People create an avatar that represents who they want to be.
Photojournalist Robbie Cooper finds out the stories behind these avatars.
He spent three years, travelling to places like Korea, China,
France and Germany to photograph people who created an avatar.
EDIT : send your ” me and my avatar photo” in the comments section, i will add them to the post.
To find out more, you can check out his book, Alter Ego.
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Thanks to Grreg
some Swedish Bed readers avatars pics :
Alion
amandasavestheday
Ruby Sinreich
Mac Chandler
Ytimynona
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[…] Photojournalist Robbie Cooper has taken pictures of people across the world and juxtaposed them with images of their online avatars. It’s quite powerful stuff. It seems that the internet can be a place both to assert your identity of create a new one. See the images here. […]
Hey, great blog…I haven’t figured out how to add your site in my rss reader but I will soon 🙂
Interesting that so many adults are playing kids games.?
Not kids games, certainly not. Many are even R-rated or whatever. Though, it’s good if adults play kids games as well, relaxing and fun and never lose the childish part of yourself or you’ll turn into a boring adult 🙂
1964 called. It wants its social perception back.
My Yahoo Answers (I know, not a video game… w/e) Avatar and I: http://ytimynona.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/picture-187.png
[…] to this post from Swedish Bed, I have been thinking about how well my avatar represents me in real life. […]
“For example, many men create female avatars not because they are pretending to be girls in game, but because they’d rather stare at a female’s body while they play than a male’s.”
Horrible, and not true.
Actually, having many friends who play video games, that is fairly common….
Thats me and my boy.
““For example, many men create female avatars not because they are pretending to be girls in game, but because they’d rather stare at a female’s body while they play than a male’s.”
Horrible, and not true.”
People choose their characters for a lot of reasons. I’m a guy but I played a female undead in WoW just so I could do backflips while using a one-handed weapon. It just looks awesome and it has nothing to do with how I want people to perceive who I am as a person.
And I made a female blood elf just cause male blood elves look as if they’re cross dressed
“People create an avatar that represents who they want to be.”
Interesting set of photos, but from my experience in the gaming community, this is most often not the case. Most people I know from MMOs do not treat their character as an extension of themselves, and although they may create a character aesthetically pleasing, this does not mean they are creating their ideal self.
For example, many men create female avatars not because they are pretending to be girls in game, but because they’d rather stare at a female’s body while they play than a male’s.
I made my first avatar this afternnon on Avatara , tried to make it look like myself, not sure about the end product. willl try my alter ego tomorrow.
I wonder what it says about making an avatar that looks like you vs. making one that looks nothing like you at all?
Really cool. Interesting how people want to be percieved compared to the reality
Interesting. Here’s me and my Second Life avatar: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rubyji/293063870/
Thats really interesting … at least your not a boy pretending to be a school girl 🙂
Interesting. Here’s me and my Second Life avatar (she has better-looking hair now, though).