Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
It is fairly easy to find SL-based Barbie pictures and friendly homages to that film, but there are far fewer for Oppenheimer, and even fewer for the portmanteau double feature Barbenheimer. Nonetheless, Second Life residents always come through with something worth paying attention to.
Take “Great Atomic Power” by Alsatian Kidd, He effectively captures the shock of the explosion, the massive white light, and the sense that life was changing in that moment. He also captures the time with the car, the man’s clothing, and the huge radiation monitor. The picture was taken at Mother Road Upper Level. [To teleport, click here]
For more Oppenheimer pictures, including one incorporating the Bhagavad Gita, click here:
“Oppenheimer 167” from ArtBox presents an avatar as Da Vinci’s “Vetruvian Man.” He then uses the words from the Bhagavad Gita that Robert Oppenheimer quoted, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” I love how this captures the immensity of risk.
The use of “Vetruvian Man” is sort of genius as the idea of the drawing was to show the integration of art and science. Vitruvius was an Ancient Roman architect who said the human body can fit a circle and a square which totally ruins the square peg in a round hole analogy. If you, too, want to capture your own Vitruvian Man, there is a photo set with the pose at Art Box. [To teleport to Art Box, click here.]
“I am become death, the destroyer of worlds” by sarahCV80 is perhaps the most devastating pic inspired by the film. The land is stark and lifeless. There is no color in this world. This was a picture taken long before the film, a remembrance of the Trinity test. The teleport no longer goes to Cica Ghost’s Burning, but to a lovely forested role-play sim.
“Duck & Cover” by I☠Am Ƶiebzen is another imagining of the grotesquery of an atomic explosion. The man with his body melting away in a Raiders of the Lost Ark sort of death. Flecks of ash and fire are flying all around. You would not want to be there.
Ziebsen writes, “You might be a Barbie Girl but I am an Oppenheimer Boy, today. We can possibly all agree there is nothing more powerful and terrifying than Atomic weapons. They frighten me to my core but at the same time they are super fascinating. Fusion, fission, and radiation are forces NOT to be reckoned with. I can only hope that the world will never see them used again.” Make it so.
It’s odd how the counterprogramming release of two polar opposite films became twinned by an internet meme into something that probably increased the viewership of both films. I made three galleries of SL homages to the phenomenon. There are additional pics that aren’t Safe or Moderate so they could not be placed in the galleries:
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Cajsa Lilliehook is a sixteen year resident of Second Life, where she owned a photo studio, spent several years as a DJ at The Velvet, and for her first SL job, cleaned up prim trash. She co-founded and runs the It’s Only Fashion blog with her best friend Gidge Uriza. She also has a book review blog, Tonstant Weader Reviews and a cooking blog, Single Serving Recipes. She spends a lot of time researching and reporting on Republican sexual predators. In her first life, she is a retired grassroots leader who has worked for economic and social justice issues most of her life. She is also the minion of a cat named Nora.
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