Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Flickr SL
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Tamarind Silverfall sure knows how to focus our eyes. There is a path leading our eyes into the fairy cave and if that were not enough, the bright frost-covered roses and the bright butterfly frame the cave and keep our focus on…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Isla Nebula is a marvelous landscape photographer who has been sharing her art on Flickr for four years and I failed to discover her before today. I am remiss! Speaking of which, here’s a tip on how I find new SL artists…
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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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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 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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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…