Ivey Deschanel of SN@TCH is one of the creators in Second Life that Rezzable is more than happy to invite back for every event. 2010 - The Future Is Now is her fifth time participating with us, and she has not once failed to bring something interesting, astonishing and intrinsically Ivey. She visited Egyptian mythology with her Bast avatar for the Digital Alchemy event in April '09, and now she has further explored tales of humanity's faith with her Hindu Goddess Kali-Bhadra - but has blown her out in the most cybernetic tentacular way possible.
Something that always astounds me about the talent of creators, clothing designers in particular, in Second Life is how they have the power to make you believe. A commonly uttered phrase about SL (admittedly normally about whatever drama is happening on the Grid that day) is “It's just pixels”. True enough, but when the pixels we are treated to daily in SL have been treated with as much love and care as these, who are we to complain? I have no graphical, or mechanical skill whatsoever (when I once tried to play with flexi in Second Life, all I could do was make a scary tentacle, which now proudly terrorizes visitors to my friend's garden), it's really quite shameful, but I really am quite excellent at suspending disbelief when I see something beautiful. A good amount of my friends are technically minded, and when they see something cool in SL, they'll say “I wonder how they did that?”.
