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Hypnotic Romance, an SL sim with secluded spaces for couples. Click here to teleport.
The Virtual Worlds Museum. Click here to teleport to their Second Life hub with tribute to sunsetted worlds!
“TV POWWW!” by Tom Boellstorff & Braxton Soderman. Read about the first televised videogame here.
The Fitting Room: Try out new SL fits in a secure, private space. Click here to teleport.
Breedables CoOp, helping the SL pet community grow through shared resources. Go here to get started.
Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Neah Westfall’s stream is full of gorgeous photos. While most of her imagery are beautiful landscapes or snaps of small details in the landscape, she occasionally shoots pics of herself such as this beautiful ballet photo. “Dream Dancer” (above) is lovely and cropped close and off-center so it’s so much more interesting than a full shot.
For her landscapes, click here:
Click here to apply as a booth participant at Hair Fair, the annual SL community fundraiser event that sells amazing virtual hair styles for avatars, with a portion of all sales donated to Wigs for Kids, a non-profit that creates real wigs for children experiencing hair loss due to chemotherapy, alopecia, and other issues. Launched in 2006, the annual event led by
Sasy tells me that roughly 50,000 SLers — about 1 in 10 of the active user base! — attend every year, with most of the donations made through hair sales. A labor of love run by her and her partner Mel Vanbeeck (pictured here), Sasy tells me it's the stories that attendees and donors tell her, which make it most meaningful.
Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Kunisaki Izumo is a fascinating SL avatar and about as meta as they come. Based on the manga character of the same name, our Kunisaki imagines himself all grown up and running a kabuki theater company on Izumo island. Just as men played women’s roles in Shakespeare’s time, onnagata are men playing the female role. Kunisaki is an onnagata actor. This is a picture of Kunisaki playing Sagi Masume, the Heron Maiden. [For a guide to the kabuki play Sagi Masume: click here] I love that it is a blue/black duotone. It’s very dramatic. Kunisaki created an album from his theater’s performance. [Click here for album.]
For more of Kunisaki’s kabuki, click here:
Tempura, the popular and much-loved Second Life island, is now gone from the grid, with only screenshots and video to remember it by, another victim of SL's high monthly server maintenance fees. As when any other beloved virtual place meets a digital death like this, community members post well-meaning if belated ideas on how to save it:
Infographic via Forrester Research
Sanny Yoshikawa が、New World Notesのなかから、毎月おすすめのバーチャルワール ドニュースを日本語で紹介します。
Sanny Yoshikawa covers the monthly virtual world highlights from New World Notes for virtual Japan.
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 love her wild picture filled with the paraphernalia of Wonderland. It’s so good. Those boots are wild.
For more lush and adventuresome blogging, click here:
OpenSim definitely is an option! The first challenge there is, the original owner/creator would have to expedite that process, and be prepared to see their works "ripped" and copied by others for uses in other worlds — content theft in OpenSim remains an ongoing problem. The other challenge is that OpenSim continues to have a small active userbase, with the top 10 OS grids attracting fewer than 20,000 active users. (Active users in the aforementioned Kitely: Fewer than 1300.) An OpenSim version of Tempura may not attract enough regular visitors to justify even a $5/month fee, especially when you add on the (presumably free) community management time.
Another option, as longtime SLer Saffia Widdershins writes, is plead for patronage from Linden Lab: