| 单词 | avatar |
| 例句 | Aech pronounced his own avatar’s name just like the letter “H.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Even GSS’s own employees couldn’t look up an avatar’s true identity. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z That name floated above my avatar’s head whenever I was on school grounds. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Even though she told me repeatedly that in reality she looked almost nothing like her avatar and that she wasn’t nearly as attractive in person. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But locating our avatars wouldn’t do them any good unless we happened to be in a PvP zone at the time and were stupid enough to stay put until the Sixers could reach us. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z From my vantage point in the sky above, I could see that the Sixer forces surrounding the castle were already being overrun by the endless mob of enemy avatars. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As I raised my blade, the avatar spoke. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I curl my toes slightly and imagine walking—and with those double cues, my avatar moves forward. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I gave her an avatar and I led her into the great hall, and showed her all the spaces I made for her. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I hesitated a moment before asking, “Are you sure he didn’t really commit suicide? Because his avatar had been killed?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As he hit the ground, his avatar’s body transformed and shrank back to its normal size and appearance. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Or else I’d probably be creating a new avatar right about now. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I’d designed my avatar’s face and body to look, more or less, like my own. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The other avatar glares at me with a look of murder, but I’m careful not to stare back. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Or the names of his incarnations—his avatars, if you want to get technical. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z But to my surprise, the next avatar to snag the Jade Key was none other than Shoto. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A split second after we heard the thunderous boom, my perspective shifted, and I found myself looking at our three avatars, standing there frozen in front of the open gate. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When I’d cleared the Third Gate, the eighteen Sixer avatars who were still inside had been ejected from the gate and deposited in front of the castle. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But for some reason, I suspected that Mr. Avenovich’s avatar looked and sounded just like the person operating it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z If my avatar was killed, I would lose my sword, shield, and leather armor, and the three levels I’d managed to gain over the past few years. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My avatar could run at a maximum speed of five kilometers an hour, so it would take me over three days to get there on foot if I ran nonstop the entire time. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It was worth wasting a hundred or so of their highest-level avatars. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Check the Scoreboard. There are still twenty Sixer avatars listed there, below Parzival. And their scores indicate that every single one of them has a copy of the Crystal Key.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Even a party of six or seven high-level avatars would have had a difficult time defeating him. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z They were pitiless, powerful avatars from another world. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The first caller’s avatar appeared in front of me in my support chat room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Every transport terminal on the planet has been spitting out avatars since last night,” he said, motioning to the scene around us with his Gundam’s massive hand. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “The moment someone enters the Third Gate, a live vidfeed of their avatar appears at the top of the Scoreboard,” Art3mis said. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I couldn’t take too much satisfaction from this, though, because I knew he was probably already kicking one of his underlings out of a haptic chair so he could take control of a new avatar. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In that same instant, the Sixer ground forces spotted Shoto, and sensing a much easier target, they began to redirect their fire at his avatar. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Then Daito could simply create a new avatar and reclaim the items his brother was holding for him. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Todd13 scowled and his face actually turned red—a sign that he hadn’t bothered to turn off his account’s real-time emotion feature, which made your avatar mirror your facial expressions and body language. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But that didn’t make sense, because my avatar no longer had a comlink. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My wimpy +1 Flaming Sword couldn’t even affect him, and the two magic rubies in his eye sockets had the power to suck out my avatar’s life force and kill me instantly. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z All around us, avatars began to pair up. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z We all jumped and turned around just in time to see a tall, male, gray-haired avatar appear directly behind us. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z You didn’t have to provide it when you created your avatar. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It showed his avatar, Anorak, sitting in his castle’s library, mixing potions and poring over dusty spellbooks. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She’s dressed like her Warcross avatar—in a limited edition suit and webbed glitter cape—and dancing with a bunch of businessmen in bright pink suits. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z If even half of the exploits she’d mentioned on her blog were true, her avatar was probably at least fiftieth level. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He smiled and waved good-bye as his avatar slowly faded out of existence. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I pulled up my avatar’s inventory and placed the Jade Key back inside. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A scarlet banner hangs over the gangplank leading up to its main deck, where a steady stream of anonymous avatars are now walking. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z First, I would choose one of the kids in my official fan club, someone with no money and a first-level newbie avatar, and give her every item I owned. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z You could also obtain an artifact by killing an avatar who had one in its inventory, or by purchasing one in an online auction. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z And D&D characters were just like avatars. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z So, if I’m looking at code about my own avatar, I’d probably see myself referred to as WP39302824 or something like that. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z At the same moment, his avatar froze, as if he’d been turned to stone, and a log-out icon appeared directly over his head. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My avatar’s level and hit-point counters both had infinity symbols in front of them. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z If I had come here in person, my avatar would be surrounded by thousands of Sixers and I’d be at your mercy. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As Max piloted the Vonnegut down to the surface, I prepared for the possibility of combat by charging up my armor and buffing my avatar with several potions and nano packs. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Transport terminals all over the planet were jammed with incoming avatars. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z One of the avatars whips out a dagger and lunges, ready to tear through me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I wasn’t sure what would happen if I got three strikes in a row, but my guess was that I’d either be expelled from the gate or that my avatar would simply be killed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My feet began to slide across the carpet, and I realized that my avatar was being pulled toward the game room, as if a black hole had opened up somewhere in there. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z High-level avatars bragging about some new magic item or artifact they’d obtained. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z To my disgust, I learned that Sorrento had been the first avatar to set foot inside Castle Anorak since Halliday’s death. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Mr. A’s avatar looked like a portly, bearded college professor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “All of my avatar’s items were destroyed by the Cataclyst,” I said. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I asked Shoto why his brother had bothered to make out a “will” for his avatar, instead of just leaving his possessions in Shotos care. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I fired my avatar’s jet boots just before I hit the ground, then quickly adjusted my immersion rig’s control setup, because I was now controlling my avatar instead of a giant robot. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Still others wear all kinds of avatar items, virtual cat ears or antlers on their heads, enormous angel wings on their backs, hair and eyes in every color. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When I wasn’t hanging out with my new online pseudo-girlfriend, I devoted the rest of my time to leveling up my avatar. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z To move around or interact with your virtual surroundings, you keyed in text commands telling the game what you wanted your avatar to do. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I spent the next few hours outfitting my avatar and preparing myself mentally for what was to come. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She does and sees the secret passageway right above her avatar’s head. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “Good as new,” he said, grinning down at his restored avatar. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I altered my avatar’s appearance so that I looked exactly like Meat Loaf did in the role, but my performance and lip-synching still kinda sucked. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It was impossible for helpdesk avatars to leave their cubicles, but I found other ways to pass the time. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When I failed to answer, a stocky female avatar stepped out of the shadows and into the chamber’s flickering torchlight. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But I’ve built up years of code on my avatar, programming myself for just this kind of grab. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z By my avatar’s previous standards, I was now filthy rich. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In virtual reality, Asher looks like a standing avatar; in real life, he is paralyzed from the waist down and sits in what must be the world’s most expensive wheelchair. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Within a few days, the list of avatars on the Scoreboard was over a hundred names long. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My avatar instantly shrank back to normal size, and my appearance returned to normal. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My feet were instantly lifted off the floor as the vortex continued to pull my avatar inexorably toward it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Then I pulled the Atari joystick to the right, moving my tiny square avatar across the flickering screen. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I pictured her as a physical manifestation of her avatar. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I look at the bot in surprise, but it ignores me and attacks the other two avatars before turning on the other bots. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Her avatar’s facial expressions were extremely realistic, which usually meant they were synched to those of their operator instead of controlled by software. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As I descended the staircase, I saw a few dozen other gunters milling around, with avatars that varied wildly in appearance. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Using my avatar’s new superuser interface, I made a sweeping gesture with my hand, selecting all of the Sixer avatars on my display. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A fierce battle cry rose from the sea of avatars around us and they all surged forward, converging on the Sixer army from every direction. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Clusters of anonymous avatars gather in front of the rare ones, chattering excitedly. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was the most incredible display of power by an avatar I’d ever seen. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I put them on, and they adjusted to fit my avatar’s feet perfectly. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Only avatars who possessed a copy of the Crystal Key could cross the threshold of the castle’s front entrance. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A few seconds later, Shoto logged back into his account, and his avatar materialized a short distance in front of me, in the exact spot where he’d been killed a few hours earlier. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “You’d be in charge of the entire division, second-in-command only to me. I’m talking about five thousand highly trained combat-ready avatars, all taking orders directly from you.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z There were no castles, dungeons, or orbiting space fortresses for my avatar to raid. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z And, I knew, that same emblematic letter adorned the front gates of Castle Anorak, his avatar’s impregnable stronghold. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My avatar would die and game over would appear in the center of my display. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The area around Castle Anorak, which had been crowded with warring avatars a split second before, was now a desolate and barren wasteland. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A cheer went up from the thousands of avatars watching from the chaotic battlefield around us. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Then I tapped confirm to pay the fare, and my avatar vanished. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When I emerged from the gate, my avatar reappeared back inside Tyrell’s office. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My avatar’s present location was indicated by a flashing blue dot. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Your avatar’s name was also your e-mail address and chat ID, so you wanted it to be cool and easy to remember. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The ring allowed my avatar to teleport once a month, to any location in the OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Then, as I watched in amazement, my avatar reappeared, fading back into existence in the exact same location where I’d died a few seconds earlier. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When I experiment with pressing them, my avatar jerks forward a bit. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Think about it. If three avatars enter the Third Gate at the exact same moment, then it becomes a race to see who can clear the gate and reach the egg first.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My avatar had a slightly smaller nose than me, and he was taller. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I turned and saw Toddl3, an obnoxious avatar I recognized from my Algebra II class. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The lines of distinction between a person’s real identity and that of their avatar began to blur. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z And, I realized, since the Scoreboard was viewable to the entire world, my avatar had just become famous. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But a few gunters were successful, and at the bottom of the Scoreboard, listed after the High Five and the dozens of IOI employee numbers, new avatar names began to appear. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But now it tumbled forward and fell end-over-end, landing directly in the palm of my avatar’s hand. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Even as a chatlink projection, my avatar could still mime shaking his outstretched hand. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “The castle entrance will open for an avatar who holds a copy of the Crystal Key,” I explained. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z If Daito failed to deactivate the Beta Capsule and return to human form before his three minutes were up, his avatar would die. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The chattering of the avatars around us grew in volume. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I took it out and snapped it onto my avatar’s wrist. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I pulled up my avatar’s inventory display, which appeared as a classic “paper doll” diagram of my avatar, onto which I could drag and drop various items and pieces of equipment. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z To my surprise, she looked almost identical to her avatar. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Shoulder-to-shoulder avatars stretched to the horizon in all directions. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Once a day, its owner could write any avatar’s name on its surface, and the tablet would display that avatar’s location at that exact moment. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Thousands of avatars were packed up against the velvet rope force fields that kept everyone without an invitation at bay. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Both of their avatars shot off like rocket ships, streaking the cloudless sky with white contrails. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Her avatar had a pretty face, but it wasn’t unnaturally perfect. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The blast wave arrived a second later, disintegrating everything in its path—our avatars, the floor, the walls, the castle itself, and the thousands of avatars gathered around it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Her avatar lost its human form and dissolved into a pulsing amorphous blob that changed its size and color in synch with the music. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When Aech first logged into the OASIS, she followed her mother’s advice and created a Caucasian male avatar. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The small metal cylinder allowed the avatar who possessed it to transform into Ultraman once a day, for up to three minutes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Their avatars froze and glowed bright red for a few seconds, then simply vanished. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He looks down at me so that I can see my own avatar’s face reflected in his helmet. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z My avatar was wearing a black T-shirt and blue jeans, one of the free default skins you could select when you created your account. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A dialog window popped up, asking me to confirm the spelling of each of their avatar names. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I did a quick search of the rest of the house and made sure no other avatars were present. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I reached up and tapped the stack of textbooks on the locker’s top shelf and they vanished, then reappeared in my avatar’s item inventory. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Until an avatar reached Halliday’s Easter egg, anything was still possible. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Listen, I should warn you. I don’t look anything like my avatar.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z On cue, the ten Sixer avatars standing behind Sorrento pulled out their toy robots and activated them, too. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But when I looked down at my avatar’s body, I saw that I wasn’t riding a horse at all. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In fact, I never showed my avatar’s face on my vidfeed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As my avatar neared it, I reflexively reached out and grabbed the joystick of a Time Pilot machine. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When he activated the Boots of Speed he was wearing, his avatar became a barely visible blur racing across the open field. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z No avatar but Anorak himself had ever been able to pass through its entrance. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z After I disabled their engines, I boarded the ship and proceeded to kill every avatar there. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z For each NPC my avatar defeated, I would earn a few meager experience points and, usually, a handful of copper or silver coins dropped by my slain foes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In Art class we toured the Louvre while all of our avatars wore silly berets. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But now I knew what the quarter was—a single-use artifact that gave my avatar an extra life. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When my avatar recovers, I roll over and check my inventory, eager to see the Morph power-up in my account. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z By the time I’d finished, their avatars all wore looks of stunned disbelief. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My own avatar’s eyes slid shut, but I could still see my surroundings. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In front of me, Shahira’s avatar vanishes, replaced by Zero, his dark armor and opaque helmet black under the stormy sky. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z His file contained very little information, and no photo—just a screenshot of his avatar. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Two people born in the social media generation who, despite being labeled as shallow and vain, are actually super self-conscious and would rather hide behind avatars than reveal themselves.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z My avatar wasn’t actually “in” the chat room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Now flying by some magical means, Aech’s avatar swooped down, passed over the bottleneck of gunters clustered at the castle entrance, and disappeared through the open double doors. