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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting A soccer ball to the face is exactly what you should expect while browsing Jaxx Larson’s photostream. This untitled picture is exactly what his stream is about, living an active Second Life of play and exploration. I love the perspective. It’s full…
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Pictured: Arnno Planer's #SLBareFaceChallenge In the #SLBareFaceChallenge, as the hashtag suggests, SLers challenge each other to show the community what their avatars look like in a raw screenshot with no post-processing or other add-ons. Overall results, for the most part are surprising to me: They generally look more vivid and "human" than the usual heavily…
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“Spring Is Near and the Goat Flips Out” is a bucolic picture on UnaMayLi’s photostream. It’s a lovely, romantic picture of a woman enjoying the lovely day and the goats frolicking, perhaps attention-seeking. They can be very social. I love how it looks so much like a watercolor with the desaturated colors. It is beautiful.…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting “Little Peonie” is a good introduction to Shioru Inshan’s lovely blog, Room 304. The colors are bold and her pictures are intriguing and artful. There is emotional element to this picture that caught my attention. Her pose is tentative as she contemplates…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Marina Munter’s photostream makes me think of the women Julia Sugarbaker called the “toughest-talking big-shouldered broads that ever lived in this country.” She has a certain mid-century panache and style that seems very Golden Age Hollywood and I love it. Her love…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting “Spiked” is a great exemplar of Paradox Mercury’s avant-garde photostream. He is a model, stylist, and photographer who brings a high-fashion editorial edge to Flickr. Watch out, Jeffrey Graetsch, you have virtual competition! His work is instantly recognizable with distended and uncomfortable…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting “Chasing Butterflies” by Charly Rayne is a lovely picture that is made so much more dramatic and effective by use of a large expanse of whitespace. And yes, it’s orange, but the idea of whitespace is the energy created by emptiness. It…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting In recent days, free copies of Black Lives Matter shirts and hoodies have been created and made available in Second Life — direct teleport link here to get them. Since then, some SLers have used this apparel to take powerful and…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Jang Sungyoung’s self-named blog is usually fun and cheeky. But as a healthcare worker in real life, she took the time to create this image to reflect on her occupation. In the description of “Reporting for Duty”, she reveals that people have…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Goodcross’ photo “Quarantine” is a beautiful example of how by taking away an artist can add something magical to a picture. Here the range of colors is limited, but the contrast and intensity is powerful. The interior is all in shadow and…
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