Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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- Welcome to New World Notes’ 2006-2025 Archive!
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- Four Glorious Second Life Sims to Explore — After Watching Sabina Valeska’s Machinima Tributes to Them!
- Virtual World Usage Stats from S&P Global Market Intelligence — Plus VRChat & Second Life Specifics!
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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 Little Whale’s “Monsoon” is enough to take my breath away. First, it's beautiful. Second, it’s terrifying. On the night we invaded Iraq, I marched with everyone until they decided to cross the Burnside Bridge. Then I went home. I’m fine in a…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting A’s “Aurel” was such a surprise to see because my best friend and I had been discussing megalodons just last week. It’s the sort of conversation one has when one’s best friend is a biologist. The photo is striking on its own…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Jane Bang has the cutest avatar. I was browsing and I could not stop smiling when I looked at this picture. A second and third look and it still worked – insta-smile. I want those glasses in real life, by the way.…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Ｍａｌｉｎａ is a Flickr microblogger. She recently posted Tropical Bathroom from Chez Moi and I am just a little bit in love with it. It makes me imagine the bathroom furnishings were created by a furniture maker who held a piece of…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting SL – Beauty of Sailing is a small group with just over 500 members who celebrate the sailing world. Sailing is one of the first things I did in Second Life with a 1 Linden sailboat from EnkyThings. I know there are…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Shui Shui [shosha.stransky] posted “The Last Tree” just this morning. It’s a poignant image, beautiful with that single tree silhouetted against a night sky with just three stars visible. It’s a gorgeous example of the Golden Ratio. It is a subtle way…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Tess V, née Tess Osbourn, shoots almost exclusively in black and white. This lends her pictures a bit of gravitas that color pics just don’t have even though they are mostly pics of her hanging out in a field or by the…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting We usually feature SL fashion bloggers on Friday to help readers plan their weekend fun, but here's some style ideas from ongoing shopping events happening right now: Isabella G is a Flickr microblogger. In “Ison for Collabor88” she highlights a skirt/top combo…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting What with the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore and a former White House Chief of Staff complaining that President Biden talks about bridges too much, I got to wondering how the bridges of Second Life are doing and…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Shun. 沈 [untitled] has a photostream full of wild pictures, some roleplay, some romantic, some simply inexplicable like “The Mysterious Room.” At first glance, it seems like a lovely library in a stately home. At second glance, perhaps the stately home of…
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