Every year the global on line community of 2nd Life (SL) hosts a virtual burning of a virtual man on a virtual Playa.  The event is an official Regional called Burning Life and this year over 100,000 participants are expected to attend the festival!

Equally amazing are the fashions that are being designed for this virtual world.  2nd Life has an impressive fashion industry as well as SL specific fashion blogs.

The fact that burning man fashions have a growing and significant presence in this new virtual world is yet another verification of the paradigm shift occurring.  We entered the virtual playa (after doing a little shopping and putting together an outfit of course) to see some of these sweet fashions in action.

While there was a plethora of visually stunning art (including an utterly breathtaking temple) we didn’t find many people.  Most everyone we came across was at center camp and only a handful were decked out to any degree.  Still though, the potential is most certainly there and we are eagerly anticipating returning for the burning of the man this Saturday!

Stay tuned as the virtual man will burn on Oct 24th and we’ll be doing a follow up with pics of those who gathered to celebrate!  Subscribe by clicking on the links in the right column to ensure that you don’t miss out.