Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Shasta Laval is delightfully clear when naming her pictures. Take this one that is helpfully titled “Visit Bella’s Lullaby.” It tells you what to do, shows you why you would want to do it, and gives you the tools you need, a…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Gabriel Chamberlain’s “Road to Witherwood Keep” is delightfully balanced on the highwire between cozy and creepy. The path is clear and well-lit, the houses are occupied with welcoming lights in the windows, but the clouds are heavy and close with a misty…
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Click here to join Bad Unicorn's in-world group to get a free Redrum Door copy for all your "Here's Johnny!" needs Here's a whole Halloween batch of hilariously new spooky season items now available from Bad Unicorn (a proud sponsoring media partner of New World Notes). The first is this free gift that made me…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Daikota Wind’s “On Vacation” shows herself surfing while announcing a vacation on an island where people surf. I hope she has a great time. Everything I know about surfing, I learned in Second Life. There really is a huge surfing community in…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Ellen Saint shoots landscapes that are warm and inviting. Take “So Tangled in the Wild” with the field of Scotch broom brightening the landscape, brighter and bolder than the sky. In an odd way, this picture is enhanced by what you don’t…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Noa Cloud is an extraordinary landscape photographer in Second Life. He also runs an art galley featured in the Destination Guide, his equally extraordinary sim, REN, where the flora are cycled monthly to follow the season’s bloom. I always love it when…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Recently a reader commented that she wished to see a travel blog. I thought that was a great idea and thought of TraveLover SL whose most recent post is Trekking Over the Amazing Amazon. TraveLover SL is an adventure blog…
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Cloud Edge is one of the most spectacular Second Life sims I've visited in some time, and I'll tell you why: Not only are its high, cloud-covered mountain surroundings beautifully realized, the ambient audio also immersive puts you into the experience. "[It's] very much inspired by my surrounding in Scotland," creator Alex Bader tells me.…
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Walsh County on the Campton sim [click here to teleport] I was so amazed by Micah Volmaire’s “Timeless – Part I” featured in a Cajsa post last week that I had to visit myself — it's a beautiful wheat field dubbed Walsh County. [Click here to teleport] I also wanted to do a compare and contrast…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Pink Rayne’s “Fading” is a haunting picture of standing stones taken at Haraiki Bay [to teleport, click here]. I love the sky, the light breaking through the clouds to illuminate the stones and a lone bull. It seems as though it has…
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