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I watched her avatar slowly disappear, then turned to find Aech smiling at me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z At first, I was worried the Sixers would also try to use the tablet to hunt down each of our avatars and kill us one at a time. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My ring emitted a blinding flash of light, and a split second later my avatar was there, standing on the surface of Frobozz. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As a result, his avatar now stood in first place, at the top of the Scoreboard. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I cracked my knuckles, then flew forward into the gate, and my avatar vanished into the whirlpool of stars. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Once I did, the system asked me if, in addition to resurrecting their avatars, I wanted to restore all of their lost items, too. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Inside the sphere, thousands of power-armored Sixer avatars stood in silent formation, completely encircling the castle. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Before I could protest, she laid a hand on my avatar’s chest and muttered a few arcane words. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The log-out sequence was designed this way to prevent avatars from using it as an easy way to escape a fight. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Then a huge cheer went up as a familiar gray-haired avatar beamed in, appearing behind the turntables. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But then I looked up and saw the large chunks of rubble tumbling at high speed onto the dance floor as avatars scattered to get out of the way. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My avatar was still only first level at the time, and it was one of the only safe ways for me to level up. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I was about to call Shoto, but then I remembered that his brother’s avatar had just been killed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A few seconds later, the silhouette of an avatar appeared in the doorway. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z His black helmet is completely opaque, so that all I see in it is the reflection of my generic avatar. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We passed several other Sixer avatars as we walked, and the moment they saw Sorrento, they each snapped to rigid attention and saluted him, as if he were some high-ranking general. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z So the Sixers gave up on their barricade, but they continued to send avatars into the Tomb of Horrors to farm copies of the Copper Key. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Instantly, two other avatars near us whirl on me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z An Oxford avatar of the old zamindar mentality—a landlord forcing his attentions on women who depended on him for their livelihood. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I made a short vidcap recording of my avatar reading it aloud and set it to run on a continuous loop on my POV channel. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When a gunter was surrounded by avatars she didn’t like, she would claim to have the Cataclyst in her inventory and threaten to detonate it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “But Mr. Nash. After five years, how is it that two avatars accomplished this feat on the same day, within just a few hours of each other?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As we stepped out of the quest gate, our avatars were each awarded a huge amount of experience points and several thousand credits. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z At this point, SD-03 may have drawn a few curious looks from the squadron of elite Sixer avatars guarding the platform. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Since everyone at school knew my avatar by the name Wade3, no one paid any attention to me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The smoking, bloodied bodies of over a dozen recently slain Sixer avatars lay scattered on the stone floor around them, slowly fading out of existence. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It’s actually somewhat creepy how much my avatar resembles me. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The log-in process completed and I took control of a Happy Helpdesk avatar, a cookie-cutter Ken doll that I used to take tech-support calls. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Aside from my textbooks, my avatar had only a few meager possessions: a flashlight, an iron shortsword, a small bronze shield, and a suit of banded leather armor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My avatar’s limbs and torso began to flow and spin like taffy, encircling Art3mis, while strange color patterns flowed and shifted across my skin. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z If my avatar died here, it would mean starting over with nothing. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Ten other Sixer avatars emerged from the castle and positioned themselves behind Sorrento, each of them standing a good distance apart. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Over the past five years, I’d managed to slowly, gradually raise my avatar up to third level. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Only seven more of their avatars managed to obtain the Jade Key that day. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Sorrento’s avatar is dead. And so are all of the other Sixers.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I pointed my avatar in that direction and began to run. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As my stats continued to increase, I honed my avatar’s combat and spell-casting abilities while collecting a wide array of powerful weapons, magic items, and vehicles. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When I’d stepped into the gate, it had transported my avatar into a stand-alone simulation, a virtual location separate from the OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He gave me the finger; then his avatar disappeared as he logged out of the chat room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Everything about our online personas is filtered through our avatars, which allows us to control how we look and sound to others. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z More important, I’m inside of Brennar’s body, with complete control over his avatar. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The explosion vaporized the supply droid, along with all the avatars stationed on the platform, including the Sixer wizard who was operating the Orb of Osuvox. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “To accelerate, simply flap your arms faster. However, be advised: The faster you fly, the more energy your pterodactyl will consume. Your winged avatar will have a ‘life battery’ icon glowing on its back. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z The Sixer armada remained on Frobozz, and their avatars were still farming copies of the Jade Key. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z For a brief moment, I saw our avatars’ skeletons suspended inside the transparent outlines of our motionless bodies. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I took a long look at the sea of avatars around us, then shifted my attention to the castle. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The twins double-checked and are still trying to find out if he has an avatar with a different name. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Celebrities had been known to pay huge sums of money to buy an avatar name they wanted from a cyber-squatter who had already reserved it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z No one had ever heard of these avatars before, but their names seemed to indicate they were working together, either as a duo or as part of a clan. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But Shoto told me that his brother would not be creating a new avatar. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z If too many people were logged in at the same time, the simulation would slow to a crawl and avatars would freeze in midstride as the system struggled to keep up. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My avatar’s name, my real name, and my home address were all stored in my private student file, which only the principal could access. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I cut my jet-boot thrusters and tucked my avatar into a ball. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I spent over an hour tweaking my avatar’s hair and trying on different skins to wear to the club. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Sorrento’s avatar crossed the polished floor and approached the large crystal door set into the north wall. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Or rather, her avatar stared blankly back at my avatar. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Thousands of avatars came to every show, to sit in the stands and revel in the audience participation. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My avatar materialized in front of my locker on the second floor of my high school—the exact spot where I’d been standing when I’d logged out the night before. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I could have kept walking, right through her avatar. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As soon as his avatar froze, he began to take heavy laser and gunfire from all directions. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As I made my way to the nearest bar, the avatars I passed all stopped to stare and point in my direction. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My avatar was still one of the High Five, so my vidfeed drew millions of viewers every day, regardless of what I aired, and this allowed me to sell commercial time to my various sponsors. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I turned it over in my avatar’s hand, watching the torchlight play across the roman numeral, and that was when I spotted two small lines of text engraved into the metal. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He picked up on the first ring, and his avatar appeared in a new window in front of me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I recognized him because he wasn’t using a standard-issue Sixer avatar—one of the perks of his position. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In the history of the OASIS, there was no record of any avatar ever acquiring an extra life. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I reached out and selected the game, and a teleportation voucher instantly appeared in my avatar’s inventory, good for one free round-trip to OPS #0571. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Sir, it’s always advisable to make sure your avatar can actually use an item before you purchase it.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z His avatar was now above thirtieth level, and so he was almost always headed to a planet where it wasn’t safe for my avatar. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Dozens of avatars were locked in fierce combat on a multitiered playing field behind him. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Multiple copies of the king appeared, one for every avatar who set foot on the dais. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It was more money than my avatar could carry, even with the Bag of Holding that I found. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When he reached a challenge he couldn’t handle, like winning at Joust, he could just hand control of his avatar off to one of his underlings. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It was vidmail, and his avatar’s face appeared in a window. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He could be any of these avatars, disguised just like we are. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I wiped at my face with the sleeve of my shirt, and my avatar mimicked this motion. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z This particular magic sword could only be used by an avatar who was tenth level or higher. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I looked down at my own avatar and discovered that I was now wearing Anorak’s robes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Then I went to my locker and dumped all of my avatar’s newfound treasure, armor, and weapons inside before finally logging out of the OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My avatar was now dressed in a suit of chainmail armor, and my hands were held out in front of my body, as though I were clutching a set of reins. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Instead, your point of view automatically shifts to a third-person perspective, treating you to a brief out-of-body replay of your avatar’s final fate. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I actually switched to a third-person view for a few seconds, just to admire how cool my avatar looked wearing it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Directly in front of us, inside the sphere, the massive front doors of Castle Anorak had just swung open, and now a single Sixer avatar was emerging from within. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Every few seconds some hapless avatar or ship would inadvertently fly or careen into the shield and get vaporized, like a fly hitting a bug zapper. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As I stood it upright, the sea of onlookers began to chant my avatar’s name. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When Daito’s avatar vanished completely, it left behind a small pile of spinning items on the ground—everything he’d been carrying in his inventory, including the Beta Capsule. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The cockpit canopy popped off, and I jumped free of the falling mech a split second before it impacted on the castle steps, killing several dozen of the avatars crowded there. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Yeah, but in the meantime, Sixer avatars will be farming the Copper Key and then filing their avatars through the First Gate, one after another, in a freakin’ conga line.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When it was detonated, it would kill every single avatar and NPC in the sector, including its owner. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Sure, he did a lot of teleporting around the OASIS, completing quests and leveling up his avatar, but he didn’t actually know anything. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Then the game cabinet vanished, and my avatar vanished with it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The video clip opened with a shot of Sorrento’s avatar standing outside the front gates of Castle Anorak. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Earning XPs was how you increased your avatar’s power level, strength, and abilities. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z And in addition to the credits, my avatar received an equal number of experience points for obtaining the coins. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As my avatar slowly materialized on my stronghold’s observation deck, I looked down at my virtual body, admiring it like a favorite suit I hadn’t worn in a while. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Then, on the evening of February 11, 2045, an avatar’s name appeared at the top of the Scoreboard, for the whole world to see. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Every single one of them contained my avatar’s name. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It’ll then take them weeks to reclaim their lost avatar and account. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was wrong of this Christian God to let His avatar die. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The avatars who were already on the dance floor moved aside to clear a path for us, a tunnel leading to the center of the dance floor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z There are a couple of avatars sitting there, watching. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It wasn’t my avatar’s face I saw there. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Hundreds of avatars milled around like ants crawling around the inside of a giant balloon. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But my avatar had now had the same name for over five years. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As my avatar finished materializing, I looked down and realized that the floor I’d been standing on earlier was now gone. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The popular theory on the message boards was that Halliday had created multiple copies of his hometown so that several avatars could search it at the same time without fighting over a single location. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z An ordinary avatar wouldn’t have nearly the strength to do such a thing. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I’d asked him once if he looked anything like his avatar in real life, and he’d jokingly replied, “Yes. But in real life, I’m even more handsome.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z That was how I’d obtained my avatar’s sword, shield, and armor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My avatar’s eyes slid open, and I was back in my World History classroom. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He’d probably insisted that his avatar be the first to obtain the Copper Key and clear the gate. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I sidestep, but the second avatar catches me by the leg and yanks me off balance. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I considered teleporting to Incipio before my “interview,” to buy a new skin for my avatar. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I’d have to create a new first-level avatar, which would spawn at my last log-in location, in front of my school locker. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The figure was a crude plastic rendering of her avatar, with the same face, hair, and outfit. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Both avatars looked Japanese, and they bore a striking resemblance to one another, like snapshots of the same young man taken five years apart. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z And if I somehow managed to make it past all of them and reach the crypt, the ultrapowerful lich could kill my avatar in seconds, just by looking at him. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In the midst of all these hulking avatars, the newcomer is inconspicuous, a lean shadow. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A couple of avatars have already turned their attention to me after my two purchases, and their interest makes the hairs rise on the back of my neck. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I zoomed in on Castle Anorak and tapped a spot just outside the front entrance, and in a blink, my avatar was standing there. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z If you stayed in safe zones, like Ludus, you didn’t have to worry about your avatar getting robbed, kidnapped, or killed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Chat rooms were stand-alone simulations—temporary virtual spaces that avatars could access from anywhere in OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z To break my paralysis, I reminded myself that the person operating the avatar in front of me might not be a woman at all. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z They might kill a few of us, but they were going to lose some or all of their own avatars in the process. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “I can see why this might concern you. But you needn’t worry. My avatar has many unique powers, including the ability to enter private chat rooms uninvited.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The company also provided your avatar with high-end armor, vehicles, and weapons, and covered all of your teleportation fares. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My avatar’s name now appeared at the very top of the list, in first place, with a score of 10,000 points beside it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I looked down at my avatar and saw that I was now wearing a black T-shirt and blue jeans, the default outfit that appeared on every newly created avatar. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As I did, there was a brilliant flash of light, and then I saw that my avatar was no longer holding a joystick. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Thousands of flying avatars and ships continued to buzz around the shield, occasionally firing bullets, lasers, missiles, and other projectiles at it, all of which impacted harmlessly on the surface. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z His avatar’s face matched the photos of him I’d seen online. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Each tine struck a different Sixer avatar in the chest while somehow arcing harmlessly around everyone else. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I made multiple trips to her avatar’s stronghold, an armored palace on Benatar, the small moon she owned. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Her avatar’s dark hair was styled in a pageboy cut, perfectly framing her gorgeous face. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But if I answered the call, he would see a live video feed of my avatar, running across a field at top speed, with OPS #0571 shrinking in the distance behind me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Cascading bolts of blue lightning erupted in the space between us, and their spiderweb tines enveloped us both, as if a surge of power were passing from his avatar into mine. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When your avatar gets killed, your screen doesn’t fade to black right away. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As my avatar plummeted down into the museum, the green vector-graphic theme disappeared and I found myself in high-resolution full-color surroundings. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She just looked at me in shock as our avatars continued to drift in orbit around each other, moving on autopilot. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My avatar was buffed to the eyeballs and armed to the teeth. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I turned around and saw that my avatar was standing in front of a large C-shaped reception desk. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The beam struck the ground directly in front of us, then cut a deep smoking furrow in the earth as it continued to sweep forward, vaporizing every avatar and ship in its path. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z His quiet voice was filled with pain, and the depth of his despair was apparent on the features of his avatar’s face. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Not only had it killed every avatar in the sector, it had even destroyed Castle Anorak, a fortress that, until now, had proven itself to be indestructible. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Instead, I took out the Beta Capsule and held the small metal cylinder in the palm of my avatar’s hand. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z These were the first magic items my avatar had ever possessed, and they made me feel unstoppable. