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 Alex Amore is in the Halloween Spirit and I am loving the variety of his concepts. I love the scarlet to black color story. He named the picture “Red Star Dance” I love the dramatic pose and the drama of the red…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Riya is fascinated by light and skin and the interplay of the two. Her pictures are nearly all black and white to emphasize the way light hits the skin, brightening the skin and in itself being transformed. The light in this picture…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Iesada Resident noted in his About page that he sometimes posts real life pictures, so I first browsed past this picture. Then I took another look and saw it was taken at Bella’s Lullaby, a favorite sim of photographers. The light on…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Lynx Luga shoots his pictures from a unique perspective that creates arresting pictures that you cannot browse past. For example, “Wet Glasses” zooms in up close and personal. The water on his glasses suggests heavy rain more effectively than if we saw…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Ella Pavlona creates lush pictures that are explosions of color, flowers, and exuberance. Take “Dancing in the Sky” where she is dancing, circling so the sash of her kimono circles her. Falling all around her are little bits of silver glitter and…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Yanash Vaniva is a Second Life artist who has several exhibitions in-world, but she also shares her art on Flickr. I was drawn to this picture and not just because green is my favorite color. There is this fluidity in the air…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Jonathan Negru has an amazing album called Historic Imitations in which he recreates photos from history. I featured one of his photos in yesterday’s column. This is a recreation from a photo by Edward Sheriff Curtis taken in 1904 in the collection…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting “Open Your Eyes” is an extraordinary picture from Sia Aurora. It was in a gallery curated by Siobhán Muintir, who I am certain is the Queen of SL Flickr Groups. On Flickr, administrators of Flickr groups can change the cover at the…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Piggs Boucher or, as he is known on Flickr, Epiphainein, posted this image, “Some Like It Hot”, that caught my eye. It’s always fun to see a group of people hanging out. Even more exciting, this is actually a G-rated edit of…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Rawnie Lane’s “Foggy Woods” seems the perfect picture to open my exploration of Autumn in Second Life, a Flickr group exploring the wonders of the season in our metaverse. This is a beautiful forest with a path meandering through it and leaves…
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