Wagner James Au / New World Notes
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Category: SL blogger link
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Wendz Tempest has an extraordinary home decor blog called Cozey in SL. This picture is from her most recent post “It’s About that Time.” She’s just come back from the Farmer’s Market with a detour at The Arcade. It was the foods…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Otherworldly is a blog run by Freyja Nemeth and Ran Garrigus that is a mix of roleplay and more roleplay. “Midnight Poetry” caught my eye with the painterly picture. The shadowy, low-lighting is what you would get from a candle, casting a…
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//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Carley Benazzi is a blogger whose self-named blog is rich with pictures, but not cluttered with unnecessary bells and whistles. It’s very clean with huge photos and different shots of the outfit. I love how her hair and the outfit go…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Rainbow Pixelfarts’s [Hyzura Resident] blog is called “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and Twirl a Whirl caught my eye with the sheer joy it depicts. Do you remember how much fun a hula hoop is? If you forgot, this pic captures it. |Hazy…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting The “Asian Pacific Heritage Festival” is a post from Gidge Uirza. If you didn’t know it by now, Gidge is my best and oldest friend in Second Life. We met when I got stuck underneath a stairway and couldn’t get out. She…
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Strawberry Singh, who became the SL community's top social media influencer and then went on to work for Linden Lab in 2019, has a new post celebrating her 15 years in the virtual world. It includes a surprising confession — she almost quit SL entirely, mainly due to the tedium of posting credits to her…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting The Puppeteer is Sisch Firecaster’s blog. It’s a dual purpose site that also features her store Kokolores. The home page, though, brings you to the blog, the store info requires a click on the store’s page. Her most recent post is this…
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//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Pretty Things, Nice Life is a striking decor and fashion blog by Victoria K. James. I really like her most recent post Crane & Koi which she admits is a much more saturated color than her usual. I love that tub…
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//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Tea Break is a delightful post at Kurimu-Kuma, an adorable blog with great decor pics as well as fashion. Created by the bear-obsessed Kuma, cuteness abounds everywhere you look. This post featured a lot of items from the event Bloom that…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting I was invested in covering the fantastic Second Life blog Sugarcoated Pixels before I noticed I had recommended it two years ago. That’s what happens when Flickr names change. “No Turning Back” features one of my favorite subjects, Alice in Wonderland. I…