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I did the same, positioning myself so that our avatars faced each other. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A concentrated, pulsing mass of ships and avatars covered the ground and filled the air. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z You couldn’t drop one of them, or give them to another avatar. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When I checked my avatar’s reflection in a computer monitor, I saw that I no longer looked like Matthew Broderick. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My avatar appeared just inside the “entrance,” a door at the top of a carpeted staircase. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “The newsfeeds are reporting that every single avatar in the sector was just killed. Over half the population of the OASIS.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She did knock my avatar backward a few feet, though. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “But the Sixers have a dozen avatars with copies of the Crystal Key,” Aech said. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My avatar needed a stronghold, and I didn’t want any neighbors, so I’d bought the cheapest planetoid I could find—this tiny barren asteroid in Sector Fourteen. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z This time, I was able to take it out and hold it in the palm of my avatar’s hand. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Her face had the distinctive look of a real person’s, as if her true features had been scanned in and mapped onto her avatar. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Then I spotted her avatar flying out of the new exit the Sixer attack had created. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But I could now see that my avatar was being drawn toward one game in particular, a game that stood alone at the very back of the game room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I checked my avatar’s stats and saw that I’d been awarded several hundred thousand experience points for clearing the gate, enough to raise my avatar from tenth level up to twentieth in one shot. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I’d just gained fifty thousand experience points, enough to raise my avatar all the way up to tenth level. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Get your head back in the game. This a race now. There are eighteen Sixer avatars right behind you. So you need to make this next game count. Understand?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I raised the whistle to my avatar’s lips and blew into it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “This is unreal. I’ve never seen so many ships or avatars in one place.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The school’s strictly enforced dress code required that all student avatars be human, and of the same gender and age as the student. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Now that the Sixers knew exactly where and how to obtain the Jade Key, I expected to see their other avatars’ scores begin to jump as Sorrento’s underlings followed his lead. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A few months after we’d all cleared the First Gate, an anonymous avatar had placed an ultrapowerful artifact up for auction. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Aech’s avatar was a tall, broad-shouldered Caucasian male with dark hair and brown eyes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z At the same time, the Team Freeze power-up vanishes from the glass jar on the pedestal, and the other avatars start to wander off, muttering. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z My avatar now stood in that open field, just west of the white house. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z If anything, the face I saw in the photo seemed even more beautiful to me than that of her avatar, because I knew this one was real. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When I ran out of room on my avatar’s body, I stored the additional gear in my Backpack of Holding. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Groups of unnamed avatars cluster here and there, deep in their own conversations. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Over the next twenty-four hours, over sixty Sixer avatars cleared the First Gate. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I also had offers from a pizza-delivery chain, a shoe manufacturer, and an online store that sold custom avatar skins. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I began to walk my avatar down the hall, using a series of subtle hand motions to control its movements and actions. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Then I lost my grip and my avatar was sucked directly into the Black Tiger game’s monitor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When I put on the suit of magical armor, it shrank to fit my avatar perfectly. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Students weren’t allowed to use their avatar names while they were at school. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I looked down at my avatar and saw that I no longer appeared as one of the Monty Python knights. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Ms. Rank’s avatar also disappeared, and in moments I was all alone in the classroom. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Now that I was off school grounds, I could use my avatar name once again. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Og set the dance floor’s gravity on a counterclockwise spin, making all of our avatars slowly rotate around the club’s invisible central axis, like motes of dust floating inside a snow globe. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When he blundered again at the door a moment later, again invisible and blind within and beyond his wooden avatar, Dilsey opened the door and guided him across the kitchen with a firm hand. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Sixers have a huge advantage over all of us. They’ve got an endless supply of money, weapons, vehicles, and avatars. There are thousands of them, all working together.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z And now that gunter avatar names were appearing on the Scoreboard left and right, the IOI brass had to be freaking out. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It appeared that I’d received a bonus for being the first avatar to obtain the Copper Key. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Less than a minute later, another avatar appeared, through a set of automatic doors on the opposite side of the observation deck. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In real life, Brennar will know right away when he’s no longer able to control his avatar. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I could see my avatar’s warped reflection on its curved surface. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z School had only been out for a few minutes now, so there was a steady stream of avatars filing into the terminal. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z We still disguised our avatars before we went out, because we knew there would be tabloid headlines galore if Parzival and Art3mis started showing up in public together on a regular basis. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z This avatar appeared inside a huge virtual call center, inside a virtual cubicle, sitting at a virtual desk, in front of a virtual computer, wearing a virtual phone headset. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Manny’s avatar switches weapons in quick succession, tossing everything he’s got at the enemy troops. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Before long, twenty avatars were listed on the Scoreboard. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z And he didn’t materialize slowly, the way an avatar normally did when logging into a chat room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As the day progressed, the Sixers continued to walk additional avatars through the Second Gate. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “If an avatar doesn’t have a copy of the key, he can’t cross the threshold and enter the castle, even if the doors are already open.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As his avatar transformed, he also grew to a height of 156 feet. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Your avatar wasn’t actually there, and so it appeared to other avatars as a slightly transparent apparition. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Instead, she slid her shades up onto her avatar’s forehead—a blatant affectation, since sunglasses didn’t actually affect a player’s vision—and looked me up and down, making a show of sizing me up. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Its gaze had been pointed down at the ground, where my avatar had stood a second earlier. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Lewis was an avatar of old-school solitary research, but he was delighted to play a role in stretching science’s boundaries. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Having the right ’80s song lyric memorized might save my avatar’s life someday. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z No one ever looks anything like their avatar. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Could someone else be in here? An invisible avatar, eavesdropping on us?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z And my avatar’s name was there at the top, in first place. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “So they must have taken the precaution of moving some of their avatars outside of Sector Ten. They were probably waiting in a gunship just across the sector border, where it was safe.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Even when our avatars were doing other things, we were sending e-mails and instant messages to each other. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A cloud of smaller ships quickly formed around me, piloted by curious avatars zooming in for a closer look at Leopardon. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Their avatars all sat motionless, with their eyes closed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The voucher was verified, the fare showed as paid, and my avatar vanished. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Half of the avatars in the club swarmed toward the exit, while the other half drew weapons or began to cast spells, firing laser bolts, bullets, and fireballs back at the invading Sixers. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Perhaps the sense of responsibility is higher when you’re overlooking a group of individuals who are known by their true names rather than handles or avatars. Anorexia’s scary online empire 2012-07-28T12:00:00Z And of course his avatar is totally chic. The Dress Is Now Part of Kim Kardashian's Mobile Game 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z But whatever moral reckoning the play sets in motion occurs between Afong — living, breathing avatar of generations — and the audience. Review: ‘The Chinese Lady’ Casts a Long Look at Hate 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z “I think the theatrical space is really perfect for telling stories about virtual reality,” Ms. Haley said, “because in a way it mimics the theatrical construct in which actors become avatars.” Joel Schumacher, Directing ‘Neighborhood 3,’ Gets an Education 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z And a Graham dance was captured in 3D, transforming Anne Souder, in a motion-capture suit, into an avatar — like a figure in a video game — when her performance was transferred to the screen. In the Dance Lab With Martha Graham 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Blizzard outfitted their staff members with resplendent blue text and GIF avatars. I was a troll on the white dude-bro Internet: The dark side of gaming, libertarianism, and guns 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z The term metaverse was coined 30 years ago by novelist Neal Stephenson, who imagined a science fictional universe where avatars inhabit a virtual world similar to our physical one. Perspective | Welcome to the metaverse, where the art is virtual but the headache is real 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Eventually, three Anderson avatars move in strict time with one another. Henry Gallery showcases Doris Totten Chase beyond famed Kerry Park sculpture 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z His various fictional heroes all became avatars of a single hero, the "Eternal Champion" who struggles for the cosmic balance between Law and Chaos. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z Fiona is very much an avatar of that reasoned, logical approach to life. In Ian McEwan’s ‘The Children Act,’ Medicine Meets Religion 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z That’s intentional, because the antihero is so often an avatar of traditional markers of masculinity. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z In 1979, his paper-doll book “Attitude,” published by St. Martin’s Press, let readers dress drag queens and other avatars of New York’s gay culture in glamorous party clothes. Tom Tierney, Who Made Paper Dolls an Art Form, Dies at 85 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Born in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and raised in Utah, they were avatars of well-scrubbed cheer and hard work. ‘The 5 Browns’ Review: United by Music and Scarred by Sexual Abuse 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Also here is Scorsese's moving 2010 documentary "A Letter to Elia," in which Scorsese credits Kazan as his first filmmaking inspiration and principal avatar. DVDs you should have seen -- but didn't: Beat the winter blahs! 2011-02-02T01:30:00Z Biometric time clocks like FaceIn, most commonly used at construction sites, create an avatar of the workers’ face that the machine keeps forever and that ages alongside the employee. 5 creepiest surveillance tactics 2012-12-13T16:12:00Z With her pile of hair, power-clashing wardrobe and cartoon proportions, she has been fashioned into an avatar of stylish self-respect. Fran Drescher, Millennial Whisperer 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Now 40, Smith burnishes her place in the literary firmament with her fifth novel, for which Astaire serves as uneasy avatar. Zadie Smith's 'Swing Time' is a tour-de-force 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z But when it works, as it does here, the character provides audiences with the ultimate avatar. 'Madam Secretary' Tea Leoni's nomination is heartily confirmed 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Alice is a more obvious avatar for Rooney than Eileen, but it can feel as if the author, a former debate champion, is having Socratic conversations with herself through the correspondence between the two. Sally Rooney and Love in the Time of General Systems Collapse 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z The idea is that Kelly's camera follows the real people around in their day-to-day real lives as they wait at bus stops, wait in line in supermarkets etc – but they are in their avatar characters. Vimeo: where young film-makers fly Concorde 2010-06-01T10:56:00Z “He’s an avatar for the archetype of the 20th century antihero escapee from the annals of the 20th century canon of literature,” explained Ashley. Ashley Bickerton, Unflinchingly Honest About His Work and Illness 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z This reflects something true, certainly, but it isn’t clear why he takes on the burden of being an avatar for the average white man. In ‘Vacationland,’ John Hodgman confronts surrealism of adult life 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Each of the four has an approximate avatar within the musical’s ensemble. How to Follow Your Dreams and Burst Into Song 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z More bad news for women gamers—or anyone who wants to play a female avatar in the uber-popular Assassin’s Creed series: Assassin’s Creed: Unity will not have any playable female characters in cooperative mode. Why Assassin's Creed Killed Off All Its Women 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z My avatar was working at “Chic Boutique,” an L.A. clothing store. What I learned from Kim Kardashian’s new smartphone game 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z That information constitutes a small spoiler from about the one-quarter mark in the book: The rider in Liz’s brain is herself — but an avatar from another timeline, where Marc succeeded in killing his wife. Review | ‘Lucifer’ writer Mike Carey continues to cement his status as a novelist 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z They are still friendly avatars of nontoxic masculinity. ‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’ Review: Be Adequate to Each Other 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z "Classical sculpture is like an ancient version of an avatar — this idealized form of the self," Weitz says. Julie Weitz's 'Touch Museum' tweaks time and space 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z But in fashion there has been a lot of attention lately on the “metaverse,” and brands translating their looks for avatars in video games or animated characters. The Great High-Fashion Family Film Experiment 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z A company called Wave, which uses motion-capture technology to turn artists into digital avatars and stage virtual concerts, recently raised $30 million in venture capital funding. Concerts Aren’t Back. Livestreams Are Ubiquitous. Can They Do the Job? 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z The third part, a glimpse at an online future that includes metaverse avatars, virtual reality and a cyberspace bazaar selling human hearts for NFTs, seems merely glib. Review: In ‘I Agree to the Terms,’ It’s Raining Pennies From Amazon 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Yet it’s a fascinating experiment, fusing Almodóvar’s usual obsessions with genre tropes in entertaining and unnerving fashion, and it features one of the darkest turns to date from Antonio Banderas, his frequent collaborator and avatar. ‘Definition Please,’ ‘Cyrus’ and More Streaming Gems 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z It also clocks in at a well-timed 90 minutes, a relatively abbreviated length that fits this hermetically sealed, precariously unoxygenated world, with its doll-size scale, human avatars, fabricated environments and locked-down protagonist. Review: ‘Anomalisa’ Pairs Charlie Kaufman and Lonely Puppets 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z In my avatar life, I’m either an opera singer, a ballet dancer — or Jason Bourne or James Bond. Janet McTeer Gets a Thrill Out of Watching James Bond. But She Wants to Play Him, Too. 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Mark Quartley, the actor playing Ariel, appeared both onstage and, at moments when his character referred to magic, as a digitally created avatar, filmed live and projected onto screens moving over fellow actors. Extending the Stage With Technology 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Cunningham learned how to manipulate the avatars, the stocky, rubbery little 3-D bodies whose layered limbs could be controlled in ways that went even beyond his imagination. When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Yet, the social tragedy of the practice and the politics of hate is matched by the absurdity of its avatars, as in Van Der Weyden’s garbled philosophical misadventures with language. Bruno Dumont’s Vision of a Confused, Far-Right, Alienated France 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z "Honeydew" is her follow-up, featuring 20 stories, and it cements her reputation as an American short fiction avatar. Edith Pearlman has a fine eye for the intimate in 'Honeydew' 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Every year, we got to elect some ropey crooner to act as the avatar for our collective aspirations. American Idol: a final farewell to the 'Death Star' of reality TV 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z The Cleavers, the Bunkers, the Huxtables, the Conners: All, in their way, have functioned as workaday avatars for those watching at home. A Very Special Episode, but Maybe Not So Precious 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z It is as if he has always been moving through the world as an avatar. The Mark Zuckerberg Aesthetic 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z One that’s just enough of a caricature to work its way into the public imagination and become the avatar of a movement. Silicon Valley Has a New Style Icon 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z With the Leibovitz photo as her avatar, she accrued a million followers within the space of four hours, and more than doubled that by the following day. Caitlyn Jenner’s Big Début 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Let’s Not Knot and Say We Did What to give the flirty avatar you met in the Jersey Shore section of Second Life? T Magazine: The Other Valentine's Day 2011-02-10T22:51:01Z The Hollywood Reporter in mid-November published a report identifying Mr. Andrews as the avatar for God in “Exodus.” 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' Portrays the Deity as a Boy 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z Which is about as close to reality as my Yahoo mail avatar. Yahoo blows it again 2013-04-30T20:37:00Z He resembled an avatar of old Key West, a shrimper or deep-sea fisherman, a hell raiser temporarily ashore squandering his pay and his health. Review | An unvarnished look at the troubled life of novelist Robert Stone 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z But he is easier to read as Miró’s own avatar, a tracker of signs of cosmic life in the landscapes of his own imagination. Art Review: ‘Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape,’ at National Gallery 2012-08-02T19:39:06Z Nofar’s guilt gnaws at her even as she is hailed as an avatar of feminist empowerment; the singer is disgraced and imprisoned. What Happens When Girl Power Goes Wrong? 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Ruffalo is dependably good throughout, delineating Dominick’s anger and weariness while making him more than just an avatar for them, and, without much help from the script, getting across Thomas’s helpless pain. Review: Mark Ruffalo, Times Two, in the Saddest Story Ever Told 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z This time around, he takes on another David avatar. Jason Alexander Will Succeed Larry David in 'Fish in the Dark' 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Paranoid and elliptical, here is the rock star as an avatar in a confusing, fragmentary world. Rock stars in fiction 2011-03-17T16:00:50Z For the better part of a year, I was the Sheikh’s blogger; or the Sheikh was my avatar. The sheikh and I: Ghostwriting for a crown prince in exhile 2013-01-12T14:00:00Z Over the years Sansa was the avatar for the show’s best and worst impulses. Who Is Sophie Turner Without Sansa Stark? We’re About to Find Out 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z This whole connectedness thing may seem out of character for someone who gained prominence in the 1970s New Wave scene as the lead singer of Talking Heads, the avatar of alienation. David Byrne, the Artist, Is Totally Connected 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z As Alan flirts with Michael and poses for his drawings, we begin to wonder if he’s real or just an imaginary avatar for desires Adar doesn’t understand. Review: In ‘Princess,’ an Israeli Family in Need of Boundaries 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z In fact, Sports Champions falls short of Wii Sports in one very important way: it does not allow you to create your own virtual avatar. ArtsBeat: Bowling, Golfing and Shooting With the Sony Move 2010-10-15T22:50:00Z I’m glad that Girls is being sunsetted because I don’t want to watch these avatars of our generation as they slide to the suburbs. 