Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Cajsa’s Choices
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Pan Aeon is a wonderful storyteller with his pictures. I interviewed him back in 2018 and, oddly enough, that article began with a motorcycle, too. I thought revisiting his work might be a fun chance to try out AI writing. So as…
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//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Kat Verde-Dillingham transformed her screenshot from Bryn Oh’s most recent exhibition into something so brilliantly different that it tells a completely different story. For reference, I popped in and took a WYSIWYG snapshot using Bryn Oh’s experience. There is such exuberant…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Kia Monae Kil shoots fashion pictures, showing herself, her clothes, and her life, often resembling photos from Instagram influencers. It’s fun to watch her having fun as documented by her many pics. In “Jet Setters” you can see that she creates scenarios…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Fallen is doing something interesting here, with two identical pictures except for the light treatment. The one above is “Light”, and “Dark” is below. The pose and setting are the same but the angle of the light and its intensity differ. Look…
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//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Terry Fotherington shot this incredible image of the Bardeco event venue. Even the streams of sunlight breaking through the fog does not dissipate the eerie feeling that “here be dragons.” The trees in the foreground are as black as can be,…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Yoasa makes me think of those commercials from my childhood that asked, “Is it live or is it Memorex?” I have to ask, is it live or is it Second Life? Her choice to make her pics black and white and frame…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Eira Juliesse’s untitled picture is a great example of how cropping a picture can give it a new emotional context and add drama. In the original picture, below, my emotions are less engaged. I get a feeling of aloneness, even alienation, perhaps.…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Pantoufle The Poodle is a Second Life resident that I only discovered yesterday, peeping out of the French group pictures. How could I resist that gorgeous face, so sweet and delightful. And then the camera, establishing Pantoufle’s bona fides as a photographer.…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Loute Diesel and her many French photographer friends gather together every once in a while to do a group photo together and folks share their own shot on their Flickr page. I love to check in on these pics, because so often…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting It’s Halloween and I am turning my column over to the kooky, mysterious, spook, altogether ooky celebrants of Second Life. Daikota Wind gives us the frightful “It Was Already Halloween when You Rang the Doorbell.” I love how the bright white of…
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