Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
This fabulous picture of Portocorvo in SL (directory listing here) is so fantastic, I knew I wanted to feature it, but the name of the person who shot the picture sounded familiar, Dandy Warhol, as though maybe I had written about him before. Trying to keep finding new people, I checked and nope, I had not. Must have been thinking about the band of the same name. Anyway, the picture is astonishing. I love the color, I love how sharp and clear it is, the complete opposite of my memory.
The word “pellucid” was invented for this next picture, click here:
The clear stillness of the water gives us such extraordinary reflections it seems the trees are growing under the water. I love this picture and how there seem to be concentric circles formed by the floating market, the water lilies, the rushes and the willows. It reminds me that Claude Monet loved Chinoiserie which you can see in his home furnishings and was heavily influenced by Asian artists, particularly from Japan. His paintings are some of the most famed examples of Japonism. This does not have the soft impressionism of a Monet, but the sensibility is there.
This untitled picture of a swimming pool shows how great a picture can be when some just lets it be. There’s no fancy photo pyrotechnics here. It’s a picture shot straight on of a swimming pool in a glass pavilion that seems like a cathedral for the worship of the swimming arts. It reminds me that my college did not call its swimming pool a swimming pool but a natatorium which technically this is. If a swimming pool is in its own building, it is no longer a pool. It is a natatorium. In this example, the way he uses the sunlight to stream through the pavilion and cast shadows on the water is spectacular.
Dandy Warhol’s photostream is rich with excellent landscape photos as well as pictures of he and his friends enjoying life. His use of the light and environment controls is spectacular and I would line up to buy his EEPs if he sold them on Marketplace. I like his casual pictures running about in SL with his friends or his dog, but seriously, his landscapes are on another level.
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