Wagner James Au / New World Notes

Casja's column on the great SL photographers on Flickr is being moved to tomorrow, so it's a perfect time to feature some creative accounts on Primfeed, the new Second Life-centric social network. After we put out a call in search of Primfeed talent last week, Graeme Fairelander gave us a glorious list. Here's four of my favorites from that group of twenty-one.

To start, I can't resist a subversive send-up of the famous motorcycle skid from Akira, and Lying Cat (aka @blarn.boo) does one marvelously above. Much more on her feed in this vein, teeming with badass ladies of cyberpunk  though she notes, images contain "No AI". (An increasingly frequent artists' note we're seeing on social media images and also machinima video.)

Three more after the break. And much thanks to Dream Seeker Estates (on Primfeed here) for sponsoring this post!

Scylla Rhiadra is a longtime favorite of mine across social media, creator of shadowy, powerful images that evoke Nan Goldin and other great photographers. I'm overjoyed she's now set up on Primfeed!

Ethan Takeda's feed is full of strong men with dark pasts — and makes great use of ambient, neo-noir bluescreen lighting.

Zalty Peenuts (@psaltee.resident) uses overpainting to give his images a painterly hue (as he explains in his bio), though this one above is from a set a slice of candid cyberpunk life taken in the Blade Runner-themed sim at Themyscira. (Direct teleport here.)

Thanks to Graeme Fairelander for all his recs — see his full list below, and recommend your own favorite in comments! Primfeed might not be large enough for us to feature regularly — and definitely not until they add an embed option — but we are following it closely. 

https://www.primfeed.com/relatively.dismantled
https://www.primfeed.com/lemon.crush
https://www.primfeed.com/father.daddy
https://www.primfeed.com/cypriss.resident
https://www.primfeed.com/ziebzen.uwu
https://www.primfeed.com/prophet.rain
https://www.primfeed.com/jaina.fairelander
https://www.primfeed.com/ethan.takeda
https://www.primfeed.com/scylla.rhiadra
https://www.primfeed.com/joannavou.resident
https://www.primfeed.com/blarn.boo
https://www.primfeed.com/ashleycarter.heartsong
https://www.primfeed.com/ricktryit23.resident
https://www.primfeed.com/beetle.wilder
https://www.primfeed.com/bog.witch
https://www.primfeed.com/untitled.resident
https://www.primfeed.com/psaltee.resident
https://www.primfeed.com/liyora.resident
https://www.primfeed.com/leanne8976.resident
https://www.primfeed.com/juliannacane.resident
https://www.primfeed.com/off.pudding

This post brought to you by Dream Seeker Estates (on Primfeed here), the second largest real estate service in SL, operating since 2007 — offering competitive rates, multiple region customization options, and a sales/support team available 24/7 fluent in English, Spanish, German, and Dutch.