'Is it like Girls?' How I found recognition and relief in Brooklyn's TV daughters 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z The problem is there’s something playtime about transforming yourself into a cartoon, as most avatars now seem. What to Wear in the Metaverse 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Take, for example, the “Santa Fail” slideshow—picture after picture of anguished, often visibly exhausted children, tanking a potentially precious moment by wailing inconsolably in the presence of some long-suffering Claus avatar. A Reconsideration of Santa’s Lap 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z VIEW: Dizzy Gillespie: Rare and Classic Portraits of a Playful Genius The two avatars of Bebop are captured in their only filmed appearance, from 1952 –three year’s before Parker’s death. Dizzy Gillespie: Remembering a Jazz Legend 2013-10-21T17:01:15Z But later, when the avatars both showed up early to a group raid, they made small talk. It?s Love at First Kill 2011-04-22T18:21:33Z “Sitting there, pulling faces to entertain myself with an avatar of me, a live feed? It’s like, ‘Oh, god, I could be trapped here,’ you know? An Artist Who Explores the Deep Creepiness of Facial-Recognition Technology 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z All your Miis - cartoon avatars that represent yourself, friends and family members in the Nintendo universe - live in an apartment building on a festive island. Review: Nintendo’s ‘Tomodachi’ colorful but dull 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z When you create an avatar in a game or virtual world, you play a "character", but you also express an aspect of yourself. Author, author: Sherry Turkle 2011-01-29T00:05:59Z Onstage, Reich, 23, fashions himself as a hyperkinetic Gen Z avatar, playing off prevailing assumptions associated with those perennially known as “kids today.” Review: In ‘Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?!,’ He’s Too Hot to Live 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z This “confirmed bachelor” never had a relationship, and while the two younger avatars sometimes express longings for love, however drolly, Mr. Dawson’s elderly Gorey seems philosophical about a life alone, but not lonely. Review: Peering Behind the Whimsically Ghoulish ‘Gorey’ 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z She captures all eyes until the very last shot of… we won’t say, except to hint that Hitchcock’s prime avatar never tires of his old Psycho tropes. Postcards from the Festivals: Seven Films at Toronto and Venice 2012-09-15T12:00:50Z What’s more, he becomes the unwitting avatar of an age when technology has made the once impermeable membrane between artist and audience thinned to virtual nonexistence. When you were at the movies this year, reality wasn’t too far away 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z So instead, you encounter strangers for a few minutes, shoot some stuff together and then maybe instruct your avatars to perform a scripted, celebratory and silent dance. Destiny Is a New Shooter Game From Activision and Bungie 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z In the avatar photos appeared four faces we’d never seen before. You’re the kids who robbed us: Our strange online encounter with our burglars 2014-04-12T23:00:00Z The avatar of the Danish procedural is “The Killing,” popular in Britain but available only on DVD, though not in whatever format it is the American DVD players run on. Wintering the Danish Way: Learning About Hygge 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z He may like to cast himself as an avatar, out there on a great big solo cyber adventure, but it’s his real brain and his real body that are engaged in these acts of infidelity. My boyfriend cheated on me using Skype sex. Does it matter? 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z Speaking of avatars of alienation, K moves through his days with the unhurried shuffle and downcast baby blues of Ryan Gosling. Review: ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Tries to Honor the Original and to Slip Free of It 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z What an archetypal story does is introduce you to a central character – the protagonist – and invite you to identify with them; effectively they become your avatar in the . John Yorke on why the best screenwriting works 2013-03-15T16:00:03Z Schulman likens social networks to a "collection of avatars" where users put up "ideal versions of themselves" for others to see. Facebook Gets Movie Treatments as Social Media Hits High 2010-09-16T17:14:00Z Bo, a rambunctious avatar of the unconfined, can-do spirit of the West, is a mortal danger to everyone around him. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Sullivan's profile avatar, as seen on her Twitter page. Hey, Twitter, the Governor Is Totally Gonna Tell the Principal on You 2011-11-28T18:55:40Z Indeed, he’s a reactionary who was also an avatar: the first Trumpist. Patrick Buchanan Reveals Himself to Be the First Trumpist 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z But he feels more like an avatar of a bleak and ruthless world than a conscious individual who has internalized that world’s cruelty. Review: All the World’s a Grave in the Druid ‘Richard III’ 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z The men in “The Woman Who Ran” are like human avatars of that nasty bird, intruding on the leisure and intimacy of women to crow and scratch and ruffle feathers. ‘The Woman Who Ran’ Review: Conversations With Friends 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z While the avatars could offer revelations, it required his imagination to bring them to life. When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z In the future, synthesized voices might add warmth to interactions with robots or virtual reality avatars, Aylett said. Mute Chicago film critic Ebert "voices" Oscar picks 2010-03-02T17:35:00Z Barry’s wife and children are supposed to be foils, innocents abroad who serve as the viewer’s avatar in an unfamiliar, despotic world. Adam Rayner Stars in ‘Tyrant,’ a Thriller on FX 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z The collections of Tomas Maier always seem relevant and his man — an avatar of himself — carries the baggage of an intelligent designer. Special Report: Fashion Special Report: In High Definition Color 2011-01-16T18:42:01Z He was a marvelous paradox: an alienated Everyman, a dignified buffoon, an avatar of ordinary Italianness menaced on one side by modern materialism and on the other by the encrusted legacies of feudalism and fascism. ‘Una Vita Difficile’ Review: Life Comes at You Fast 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z He called his collection “Wild and Lethal Trash,” and advised men to “be your own avatar.” Fashion Review: In Paris, the Hunt for Modern Masculinity 2012-01-24T15:29:54Z Some of that comes from her own prejudices about the genre and the young men who are its avatars and devotees. ‘The Forty-Year-Old Version’ Review: Rapper’s Delight 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z His avatars are particularly male, particularly white, particularly English — and often exhibit that subclass’s familiar emotional hangups. Ed Atkins and His Mum Are Starring in a Museum Show 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Minnelli’s movie and its actors were such perfect avatars that any adaptation will have to bear the comparison—from critics, if not from audiences of a new generation. Good, Clean, Fun: A Revival of “Gigi” 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Building on the gracefully modulating chord progression at the start of the work’s Andante Larghetto, the players produced a lush sound that painted Handel as an early avatar of English pastoralism. Music Review: Proving That Early Music Can Contain Startling Shifts 2011-03-08T22:00:11Z “I have a friend who I’ve always felt was slightly narcissistic. Her Bitmoji makes her look like a supermodel. It’s like a personal reckoning, being your avatar.” Even if You Can’t Afford Designer Clothes, Your Bitmoji Can 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z She was brilliant, hilarious and beautiful, but the woman she saw reflected back at her was a cartoon, an avatar of female folly as drawn by a casually misogynist press. Michael Hutchence: in the eye of the storm 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z I am tempted to click on her avatar and see what she is like, to try to find something to make me feel better about the fact she has unfollowed me. My week as Bette Davis: 'My fierce brows are begging to be raised' 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z Would using avatars of children to satisfy pedophilic desires be a legitimate or ethical remedy? Review: ‘Dark Net’ Explores the Digital Age’s Toll on Us 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Our avatars, and their romantic games, will outlive us all. Consider the “Catfish” 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z In them, she is playing the part of the consort of the heir to the throne, an avatar of fantasy and someone who can bring it down to earth. Romancing the Royal Portrait 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z But his school avatar is often seen slumped at its desk, sleeping. Books of The Times: A Future Wrapped in 1980s Culture 2011-08-14T23:02:57Z I’m old and I don’t care what my avatar looks like. The Video Games That Got Us Through 2021 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z He’s obviously the avatar we experience the story through. David Fincher Knows Exactly Why We’re All So Obsessed With True Crime 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z But as that population has grown smaller and more socially insular, those people sometimes seem like symbols or avatars or objects of erotic fascination to the rest of us. "The Company Men": Kevin Costner as working-class Jesus 2011-01-18T23:30:00Z Guests of the virtual ceremony attended via a computer, which required downloading software and then creating an avatar. Getting Married in the Metaverse 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z A role-playing game, by contrast, is largely about character skill — building up abilities in your digital avatar to perform certain tasks. Video Game Review: Sega?s Alpha Protocol: Battling Villains Around the Globe 2010-07-07T20:53:00Z The centerpiece is the Fan Energy Zone, which will include the 40-foot-tall Fan Dome, which allows those interested to play interactive games as digital avatars displayed on giant screens. 9 Things to Do in the Bay Area During Super Bowl Week 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z They will be surrounded by a 360-degree camera rig, made up of 47 cameras, with every movement almost instantaneously rendered by digital avatars, which are relayed to viewers via the stream. ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ Sprinkled With High-Tech Fairy Dust 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z A wan, pretty avatar of the upper classes, Elena is physically droopy and given to dull pronouncements; she’s educated just enough to think she knows better. ‘Martin Eden’ Review: Reading and Writing His Way Out of the Pit 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z New 3D Bitmoji episodes are released two to four times each week, so one day you might open the app and find your avatar doing back flips on a park bench. At Snapchat, Redrawing the Bounds of Reality 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z “With the exponential increase in gaming culture, people are used to being at the center of attention, of controlling their avatar, of getting immediate feedback,” Mr. Ball said. Up Close and Personal: Theater for Audiences of One 2010-07-27T16:43:00Z I recognise an avatar picture: Ted, a yellow labrador mix, craning around the front car seat to look ahead down the road. ‘Totally pawesome’: at the three-legged dog convention 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z It also traps Warren in the same pop cultural avatar that Hillary Clinton’s fans bestowed on her in 2016, which has a way of eliding the substantial ideological gulf between the two women. United We Stan 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z The film is bookended by the murders of the two greatest avatars of 1960s idealism: Johns F Kennedy and Lennon, respectively. My streaming gem: why you should watch The Killing of America 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z It's a "3D fashion game" where they take part in various magazine assignments, while customising their 3D avatar. 30 best iPhone and iPad apps this week 2013-02-01T16:15:00Z She hovers and swoops as the story’s avatar of blackness, the vessel through which flows the terrible history of Africans in the New World. ‘Peacekeeping’ review: Haiti endures despite outsiders’ good (and bad) intentions 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z In the beginning, all the scenes had these featureless avatars that didn’t look like anybody. ‘The Blacklist’ Draws Up a Novel End to Its Season 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z But she wanted people to assume she was female when they heard her name, so she scoured baby name lists and old video game avatars before settling on Greta. How Transgender People Choose Their New Names 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z Before the couple met in person, their avatars met at a company event in Las Vegas in 2015. Getting Married in the Metaverse 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Ostensibly, the film is science fiction – directed by the Israeli animator Ari Folman and spotlighting issues of intellectual property, internet avatars and the withering flesh. Robin Wright: 'I'm in my 40s and I don't inject my face with Botox' 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Adorable avatar versions of Jonas and Sabine run through the levels: the Forest of Feminist Angst, the Coven of the Many-Faced Mirrors, the Realm of Colorism, and Peak Patriarchy, where waits the final boss. ‘Black Feminist Video Game’ Review: Pixels and Polemics 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z In a sense Mr. Amram is the perfect avatar of the club’s offbeat ecumenicalism. Cornelia Street Café Celebrates 40 Years, With Some Concerns 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z She comes from a less exalted family — her father owns a small trucking company — and she is played by Lady Gaga with the verve of an Anna Magnani avatar in a Super Mario video game. ‘House of Gucci’ Review: Murder, Italian-Style 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z It’s the opposite of high school: You aren’t stuck with one kind of style because you can simply create another avatar in another place, put on another skin and change your aesthetic entirely. What to Wear in the Metaverse 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z For his part, Nate grins and grimaces, runs and leaps, nimbly going through many of the same action-movie paces that heroic avatars have long gone through. ‘Uncharted’ Review: Steal, Fight, Repeat 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z The photo on Ramos' Twitter avatar was the face of Hartley, with a Berserk symbol pasted over it – a brand that marks victims for demonic sacrifice. Exclusive: Inside accused Annapolis shooter’s alt-right theology of mass murder 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z Never a critical favorite — the opening-night reviews were famously derisive — “No Sex Please” still became a cultural fixture in London and, like “The Benny Hill Show” on television, an avatar of slapstick and harmless titillation. Anthony Marriott, British Playwright, Dies at 83 2014-04-28T04:22:30Z Or sometimes the avatar embodies our aspirations in romance itself. Perspective | ‘Working Girl,’ and why we love the impostor rom-com 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z Sarandon’s presence at the Convention is emblematic of dissent within the Democratic Party—and within the feminist movement, for which Clinton is far from a universally accepted avatar of progress. Peak Meryl Streep at the D.N.C. 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Theatergoers see two costumed actors, as always, but also, rising high above them, a towering, gnarled tree, within which writhes a 17-foot avatar of Ariel, moaning in recollected agony. At This ‘Tempest,’ Digital Wizardry Makes ‘Rough Magic’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z You might read LuPone’s character as an avatar of the jealousy that could have easily destroyed their friendship but didn’t. When Patti LuPone Haunted a Laundromat 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Oz remains an avatar of an old-school liberal Zionism that many in Israel now deride as too dreamy and idealistic. Amos Oz on His Novel ‘Judas,’ Which Challenges Views of a Traitor 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Players create their own farmer avatars, who then leave the city for Stardew Valley. Live Your Gay Millennial Pandemic Fantasy in Stardew Valley 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z His avatar on the app is a cartoon stuffed bear, and he describes himself simply as “an ordinary guy who likes to play the piano and drink lots of coffee.” Siri Meets Dr. Phil 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Metaverse avatars and A.I. programs are intrinsically derivative: They are all but guaranteed to be riffs on already existing artists and their works. A ‘Virtual Rapper’ Was Fired. Questions About Art and Tech Remain. 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z There was a new social etiquette to learn around how to approach and talk to other clubbers, and I felt my default avatar looked basic compared with the imaginative creatures surrounding me. Finding Community, and Freedom, on the Virtual Dance Floor 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z And it’s a face that, along with Tintin’s asexuality and lack of a family, makes him into a marvelous blank, an avatar for armchair adventurers. | 'The Adventures of Tintin': ?The Adventures of Tintin? by Steven Spielberg - Review 2011-12-20T22:03:02Z Last year, I made the crucial error of changing my Twitter avatar to a photo of myself throwing a quasi-ironic shaka on a beach in California while wearing sunglasses and a breezy grey singlet. 'I unreservedly apologise': What happens when costumes go very, very wrong 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z To learn to view herself objectively, she created something of an avatar, a celluloid second self minted purely for public consumption. On the Runway: Beyond Bunny Yeager's Lens, a Shy Pinup 2011-05-18T19:39:20Z You could not find a more potent avatar of the world that Alessandrini adores and teases than Prince, who died in July. Review: ‘Forbidden Broadway’ Sticks It to the Great Woke Way 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z She's been changing her Twitter avatar daily through this month to mug shots of the arrested riders, and tweeting some of their background and story from the book "Breach of Peace". Social media and online video commemorate 50th anniversary of Freedom Riders 2011-05-23T16:45:08Z It isn’t hard to imagine that Mr. Trump was influenced by Mr. Gotti: brawler, loving father of five, master media manipulator and glitzy avatar of 1980s New York. Victoria Gotti Is Back in a Big Way on Your Teensy Screens 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z At the time Mr. Petriello’s avatar was wearing a plaid dress, a baseball shirt and a floral crown. Cute Dress. How Many Bells Did You Pay? 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z In 2016, the theater’s production of “The Tempest” used live motion-capture technology to create a 3-D digital avatar that was projected above the stage. ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ Sprinkled With High-Tech Fairy Dust 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z An avatar of her own hand with a well-manicured middle finger sticking up. Kim Kardashian West Wants 'Everyone to Be as Honest as Kanye' 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Wrung out, inching toward bankruptcy, proud yet humbled, and yearning for a role that’s worthy of his self-regard, this avatar looks and sounds like the real deal. ‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’ Review: Being Nicolas Cage 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z But I did know that, inspired by the avatar’s flexibility, he was making even greater demands on his heroic dancers and their coordination skills. When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z And in October, Amazon paid a reported $50 to $70 million to acquire Body Labs, a start-up specializing in technology that allows shoppers to create 3-D avatars for trying on clothes online. Many Unhappy Returns? Online Holiday Shopping’s Big Hangover 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Last fall, the popular app, which allows users to create a personalized emoji avatar, introduced runway looks to its virtual closet. Even if You Can’t Afford Designer Clothes, Your Bitmoji Can 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Last year, Capitol Records apologized and dropped the digital rap avatar FN Meka after critics said the project amounted to a form of blackface. An A.I. Hit of Fake ‘Drake’ and ‘The Weeknd’ Rattles the Music World 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z In the late 1970s and early ’80s, his singing had become so crude that some rock critics even adopted Sinatra as an avatar of punk. Frank Sinatra: A Hundred Years On, the Voice Resonates Still 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z People began to recognize Benny from his Twitter avatar. Benny Johnson got fired at BuzzFeed. You will believe what happened next. 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z The enthusiastic and friendly crowd roared when a demonic character ripped off the arms of the player’s avatar and then used the limbs as weapons. E3: Bethesda confirms 'Dishonored 2,' details 'Fallout 4' 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Items like “29 Unique Women You Won’t Believe Exist” and “29 of the Most Bizarre Women on Earth” celebrate the outer limits of the female form, presenting women as avatars of disgust and danger. Lost in the Digital Swamp, Link by Link 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Mary, already a widow and still in her teens, alights from France as an avatar of worldliness and modernity in a rugged, clannish country. ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ Review: Sexy, Spirited and Almost Convincing 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z The Batman — not just any Batman! — is less the enemy of this state of things than its avatar. ‘The Batman’ Review: Who’ll Stop the Wayne? 