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 Tabitha Schnyder is a new-to-me discovery in Wind Moonstone’s favorites. I ended with Wind in yesterday’s column with the first installment of the Faves Game. Tabitha is a fashion blogger. I like this picture of her. The wet hair is a nice…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Claire Vuissent’s self-portrait of herself as a photographer made me smile. I love her work and have since someone recommended I follow her back in 2023. I often look at people’s Flickr faves to find new people to follow and thought it’s…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Squeeze’s untitled picture fascinated me. It seems like a crown of thorns but is it blowing apart or coming together? Her face is downcast so perhaps it is assembling on her head. Either way, it is a fascinating concept. Her stream is…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Known as Mr. G. takes deceptively simple pictures. There are few elements, usually his avatar and a relatively barren landscape of sand, rocks, and sometimes ocean. He eschews the bucolic, tamed landscapes of pastures and cottage gardens. In his work, the landscape…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Alsatian Kidd brings the viral “Leopards ate my face” meme to literal life in Second Life, with a Cybertruck added for good measure. After the “Hands Off” anti-Trump/Musk marches across the country this weekend, I was curious if Second Lifers were showing…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Morgan Talbot tells stories in SL-based pictures and in prose. He seems like ancient explorer Snorri Sturluson, writing a Second Life edda full of adventure, epic adventure. Here is Part Six of the Legends of Alvion: Journey to Wyrkadrin. The chapter begins:…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Harper Lexington gives us one of the many reasons that cheese is a wonderful thing. Off the top of my head, I can think of about 55 reasons to celebrate cheese, but surely macaroni and cheese has to be near the top.…
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//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Kou’s “485” is a glorious illustration of kawaii aesthetics with the pastel colors, her large eyes and cupid-bow lips, the riotous profusion of paper lanterns and fans, and all the sweet innocence that can possibly fit into 640 by 324 pixels.…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Miranda Siabonne recently posted “❤️” which is well-named because ❤️ describes how I felt when I saw it. I have a soft spot in my heart for clotheslines. Sure, you have to duck if you’re riding your bike on the lawn, but…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Gino Ginelli posted “Short Days and Long Nights” (above) in a brand-new Flickr group that was founded yesterday, one that seems exactly like what we need now. It’s called Realistic Second Life, Is It Possible? The advancements of Second Life, especially improvements…
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