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//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Tess V shoots magnificent photos for her Flickr microblog. And by the title of this picture, we should send her belated birthday wishes. What I love about her pictures is her sharp black and white style and her thoughtful and brilliant…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Nekonuko Nakamori’s stream is an extraordinary demonstration of the power of discipline and thematic consistency. Almost every picture is a landscape with her avatar in the middle distance. She is observing herself in the act of observing, the literal definition of meta.…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Mark Walder’s most recent picture “10-65 in Progress” is a glimpse to a completely new side of Second Life, robbers looting an armored car. There isn’t a lot of focus on the criminal side despite the many pics of crime fighters, but…
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Image via Casja's Flickr Hope readers join me in wishing Happy Valentine's and best wishes for a quick recover to Cajsa Lilliehook, New World Notes' indispensable columnist covering the best of virtual world imagery. She's currently home, resting and recovering* from a successful surgery last week, and hopefully will be back to writing Cajsa's Choices…
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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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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Hellhound is one of those artists that I value because they force me to stretch the boundaries of my aesthetics. At first glance, Alias Amethyst is is not the sort of picture I “like.” But then what is liking? It’s such a…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Erika Xaron fooled me with this photo. My first thought on seeing it was Leonard Cohen’s “Bird on a Wire.” I found myself singing sotto voce, “Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Ice Rock demonstrates that where you are shooting from is as important as what you are shooting at when taking a picture. Take “The Lighthouse”. By shooting low, the moon seems even bigger. I love how the lighthouse light…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Peuxswau’s picture may seem familiar to readers. That’s because she was inspired by one of the most famous photos taken by Herb Ritts, the Versace Veiled Dress shown in the lower left of the montage of his photos in this article about…
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