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Using the Rolling Stones’ “Exile on Main St.” was sort of like using their avatar. Liz Phair Is Not Your Feminist Spokesmodel 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Like “There Will Be Blood,” it casts Mr. Day-Lewis as an avatar of obsession, driven this time by the pursuit of aesthetic perfection rather than money and power. Review: Daniel Day-Lewis Sews Up Another Great Performance in ‘Phantom Thread’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z My Twitter bots resemble real people, with photos for avatars and bios. Social Media Bots Offer Phony Friends and Real Profit 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z All that said, one of the main attractions of Tiger Woods Online is that you, the player, create your own middle-aged avatar and then guide your virtual persona through the ranks of golfdom. Video Game Review | Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online: Tiger Woods, at the Virtual Tee First 2010-04-05T22:06:00Z Each of their perfumes is represented by an avatar of its creator, and the brand’s website will be the forum for a digital series involving them. A Fragrance Debut? First, It’s Lights, Camera, Action 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Don’t forget that the physical forms we see in the Hideaway — including those of the children — are merely avatars. Review: Jennifer Haley’s ‘The Nether’ Explores the Dark Side of the Web 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z “Oh, Mum…”, replies the son — or the avatar. Ed Atkins and His Mum Are Starring in a Museum Show 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Throughout Tuesday, Takei also posted a few comical variations on the avatar theme, including my inevitable favorite, the one featuring Grumpy Cat. In support of Facebook’s sea of red for equality 2013-03-27T15:05:00Z In those days, before the Internet niche-ification of culture and the ridiculously accelerated spin cycle of fame, he was the avatar of the celebrity age, at once a self-conscious and self-destructive pursuant of publicity. Books of The Times: ‘Untouchable,’ Michael Jackson’s Life, by Randall Sullivan 2012-11-12T21:52:09Z Reconciling the jealous, genocidal and cantankerous God of the Bible with his terrestrial avatar, Jesus Christ, the prince of peace, has been a central occupation of Christian theologists for generations. Come Sunday: how one of America's biggest preachers became a pariah 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z The exact same guy serves as Atkins’ avatar in “Safe Conduct,” shown at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise shortly after Brexit, which transports him to a monstrous parody of British Airways safety video. Ed Atkins and His Mum Are Starring in a Museum Show 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z For a modern audience, there is obvious entertainment value in translating the past into an avatar for our current concerns, but is anything lost when the actual history is ignored? This Is Not History’s Catherine the Great 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z I recognize avatars and interact online or in person at conventions with the fans. Felicia Day Shares Her 5 Major Geek Influences 2013-08-08T09:45:23Z Although the New York Times said her performance was "very poised" it added "she seems more like a visiting lecturer on the subject of passion rather than its avatar." Ewan McGregor leads all-star cast in Broadway revival of 'The Real Thing' 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z But as they drink iced tea at a Hollywood cafe, Mozo and Park seem delighted to commiserate with their alternate-universe avatars. Which actress is Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'? (And yes, that's a trick question) 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Watson answered in a mellifluous computerised voice – think Stephen Hawking with extra zing – and in a neat visual trick its screen avatar changed colour depending on how sure it was about each answer. Meet Watson, the computer set to beat Jeopardy's champions 2011-02-06T00:05:33Z As Bitmoji fans know, the avatars are pictured in hundreds of situations, and the clothes had to look wearable in each one. Even if You Can’t Afford Designer Clothes, Your Bitmoji Can 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z McCartney made good use of the video backdrop, ranging from vintage photos to "Rock Band" avatars. Paul McCartney thrills L.A. crowd with hits, tales 2010-04-01T00:20:00Z Some couples have even had their avatars marry. It?s Love at First Kill 2011-04-22T18:21:33Z It wasn’t lost on me that of the five embodied boroughs, the one who comes to love the primary avatar of New York most fiercely and helplessly is also the newest transplant. When a Sinister Enemy Attacks New York, the City Fights Back 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z There are repeated scenes on “Catfish” of lovers bringing their phones to bed with them, the glowing avatars replacing the lover’s cheek on the neighboring pillow. Consider the “Catfish” 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z But could this digital avatar really be so convincing if he didn’t share some of Ethan’s psychological DNA? Anna Gunn and Billy Magnussen Star in ‘Sex With Strangers’ 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z In these narratives, we are guided by two avatars — a wolf and a transgender woman — who seem to speak from a future world marked by forest fires and air pollution. ‘Between Bodies’ at Henry Art Gallery asks us to consider the natural world through different lenses 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z They get the connection of commanding an avatar on screen. The Hobbit‘s Andy Serkis on Getting Inside Gollum’s Skin 2012-12-11T13:00:05Z Then there was the added complication, for the older principal actors, of dealing with not just their real avatars, but their predecessors in the role. Queen Olivia Colman, an epic budget and a cast of thousands: a year behind the scenes on The Crown 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z Syms’s many avatars are a record of survival in a cloying media atmosphere. The Many Lives of Martine Syms 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z In “Secret Identity,” a 15-year-old takes the bus from Iowa to New York to meet a man she knows only from his online avatar. Book review: Kelly Link’s fantastic, fantastical ‘Get in Trouble’ 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Millions of players around the world log in each day to create Sims avatars and watch their lives play out in vivid fashion. How The Sims Became the Internet’s Most Exciting Place to Eat 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Today online tour operators like Expedia are incorporating avatars and trivia contests into the browsing and booking process. The Getaway: Let’s Play: Making Travel a Game 2013-05-31T18:13:13Z That’s Joan of Arc, the teenage French warrior and holy avatar, who is played here most credibly by a rough-hewed Grace Van Patten. Review: Glenn Close Raises a Saint in ‘Mother of the Maid’ 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Offsetting the freedom and amplitude that Newton and Wilkerson found in their movement, eye-catching video avatars of the duo appeared behind them, in which they appeared more constrained, controlled. A Raucous New Festival, With a Friends and Family Vibe 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Her Annie is very poised and sure of herself, and she seems more like a visiting lecturer on the subject of passion rather than its avatar. ‘The Real Thing,' With Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal, Opens on Broadway 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Standing next to the avatar, he looked like the good twin. An Artist Who Explores the Deep Creepiness of Facial-Recognition Technology 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z The anonymous, endlessly mutating New York collective relies on rumour, subterfuge, fictional characters and avatars. Bernadette Corporation: 'Don't have sex with each other' 2013-03-24T21:00:01Z Ms. Braga is a living embodiment of the glories of Brazilian cinema, and Clara, while a less-celebrated figure, is in her own way an avatar of the nation’s cultural traditions. Review: In ‘Aquarius,’ a Widow Fights to Keep Her Home 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Hurt plays the Auster avatar of the film, a Brooklyn novelist still mourning the loss of his wife. Stream These 8 Great Performances by William Hurt 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Through the rift, an Enemy enters, known as the Woman in White, an avatar from a dimension other than our own. Review | N.K. Jemisin’s fantasy tale ‘The City We Became’ shows the resilience of New York 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z At some point recently, Disney changed the avatar, banner and name on the official Captain America Twitter account over to showcase Captain Carter, star of the "What If . . .?" animated series debut. Marvel 's "What If...?" is a thrilling ride into the multiverse, albeit with minor irritations 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z Essentially, it’s all a bit Rube Goldberg, depleting the power of the first section in which dancers, unlike the robotic avatars, manage to create unpredictable ways of moving — alert, precise and, above all, human. Dance Review | Koosil-ja: The Body, Visible and Invisible, in Three Parts 2010-03-04T22:48:00Z Sánchez’s drumming evokes the mental frenzy of Michael Keaton’s character as he attempts his comeback; the classical pieces serve as doorways to his fantasy world, with “Klinghoffer” ushering in his vengeful superhero avatar. Composing for Hollywood 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z There, after servants whisk away the body, David and Jo join the festivities, assuming their place among the other avatars of wealth, great privilege and bone-deep rot. ‘The Forgiven’ Review: When the Haves Dispose of a Have-Not 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z A year later, she entered a true fantasy world via Second Life, an Internet site that lets participants choose avatars and interact with one another. As China Evolves, the Artist Cao Fei Is Watching 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Again it's completely unfair to condense it into a brief synopsis, but it deals with a machine that can place an avatar into another person's dreams. Japan mourns anime master Satoshi Kon 2010-08-26T15:49:00Z With the help of advanced "motion capture" technology, the 61-year-old also plays a villainous computer "avatar" based on his younger self. Tron trumps Narnia at UK cinemas 2010-12-21T12:24:35Z For a few moments, he tries to explain – something about avatars and voices and perspective – but in the end, perhaps it simply comes down to this. Noah Baumbach: ‘Marriage Story illustrates that to take sides is folly’ 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z The older man seemed at times to serve as the artist’s avatar, helping Mr. Lemon get at things that were too much for him to touch on his own. Dance Review: Grappling With Grief, And Then With Bodies 2010-10-15T22:57:00Z This blurring is applied not only to nurses and healers, like Seacole and her latter-day avatars, but also to mothers, daughters, nannies and female mentors of all stripes. Review: ‘Marys Seacole’ Puts Biodrama Through a Kaleidoscope 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Miranda shares some of his hero’s ambition and intelligence, and turns Hamilton into an avatar of modern American aspiration. ‘Hamilton’ Review: You Say You Want a Revolution 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Tweets something unpleasant about her avatar photo and says good riddance. Justin Bieber: Teen pop idols never die. They're gradually unfollowed 2013-01-27T19:59:01Z It’s a platformer, which means you control an avatar that moves from left to right on a series of two-dimensional screens, jumping over pits and defeating enemies as you progress toward the goal. Reviews: Tomodachi Life; Divinity: Original Sin; Shovel Knight; and Civilization: Revolution 2 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z In the rap world, Trump has long been an avatar for ostentatious wealth. Some famous rappers backed Trump’s campaign. Did it matter? 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Having overexerted himself in fighting off the Enemy, the city’s human avatar falls into a coma and vanishes. When a Sinister Enemy Attacks New York, the City Fights Back 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z A dazzling phantasmagoria, it allows customers to log out of their reality by slipping into an avatar in the U space. ‘Belle’ Review: Soaring and Singing Over the Online Rainbow 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Considering that Mr. Slimane was an avatar of youthful style, I expected more from this debut. On the Runway Blog: Saint Laurent: Back at the Chateau Marmont 2012-10-02T13:49:09Z A good avatar needs documentation of exclusive events, particularly events or activities that express taste, as online personas are constituted by listing your consumer preferences. Ask the indie professor: Why the big fuss over Coachella festival? 2011-04-13T08:36:50Z The avatars also appeared as 30-foot-tall figures on huge screens at the sides of the stage, as if being filmed at a real concert. Abba Returns to the Stage in London. Sort Of. 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z “Their faces a camera, for you to stay at home. I think that’s what it’s going to be. Your avatar.” Is Roland Mouret More Than a One-Hit Wonder? 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z He carefully moved the limbs of these avatars — he called them Michelin men — joint by joint, in multiple directions, and wondrous new possibilities appeared. When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Even the New Frontiers section, traditionally devoted to virtual reality, performance art and experimental technologies, will be available online via a “spaceship” in which festivalgoers’ avatars will interact with each other and the shows. Sundance is going online, for the second year in a row. Here’s what’s great about that. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Initially Paul's role is to play the show's Everyman avatar, a blue-collar guy trapped in a spiral of meaningless existence. "Westworld" rides towards its manifest destiny, this time in a straighter line 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z Like the man himself, flighty and busy, Mr. West showed up for a few minutes via an onscreen avatar on Friday night. Gallery Hopes to Sell Kanye West’s ‘Famous’ Sculpture for $4 Million 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Several years back, the last avatar of downtown cool decamped for Upstate New York, famously offering the quote, “I don’t know how many white people having brunch I can deal with on a Saturday afternoon.” ‘The essence of life is kind of a nostalgia anticipation sandwich’: Philosophy 101 with Julian Casablancas 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z A few other striking lines pass too quickly, when Megan flashes glimpses of a personhood much more richly dimensional than the supernaturally empowered avatar that dominates the rest of “Good News.” Snapshots of the Many Megan Thee Stallions 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z My biggest Halloween faux pas to date has been not dressing up as a mate’s Twitter avatar to a party where that was the theme. 'I unreservedly apologise': What happens when costumes go very, very wrong 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z A different filmmaker might have made Esther, Irving and Aaron avatars of liberal hypocrisy. ‘Armageddon Time’ Review: Hard Lessons About Life in America 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z The software her patternmaker used to make templates for the designs had only two options for 3-D modeling on avatar bodies: men or women. What Makes a Bathing Suit So Expensive? 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z And some kid who is also The Avatar but nothing to do with the avatars in Avatar is The Last Airbender. Dev Patel 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z So what if Jason Momoa was the mental avatar of a teenage girl the whole time? The shock twist in “Sweet Girl” subverts the typical masculine revenge thriller — with a catch 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z The Royal Shakespeare Company mounted a production of “The Tempest” that used motion capture to create an onstage digital avatar of the spirit Ariel. ‘Hamlet’ in Virtual Reality Casts the Viewer in the Play 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z How best to describe this upstart avatar of Beckett’s bleakly comic worldview? Review: ‘Krapp’s Last Tape,’ a Melancholy Tone Poem 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z But with my headset translating my voice and movements into the virtual space and avatars dancing and chatting all around me, it felt surprisingly close to being in a real club. Finding Community, and Freedom, on the Virtual Dance Floor 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z There’s a “Black Mirror” episode, “Hang the DJ,” from 2017, in which an avatar does the dating for you and I would absolutely pay a premium for it. True Love? On TV, There’s an App for That. 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z It is instead a pointed, spirited, up-to-the-minute exploration of sex, gender and sexual difference through the character of Orlando, who serves as Preciado’s mirror and avatar. ‘Orlando, My Political Biography’ Review: A Collective Approach to Joy 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z An account written in the late second or early third century assures that one of these transformations changed Laozi into an avatar of Buddha who converted the “Barbarians.” A Dazzling Look at the World of Taoism 2010-04-09T11:55:00Z “No,” Roth’s fictional avatar argues in “Operation Shylock,” “a man’s character isn’t his fate; a man’s fate is the joke that his life plays on his character.” Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z He is not only a writhing, spitting, belching, head-smacking avatar of pure performance energy. Anger is an energy: The world’s best live band is made up of two middle-age British blokes in sweatpants 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z In another, Ms. Perry’s own face, jarringly grafted onto a ready-made avatar though it doesn’t quite fit, impersonates the kind of deeply shocked false consciousness that life inside such systems can foster. What to See in New York City Galleries This Week 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z He’s an atavistic avatar of how to look hard yet write simply. Books Of the Times: Five Poets Seasoned by Life 2011-05-29T22:06:07Z As the eulogy concluded, their avatar appeared onscreen, only to turn and walk off into the clouds. Young Digital Artists, Anxious About ... Technology 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z McConaughey has lately given evidence he could be an avatar of Paul Newman — specifically, Newman as Hud, the rancher dude with acres of Texas charm and not a square foot of scruples. Crazy Cops in Toronto: McConaughey and Harrelson Go Splendidly Sicko 2011-09-14T14:25:00Z Now, the Milly Rock — or something that looks very similar — is available for Fortnite players to purchase for their avatars, which prompted the lawsuit. Perspective | ‘Fortnite’ fight: Can a rapper claim a dance? 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z But Dave Grohl, superstar rock drummer, cheerful avatar of suburban averageness and puppy in human form, is here to tell you it’s actually pretty great. Review | Dave Grohl’s ‘The Storyteller’ is just as upbeat as you’d expect 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z So the characters in “Ready Player One” spend their time as avatars bewitched by online role playing. Books of The Times: A Future Wrapped in 1980s Culture 2011-08-14T23:02:57Z As Penelope Longstreet, a high-strung, high-minded avatar of liberal hypocrisy, Ms. Foster is frighteningly intense, and her skirmishes with Alan Cowan, Mr. Waltz’s cynical corporate lawyer, are full of vigor and venom. | 'Carnage': Roman Polanski?s ?Carnage,? With Jodie Foster - Review 2011-12-15T15:59:53Z Information from nodes connected to the actor's suit is then fed into the computer animators and used to drive the avatar characters in the short clips. The weird new world of computer-animated news 2011-01-31T08:00:00Z Maybe her Pokémon Go avatar is a kind of virtual other woman — new and exciting, full of surprises. She’s a gamer, I’m not: How Pokémon Go helped my marriage 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z Jemisin’s urban fantasy — the first of a trilogy — transports readers to a New York City that has come alive, personified in a human avatar. The most 2020 books of 2020 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z That doesn't look likely: everything is set up for this avatar version of a Professor Song to return. Doctor Who recap: The Name of the Doctor – series 33, episode 13 2013-05-18T18:45:00Z Ms. Ray said that was just Wendy being Wendy, but the comment made it clear that Rachael Ray is an avatar for a certain slice of America that doesn’t know how to throw shade. Beyond TV and EVOO: Rachael Ray Looks for Her Next Act 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z It includes a interactive video display in which questions about Hamilton are answered by an avatar speaking Hamilton’s own words, along with additional commentary by Mr. Laise and the historian Joanne B. Freeman. Museum Review: Alexander Hamilton?s Renovated Grange - Review 2011-09-15T22:35:12Z Q: Elaine, Mike makes a good point about these women who became avatars for profligacy. Perspective | Seeing ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ through a feminist lens 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z He, George and his other brother, Sam, are building an Internet experience that allows users to create avatars — cyber-identities — and dwell in tailor-made, utopian virtual worlds where there is no want, need or suffering. 'Luminarium': Alex Shakar's novel of a developer adrift in a post-material life 2011-08-25T18:17:04Z Casey Jane Ellison, a Los Angeles stand-up comic and artist in the triennial, creates video routines using digital avatars that vaguely resemble her but sometimes look more like Max Headroom. New Museum’s Triennial Is All About Being Wired 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Another character, Buck, who stays with you through the end of the game, is an avatar for a friend who died when they were teenagers. Ghosts who grieve in video games – and how I helped them achieve a measure of peace 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z A mother, a cancer survivor and an avatar of culture, sensuality and intellectual independence, Clara is a fittingly embattled and indomitable heroine for our times. The Best Movies of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z He compliments her, and tells her about “Daddy” — a new game that allows players, Julien says, to become avatars sponsored by sugar daddies, and showcase their talents to a “fan base.” ‘Daddy’ Review: Deeper Into the Internet’s Darkest Corners 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z There’s an American ring to that — the Big Easy, easy listening, easy-peasy — while Duras, though her prose is spare and concentrated, is practically an avatar of French existential difficulty. From Marguerite Duras, an Uncovered Tale of Young Womanhood 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z While I watched Balvin’s performance, I kept an eye on my own dancing avatar and occasionally tracked other characters zipping across my field of vision. How J Balvin Made His Trippy, Eye-Popping Halloween Concert in Fortnite 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z One of the occupational hazards of reviewing year-end biopics with Oscar ambitions is pointing out discrepancies between the real subjects and their on-screen avatars. Review: In American Sniper, Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper Are Right on Target 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z The Clade's interracial marriage doesn't thrill those bigots either, but given Disney corporate's messy response to Florida's "Don't Say Gay" law, Young-White's animated avatar is a more convenient target. "Strange World" is a box office flop, but not for the reasons the right is claiming? 