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Category: Flickr SL
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Riya is fascinated by light and skin and the interplay of the two. Her pictures are nearly all black and white to emphasize the way light hits the skin, brightening the skin and in itself being transformed. The light in this picture…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Yanash Vaniva is a Second Life artist who has several exhibitions in-world, but she also shares her art on Flickr. I was drawn to this picture and not just because green is my favorite color. There is this fluidity in the air…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting “Open Your Eyes” is an extraordinary picture from Sia Aurora. It was in a gallery curated by Siobhán Muintir, who I am certain is the Queen of SL Flickr Groups. On Flickr, administrators of Flickr groups can change the cover at the…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Piggs Boucher or, as he is known on Flickr, Epiphainein, posted this image, “Some Like It Hot”, that caught my eye. It’s always fun to see a group of people hanging out. Even more exciting, this is actually a G-rated edit of…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Rawnie Lane’s “Foggy Woods” seems the perfect picture to open my exploration of Autumn in Second Life, a Flickr group exploring the wonders of the season in our metaverse. This is a beautiful forest with a path meandering through it and leaves…
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//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Niely Atheria has a wonderful stream of historical cosplay pictures like “Fairytales Dream” above. The prince chasing Cinderella looks like he has a chance of catching her, though. I love the ornate carriage almost out of the frame, but you can…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Brian Werefox created this fabulously imaginative picture picturing himself back in earlier years, called “I wish that we could go back in time to those days that made us who we are.” It was taken at Mall Paradise, a place that must…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Jasminlu Breil not only blogs high fashion in her Flickr microblog, she does it with verve situating her avatar in venues that make sense with her clothing. I mean, how often do people get to wear sexy, sinuous gowns like this? But…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Madoka Kawabata;s “Staring at the Sea” thrills me for several reasons. The first is how her flat lighting, placid sea, and symmetry remind me of the artist René Magritte. Certainly, this is not a surreal picture, but this is one of those…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting My cat is determined to sit on my arms so I can’t see the keyboard or the bottom half of the screen.† I am determined to get this column done. So, I decided to focus on the cats of Second Life. I…
