Opportunity to be in "Alter Ego" book

Some of you may remember seeing a story about Robbie Cooper's book last year.... They contacted me today to ask if any SL Residents would be interested in getting their picture taken for a new book they are working on.

Please contact Tracy directly -- his email address is below.
Thanks,
Catherine


Writer Tracy Spaight and photographer Robbie Cooper will be interviewing and photographing MMO players for the upcoming Alter Ego photographic exhibition and book. Alter Ego takes viewers on a journey into the frontiers of cyberspace to explore community, identity, love, and loss within virtual worlds. Alter Ego will:

· Document the growing culture of video games and online worlds in an intelligent, witty, and accessible way
· Explore how gamers use technology to create novel forms of community and identity in cyberspace
· Provide a visually arresting and entertaining journalistic record of life on the cyber frontier

Alter Ego juxaposes photographs of real people with their avatars and documents life on the screen with player stories, interviews, and screen shots. The exhibition opens in Amsterdam this November and will visit other cities across Europe, the U.S., and the Far East beginning next year. The book will be published sometime next summer. You can read about the original exhibit here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3683260.stm

Robbie and Tracy are looking for Second Life players who:

Look like their avatars
Make a real world living through a virtual business (fashion designer, etc)
Play a different gender than their real world gender
Use the game space to express their creativity
Met their significant other online
Have a colorful, off-the-wall, or unusual story about their online existence

The authors have not finalized their itinerary, but plan to begin their trip in South Carolina on September 10th and work their way up the East coast. From there they'll travel to selected cities in the Mid-West before heading out to California. If you'd like to be a part of the project, please send an email to Tracy at [email]tspaight@gmail.com[/email]. Tell us where you live, how to contact you, and why you would make a good interview subject for the book / exhibit. We look forward to hearing from you!

Hi all,

Thanks to those who have contacted me so far about being in the Alter Ego book and the gallery exhibitions. We're planning our U.S. itinerary now and will likely be in a city near you, so drop me a line if you're interested in the project.

Cheers,

Tracy
A.K.A. Cybernaut Bixby