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Digital renderings of 26 of the 28 major pieces from 2002 appear on-screen, a few at a time; audience members pick one, setting off a scripted, three-to-six-minute exchange between the avatar and the docent. A Shattered Adam Statue Comes to Life at the Met 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Newspaper headlines and Irving’s own self-portrait in the form of a social-media avatar can be glimpsed and partly read amid the congealed forms of his tabletop sculptures that are displayed on plinths under vitrines. Kahlil Robert Irving Roves Across Millenniums at MoMA 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Here, human avatars go about their business believing themselves free. ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ Review: Slipping Through Dreamland (Again) 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z The key to his persona, I think, can be found in the joke he tells about the always-be-selling vanity of his generation, presenting himself as its avatar. John Early Brings a Deliriously Over-the-Top Sensibility to Stand-Up 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z For all its vivid, comic detail, this ghost can be read as the avatar of Malik’s budding conscience. The Oscars: Movies Worth Another Look 2011-01-01T01:32:00Z Ms. Missoni claimed a spiritual kinship with surfers, avatars of her masculine ideal of ‘‘bohemian hedonism.’’ Missoni's Summer Surf Safari 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z But, given the current climate, isn’t it time its avatar had something new to wear to the party? Is It Time for Wonder Woman to Hang Up Her Bathing Suit? 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z At some point, we started referring to fans by their names and avatars. Gina Bellman on Leverage: 'Fandom is a world with no prejudice' 2013-02-02T17:00:00Z The lack of playable women characters is particularly disappointing in this instance considering that previous Assassins games did include female avatars. Why Assassin's Creed Killed Off All Its Women 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z There’s Zwift, a treadmill with a screen that offers avatar runs on virtual courses, and IPO, a machine whose belt keeps up with your natural pace. Running is the hot new fitness trend – only now you pay for it 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Skeptics, who see Blank Street as an avatar of gentrification and automation, and resent the use of Wall Street money to compete with local businesses, have aired their objections on social media. It’s Not Just You — Blank Street Coffee Is Suddenly Inescapable 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z I find a certain peace by thinking of me in public as sort of an avatar self. Jennifer Lawrence Has No Appetite for Playing Fame Games 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Widow: Anyone can attach any avatar or picture to their profile on social media. Perspective | Ask Amy: My husband is living an entirely different life online 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z Or there is James Hogg’s strange, unsettling “The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner,” in which the narrator is pursued around the city and the countryside by a terrifying avatar named Gil-Martin. Read Your Way Through Edinburgh 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z The trappers are generally treated as actual people — we see an anxious female companion bidding one farewell — rather than as avatars. Movie Review: Werner Herzog’s ‘Happy People: A Year in the Taiga’ 2013-01-25T01:35:29Z It’s clear that Gary Friedman, RH’s chairman, C.E.O. and brand avatar, is influenced by that model. You May Be Surprised to Hear That Restoration Hardware Is Doing Great 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z On the internet, where characters become avatars for our personalities and moods, passively pleasing trinkets don’t pack the same punch. How Sanrio Makes Anti-Capitalism Adorable, and Profitable 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z He is both courtly and strangely menacing, a lunatic prophet who understands that children are both avatars of the imagination and agents of the devil. Willy Wonka deserved an Oscar: A close look at Gene Wilder’s finest role 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z And to coincide with all that, Piers Morgan, avatar of outrage, is predictably up in arms. Madonna Will Never Go Gently 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Dolores, cluing in the hosts to their own exploitation and lack of freedom, is both avatar of revenge and leader of the class struggle. Review: The Perfect Timing of ‘Westworld’ Season 3 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z As the city is attacked by nefarious forces, five other avatars band together to save it and its people. The most 2020 books of 2020 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z To be fair, maybe this will change as technology changes, just as the ability to dress your avatar may change. The Avatars Wear Prada 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Nickelodeon executive Brown Johnson says the new series will focus on a teenage girl avatar named Korra. Nickelodeon sets `Last Airbender' sequel for 2011 2010-07-21T12:16:00Z Because players choose avatars and screen names that uphold anonymity, they connected on social media to confirm they were truthful about their identities. A ‘Final Fantasy’ Alliance Gets Real 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z “People are reaching in. They are not polishing their avatars.” You Show Me Your Décor, I’ll Show You Mine 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Isaac also plays Marc Spector, a grizzled American mercenary who shares the same body with Grant — and who is also Moon Knight, the crime-fighting avatar of an ancient Egyptian deity. Oscar Isaac Learned to Love Blockbusters Again in ‘Moon Knight’ 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z The paradigm may be Jimmy Stewart in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” but the most memorable recent avatar of this tradition is Chris Rock in “Head of State.” What I Learned About Democracy From the Movies 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Morty is the avatar for average goodness, but also sheer averageness. Finally “Rick and Morty” is back with the inspiring nihilism we crave 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Shredder’s angle is less clear, but his genuine function is to wield a bouquet of enormous swords and leap about like a button-mashed avatar from SoulCaliber. TMNT first look review – what the shell is this? 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Minecraft, which was widely released in 2011, is an open play building game where players create avatars and then a world, using blocks to create structures. First The Lego Movie, And Now Minecraft 2014-02-28T12:33:43Z Playing video games, she dreaded having to choose male or female avatars. Generation LGBTQIA 2013-01-09T21:10:18Z In this version of the game, though, players guide their chosen avatar. Assassin’s Creed Has a New Mission: Working in the Classroom 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Two scenes, both involving Toby and his cousins, are avatars of how French, like Goodis, doubles back on herself, not so much narrating as drilling down. Stephen King Reviews Tana French’s ‘Extraordinary’ New Novel 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z The format allows the stars to appear in multiple games over time as different characters, and both icons will also be available for purchase as custom avatars for players to explore the game world with. Marilyn, Elvis team up for "Retro World" game 2011-11-04T21:44:00Z The more cities your avatar visits, the more Expedia Rewards points you receive. The Getaway: Let’s Play: Making Travel a Game 2013-05-31T18:13:13Z Campion won particular praise for the diverse and complex range of female characters in the first series, who she described as “all my avatars”. Jane Campion: my Top of the Lake research involved sneaking into brothels 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Their digital avatars were reflected on giant LED screens around the studio to orient the performers within the virtual environment. ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ Sprinkled With High-Tech Fairy Dust 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z Rudimentary talking avatars court a fall from grace in pop-up Eden. 'UH-OH: Frances Stark, 1991-2015' at Hammer Museum is an enthralling midcareer survey 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z And I realized these two men were avatars through which I could get at these questions that had been dogging me. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Two Adventurers on Very Different Missions to Borneo 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z But only recently has the technology advanced to the point that a relatively affordable system can transform a motion-capture session into a live performance by a digital avatar. A Shattered Adam Statue Comes to Life at the Met 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z While many have focused on the pajama-clad avatar of sybaritic male pleasure, others have paid tribute to a less familiar figure: Hef the progressive. Let’s Talk About Hugh Hefner’s Political Legacy 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Here, like the film-makers whose work he quotes, he sets up head-on collisions between avatars of repression and freedom. Made in Heaven; Cruising, Clubbing, Fucking: An Elegy – review 2012-06-30T23:05:46Z And I’m sort of the avatar of people’s youth in a certain way… It took me a long time to kind of embrace that notion, but that’s sort of a beautiful thing. Andrew McCarthy taps into 80’s nostalgia with new memoir 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z When they showed up at the museum, they were greeted by actors in white lab coats and given a 3-D body scan that was used to generate a life-size digital avatar. Young Digital Artists, Anxious About ... Technology 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z He became an avatar of hip-hop’s turn from the polished back to the rugged. Remembering Pop Smoke, a Rapper Who Brought Brooklyn to the World 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z I’m wondering if this use of two-dimensional alter egos isn’t some sly comment on how virtual reality is replacing real reality and how we have all become mere ghosts of our technological avatars. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Familiar, but Far From Haunting 2011-07-20T16:30:02Z On Labor Day weekend, the couple — or rather, their digital avatars — held a ceremony staged by Virbela, a company that builds virtual environments for work, learning and events. Getting Married in the Metaverse 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z It stirs in characters a bit less distinctive than the average game avatar — a blue-eyed hero, a dark-haired villain, a few funny sidekicks, a girl — and sets them off in pursuit of something vaguely archetypal. Movie Review: ‘Need for Speed’ Puts Video Gamers in the Passenger Seat 2014-03-13T21:41:59Z Mr. Davis, responding in part to the confessions’ apocalyptic imagery and accounts of holy visions, focuses on the Christian martyr, prophet and avatar of divine vengeance and historical inevitability. Review: ‘Nat Turner in Jerusalem,’ an Avatar of Divine Vengeance 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z No longer were our celebrity avatars Just Like Us, stuck at home in sweatpants, T-shirts and Tevas; they had become vessels through which we could peacock vicariously. The Year on the Red Carpet 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z It turns out even avatars can’t keep up with the pace of fashion. Even if You Can’t Afford Designer Clothes, Your Bitmoji Can 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z The people around her are a little more distinctive, but only because they have entirely conventional roles to fulfill, more like video game avatars than flesh-and-blood beings. Review: ‘Before I Fall,’ a Melodramatic ‘Groundhog Day’ 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z They wirelessly transmit the coordinates of his body parts to computers that transform the data into the avatar projected onto screens moving over the stage. At This ‘Tempest,’ Digital Wizardry Makes ‘Rough Magic’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Fortunately, Paulo knows what to do: To save the city from the Enemy, he must awaken and engage the individual avatars of the five boroughs so they may in turn awaken the primary. Review | N.K. Jemisin’s fantasy tale ‘The City We Became’ shows the resilience of New York 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z A willingness to imagine himself as a dutiful and grateful avatar of his own adored fan base. Richard Ford Reviews Bruce Springsteen’s Memoir 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z We are armchair warriors for social justice or hero worship, defending the honor of hypothetical people from these avatars of Otherness. Internet Mob Justice Isn't Justice At All 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z By grooming and updating your various avatars, you are making sure you remain at the popular kid’s table. Keep Your Thumbs Still When I?m Talking to You 2011-04-15T21:53:25Z Post Malone is decidedly the latter, an avatar of algorithm culture that rewards pleasant banality over the creatively vexing. Review | Post Malone is the perfect pop star for this American moment. That’s not a compliment. 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z “I just went with my avatar to where my office chair would be, and sat there,” she said. Enjoy these tales of awkwardness and mortification from Zoom holiday office party season 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Which makes it all the more curious that posterity has cast Tracy Flick as an avatar for liberalism. Election at 20: assessing the high school satire's brutal politics 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z She is both the avatar of all these victims and their avenger. David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Thanks Very Much, But You Really Didn't Have To 2011-12-20T15:00:53Z Apter is a kind of avatar of meritocracy. Heard the One About the Hole That Swallowed Part of Chicago? 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z The centerpiece is what organizers are calling the Fan Energy Zone, which will include the 40-foot-tall Fan Dome, which allows those interested to play interactive games as digital avatars that display on giant screens. A San Francisco Super Bowl Experience, With or Without a Ticket 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z More than seeing Mr. Zuckerberg as merely an avatar of tech success and unfathomable wealth, they consider him a role model. For These Guys, Mark Zuckerberg Is a Lifestyle Guru 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z The idea started around 2014, Gisla said, when she was brought in to help make music videos for the band involving digital avatars, a process that was “a total nightmare,” she said. Abba Returns to the Stage in London. Sort Of. 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z They are, in any case, cool guys of a particular vintage, avatars of a salty, clean-cut, old-style masculinity that is enjoying a somewhat improbable vogue these days. ‘Ford v Ferrari’ Review: It’s a Gas 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z The depiction of Devereaux as a sort of sacrificial victim, an avatar of the viewer’s sensibilities, is among Ferrara’s grandest inspirations. Starring Depardieu as D.S.K. 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Felicity Staples surely belongs in this company, but with enough panache, gumption and resilience for a dozen of her own avatars. Review | ‘The 22 Murders of Madison May’ is a thrilling ride in every dimension 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Part of Jay-Z’s allure is his perceived status as an invincible avatar for triumph who pulled himself up by his Timberlands. Review | In a nearly perfect concert, Jay-Z embraces his personal imperfections 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z After Halliday’s death, his avatar revealed the existence of a series of Easter eggs, or secret digital treasures, the discovery of which would win a lucky player control of the Oasis. Review: In ‘Ready Player One,’ Spielberg Plays the Nostalgia Game 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z A map of the world shows players where their avatar is on its journey, and an Indiana Jones-style graphic line between cities enables users to track their progress. The Getaway: Let’s Play: Making Travel a Game 2013-05-31T18:13:13Z Along the way, it made campy spectacle into a mainstream vehicle for telling personal truths, and fashioned drag queens into, as my colleague Shane O’Neill has put it, the cultural avatars of being yourself. How Lip-Syncing Got Real 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z My stammer had never before assumed a shape, and this nocturnal avatar was satifyingly gothic. The monster in my mouth: Maggie O'Farrell on fighting her stammer 2013-02-27T20:00:01Z Throughout her art, her moving images feature avatars of herself that she endows with a vital mixture of ego and exhaustion, cupidity and love. The Many Lives of Martine Syms 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z The creators of “Guitar Hero” invited Mr. Beck to be an avatar in the game, but he declined. 2010-02-12T21:05:00Z The artist’s digital avatar strolls across a flat, featureless limbo, enduring several gruesome deaths. The Many Lives of Martine Syms 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z He’s also a showman, and as such an avatar of the film’s ambivalence about the business of spectacle. ‘Nope’ Review: Hell Yes 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z But the virtual show required more work, including transforming each garment into a 3D image and using the body of an avatar to tailor the item with precise measurements. Congolese fashion designer goes virtual as virus hits runway shows 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Ruth is a sort of avatar, which allowed me to respond to events in both a serious and playful way. Ruth Ozeki: 'This book is about the character creating a novelist' 2013-03-07T09:00:01Z Mursion, a San Francisco start-up, allows managers — as well as prospective teachers, Air Force captains, executives from finance and tech — to practice difficult conversations with an avatar. The Most Watched Show at the Office? Sexual Harassment Training Videos 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z In one image, gleaming Rock Star energy-drink cans act as avatars for pipes dumping waste into water. David LaChapelle's Latest Photographs Lure Viewers with Glowing Relics 2014-01-24T05:00:00Z Subsequent years found him functioning as the patriarchal head of a metaphorical Superfamily and a transformative avatar of identity fluidity in the 1950s and ’60s, and a successful Super-Yuppie in the 1980s. Why Superman Deserves More Respect 2013-02-21T17:39:34Z Meanwhile, a separate team of theatergoers was issuing commands to a different avatar in a different set of projected puzzle-like rooms. The audience controls the action in ‘Happy Hour,’ and, yes, you get a drink 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Over 30 moving cameras were used to create the avatar and it took 10 hours of footage to process a minute of the performance. Marina Abramovic goes digital for new London performance 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z During the show, the digital avatars — known as Abbatars — performed a set of hits with the help of a 10-piece live band and an array of lights, lasers and special effects. Abba Returns to the Stage in London. Sort Of. 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Greater clashes occur between the sketched models and their avatars in Bronzino’s pictures. Review: A Florentine Artist's Two Aesthetic Lives 2010-02-19T13:15:00Z We British, never international avatars of sexual prowess, now seem to be living up to our billing: we are too tired, too stressed, or too drunk to screw. How the British changed their minds about sex 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z “Good idea!” the avatar tends to respond in a sober yet admiring tone. The audience controls the action in ‘Happy Hour,’ and, yes, you get a drink 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z During the film, China Tracy meets a handsome young male avatar named Hug Yue, and they engage in text-based, poetic and philosophical conversation about the Second Life experience. Cao Fei Captures Modern Malaise in a Series of Inventive Videos 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z After uploading roughly 12 of my own selfies over the weekend, I received a prompt asking for $3.99 before I could receive my 50 avatars. Lensa is turning us into AI thirst trappers with its ubiquitous portrait app 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Characters often seem like little more than avatars for ideas. Review | With ‘Double Blind,’ Edward St. Aubyn tasks himself with a formidable challenge 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z As I sat in my chair watching our avatars on the screen, I realized that I was on a date. Feeling Lonely? Wearing Cat Ears May Help 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z In Britain, Stormzy is both a pop idol and an avatar for his nation’s discontents. Can Stormzy, an Evangelist for British Grime, Seduce the U.S.? 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Once a month for the past decade, the composer, conductor, multi-instrumentalist and author David Amram, 86, has held forth as an artist in residence; he is the perfect avatar of the cafe’s ecumenical soul. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z It’s a game often associated with the rich as well as an avatar for the cluelessness and selfishness of presidents in times of crisis. Golfers say their sport is made for social distancing. Not all officials agree. 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z She "is not so much a character in this narrative as an avatar," Wheelwright explains, "like Quixote's Dulcinea." A wandering gene's destructive path 2012-02-01T19:23:03Z In her latest, the human avatars who embody the soul of New York City must fight a mysterious enemy, the Woman in White. 33 Works of Fiction and Poetry Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z She’s a pretty smart work of group fiction written in the grip of a pretty dumb panic, an avatar for a collective spirit that is less vengeful than guilty, anxious and helplessly angry. Momo Is as Real as We’ve Made Her 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z Then my son invited M.'s avatar over. Motherlode Blog: Four Hours of Screen Time? No Problem 2012-11-16T17:35:09Z Kavanaugh makes a handy avatar for #MeToo backlash because a Supreme Court Justice is both the pinnacle of a law career and a lifetime appointment. Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation: The patriarchy strikes back at #MeToo 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z Our four female cultural avatars, like imperialistic Barbies, milk Abu Dhabi for leisure and hedonism without making any discernible, concrete efforts to learn about her people and their daily lives. "Sex and the City 2's" stunning Muslim clich?s 2010-05-26T18:45:00Z The avatar placing his own brain and liver through the airport metal detector, the organs plopping into the plastic tray with a hilarious squish. Ed Atkins and His Mum Are Starring in a Museum Show 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Rufus resembles a villain out of fantasy or science fiction — a nearly superhuman avatar of evil with grandiose ambitions and a grudge against the universe. ‘The Harder They Fall’ Review: A New Look for the Old West 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z The show’s avatars for Hamlet, Ophelia and Laertes are all gay despite the homophobia, gender stereotyping and toxic masculinity that runs in their families. Onstage, Paradise for Black Characters Often Comes With a Price 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z That awkward "Guitar Hero" moment when a band's digital avatar was seen shaking and singing along to songs from a different genre? Ready to play 'Guitar Hero' and 'Rock Band' again? Game makers hope so 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z To its detractors, iceberg is the avatar of commodity gastronomy—“the polyester of lettuces” is a popular gibe. It’s Time to Admit That Iceberg Is a Superior Lettuce 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z The few female avatars who’ve made it into space have done so with breasts exposed. Elon Musk and the Failure of Our Imagination in Space 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z It surveys the sort of space — specifically, a platform called VRChat — where people hang out “in person” as avatars of their choice. ‘We Met in Virtual Reality’ Review: Home Sweet Home 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z A few pages later our Hemingway avatar David experiences "the strangeness inside" as Catherine penetrates him. The androgyny of being Ernest: A gender-fluid reading of Hemingway that upends his macho image 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z A video game level you already beat, full of avatars wandering around with no more sophisticated objective than to not run into one another. Sheltering in Space 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z At the time, Mr. Pollak, who works for Genies, a tech start-up in Los Angeles that makes NFTs and avatars, didn’t have a lot of disposable income. How Much Real Money Can You Make From Virtual Art? 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z In the movie, Wright agrees to become a "scanned actor," a digital avatar owned by her studio. Ari Folman animates Robin Wright in 'The Congress' 2013-05-21T12:05:12Z The experience of moving through a virtual world as an avatar — a kind of idealized version of yourself — creates a more immersive, emotionally satisfying experience than Zoom, said Ms. Gagnon. Getting Married in the Metaverse 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Bernard asks, astounded, serving briefly as an avatar for the audience. “Westworld” Season 2 and the Cautionary Lessons of “The Matrix” 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Hollywood’s cultural avatars going up against a president with the nuclear codes and a Republican Congress. Trump v Hollywood? Don't expect to see the culture war play out on screen 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z But the interactive station that guarantees a long wait is the performance-capture stage, where you shoot your own scene as an avatar and email the final cut to yourself, with Cameron — on video — directing you. 'Avatar' and its blue moon land at Seattle's EMP | SFM 2011-06-04T04:22:46Z How about an app where he delivers his latest musings through a 3D avatar? 20 best iPhone and iPad apps this week 2013-05-24T14:21:06Z Mr. Shannon, though, is the film’s center of gravity — its supernova, its black hole, its avatar of cosmic disorder. In ‘99 Homes,’ a Man Buffeted and Then Manipulated in Florida’s Foreclosure Disaster 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The internet of the 1990s was a liberating space, he says, where adopting and discarding different avatars could open up possibilities for more authentic expression and connection. In Edward Snowden’s New Memoir, the Disclosures This Time Are Personal 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z During the test event, when Ken or Brad finally buzzed in to answer a question first, Watson's avatar briefly flashed an angry orange. Meet Watson, the computer set to beat Jeopardy's champions 2011-02-06T00:05:33Z In this series, which began with Jemisin’s 2020 novel “The City We Became,” the five boroughs of New York are embodied by human avatars, who fight off their enemy: the Woman in White. 15 Books Coming in November 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Her avatar protests from its cyber bedroom, surrounded by other Gannis artworks, reflecting how her personal and private creative thoughts “are increasingly impacted by the politics and inequities of the outer world.” What’s Right About The Wrong Biennale? 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Not only is the current front-runner, Lena Dunham, not even a novelist, but her fictional avatar in “Girls” dismisses the idea of such a generational voice in the show’s very first episode. Why There’s No ‘Millennial’ Novel 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Another year, another casual calisthenics lesson from Cam’ron, the last avatar of the intricately economical style that dominated Harlem rap in the ’90s and remains staggering to observe. Best Songs of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Parks, as a weirdly gentle psychopath, and Mr. Goodman, as a rumpled avatar of bureaucratic decency, are each able to weave a verbal spell out of Mr. Smith’s words. | 'Red State': Kevin Smith?s ?Red State? - Review 2011-09-23T04:03:27Z His mother, Sulamith, and an uncle, Asaf, were members of an earlier generation of virtuosos, avatars of a new, dynamic Soviet style. Mikhailovsky Ballet to Make U.S. Debut at Lincoln Center 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z And no wonder: this Superman is dynamically angry, an avatar of decency outraged, bashing through doors and tossing goons over the treetops. ‘Superman,’ by Larry Tye 2012-07-06T22:10:04Z Rainbow ... has constructed a magnetic persona that serves as an avatar for contemporary rage and bewilderment. Randy Rainbow, singing truth to power 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Hamilton said the dancing avatars were being created for Usher’s concert by Moment Factory, a Montreal-based multimedia company he previously worked with on Madonna’s Super Bowl show. ArtsBeat: Usher to Recruit Digital Dance Crew for Concert Webcast 2012-05-31T04:01:01Z The palace was an avatar of the city’s southward creep. In London, looking backward to move forward 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z For Guest, an avatar, too, could be an escape from self, an attempt to idealise and act on impulses outside the strictures of conventional society. The strange life of Tim Guest 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z Williams had given graphic, violent life before to the evil that preys upon innocent beauty but usually had the good sense to keep its avatars in the background. Theater Review: ‘Sweet Bird of Youth,’ Revived by Goodman Theater 2012-09-25T02:00:18Z Worse yet, his party-mix approach could make his floor at the Whitney read as an avatar of the art fair, geared to collectors’ lust for variety. Anthony Elms Prepares for the Whitney Biennial 2014-02-14T19:28:38Z The avatar will be a picture of you, automatically Photoshopped for maximum plausible flattery. Gene Weingarten’s column is on your favorite subject: You. 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Now, a populist mayoral candidate spewing hateful rhetoric threatens the city, and the avatars team up with other cities across the world to defeat this new foe. 15 Books Coming in November 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z If so, getting your avatar dressed in the morning may feel less like playing paper dolls, and more like a unique form of value-signaling and experimentation; may seem additive, rather than just imitative. The Avatars Wear Prada 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z The primary avatar of New York City escapes but falls into a dream-state and disappears. Review | N.K. Jemisin’s fantasy tale ‘The City We Became’ shows the resilience of New York 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Jay-Z enters his sixth decade still close to the height of his lyrical powers, still pop culture’s most visible avatar of late capitalism. Review | In Michael Eric Dyson’s new book, Jay-Z is the living embodiment of American ideals 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z An open-world game is one in which the player’s avatar moves freely through the simulated environment rather than along a set course. Review | In the galleries: Nine artists create worlds of their own for Arlington show 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z “They would send a PDF, and we would draw on the little avatars: ‘Shorten the hem.’” Even if You Can’t Afford Designer Clothes, Your Bitmoji Can 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Clad in a chiffon gown, she wields a flaming frying pan: an avatar of punk domesticity. The Tide Is High (Really), but Debbie Harry Is Staying Put 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z Mostly, the movie is an excuse to watch a beautiful, deviously clever female avatar as she is stripped naked, dolled up and repeatedly beaten down only to rise again. Review: Dressed to Kill, ‘Atomic Blonde’ Also Shoots to Kill 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z “That’s something I learned as a philosophy major: The philosophy ethos is, always question, never rest. I see myself as an avatar of curiosity and doubt.” Adam Conover Turns a Skeptical Eye to the Presidential Campaign 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Diana, rushing from room to room in search of comfort, solitude and distraction, might be an avatar of the festivalgoer. At the Telluride Film Festival, Both Magic and Normalcy 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z His body motions were tracked and recorded by Rockstar Studios for their ping-pong game for Xbox, meaning that the 3D motions performed by the digital avatars in that game are technically reproductions of Green's movement. Wally Green’s unlikely path from gang member to ping-pong star 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Evangelicals preferred the only dimly religious Ronald Reagan and now with an unrivaled leap of faith, Donald Trump, the avatar of a pagan Persian king. An atheist in the White House? It could happen, thanks to Donald Trump 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z Jiminy, too, has a puppet avatar, a shiny green creature somewhat bigger than a breadbox. Review: A Wondrous ‘Pinocchio’ With That ‘Lion King’ Magic 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z After receiving my avatars I was pleasantly surprised. Lensa is turning us into AI thirst trappers with its ubiquitous portrait app 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z The shredded jeans and crop top or iridescent sci-fi priest’s robes or branded hoodie may be all the users your avatar interacts with know about you — and hence the first signals of shared tastes. What to Wear in the Metaverse 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z In other words, Laurie is the perfect avatar for an age awash in final girls, whether they’re publicly opening their most primal psychic wounds in the U.S. Perspective | ‘Halloween’: 40 years ago, Laurie Strode got inside my head. She’s still there. 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Into the vacuum created by Swift's old-fashioned "never talk politics" approach rushed white supremacists, in jest or for real — like it matters — claiming Swift as an "Aryan goddess" avatar of femininity for their side. What Taylor Swift could learn from the #NotHim son: How to handle being smeared in the culture wars 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z An excellent carnal writer fashions not a robot, but what feels like a breathing, tasting avatar the reader can climb inside, thus wearing the writer’s hands and standing inside her shoes. Sacred Carnality 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z “Romance in Marseille,” one of the Renaissance’s most radical texts, hidden for decades from public view, makes a natural avatar for that development. A Book So Far Ahead of Its Time, It Took 87 Years to Find a Publisher 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z At the end, when her three avatars took a bow, the real Bocanegra was in awe. Suzanne Bocanegra’s Haunting, Beautiful Clutter 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z It’s simply that these people now have an avatar. Our festering American rage: Why “it doesn’t matter if Trump lies” 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z As their avatars wandered a virtual forest, banners reading “Will you marry me?” dropped from the trees, and Mr. Grande, and his avatar, to one knee. Two Self-Described Nerds Walk Into a Club … 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z It’s hard not to feel unsettled by the sight of Pharrell’s cartoon avatar peeping through binoculars at a group of Lolitas frolicking in the surf. Pharrell Williams’s Lolicon Video 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z As our “avatar,” he’d function as our eyes, ears and hands just as if we were controlling a video game character. In a virtual escape room, a family finds clues for getting through the pandemic 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z There’s already an entire fashion-technology industrial complex springing up to cater to whatever dressing needs avatars will have now and in the future. What to Wear in the Metaverse 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Let’s just hope it features a different avatar. Apptitude: Relaxation is just a few breaths away 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Gagnon’s avatar watched as his buddy’s avatar ambled up to the stage and delivered a toast. Getting Married in the Metaverse 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Brooks is an avatar for the classic “midlife crisis,” a term that had been coined just five years earlier. Jessica Walter and George Segal personified a time when movies grew up 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z The avatars and content of departed employees are still in the system, ghosts in the machine. Workplace by Facebook, or a Party in the Office 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z "Dance Central" uses Kinect to detect players' movements and translate them to a flashy avatar on screen. Jackson fans will moonwalk in motion-sensing game 2010-06-15T00:55:00Z It’s been that long since his lovely, million-faceted voice called out to the bereft, the forsaken and the rejected and announced itself as this generation’s avatar of romantic despair. The Tear-Stained Confessions of Sam Smith 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z "And I think she sort of used Richard as this sort of avatar for herself, to find herself." Steve Coogan on finding "The Lost King": "It's not a journalistic piece. It's a point of view" 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z The avatar for all those feelings is Scott Rogowsky, the game’s usual host and its breakout star. How HQ Trivia Became the Best Worst Thing on the Internet 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z La Guardia and Kennedy Airports were scheduled to get trial avatars of their own last week. In Transit Blog: That Newark Airport Greeter Sure Can Project 2012-08-08T14:00:02Z He was directly responsible for introducing Stravinsky, a staunch neoclassicist, to the art of 12-tone music, an avant-garde compositional technique whose best-known avatar was Arnold Schoenberg. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z But while Atkins’s body has been supplanted by an avatar, the soundtrack is not reprocessed at all: just the artist and his mother, made of ones and zeros but all too human. Ed Atkins and His Mum Are Starring in a Museum Show 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z There’s also a video-game version in the works, which sort of looks like Angry Birds, but instead of flinging a bird at a pig, you fling the avatar of a blogger at a runway model. Front Row: Shopbop Gets a Makeover 2012-08-29T17:48:55Z They merely exist as avatars of complacency and ignorance. In ‘The Pink Hotel,’ Delusional Newlyweds Head Toward a Grand Reckoning 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z “We feel inauthentic, curiously envious of our own avatars.” The age of envy: how to be happy when everyone else's life looks perfect 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z He went on to explain they started the process of creating female avatars but had to stop because it would require 8,000 extra animations. Why Assassin's Creed Killed Off All Its Women 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z With avatars as stand-ins for real life dancers, LifeForms not only allowed choreographers to create movement, but also to work simultaneously with multiple figures whose dancing could be tracked on the screen. When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Because of camera angles, when the performers face each other onstage, their video avatars face away, and vice versa. Review: ‘Pandaemonium’ Gives Unhappiness a Light Touch 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z She especially liked seeing her team and how much their avatars looked like themselves. ‘Baba Yaga’ introduces with a virtual reality movie premiere 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z At the conventions, the fans appear relatively laid-back about meeting their perceived idols compared with their excitement about putting faces to avatars and finally meeting their co-conspirators from around the world. Gina Bellman on Leverage: 'Fandom is a world with no prejudice' 2013-02-02T17:00:00Z The Trump avatar appeared on Trump’s election-night special, mocking the president’s rhetoric and rage in a short called The Making of Donald Trump. Stephen Colbert to bring Trump-centric animated series to small screen 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z It’s sort of like there’s this avatar that’s been born who has nothing to do with me or my day-to-day life whatsoever. Justin Theroux on ‘The Leftovers,’ Lustrous Beards and Lego Ninjas 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Yet I was foiled again and again like a video game avatar, either because there was no train stop or because I couldn’t decipher my map. Single in Chicago 2012-07-06T18:26:33Z While thousands logged on, only 20 to 30 avatars seemed to be in the hall at a given time. Partying on Minecraft, in a Replica of a Brooklyn Club 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Jimmy is quick to detect the threat posed by Nancy, the hotel masseuse whom Strings meets in the first scene and embraces as an avatar of the “real world.” Review: Kenneth Lonergan’s ‘Hold On to Me Darling,’ a Study of Bad Faith (and Behavior) 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z These figures conjure jubilant trick-or-treaters, comically armored avatars or rock fans leaving a concert. Richard Prince’s New, Late Style Is One of His Best 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Ironically, two books where the animals are bit players, or avatars for their child, are more deserving of shelf space. Fiction for older children – reviews 2013-07-27T13:00:00Z From that point in the film, Maitland pursues the same strategy with other participants, featuring interviews with them from their later years and matching them with their younger cinematic avatars. A Hitchcockian Re-Creation of the First Modern Mass Shooting 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z We chatted with a friendly lawyer from Toronto and talked trash about one of the jokes when we saw an avatar of a performer from the show walk nearby and immediately changed the subject. I Miss Being Part of an Audience 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z But this time, they’re saving it not from predatory outsiders but from a creature of their own making, an avatar of military technology that merely pursues its built-in mission to its logical conclusion. The New “Avengers” Is Really About the N.S.A. 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Naturally, the routine also delighted the frog avatar demographic. Louis C.K. is back, and it's bad: Leaked stand-up set shows he's lost more than his reputation 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z It went without saying that Mrs. Obama herself and her husband have been avatars of that same vital work, as the country’s most visible embodiments of inclusivity and a “majority-minority” future. Has there been an ‘Obama effect’ in Hollywood? 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z “There is no trust anymore,” Clinton’s avatar laments, breaking the irony meter. Review | Bill Clinton and James Patterson’s ‘The President Is Missing’ is an awkward duet 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z He is both a throwback to an era when artists prided themselves on being outsiders challenging the establishment, and an ideal avatar of current cut-and-paste aesthetics. The Gaudy, Glittery, Gorgeously Subversive World of Taylor Mac 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z That’s a haunting lesson many women learn, pop star or not; famous female stars, as objects of admiration and often envy, are often the public avatar of such personal and cultural reckonings. 'I have to keep smiling': how the female pop star documentary got real 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z When the avatars stop speaking, they look off to the right or to the left, blinking at uneven intervals, smiling slightly. Watch an Art Work About the Dark Web, on the Dark Web 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z George Armstrong Custer — as myth, as tourist attraction, as droopily-mustached avatar of doom — figures obliquely in several of these stories. Review: In ‘Dog Run Moon,’ Men So Lonesome, They Could Cry 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z We tend to think of bankers as avatars of evil in pop culture, but fashion designers are just as ubiquitous. In ‘Cruella,’ Fashion Is Toxic 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z But the two others were avatars, and they quickly stopped sharing the ball with the subject. This Life: For Some Social-Media Users, An Anxiety From Approval Seeking 2014-05-09T20:44:11Z But Lizzo so effectively welded her full self with our popular concept of self-love and mutual support as to become a kind of self-improvement avatar. Can fans accept the new reality of Lizzo? 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z You were lingering in chat rooms, lurking behind avatars, editing Wikipedia entries. Yes Me Can 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z He isn’t on Facebook or Instagram, and his Twitter, despite boasting more than ten thousand followers, bears an avatar of an unidentifiable torso, a suit and tie cut off at the neck. ‘The chef started crying’: the Toronto critic who can make or break a restaurant 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z In that way, he may be Johnson’s avatar. ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’ Review: Another Clue for You All 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z He was no longer the avatar of racial disharmony or an outspoken critic of his country’s war. Muhammad Ali: A superstar before the word meant anything 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Freedlander calls the congresswoman, who is a wizard of social media, the “avatar of this new generation.” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and America’s Most Liberal Generation 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z The avatars in this case are the Rockettes, onstage in front of the video screen. Dance Review: ?The Radio City Christmas Spectacular? - Review 2011-11-18T22:47:37Z The next morning Emem was browsing through his Twitter feed and Erica’s avatar appeared. On Love: Erica Toliver and Emem Akpan went from tweethearts to sweethearts It turned Ms. Jong into a feminist heroine of sorts and avatar of female sexual liberation, and helped propel and define her career. Erica Jong’s ‘Fear of Dying’ Defies the Sunset of Sex 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z With the Karaoke Revolution game, singers can customize their own avatars, or animated figures, as well as the stage they perform on, complete with pyrotechnics. Karaoke industry may be facing the music 2010-04-06T04:00:00Z More accurately, he’s all idea, a beefcake avatar of linear thinking and pretension. Review: ‘I Love Dick’ Sketches an Artistic Love Triangle 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z It’s a necessary corrective — because “Larry Bloom,” the Smith avatar on the TV show adapted from Kerman’s life and work, is a nightmare. “Orange is the New Black” husband Larry Smith seems like a nice guy. Why is his TV self such a jerk? 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z If an avatar could challenge natural expectations and shoot its arm forward with wrist bent and thumb stuck outward, then why couldn’t a dancer? When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Back in the day, he might have derided me as an overly arch and artsy "new waver" and I might have spurned him as a humorless and overly macho avatar of hardcore. Henry Rollins calls U.S. men "the dumbest creatures" & Trump "wrongest possible" leader for pandemic 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Booting up the rig, she is confronted by the avatar of a woman who calls herself Eunice. Review | An ‘app whisperer’ teams up with time travelers in William Gibson’s ‘Agency’ 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z “Literally, people will be able to create their own avatar and have it dance on the screen with Usher,” said Hamish Hamilton, who will be directing the concert broadcast. ArtsBeat: Usher to Recruit Digital Dance Crew for Concert Webcast 2012-05-31T04:01:01Z Correct answers earned them points, which they could trade for images of spectacles or lips to make their own avatars further resemble Michael Gove. Fists full of sausage, Michael Gove declaims his vision of the future 2013-03-24T00:05:37Z Most of his ultra-high-definition videos feature a single avatar, which the artist dons like a theater costume. Ed Atkins and His Mum Are Starring in a Museum Show 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Even if Lily and her friends feel more like social justice avatars than fully realized characters, by the end of the film, it’s hard not to root for them. Review: ‘Assassination Nation’ Bluntly Calls Out All-American Misogyny 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Lady Gaga is also nominated for favorite animated GIF, a kind of avatar. Lady Gaga leads MTV's O Music Award nominations 2011-04-05T13:20:13Z You control Anon, a security program who appears as a humanoid avatar; Anon's job is to prevent a virus called Abraxas from destroying the cyberworld. Review: 'Tron' video game suffers power shortage 2010-12-08T16:37:00Z In their turn, some older readers may see in Menand — and I intend this as a compliment — the latest avatar of Will Durant. Perspective | Remember when high culture was revered? Louis Menand’s ‘The Free World’ made me nostalgic. 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z But it’s kind of a kick to hear this avatar of artistic seriousness – the woman Bono once asked to help remake the grandiose “One” – in such a lightweight mode. Mary J. Blige has a new album out. Has anyone noticed? 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z I'm the avatar of a certain generation's youth, as are the other actors. "It was a life changer for me": Andrew McCarthy on his Brat Pack origins and a recent 500-mile walk 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Eventually shoppers will be able to create a personalized avatar with their exact measurements. Analysis | This company wants to move custom wedding-dress shopping online. Is the bridal-shop trip with besties in trouble? 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z When a troll gets unmasked, when a hater is caught by his victims, the reaction is always: “It wasn’t real. It wasn’t me. It was an avatar. I was playing this role.” ‘Colossal’ director on his lifelong fascination with creature features 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Not even children were spared in these men’s quests for financial gain and wealth building – and children in Dickens’ oeuvre overall are the avatars of innocence. There’s no comfort and joy in FX’s excruciating “Christmas Carol” 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Mrs. Clinton embraced the image, making it her Twitter avatar. Hillary Clinton Aims to Capture the Cool 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Spun off from Jemisin’s 2016 short story “The City Born Great,” the novel figures cities as living, sentient organisms that are “born” into human avatars, midwifed by the previous city to be delivered into sentience. When a Sinister Enemy Attacks New York, the City Fights Back 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Shinoda designed the members' avatars and edited every line of dialogue. Major labels eager to enter iPad app marketplace 2010-04-10T03:51:00Z Here’s the critical point, though: these avatars are not “characters.” Ed Atkins and His Mum Are Starring in a Museum Show 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z We will all find our favorite Warhol avatar, of the hundreds on offer, somewhere within these pages. Andy Warhol, Superstar 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z Next thing: After mastering two-dimensional avatars, he wants to start “sharing African culture” using augmented reality. A Student Who Makes African Emojis 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z An avatar — but not the James Cameron kind — tries to save the world in M. Night Shyamalan's "The Last Airbender," based on the Nickelodeon series and opening July 2. Countdown to the summer movie season 2010-04-28T23:26:00Z But she has also — long before social media — known the importance of the avatar, the fun that can be had in creating an exaggerated public caricature of oneself. Is There Anything We Can All Agree On? Yes: Dolly Parton 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z The other principle figures are five heroically proportioned females and one male, all rendered like video-game avatars. Art In Review: JACOLBY SATTERWHITE: ‘The Matriarch’s Rhapsody’ 2013-01-24T23:53:20Z Still, psychologists and sociologists say there does appear to be a connection between gamers and the avatars they choose. It?s Love at First Kill 2011-04-22T18:21:33Z Citing recent victories for neo-Nazi and far-right parties in Sweden, Germany, Hungary, Poland and Italy, he calls Breivik an avatar for larger forces similar to the men who flew the planes in “United 93.” Perspective | Paul Greengrass didn’t set out to make another movie about terrorism. But ‘22 July’ called to him. 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z You out there can have the avatar me. Jennifer Lawrence Has No Appetite for Playing Fame Games 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z “The avatar can be propped up and perfect, but he also allows moments of the sad, depressed white male who isn’t quite good enough.” Ed Atkins and His Mum Are Starring in a Museum Show 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z The movie derives its humor, such as it is, from the teens’ avatar choices. Review: ‘Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle’ Has Dwayne Johnson as a Nerd 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z In the largely gender-neutral sphere of the game, he feels at liberty to add a French maid’s uniform to his avatar’s closet because, why not? Cute Dress. How Many Bells Did You Pay? 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Lucy, or her avatar, is turned into a glowing “skywoman” with “softly heaving breasts” and “harem pants” who fills the night sky. ‘Medusa’s Ankles,’ a Selection of A.S. Byatt’s Wildly Imagined Stories Across Three Decades 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z And what if these characters are somehow related to the monster, like an avatar? ‘Colossal’ director on his lifelong fascination with creature features 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Any cyber identity needs content – so a person's life in the real world acts as a way of gathering material for their virtual avatar. Ask the indie professor: Shoes, phones and other gig accessories 2010-07-26T15:40:00Z Ms. Gagnon’s avatar was walked down the aisle by the avatar of her close friend. Getting Married in the Metaverse 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z In the manner of “The Matrix,” we now all lead double lives, one as mortals on a troubled earth, and the other as avatars in whitespace. Meet your online doppelgänger: On the Internet, nobody knows you’re not really trolling Ann Coulter 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z “He is both a throwback to an era when artists prided themselves on being outsiders challenging the establishment, and an ideal avatar of current cut-and-paste aesthetics,” writes Alexandra Jacobs in the New York Times. Taylor Mac is a MacArthur genius. If you don't know about his 24-hour extravaganza, here's why you should 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z He is a world-weary, somewhat dissolute avatar of colonial power — “a representative of the state” in his own assessment, which sounds both humble and boastful — going to seed in a tropical paradise. ‘Pacifiction’ Review: Trouble in Paradise 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z As we chatted by phone, Kohn checked my Twitter avatar and pegged my aesthetic as “disheveled intellectual.” How politicians get camera-ready: Stylists and media training 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Like my bearded avatar, I was scared of making the wrong decision, so I made no decision. I am Nick Miller from “New Girl” 2013-06-01T16:00:00Z Columbus — a staid heartland city named for that avatar of heedless white male adventuring — was never the aim for either of them. ‘Summer, 1976’ Review: The Path to Freedom Starts With a Friendship 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Syms pointed out that Teeny, her avatar in “DED,” doesn’t really die. The Many Lives of Martine Syms 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z If this is the age of acrimony, Azealia Banks has become one of its more reliable avatars in the music business. What to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Virtual punters were able to heckle him and his avatar form could respond. Dedication's what you need: top 10 record-breaking comedians 2010-07-22T10:51:00Z Lin portrays Khodorkovsky as an avatar of the opportunism with which a new generation of avaricious businessmen manipulated the nation’s industries and filled their pockets with astronomical profits. Is Vladimir Putin box-office poison? In a new play, he’s certainly toxic enough. 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Maybe Novak’s point is that, face to face and heart to heart, we don’t really fight as much as our social media avatars and elected representatives do. ‘Vengeance’ Review: A Dish Best Served With Frito Pie 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z In a neighborhood that is an avatar of a certain kind of upper-middle-class family ideal, her venture is a clever and intuitive use for a home that is suddenly empty, but spectacular looking. A New Cadre of Experts Helps Women Navigate Their Divorces 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z Asked if the company would pivot to lifelike virtual avatars as technology advances, the Bitstrips chief executive, Ba Blackstock, a former cartoonist who joined Snap after the acquisition, balked. At Snapchat, Redrawing the Bounds of Reality 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z So is his web of academic avatars and his invention of a meeting between Dickens and Dostoevsky a revenge against the world that shunned him? The man behind the great Dickens and Dostoevsky hoax 2013-07-10T16:35:00Z There are some good discussions about Don as an avatar for Howard Roark in Rand's The Fountainhead and . Mad Men: season one, episode 11 2010-06-04T20:40:00Z It is a largely sympathetic, and occasionally fawning, portrait of Facebook that seems at odds with the company’s recent emergence as an avatar for the risks of unchecked corporate power. ‘Facebook: The Inside Story’ Offers a Front-Row Seat on Voracious Ambition 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Which of the year's cinematic trends, people, cultural avatars and epiphenomenon are most likely to set the agenda for 2013? Brits in Spandex and girl power: movie trends that will keep us talking in 2013 2013-01-03T16:35:05Z So when trends like these AI-generated avatars pop up I no longer pause to ask, "Will this make me look dorky?" Lensa is turning us into AI thirst trappers with its ubiquitous portrait app 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Their centrality is not necessarily because they are exceptional, but because they serve as avatars for all of us. In vaccination battles, pro athletes become proxy players 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z “The question was: How do we break an avatar as if was a real artist and not a spectacle? It unfortunately turned into a spectacle anyway.” Capitol Drops ‘Virtual Rapper’ FN Meka After Backlash Over Stereotypes 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z The four other characters, or perhaps they are merely Harris’s avatars, advise him on issues of art, submission and self-display. Review: In ‘Black Exhibition,’ a Playwright Exposed 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z It has helped transform Ms. Vanderpump from glamorous restaurateur into an avatar of the city’s obsession with wealth, good looks and success. Lisa Vanderpump of ‘Real Housewives’ Sips Her Tea. And Spills Some, Too. 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z On Aug. 20 at the Oculus, the journalist and illustrator Mona Chalabi will unveil “100 New Yorkers,” which distills the city’s demographics into representative avatars. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z If actors have always been avatars for what we cannot express, they seemed even more so now. An Acclaimed Playwright on Masks and the Return to the Stage 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Minecraft, which was first released in 2009, is an avatar game that allows players to create their own characters and environments using textured cubes to vanquish nighttime monsters. Steve Carell set to star in Minecraft film 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z But Laws isn’t just a martinet, or the avatar of a brutal institution. ‘The Inspection’ Review: Boot Camp, a Love Story 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z A group of specially trained humans inhabit genetically engineered Na’vi bodies, known as avatars, to interact with the tribe while their human bodies remain in a remote location. Remember ‘Avatar’? Neither Do We. Catch Up Before the Sequel Arrives 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z For more than a decade, bit by bit, he has constructed a magnetic persona that serves as an avatar for contemporary rage and bewilderment, giving voice to our collective anxieties throughout the Trump-and-COVID era. Randy Rainbow, singing truth to power 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z Her photographs and videos are now populated by shadow puppets, skateboarders and children’s television characters instead of avatars. Art in Review: CAO FEI: ?Play Time? 2011-05-26T21:50:35Z You don’t even need to enter a user name or select an avatar because the game simply takes a picture of you with the camera. ArtsBeat: Bowling, Golfing and Shooting With the Sony Move 2010-10-15T22:50:00Z My stylish, girlish avatar — KungfuMeow — walks the streets looking for creatures to subdue. She’s a gamer, I’m not: How Pokémon Go helped my marriage 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z My James Bond is not macho compensation for lost imperial power, like Mr. Connery, or an anxious avatar of globalization, like Mr. Craig. Roger Moore Was the Best Bond Because He Was the Gen X Bond 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z The containers, bearing the logos of international shipping companies, are avatars of the boxes that transport 90 percent of world trade. Huang Yong Ping Brings 'Empires' of Globalization to Paris 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z In one, the deity takes the avatar of a giant fish, and surges from the sea with a demon in his jaw. ‘Divine Pleasures’ Celebrates the Colors of Desire in Indian Paintings 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Each monologue, composing a five-minute episode of “Dark Content,” was assigned a succession of blocky, standard-issue avatars, varying in gender, age, and ethnicity. Watch an Art Work About the Dark Web, on the Dark Web 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z This dispute centers on dancing avatars in Fortnite Battle Royale, one of the biggest video games in the world, and whether the moves they do are owned by somebody else. A Real-World Battle Over Dancing Avatars: Did Fortnite Steal the Floss? 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z "All of those things we're still grappling with now," Burns explained, "And so he seems to be speaking to us. What seems so interesting in this pass is what an avatar of love he was." Ken Burns on his latest, "Muhammad Ali": "What's so interesting is what an avatar of love he was" 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z Someone would die on a block close to my school, and for weeks and months afterwards, even years, you’d see people wearing T-shirts bearing silk-screened avatars of the lost kid. Why Do We Change Our Avatars After Tragedy? 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z But, in between much lucid exposition and some ekphrastic gymnastics to die for, there is a disappointingly vanilla and platitudinous avatar of Sprackland abroad on that marvellous shore. Strands – A Year of Discoveries on the Beach by Jean Sprackland – review 2012-07-27T21:45:12Z Another game, Choices Change yOUR World!, developed with Linda Gottfried of the company Color, Light & Shadow, lets them navigate a Central Park landscape as a tiny avatar, a beating heart. ?EatSleepPlay,? at Children?s Museum of Manhattan 2011-11-10T22:04:12Z Hilary's cracking down on ward hygiene with his "infection control avatar" – a lifesize cardboard cutout of Howard that says, "Now wash your hands" when anyone walks past it. Tonight's TV highlights 2010-11-23T08:00:00Z AOL denied me my avatar of choice, just as it did for millions of other Americans. When modems used to hiss 2013-01-29T23:12:00Z But those are pantomimes that represent or avatars for the inequity and brutalization of the Black body collective. "Antebellum," Janelle Monae's cross-dimensional thriller, was literally born from a nightmare 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z Although the festival provided opportunities for talks, events and even a virtual spaceship where people’s avatars could bump into each other and chat, it was the movies themselves that beckoned. Perspective | Even in a world turned upside-down and an all-virtual Sundance, the movies survived 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Jake infiltrates the group by assuming an avatar that looks like them. James Cameron threatens to tell only "Avatar" stories from now on, despite the harm done 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z First there are little book reports on the avatars. Review: Finding Their Inner Goddesses in ‘The Convent’ 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z His wheelhouse, as Rudd understands it, is a certain sort of Everyman who, despite the good looks and charisma, is an avatar of averageness. Paul Rudd, the One-Man Double Act 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Dylan is often seen as an avatar of originality, but of course his singular mind operates not unlike ChatGPT, collecting, synthesizing and processing references. Is Originality Even a Worthy Ambition Anymore? 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Felt, who finally claimed credit for being Deep Throat in 2005, emerges as a hero in Landesman’s movie, an avatar for the nobility of public service and self-sacrifice. Perspective | At the Toronto International Film Festival, you can feel anxiety in the air — and on the screen 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z As someone who studies stereotypes of fathers, I view Danny as an avatar of the changing expectations of fatherhood that began in the late 1970s. What made Bob Saget’s Danny Tanner so different from other sitcom dads 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Tokens finance your avatar’s virtual trip to up to 20 destinations around the world. The Getaway: Let’s Play: Making Travel a Game 2013-05-31T18:13:13Z The old writer perceives in Gertie the latest avatar of his soul mate, his ideal woman. ‘Winter’: a passionate reimagining of Thomas Hardy’s troubled love life 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Roth never took to social media, but in a way he was the creator of America’s most complex avatar. Perspective | Philip Roth died before he could win a Nobel Prize. He didn’t need it. 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z The Tube nightclub is just one of hundreds of thousands of discrete VRChat worlds where people gather and socialize in avatar form. Finding Community, and Freedom, on the Virtual Dance Floor 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z We wanted to make this interactive for the fans so, they'll be able to create their own avatar and have it dance on screen with me. Usher feels "near a rebirth" on new album 2012-06-01T12:24:07Z Massively multiplayer online games, or M.M.O.s, involve virtual worlds populated by thousands of avatars that are controlled by real people. Feeling Lonely? Wearing Cat Ears May Help 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z But at the heart of the story, things don’t really add up or carry the emotional weight they should, because Judy and Jen are ideas more than characters — avatars of anger, grief and guilt. Review: In ‘Dead to Me’ on Netflix, Widows Make the Best BFFs 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z “It’s remarkable to me that you can have a crush on someone’s avatar,” Ms. Pringle said. It?s Love at First Kill 2011-04-22T18:21:33Z |
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