Self Portrait – Page 19

Hanging Out My Shingle

Image January 27, 2013February 1, 2013PeepSideshow Darkward3 Comments

This will be a short post, but a lot of work went behind it!

I’ve officially set up shop in Second Life with a showroom on the Dolce Vita sim. It’s in a pretty shopping district set up around Intimate Moments Ballroom. I spent the weekend setting up the displays, creating an information giver and it even has a bell you can press to IM me 🙂 Special thanks to my friend, Romeo, who helped line up my displays (since I’m building-challenged, to say the least!)

To get to Pics by Peep, click on the link and from the landing point walk down the left side toward the ballroom and I’m about halfway down. Look for my sign and stop in to check out some of my work!

In The Sea I See Myself

Image January 26, 2013February 1, 2013PeepSideshow DarkwardLeave a comment

I have seen the sea when it is stormy and wild; when it is quiet and serene; when it is dark and moody. And in all its moods, I see myself.
~ Martin Buxbaum

Creating a profile picture, for me, is about creating a mood. Even though people are more disposed to being happy or sad, we all go through different moods. None of us is one-dimensional; we have many facets, although we often don’t show them to those around us. I change my profile picture often – it reflects who I am at that moment in time.

A lot of my profile pictures may seem to be sadder than I really am. That is largely because, in my opinion, the smile animations in Second Life look…well, a little goofy 😀 This photograph, for instance, elicited a comment from a friend of, “Aw, Peep, tell me your troubles.”

In fact, when I took the photo, I was trying to portray deep thought. I wasn’t sad, but I was immersed in my own world at the time. I guess I fell a little short with that one.

Another picture I took was to show the carefree, playful side of me. This one, I believe, hit the mark.

This one hasn’t made my profile (yet) but it’s a photo I took for my Second Life boyfriend. I think it shows more than one mood – longing, lightness, joy. All things I feel for him.

The sea is not just stormy, quiet or dark. It is also the playground of dolphins and whales, the waves dancing beneath the breeze.

I am all of these…and more.

A Unicorn Followed Me Home…

January 22, 2013February 1, 2013PeepSideshow DarkwardLeave a comment

…and I fell in love ♥

Actually, I found him at a sales event called Introducing Genre, the .la petite mort. unicorn prop. And I knew I had to photograph him.

One of my favourite things to do is to take the same image and apply different effects. Each photograph based on the same original shot can show a different mood or side of the person I’m photographing. That’s what I did with this shot of myself and my new friend, Percival (yeah, I named my unicorn 😉 )