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 Claire Vuissent’s depiction of Wuthering Heights character Catherine Linton is so magnificent, I didn’t have to glance at the title to know she was running “out on the wily, windy moors.” (Yes, I know this is the original but I prefer the…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Thus Yootz’ “Exodus to Air” is exquisite. There are multiple shots that have been layered to produce this otherworldly scene. It’s a distortion of reality that expresses emotion which suggests abstract expressionism. After all, it’s just some trees with clouds scudding in…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting “Hope” is the thing with feathers – That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words – And never stops – at all – Emily Dickinson Becca Ordinary’s image “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers” is anything but…
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Image via AM Radio's Flickr Jeff "AM Radio" Berg was watching my recent interview with Philip Rosedale, and AM Radio being AM Radio, sent me this pretty profound thought: I wonder if what he created, when considered as a whole, is the first giga-artwork. An artwork so large it has an economy. An artwork as…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting GoddessWhispers [Prettyflower Vale] has created a few abstracts in her feed that make me want more. Take this one from 2019, “Abstract: Gazing Through The Ice” has these deep, rich blues and greens in which we can discern shapes such as the…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Now that's we've all marveled at Scylla Rhiadra's stunning tributed to Degas paintings, Scylla pulls back the curtain to explain her techniques for turning raw Second Life screenshots into an image like the one she created above. (Original here on her Flickr.)…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting I saw Scylla Rhiadra’s stunning "The Dancer VII: Les coulisses" and immediately recognized it as an homage to Edgar Degas and his series of paintings of dancers. Scylla doesn’t just focus on the same subject matter, she captures his use of light.…
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Above: Lobby Cam in Steam/Unreal. See below for the SL version Lobby Cam by Bryn Oh is a free new game experience on Steam, and like the name suggests, it's actually created by famed Second Life artist Bryn Oh. Since publishing it to Steam last Friday, it's garnered 7,2000 downloads — quite a lot, for…
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In case you missed it over the holidays, the New York Times' story on the use of contemporary art displayed in major opera houses casually mentions that "the Chinese-born multimedia artist Cao Fei is showing a female avatar — a dystopian, pale-white head so imposing that signs have been put up all over the [Vienna]…
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Watch: Virtual photography award announced at 24 minutes in Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Angelika Corral recently won Flickr/Smug Mug’s World Photography Day category for virtual photography with this photo at right, “I’m not just what you see.” You can watch the contest announcement here or above,…
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