{"id":216,"date":"2008-01-01T10:22:19","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T15:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fleeep.net\/blog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2008-01-01T10:22:19","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T15:22:19","slug":"thank-you-eloh-eliot-free-full-perm-skins-in-several-shades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/thank-you-eloh-eliot-free-full-perm-skins-in-several-shades\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you Eloh Eliot!  Free Full Perm Skins in Several Shades!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently <a href=\"http:\/\/fleeep.net\/blog\/?p=198\">I posted<\/a> about the difficulty some students had finding Second Life skins in a range of skin tones and I said I would publicly and personally thank any skin designer who contributed some freely available african, latino, or asian skins to the SL community.<\/p>\n<p>I received a wonderful Christmas present of two different sets of full permissions skins from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mollymontale\/\">Molly Montale<\/a> that fit the bill, and then a few days later someone alerted me to Eloh Eliot&#8217;s free skins available at Another shop, Lippert (73, 185, 179).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eloheliot.blogspot.com\/\">Eloh Eliot&#8217;s<\/a> skins rock!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2151\/2144267743_e7f8c99f81_o.jpg\" alt=\"Free skins in Second Life\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even more generous, Eloh makes the <a href=\"http:\/\/eloheliot.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/lf0-psds.html\">PSD files available<\/a> so you can learn about skin modification and design if you are so inclined.<\/p>\n<p>Now, <a href=\"http:\/\/secondthoughts.typepad.com\/second_thoughts\/2007\/12\/black-not-like.html\">Prokofy<\/a> made a couple of good points that I want to acknowledge, 1) that by doing so much handholding, I am robbing newbies of part of the joy of discovery that SL provides and 2) that giving them freebie, quality skins undercuts the business of those who specialize in african, latino, and asian skins.<\/p>\n<p>These are fair points that deserve some consideration and I&#8217;ve been thinking about it since Prok posted.  I&#8217;m not sure what the solution is yet, but I appreciate the challenge to consider the effects of my actions, and in the meantime, I am thankful to Molly and Eloh for making other options available to the wider SL community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I posted about the difficulty some students had finding Second Life skins in a range of skin tones and I said I would publicly and personally thank any skin designer who contributed some freely available african, latino, or asian skins to the SL community. I received a wonderful Christmas present of two different sets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-deep-thoughts","category-second-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}