Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Non-profit/social applications of SL
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We know that many seniors like the late Fran Serenade (above) have found great value in using Second Life, both as a social/creative platform and (as in Fran's case) even finding therapeutic value in them. However, many seniors have difficulty learning or using the SL viewer for Mac/PC. But what if the virtual world was…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Deux Looks is Gillian Waldman’s fashion blog. Like most people, her focus at the moment is on Hair Fair, the venerable fundraising event for Wigs For Kids. In today’s post, “Next Up from Hair Fair,” she is featuring a beautiful floral headband…
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Click here tomorrow at 12:30pm PT for SeraPride, a fundraising event with all Linden Dollar proceeds converted into US$ to benefit Rainbow Railroad, a non-profit which helps LGBTQI people escape persecution in real life. Help on the SL sim of Seraphim, Second Life's most popular fashion blog, top brands like Blueberry are donating items/matching funds,…
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//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Lawrence Pryce, whose several virtual world screenshot challenges have been featured here in the past, has a new SL community awareness drive in support of the One Billion Rising movement to end violence against women and girls in real life. (Look for…
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Above: In one hallucination, text on a poster would change, when you walked closer to it. When I first read the study suggesting that VR might help prime people to have more lucid dreams, it immediately seemed credible to me. For one thing, extensive VR use often shapes my own dreams. For another, it immediately…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting “USA Election 2020 – Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender.” It is Election Day and some Second Life residents are doing their part, not just voting but encouraging others to vote. I love this picture by RyanTailor. It’s…
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After a month-long fundraiser in Second Life rapidly put together by dozens of contributors and volunteers during the first Black Lives Matter protests in real life, the organizers of SL's Stand for Justice have converted all the donations and purchases made by the community in Linden Dollars into US dollars, and have donated them to…
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Click here to directly teleport to Stand for Justice, a month-long fundraiser, which added its offerings of SL style and houseware offerings in the new upstairs wing, including new additions from top brands like Kratwork and Veechi, not to mention original art. The event ends tomorrow at Noon PT, so this is the last chance to buy…
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Click here to directly teleport to Stand for Justice, a month-long fundraiser with all sales of SL items going to Black Lives Matter and other justice organizations. New SL style and houseware offerings are available in the upstairs wing — including virtual copies of art by rising artist Pippin Long. (Better known within the SL community as the…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Mahogany Soulstar’s photo “Exhaustion” captures the mental damage of knowing one’s life is devalued. She links to a powerful blog post that should give us all something to contemplate. I selected this image and the others in this post in honor of…
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