Silvana Lefevre — Post 6 Grrrl
by Alphaville Herald on 02/06/09 at 7:15 pm
[As the Post 6 Photog, whenever I'm on the grid I have my eyes open forbeautiful avatars. Shopping, clubbing, hanging out with friends- younever know when a gorgeous, or sophisticated, or sexy, or interestingavatar will appear, so I'm always scoping the people around me lookingto bring you a face that's new and pleasing. I found that and more withthis week's model, Silvana Lefevre. She is as smart as her avatar isbeautiful, and as engaging as she is sexy. I know I'm in love with herand I hope you will be too. -- Timothy Morpork]
Hello boys and girls! I'm Silvana Lefevre, and this is the body I've created.
AsI'm writing this I have no idea of how the pictures have turned out.Earlier snaps by the same photographer have been ill received by someof the critics, but I've decided to let mine be published regardless.Let's not call a rose by any other name: Second Life bodies are perfectyet imperfect and capturing them in still images is inatelyproblematic. How a photographer and magazine decide to deal with thatis their responsibility. If they are careless enough to make me lookbad, let it be on their heads.
Besides, if perhaps beside thepoint, photographer Timothy has made the experience fun. Throughout thephotoshoot he has been very sweet and complimentary. And while heopenly admitted to hoping for sex afterwards he was quite content tosettle for a cuddle and a kiss.
Anyway.
Me and my body…
I'm quite proud of it. That's why I vainly agreed to accept this placein the spotlight. I've spent a lot of time molding this body from ageneric Linden shape. Some of it reflects what I see in the mirror,some of it is wishful thinking. I love how it has turned out and howgraciously it moves sometimes. In certain dances, for instance, or insome of the better animated poses and AOs. Together with the hair andclothes I've been finding over the many months of my second existenceit conveys a lot about how I feel and how I want to live my life. Anylife.
Butlet's not get carried away. Bodies, their coverings and their movementsare not without their problems in SL. Anyone who has ever jumped onto aset of sex balls with a partner will know what I mean: bodies getstrangely broken into segments and parts move about frantically withoutever exactly hitting the right spot. The visual part of SL wouldn'tamount to much if it wasn't for the words we share: the uninhibitedconversations under cover of a pseudonym, the sweet and dirty whispersin a lover's ear.
Can I tell you something funny?
I mean funny as in an observation that has had me puzzled for a bit.
Awhile back I was at a clothing store where the owner and designer wasfinishing some alterations on a dress I was buying. When I was about tochange into my new clothes, I was embarrassed to strip before her.Embarrassed, moi…
It gave me a bad case of the giggles. I havebeen naked with more people than I can remember, in private and inpublic, and here I was — too shy to strip in a couturier's store!
Apparentlyit's different getting naked when it's not for sex, and apparently I'vecome to identify with my body, my avatar, so much that I respond toeveryday situations as I would in everyday life. (This last bit I readover and over, then decided to leave it as is.)
I doubt that Iwould ever in my real life have posed like this, but as it was, inSecond with Timothy cooing around me, I felt pretty and comfortable. Ihope it shows.
u kin doit
Jun 2nd, 2009
OoooooooO
luvly
luvly
grrrl
OoooooooO
Yak
Jun 3rd, 2009
You look great Silvana… there’s nothing like fiddling those shape sliders yourself…
Steel Wheels
Jun 3rd, 2009
Great pictures
Good write-up
Decent model with normal boobs
Is this the right blog?
Can we get Penance back? There’s nothing to make fun of here
Carmen
Jun 3rd, 2009
Very nice Av and the pictures probably dont do you justice, How come its limited to only a few pic’s these days? Nice write up too the bit about stripping off in front of others i feel the same lol. Oh stick with the longer hair it suits you.
404 Brain Not Found
Jun 3rd, 2009
Typical, another advert for my store etc.
Oh wait. What?
/me scans the article again
This can’t be right.
An interesting article – check
Nice model – check
No adverts – check
Umm, seems I’m out of a job
Keep it up
Silvana Lefevre
Jun 4th, 2009
Wow.
After the photoshoot I had got a little worried. Timothy had been so sweet about his request that I hadn’t bothered to see any previous posts, and then when I did — oh boy. Herald readers are a critical lot.
But then I saw the photographs (before the post, but well after the “write-up”, though it seemed a shame to post-edit that first bit). Wow. They show so much of me, and I don’t mean just the physical bits.
And then the response. Wow again. So much praise. Thank you, thank you all.
You know what? I do believe that, for all the hullabaloo with which they sometimes present their arguments, Herald readers are a caring lot.
At the risk of being scorned for advertising after all, I’m telling you now that I’ll definitely be following this publication.
Prof. Archie Lukas
Jun 4th, 2009
Yup
agreed ’bout ime we had a photographer that hadn’t smeared had his/her lunch on the lens first.
Somewhat worrying was the sleezeball attempt to have sex post-shoot.
#1 rule in glamour photography (RL)
“NEVER TOUCH THE MODELS”
Trust me on this.
Let your female assistant adjust her hair, put foundation on her boob moles; but don’t ever touch them -unless you want to be a pornographer; in which case you are too cheap to afford sets and assistants, or even film sometimes.
Then make a date and bonk the hell out of her/him at your leisure.
See?
Simples?
moses
Jun 4th, 2009
i know about changing my clothes. i always run home and hide in my house which is very secluded. only time i did not go home to change my new clothes did not load and i was standing there with my fat gray bum hanging out for all of the world to see. i think some people even quit second life when they saw it. they never came back i am sure. it was trauma.
Jaime
Jun 4th, 2009
Marvelous pictures, Timmy, keep up the good work!!
Gauge Laville
Jun 5th, 2009
Great selection. Well written and well shot. Nuff said.
Karl Reisman
Jun 7th, 2009
I have to say, this shape is a lot sexier than most of the “Barbie Girls” I see. She seems “real”.
The one problem with a lot of the Post 6 Photos is we never see a back shot. Backs are sexy, as are butts.
–Karl
Silvana Lefevre
Jun 8th, 2009
@Karl Reisman: Show me yours and I’ll think about showing you mine, Karl.
In the meantime, you may want to follow this lead I got from the New World Notes blog: http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/06/butt-of-course.html
It’s about a meme one SL blogger started inviting people to post tasteful back and butt shots in their blogs. Many followed up on his example, which will soon be followed by an exhibition.
Silvana Lefevre
Sep 20th, 2010
Hey!
What’s going on here?
Spaces between words are going missing in my Post 6 entry.
Not a big help for readability.