Portrait of an Artist as an Avatar - Filthy Fluno - three of his pictures hang in my living room. One of them is a picture of me. Without Second Life, I probably would never have heard of him - with Second Life, he (along with a whole range of other artists) has ended up on my friends list. But of course, Second Life is just hype and nonsense, as all the experts are so fond of telling us. How many artists do they actually know personally? How many have they watched paint over the internet? How many have they partied with, where people from all over the world participated? I mean parties where they were personally greeted and they actually knew most of the participants a little ...