment-30 Ahh, thanks for turning me into dumpr, a fun set of tools. I agree completely as to the effect you describe.

I found another interesting piece in an adacent gallery ;-)

]]> By: Angela Thomas http://angelaathomas.com/2007/02/09/avatar-as-art/#comment-27 Sun, 18 Feb 2007 15:22:32 +0000 http://angelaathomas.com/2007/02/09/avatar-as-art/#comment-27 The photo is a fake, created with dumpr.net and uploaded to flickr. But it takes people gazing at my avatar to an entirely new level. From the personal and intimate gaze, to the critical and abstract.

]]> By: Alan http://angelaathomas.com/2007/02/09/avatar-as-art/#comment-26 Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:54:43 +0000 http://angelaathomas.com/2007/02/09/avatar-as-art/#comment-26 Awesome photo– where was it taken?

Me too on liking the new blog and conversations here.

My conscious on Second Life is now solved as I have two new fluorescent light bulbs in my office ;-)

]]> By: Chris http://angelaathomas.com/2007/02/09/avatar-as-art/#comment-17 Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:30:11 +0000 http://angelaathomas.com/2007/02/09/avatar-as-art/#comment-17 Hey Angela,

I love the new site! Looks very sleek!

]]> By: Jess http://angelaathomas.com/2007/02/09/avatar-as-art/#comment-16 Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:37:07 +0000 http://angelaathomas.com/2007/02/09/avatar-as-art/#comment-16 Hi Angela,
What a great comment. Thanks. I think it would be really beneficial if you’d post that over at WDL. I think those readers *need* to hear your point. I responded to the post and tried to negotiate my energy use in real life as a way of using energy in online life but your quite right that in order to teach new literacies (for example) we do need to be involved with them, hands on.

]]> By: Leif http://angelaathomas.com/2007/02/09/avatar-as-art/#comment-15 Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:38:11 +0000 http://angelaathomas.com/2007/02/09/avatar-as-art/#comment-15 Hello, my friend the new site looks interesting and I hope it continues to expand. One of these days I may even try second life myself … who knows:)

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