Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Avatars and Identity
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Z a d e posted this fabulously fun group photo that made me laugh at loud. I mean, look at those bazoooooms. I’m sorry, when they balloon to such a size, there is no correct way to spell them. I had to…
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So ChatGPT is highly problematic for many multiple reasons, the very least of which being it still can't summarize my book accurately, but as is often the case, the Second Life community has leveraged it for pretty amazing results. Specifically, turning their SL avatar into a RL social media selfie. (As above, by Stephy Renee.)…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Magdalena has one of the most amazing streams in which she does what look to be hand-made avatar homages to classic entertainers from the 1920s forward. For example, here is James Dean, the iconic actor who defined cool for more than a…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Myrdin Sommer is one of the many people who have embraced Project Mesh Revolution’s fabulous flat avatars. She has even made a few accessories and outfits for them, many of them free or at low cost from her Marketplace store Visual Junkies.…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting //embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js K4RIIM gives us “Happy Pride Month” in this joyful picture with his friend or partner. I love the joy of Pride but I know it’s a hard-won joy. It’s easy to forget how much it means 55 years after the Christopher…
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Flat town pic courtesy Novel Events The cardboard avatars of Salt Pepper have already evolved from an April Fool's prank into a social phenomenon; now, I can report they're also an economic powerhouse in Second Life. The PMR and accessory skin have been among the top ten selling items on the Marketplace since last weekend…
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Image by Susanne Drechsler Since the flat avatars of Project Mesh Revolution have provoked quite a lot of buzz – but also, a fair amount of anger from SLers who were expecting a standard mesh body — here's an apropos excerpt from Making a Metaverse That Matters. While many people in the virtual world industry buy the…
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Speaking of VRChat hiring, I kinda feel like the company should go ahead and hire community creator/merchant "lackofbindings" to make default avatars. Because, I mean, watch above. (Starts slow but shit gets real around 20 seconds in.) I watch this somewhat whimsically, because amazing avatars like this once seemed pervasive in Second Life as well…
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A reader who signs themself "LGBT+ anon" throws some important and necessary cold water on my tribute to virtual worlds as safe havens for LGBT people: Virtual worlds are surely helpful to LGBT+ people, gender expression and more, and in general I agree, but since we are talking about safety and "safe havens" after this…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting First Snow recently posted “Do You Want Me to Give You a Balloon?” which made me think of the movie It even if this isn’t the same clown. I guess It's the red balloon. I like this picture quite a bit. It…
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