I picked this up from The Independent newspaper earlier today. ‘Free running’, across London. Naked. You can buy prints of the resulting photographs, some of which look ‘classical’ in delivery, here. I’ve not put up any of the original photos as they’ll be subject to copyright, but they do look fantastic.

Does it sound like fun? I think so. Nakedness and photography, ideal for us to send an avatar out onto the grid to replicate the theme of ‘Man & Mortar’, even if the avatar isn’t quite free running.

“There was quite a lot of the time when we would do it on rooftops and we would look down and there would be hundreds of people walking underneath you around Bond Street and not one person would look up,” (model Tim) Shieff said, “we managed to get away with it with not too much trouble and no one was offended.”

That was an experience our model, Rick, found replicated in SL.

‘I went to busy sims. As the original series of photographs were taken in a busy London, I went to the London City sim, which isn’t naturist. What Tim Shieff says in the Independent was more or less my experience. Too many avatars focused on what was going on at ground level to even cam upwards. No one was offended in SL either’, he laughs.

Trafalgar Square, London City sim

 Cleopatra’s Needle, The Embankment, London City sim

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