Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Art projects in SL
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Penumbra of Carterville may be doing a public service with “Toxic Tampons” as we are informed that they have found toxic pesticides in tampons at forty times the legal limit for water. Somehow I don’t think it is accidental that the tampons…
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Originally published on my Patreon. Since then, Weaver tells me Aperture has been downloaded over 1500 times and has been added to Linden Lab's official Third Party Viewer Directory What you're watching above is the birth of a new Second Life viewer — but in a real sense, it's also the culmination of the creator's…
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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…
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Jeffrey Berg, the artist and technologist who became famous as the Metaverse artist known as "AM Radio" – a Second Life avatar who created profoundly surreal and poignant immersive installations like "The Faraway" — has lately been experimenting with integrating his work with gen AI platforms. Watch above, where one of his paintings (reminiscent of The Faraway) is…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting SL On Camera is working on a project that has me completely intrigued. It’s all in her photo album “Life Is Like a Book.” This picture is #28, or more officially, “Life Is Like a Book (28).” It’s a lovely example of…
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See original image here Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Duraya creates such intriguing pictures, I had to ask her how she does it. It’s clear she combines Second Life screenshots with her own sketches, but I was curious if she also used AI and other methods. She…
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//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting ℕadej Dae creates extraordinary images focusing on landscapes and avatar portraits. Her landscapes are close and intimate, a single tree, a few flowers or grasses, often in silhouette or in striking colors. “Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting My first glance at Celestial Demon’s untitled picture of a man laying on the ground, I thought he was a boulder. But of course, a closer, slower look revealed a far more interesting picture. I love how he uses the body as…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Flo’s “catch up” is a good exemplar of her work – modern, minimalist, and oh-so-graphic. She creates half-tones that seem fresh off the printing press, negative images, duotones, and so much more. With layers and filters, she takes a screenshot and turns…
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From "Sander's Villa: The Man Who Gave His Father A Second Life" (2011): As death approached, the artist’s son did an extraordinary thing: He began to build a place that would live on after his father, made with particles of light. That is to say, Sander Vos logged into Second Life, and made a gallery…
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