Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Tiger Studio Landscapes is the official Flickr group for Buddha Garden, a sim I visited yesterday after seeing Stina McGillivary’s pictures. There are so many fantastic pictures in this group, I was spoiled for choice. “Through Your Soul” from Emo Biedermann…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Mark Mirror is a landscape photographer and captures some of the most beautiful scenes in Second Life such as this glorious picture of “Midnight in Paris.” Where else can midnight be so beautiful? As with all his pics, click through for the…
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Originally published on my Patreon I started writing this post as a fun casual guide for exploring Second Life sims I’ve admired and written about in recent years. But as I quickly discovered, many of my favorite, popular places featured in my long-running New World SLurl series have since changed hands. A surfing spot had…
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Originally published on my Patreon Master sim designer Kaiden Tray has created incredible Second Life environments over the years, from a cyberpunk city swallowed by the jungle to a lovingly detailed tribute to the Bates motel from Hitchcock's Psycho. Kaiden just unveiled his latest sim build: The Witchcraft & Voodoo in New Orleans: The End [Click…
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I recently posted about seven spectacular Second Life sims to see on my Patreon, a report which took longer than I originally expected. Why? Because going through my list of sims that I've visited/admired/written about over the years — most filed under New World SLurl — I discovered that many or even most are completely…
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Umi, a spectacular new Second Life sim, recently opened. To access the island, you first need to join the group called Umi and activate that as your tag. Then click here to teleport. Created by acclaimed sim designer Paradox Ivy, fellow SL creator Bars Simpson calls it "breathtaking" (and took the image above). Writing of…
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Click here to teleport to an impressively lush and detailed new Second Life sim based on Tsurugajo Castle in Japan, often called "Samurai City." While there are many similar locations in SL (there's even an entire samurai-themed RPG!), this one has a special hook — it's funded by the Japanese government, via its tourist agency:…
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If you saw Blade Runner 2049 from a few years back, you probably remember the Ryan Gosling character visiting the eerie headquarters of the Wallace Corporation, which has replaced the original film's Tyrell Corporation as the leading developer of replicants, i.e. artificial humans. And if you went shopping at the Second Life headquarters of Inthium,…
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Bad Unicorn has a host of new Halloween items that are hilariously on-brand for the excellent New World Notes media partner — starting with these flyable UFOs with real pew-pew-pew action. Scripted Peregreen Storaro of By Pere, they cause an enemy saucer to wobble and emit a satisfying rumble sound effect when you make a…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Jeff Goodnight takes such sharply defined pictures that you can imagine zooming in and seeing a ladybug on the flowers. You can’t, but it sure seems like you could. Look at everything you can see in this picture. There’s a person up…
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