{"id":837,"date":"2007-06-29T09:47:30","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T16:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2007\/06\/29\/springfield-avatars\/"},"modified":"2009-03-16T22:07:38","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T05:07:38","slug":"springfield-avatars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/springfield-avatars\/","title":{"rendered":"springfield avatars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well I guess with All-Star game voting over, I should get another post up!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image835\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/simpsons-movie-website.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Simpsons avatar website\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t already, might I suggest making your own The Simpsons avatar over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simpsonsmovie.com\/main.html\">The Simpsons Movie<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image836\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/simpsons-avatar.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Nick Normalsimpson\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Nick Normalsimpson, with acute modifications in pen<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I reckon you&#8217;ll be able to &#8216;insert&#8217; your avatar into some flash-driven Springfield environment, but the people icon on the billboard is still &#8216;COMING SOON&#8217;, so this option isn&#8217;t set yet. Maybe it&#8217;ll open up after the launch of the movie. For the time being you can create and continually edit your avatars, name them, change their fashion sensibilities, give them a tan, etc.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mii\">Mii avatars<\/a> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/consumer\/systems\/wii\/en_na\/channelsMii.jsp\">Nintendo Wii<\/a> to fantasy avatars created for online environments like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_of_warcraft\">World of Warcraft<\/a>, or contemporary artists interpretation of <a href=\"http:\/\/0100101110101101.org\/home\/portraits\/index.html\">avatars in virtual worlds such as Second Life<\/a> (Richard Minsky once mentioned at a talk at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.location1.org\/\">Location One<\/a> that business people pay him to make them avatars to look like themselves, so when they meet their business partners in real-life, they will recognize each other!), avatars are quickly outnumbering real-world bodies. I mean I must have at least a couple dozen myself!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Postulate:<\/strong> by 2010 over a billion avatars will be created every year.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I guess with All-Star game voting over, I should get another post up! If you haven&#8217;t already, might I suggest making your own The Simpsons avatar over on The Simpsons Movie website. Nick Normalsimpson, with acute modifications in pen I reckon you&#8217;ll be able to &#8216;insert&#8217; your avatar into some flash-driven Springfield environment, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[309,69],"series":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geekathon","tag-avatar","tag-the-simpsons"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/simpsons-movie-website.jpg?fit=500%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-dv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2910,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/2910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}